[Closed] Getting drunk, yep or not?

Well I'm here drinking my last of my 6th peroni gran reservia...watching total recall on 5. Best way to end a Monday

I like a drink as much as the next man, but not as much as the next woman (the Mrs).
To be honest I'm just bored of hangovers and wasted weekends.

I don't get [i]drunk[/i] much at all, though I do like it occasionally. But I do like getting just a wee bit loose.

Well I'm here drinking my last of my 6th peroni gran reservia...watching total recall on 5. Best way to end a Monday

Sounds good to me!!

I definitely prefer to drink outside the house, the more sociable the better, but equally haven't always shied away from having the odd beer in the house either. When I was younger I used to drink to black out bit I've gone right off it- it starts to look a bit sad, and the hangover guilt is too debilitating! Rarely get that these days, which is nice 🙂

I don't get drunk much at all, though I do like it occasionally. But I do like getting just a wee bit loose.

If only I had condensed my post to this 😳 but I am at present a bit loose.

I'm currently a bottle and a bit of wine (don't usually drink the stuff but got turned down for a job today and it was hiding in the cupboard) anda big ol' glass f rum down. And although it's not something I do often I feel like anything more than a refreshing beer without getting wobbly seems like a waste.

I do like a drink, stopped smoking da erb years back as it just didn't agree anymore. The drink has worse health wotnots but I get to functionproperly and still partake.

++ Typos are not due to drink but a dodgy keyboard,I spilt beeron it theother week

watching total recall on 5

If that's the remake then just stopit now and watch the original instead.

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Strangely a still of one of those clips is my avatar on another forum...

I like a drink, but I really can't be arsed with a massive 3 day hangover following a proper bender.

I'm more of a 3 -4 pint bloke these days if we go out, that's enough to make me talk shit

At home, it's a couple of large g&t's or maybe half a bottle of wine. Can't even manage to finish a bottle of wine these days

I like a drink, but not enough to make me a total arse.

I struggle to recall the last time i got drunk, it was a while ago for sure, 2-3 years maybe. Part of that is i guess down to having a young lad, someone needs to look after him, so if the wife is drunk, then i need to be sober.
When going out there's only 1 village pub, which means we generally drive somewhere, so i do the driving.

I rarely drink at home, only when making BBQ or having curry, but that's because i enjoy the flavour rather than wanting to get drunk/tipsy.

If i go out for a few drinks on the rare occasion i am a 4 pint and i'm in trouble now.

This year we had our yearly blowout at PEmbrey circuit, the Sat night is usually VERY messy... but i was tucked up in bed semi-sober quite early.

Just not feeling it really.

Gave up drinking in the new year. Best thing I ever did - feel so much better for it.

I'll have a glass of red most days. Rarely two. Dont really drink beer, dont enjoy pubs. My brothers death was drink related too so I just dont like feeling drunk.

Like Sweepy I've grown bored of hangovers and wasted weekends so stopped drinking 6 months ago. There is the very odd occasion when I miss it, but that lasts for about 5 minutes, otherwise not drinking is better in almost every way.

I like beer,wine,whisky, but like many above I can't stand hangovers. So a couple of drinks will do just fine and any more is heading into hangover territory. Probably max 3 nights a week.

Occasionally there might be a big session, but i'm getting less competent at them nowadays.

I echo a lot of the above, 3 drinks is fun and I can get up the next day and do stuff.

Even my “3 drink glow” is probably a monthly thing at most.

I do get drunk once a year, office Xmas party. I’m a one man conga line. I can accept a hangover once a year when the weather is shit.

I like to drink but not to get drunk, I can't drink for toffee either so often get a hangover despite not getting pissed.
I drink for the taste (love good wine and beer) and wish booze had less alcohol in it so I could drink more.
One of my favourite beers is Kernel table beer at 2.8-3 abv and packed with flavour, I can drink a couple of those 🙂
I hate the drink culture in this country, it's an immature attitude that extends into adulthood plus alcohol destroys so many lives and families.

