Drinking Alone

Lone Stone · 26-03-2010 03:25AM

I dont drink alone, id only drink with friends. That said i dont understand how someone could drink alone

unless you got a craving then id question why. I dont even understand people who drink with there dinner (when no else is) but i grew up around alco's so i just have a skewed perception of people drinking hmm

Executive Steve · 26-03-2010 03:26AM

Four rules for healthy moderation of alcohol intake:

1. Never Drink Alone

2. Never Drink Spirits

3. Never Drink before 6 pm

4. Never break more than one rule at once.

In other words, you can drink alone, but never before 6, and never whiskey, or you can drink a beer with friends before 6.

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 26-03-2010 03:29AM

Lone Stone wrote: »

I dont drink alone, id only drink with friends. That said i dont understand how someone could drink alone unless you got a craving then id question why. I dont even understand people who drink with there dinner (when no else is) but i grew up around alco's so i just have a skewed perception of people drinking hmm

Sit down and have a drink with yourslef dude. As well off to give it a belt anyway.

Can really be therapeutic, not talking about getting locked so much as getting relaxed and having a good aul think with phone, TV and internet off.

FruitLover · 26-03-2010 03:40AM

Executive Steve wrote: »

In other words, you can drink alone, but never before 6, and never whiskey, or you can drink a beer with friends before 6.

I've broken all four of those rules repeatedly, and I'm sure I've had far more enjoyment from my life than whatever Cedric wrote that list.

Nulty · 26-03-2010 03:55AM

Executive Steve wrote: »

Four rules for healthy moderation of alcohol intake:

1. Never Drink Alone

2. Never Drink Spirits

3. Never Drink before 6 pm

4. Never break more than one rule at once.

In other words, you can drink alone, but never before 6, and never whiskey, or you can drink a beer with friends before 6.

I can't think that I've ever drank spirits, on my own before 6pm. any of them in pairs but I've never had such a bad/good day where all those things needed to be accomplished at once

It wasn't me! · 26-03-2010 04:05AM

Executive Steve wrote: »

Four rules for healthy moderation of alcohol intake:

1. Never Drink Alone

2. Never Drink Spirits

3. Never Drink before 6 pm

4. Never break more than one rule at once.

In other words, you can drink alone, but never before 6, and never whiskey, or you can drink a beer with friends before 6.

To be fair, that's crap. So I can drink alone, but only beer? What about the bottle of eighteen year old Jameson I keep around? When I'm writing late at night, that's what I like at my elbow. What about the glass of wine I had with my lunch today, on my own? What of those habits makes my drinking unhealthy?

There's only one rule, as far as I'm concerned:

1. Don't have an unhealthy attitude or approach to the consumption of alcohol.

Stick with that rule and you'll be fine. The mature and responsible use of alcohol to enhance our lives is a pleasure and a privilege. How we choose to do so (within the context of mature and responsible behaviour - no, trying to tit-fúck the Molly Malone statue and finding the video on Youtube the next day does not qualify) is not something suitable for rules like "don't drink before six" or "no spirits" or "don't drink alone". Those things are absolutely meaningless next to a positive attitude towards alcohol.

pistonsvox · 26-03-2010 04:14AM

Nice pint of guinness or cold bottle of miller, nacho's and some family guy is my end of week pleasure:pac:

Doop · 26-03-2010 04:59AM

It wasn't me! wrote: »

1. Don't have an unhealthy attitude or approach to the consumption of alcohol.

I like the 4 rule thing (first time ive heard it)

While yes your rule makes perfect sense. Do you think alcoholics acknowledge/think they have an unhealthy attitude or approach to the consumption of alcohol....
me thinks not

blindpilot · 26-03-2010 05:11AM

On the rare occasion I have the flat to myself I love nothing more than having a few cans or bottles when I get in from work. There's nothing better than chillin out on your own after a day or days of people in your face all the time. Everyone needs their own time.

starbelgrade · 26-03-2010 05:12AM

dark crystal wrote: »

Scorcese didn't direct The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppolla did.

....and I'm on my third glass of wine! :P

I know. The joke started on your first glass.

falan · 26-03-2010 09:42AM

The streets-empty cans;)

Relevant for this thread....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2i0Nw3NDBU

xzanti · 26-03-2010 09:52AM

I often indulge in a glass or 2 of wine infront of the tele on my tod, as do most of my friends, I see nothing wrong with it..

A bottle of vodka now would be a different kettle of fish altogether..

stovelid · 26-03-2010 09:56AM

Nothing like a few cold bottles of beer by yourself - at home or in the pub. Nothing wrong with it as long as it complements drinking with others and doesn't replace it.

petes · 26-03-2010 10:09AM

I like having as few beers at home on my own. Stick on a film and relax.

It's great. The only thing is the last Friday night I did this I had a bottle of red. Ended up going out after it!!

