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beks101 · 28-10-2013 05:08PM

krudler wrote: »

The older I get the less I enjoy going out, once you hit your 30's and the 2 day hangovers arrive it all seems pointless. I was dying yesterday and didn't even drink all that much saturday night, waste of a day really even sitting on the couch watching tv seemed like effort.

I've been getting two-day hangovers since I was 25. I suspect by 30 the three-day hangovers will be in full swing.

0P - yeah, you've probably missed out. Do you never just go for a cheeky pint with friends, like? Wouldn't be the biggest nightclub person myself, never really was, but I've had some epic nights just down the pub with good friends and met some great people who subsequently became friends, boyfriends etc.

Magnetics · 28-10-2013 05:18PM

I'd say you missed out a little bit but different strokes and all that

For me, the best/craziest weekends of my life involved going out on the lash with a bag of pills on a friday night and coming home late Sunday having partied hard all weekend. It will catch up on you eventually though but **** it they were great times:)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 28-10-2013 05:57PM

Come back worrying about such things when you are 66. It will seem very insignificant in the overall picture of your life by then, I can assure you.

old hippy · 28-10-2013 06:06PM

If you feel like going out on a bender, all well and good. 26 is quite young and there's still plenty of time left

Besides, you seem to have had a productive, rewarding time up until now. Don't cave in to pressure or follow the herd.

28-10-2013 06:07PM

OP, I'm 28 and haven't been to a nightclub in about 8 years. Even the odd time I did go, I hated it. I don't think you missed out there. Do you mean you never went drinking in general, though? Some of my best times have been in pubs with my mates just having a chat and a laugh.

I'd say you have missed out with the travelling, but only because it's what I love more than almost anything else. If you aren't that arsed about it, though, then why feel regretful? I think if you truly wanted to go on those weekend breaks, you would have. When I get the travel bug, I scrimp and save every penny I have and do hours of overtime to be able to go somewhere.

You're 26, though, not 86. You still have loads of time to do all this.

MadsL · 28-10-2013 06:11PM

Daddy?
Yes, son
what does regret mean?
You know son, a funny thing about regret is, but it's better to regret something you have done, than something you haven't done. And if you see your mom this weekend, be sure and tell her...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i81w5eHs0qA

old hippy · 28-10-2013 06:13PM

MadsL wrote: »

Daddy?
Yes, son
what does regret mean?
You know son, a funny thing about regret is, but it's better to regret something you have done, than something you haven't done. And if you see your mom this weekend, be sure and tell her...

Satan! Satan! Satan!

Daveysil15 · 28-10-2013 07:37PM

It is what you make of it I suppose. I've never been out on the piss and thought to myself, "wow this is amazing." Now I have had some good nights out where I had good craic, but for all the good nights, there were just as many bad nights: putting up with rowdiness, the fights, the vomiting, the stench of cigarette smoke (pre-smoking ban) the rude rejections, the rip off cab fares, the hangovers etc. A lot of the time it just wasn't worth it.

languagenerd · 28-10-2013 08:48PM

Everything is subjective. You chose to spend your money on travels and hobbies - if you enjoyed those, then there's no point regretting it. You don't know what those hypothetical nights out would have been like: they may have been awful! It all really depends on your personality and your group of friends.

If you'd gone out more, then yeah, you may have had some great adventures and crazy experiences. But it's equally possible that you'd have had ended up going to the same places every week with the same people, getting bored of it and feeling like you'd wasted all that time and money. You just don't know. So if you enjoyed the other things you did with the money, then don't regret it!

And you're only 26 - plenty of time for crazy adventures yet!

28-10-2013 09:17PM

OP just realised you did indeed travel rather than spending money on booze. I'd say you've nothing to worry about.

TBH I wish I'd never started the heavy boozing - I just don't even appreciate it now and find myself drinking for the sake of it. I used to really enjoy getting a couple of really strong Belgian beers with some food and actually enjoying them rather than necking bottle after bottle of cheap p1ss. Trying to get back to that.

I think drinking is really quite overrated. I used to do a lot more stuff when I rarely drank - cinema, galleries, more cultural stuff, and I think I enjoyed my life more back then.

Vito Corleone · 28-10-2013 09:22PM

When I'm 26 I would hope to be finished with all that. I can't remember the last night out I enjoyed tbh.

MJ23 · 28-10-2013 09:23PM

Not missing much of those idiot twocanners in college.

TeddyTedson · 28-10-2013 09:23PM

seamus wrote: »

It's not really all it's cracked up to be tbh. From 18 to 25 I probably went out 50 weekends of the year. As time moves on you find yourself going to the same ****e places with the same people and waking up the next morning realising that it would have been a better night and a better morning if you'd left at 1 o'clock (or before everyone got too drunk and the music got too loud). People whittle away, go travelling, move across the country etc, and the craic gets less because you're doing it every weekend.

Go on big nights out less, and you'll appreciate them more. Avoid nightclubs, go to house parties. Much more fun, and much better chance of hooking up. Even back at 21 I'd prefer sitting in someone's house drinking cans till 4am rather than heading into town to some crap nightclub. I was attached for practically all of my 20s anyway, so hooking up was never on my agenda.

As someone just gone 30 now, with a child, and trying to fit in other hobbies around that, I regret all of the weekends I spent dying on the couch after a lacklustre night, when I could have been doing something worthwhile with my time. I'm sure if I'd rarely gone out, I'd probably regret that I didn't go out more. You can't win

Why do you always have such good posts!
I always end up agreeing with you. You should be running the country!

Seamus!

:P:)

old hippy · 29-10-2013 05:47PM

Vito Corleone wrote: »

When I'm 26 I would hope to be finished with all that. I can't remember the last night out I enjoyed tbh.

So young and jaded

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