Why do you drink

Gearheart

to become a superhero at the weeknds

k4kate

LeeHoffmann wrote: »

sometimes I'm stressed; sometimes somebody's leaning too heavy on me again and, through my own fault, I'm unable to tell them to back off; sometimes there's a match on during the week; sometimes I meet up with a friend I don't get to spend time with too often; sometimes a friend needs to let down their guard and rant about what's upsetting them; sometimes it's just Tuesday. At these times, a few cans are perfect.

Couldn't have put it better myself

guitarzero

In this country drinking is just a reflex, it makes people go "wheeey!!!!!hahahah, i wuz shust gona have a one an dshen I just eh, wheeey!!!"

Immaculate Pasta

Roger Stirling from Mad Men sums up my attitude to drinking very well

"We drink because it's good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We drink because it's what men do."

Snowie

guitarzero wrote: »

In this country drinking is just a reflex, it makes people go "wheeey!!!!!hahahah, i wuz shust gona have a one an dshen I just eh, wheeey!!!"

dont you mean


ahhh sure itle be all right

Spread

My analyst told me that I'd a psychological thirst

DEFTLEFTHAND

To temporarily relieve the worry and strife from everything , Iv struck an iceberg in my life and I'm slowly sinking from the bow.

Gearheart

anything drinkable tbh

Feisar

I like the taste, three beers on a week night after a good dinner isnt going to have an adverse effect on me in any measurable sense.

Beers I like:

Fullers London Porter
Stoodley Stout
Guinness (Bottles)
Wasslers XXXX

I'm not drinking them for the effect on a week night but I suppose three of them are relaxing in a way. If I'm not going to the gym or have something planned I'd have a few.
No more than one school night though.

First post!

minidazzler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atx2pY5Q8kQ

That song explains a great reason to drink...and while I'm here might as well pimp my favourite artist, he's playing Kilkenny, Cork, Galway and Dublin next week, cheap tix and if you are in the area you should go too!

LeeHoffmann

First post!

Congrats!

Standard Toaster

Work is gonna suck ass anyways, may as well be hungover for it.

tayto lover

I like to have a few pints (Guinness or Carlsberg) on a Friday night, only 4 or 5. and i would nearly always have a pint bottle of Bulmers after a game of golf.
Alcohol is not to be abused.
I had a brother who died an alcoholic in a lonely flat in London after his family threw him out (rightly so). The secret is to use it and not let it use you.

scholar007

Snow-Monkey wrote: »

Why do people drink a couple of cans of beer during a school night etc...
In my house we don't drink that often its more of a pleasurable past time apposed a something you do a few days of the week and weekend?

Just never made sense to why some one would drink 4 cans on a tuesday night...

Shure what else would ya be doin lads, ya have to have some porter.
I drink out of cans, because I can't afford to go to the pub.
To be honest, my house sounds more fun than yours.

gent9662

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Ya can't beat chuggin down 9 or 10 cans of royal dutch & then i gets a dunnes stores frozen pizza out the freezer & i cooks it for myself. then i gets a choc ice & i eats it.

Jesus Golum, I guess you have to do something now that Lord of the Rings has finished filming.

Grammar Cop

Snow-Monkey wrote: »

Why do people drink a couple of cans of beer during a school night etc...
In my house we don't drink that often its more of a pleasurable past time apposed a something you do a few days of the week and weekend?

Just never made sense to why some one would drink 4 cans on a tuesday night...

it's

pastime

opposed

Tuesday

You are very welcome

ScumLord

I'm off the drink a month now, also off coffee and chocolate. It's easy enough to stay of drink but sometimes I'll buy a chocolate bar or make a cup of coffee without realising it.

Feisar

tayto lover wrote: »

I like to have a few pints (Guinness or Carlsberg) on a Friday night, only 4 or 5. and i would nearly always have a pint bottle of Bulmers after a game of golf.
Alcohol is not to be abused.
I had a brother who died an alcoholic in a lonely flat in London after his family threw him out (rightly so). The secret is to use it and not let it use you.

I don't mean to be insensitive and my post isn't related to your brother.

I don't agree with the whole "don't let it use you" alcohol is an inanimate substance, it doesn't use anybody. People abuse it and it has an adverse effect on them. They don't get used by it, or any other drug for that matter. Tee totallers (sp??) who proclaim their abstention as if alcohol was some sort of demon also piss me off.