I seem to get totally shitfaced in 10 year cycles ..so I'm due a one this year ( but I don't think that will happen )..1997, 2007..and after the last time vowed never again.
Depending on where we are I will have a pint after a ride with mates ..and that's the only time I frequent a pub these days ..the rest of my drinking is at home a max 2 bottles of real ale ( golden ) or a couple G&T's ..some weeks not at all but a max of 3 nights per week ..
There was a time though when it was every night in the pub 20 years ago ..and that's when I decided to take up mountain biking instead of peeing it all against a wall..

What Mr Smith said. I can't stand being drunk these days, and drink throws weight on me.

I hate getting drunk, I think because I've never been able to tolerate alcohol well. Never drunk so much that I've no memory of the night before, and three pints or small glasses of wine over the course of an evening will leave the room spinning unpleasantly.

I just don't see the point anymore. Feel like crap for a day or two, plus the cost. I enjoy 3-4 pints during a summer ride, or some wine/port at home but that's it. I value my time not feeling crap more.

I prefer tipsy - 2-3 pint wonder.
Can't just have one though. 🙂

I used to be bit drinker, rugby and then music culture. Started drinking in pubs when I was 16 in early 80s. I could happily drink 12 pints on a weekend night and be fully functional next day.

Been winding it it progressively for last twenty five years. Now only drink Friday, Saturday and generally either half bottle of wine or s couple of 330ml tins of beer. Big night out is four pints any more than that is very rare.

Many reasons to cut down,not least the fact my dad was a big hitter had a major stroke in his mid-50s. But also I'm quite a strong extrovert so don't really need beer to socialise and the hangovers are a nightmare over 45. On the other hand I like the taste of beers and wine so not likely to give up...

After a weekend of drinking I can safely say I wish I could give up.

If I’m perfectly honest, my early 20’s (uni), was dictated by drinking. Now my life is almost the opposite, and I rarely drink other than binging heavily. The issue I have is most of my social circles enjoy drinking, I’ve come to realise that I have nothing in common with some of my oldest friends other than drinking, and I don’t want to throw those friendships away. So I manage them by doing 3 or 4 big nights out per year with them. Means I maintain friendships without killing myself.

I rarely if ever drink at home, and could go weeks without unless I’m seeing friends who drink. Where I struggle is going to the pub and not having a few, it just doesn’t feel right to me, and I actually quite enjoy a few pints.

I do wonder whether binging maybe 10 times per year is better or worse than regularly having a ‘few’. I would prefer the binging regardless, as at least I spend the vast majority of my time without a fuzzy morning head.

I don't often drink much more than one or two beers a couple times a week, but when I do I drink until I no longer can. Maybe twice a year tops.

Gave up drinking in the new year. Best thing I ever did - feel so much better for it.

Same, haven't touched a drop in 2017, although I can't really say I feel any better. Just can't be arsed with it anymore.

I still like to get drunk occasionally (when there's something to get drunk about, basically) but I don't like the colds etc. I often seem to get afterwards and generally parental responsibilities (and needing to get home safely) preclude drunkenness.

It's not the hangover per se, I can always cope the next morning. What the Americans would call a bit buzzed is probably what I generally get from a normal night out, and no significant hangover or follow on colds, so it's all good.

Until recently I only drank on friday and Saturday evenings, 2 or three beers or perhaps half a bottle of red. Have recently knocked that on the head as it was starting to give me hangovers and with two small kids / biking etc it wasn't worth it.

However I went to a wedding in England two weekends ago and it was rad getting leathered

I am wine dependent.
Have a glass or two on probably 5 days out of 7.
Bit more on a Friday night.
Don’t like going out drinking.
But a pint of ale on a Sunday afternoon is bliss.
Don’t like being drunk.

I like beer (and gin, and plenty of other stuff) but dont like being drunk. I also brew my own so there's usually a keg of something tasty in the house if I want some.

A mixture of being quite happy to talk rubbish whilst sober and having a busy week means I quite like an evening of socialising to not wipe me out for the next 24 hours too.

I am wine dependent.
Have a glass or two on probably 5 days out of 7.
Bit more on a Friday night.
Don’t like going out drinking.
But a pint of ale on a Sunday afternoon is bliss.
Don’t like being drunk.

