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Alternatives to alcohol on nights out

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  • #32
    Mickey Dazzler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Mickey Dazzler


    Double drop two ecstasy pills then get your mate blow a gram of pure cocaine up your arse and you will be in great form for the rest of the night.


  • #33
    Disagree 2 Agree
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭Disagree 2 Agree


    Why on Earth would one want to go to a pub/club full of piss heads sober in the first place??:eek:
    Just see how much fun (and time) 'Peter Barlo' and his current girlfriend are having each day in the 'Rovers' you may say..:D
    They must be going through a gallon of orange juice a day between them.

    Plenty of other venues out there with less soul dribbling going on..


  • #34
    emzolita
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,602 ✭✭✭emzolita


    I dont drink, but always have a berocca at about 1am so it wakes me up again!


  • #35
    emzolita
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,602 ✭✭✭emzolita


    Disagree 2 Agree wrote: »
    Why on Earth would one want to go to a pub/club full of piss heads sober in the first place??:eek:
    So if me mate's having a birthday party in some pub, but I dont drink, should I not go? Cop on, of course ya can have a great night out and not drink.


  • #36
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    emzolita wrote: »
    So if me mate's having a birthday party in some pub, but I dont drink, should I not go? Cop on, of course ya can have a great night out and not drink.

    Go there. Say Hi. And leave. Pubs are for drinking alcohol. If you don't like it, try to get your mate to arrange his birthday party in a starbucks and see how that works out.

    And at least order a soft drink. Don't be a cheap ass with a glass of tap water.


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  • #37
    candy-gal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,568 ✭✭✭candy-gal1


    Cans of Monster :D
    okay, its a fizzy drink, but also an energy drink with vitamins etc, so not too bad


  • #38
    azezil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭azezil


    I used to be a pretty heavy drinker but gave up a couple of years ago, not completely but almost never drink now. On a recent Friday night out I wasn't drinking alcohol, just had 2 soft drinks the entire night. At first I was being all reserved and moody but come midnight I thought to myself, feck this I paid to get into this club I'm going to enjoy it, got up started dancing and after some initial feeling-like-a-toolery relaxed and really got into it, had a great night :)


  • #39
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,828 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    Switch all your mates pints with non-alcoholic beer and watch the results.

    Best entertainment you could ask for.

    Then snort a line.


  • #40
    emzolita
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,602 ✭✭✭emzolita


    Grayson wrote: »
    Go there. Say Hi. And leave. Pubs are for drinking alcohol. If you don't like it, try to get your mate to arrange his birthday party in a starbucks and see how that works out.

    And at least order a soft drink. Don't be a cheap ass with a glass of tap water.

    woah, smarthole! Where did I say I drink tapwater? If you must know, I drink coke, (that cheap?) and I can't drink cause of a medical condition. So realistically, no I won't be gettin me mates to have their parties in the cinema or starbucks.
    pubs are for socialising in, not just drinking. (you sound about 12)


  • #41
    Disagree 2 Agree
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭Disagree 2 Agree


    emzolita wrote: »
    ...pubs are for socialising in, not just drinking.

    Unfortunately this is no longer the case :(


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  • #42
    Jaelynn Flabby Peppermint
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Jaelynn Flabby Peppermint


    cade wrote: »
    I followed similar to the above for a while, just make sure you specify Tap water or they'll try to pass you on a bottle of their bottled mineral water and charge you about €3.50 for it.

    TBH It kind of depends where you are drinking, I mean if you're just in a local pub then Tea/Coffee is a good alternative and it'll help keep you awake chatting through the night, though that option likely is not available in say a club in town. Milk is good too, though if you're female and walking into a bar packed full of lads, well ordering a glass of milk brings on the old dirty joke :eek:

    yeah, coffee is a good one where possible.


  • #43
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Replace narcotics with Jesus/Evangelism.
    Become a preacher.
    Attract a congregation.
    ??????
    Prophet!
    FYP


  • #44
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    Mdma* is the most obvious and best answer. If having an amazing transcendent experience filled with pure enjoyment and pleasure isn't your thing then stick with the water. Fish screw in it, remember that.

    *Take drugs responsibly :pac:


  • #45
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    emzolita wrote: »
    woah, smarthole! Where did I say I drink tapwater? If you must know, I drink coke, (that cheap?) and I can't drink cause of a medical condition. So realistically, no I won't be gettin me mates to have their parties in the cinema or starbucks.
    pubs are for socialising in, not just drinking. (you sound about 12)

    I didn't say you did. But others did (not that they said you drank tap water, but rather that they did)

    And my point is, that pubs are not places for sober people. I hate arriving at a pub when I'm sober and every else isn't. Humans are pretty pathetic when drunk, unless you happen to be too. Lets face it, midnight in templebar is a nasty place when your sober.

    Honestly, if i couldn't drink on a night out, I'd have a coke or two (No effing pepsi for me please) and head home early before it gets messy.

    have you considered taking anything else to dull your senses? Prescription meds? Illegal narcotics? 8 shots of expresso? Because it makes pubs not just palatable but actually enjoyable.


  • #46
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    Soda water and lime, its quit refreshing and not as expensive as soft drinks.


  • #47
    Scanlas The 2nd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭Scanlas The 2nd


    Bananas or popcorn, with the added bonus of looking cool.


