Nights out without alcohol

Vito Corleone

How do you find it? I usually need a few JD's before I am able to have a good time. Most of my friends are the same way. I haven't finished a night out sober since I was 15 maybe? Can anyone relate?

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MrStuffins

Of course you can have a good night without alcohol.

Having a few drinks is good too.

However, being the only sober one when everyone else is drinking? That's horrible!

Yea, it's possible to have a nice sober night if everyone is in the same mood.. But if everyone is on a night out, it's horrible.

DEFTLEFTHAND

You don't have an addiction, love life and stray from such silliness, or else succumb to it, you stupid clown. You idiot?

SicklySweet

Been sober tonight while group of friends got smashed. As long as the DJ plays a few of the songs you like. Not the fooking Saturdays every other song. Grrrrrrrr

PeteEd

just smoke some crack and you'll not worry about not drinking

Grayson

Atari Jaguar

MrStuffins wrote: »

Of course you can have a good night without alcohol.

Having a few drinks is good too.

However, being the only sober one when everyone else is drinking? That's horrible!

Drunk people are annoying loud idiots. But great fun if you've had a couple too. Walking through templebar at midnight when you're sober is a scary experience.

lizwex88

I have a better time when I drink

I wouldn't mind being sober or drunk for a night out but really depends on the company. If everyone around you is pissed and talking ****e its hard to listen while sober!

xLexie

If for whatever reason, I was going to be on the dry for the weekend, I'd much prefer going to the cinema or bowling, which I'd enjoy and I know I'd have a good time.

Going out, staying sober, being walked and slobbered on by drunk idiots and **** music, sticky floors and filthy toilets is my idea of hell. I go out to get drunk, not always wrecked, but having a few drinks kind of acts like a barrier to the morons I'm forced to share oxygen with on a night out. I would rather go home than not drink

WhiteRussian

Atari Jaguar

Get drunk or die tryin'

Ken.

I have a better time when I drink

One of the most horrendous experiences must be walking into a niteclub stone cold sober. It really is one of the worst places to be.

Odysseus

I went off alcohol for a few weeks and didn't drink again for over ten years. Going out sober and enjoying yourself is easily done, yeah you get people who can't understand why your not drinking or those who think if you stop drinking it must be because you have a problem with it.

However, just don't pay attention to idiots like that

hollster2

Makes no difference to me

I dont drink used to but havent in 2 years beacause i was pregnant and plus couldnt ne bothered really have a good time without, i went to a wedding last year didnt drink everyone thought i was taking something lol just had a hreat night, you dont need alcohol to enjoy ur night and i hate the way people try to pressurise you a go on one wont hurt f off its my choice!!

aSligoDub

You can talk to your friends anytime. Why go to the boozer and not drink? thats like going to the cinema and keeping your eyes closed.

mconigol

Pubs are places for drinking, if you don't drink it's really a pointless exercise to go to one.

It's like going to the cinema blindfolded and with earplugs.

krudler

I stopped drinking for ages a few years ago, no particular reason aside was on meds for a while so couldnt drink, came off them and liked the lack of hangovers and having moar monies so just stayed off it for a few months. Had some fun nights in pubs, but yeah, nightclubs are awful sober, your awareness is much higher of how many utter fcukwits are surrounding you, bumping into you, talking absolute waffle, acting the arse for no reason.

St.Spodo

Atari Jaguar

I admire people who don't have to drink to enjoy themselves, but I actually could not tolerate a nightclub with no sauce on me. Really grim prospect, I'd rather stay in than have to be around drunk people acting like drunk people for four hours.

Daveysil15

St.Spodo wrote: »

I admire people who don't have to drink to enjoy themselves, but I actually could not tolerate a nightclub with no sauce on me. Really grim prospect, I'd rather stay in than have to be around drunk people acting like drunk people for four hours.

Yeah I've done it a few times, it gets boring after a while. Although I find clubs get boring after a few hours even when I'm drunk. You can only drink and dance so much. I enjoy myself more when I have a few drinks, as opposed to geting completely wasted. The problem is, most people can't stop after a few.

Grand Moff Tarkin

Makes no difference to me

At least when you are sober you always remember the night.

jubella

mconigol wrote: »

Pubs are places for drinking, if you don't drink it's really a pointless exercise to go to one.

It's like going to the cinema blindfolded and with earplugs.

Not when it's Ireland and the pub is one of the only places to go to be social. I've often gone to the pub and not had any drink and had a great time because of the company.
But as another poster said, nightclubs are a different story altogether!

Grand Moff Tarkin

Makes no difference to me

mconigol wrote: »

Pubs are places for drinking, if you don't drink it's really a pointless exercise to go to one.

It's like going to the cinema blindfolded and with earplugs.

Not true at all. I would go to the local at the weekend with my friends for a few games of pool, cards and the laugh of spending time in their company and have done this the past half dozen years without the need for drink.

