Sober nights out?

I've found it can be enjoyable but really you have to be in the mood for going out with a few friends. Go out with a few friends enjoy the music and dancing and it can be enjoyable, the only thing is the tiredness in the morning can be as bad as a hangover sometimes!!

Myah Proud Fries wrote: »

I actually kind of enjoy it, it's like a different dimension, all your friends slowly disappear over the course of the night and their alter egos come out! Definitely have to be in the right form for it and with the right people, and drunk or sober I wouldn't be bothering with nightclubs. But for house-parties/pubs/bushing it can be good craic.

bushing, is that cork speak for knacker drinking? :P

"I wouldn't have the confidence to dance" <<< theres your real problem...alcohol just hides the fact that some people have low confidence....not on a high horse or anything, im the exact same....but im sick of feeling the need to drink, slowed it right down lately, if you learn to be social and avoid the wrong places (like nightclubs) and go to gigs or some other sort of event, a night out can be great craic...how do you think the spanish or other europeans do it? (the ones that dont drink heavy that is)

They really are impossible. Not terrible for the first couple of hours but after that you just realise you can't really talk to anybody if your in a loud bar, your mates are on a different level laughing at **** that just isn't funny when your sober and your all standing around looking at women or lookin at other groups of drunk men looking at women.

And you realise that you would much rather be at home with tea and biscuits watching match of the day. Or maybe I'm just getting old .

I'm not a big drinker. I will have a few when I'm out, but I've never been drunk, nor have any intention of doing so. I don't see the point, to be honest. I can still have a good laugh with mates, whether they're drunk or sober. I can wake up the next morning hangover-free and be able to remember a good night.

I don't understand the business of a night out not being a good one or being complete without getting hammered. In such cases, people with too much booze can either be a good laugh (fair enough); be annoying assholes talking ****e to sober people (not necessarily assholes, but talk nonsense); vomit however many euros worth of booze back up; pass out, meaning that mates have to help them into a taxi, or have to call an ambulance, if they get into a pitiful state (paramedics have far more serious cases to be dealing with than someone who can't handle their drink); fall all over the place in a packed place, and fall into this person and that person. . .I could go on. Fair enough, the above cases are only a minority.

I much prefer to be able to go out, sit around a table, have a few quiet ones (though, depending on the venue) and just have the bit of craic. I'm not into the club scene and all (I have two left feet anyway). But, everyone has their ideas of a good night out. And, it's not my place to tell someone to give it a rest, if they always seem to be drinking excessive amounts some nights during the week, apart from weekends. I have worried about a couple of mates who'd do that.

Hate the fact that people nearly look down there nose at you for saying,

I don't want to drink tonight.

Since when did "drink" refer to having an alcoholic beverage,

Any night I have gone sober has been torture, people talking sh!te, you realise the state of the floors in pubs & clubs towards the end of the night, broken glass, sticky floors from spilled drinks etc...

LadyLucinda wrote: »

So what is your experience of going out and not getting drunk?

I really enjoy it for a change until about 12 when everyone starts getting scuttered and repetitive. Then I go home.