This is not meant to sound too harsh, but this is basically what I hope I never turn into. For me a few binges a few times a year is healthier than 3-5 bottles of wine per week, every week.

Also, I only ever drink to 'enhance' the occasion I am at, just drinking at home to me is basically someone who is reliant on alcohol.

Love beer and whisky but truly loathe hangovers now so I try and avoid getting smashed. It usually happens as a by product if being out with friends and the beers just slipping down as I do enjoy them.
Been drinking a bit at home recently and I think that should stop though.
I don't really like the lack of control and my judgement is shocking after too many so I try and avoid it.

Northern Tom...but some of us really do like the taste of wine and beer, not just drinking to get a buzz. I don't go out that much, but sharing a bottle of good wine once a week at home is hardly reliant on alcohol.

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I like to drink but not to get drunk, I can't drink for toffee either so often get a hangover despite not getting pissed.
I drink for the taste (love good wine and beer) and wish booze had less alcohol in it so I could drink more.
One of my favourite beers is Kernel table beer at 2.8-3 abv and packed with flavour, I can drink a couple of those
[b]I hate the drink culture in this country, it's an immature attitude [/b]that extends into adulthood plus alcohol destroys so many lives and families.

^ This. I drink because I like the taste, not to get drunk. Looking back 20 years my drinking habits at uni were frightening and I regret them, but I guess many of us have been there, done that.

Drink mostly water or coffee and the odd can of coke, but would happily substitute the coke for a nice beer. Work apparently frowns on that sort of thing though.

In common with many, have long enjoyed a drink, sometimes to excess though not to excessive excess IYKWIM. But winding it back more these days, sometimes find it's been a few days without a drop. Could knock it on the head but I like good beer!

I don't mind a drink occasionally but hate being properly drunk.
I generally only have a drink when working away from home, or when on holiday.
I've not had a drink since we got home from our holiday on 3-Sept, and probably wont until I go away for work in a couple of weeks time.
Last time I was pretty drunk was new years eve 20 months ago.

As others have said - I like the 2-3 drink glow, but nothing more.

If I could drink beer all night, and remain like slightly affected, then I would. Love beer, don't like being drunk, hate hangovers.

I do get drunk occasionally (quite regularly) but don't enjoy the after effects. I would actually prefer if cannabis edibles, ecstasy and lsd could be purchased legally and in controlled quality and quantity.

I like booze way to much but finally realized its destructive and a crutch for stress . Weekend regret - missed sunny day rides etc . fortunately i've managed to start to get on top of it and dramatically cut down this year now my home life is a bit more settled (Split with Ex / Kid involved / living at mums whilst i brought house) I managed my longest ever dry period in (memory 3 weeks) just last month - Had a bit of a blowout at a festival last week VIP Free Booze backstage etc - that could have resulted in me loosing my licence/job/house as i lost house keys but had car key on me .. slept in car for 4 hours then drove .. would have been over the limit. Alcohol takes away all my sensibility and rationality so need to cut .. I did have 6 Golden ales over the weekend (4 Saturday and 2 sunday) after the day was done and that needs to be my limit from now on.

Hate the feeling of been very drunk, room spinning and can't think straight. And about 5 years ago I figured out that even a couple of drinks made my mood much more depressed than usual, so now I don't bother apart from the very occasional drink because I like the taste.
Looking back, I shudder at what I used to drink and the stuff I would do when I was a teen/early twenties.

I can drink ordinary pub beer all night but haven't been paralytic for many years. I just get more talkative

I like wine but it doesn't like me and the disproportionate enjoyment:hangover ratio the next day has steered me towards water with a meal.

Not fond of shorts and liqueurs are just puke

I love beer, wine and whisky, I drink them for the taste and very rarely get even tipsy these days.

Last time I was drunk was during the Euros when I got invited out with some boozers from work, it was messy and I got some stick from the wife (fairly) for being a bad example to the kids. Hanging over the toilet at 6:45pm after cycling from birmingham pissed is not something I'm in a hurry to do again.

Before that was a couple of years before.

We normally have 1 drink 3-4 times a week, and maybe a pint (or two) if I go on a work lunch.

