Nights out without alcohol

awec · 28-04-2013 02:03PM

jaffacakesyum wrote: »

We're a rare bunch awec :pac: Especially amongst the 20s crowd, people don't understand why you would possibly drink beer like you would Coca Cola. If I have a beer at lunch cue my mates going off on one "ah she's on the booze now, you're a mad one starting drinking at this hour". Umm no, I'm just going to have one beer.

Lunchtime pints are the nicest

Mr Simpson · 28-04-2013 02:05PM

I have a better time when I drink

Some of my best nights out have been sober. I dont really do in between.

I'm either hammered or completely sober, should really work on that.

BOHtox · 28-04-2013 02:08PM

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Was out last night, pulled a fat moth, got sick all over myself, lost my keys, spent over €150 and tried to pull the female taxi driver.

Imagine the carnage had I been drinking

OneArt · 28-04-2013 02:26PM

Sometimes I'll have a quiet night out with a hookah and lots of tea. Great in the summer time and when you're not up for drinking.

3hn2givr7mx1sc · 28-04-2013 02:41PM

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hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Couldn't disagree more with this. Being sober in a room full of completely plastered people is quite possibly the most fun experience known to mankind.

Being one of the plastered people is way more fun.

Grayson · 28-04-2013 02:42PM

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hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Couldn't disagree more with this. Being sober in a room full of completely plastered people is quite possibly the most fun experience known to mankind.

I have been sober in a room full of people on mushrooms. I was sitting next to one guy and having a laugh at the stuff he was saying. "you're really far away. Ohhh... You're really close. wait you're really far away." And then trying to swim whilst sitting down on a couch.

So i went and got a glass of water and sat back down again.

Him: "Graysonn, when'd you get here"
Me: "I've been here all night"
Him: "No you haven't. Adam sandler's been sitting here all night."

jaffacakesyum · 28-04-2013 03:41PM

Grayson wrote: »

Did you just prove yourself wrong?

Nope, we do lots of stuff other than gay bars. Go for dinner, coffee, play board games, go to the cinema, film festivals, go for runs etc.

But I, unlike the poster I was reponding to, enjoy socialising in pubs and clubs so I do go to gay bars (and normal bars) as well. I like drinking when I have a night off. If I'm going out clubbing I will always drink. My point is, that if that's what you enjoy then great. If you don't enjoy it then don't moan that there's nothing else to do in Ireland than drink cos it's wrong.

thiarfearr · 28-04-2013 03:41PM

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hatrickpatrick wrote: »

I go to nightclubs sober all the time, it's fun because you can f*ck with people the next day and give them the fear when they can't remember anything

You're the worst kind of person

Vito Corleone · 28-04-2013 03:58PM

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I admire people who can go to clubs and enjoy it without drink, but honestly I have no idea how they do it.

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

I go to nightclubs sober all the time, it's fun because you can f*ck with people the next day and give them the fear when they can't remember anything

Don't be that guy.

jubella · 28-04-2013 04:18PM

jaffacakesyum wrote: »

Nope, we do lots of stuff other than gay bars. Go for dinner, coffee, play board games, go to the cinema, film festivals, go for runs etc.

But I, unlike the poster I was reponding to, enjoy socialising in pubs and clubs so I do go to gay bars (and normal bars) as well. I like drinking when I have a night off. If I'm going out clubbing I will always drink. My point is, that if that's what you enjoy then great. If you don't enjoy it then don't moan that there's nothing else to do in Ireland than drink cos it's wrong.

I do enjoy socialising in pubs & clubs. I was never complaining about it. I don't know where you've got that from.
All I was saying in my first post was that it's not pointless to go to pubs and not drink, because it's one of the main (if not THE main) things Irish people do to socialise.

Staff Infection · 28-04-2013 05:23PM

I have a better time when I drink

I was put on antibiotics half way through my first year of college and had to stop drinking while on the tablets. At the time I was annoyed as I thought it was cruel to have been able to drink initially when all the people in the course we just getting to know each other and barely went out. However, in the second half of the year when we knew each other better and went out twice a week I now had to do it all sober.