Grayson

Atari Jaguar

Grand Moff Tarkin wrote: »

Not true at all. I would go to the local at the weekend with my friends for a few games of pool, cards and the laugh of spending time in their company and have done this the past half dozen years without the need for drink.

It depends on the place. A village pub on a tuesday night can have say 10 people and none are getting locked. But that pub on a friday night when everyones in full swing can be a different matter.
I've gone into my local midweek and ordered a coffee. But on a friday or saturday night, everyone's locked and it's a completly different apmosphere.

It's one of the main reasons I'd like to see cafe-bars open. They provide an alternative where you don't have 200 people crammed into a space that holds 150 normally.

awec

You can have a night out, drink, and not get drunk.

I like the taste of beer so I enjoy drinking it the same as I enjoy drinking Coca Cola. I don't view as a means to an end (i.e. just drinking it to get drunk).

Shenshen

I have a better time when I drink

Vito Corleone wrote: »

How do you find it? I usually need a few JD's before I am able to have a good time. Most of my friends are the same way. I haven't finished a night out sober since I was 15 maybe? Can anyone relate?

No, sorry, I can't.

I might have a pint on a night out, if I fancy it, but I rarely ever have more. I find on the rare occasions I go for a second one, I don't finish it.
I like beer for that taste of it, but I find that I just like the taste of the second a whole lot less than the taste of the first, for some reason.

I used to drink a little more when I was in my twenties, 3 or 4 pints on a night out, but even back then I couldn't really stand the feeling of being drunk.

Shenshen

I have a better time when I drink

St.Spodo wrote: »

I admire people who don't have to drink to enjoy themselves, but I actually could not tolerate a nightclub with no sauce on me. Really grim prospect, I'd rather stay in than have to be around drunk people acting like drunk people for four hours.

In all fairness, I've always detested nightclubs to begin with, so that never really was an issue. Never really saw the point of them.

wolfpawnat

I tend not too drink, why bother spending loads of money only to be tired and sick the next day, it's like knowing eating a bit of chicken costing 40e will make you sick with food poisoning the next day and you eat it anyway.

I rather my money on hookers and coke :pac: you get more bang for your buck

Grand Moff Tarkin

Makes no difference to me

Grayson wrote: »

It depends on the place. A village pub on a tuesday night can have say 10 people and none are getting locked. But that pub on a friday night when everyones in full swing can be a different matter.
I've gone into my local midweek and ordered a coffee. But on a friday or saturday night, everyone's locked and it's a completly different apmosphere.

It's one of the main reasons I'd like to see cafe-bars open. They provide an alternative where you don't have 200 people crammed into a space that holds 150 normally.

I would not normally go near a pub on week nights myself and my local is a small enough old pub so it would not be like it's party central or a first stop on a night out for the young heads who just go out to get smashed drunk. That said at €4 for a pint of coca-cola i would nearly be better off drinking the hard stuff again.

jaffacakesyum

jubella wrote: »

Not when it's Ireland and the pub is one of the only places to go to be social. I've often gone to the pub and not had any drink and had a great time because of the company.
But as another poster said, nightclubs are a different story altogether!

It's not though. So many people have this attitude and it's ridiculous. My brother is a big movie fan and goes to the cinema about 4 times a month with another friend of his who is also a big movie fan. It's a great social thing for him, because he doesn't drink. If you want to find other social outlets do your research. I'm a member of several sports clubs, and also a meetup group for LGBT people. There is tons of stuff to do other than drink in Ireland.

awec wrote: »

You can have a night out, drink, and not get drunk.

I like the taste of beer so I enjoy drinking it the same as I enjoy drinking Coca Cola. I don't view as a means to an end (i.e. just drinking it to get drunk).

We're a rare bunch awec :pac: Especially amongst the 20s crowd, people don't understand why you would possibly drink beer like you would Coca Cola. If I have a beer at lunch cue my mates going off on one "ah she's on the booze now, you're a mad one starting drinking at this hour". Umm no, I'm just going to have one beer.

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Atari Jaguar

wolfpawnat wrote: »

I tend not too drink, why bother spending loads of money only to be tired and sick the next day, it's like knowing eating a bit of chicken costing 40e will make you sick with food poisoning the next day and you eat it anyway.

I rather my money on hookers and coke :pac: you get more bang for your buck

That bit of chicken won't enhance your night out, which alcohol does for most people. So that logic makes zero sense.

krudler

awec wrote: »

You can have a night out, drink, and not get drunk.

I like the taste of beer so I enjoy drinking it the same as I enjoy drinking Coca Cola. I don't view as a means to an end (i.e. just drinking it to get drunk).

There's a pub up the road from me that does great food, often went up there on an evening and had a pint with some grub, but I know people who'd see having just one or two pints as a waste of time. now I can understand paying for a cab into town and home again if you just have one drink, you'd be as well to drive and save yourself twenty quid , have done that myself but this you either go mad or dont drink anything thing I dont get. or just drink nicer beer, stuff that is actually worth drinking and isnt purely to get bladdered on :pac: