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So the people at work just finished a big project, and the guy in charge got some champagne and nibble as a celebration. However it's company policy for people to go home early on Friday and everyone has. So only me, the boss and another guy there. So I'm forced to drink half a glass of champagne to avoid terrible embarrassment (or even more than there already is).
It tasted a bit yucky but not too bad.. I almost gagged a few times and now I feel rather woozy and strange. I'm completely teetotal since I never liked the stuff, but I am thinking that it's more than just not liking it.
Can I have the rest?
I have said it before and I will say it again.
This is scripted.
There's another bottle...
Teetotaller is lightweight shocker...
More embarrassing for the boss who bought a load of champers to celebrate with a bunch of people who aren't there, i'd say. What a numpty.
Yeah but I'm not drunk as such, I mean I'm not weaving around or telling dirty jokes or anything.. isn't that what happens? I just feel slightly disconnected from reality and my head hurts a bit....
And yes the boss is a numpty.
What a numpty.
...or particularly cunning? Who gets to take home all that company bought champagne eh?
Molgrips, you've skipped drunk and passed straight to hangover. Unlucky
mol, for someone who makes a big point of reminded us on as many threads as possible that you're intelligent i can't help but crack a big face-wide grin at the image of you a little bit tipsy suggesting you dont have the gene to process alcohol 😆
for what its worth, and hopefully this will make you feel normal... i drink about 6 -10 units of alcohol a year and each of those units makes me feel slightly disconnected from reality but i dont go weaving about telling dirty jokes
Good point Jamie. Conniving so and so.
Molgrips, you've just got a bit of a buzz on that's all. The headache is it wearing off. Nothing to worry about.
Seriously... you don't drink, really?
I can see chaos at SITS after his pre-lap tequila!
@Phil this is meant to be a somewhat humorous thread, since I know you'll all laugh at me.. But really - is that all being drunk normally is? Why is it so flippin popular? I just feel a bit ill.
mol my friend.... i couldn't honestly comment on what being drunk normally is, drunk is not a normal state for me! there will be guys reading this who drink more in an afternoon (and not get drunk) than i drink each year.
I'm looking towards SITS all the more now.
Torm is coming... he definitely drinks. Hell I might even take up smoking for the event.
Is it cheap champagne?
A bottle of Tesco's finest normally leaves me wanting to hurl (I'll still drink it mind you, free booze is free booze).
I can see chaos at SITS after his pre-lap tequila!
Lol.. yes.. if you make me drink tequila my lap times won't reflect all the gains made in training.. and you'll have some cleaning up to do...
Yeti - no, not a bit. It just seems awful. Most drinks give me an instant headache at the front of my head for about 1/2 hour. In this case I didn't even finish my half a small glass.. must've had all of 50ml of the stuff. Didn't taste all that bad in itself.
*just realises that the half bottle of wine that I left at The Consequences probably got tipped down the sink*
I had to buy more on the way home 😳
It's probably in the fridge for when you next come.
Red wine in the fridge... that's already been open for a few weeks... you really don't drink!
my fridge is full of vegetables 
don't worry yeti i have some very very nice red wines in the cupboard so you dont have to bring anything with you next time, used to sell expensive wines as a second job when i first started working in mental health (lots of early shifts meant i had lots of free time to kill every afternoon)
I don't drink but I know what not to do with wine 🙂
I drink about 6 -10 units of alcohol a year......
Likewise.....well maybe a smidge moar.
Phil, next time I'm up for a STW (or other with Torm) ride can I come over to yours to visit? Nice red wines in the cupboard 😈 😆 and they have probblay have had time to age?
mol my friend.... i couldn't honestly comment on what being drunk normally is, drunk is not a normal state for me! there will be guys reading this who drink more in an afternoon (and not get drunk) than i drink each year.
*waves*
Sitting in the office tip tapping away at a computer is one of the last places I would want to be drunk. It isn't really representative of most social drinkers' experience, so I wouldn't go making too many judgements based on this little escapade.
What sort of freaks are you?
I had 3 units of alcohol whilst having a bath last night!
My head is really hurting now, I seem to have a hangover.
What sort of freaks are you?I had 3 units of alcohol whilst having a bath last night!
There's normally something REALLY wrong if I don't have a glass of red at some point in the evening.
I barely drink over the recommended units per week, yet I drink most evenings.
Just out of curiosity (I'm honeslty not trolling here), for those who rarely drink, is it because you just don't appreciate booze, or for health reasons?
Most decent booze is an acquired taste (wine, good spirits, nice beer), so when you first start drinking all you notice is a foul tasting liquid that gets you smashed. You've got to give it time to be able to appreciate it.
For example, my mother rarely drinks. When she does, she'll have a horrible red wine that she picked up on offer. She thinks it tastes "alright", I think it tastes like cat vomit.
If I gave her a bottle of something reasonably cheap, but immensely better (e.g. Chateau Belgrave etc), she wouln't be able to taste the difference, it would still be "alright". Whereas I would actually enjoy it.
Lightweight. 🙄
so when you first start drinking all you notice is a foul tasting liquid that gets you smashed
So.. with that first glass - how did you feel? Did you think 'woohoo I'm tipsy' or 'christ I feel awful, but I must press on to keep my mates happy'?
Ugh.. I have to ride home now.. I may crash...
I feel like having another glass 🙄
I doubt I can muster the commitment do to my training session tho...
So.. with that first glass - how did you feel? Did you think 'woohoo I'm tipsy' or 'christ I feel awful, but I must press on to keep my mates happy'?
