So when you go out for the night do you have to have a drink to have a good time or do you have a good time whether you drink or not? Are you as much "fun" sober as you are drunk? Do friends/family notice a difference in you when you are drinking?

I enjoy a night out - whatever, drink or no drink. There was a time when I couldn't enjoy myself if I didn't have a drink, how sad!

Do people see a change in me if I'm drinking? YES MOST DEFINATELY I get very chatty, sometimes loud and often quite childish!! I also love everybody so much when Im drunk!

I don't have to drink to have a good time. I can go out drinking and not have fun or go out stay sober and have a great laugh, it all depends on how im feeling on the night and the people im out with.
Even going out sober i can still wake up with a hangover and I can get drunk as a skunk and wake up frash as a daisy at 6am the following morning it all depends
:)

The trouble with drinking, and the same goes for smoking, is that it is a communal activity, and if everyone else is doing it you feel a bit odd if you're not joining in.

So when you go out for the night do you have to have a drink to have a good time or do you have a good time whether you drink or not? Are you as much "fun" sober as you are drunk? Do friends/family notice a difference in you when you are drinking?

D'ya know Dolores, this is a question that I have been asking myself quite a lot of late.

Mr and Mr H stopped drinking recently for lent. That was nearly 7 weeks off the booze and pesonally I didn't find it hard at all. I continued to go out socially and enjoyed myself every bit as much (possibly more) as I did when drinking.

However, I did notice that other people's reaction to me could be strange if they knew me as a drinker. E.g. During our time on the wagon we went to a dinner dance where we didn't know all that many people. No-one found it especially strange when we said that we weren't drinking and we didn't feel "left out" of any festivities. However, I went out one night with my work colleagues, who are all big drinkers and are used to me drinking big alongside them. Their reaction to the news that I was on the wagon was very different. For some of them, I became a social pariah within seconds of revealing that I wouldn't be drinking. "T0ssers" was my first thought about them, but then I realised that many of them actually have a bit of a drink problem, and people with drink problems like to be around other people who are the same. It makes them feel better about themselves.

I am different when I drink. Sometimes that's good, because I can be quite a laugh. But I am also more inclined to drop barriers that really should be there, and many times I have behaved in a way when drunk that I have been ashamed about the next day.

Its quite a freedom to be able to go out socially, enjoy yourself without booze, and have no regrets or worries at all the following day, not to mention to hangover. The funny thing is, I don't even enjoy the taste of alcohol that much and I only ever drink for 2 reasons (a) to get drunk (yes, that IS sometimes an objective) or (b) because everyone else is doing it (baa baa).

I am seriously considering becoming teetotal. Overall I didn't feel that I missing anything during the 7 weeks that I went on the wagon. i'm not sure why, but I'm a bit frightend of the idea so I'm not 100% committed to it just yet, but it is something I am considering.

I know what you are saying sf - on Tuesday lunchtimes [during term time] me and a few Mums meet at our local for lunch - soup and a sandwich. One of the girls has a lager the rest of us just have coke. She has often said she feels like the 'odd one out'. We only ever have one or at the most two drinks - it is generally just chat. But she feels in that short space of time different from the rest of us.

Yet on the odd occasion that I go out, I have a friend who drinks vodka and coke - well looking at her drink she might as well be drinking coke - cos you can't tell. And if she sticks to coke you still can't tell - she is loud with or without drink.

If I am the driver I won't drink, if we go out. And I am also quite loud and chatty - so others don't really know the difference. And I often come away feeling virtuous and rich [money saved]. And I have had a good time.

So I don't know what the answer is - I am certainly more daring and confident with alcohol, but as to having a 'better' time - dunno??

I can't drink - it gives me rotten migraine and just isn't worth the pain. When I worked my weekends were so precious that I didn't want to spend any of it being ill.

I envy those that can though. They lose all their inhibitions and are up dancing and don't give a hoot what anyone thinks.

My "ploy" is to wait til everyone else is too drunk to notice me before I get up and dance :)

I can certainly get drunk on "atmosphere" though - or maybe it's passive drinking;). Give me a couple of diet coke's and I can be as silly as ****holes.

I always say I don't have to get drunk to have a good time and that I'm a lot funnier and wittier when sober. So I have to ask myself why do I usually drink too much when I'm out? I really don't know. I also find that people react differently to me if I don't drink - like I'm gonna be a right old bore and bring everyone down. I'm off out on Wednesday night and I'm determined not to drink at all - that will be the first time in a long time that I've gone out with mates and not come home drunk and woken up the next morning feeling guilt ridden.


Watch this space to see if I can do it!

I think it depends on the mood your in when you go out and the people you are with as to whether or not you'll have a good time while drunk.

I've seen me go out in a rotten mood and sit with a face like :pooh: all night and the drink not cheering me up at all and I've been out with my friends and not drunk and had a high old time. So I guess I don't need to be drunk to have a good time.

The funny thing is, I don't even enjoy the taste of alcohol that much and I only ever drink for 2 reasons (a) to get drunk (yes, that IS sometimes an objective) or (b) because everyone else is doing it (baa baa).
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I am quite different karen - I really do like the taste of alcohol - well no that is not strictly true, vodka, rum, alcopops, whiskey, cider I cannot stand, but I love a really cold cold budweiser on a hot hot afternoon - it is pure nectar. And like now, I am preparing and cooking sunday lunch - and I cannot think of doing this without a beautiful and rich Rioja, the taste is sublime.

