Do You Enjoy Drinking?

jester77 · 27-02-2013 04:03PM

Where To wrote: »

I had a very hectic day today. A few years ago I would have treated myself to a few drinks at the end of yhe day, today I treated myself to a new mattress.

Nice one, you can now look forward to getting wasted tomorrow and being able to comfortably sleep it off.

kfallon · 27-02-2013 04:12PM

BrainStorm90 wrote: »

Not possible to have crack with your Friends while they get wasted and you sit there sipping your 1 or 2 pints :rolleyes:

I'm glad I don't have your mates!

kfallon · 27-02-2013 04:14PM

Boombastic wrote: »

Haven't drank in Ireland in a few years, it's a mugs game

Ever had a bet or gambled?

OneArt · 27-02-2013 04:16PM

I like meeting up with people, having chats and getting started on the booze. To be honest though, I don't like it if I get so drunk I feel tired, uncomfortable and may need to throw up. I usually head out and eight and won't be back till six, so I'd normally space my drinking out throughout the night so I stay at the same happy level of drunkness and don't go puking or fall asleep in the pub.

10+ pints is too much IMO. I'd say on average I'd have six or seven a night and it keeps me going at the level I enjoy. I hate how some people see drinking as a competition and try to down as much as they can. I want to get happily drunk, not sick. It's the same with any other drug.

Boombastic · 27-02-2013 04:20PM

kfallon wrote: »

Ever had a bet or gambled?

Rarely, might throw a fiver on the grand national

I do like a drink of proper beer every so often, but not in an Irish pub and not to get hammered

boboldpilot · 27-02-2013 04:25PM

One of the problems with quitting drinking is that you discover you've nothing else to do with your life. What the OP has discovered is that he has little interest in drink since he discovered far more interesting things to do.

I barely drank till I was forty which was about the time I had begun to lose enthusiasm for all the other interests I had in life. I had so many things going on that drink was merely a distraction. When they disappeared, drink replaced it. Not that I hit the bottle hard. In fact I would drink less than most.

I'm off it now at the moment for a combination of wanting to lose a bit of weight and get fit again and due to mutterings from the medic about the dire effects on my liver in the long run.

I don't miss the drink itself but what has happened now is that I realise that when I had a few drinks at home. It was mainly because I was bored. Clearly I need an interest of some sort.

It think a lot of that is the problem in this country. Our famous 'drink culture' is all too often the only culture for far too many people. They literally have few if any other interests other than socialising and drinking.

I remember reading somewhere that drug addicts would come out of prison clean and determined to stay off it. But once out of prison they go back to their previous life, discover it's still as s*** as ever and go back on the drugs.

Same with drink. Most of us are not alcoholics but we still have a bad relationship with alcohol using it as an alternative to other interests.

But if you live in a small town, quite often unless you're in the local GAA, there's nothing else to do. But even they have a bar.

AnonoBoy · 27-02-2013 04:26PM

Beer Beer Beer Beer BEEERRRRR!!!

What was the question?

DupsTheKid · 27-02-2013 04:34PM

OP You've just described exactly my life since Christmas and I'm 23. Drank a bit much over the Christmas and just got so sick of the drink/hangovers/fear and the crap food/weight gain. Gone all healthy now. Although I play hurling/football so with pre-season it helped alot.

I've gone out once since new years and had 5 pints all night. Stayed away from the shots/vodka and turned out a good night. Was hardly even hungover.

Don't think I could ever go back to the 7+ pints and then onto the vodka. Now on the weekends I would just as much prefer to go for a meal with the missus/cinema or just relax at home watching tv/films/xbox.

kfallon · 27-02-2013 04:37PM

Boombastic wrote: »

Rarely, might throw a fiver on the grand national

That's apparently a mugs game too

Boombastic · 27-02-2013 04:40PM

kfallon wrote: »

That's apparently a mugs game too

I know, its is a mugs game aswell, but a fiver every couple of years isn't going to break the bank, it won't even leave me with a hang over :pac:

Steve O · 27-02-2013 04:41PM

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

Stopped drinking at the start of the year, have drank twice since. Didn't get drunk either time.

I turned into a horrible person when I was very drunk, and I never knew how to pace myself. I hurt a lot of people too, just being a drunken idiot.

So now I avoid alcohol, when I am out with friends I'll have a few vodkas and enjoy them, and leave it at that.

This.

Grade A arsehole on drink, plus I spend too much on shots after the threshold.

Off it for good now.

suicide_circus · 27-02-2013 04:44PM

Very rarely get hammered but then rarely confine myself to imbibing alcohol...

SunnyDub1 · 27-02-2013 04:46PM

I'm pretty much the same as you Op.

I am someone who looks after my diet, health and get regular exercise. Come December that all went out the window.
Spent nearly the whole month of December eating and drinking out, Xmas parties, family gatherings etc etc, don't think I worked out or went jogging for the whole month. Big fault on my half.
Come Jan I was drained, gained quite a bit of weight, felt and looked sh*t.

Only really getting back to my health and fitness properly now.

