Sick of the pub an all that s****

junii

Im sick of it and want a different lifestyle completely. Ive got a bike and am getting into cycling and stuff. Im sure plenty of other ppl have taken this path, what other things can I do?

SantaHoe

Yeah there has to be more to life than getting pissed every weekend.
I'd rather be out on a golf course at 9am on a Sunday morning than nursing an expensive hangover.

EWheelChair

I've gone through this in my head a few times, there is **** all else to do. And if you do find something to do, chances are your mates would rather go to to the pub.

I've admitted defeat so i focus only on getting my hole at the weekend now.

Kiera

Try here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=252

connundrum

junii wrote:

what other things can I do?

C'mon and we'll have a pint and mull over it.

Obvious answers would be..

Join a club (if you're already part of one then join another)
Take up a part time course
Get a girlfriend/boyfriend
Work nights
Become a recluse

egan007

I'm hangin today after meeting some old friende last night - im with ya brother
never drinkin again....

after the bbq on saturday

petes

I enjoy it. The craic is always good. Usually end up home early though. Thats what I get for going out too early. Must remember to switch my phone off one of these days. But you are looking for something different and you seem to be going about it the right way.

smk135

I'd love to know what else you can do.. a part from the freakin gym which is just so boooring!
i'D love to start some group sport or something but where???

Gone West

actually, any of the forums here: http://boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=42
Its all good. Get involved.
If your friends are dragging you down the endless pub road, get new friends.
Do you want to be one of those guys in their 60s who just go to the pub a few times a week with the same gang as their only social outlet?

toomevara

Move to the continent where the tyranny of irish pub culture doesnt exist...it's a real eye opener, the options are endless of an evening as everyone's energy is not directed towards the pub.

bongo85

Pubs are great craic!! But not every single weekend... Starting to get sick of it now meself. Wakin up with a sore head and you're never quite sure what ya did the night before sucks!! I recently starting power-kiting on dollymount.. Tis great craic! ...Even more craic if ya take a few beers and a couple of smokes with ya. Beats sittin around the pub anyway!

bongo85

Actually pubs are really ****! Why is drinking alcohol outdoors even illegal?? It's not knacker drinkin if ya bring a basket and a towel.. It's a picnic!!

Lady_Macbeth

I'm so fed up with this country's attitude to drinking, so much so that I'm beginning to detest the place. People simply cannot go out for a few sociables, enjoy a drink for its flavour and not to get drunk. Non-drinkers are pretty much non-existant and to be one only causes a lot of ridicule of "why aren't you drinking?"; you're expected to drink, to want to drink and to want to get drunk. It's such a joke, and it's really getting to me lately. This country needs to cop itself on. Really. Rant over. Promise

scojones

Set some goals for yourself. Where do you want to be in five years from now? Set some milestones to make sure you achieve it.

Take up a sport, golf is really relaxing providing you're not easily annoyed.

Buy a bike and start cycling to places, you get out of the house and fet fit all in one.

Get a library card and start reading. Reading is the most relaxing thing you can do, and it's an eye opener too.

Instead of spending hundreds in your local every weekend, why not plan trips away with your mates once a month for a weekend? Cheap flights need to be taken advantage of.

Take up self defence classes, or some form of martial arts classes. That's two of your nights a week occupied.

Tha Gopher

toomevara wrote:

Move to the continent where the tyranny of irish pub culture doesnt exist...it's a real eye opener, the options are endless of an evening as everyone's energy is not directed towards the pub.

Id assume their longer warmer evenings have something to do with it?


Along with the fact the Irish genetically just really love to get fcuked up, which is why we always top every EU drink and drug survey.

manonthemoon

junii wrote:

Im sick of it and want a different lifestyle completely. Ive got a bike and am getting into cycling and stuff.

I cant stand this 'poor paddy' attitude.

Nothing to do except go to the pub

or the alternative

Not going out because I will be wasted and be dying the next day so I will stay at home, pull my wire and then Watch Pat Kenny, not meet any of my friends and thus have no social interaction for a entire weekend.


He is a suggestion people. Its a bit CRAZY and I know it might be a bit out there. Keep it to yourseld mind


GO TO THE PUB AND DONT DRINK ALCOHOL:eek: :eek:


If you are unable to do this, you need to consider the fact that you are unable to socialise without alcohol.