I don't get drunk anymore, as i care about the consequences more than I did as a youth. Also, I don't like the whole 'piecing the evening together' aspect of alcoholic amnesia; I don't trust myself not to piss people off these days.

Love relaxing at a restaurant, or at home, with good company, good food and a bottle of wine though!

That. All of that.

 

I have drunk 5 pints this year
1 pint at a meal - July ish.
2 at SSUK- friday night only.
2 sometime in August but i forget why.

2 is my limit as i am pissed off that and i have drunk at this level for about 15-20 years ish. Never really liked it that much tbh just did it to be social.

I tend to apply the practice of little and often, enjoying the feeling of having 1 or a few. In fairness, family life and work tend to keep me dry 2-3 days a week. I'm more than happy to upgrade to pie eyed when the chance occurs. These tend to be more the odd day and night away, either with mate's or MrsB, when all child/ work related duties are suspended. This is probably once every 6-8 weeks, and I can live with a hangover every now and again. I tend to find a decent brekky and a steady hour or two on the bike clears me of the worst of a hangover, I'm not one for sitting around feeling sorry for myself.

I like the odd beer or dram but in the last few years there's only one occasion that i can remember when i had more than a couple in one day. I'm coming to the end of 3 busy weeks working away and I'm knackered, get home about 8pm on Thursday and need to be at the train station in Aberdeen at 11am on Friday for a stagger ..... its not going to go well.

I think that I drank my life quota from the age of 14 to 19.
Then along came motorbikes,cars and girls,which are a lot more fun sober,so I would often volunteer as the designated driver.
I also grew to hate the whole 'you can't call it a good night unless you are pissed' brigade, especially the ones that used to try and make you feel like a killjoy if you weren't on your way to blootered.

Hate being drunk - did the usual stuff when I was a student, but quickly realised I was doing it because everybody else was rather than because I wanted to.

I enjoy a beer or a whisky, although I can get bored of the taste of beer quite quick - I'd rather have 2 different half pints than a single full pint. That first mouthful though - bloody lovely.

Rarely go to the pub - most drinking is at home - beer with Sunday dinner or a wee dram of a winter evening reading or listening to music. Maybe get through 2 or 3 units a week.

It's also so bloody expensive these days - buy a pint in London and you get very little change from a fiver. Not like the old days when it was a pound a pint (for dishwater admittedly) at the Loco on Mill Road, Cambs...

That made me smile ..the old days being a £1.00 a pint.
My old days recollection as a 15 yr.old ..12p a pint 😀

Been drunk twice this year, probably 3 times in last 12 months and to be honest it's probably 3 times too many as I like 2 or 3 beers but after that I seem to just keep drinking till I've had way too much and really suffer for it the next day.

Weekends are too valuable to be hungover.

Have resolved to be a couple of beers on a Saturday from here on in as I was getting into the habit of a couple every night and if nothing else I've put on 5kg this year in combination with change of career which has seen me go from 17,000 steps a day to about 6000!

Nah, grew out of getting pissed years ago. Not that I did it that regularly.
2 or 3 pint bottles on a Friday night is my usual max. Or when I go out with my brothers, just watch as they put the pints away and I stop after 3 or 4!

Love drinking, but never at home.
It's the whole booze/fags/darts/pool social combo I enjoy.
I don't like getting too drunk but once I start I have zero ability or will to stop.
If I need to get up in the morning I'll arrange a cab to take me away early, and I've got a dutiful missus to send me home.

Variable abv beer would be ideal for me. I drink fast because I love huge gobfuls of Guinness, but even starting as late as ten I can do a lot of damage.
Currently on day three without booze (a rarity) but I'll be working tonight (in a pub) so that probably won't last.

I try not to. 2 pints feels like plenty these days, although I seem to have 2 pints fairly often.

I think the last time I was properly stumbling about incoherent drunk was over a year ago at a works do. Everyone else was the same, collective amnesia, it took a few of us getting our heads together to figure out what went on. It wrote off the whole weekend after and a good portion of the next week as well.

Big nights out like that are once or twice a year events. I usually end up staying out much later than intended.