LeeHoffmann

Ya can't beat chuggin down 9 or 10 cans of royal dutch & then i gets a dunnes stores frozen pizza out the freezer & i cooks it for myself. then i gets a choc ice & i eats it.

Jesus Golum, I guess you have to do something now that Lord of the Rings has finished filming.

:pac::pac::pac: I actually lol'd at that!!! Brilliant!

scholar007

Feisar wrote: »

I don't mean to be insensitive and my post isn't related to your brother.

I don't agree with the whole "don't let it use you" alcohol is an inanimate substance, it doesn't use anybody. People abuse it and it has an adverse effect on them. They don't get used by it, or any other drug for that matter. Tee totallers (sp??) who proclaim their abstention as if alcohol was some sort of demon also piss me off.

I agree. I really don't understand the Pioneer ethos thing either - like the reason for them getting together is they don't drink. Big deal! Its a bit like the Boy scouts, they get different badges depending on the number of years they haven't drank.

I wonder could we set up an organisation to proclaim our drinking? We could have cool badges for the various milestones.

tayto lover

Feisar wrote: »

I don't mean to be insensitive and my post isn't related to your brother.

I don't agree with the whole "don't let it use you" alcohol is an inanimate substance, it doesn't use anybody. People abuse it and it has an adverse effect on them. They don't get used by it, or any other drug for that matter. Tee totallers (sp??) who proclaim their abstention as if alcohol was some sort of demon also piss me off.

The "Demon drink" you mean ? Got ya now.

tayto lover

scholar007 wrote: »

I agree. I really don't understand the Pioneer ethos thing either - like the reason for them getting together is they don't drink. Big deal! Its a bit like the Boy scouts, they get different badges depending on the number of years they haven't drank.

I wonder could we set up an organisation to proclaim our drinking? We could have cool badges for the various milestones.

I don't like the pioneer thing either or the badge wearing but we have to accept that there are horses for courses.
On your second point, i would not joke about wearing badges of honour for drinking either. Mind what you wish for.

LeeHoffmann

I wonder could we set up an organisation to proclaim our drinking? We could have cool badges for the various milestones.

Wouldn't that be kind of like the boy scouts?

sensibleken

I drink to forget....someting?

Feisar

Also curious, how hard does someone have to go at it to become an alcoholic?

I spent a good while behind the bar in college (wasnt the college bar) and seen lads coming in shaking for a drink in the morning regularly hearing "jaysus I'm as dry as a church mouse"
But many of these wouldn't be actually drinking all that much over the coarse of a day.
There were times in college 6-8 can a night and work the bar at the weekend and have a good few after work or heading to a lock in somewhere else or going to a late bar was the usual so my weekly unit consumption wouldn't have been healthy. Not proud of it, not particularly bothered either. No bother to me to stop though.
So back to my question, how does one become physically addicted?

minidazzler

Feisar wrote: »

Also curious, how hard does someone have to go at it to become an alcoholic?

So back to my question, how does one become physically addicted?

I would think that physical addiction to alcohol is caused through an emotional addiction which gets so severe that it's physically needed.

Kirby

Its just like any other drug. The reasons are the same.

Some do it to fit in socially. Some do it because they are miserable. Some do it because they actually like it. Shocker.

It isn't that complex. We have a heavy drink culture in Ireland. I'd say the majority fit into the social category.

I'd also echo the sentiments that the alcho's who claim it is some sort of disease are the most annoying twunts possible. That whole american 'AA' culture of "it's not me, it's the disease" is just embarrassing. South Park did a heavy handed but accurate pisstake of it. Always makes me chuckle.

Feisar

I was just thinking about this thread last night. I gave up drinking for three months while I was training for a charity boxing match. (We raised 17K for breast cancer go us!)
Anyway the first night I was out without drinking was awful! I have to be honest and say I really didn't enjoy myself. I was out with my girlfriend a 5'11'' gorgeous Swedish blonde dressed to kill and I wasn't enjoying myself because I had a pint of water in front of me. I reckon that's a sad situation.
Now I had no trouble not drinking but does that mean I have a problem?

I don't need drink to be confident, I'll happily yap away to people in a coffee shop during the day and work a bar no bother and chat to customers etc. so its not a social crutch I don't think but if I'm out at night I prefer to be drinking.

So does this look like I've a drinking problem?

jugger0

I drink so i can shift girls, im a big poosay otherwise

SV

Cos I enjoy the feeling of it.