Why do we do it? Most Saturday and Sunday mornings I wake up 'never drinking that much again' 'thats me off the bevvy' etc etc.
Yesterday I took a ton out on Junction Street. I went straight to the pub, then straight to Easter Road then back to the pub. I woke up this morning with about 8 quid in smash. So i've spent £92 and the only thing I have to show for it is a dodgy belly and a banging headache. This time, i'm defo off the drink
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02-05-2010 09:56 AM #1
Bevvy.
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02-05-2010 10:12 AM #2
I've never understood why folk do it either.
I have perfectly great times without drinking whilst outMadness, as you know, is a lot like gravity. All it takes is a little push.
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02-05-2010 10:17 AM #3
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Sounds extremely familiar. I cant actually remember the last time I went to the pub and never got pissed...is it the British mentality? (majority)
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02-05-2010 10:27 AM #4
The worst thing about a hangover is that you've only got yourself to blame!!!
I've been getting a lot better - i.e. just having a few at a reasonable pace whilst watching a football match with mates, like I'll be doing this afternoon.
Back in the glory days of my early years at Uni, and my ERASMUS year in Lyon, an outside observer might have been well within his/her rights to believe I had a bit of a bevy problem
Just little things, like making your 1st and last drink a soft drink can make a difference, but the notion of going to a pub and not having primarily pints is very weird to me.
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02-05-2010 10:32 AM #5This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Sounds like open wallet surgery to me or maybe the mrs has dipped your pocket when lying in a drunken slumber
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03-05-2010 07:15 PM #8
I didn't think I would be alone in basically dying today.
Yesterday was my pals 20th birthday so we were well up for a bevvy. Left my house yesterday afternoon and I arrived in the boozer just in time for the Chelsea game and I returned just before 5 this morning.
I'm 90 quid lighter and I have NEVER had a hangover like this. I was absolutely ****ed. Never again.
Still, least I got a ride
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03-05-2010 07:28 PM #9
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04-05-2010 12:10 AM #12
I can get away with drinking a fair bit and not being hungover the next day required that i drink pint after pint of water when i'm back home, although i rarely do it it seems to do the trick.
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04-05-2010 09:51 AM #13
i hardly ever drink but had a race night last week at work, man did i suffer that night, threw up at least 9 times coming home then fell asleep in the bathroom for about 5 hours. The wife said she came to check on me and i had my head down the loo but was out cold. Next day the wee boy was jumping all over me much to my wifes delight.
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05-05-2010 10:59 AM #14
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Every Monday/Tuesday when I'm feeling better from the weekend sessions I tell myself that it's over, I'm not drinking and going to do something constructive with my weekends and money yet when it hits that Friday afternoon the following week I'm ****ed.
It's like the pub has some kind of magnet that just draws me there, if one of my mates asks me to go out I literally cannot say no.
I went out on Saturday afternoon, stayed up for the Mayweather fight, got about 3 hours kip and then went to the boozer again for 11:45 and was out til 23:30ish on Sunday night.
The other week my mates were in a boozer (that I don't have many friends in...) so I stayed in. On their way back the phoned me at 1am and I went out with a litre of vodka to a mates party. We got home at 5pm the following afternoon and had made two other trips to the shops for drink, one of them at 8am (and yes, we know that's illegal!).
So this Saturday we've decided to go to Glentress cycling and stay in on Friday. We tried this three weekends ago and we still went out. I don't think we'll make that mistake again!
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05-05-2010 02:36 PM #15
Don't mind staying in Friday/Sunday but just can't not go out on a Saturday for some reason.
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05-05-2010 04:29 PM #16
Am also staying off the drink for a while. I was reaking on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and I have spent around £200 with nothing to show for it. My only problem is, what else is there to do on a Saturday night?. I cant just sit in the house whatching X Factor on Saturday night TV, that would really depress me. I think I need a hobby. Anyone got ideas what to do that does not involve Football and Booze.
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05-05-2010 04:43 PM #17This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Bloody awesome eh!
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And no, not the type with wings and feathers...
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05-05-2010 05:03 PM #18
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Look at guys in their 30's and 40's who look like they are in their 60's, with bloated bellies and burst blood vessels in their nose. Ask yourself if that's what you want to become.
There are a thousand things more satisfying and wholesome you can do of an evening, and if you can't think of at least one, then maybe you should have a think about where your life is going.
Just advice, not having a pop at you brother.
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05-05-2010 05:18 PM #19This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Examples required please!
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05-05-2010 05:25 PM #20
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YouTube - Capoeira Fight
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05-05-2010 07:54 PM #21This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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05-05-2010 10:07 PM #23
I was thinking of getting on a high horse and spouting about how I don't drink these days.
And then Hibs played Motherwell.
I'll be picking up a 24 pack tomorrow.
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06-05-2010 09:47 AM #24
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When I'm too ****ed for work on a Monday or my muscles are killing me through lack of sleep and next to nothing to eat for two days, an inability to play football cos I'm blowing out my arse, slowly getting fatter, worse hangovers as each weekend ticks by, the odd bit of bother, making an arse of yourself, being skint and borrowing to go out each weekend (monthly pay = ****), falling out with the burd 'cos you'd rather go out getting pissed with your mates than spend time with me', I really do wonder why the **** I do it, but as I say, I love it.
I have tried to stay in but it's not really possible, especially when I'm on my own.
I was in the house with the GF a few Friday's ago and my mates were phoning me to go out. She then got pissed off and said she wanted to leave because she knew I'd rather go out than stay in with her (she's right!) and then I had to pretend that I didn't and I wanted to spend time with her and stayed in and watch BGT. Gutted.
Like others, I really do not know of any other alternatives to going out to the boozer on a weekend. I've tried the pictures but that gets gash after going twice (despite really liking films). My only real interests are drinking, football and burds so...
I've tried go-karting/gigs/gym but they just turns into a big sesh immediately after. I played Saturday amatuer for a couple of years and that didn't stop me going out on a Friday.
What do non drinkers do at the weekend and what the hell do they do on the continent where drink isn't so prevalent?
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06-05-2010 12:54 PM #26
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06-05-2010 01:14 PM #28
I started calming right down on the bevvy when I bought my own gaff, and put it down to this:
1) being skint due to mortgage etc so cant afford 2/3 big nights oot a week
2) living in your own gaff you dont mind staying in with a few cans/wine on a weekend cos your in your own space etc
3) not living in a shared (usually sh*t hole) where you feel you have to go out cos you dont want to spend time in said sh*t hole and all your mates/flat mates are going out to get hammered.
Thing is once your out of the habit of getting hammered every w.end without fail you dont really miss it as long as you get a good session every now and again. or maybe Im just past it
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I listened to so many idiots throughout high-school and undergraduate uni come in on a Monday, raving about how "they were so pished at the weekend, that they don't remember what they done" - how is that a "good" weekend?
Each to their own, but folk who drink with the intention of getting blasted are complete tools IMO - nothing wrong with social drinking amongst friends, but this whole "binge" culture is laughable.*
*Not aimed at you Woody.Madness, as you know, is a lot like gravity. All it takes is a little push.
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