Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
The Alcohol Thread
Options
Comments
-
-
-
Insect Overlord wrote: »Jameson and Jack are alright, but Teachers is where it's really at. :cool: /sociallyawkwardpenguin
:pac:0 -
-
-
Advertisement
-
-
-
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
-
soccymonster wrote: »I'm one of "those". Basically when it comes to drinking, it's all or nothing really. Don't really drink for pleasure. Went out sober this one time and never again. Clubbing sober isn't my sorta thing. Fair play to anyone who can do it but pour moi, non. I just love going out really. I think it's great craic. Like I've done some stupid things obviously but nothing overly crazy. Well, depends on what you call crazy actually tbh.
As a facebook like said this one time "great nights don't start with this one time I ate a salad..." or something along that line.
Judge me if you will, ye morally correct and responsible people.
#YOLO (lawl, yep. I just said that)
I've no problem with 'your kind'. :P A lot of people I know who are fond of their alcohol seem to be great craic when they're sober too!
Yeah I think sober clubbing takes a little bit of getting used to, but it's fun, as long as the music's decent. :pac: I used to not really enjoy going out much at all, I'd rather stay in (back when I'd see the same people all the time in school anyway) but now I'm all like 'yay I get to see everyone' so it's great! I think I still prefer movie nights with a few friends, but still, I enjoy going out.
I love Facebook likes.
(Off-topic but I saw one today that said something like "Katie Taylor poured milk into her Rice Crispies... They didn't make a f*cking sound." :L)
I don't like to judge people, drinking is grand sure. YO-feckin'-LO!
Side note: I have no idea how I'm going to survive college. For me, going on nights out during the week is a bit daft, let alone more than one night out during the week. Help. :L :L0 -
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
WhiteRoses wrote: »When I was 18-19 just starting college I used to go totally overboard at least twice a week. Looking back, I was such a mess, going into college the day after a night out and having to leave lectures to be sick. Classy.
This is basically me, in a nutshell. First year of college, YOLO attitude, ended up making friends who were basically the same. But the thing is that I never get hangovers. Like I did ONE TIME (after mixing drinks being a dope..), and I can see why people are so weary of drinking especially if they have to deal with that sorta thing on a regular basis..
I like to think I don't lack too much self confidence without drink in me. But I like being able to go to a club and dance without feeling awkward and all that.
I'm ridiculously immature though. Don't really mind owning up to that. I've only turned 18 and I'll probably look back when I'm old and crippled being like "ah gawd socz, you were some fool". But atm it's just like "ah gawd socz remember that time.." and laughing. Like I can easily say RAG week was the best week of my life and that was basically alcohol fuelled. I'm one of those people who don't know their limits. Or maybe I do know but I refuse to aknowledge them. That's where my immaturity kinda sets in, I think
It is scary waking up though on your couch with a basin beside ya when you could have sworn you went to bed that night straight after the club but being told different. Do not like blackouts..
Ah you get used to going out on weekdaysSide note: I have no idea how I'm going to survive college. For me, going on nights out during the week is a bit daft, let alone more than one night out during the week. Help. :L :L
I know people who didn't go out too much but still had so much fun. There's always clubs and socs to participate in be graaaaaaand. UL4LYF. 0 -
Advertisement
-
-
-
-
-
-
I always think it's sad (as in
) that some people are made to feel like weirdos for not being hugely into alcohol and getting completely ossified at every available opportunity. (Not bashing all of you that do that, whatever floats your boat!). The over-emphasis on alcohol that we have in Ireland is one of the things that I hate most about this country. It means that if you're not a big drinker then you're left with feck all social activites to do at evenings and weekends and especially during the summer. There's only so many times you can go to the cinema or whatever.
I'm not a huge drinker, never have been, and as a result I'm a terrible lightweight (cheap date
). I'm not against alcohol, I just don't have much interest in it. I guess I'm lucky in that I've never been made to feel bad about it by anyone, but I feel that if the people around you will make you feel like some kind of social freak for something as unimportant as that, then maybe you need to find better people to hang out with. I know that a lot of it is down to immaturity and most people eventually grow out of caring what others do or don't do, but it's still pretty pathetic that it happens at all.
The funny thing is, even do I don't drink very often, or very much when I do, I quite enjoy the feeling of being slightly drunk. For me, it allows be to be a little less reserved. Having said that, I don't depend on alcohol to have a good time and I've only ever gotten completely plastered once which was more bad luck than a conscious decision. Other than that, I'm very reluctant to completely lose control of myself when I'm drinking - the thought of not knowing how I got home or not being able to remember half of what happened on a night out is terrifying to me. I think I'm lucky really, I can't imagine what it's like knowing that you definitely won't enjoy yourself unless you're fairly drunk. It just seems bizarre to me.
Like a good few other posters here it would seem, I hate nightclubs (with the exception of 1 or 2). I just don't see the appeal of extremely loud, mostly crap music and crowds of (studpidly drunk) people everywhere. Plus, whenever I do go to a club, I always seem to end up in the smoking area for most of the night as a lot of my friends smoke, and then I come home reeking of stale smoke. Not pleasent. If I am drinking, I much prefer house parties or just getting together with a few friends for some drinks and having the LOLs.0 -
jefreywithonef wrote: »Yeah you will eventually. And with a vengeance. I managed to go first and year second year without really getting any, the only after-effect being a lack of sleep. Then they hit me like a truck in third year, thoroughly bad buzz.
Anyway I'm one of these people who drink til they get very drunk. My defence is that I don't see the point in drinking small amounts as most alcohol tastes absolutely rotten, while being in a tipsy state only makes me sleepy. For the most part drinking just put me into a merry mood and makes life seem less shitty than it is. So yes, I can understand why some people get destroyed on drink and I don't take much issue with it as long as they're not interfering much with others by causing fights, puking in someone's ear, etc.
That said, I've only touched alcohol once this summer and I don't miss it that much.
Literally everything you've said is the same for me too :P I got hit badly by hangovers at the end of 2nd year, if I drink looooads of water fairly soon after I stop drinking I'm usually ok in the morning, but the odd night we wouldn't get back til 5 or 6am and drinking water at that stage doesn't make any difference, the hangover is horrific.
Any time I've planned nights out this summer I've ended up being on antibiotics or sick at the time so I've only had alcohol once this summer as well. I have to say I do miss it, but that's also down to not seeing much of my friends this summer and needing to just go out!!
We had a night out this year drinking only champagne and sparkling wine (classy eh? :pac:) which was one of my favourite nights out ever. It didn't have a lot of the effects that some alcohols have. I don't drink vodka any more since even the idea of it turns my stomach (gone are the days of doing it straight out of a naggin...getting old!), usually I'd have Captain Morgan's or Malibu...nom 0 -
-
-
Advertisement
-
Advertisement