Drink and sorrows

MidnightQueen · 03-09-2008 4:17pm #1

Why do people always turn to drink when they have worries? ha Just a question to be discussed.

Wagon · 03-09-2008 4:20pm

Yes. Yes i do.

xzanti · 03-09-2008 4:20pm

To quote Homer: "Alcohol is the cause of and solution to ALL of lifes problems"

monkeyfudge · 03-09-2008 4:21pm

Lenny: "Nothing like a depressant to chase away the blues."

connundrum · 03-09-2008 4:22pm

Its not just in sorrows, its in every occassion.

Birth, birthday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Christening, Confirmation, wedding, funeral, holiday, bank holiday, when you get together with someone, when you break up with someone etc etc.

My granddad died recently and we spent 14 hours in the pub after his funeral. I was disgusted with the amount we drank, not disgusted enough to stop obviously, but disgusted none the less.

chin_grin · 03-09-2008 4:22pm

KittyKat wrote: »

Why do people always turn to drink when they have worries? ha Just a question to be discussed.

Worries? <glug glug glug> Whash you shay about <hic> yore ma? <BURRRRRRRRRRP>

ART6 · 03-09-2008 4:24pm

I never turn to drink when I have worries. How can I "turn" to something I was doing in the first place?:D

Paddy Dignam · 03-09-2008 4:27pm

I suppose it's more to do with the type of drink that one consumes to drown sorrow.

A few pints is no good, but a bottle of Jameson - now we're talking!

MidnightQueen · 03-09-2008 4:35pm

connundrum wrote: »

My granddad died recently and we spent 14 hours in the pub after his funeral. I was disgusted with the amount we drank, not disgusted enough to stop obviously, but disgusted none the less.

Sorry to hear that. I also lost mine about a month ago. We spent a few days drinkin.
True to say that it is in every ocassion.

biko · 03-09-2008 4:38pm

It's just an excuse to drink. "Uncle John died? Great, let's go on a bender!"

Steve_o · 03-09-2008 4:41pm

Nothin like drinking Jack Daniels out of the bottle to get yourself into good humour...

connundrum · 03-09-2008 4:42pm

biko wrote: »

It's just an excuse to drink. "Uncle John died? Great, let's go on a bender!"

I would have said that until I thought about it... what else would we have done?

Sat around drinking tea and politely eating crappy sandwiches?

At least when we were in the pub we had several poker games going, there was a sing song and people were telling stories of the man who had passed.

While I don't like the fact that we always seem to turn to drink, I can't think of an alternative activity.