Drinking on your own?

BadGirl

willmunny1990 wrote: »

I love a pint out with the lads!

But i also like my own company at times, how do you feel about drinking on your own..either in a pub or at home?

I sometimes drink at home alone, watch a couple of films or DVDs and i love it, but some friends think it is weird or sad!

Personally i couldn't give a fcuk what they think, it is just most think it is weird or wrong in some sort of way.

How do you feel?

Sure you aren't alone when you have all of us keeping you company!!!;)

This is where i trot out my fave statement..

I love my computer, because all my friends are in it!! :pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

gurramok

Ok, its grand drinking on your own at home with a disclaimer. If you're down and depressed, do not do it, it flucks you up big time with all sorts of thoughts some dangerous going through your mind!

Now if in a pub no matter what day of the week where you need to unwind, what bothers me when drinking on your own is where is the guarantee that your seat is safe when you go to the jacks? And who will mind your coat on the stool whilst you're gone?!

AG2R

Deleted User wrote: »

Once again, you're never alone with a newspaper.

and by newspaper you mean the adultchannel right.....

AG2R

gurramok wrote: »

Ok, its grand drinking on your own at home with a disclaimer. If you're down and depressed, do not do it, it flucks you up big time with all sorts of thoughts some dangerous going through your mind!

?!

Ah sure no problem with it, helps you forget the bad stuff, or does for me. Also helps me pass out. hmmm maybe it's not a good idea

bassy

BadGirl wrote: »

Sure you aren't alone when you have all of us keeping you company!!!;)

This is where i trot out my fave statement..

I love my computer, because all my friends are in it!! :pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

badgirl i really like your name now,as i flick open another can here.could turn on to be a good nite yet

gurramok

AG2R wrote: »

Ah sure no problem with it, helps you forget the bad stuff, or does for me. Also helps me pass out. hmmm maybe it's not a good idea

LOL, drink in that situation only helps you escape the reality of any bad news. Believe me i've gone thru it and only since i've cut back on drink i've seen the light. Do ya see the light pilgrim?

john t

drinking at home is not a problem, drinking in empty mind or house could be..

Pin_Cushion

Drinking on your own is grand. You tend not to make an eejit of yourself or lose stuff.

bassy

better get all them cans stocked up before the bloody government rockets the price of a auld can

AG2R

Pin_Cushion wrote: »

Drinking on your own is grand. You tend not to make an eejit of yourself or lose stuff.

I lost the tv remote one night, Woke up the next morning it was in the bath. Still to this day don't remember how it got there

cloptrop

the cloptrop got 5 beers tonight and is now eyeing up a fancy looking white wine in the fridge thats been theresince christmas

Duggy747

Love drinking on my own and and I frequently do it on most weekends considering I don't get to go out much these days. The GF heads to bed early most nights so I scamper off and just spend a few hours relaxing with a movie, online games with mates, or just browse old TV intros :pac:

I'm a night owl so it's the only time I really get time to just myself.

*slurps drink*

BadGirl

Duggy747 wrote: »

Love drinking on my own and and I frequently do it on most weekends considering I don't get to go out much these days. The GF heads to bed early most nights so I scamper off and just spend a few hours relaxing with a movie, online games with mates, or just browse old TV intros :pac:

I'm a night owl so it's the only time I really get time to just myself.

*slurps drink*

This is me, except substitute the games with Boards

nice_very

bassy wrote: »

anyone wanna join me or am i all alone

*cracks open 2nd of 8 budweiser cans*

slainte bassy!

bassy

BadGirl wrote: »

This is me, except substitute the games with Boards

a few more cans here,then i think i,m gonna make a move on you badgirl

bassy

nice_very wrote: »

*cracks open 2nd of 8 budweiser cans*

slainte bassy!

get in there very_nice

bassy

cloptrop wrote: »

the cloptrop got 5 beers tonight and is now eyeing up a fancy looking white wine in the fridge thats been theresince christmas

go on the cloptrop or should that be clovedrop with a dash a whiskey lol

Red Hand

AG2R wrote: »

I lost the tv remote one night, Woke up the next morning it was in the bath. Still to this day don't remember how it got there

You went to the bathroom with the remote in your hand, placed it on the edge of the bath and it slipped in. Then you went to bed and forgot about it.