I was really turned off drink after Xmas, just isn't worth all the hangover, feeling miserable, the fear, pigging out, money, buying dresses, make up, hair (I'm a girl :P) etc etc. Been out twice since Xmas only for a few drinks, home early and still felt sh*t next day. Don't think it matters how much you drink tbh.
I sooner sit on a sat night with a curry and dvd with the girls or my family, go cinema, go for dinner then be down in the pub or night club.

Henlars67 · 27-02-2013 04:50PM

Used to go out drinking at least 2, sometimes 3-4 nights a week. Would have got drunk most nights I went out.

Kept that up from about 20-26. Had a great time, I don't regret it.

Gradually started going out less after that, 30 now and only go out one or two nights a month.

I still enjoy going out drinking but I know I wouldn't enjoy going out several times a week like I used to.

The hangovers are much worse now than they used to be, don't know if that's cos I'm a bit older or because I'm not used to drink anymore like I was a few years ago.

I never drink at home. If there was beer flowing from the tap at my kitchen sink I wouldn't bother drinking at home.

Blisterman · 27-02-2013 04:50PM

I'd much rather spend my money having 2 or 3 pints a few times a week, where I can enjoy the taste, the conversation and the nice warm buzz of the alcohol, then go out and have a single massive session, get smashed and wake up with a hangover.

Judgement Day · 27-02-2013 05:02PM

I reckon it's an age thing and from 18-25 I couldn't get enough drink every weekend. Then I found I was getting the 'morning after' effect the night before and reduced my consumption drastically. Now, it's quality rather than quantity, with the company and ambience of the pub being a big factor. Three or four pints of Guinness during a rugby match extending to 5/6 if there are back to back matches is my limit these days.

space_man · 27-02-2013 05:05PM

love a few glasses at home on Fri & Sat nights.
dont go to pubs anymore, as they are full of arseholes hell bent on telling you their life story or some other boring bs.

Amprodude · 27-02-2013 05:13PM

From 20 -25 i used to go out and get drunk most weekends drinking 10+ pints and then shots etc. My diet was poor and i was overweight. One day a neighbour of mine got ill due to a bad lifestyle and heavy drinking all his life, he was 55. I had a good hard look at myself then and decided if i continue what im doing, i will be in trouble too so i wiped alcohol out completely and started cycling swimming and running and eating healthy and its something i never regretted. I lost 4.5 stone and feel much better as a person now and im not interested in drinking at weekends because i have sportives to attend and thats what keeps me going. I lost some drinking friends but if they werent prepared for my lifestyle change then they arent real friends anyway. Best thing i ever did and rarely drink anything now.

Oregano_State · 27-02-2013 05:22PM

I'm in much the same situation as the OP. During college I was on the batter a fair bit, not as much in final year but still drank fairly regularly. I finished last summer, and decided I was going to change. I got a job, moved to Dublin and took up running again. Since last July I have been training 4-6 times a week and have cut down the drink to the odd glass of wine and a night out every couple of months.

I'm much happier than I was, and I completely agree with the person who said people tend to drink when they don't have any other interests. The social life in college was entirely (unsurprisingly) centred around drink and I grew tired of it. You end up having the same night out over and over. I now find that I enjoy the nights I do drink much more than I used to, but the main thing to come out of it is that I'm fitter and healthier than I have been in years. I don't see myself ever going back to be honest.

SunnyDub1 · 27-02-2013 05:33PM

Oregano_State wrote: »

You end up having the same night out over and over. I now find that I enjoy the nights I do drink much more than I used to

+1 for this.

the same pub, same crowd, same club, same people, becomes boring after a while - like most things. Extra boring if you are waking up with an intense headache after it

Look forward to a few drinks/ night out more when I haven't been out in a while.

27-02-2013 05:40PM

Judgement Day wrote: »

I reckon it's an age thing and from 18-25 I couldn't get enough drink every weekend. Then I found I was getting the 'morning after' effect the night before and reduced my consumption drastically. Now, it's quality rather than quantity, with the company and ambience of the pub being a big factor. Three or four pints of Guinness during a rugby match extending to 5/6 if there are back to back matches is my limit these days.

I'm gone 28 and to be honest I'm not feeling any let up in the desire for going out that a lot of people talk about, I'm drinking just as much if not more now than I was as an undergrad and plenty my age and older are just as up for going out at least once if not more every week.

For instance I was drinking watching the game last Thursday night, couple of hot whiskeys at home Friday night, good session Saturday watching the matches and up until fairly late and then was out for 5 or 6 pints Monday night too after work too.

Longest I've gone without drinking since starting 1st year in college is about 3 weeks and I can only remember going that long twice.

tomboylady · 27-02-2013 09:47PM

I can go months without drinking at all, and when I do drink it's usually in small-ish quantities. I would say I was drunk (not to the point of vomiting, but to the point of having a few too many) maybe once or possibly twice last year.

If I go out with friends I'll usually have two drinks, at most three (sometimes none at all). Or if we go to dinner I'll have a glass or two of wine. But we're talking every few months, rather than every weekend. It would be a very rare thing for me to drink at home, it would just never occur to me!

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