Don't go to the pub often but if I do it's 4-5 pints tops. If I drink at home it's either a bottle of red shared with the missus or a few tins of whatever they have in the corner shop or on offer at Sainsburys.

Well, if we are looking relative to this thread I am borderline alcoholic and need to sort my life out.

Though I didn't have a drop this Friday or Saturday (pint with lunch out Sunday)

But I did just spend a week in Spain drinking every day.

Swings and roundabouts init.

[i]I hate the drink culture in this country, it's an immature attitude that extends into adulthood [/i]

Agree with this really. Getting hammered should be something you try out as a teenager. Or on your stag do.

I don't like being drunk, I do like the feeling I get from a beer or two or a large glass of wine. Therefore I stick to that, usually 1 beer, or glass of wine, rum or whiskey.

I like the taste of alcohol, but lose the appetite for it after a couple of drinks so find it easy to limit my intake. That said I used to only drink at weekends, but the last couple of months it's spread into the week too. I've started to reduce drinking to weekends again.

An absolute yep. If I could I would happily go down to the pub now with my pals and get trollied! Great fun!

BUT... Unless you practice regularly it is a young man's game. Age 35 I feel is when it starts to become a bit more difficult to sustain.... once your brain latches on to the idea that hangovers can somehow kill you and you realise that you are not going to live forever, and therefore it might be better to do something more worthwhile with your time. I only binge a few nights a year now...... God I miss those carefree younger days though.

Getting drunk, yep or not?

No, not for me.

Hey that doesn't mean I don't like Beer, ohh I love it.. well real beer to clarify.
But I'm not a heavy drinker by any stretch, 2 pints max a week.. normally none unless I pop out to my not so local for a pint of Hampshires Finest.. then it's only one.

I just can't drink..

Whiskey on the other hand I'm fine with, of all the years I've been snifting it I've only once been drunk on it and that was when I was 20.. I didn't touch the stuff until I was back in my early 40's then decided I liked it again.. So these days I may have 2x3fingers on either a Friday or Sat night.

So, and I've done this online with the NHS, I'm classified as very low drinker and well below what is deemed these days as Average.

I am not against drinking per say. Quite enjoy the 'glow' of being out in good company and having a few drinks as people have said.

However:

I hate the drink culture in this country, it's an immature attitude

I whole heartedly agree with this. I first noticed it when I went to Uni. I went to Manc for uni in the 90's and I generally found there was more of an attitude of going out for a good time and enjoyment.

Whenever I went back home (west Scotland), my friends would be saying "i'm going out to get smashed" ... a different attitude / culture and I found I couldn't abide by. they would be saying if they weren't completely out of it, then it hadn't been a good night ???

That latter attitude of going out with a view to getting trollied has become more pervasive over time I've found. The likes of Georgie Sh!te err Shore glamourising it does nothing to help either.

I suppose out relaxed alcohol acceptance is our equivalent of US gun law acceptance ... alcohol can do plenty of damage to a society just like guns can.

I hate the drink culture in this country, it's an immature attitude that extends into adulthood

Just thinking about what others have said about crutch for stress/drink culture at uni.

I drank far too much at uni, during and after one or two shitty relationships on top of the usual stress. I distinctly remember the feeling of drinking more to try and forget things. I think I'd be very ill or dead by now if I'd continued like that, and I was frequently pretty unwell plus I didn't manage to do anything much at weekends.

Still, there are some good stories from it and it was all part of growing up. Although I might have a beer at the end of a hard day I don't get that feeling of trying to drink until I can't remember, which is fine. I know people that have struggled for a bit longer though, and like anything else it can ruin your life.

In my teens, twenties and early thirties I hid behind alcohol and hash. Gradually weaned myself off, and havent had a smoke in ten years now, and haven't been drunk for nearly twenty. Got diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy about 15 years ago, now take carbamazepine, and that may contribute to the awful day after feeling I get after more than two or three pints - or it may just be age. So its a couple of beers or glasses of wine once or twice a week. I cant keep malt whisky in the house however, the temptation is too much!
Edit - cant stand the idea of spoiling days with hangovers - lifes too precious

I like a beer or 3, I have a switch that goes off in my head though before I get arseholed, its the auto sat nav in my head taking me the shortest route to bed 😆

Even as a young lad going out with the lads, I always back doored it because I wanted my bed!

