Dry January?

thattequilagirl · 11-01-2016 05:38PM

Huntergonzo wrote: »

Consistent and/or crippling remorse after drinking would indicate a problem to me but a couple of isolated incidences where nothing of any real note even happened wouldn't indicate a problem to me.

It depends largely on the individual anyway, it's far too general to presume that anybody who's ever experienced regret after drinking has a problem.

Personally I'm a happy drunk, so I can't really recall too many cases of regret.

That's why there are 19 other questions.

Obviously a Yes/No online quiz lacks a certain amount of nuance, but it covers a lot of things that people who identify as problem drinkers experience.

cowboyBuilder · 11-01-2016 05:52PM

and "Do you drink alone?" ... well yes, sometimes when I'm home alone my wife and kids are giving me some alone time, I stick on The Terminator or The Prestige (Bloody good film) and crack open 1 or 2 cans of Guinness ... so thats 1/3 of the way to become an alcoholic ???

madness.

Should be "Do you regularly drink and get drunk alone?" ..

diomed · 11-01-2016 06:04PM

Movember, 12 pubs, Kris Kringle, dry January.
No.

thattequilagirl · 11-01-2016 06:06PM

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

and "Do you drink alone?" ... well yes, sometimes when I'm home alone my wife and kids are giving me some alone time, I stick on The Terminator or The Prestige (Bloody good film) and crack open 1 or 2 cans of Guinness ... so thats 1/3 of the way to become an alcoholic ???

madness.

Should be "Do you regularly drink and get drunk alone?" ..

Yup, that would be a better way to phrase it.

daithimac · 11-01-2016 06:16PM

Jaysus the egos in here are more fragile than a china shop.

We get it lads. yer all hard drinking men who don't go in for any of that pansy ****e.

Huntergonzo · 11-01-2016 06:25PM

daithimac wrote: »

Jaysus the egos in here are more fragile than a china shop.

We get it lads. yer all hard drinking men who don't go in for any of that pansy ****e.

Haha jaysus someone sounds like they need a drink quick! :-)

valoren · 11-01-2016 06:40PM

It's the "I didn't drink for a month so I totally, like, don't have a drinking problem" Challenge.

PARlance · 11-01-2016 07:16PM

Ireland, where the greater the length of time "off the booze" equates to a greater problem with the booze.

Everyone knows the serious alcoholics go from New Year until Cheltenham.

Peter Anthony · 11-01-2016 10:26PM

thattequilagirl wrote: »

I gave up drinking almost two years ago because I was way too fond of it (screenname is a legacy from the college days) I wrote a bit about it here before Christmas, if anyone is interested.

What bugs me about Dry January is the idea that after all the excesses of Christmas, we'll have a really long, boring (dry), miserable month off the drink. My experience of giving up alcohol is that my life is a lot fuller - I see more of my friends, I have more hobbies etc.

Fair play. Can I ask though, how you see more of your friends since giving up? My experience since trying to cut down is that I see less and less of my friends when I avoid drinking?

thattequilagirl · 11-01-2016 11:18PM

Peter Anthony wrote: »

Fair play. Can I ask though, how you see more of your friends since giving up? My experience since trying to cut down is that I see less and less of my friends when I avoid drinking?

I make an effort to spend time with them - meeting for tea or lunch in town, DVD nights, going out for dinner, going to comedy and gigs etc. I go out with them sometimes as well, although not as often as when I was drinking - had a great night Stephen's night in the local nightclub! If you don't drink but you still want to have a social life, you have to make a bit more of an effort - but the quality of the time you spend is much better. Six months after I quit drinking I did a super sprint triathlon with my housemate - we really bonded training for it and it's something I would NEVER have done when I was drinking!

15-01-2016 11:51AM

There's also a thread here about how single people meet up offline. Wonder what do single sober people do if they don't do online dating? I know you can join a running club or a charity but that's all very indirect, compared to hitting a late bar.

thattequilagirl · 15-01-2016 06:00PM

Sunny Disposition wrote: »

There's also a thread here about how single people meet up offline. Wonder what do single sober people do if they don't do online dating? I know you can join a running club or a charity but that's all very indirect, compared to hitting a late bar.

My guy friends who don't drink go to bars to pick up women anyway. They must be brave/ have a thick skin. My girl friends who don't drink tend to go the online route.

barry181091 · 16-01-2016 04:37PM

Over two weeks in (Skipped new years - disastrous night!). Can report its no craic. It would be much easier in my mid thirties I would imagine. There is little of interest to do in your early twenties bar intoxication. One can go to the cinema only so often

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