  • #48
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    Grayson wrote: »
    And my point is, that pubs are not places for sober people. I hate arriving at a pub when I'm sober and every else isn't. Humans are pretty pathetic when drunk, unless you happen to be too. Lets face it, midnight in templebar is a nasty place when your sober.
    .
    Ridiculous! Preposterous! completely unfathomable on every conceivable level!!
    Since going dry i have had more fun in the pub than I ever had whilst drunk... mostly as I am a messy drunkard. But the pub isn't just a place to get drunk and if you think it is then you should reevaluate your nights out


  • #49
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    bluewolf wrote: »
    yeah, coffee is a good one where possible.
    I love coffee. I'll never ever ever give it up and don't want to. It's become my thing. People say I'll turn into a cup of coffee soon:)
    The only thing that puts me off is seeing what it's done to some peoples teeth. I'm a bit weird about my teeth, I have a bit of an OCD thing going on where I'm probably looking after them too much, almost...


  • #50
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Crystal Meth.


  • #51
    emzolita
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,602 ✭✭✭emzolita


    Grayson wrote: »
    have you considered taking anything else to dull your senses? Prescription meds? Illegal narcotics? 8 shots of expresso? Because it makes pubs not just palatable but actually enjoyable.
    I have these things called FRIENDS! :D now back on topic, and stop our bitching.


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  • #52
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Temptamperu wrote: »
    Ridiculous! Preposterous! completely unfathomable on every conceivable level!!
    Since going dry i have had more fun in the pub than I ever had whilst drunk... mostly as I am a messy drunkard. But the pub isn't just a place to get drunk and if you think it is then you should reevaluate your nights out

    Nonsense, balderdash, poppycock! That's sillier than a naked man in socks.
    (btw, you use that word conceivable, I do not think it means what you think it means)

    Pubs are places full of drunk people. nightclubs are worse. The later it gets in the night, the drunker they get, the messier it gets.

    And I never said i was getting locked. There's a long way between locked and sober. I like being nicely inbetween. Able to talk ****e, but knowing that what I'm saying is utter ****e :)

    At the far end of the scale is coppers. i defy anyone to say that 3am in coppers is a nice place to be whilst sober. Where as 4pm in a beer garden is quite nice.


  • #53
    Jaelynn Flabby Peppermint
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Jaelynn Flabby Peppermint


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    I love coffee. I'll never ever ever give it up and don't want to. It's become my thing. People say I'll turn into a cup of coffee soon:)
    The only thing that puts me off is seeing what it's done to some peoples teeth. I'm a bit weird about my teeth, I have a bit of an OCD thing going on where I'm probably looking after them too much, almost...

    get them whitened so


  • #54
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    I love coffee. I'll never ever ever give it up and don't want to. It's become my thing. People say I'll turn into a cup of coffee soon:)
    The only thing that puts me off is seeing what it's done to some peoples teeth. I'm a bit weird about my teeth, I have a bit of an OCD thing going on where I'm probably looking after them too much, almost...

    I have 5 types of coffee on my desk. I love it to bits. i was sick and in hospital a while back and my local cafe sent me my regular order in a takeaway cup and a get well soon card. But I don't know if i could drink it on a night out.

    5 pints of guinness I can handle. 5 grande americano's would kill me. Especially since starbucks started putting three shots into grande's/venti's :)

    EDIT: btw, i smoke too. so my teeth aren't the whitest. I've been putting off going to the dentists because it's 400-500 to get a good job done. Getting it done in may.


  • #55
    Mr.Biscuits
    Closed Accounts Posts: 750 ✭✭✭Mr.Biscuits


    A banana.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056570608


  • #56
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Mr.Biscuits wrote: »
    A banana.

    Not much point

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bananadine


  • #57
    sunflower27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    Grayson wrote: »
    I didn't say you did. But others did (not that they said you drank tap water, but rather that they did)

    And my point is, that pubs are not places for sober people. I hate arriving at a pub when I'm sober and every else isn't. Humans are pretty pathetic when drunk, unless you happen to be too. Lets face it, midnight in templebar is a nasty place when your sober.

    Honestly, if i couldn't drink on a night out, I'd have a coke or two (No effing pepsi for me please) and head home early before it gets messy.

    have you considered taking anything else to dull your senses? Prescription meds? Illegal narcotics? 8 shots of expresso? Because it makes pubs not just palatable but actually enjoyable.

    What a load of BS.

    I socialise a lot and not everyone that goes to a pub gets totally sh*t-faced before they leave. Certain pubs/bars that are frequented by younger people yes, I'd expect there to be loads of drunk people, but so what. They are the ones off their faces, falling around the place, not me.

    I stopped drinking months ago and still enjoy my nights out. I ever remember them now.:D

    Pubs are not only for those that are twisted, or on their way to getting twisted..... I was out laast night late enough and plenty of people weren't off their heads. Some people can drink sensibly - I saw plenty of them.


  • #58
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,310 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    All the actual alternatives bar not drinking are illegal.
    Interesting. And what would they be?


  • #59
    whatlliwear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭whatlliwear


    Non alcoholic Kopparberg's ok.. Had a few one night..


  • #60
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    A little bottle of petrol to sniff


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  • #61
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    I wish I was doing MDMA right now. I'll have to get myself some drugs in the summer time.


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