I think I started out with cider or beer.
I remember it was more a case of "this isn't as nice tasting as I had hoped, but I feel kind of good so I'll just continue"
But as a yoof, it was 100% effects and 0% appreciation of taste for me.
These days I HATE being drunk, I avoid it wherever possible. But I love good wine, rum, beer. So it's now about 75% appreciation of taste and 25% effects (i.e. the mellow feeling you get after a glass).
The effects are MUCH more subtle if your body is used to drinking. So much so that they are barely noticeable after a glass. So it's easier to just enjoy the drink.
Zip up your man suit 🙂
*tunes into the entertainment from the garden, wearing shorts n tshirt* it's as warm today as mid summer here. I am only drinking water/nuun/coconut water for the foreseeable future until I have hydrated properly. 🙁
Ps mol, I'm working on my special tan lines in those sandals you know so well 🙂
🙂 DG, they should be nicely matured by the time SITS comes around. I'm going home at Easter, I can pick up my Chacos and do the same.
I had a glass of red with this mornings late breakfast, nudging lunchtime though and it's Friday.....
I just feel slightly disconnected from reality and my head hurts a bit....
I often get a headache from cheap champagne too, proper stuff no problems, Moët & Chandon is just pisswater.
I'll quite happily sink a couple of bottles of wine or a good few beers when I want without any problems the following day.
I drink about 6 -10 units of alcohol a year
for those who rarely drink, is it because you just don't appreciate booze, or for health reasons?
They are all potheads obviously.
lol at the tags on this thread 😀
nacho: of course 😀
peterfile: did the whole teen drinking thing and the novelty wore off by the time i moved out at 18, once i moved out i ended up working 80ish hours a week so wasn't really an opportunity to drink much... lost the taste for it over time and never really got back in the habit.
now its saved for special occasions and because i rarely drink i do not need much at all to get to a level of intoxication i feel confortable with (probably still under the drink drive limit in most cases!.. though i'd never drive if i'd drunk anything). I don't like not being in control and the very very rare occasions i've drunk silly amounts its been with close friends i can trust in a familiar environment.
i enjoy the sensation but i need to be in the right mood.
Just out of curiosity (I'm honeslty not trolling here), for those who rarely drink, is it because you just don't appreciate booze, or for health reasons?
I deffinetly dont "rarely" drink but I've never loved it in the same way some people do.
When I was younger most alcoholic drink (inc. beer) tasted of alcohol (unless it was like alcohol pop type thing with loads of sugar).
Alot of people say alcohol doesnt taste but to me it does or a least I theres something it does to my mouth I dont always like.
Now Im a bit older and some of my tastbuds have died when I have a beer I cant taste the alcohol and I can enjoy the different tastes of beer.
But with anything much stronger I can still taste the alcohol for instance I just dont get the point of shots, whiskey, rum or whatever. They all pretty much taste the same and something that strong is just revolting I might as well be drinking mouthwash.
Also I symphasize with molgrips. In my students day when I was drinking regularly I could stay drunk for a worth while amount of time to enjoy it, but recently I've been under the weather and had gum infection etc and sometimes when I drink I wont get long being pleasantly drunk before starting to feel a bit headachy and hungover.
Hopefully when I'm final rid of the infection I'll get a little longer than that again
It's friday, Gf is on her way, this is my 2nd wkd
Gf is on her way
Too much info emsz...
She's driving back here from Oxford...
Your mind, iDave!
Later though.... 8)
Hmmm. After all that I ended up having 9 pints of Guinness last night.
It's going to be a loooooong day.
*lies down*
Jamie - take your arse and place it upon that saddle... sweat it out man!
8 pints of lager for me last night. Sore head now, off out on the roadbike soon to burn it off. Trouble is I'm going with a mate who is fitter than me and didn't get drunk last night. Bugger
Jamie - take your arse and place it upon that saddle... sweat it out man!
I was out on the bike yesterday afternoon and will be tomorrow. Today is a gym day.....not sure about lifting heavy things over my head is a good idea. Might go for a run instead.
*lies back down*
I think I may rapidly be becoming one of those weird teetotallers.... I did drink last night but to be honest, even after god knows how many archers & lemonade I came home feeling sober and had just as much fun dancing like a loon! Then again, going to France in 10 days for the Easter break so I doubt I'll be saying no to copious amounts of lager while there!
I made it home ok without crashing into a drunken pile. Had a stab at training, but it wasn't particularly successful 🙂
but it wasn't particularly successful
No change there then eh?
BOOM! HEADSHOT!
😉
*lies back down*
You don't know how right you are Jamie 🙂
50miles on the road bike in the sun followed by leftover pizza for lunch. Hangover? What hangover? 🙂
7 mile run in the woods and about to eat gammon and eggs.
Me - 1
Hangover - 0
Good work. Batter the hangover into submission with exercise and grease
ummm, we finished the wkd's then frozen Vodka. Bit of a blur after that
7m... you over your injury then? I'm still forced to run walk as everytime i up the running my tendon plays up 😡 😥
7m... you over your injury then? I'm still forced to run walk as everytime i up the running my tendon plays up
Not really. I just cut the amount of running I do. Gone from 70-80 miles a month to about 15-20 and the shortfall in cardio is now being taken up by the road bike.
Not ideal, but if it keeps me injury free-ish it'll do.
ummm, we finished the wkd's
You are 14 and I claim my £5.