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alcohol free - no hangover

  • 16-06-2006 11:03PM
    #1
    thebaz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,124 ✭✭✭✭thebaz


    after one too many bad hangover , i have quit the booze for a year !
    why else do you think i am on boards on a friday night ?
    a month into my abstinence , feal fresh & lively in morning , and getting fitter, but social life sucks ... pubs and clubs are boring sober ... but i have the willpower :eek:
    am i mad ? but i was mad on it ? but good social life ... now its slippers, the late late & boards


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  • #2
    mikedragon32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,939 ✭✭✭mikedragon32


    Good for you Baz.

    I gave up for 18 months and met Wifey during that time!

    You're right about pubs/clubs being boring when you're sober. I still don't go to the pub that often and when I do, I take the car so don't drink then.


  • #3
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,856 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    you sure you're off the booze? that post reads like you were drunk when you wrote it! :eek:


  • #4
    Brian Capture
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Brian Capture


    I'm having a beer while typing this.


  • #5
    Brian Capture
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Brian Capture


    The beer is genuine.


  • #6
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    I gave up booze for a month once... that was f*cking scary.. never again..

    And yes.. I too am drinking beer right now... mmmm Staropramen....


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  • #7
    Dirk Gently
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,779 ✭✭✭Dirk Gently


    Snap, off it a couple of months myself now. Just realised one day that I was in the pub more days than not and decided to quit all together rather than cut down. Social life does take a bit of a down turn. Same as you, late night boards most nights. I recommend internet poker for passing the time when your mates are out getting locked.

    On the up side though you do notice definite health benefits after a while. If I can do it anyone can because my life basically consisted of work and pub until a few months ago. Still looking for a social alternative but not tempted to slip back into old habits.


  • #8
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    I never had a drop of alcohol in my clubbing days and had plenty of fun :)


  • #9
    Dirk Gently
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,779 ✭✭✭Dirk Gently


    Ruu wrote:
    I never had a drop of alcohol in my clubbing days and had plenty of fun :)
    thats cos you were dropping the E. Your brain is fried from all your tripping clubing days to the point where you find Ann Doyle attractive. :eek: :p


  • #10
    Brian Capture
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Brian Capture


    clown bag wrote:
    thats cos you were dropping the E. Your brain is fried from all your tripping clubing days to the point where you find Ann Doyle attractive. :eek: :p

    I'd like to rim Ann Doyle. Now.


  • #11
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    clown bag wrote:
    thats cos you were dropping the E. Your brain is fried from all your tripping clubing days to the point where you find Ann Doyle attractive. :eek: :p

    You want her, oh yes you do, but you cant have her! :)


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  • #12
    ST*
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭ST*


    Ruu wrote:
    You want her, oh yes you do, but you cant have her! :)

    Wasn't him, the evul drInk frog made him do it.


  • #13
    nesf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,635 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    Going out for to a resteraunt and/or seeing a film or play was what I did off the drink usually. I found that my friends were well up for non-alcholic activities as a break from the pub scene now and then especially during the week and such.


  • #14
    Jimi-Spandex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭Jimi-Spandex


    monkeyfudge wrote:
    I gave up booze for a month once... that was f*cking scary.. never again..

    And yes.. I too am drinking beer right now... mmmm Staropramen....

    Oh yes! love that stuff


    To the OP, fair play. Did it for a few months last year. Slipped back into the old habits now though.


  • #15
    Dirk Gently
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,779 ✭✭✭Dirk Gently


    Ruu wrote:
    You want her, oh yes you do, but you cant have her! :)

    You can have her Mr. Ruu, I'm quite happy with my Miriam O Callaghan. Way better than your smelly Ann Doyle.


  • #16
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Good luck, I may lay off it for a while too, at some point. Depends if things keep going as they are. Pubs are fine sober, avoid clubs...


  • #17
    thebaz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,124 ✭✭✭✭thebaz


    i was beer man ... not really a spirits man ... becks NA is my poison now -- its actually not bad -- take loads of ice with it -- drinking coke and water out is difficult --- i thought i'd save loads of extra cash .. but just spend extra on clothes, goodies, bills (i pay them on time now ;)

    as i'm also single , i do miss the dutch courage with the ladies . but then again maybe my standards are improving v:cool:


  • #18
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    The dutch courage is what keeps me at it, good luck with building that up. ;)


  • #19
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    a sandwich has given me a case of hiccups so beer aint all that bad

    i may give it up for a month or 2 myself though


  • #20
    thebaz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,124 ✭✭✭✭thebaz


    George Bush quit the booze and went on to become the most powerfull man in the world ... so my career can only progress .. on second thoughts ...
    time for sleep ..... thats one down side of abstaining , that friday night drunken slumber ... i now read books to help me crash


  • #21
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Ah think he went back on the sozzle though, dont let that happen to you. :)


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  • #22
    dubtom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,084 ✭✭✭dubtom


    I haven't drank in years. I tend to stay away from pubs, listening to drunk people isn't fun after 30 minutes.On the odd occasion that I'd go to a club or function and stay till closing, especially when smoking was still allowed (I smoke) I'd have a wopping headache the next morning and sometimes feel groggy, almost as if I had a hangover. Not sure what it was, too smokey an atmosphere, loud music, disengaged my brain cells from throwing my large bulk around the dance floor....


  • #23
    Corbin Fast Baton
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Corbin Fast Baton


    thebaz wrote:
    after one too many bad hangover , i have quit the booze for a year !
    why else do you think i am on boards on a friday night ?
    a month into my abstinence , feal fresh & lively in morning , and getting fitter, but social life sucks ... pubs and clubs are boring sober ... but i have the willpower :eek:
    am i mad ? but i was mad on it ? but good social life ... now its slippers, the late late & boards
    Pubs and clubs aren't boring sober. You just don't know how to have fun sober, that's all.
    Though I admit house parties are much more entertaining, but that's always true.


  • #24
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,808 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Stayed off the beer myself tonight which is virtually unheard of for me for a friday night. I usually take a month off a year though with rather mixed results, some years I go the whole month whereas others I might end up drinking 3/4 times during that month. Do find night-clubs and pubs a lot more of a chore when sober though I'm not a big fan of loud places where people are packed very closely together anyway (other than gigs) I tind the drink tends to lessen the urge to kill the fiftieth person that drunkenly bounces off me.

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  • #25
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    bluewolf wrote:
    You just don't know how to have fun sober, that's all.
    Oh golly gosh, please teach him.


  • #26
    Corbin Fast Baton
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Corbin Fast Baton


    Tar.Aldarion wrote:
    Oh golly gosh, please teach him.
    Being sarcastic today, tarry?


  • #27
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    No, just watching Barney, why?


  • #28
    Corbin Fast Baton
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Corbin Fast Baton


    YOU'RE Barney.


  • #29
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    No no, I'm just a paedophile in a Barny suit. Often mistook for him though.


  • #30
    Corbin Fast Baton
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Corbin Fast Baton


    Sing the "2+2 is 4" song :D


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  • #31
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Tar.Aldarion wrote:
    No no, I'm just a paedophile in a Barny suit. Often mistook for him though.

    So you sweat a lot?


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