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Walking through Dublin at 2am on a saturday night sober...

  • 08-09-2013 03:23AM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭


    Zero judgement, because i've been the drunkest person in the world on many a saturday night. But i've just walked home sober, making my way through the drunk as fu.. crowds and i'm feeling like... well all this drinking is an astronomical waste of everyone's time and it's hindering everyone's improvement and everyone's world and ruining the world around us even more so.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭Vito Corleone


    I thought you said Zero Judgment?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,248 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Welcome to the sober night out, op :pac:
    Only done it a few times myself but hell it's an eye opener!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    whirlpool wrote: »
    Zero judgement, because i've been the drunkest person in the world on many a saturday night. But i've just walked home sober, making my way through the drunk as fu.. crowds and i'm feeling like... well all this drinking is an astronomical waste of everyone's time and it's hindering everyone's improvement and everyone's world and ruining the world around us even more so.

    There are lots of other things around us that are ruining the world, many of them are why I drink in the first place. May as well enjoy myself somehow in my time on this silly planet.


  • Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Maybe you should have lightened up and had a drink


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Serious (lol) questions:

    Did the laydeez look more or less attractive?

    How high was the skankometer set tonight?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,238 ✭✭✭mutley18


    Did it once, never again, it is too intimidating, I would much rather just drink the poison and transform into one of them!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭whirlpool


    I thought you said Zero Judgment?

    In all fairness to me, if you interpreted any of my post as judgement then you're probably an illiterate.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Nothing I love more than being stone cold sober in a crowd of drunken revellers :D I've perfected my drunk act over the years so no one ever realises I'm not actually one of them ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 450 ✭✭taytothief


    Maybe you should have lightened up and had a drink

    lol ffs


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 544 ✭✭✭czx


    Nothing I love more than being stone cold sober in a crowd of drunken revellers :D I've perfected my drunk act over the years so no one ever realises I'm not actually one of them ;)
    lame


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    It's a release from the mundane daily grind. What's life without letting your hair down once and a while?

    I wouldn't class it as a waste of time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭Vito Corleone


    whirlpool wrote: »
    In all fairness to me, if you interpreted any of my post as judgement then you're probably an illiterate.

    From Oxford Dictionary.
    noun
    1 [mass noun] the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions:
    an error of judgement
    that is not, in my judgement, the end of the matter
    [count noun] an opinion or conclusion:
    they make subjective judgements about children’s skills
    [count noun] a decision of a law court or judge:
    county court judgements against individuals in debt
    2a misfortune or calamity viewed as a divine punishment:
    the events of last week are a judgement on us for our sinful ways

    Your post.
    well all this drinking is an astronomical waste of everyone's time and it's hindering everyone's improvement and everyone's world and ruining the world around us even more so.

    You mad, bro?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    All people are total arseholes when they're drunk.

    Except me. I'm funny.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭up for anything


    Serious (lol) questions:

    Did the laydeez look more or less attractive?

    How high was the skankometer set tonight?


    There isn't enough alcohol in Ireland to drink Irish men handsome. (lol)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17 OPENROAD7


    All people are total arseholes when they're drunk.

    Except me. I'm funny.


    I get sad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,863 ✭✭✭worded


    Anyone try Guinness light? Roughly half the strength but you don't get as fcuked up.

    Also cobra. Tasty but no hangover.

    Drink a pint to a litre of water before you go out drinking and go on a full stomach.

    Peace


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    worded wrote: »
    Anyone try Guinness light? Roughly half the strength but you don't get as fcuked up.

    Also cobra. Tasty but no hangover.

    Drink a pint to a litre of water before you go out drinking and go on a full stomach.

    Peace

    Guinness Light flopped in the 80s, it was an attempt to try and get women drinking the product. Maybe you're thinking of the Mid Strength Range?

    Stout is a 'drinkers' drink, the mainstays won't go in for a lower alcohol content.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    Guinness Light flopped in the 80s, it was an attempt to try and get women drinking the product. Maybe you're thinking of the Mid Strength Range?

    Stout is a 'drinkers' drink, the mainstays won't go in for a lower alcohol content.

    Why is there no Guiness Gutrot Strength? 1 pint, 30%abv. Least it'd be a cheap night out. And ye'd only have to drink a couple of the nasty ass stuff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Why is there no Guiness Gutrot Strength? 1 pint, 30%abv. Least it'd be a cheap night out. And ye'd only have to drink a couple of the nasty ass stuff.