Just so anyone dosnt think I am taking the higher moral ground, I will be drinking all day tomorrow.

scojones

It's not just the drinking that the OP is on about, manonthemoon. It's the pub culture, GOING to the pub. BEING IN the pub is what is the problem, so what you're saying doesn't help him/her in that respect.

junii

manonthemoon wrote:

I cant stand this 'poor paddy' attitude.

Nothing to do except go to the pub

or the alternative

Not going out because I will be wasted and be dying the next day so I will stay at home, pull my wire and then Watch Pat Kenny, not meet any of my friends and thus have no social interaction for a entire weekend.


He is a suggestion people. Its a bit CRAZY and I know it might be a bit out there. Keep it to yourseld mind


GO TO THE PUB AND DONT DRINK ALCOHOL:eek: :eek:


If you are unable to do this, you need to consider the fact that you are unable to socialise without alcohol.

Just so anyone dosnt think I am taking the higher moral ground, I will be drinking all day tomorrow.

Have you ever tried talking to a drunk person when your sober? duh.

manonthemoon

junii wrote:

Have you ever tried talking to a drunk person when your sober? duh.

Yes, all the time when out.

Just because someone has had few drinks on board dosnt mean I have to dimiss them or look down on them. I think that would be quite rude.

When you are sober, (some) Drunk people can be very funny and they can often speak more honestly than normally. It depends on your attitude towards them

"there i go but for the grace of God"

connundrum

junii wrote:

Have you ever tried talking to a drunk person when your sober? duh.

Surely thats your problem then.

I'm sure the drunk person isn't sitting there saying to his drunk friend 'God I hate talking to sober people, they're just so bleedin sober'.

People get drunk, if you go to the pub then be prepared for drunk people. If your mates want to go to the pub and you don't want to then that is your problem. Take heed of all the aforementioned suggestions and I wish you well.

Froot

I started playing squash.

Overall this country are not very big on group events, with obvious exceptions.

skibum

Before the combination of a burst eardrum and a sinus problem ****ed things up for me, I really enjoyed scuba diving. Club night was usually on a wednesday and there were always dives on the weekend. Great crack, meet sound people, ... miss it

biko

I've seen so many threads like this. We should have a sticky "Stuff to do without alchohol"...

manonthemoon said it, you can still go to the pub and don't drink. If someone insist just say you're on antibiotics for a month (make a sickness up).

Alternatively drink things that look like alchohol - just Red Bull, Virgin Mary, white lemonade etc...

Join a social club, hill walking, surfing, cinema club etc etc

abanazaar

i hear there's good money to be won at the bingo these days

sioda

Buy a Hammock one saturday nites drinking money would get you one and swing in that reading you cant beat it. Pluss I Think ireland needs more playgrounds not for kids but for adults

bongo85

sioda wrote:

Buy a Hammock one saturday nites drinking money would get you one and swing in that reading you cant beat it. Pluss I Think ireland needs more playgrounds not for kids but for adults

There isn't even one theme park in Ireland :eek: Shocking

Ruu_Old

SantaHoe wrote:

Yeah there has to be more to life than getting pissed every weekend.
I'd rather be out on a golf course at 9am on a Sunday morning than nursing an expensive hangover.

I'm with this one, golf ftw. Lots of other forums on boards to help as mentioned earlier. Good luck.

NeMiSiS

Paintball guns, night vision goggles.. abandonned quary.. dangerous Saturday night..

Karl Hungus

The problem here is that a lot of activities mention can mostly be solitary. Yeah, it's great saying you'll buy a bike, but what the hell's the point of cycling about for a bit when you'd rather be with your mates?

You need something where you can have a social life aswell. Try poker, fishing, some kind of contact sport, pick up an instrument and play with some friends, even if it is just the bongos, basically things you can do with friends and have a lark.

It's probably not going to replace nights out at a pub, but it'll make a decent break.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Ireland is a seriously limiting country when it comes to night life and we like it that way. Look what happened when the most popular political parrty in the country was asked to rule for its people on the introduction on coffee-bars...?

The problem with courses and sports is.... where does everyone go for a quick chat at the end of the class/game...? Two guesses and the second one shouldn't be nessecary.

Agamemnon

NeMiSiS wrote:

Paintball guns, night vision goggles.. abandonned quary.. dangerous Saturday night..

LOL! I have get my friends to try this.
I love pubbing and clubbing at the weekends and I don't think that'll change but I'm going to take up martial arts during the week for a change. There's also the cinema, dvds, books, teh interweb and lots of sports.