El Futurismo · 26-03-2010 10:27AM

I'd probably sit in and have a joint the odd night on my own. Never a drink though.

me_right_one · 26-03-2010 10:32AM

I love drinking alone. Drink and think.

kmick · 26-03-2010 10:46AM

Some of the best nights I have had have been on my own with a 6 pack and a good film, a good computer game, mixing music on my laptop or watching the Wire/Sopranos/BSG.

Some people think its weird but I spend all day every day with workmates, kids, family, random people asking me for things. Im pretty sure most people who think it is weird are the same people who fear being alone with themselves in case they realise how miserable they actually are.

ibarelycare · 26-03-2010 10:57AM

If I've no plans, there's nothing more I like than coming home from work on a Friday, getting into comfy clothes and enjoying a cold glass of white wine on my own. One of life's pleasures! The one glass sometimes tends to turn into a whole bottle though

But it's not like I'm skulling them. I'll have my first glass with dinner at about 7 and mightn't go to bed til about 12 or 1...so that's 4 glasses of wine over a 5 or 6 hour period. I would easily drink double that if I was out.

Sometimes I worry that I'm in denial...but f*ck it, I enjoy it!

prinz · 26-03-2010 11:00AM

Nothing like kicking back enjoying alone time with a few drinks. While reading, listening to music, watching a movie, sometimes just laid out on a couch looking at the ceiling and having a few bottles/cans. My OH thinks it's weird to drink alone, apparently it's a well known sign of alcoholism :rolleyes:

jackiebaron · 26-03-2010 11:26AM

Those who frown upon drinking alone or drinking at home are ****. Isn't a lady lying in a luxurious bath-tub full of suds and sipping a glass of champers drinking alone? Isn't a fair maiden in the park, reading a book and quaffing Merlot drinking alone? Isn't a country gent relaxing in the armchair in his conservatory with a tankard of cognac drinking alone. The **** don't seem to sneer at these types.

I drink alone all the time and I love it. I love getting wasted on German beer and then getting all nostalgic and going on youtube and blasting loads of old songs from yester-year. Then I get all emotional and fragile and start cranking up real tear-jerker songs from the likes of Joan Armatrading and Duffy and the Three Degrees and Lulu and ****. Then I snap out of it crack open another pilsner and play Chumbawumba, haha.

Then my girlfriend rings and tells me to meet her at the pub as she's had a hard evening at work and wants a bellyfull of vino.

ACE!

jackiebaron · 26-03-2010 11:28AM

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day.

funnyname · 26-03-2010 11:30AM

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysXMAOgEIq4

Abi · 26-03-2010 11:31AM

jackiebaron wrote: »

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day.

That is the oddest thing. Someone said that sentence almost word for word to me yesterday \0/

Caoimhín · 26-03-2010 11:33AM

It depends on the person. I cant really drink alone as i usually wake up somewhere strange, miles from home and no memory. Others seem to be able to have a glass of whatever and leave it at that.

Irishcrx · 26-03-2010 11:39AM

I don't see anything wrong with it at all, My house is always full of friends etc coming over and all which is great but sometimes I need time to myself to relax and just think. They were all out last night GF included so I stayed in, had half bottle of wine , a joint , a mizzoni pizza and watched the damned utd. Most relaxing night I've had in ages, it's like recharging the batteries...

Dudess · 26-03-2010 11:42AM

Do your internet friends count as people?

az2wp0sye65487 · 26-03-2010 11:46AM

jackiebaron wrote: »

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day.

Abitar wrote: »

That is the oddest thing. Someone said that sentence almost word for word to me yesterday \0/

It wasn't this fella by any chance, was it?

Kanye · 26-03-2010 11:50AM

pistonsvox wrote: »

Nice pint of guinness or cold bottle of miller, nacho's and some family guy is my end of week pleasure:pac:

This is the sort of thing people have a problem with. This is the reason for the stigma and taboo. I mean, who thinks Family Guy is still funny?

ScumLord · 26-03-2010 11:51AM

ibarelycare wrote: »

If I've no plans, there's nothing more I like than coming home from work on a Friday, getting into comfy clothes and enjoying a cold glass of white wine on my own. One of life's pleasures! The one glass sometimes tends to turn into a whole bottle though

That's how I am with whiskey, I'll just have a hot toddy, two hours later I'm necking it out of the bottle on chatroulette trying to find a Chinese person that can tell me how to work the helicopter clock that they sent me.

Prof.Badass · 26-03-2010 11:51AM

I would never drink alone. It's my rule to stop myself from becoming an alcoholic.

I've no problems drinking at any time of day, or any number of days in the one week, but i'll only ever engage in social drinking (having a few on a normal night watching tv with housemates doesn't really count as social drinking though imo).

It's a sensible rule to avoid addiction for any drug, don't see why so many people look down on those who abide by it.

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