    An acquired taste as they say. It you give it a chance you will develop a palate for it. It's a real drink imo, the smoothness and texture not piss water in a glass like a lot of the Lagers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Why is there no Guiness Gutrot Strength? 1 pint, 30%abv. Least it'd be a cheap night out. And ye'd only have to drink a couple of the nasty ass stuff.

    Guinness Foreign Export.


    No need to thank me.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 328 ✭✭TommiesTank


    It's a release from the mundane daily grind. What's life without letting your hair down once and a while?

    I wouldn't class it as a waste of time.

    Every weekend is hardly once in a while.

    Half these people probably will be complaining about being broke this morning.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 328 ✭✭TommiesTank


    Maybe you should have lightened up and had a drink

    Sums up the typical Irish attitude to alcohol, even if you are joking.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 273 ✭✭okioffice84


    worded wrote: »
    Anyone try Guinness light? Roughly half the strength but you don't get as fcuked up.

    Also cobra. Tasty but no hangover.

    Drink a pint to a litre of water before you go out drinking and go on a full stomach.

    Peace

    Fascinating


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,504 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    MadsL wrote: »
    Guinness Foreign Export.


    No need to thank me.

    A few years ago I went to a house party and had about half a dozen of them.

    That stuff is lethally good. Gets you twisted far too quickly.



    Op. I do shift work and often walk threw temple bar v early in the morning at the weekends. I have no idea why a sober person would hang around there at 6am. The smell of stale beer is horrific


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    An acquired taste as they say. It you give it a chance you will develop a palate for it. It's a real drink imo, the smoothness and texture not piss water in a glass like a lot of the Lagers.


    I want to go drinking with you DLH because I've been drinking Guinness nigh on 17 years now (started off on bulmers cider, jesus that stuff rots you! I got sick of getting sick after it), and I've definitely noticed the quality of the Guinness where one time they used say there was eating and drinking in it, sure it was an acquired taste, but when you got a good pint with a good thick head on it, ohh I'm salivating as I type this, the taste was delicious... but now? Now, with all their fcuking about with the formula ever since Diageo took over, Guinness has become like just black budweiser, with an equally thin head on top.

    It's rare you'll find a good pint nowadays with all their extra cold and mid strength nonsense to try and make Guinness appealing to a trendy youth. If they'd left it alone far more young people would be drinking it and we wouldn't need all this Martha's day marketing shìte!


    Anyway, 2 o clock in the morning OP is not the time to be getting all philosophical about humanity when walking home after the club, you're naturally gonna notice you stick out like a sore thumb, you're sober for christ sake! It's classic "in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    I want to go drinking with you DLH because I've been drinking Guinness nigh on 17 years now (started off on bulmers cider, jesus that stuff rots you! I got sick of getting sick after it), and I've definitely noticed the quality of the Guinness where one time they used say there was eating and drinking in it, sure it was an acquired taste, but when you got a good pint with a good thick head on it, ohh I'm salivating as I type this, the taste was delicious... but now? Now, with all their fcuking about with the formula ever since Diageo took over, Guinness has become like just black budweiser, with an equally thin head on top.

    It's rare you'll find a good pint nowadays with all their extra cold and mid strength nonsense to try and make Guinness appealing to a trendy youth. If they'd left it alone far more young people would be drinking it and we wouldn't need all this Martha's day marketing shìte!


    Anyway, 2 o clock in the morning OP is not the time to be getting all philosophical about humanity when walking home after the club, you're naturally gonna notice you stick out like a sore thumb, you're sober for christ sake! It's classic "in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king".

    There's places still around the country who serve a good old fashioned pint of plain. If you're Dublin based I'd recommend Mulligans on Poolbeg St, McDaids just off Grafton and O'Neills on Suffolk.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 960 ✭✭✭cletus van damme


    been sober walking and driving through dublin many times.
    apart form the odd person falling about - I never found it as bad as people make out.
    plenty of shouting though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 228 ✭✭StinkySocs


    When i was in college I had to give up drink for 6 weeks - due to meds I was on...it was just damn awful.

    I quickly developed "migraines" from the meds and request to be taken off them double quick!

    Those 6 weeks of sober dancing in CP's, Cuba & the GPO are a distance memory. Imagine being sober trying to get the snog off some fella in CP's....gross!!!

    However, I would say if I recorded myself on a night out from start to finish...i would probably never drink again. :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    If you see a lad clatter his girlfriend then don't be the hero OP, just walk on

    If you step in she will turn on you!

    Been there :(


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 772 ✭✭✭Caonima


    I've done the Twilight Zone walk home sober through Dublin a few times; it's unnerving and I always felt like I was missing out on something


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