Case closed.:P

I drink alone every so often when watching a film/comedy series. Probably drink alone more than withother people.

zenno

Same here, I love just cranking the sounds up and cracking a beer open on my own with no one in my ear complaining about all their drunken problems every time i went to the pub, because i used to be a pubaholic, i would spend more time in the pub with mates but after a long while of this i got seriously bored of the same old banter and drunks that can't hold their drink so i decided one day to give up drinking in the pub and it was the best thing i ever done.

I can now relax at home on my own and enjoy a few beers and enjoy my own company as this is my choice and i have a good time none the less. I don't have kids and i'm single now so i'm happy as larry as I actually enjoy my own company and having to just enjoy myself with no one wreaking my head is a god-send.

those friends the o.p has are not secure within themselves to enjoy their own company and that imo seems very odd because if you cannot enjoy your own company with a few beers on your own then there's something weird going on, i find that very strange. maybe they just like drinking in pubs all the time just to talk garbage drunktalk as i have seen night in night out. get stuck in and relax and enjoy a few movies and a few beers in moderation and will be all good. Cheers.

mattjack

Red Hand wrote: »

You went to the bathroom with the remote in your hand, placed it on the edge of the bath and it slipped in. Then you went to bed and forgot about it.

Case closed.:P

I drink alone every so often when watching a film/comedy series. Probably drink alone more than withother people.

or alternatively , he went on a bender, pulled the bath down the stairs and left it beside his TV.

Case not closed , Columbo.

Leeg17

bassy wrote: »

a few more cans here,then i think i,m gonna make a move on you badgirl

Hands off, she only likes Mods :cool:



:pac:

bassy

Leeg17 wrote: »

Hands off, she only likes Mods :cool:



:pac:

i say let badgirl be the judge of that,slurp!!!!!!!!!!!

carefulnow100

Iv lately been going out by myself for a few pints and watch what ever match is on. I don't particularly like it but with the hours I work and the fact none of my mates are around much at weekends, Saturdays are the most common day for my few pints sitting at the bar by myself watching the match.


Am I sad or what?:(

Leeg17

bassy wrote: »

i say let badgirl be the judge of that,slurp!!!!!!!!!!!

Funny guy, ey?

nice_very

half an hour into taxi driver on rte 2.......

cloptrop

mattjack wrote: »

or alternatively , he went on a bender, pulled the bath down the stairs and left it beside his TV.

Case not closed , Columbo.

i just hope you used lube,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,on the bath not the remote ye pervert , getting it down the stairs could damage the bannisters

Duggy747

Advantages of drinking alone:

• No drunk arsewipes to deal with
• No drunken fights to pull apart
• No having to listen to someone cry about something they wouldn't care less about sober while pretending to actually give a shìte.
• No random "Is there a God" and other drink-fueled debates
• Nobody constantly asking you for fags
• No screeching women
• No "I'm well hard, me!" wannabe tough guys because they didn't wretch from a Jagerbomb
• No waiting 15 minutes to get to the bar, get fùckin' served, and sit back down....................only to realise some twat stole your seat / stool.
• You won't log onto Facebook, worrying what fresh pictures somebody tagged your horrendous looking face on.

Disadvantages of drinking alone:

• Nobody is around to hear your solutions to all of the world's problems :pac:
• Crap movies are ten times funnier when you have mates with you to pull the piss out of it.
• You'll run out of beer and realise you'd like to have more.

bassy

Leeg17 wrote: »

Funny guy, ey?

funny no,being realistic ye :P:P

gurramok

carefulnow100 wrote: »

Iv lately been going out by myself for a few pints and watch what ever match is on. I don't particularly like it but with the hours I work and the fact none of my mates are around much at weekends, Saturdays are the most common day for my few pints sitting at the bar by myself watching the match.


Am I sad or what?:(

Who minds your seat when you have to go? Or else you have one mother phucker of a bladder in that you never have to go to the Gents?!

Oh by the way, no problem with a bloke going to the pub to watch the footie on his own, fair play to ya

bassy

nice_very wrote: »

half an hour into taxi driver on rte 2.......

ah come on very_nice anything a little bit more exciting?.:D

carefulnow100

gurramok wrote: »

Who minds your seat when you have to go? Or else you have one mother phucker of a bladder in that you never have to go to the Gents?!

Oh by the way, no problem with a bloke going to the pub to watch the footie on his own, fair play to ya

Ahhh it wouldn't be busy when I'm there so no prob with people taking seats. It's not that I want to watch the match on me own, just the lads all go home at weekends so I'm all on my lonesome


Still I don't mind, few drinks, match and watch the world go by. I could be doing worse I suppose!

cloptrop

Yeah i think its better i drank that wine now , it could be really dangerous if i let it fall into the wrong hands.

