Drinking...

The Fear

The Fear

A Wise Man (once sat next to him)
Not talked about this for a while.

Drinking, I know some on here say they love getting pissed, others like a good drink, some binge, others just a few.

Since my last flair up in 2012 I hardly drink and don't really miss it, big part of that being down to me loving my weight training but also I am dizzy enough and wobble enough without booze.

I do enjoy my bibo filtered water, I have a fair few herbal teas etc, I also have re started blending water melons again.

My main junk drink is blue bolt, sainsbury energy drink, that is again due to the fog I get health wise.

I do like the odd red wine and buy the little single bottles (sad) lol but am even doing that less and less.

So this is where my mind is at... Where is yours??
 

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My mind is take it or leave it these days.

I have two bottles of beer on two nights, either on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday... perm 2 nights from 3 and that's it.

It will probably be the same when I return to Indonesia to get married.
 
I usually go out with the lads once a month and get pretty hammered. Couldn't and wouldn't want to do it more often unless its a special occasion (stag do or festival)

And tonight is one of those nights
 
Really like the 'idea' of a drink, but drink so rarely that even a pint and a half leaves me groggy/ minor hangover the next day. I can deal with spirits a lot better, but then I'd have a decent hangover the next day so not worth the effort.
I can have bottles of beer in the fridge for literally months without touching them, and because a night out in town will cost about £50 in taxis there and back, for someone with no capacity for alcohol any more, with a girlfriend with even less capacity, when you factor that £50 into the 4 pints we would share (3 halves for the lady, 2 pints for me with the other half poured into the pint glass so I'm not seen drinking a half), each pint would cost £12.50 + the cost of the pint which in town is over £4 for a Peroni or other premium beer. Not worth it in my opinion, and the 2 locals near me are pleasant enough, but not somewhere I'd get excited about going to so don't bother.
Last time I went to town with the g/f on a night out around the bars I had soda and lime and she had halves of lager and lime, and between us we spent £12 on a night out and I didn't miss having a drink.
Like JF, also find that not drinking is beneficial to training, and for me meditating as well when I chose to do so.
 
I rarely drink at all at home, but when I am out I will have at least 2 pints. This is normally after Golf 3 or 4 times a week, or with dinner which I go out for a couple of times a week.

The worst influence is my Sister. As a senior nurse she has a lot of stress to deal with, and she loves a drink. If I see her I get dragged along!! I have helped her cut down her solo drinking in the last few years, as I was really worried at one stage, but when we go out, we go out.

I really enjoy it, to be fair. I've never got to the point of not remembering or losing control, so I know my limits, and am quite capable of stopping when I want to. I don't give in to peer pressure.
 
I do love red red wine, it really floats my boat. Since I have been out of hospital I have had a few glasses of wine, nothing like I was drinking before, and I think I will be cutting right down. I don't know how I will react with my bag to drinking lager, though I happily drink ale which is flatter, but then it makes you fart, so I really don't know what I will drink when I go out to the pub, I can't drink wine watching the Villa in the pub, but equally I'm not an alcoholic so I'm not keen on downing spirits (I will, I'm not a sipper), so I will have to experiment at home and see what drinks I can handle, can't drink Guinness too much, makes me teasy.
 
What about Cider, facehead? Some of the newer draught ones are flatter, and not so sweet. The bottled ones are too gassy, so avoid them.

The only problem is that they are a bit acidic, but if you stick with it you get used to it.
 
Cider is the only drink I can literally not drink, got paralytic on it when I was 14, now the very smell turns my stomach :(
 
About 2 glasses of red wine a week for me.

I have never drank beer in my life apart from a trying it when I was about 14 . I just never liked the taste.
 
thefacehead - 3/10/2014 10:54

Cider is the only drink I can literally not drink, got paralytic on it when I was 14, now the very smell turns my stomach :(
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LOL. The rite of passage for every 14 year old it seems!!! I used to be the same, but started drinking Stowford Press a few years back during the summer. I really like it.

There's nothing wrong with soft drinks when you go out, apart from their price. Some pubs charge £3 for a pint of coke down here. It's a rip off.

 
I was surprised on holiday that I only had one beer and the red wine was 2-3 glasses and intermittent. Had at least half of the 14 days without any drink at all.

As said, some of it is I love my training more and don't want to 'undo' the good work (it is harder at 45 than 25!) and also health (I'm dizzy etc) ... I enjoy the taste of a nice beer but I just don't like the thoughts of getting p/ssed. I used to drink a lot but I used to get bored because I could take a lot before being sloshed whereas most of my mates (there was another like me) were drunk on far less.

