Sober nights out?

Pumpkinseeds · 21-07-2014 10:55PM

I haven't been in a club since the mid 90's, tbh, I'd rather gnaw off my own foot than go to a club:D

Knex* · 21-07-2014 10:59PM

I do it a bit more now than I would have before. Although I wouldn't do stone cold sober much. I might be like the OP and have 4 or 5 drinks, or whatever. I certainly wouldn't be anywhere near drunk, but generally I'd be what I call, pleasantly unsober

Even when clubbing, if the music is good, then I have no need for much drink. Hit the dance floor and have a laugh. Most people there are locked anyway, so no need for your inhibitions!

I've never really been one to get locked anyway, though.

Talib Fiasco · 21-07-2014 11:04PM

It's not the worst...you just have to be ready to deal with silly stuff that is only funny to a drunk person...but you can still have the same craic sober as a night where you're hammered. It's quite funny noticing things drunk people do as well.

When it comes to pulling it boost your chances severely. You don't look like you're having a rasher attack...you aren't staring at her t*ts all the time, you can string a competent sentence together etc. It helps loads to be sober in a club when you can actually see a girl checking you out and giving you the look to get your arse over there and make her night....still prefer getting hammered though :rolleyes:

Stheno · 21-07-2014 11:06PM

tomwaterford wrote: »

pretty alright....I wouldn't be the biggest drinker out there/cant really stick the crowds....so emm I just go out chat away with the lads..when it gets too much...(noisy/crowded etc) I just slip away home:)...

This, I tend to do this at work gigs

21-07-2014 11:07PM

Clubs are my idea of hell, sober or otherwise.

Never had a problem being sober anywhere else.

Ave Sodalis · 21-07-2014 11:16PM

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

It's quite funny noticing things drunk people do as well.

This is my favourite part

I think drunk people are hilarious, as long as they aren't too sick or violent.
The best part is, because I'm sober 99% of the time (I have gotten drunk once or twice to see) I have this deal where I promise to make sure my friends don't do anything too stupid, as long as I get to tell everything they've forgotten the next morning.

chrisguy116 · 21-07-2014 11:34PM

I can't hack it at all ! I find if I don't drink I can't get 100% of me to shine.. If that makes any sense.. Not white girl wasted now but just a few to getcha warm & fuzzy.. I think I'm "sounder" when drunk?
I'd talk to anyone just for a chat especially outer group mates you wouldn't stop & talk to on the street

One of my mates is a non drinker and has serious Craic when she's out..makes jokes about it & Offers lifts but still can be out til 3 or 4 laughing with the rest falling around.. Green with envy is me

OldMrBrennan83 · 21-07-2014 11:36PM

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thelad95 · 21-07-2014 11:38PM

cloud493 wrote: »

Sure its all grand when your the one giggling. When your the one whose sitting with a banging headache in a filthy smoking area in a **** pub an hour away from your house at ten at night, less fun.

Ten? Try 4am

At a pub, I think it's grand as people aren't really that drunk anyway. However, I went to a club with my friends completely sober and got a taxi home after half an hour. The whole thing just disgusted me from piss all over the place to stupidly loud music to drunk people falling all over you and funny looks from the barmen when you ask for a bottle of lucozade. When you're drunk, you don't care or realize these things but when sober, they really annoy you.

Adamantium · 22-07-2014 12:04AM

Myah Proud Fries wrote: »

Do you not enjoy messing with people's heads when they're pissed though?That's how I enjoy the night. And then if someone loses their keys or bag or something and everyone's running around like headless chickens, you find it (it's usually sitting right in front of them) and everyone thinks you're possessed of superhuman abilities.

THIS. It's like you're helping people survive an alternate dimension where people can be cartoonisly lose their minds and feel like their lives are at stake over small occurences (so just like sober life really). I love it.

I posted this in the non drinker's forum for somebody looking for advice over how to thrive on a night out:

This is counter intuitive
I also try to think of people as shy and uptight (even if they are not) if I haven't met them and then try to bring them "alive".

Most people are terrible conversationists anyway, so I feel no shame, that I'm trying. The fact that you even intiate says a lot about you.

And people time and time again are more than delighted if somebody "rescues" them from the tension.

Also people in a pub look at all the people in the pub as sort of crazy that they have to drink, "Wow, is this really what's required for them to articulate (which they won't remember anyway)" then feel fairly godlike that you're navigating through a crowd of sedated zombies.

You just need to reframe it mentally, and it can be slow, but if you have a good imagination its faster.

shane9689 · 22-07-2014 01:45AM

haha, i think the problem here, is boards is saturated in introverts :P such a one sided debate going on here

NegativeCreep · 22-07-2014 02:09AM

In a pub it's fine. I don't mind it at all although I've only done that once and it was with very close friends and no one was particularly drunk. I'm cutting down my drinking for the summer (and hopefully longer). I've a friends birthday to attend in a nightclub on Friday night and I'm only allowing myself 6 pints (including pre-drinking) and no spirits or other types of alcohol. Everyone's gonna be blind drunk and I don't know how I'll cope in that situation. I'm dreading it but also kinda looking forward to it!

Donnielighto · 22-07-2014 02:21AM

Did a sober festival, and plenty of nights out.

I can go nuts on the dancefloor sober though which is a big help.

Lou.m · 22-07-2014 02:55AM

LadyLucinda wrote: »

I had four drinks at the weekend and ended up in a club with herself, another couple and two more friends. I know four drinks is not sober but I may as well have been. Thought it was absolute rubbish just standing there nursing my bottle of heineken whilst roaring into a few ears. Felt awkward in the club just standing there as I wouldn't have the confidence to dance when I'm not drunk.Still didn't feel great with tiredness and all that the next day.

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

I have never really been a drinker.

I hardly drink at all and have a great time still.

I think you have confidence issues in general if you have to be drunk to do anything really.

I have actually NEVER been drunk once.

Everyone thinks they are friendlier drunk...you're not! Trust me. You think you are chattier and funnier ...you're not...

You seem chattier and friendlier if the OTHER person is drunk.

I don't like being around people who are REALLY drunk or off their heads on drugs.

whirlpool · 22-07-2014 03:56AM

I cannot see a point to being in a niteclub sober. It's too loud to have a conversation, and if you dance you're surrounded by messy drunks.

Loud pubs are just as bad. Screaming in people's ears and struggling to hear people talk is one of my ideas of hell.

Sunnyisland · 22-07-2014 04:00AM

Pubs can be tolerated,if not to crowded and you can have a conversation,night clubs be a big no no,your just not on the same planet as the majority of the people there IMO.

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