BadGirl

cloptrop wrote: »

Yeah i think its better i drank that wine now , it could be really dangerous if i let it fall into the wrong hands.

That's something like i would do, but please believe me, you WILL regret it in the morning

gurramok

carefulnow100 wrote: »

Ahhh it wouldn't be busy when I'm there so no prob with people taking seats. It's not that I want to watch the match on me own, just the lads all go home at weekends so I'm all on my lonesome


Still I don't mind, few drinks, match and watch the world go by. I could be doing worse I suppose!

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Now sing along to that 'i'm on my own' tune by yer wan from the 90's or was it 80's

Ah only messing, fair play to you. I often drop into the pub by my lonesome for a couple of pints to wind down mostly after shopping whilst been in town(Dublin), its easier than one thinks to drink on your own but must admit it does be uneasy being the only one there on a Sat night

bassy

BadGirl wrote: »

That's something like i would do, but please believe me, you WILL regret it in the morning

badgirl can i pm you now lol

cloptrop

Id regret it more if i woke up in the morning and drank it then , get it done and over with , thats what i always say.

wilkie2006

stupidusername wrote: »

At home i'd be fine with it. in a pub i'd be fine with it, if it wasn't late, when people are out in groups. if i'd a book or a paper, I'd like it though.

Definitely agree. I'd be comfortable reading a book or newspaper in a pub up until about 5pm. As for drinking alone at home, often I'll stay up watching a DVD with a few cans until 2 or 3am. Bliss!

bassy

has everyone gone asleep on the job ?.

carefulnow100

gurramok wrote: »

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Now sing along to that 'i'm on my own' tune by yer wan from the 90's or was it 80's

Ah only messing, fair play to you. I often drop into the pub by my lonesome for a couple of pints to wind down mostly after shopping whilst been in town(Dublin), its easier than one thinks to drink on your own but must admit it does be uneasy being the only one there on a Sat night

I haven't stayed out late and I dunno how I'd feel if I was there by myself.

I like having the match on, it's my comfort


I'd def feel out of place if I was by myself and there were groups of people around me late at night!

cloptrop

nah man i just need a piss a drink and a smoke . I have to get up for all 3

whirlpool

Yup I'm doing it right now.

If I had money, I wouldn't be, though.

That said, it has almost infinite advantages to it, when compared with going on a night out. The main one being I don't regret being alive the next day.

BadGirl

bassy wrote: »

has everyone gone asleep on the job ?.

Nope, it's only early yet

bassy

carefulnow100 wrote: »

I haven't stayed out late and I dunno how I'd feel if I was there by myself.

I like having the match on, it's my comfort


I'd def feel out of place if I was by myself and there were groups of people around me late at night!

i know how you feel m8,but sure you get chatting to folk in pub.

carfiosaoorl

Im doing it now too, unfortunately only had 2 glasses of wine in the house so started on the half bottle of vodka, only problem now is I'm down to one fag, bleak:(

carefulnow100

bassy wrote: »

i know how you feel m8,but sure you get chatting to folk in pub.

True, and it makes a big difference when the bar man actually enjoy's his job. Makes the experience less daunting!

Jesus I envy everyone in this thread drinking!! I'v no beer!:(:mad::mad:

cloptrop

OP just tell your friends your having one or two.
"Its not like your cloptrop drinking an australian white out of a jam jar while trying to pierce you ear with afork"
Theyll understand.

cloptrop

Ronnie Raygun wrote: »

I've come in late & got thru a 6 pack of Stella; next up (I think) couple of bottles of wine in t'fridge. Red or White?

White man , you know the rule , white on your own is cool , red is for vampires

bassy

Ronnie Raygun wrote: »

I've come in late & got thru a 6 pack of Stella; next up (I think) couple of bottles of wine in t'fridge. Red or White?

gotta be white,the red is the last resort.

carfiosaoorl

carefulnow100 wrote: »

True, and it makes a big difference when the bar man actually enjoy's his job. Makes the experience less daunting!

Jesus I envy everyone in this thread drinking!! I'v no beer!:(:mad::mad:

I'll share my vodka if you throw me a fag.

Fromthetrees

Mr.Crinklewood wrote: »

Drinking on your own is fantastic. Good company, few fights, nobody hogging the loo and guaranteed sex at the end.

That comment made me laugh more than I have in days.
I wish I could thank it twice.
I'm not drinking btw.