But the bed spinning drunk is horrible, I don't get why people want to do that regularly, it is the most horrendous feeling and the day after isn't great either (although again, I didn't really get hangovers very often back then)

 
HeathfieldRoad1874 - 3/10/2014 11:16

thefacehead - 3/10/2014 10:54

Cider is the only drink I can literally not drink, got paralytic on it when I was 14, now the very smell turns my stomach :(
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LOL. The rite of passage for every 14 year old it seems!!! I used to be the same, but started drinking Stowford Press a few years back during the summer. I really like it.

There's nothing wrong with soft drinks when you go out, apart from their price. Some pubs charge £3 for a pint of coke down here. It's a rip off.
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I threw up up on this person down the road from my houses carpet, they thought I'd been sniffing glue (wtf?) the only thing I could say was my home telephone number, my dad came down and was like - he's drunk, you can smell the alcohol.

A few days later walking home from school I noticed a rolled up carpet outside their house, :91: :91: :91:

I did buy them flowers to say :76: :86:

I did have a pint of Cornish Rattler at our local Cyder Farm a couple of years back, it is proper cider that actually tastes of apples, it was a bloody hot day and nice and refreshing, but one pint was enough, I would have felt sick after that. I can drink Scrumpy when I'm really drunk, because it's flat it tends to go down easier.

Thing is, I tend to go out to drink, rather than to go out, well to the pub, not all social event's, but I really do enjoy myself more when I'm drinking, mostly because I can't stand being around people drinking when I am not, they just get on my tits, lol, so I need to be drunk also.
 
LOL again. That last sentence has led to me drinking more than I would normally for most of my life. Drunk people are annoying when you are sober.

I've had some health problems for about 15 years now, and gave up drink for a year in case it was making it worse. What a terrible year. I ended up just not going out. And no, it made no difference to my condition!!!
 
I'm very much a social drinker.

Hardly ever drink in the house... maybe a beer with a BBQ, or during the World Cup I sank a few, but in general drinking at home (especially alone) I find pretty sad.

Love meeting up with mates and sinking a fair few though. Always have a good laugh. I just wish I had that switch in my brain that tells me when I've had enough, as I usually end up having 2 or 3 too many and passing out somewhere and then having lots of memory blanks the next day.

Used to be a weekly occurrence, but now it's more like once every 3 or 4 weeks. Takes longer to recover now though too.
 
I know Deano.Do you remember that one last weekend ?
Christ,you were drunk.Why were you wearing that corset?
The coppers thought it was hilarious.I never found your 6 inch heels that you borrowed from that bird at work and the picture on that bloke`s face when he put his hand up your skirt !!
 
Reminds me of a great Beautiful South song...

He was just as social drinker
but social every night
he enjoyed a pint or two or three or four....!

I guess I could have kept that thought to myself really!

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The answer is obvious from me: Alcohol no, not in anyway shape or form would I knowingly take it. That includes if it is in foods, I wont eat it cos even if it is cooked off I know it is in their. I also use an alcohol free mouth wash.

Fortunately I was never bad enough (essentially I was an evening drinker/binge) to need to not use perfume and deodorant type sprays. That shocked me when I found out some people couldn't use them, as they reacted even to them. In many ways I was naive about alcohol when I 1st went in the fellowship.

That was 1 reason I took along time to accept my alcoholism as my drinking really hadn't gone that far. Indeed alot of my family still don't think I am alcoholic. 1 big thing I have learnt is that alcoholism is down to the person to decide not anyone else. I knew drinking needed to go, cos of why I drank. Doesn't matter whether that is alcoholism or not. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.

It is not about how much you drink, or how often, it's about what happens when you drink and why you drink. I drank on pain and stress. At the time it was my only solution. Thank God I found another 1 that means I don't need too.

So to conclude give me those weights JF: I can probably carry more than you. Haha :3:
 
Is it just me or drinking is essential to survive? I hope people folk reading this don't stop taking bodily fluids intake unless they am Sandwell Alliance fans or Chavs of Small Heath Athletic.
 
Drinking

A refuge for those who can not handle reality.

Assistance for those who lack the personality and imagination to enjoy themselves without it.

For most, social conditioning.

For those in power, a wonderful way to control the masses, who just seem to kill time till they can get blasted at the weekend, the less people thinking, the better.

Drinking gives an altered sense of reality, it's a drug, no different in my opinion from those who live on happy pills and live a chemically enhanced existence, it becomes the norm, some people even think themselves qualified to advise others on life while in reality, they are off their tits! :3:


 
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