"You have to drink to have a good time"

[vinnie83]

Tribal Chestnut said:

vinnie83 said:

You really don't know just how alcohol controls you when you are in a habit of drinking regularly.

Sadly this is all many people have to look forward to - getting a bit pissed on Fri/Sat night or a bottle of wine each evening. Take away the booze and what else is there for them, besides work? It's a wonderful means of control by the powers that be.

Life is st, but that's OK as I'm out for a big session Friday night.

I think the Sinatra quote sums this up nicely.

I still drink, and when I fancy a drink, I will... it just so happens that once I stopped relying on drink to socialise, my body/mind stopped craving it and it was a sort of downward spiral (in volume of drink)... the less I drank (volume and frequency) the less I actually fancied having a drink.

I don't preach to anyone who drinks - like I say, I still drink and still like to get a bit drunk on occasion, but it no longer leads my social life - which is nice.

[croyde]

I'm getting to that point that I hate being pi55ed in public and I always stagger home alone so now I just drink in the flat.

I'm always guaranteed somewhere to sit down, it's a lot cheaper, Walkers crisps always available (Not those posh Kettle Chip pieces of 5h1te) and I'm not far from the bed/settee.

[BJG1]

To quote Jim Jefferies "If you don't drink you're a boring and all your stories suck because they all end with 'and then I went home'"

[birdcage]

davepoth said:

I stopped drinking a couple of years ago when it stopped being fun. Lost a stone without doing anything else at all, stopped wasting the whole weekend being hungover, saved about a grand a year. I don't miss who I was when I was drunk, and I don't miss being drunk. Friends stopped mentioning it after a while. If a friend is still getting stupid about it, have a discussion with him when you aren't at the pub. If he still doesn't get it then he's not so much of a friend.

Can I suggest you weren't the worlds heaviest drinker if you were spending £19 a week on booze

[Sargeant Orange]

Well just to update on the night out, my "friend" as expected made a big show of me asking for a water, even to the point of making me order it myself whenever the waiter came around. I just ignored it to be honest, but it's very irritating.

Felt great getting up nice and early for a bike ride this morning & washing the cars before the OH had even managed to drag herself out of her pit.

[ThunderSpook]

Just get some new friends, these ones appear to be sad individuals. Personally I'm of the opinion that anyone who gets drunk is a bit sad in that they obviously don't know how to control themselves and therefore aren't a grown up member of society. There's no need to get drunk, ever.

[gaz1234]

We all got smashed last night. Was fun.

[272BHP]

ThunderSpook said:

Just get some new friends, these ones appear to be sad individuals. Personally I'm of the opinion that anyone who gets drunk is a bit sad in that they obviously don't know how to control themselves and therefore aren't a grown up member of society. There's no need to get drunk, ever.

Can't agree with that, you're being very judgmental aren't you?

We all have our poison - what's yours?

[davepoth]

birdcage said:

davepoth said:

I stopped drinking a couple of years ago when it stopped being fun. Lost a stone without doing anything else at all, stopped wasting the whole weekend being hungover, saved about a grand a year. I don't miss who I was when I was drunk, and I don't miss being drunk. Friends stopped mentioning it after a while. If a friend is still getting stupid about it, have a discussion with him when you aren't at the pub. If he still doesn't get it then he's not so much of a friend.

Can I suggest you weren't the worlds heaviest drinker if you were spending £19 a week on booze

I spend a lot on cups of tea and ginger ale these days.

[singlecoil]

As with most drugs alcohol (consumed to the point of getting drunk) is something that most normal people grow out of eventually.

[G600]

272BHP said:

Means of control by the powers that be? oh come on!

"Give my people plenty of beer, good beer and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them" Queen Victoria.

[272BHP]

I like to think we have moved on a bit since then.

[Impasse]

"We don't have to take our clothes off
To have a good time
We can dance and party all night
And drink some cherry wine"

[272BHP]

singlecoil said:

As with most drugs alcohol (consumed to the point of getting drunk) is something that most normal people grow out of eventually.

Or do we just get fewer opportunities as we get older? I enjoy a good night out and appreciate them so much more as they are increasingly rare. A good night on the beer is part of the rich tapestry of life and a chance to relinquish a little bit of control. I genuinely think it can be therapeutic in a number of ways.

[singlecoil]

272BHP said:

singlecoil said:

As with most drugs alcohol (consumed to the point of getting drunk) is something that most normal people grow out of eventually.

Or do we just get fewer opportunities as we get older? I enjoy a good night out and appreciate them so much more as they are increasingly rare. A good night on the beer is part of the rich tapestry of life and a chance to relinquish a little bit of control. I genuinely think it can be therapeutic in a number of ways.

No, it's not an matter of opportunities (at least, not in most cases). It's a matter of realising through experience that happiness isn't something you can take into yourself by drinking or taking drugs. If it isn't there already then there isn't anything you can take to put it there. With some it's a conscious realisation, with others subconscious.

I accept that it is not like that for everybody.