I've been trying to watch "The Thing" (1982) e: watched it

Yeah, I'm a zoomer (born -94), I know. I have started this movie THREE times now and every time I've had to stop when the bearded Chad pours his drink into the only PC at the station. Like I can imagine any of those bespectacled guys in the ping pong scene just before strangling him for doing that.

edit:

Wow this is way too high brow for me. Does the Thing have to eat their victim? Is it always one Thing? Yet blood drops are the Thing too?

Anyway, I liked Alien (1979) better.

e2: is the Thing AIDS?