After, a month or so of going out sober that all changed as I still had great nights out and got over what I had at first thought was the handicap of chatting up people sober, as it turned out being able to think coherently seemed to work better than slurring nonsense.

This experience turned out to be a great education on not needing a drop of drink to have a thoroughly spiffing time. As a result I've since gone out on nights and had great times while sober, drunk and on other drugs a few times too.

So it is definitely possible for me to enjoy nights without drink but it probably helps that I'm generally talkative, personable and full of life so I wouldn't be the type to maybe sit in a corner wishing I could mix with others without a social lubricant. Saying that I have friends who are just great craic drunk or sober so they're fun to be around at any time or state of consciousness.

Daveysil15 · 28-04-2013 08:12PM

jaffacakesyum wrote: »

My point is, that if that's what you enjoy then great. If you don't enjoy it then don't moan that there's nothing else to do in Ireland than drink cos it's wrong.

It depends on where you live too though. If you're out in the sticks it may be the only thing to do - well, that and cow tipping.

ElvisChrist6 · 28-04-2013 08:30PM

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It depends on the night, if I stay in with friends or go to a gaff party of some sort, I can easily go the night without so much as a drink, but if people want to go to a club or something, I'll need at least half a bottle of whiskey, because I fucking hate clubs!

jaffacakesyum · 28-04-2013 08:30PM

Daveysil15 wrote: »

It depends on where you live too though. If you're out in the sticks it may be the only thing to do - well, that and cow tipping.

Definitely less opportunities than a big city for sure but there are still other things to do than go to the pub. It's just such an inbuilt habit that people make excuses that it's the only way to socialise.

ElvisChrist6 · 28-04-2013 08:33PM

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Staff Infection wrote: »

After, a month or so of going out sober that all changed as I still had great nights out and got over what I had at first thought was the handicap of chatting up people sober, as it turned out being able to think coherently seemed to work better than slurring nonsense.

Just curious really... Would it feel weird chatting up people who were drunk while you were sober? I'd have thought that would be one of the biggest differences, if they were drinking (maybe not drunk, but you never know) and you weren't. Of course, there's nothing wrong with not drinking, but I would probably worry that I'd be taking advantage or something.

Eramen · 28-04-2013 09:25PM

I have a better time when I drink

mconigol wrote: »

Pubs are places for drinking, if you don't drink it's really a pointless exercise to go to one.

It's like going to the cinema blindfolded and with earplugs.

I often go to pubs for a game of chess and a chat. Sometimes I drink, sometimes I don't. There's no problem with either as far as I'm concerned. Pubs are social places, or at least they're supposed to be.

mconigol · 29-04-2013 12:08PM

Eramen wrote: »

I often go to pubs for a game of chess and a chat. Sometimes I drink, sometimes I don't. There's no problem with either as far as I'm concerned. Pubs are social places, or at least they're supposed to be.

My point is that a pub primary business is to sell alcohol, people go there to do other things which is fair enough but mainly they are for selling and consuming alcohol.

You could play chess at the swimming pool but that doesn't make it a chess club.

starlit · 01-05-2013 09:22PM

I have a better time when I drink

I drink but I have been out a couple of times and not had alcohol. You actually can enjoy a night out without a drink but depends on the company and venue I suppose. Both fun in equal measures whether you have a drink or not. You can either have a good or bad night either way like. Its what you make of the night really makes it enjoyable.

Staff Infection · 02-05-2013 05:21PM

I have a better time when I drink

ElvisChrist6 wrote: »

Just curious really... Would it feel weird chatting up people who were drunk while you were sober? I'd have thought that would be one of the biggest differences, if they were drinking (maybe not drunk, but you never know) and you weren't. Of course, there's nothing wrong with not drinking, but I would probably worry that I'd be taking advantage or something.

Personally I never kept chatting up someone who was drunk if I was sober. There have been times when I've walked over started talking and realised they're away with the fairies so I smile and walk off. Doing this means that finding someone to chat up in somewhere like coppers is pretty much impossible as everyone is locked. In those cases I just dance off and have the craic or chat to people in a jovial way. I agree though about the taking advantage argument so I kind have a line that if someone has had too much to drink I leave them be as I wouldn't feel right, also from my point of view they usually have nothing to talk about anyway

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