I like a good drink on a Saturday.

drunk, no, fresh ,yes.

In the pub, I tend to stick to three pints of beer. After that it's whisky as I have less hangoverness with that.

A nip of something tasty out of a hipflask when bivvying is part of my routine though. I think that's a mood thing.

As a student I feel I should register my devotion to drinking in excess and often however having just finished my placement year and starting the 4th year of my masters degree in Mech Eng, I've started to dial it down somewhat and prefer pubs/bars to clubs every other night.

Oh yes.

Currently into week 4 of a forced detox. Stuck in the middle of the North Sea until the weather drops. It may be over 5 weeks by the time I can actually get to a hotel.

First thing I will do when I get there, is have a beer.

A cool, refreshing beer, don't care what it is, if I end up in NL at the usual hotel, I will have several of the rather fine Jopen IPA they normally have on draft. At about 7%, I will be completely hammered in a couple of hours. Marvellous.

Not a fan of being drunk. I like wine & beer but not really one for spirits. Of late i’ve found that a glass of red can last over on hour so I’m usually sleepy long before I’m anywhere near being even so much as “refreshed” let alone drunk

Oh yes.

Currently into week 4 of a forced detox. Stuck in the middle of the North Sea until the weather drops. It may be over 5 weeks by the time I can actually get to a hotel.

First thing I will do when I get there, is have a beer.

A cool, refreshing beer, don't care what it is, if I end up in NL at the usual hotel, I will have several of the rather fine Jopen IPA they normally have on draft. At about 7%, I will be completely hammered in a couple of hours. Marvellous.

Rarely drink to excess these days, currently kicking the habit of a couple of rums each evening.
Haven't drunk since Saturday evening and that was only 2 ciders with some food, although I had to be sober as my girlfriend and her recently dumped best mate had made their way through 4 bottles of wine during the afternoon.

Said friend had to be carried downstairs, put in taxi, carried up her stairs, then put into bed.
Then we had to stay for a few hours to make sure she didn't vomit in her bed...

But alcohol, great fun...

I can't remember the last time I was totally wasted, but I've regretted 99% of the times I was (even if it's just the amount of cash I've wasted during the night). I'm happy enough getting to a max of "giggling way too much at stupid/unfunny stuff" drunk these days, generally avoid a hangover that way to.

not touched a drop for almost 30 years. before that, i was a complete idiot.
don't care what anyone else does, but don't expect me to clean up after you. i'll be long gone when you get to that level of drunk, i feel very nervous around drunk folk.

nah, not getting drunk drunk no. i like to have a few drinks while relaxing and having a laugh with friends and family, and sometimes ill wake up next morning and think "blimey, i think i was a bit p1ssed actually". just getting merry will do me, i generally know when ive had enough and then just stop, whilst i know of mates who'll stick their fingers down their throats, chuck up on the spot and off they go again. nahhhh not for me.

I hate the drink culture in this country, it's an immature attitude that extends into adulthood

I think you could easily rephrase the question 'how much do you drink?' to 'do you have a decent local?'

That's the crux of it, really. If you have, plus a few mates who'll meet you down there at the drop of a hat....

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Sometimes I do. Sometimes I don't. I used to always stay out when I was younger and worked in town. Nowadays, not so much. Now I'm an old fart, once I've had a few beers I just want to fall sleep on the sofa in front of Newsnight. Rock and roll!!!

The occasional glass of Bourbon for me nowadays. My issue is that I'm fairly self destructive and once I get a bit giddy I'll just continue. That and having a low tolerance made me decide to quit drinking on any sort of major scale

In some ways I wish I drank more so that giving it up either temporarily or permanently would be worthwhile. But it's rare that I have more than 2 or 3 drinks per day at the weekend. Really like good beer good wine and good whisky but usually quite happy to stop after a couple. Hardly ever drink during the week but that's not a deliberate thing