And I never ever drink to get drunk - it happens yeah, but as a rule I can have my one or three allotted glasses and stop. Or I am really quite good nowadays knowing inside that I have had an ample sufficiency.

If you are thinking of being a teetotaller - then good on ya - VoR did that a few years ago and she reckons she felt much healthier, happier and better because of it. She didn't like the taste either.

I went out on Friday night and didin't drink a drop and I can honestly say......



































It was PANTS!
now that may not have been because I didn't join in and have a drink....but I think it would have made a difference to be able to have a couple....not get blinding drunk, but just a glass or two would have been nice.....

Am not a big drinker now. I think good nights are to do with good company, some of the best nights I have had was just about friendship not a drink in site. Drink does have an effect on your inhibitions, but it can also make you feel quite depressed.

Am now living in student accomodation and see the young girls going out. Its scarey sometimes how little they remember of what they did in the morning but they have a good time while they are out. You also can see the frequent fights outside of our block when the pubs in the street kick out and the windows of some of the takeaways get smashed and then people peeing or vomiting in the street. This is not in my book a good night out.

I agree with you Becks. An old good friend of mine used to drink so much every night out (which was quite frequent). She always remembered very little about the night before, regularly went home with males she didn't know and ended up a very unhappy person, sufferring from severe depression.

Alcohol isn't always a good thing and doesn't always make things better. It regularly makes things worse. To be honest, I'm a bit hungover cause I drank last night and my stomach feels horrible this morning. I wasn't very drunk, just a little tipsy and didn't do anything embarrassing thank God. I just had a good time with my friends. Had I gotten really drunk, there's no doubt I'd be texting everybody to apologise for things done and said. I'd be feeling really horrible and regretful this morning. Instead I'm happy - enjoying the blue sky!

I can enjoy a night out drinking or not drinking as others have said, for me it depends on the company and also what kind of mood Mr M is in. He hardly drinks at all and if inbibe too freely he doesn't hesitate to tell me if I am making a fool of myself. I don't go out that much these days sits mainly wine for me at home.

I can easily not drink, and mostly still have a good time - depending on who I am with. When I was pregnant I didn't drink at all and mostly it was fine, but sometimes I would be out with people who I found it hard work to be with when they were drunk and I wasn't (if that makes sense).

Until I moved to Devon (18 months ago) I was a bit of a swiller....... But I have always been an "in control" drinker - I always knew when to stop, and I would often go onto soft drinks in a club, but then again, I often started on the shots in clubs :blush: I couldnt cope with the "fear and loathing" moments the day after, trying to remember what I had done the night before, I am pleased to say that since I was 15 these have been very few and far between, and in the later years were probably more related to the illegal substances I was using and not the booze.....

Now, well until yesterday, I havent had an alcoholic drink since New Year - it really doesnt bother me....but we went to friends for a BBQ yesterday and I felt "obliged" to have a couple of glasses of wine, but once we had eaten I went onto the lemonade - such a rock n roll life I lead now :laugh:

This is an interesting thread....

I drink a lot - I would always have a couple of glasses of wine with dinner and at the weekends when I go out - it is always a major session.

We always go out after work on Thurs/Fri and there would be a gang of about 20 of us and every single person there is on the p!ss and to be honest - I couldn't imagine not drinking on a night out like that!!

I was away with my friends who I dont get to see that often last weekend so again it was two big nights out...one of the girls wasn't getting as merry as the rest of us and drinking water etc and i have to say we were all like oh for gods sake cant she let her hair down just this once!!

Is that bad on our part??? I suppose it is ... but at the same time...if a group of friends wanna go on the p!ss and have a laugh doing no harm to anyone i dont think that should be frowned upon either...

I have to admit though after a big session I do feel a bit down the morning after and lately I have been thinking of cutting out the amount I have on a big night out as I am aware of the depressive ill effects of drink...but it is hard to do though!

Do you have to get drunk to have a good time?

You mean there's an alternative? :huh:

I've never tried it.

Oh..apart from when pregnant...went out to a wedding reception and had the most dullest time I have ever had in my life.

So I suppose that answers it for me.

Most definitely. I'm a happy drunk and love everybody and I like feeling like that.

Older and/or more experienced drinkers also usually know when to stop.

Here's a tip for you. I learned a valuable lesson from my good friend. If you're planning an all-day sesh, we all know that we have to pace ourselves. However, don't have a break and go onto soft drinks because you develop a hangover mid-way through.

I don't have to get drunk to have a good time, in fact if I get drunk I always regret it in the morning! But staying that, I don't really like to go out if I can't drink at all.

I do like to have one or two drinks when I am out, it helps relax me and I don't feel so self conscious but now I am older (read as ancient) I prefer to be tipsy than drunk.

I think it is well over a year since I was really, really drunk, and I don't intend to get that drunk ever again, just nicely tipsy.

On one side of front door to block is pile of vomit, the other side is a drip drip trail of blood from a fight outside last night - did they really have a good night.

However, I polished off most of a bottle of wine last night while watching dvds with the girls for my birthday.

I think its all about context and knowing yourself, and knowing what alchohol does to you.

I think someone will have to define drunk for me
are we talking 2.5 units of alcohol
Or rat ars*d



I like drinking and would not enjoy an evening out if I had to stay sober whiles everyone else has a drink

However I don’t like to be drunk and not in control of what I am doing

I tried to not drink when I when out for the night for about a mouth once and hated it
I could not Stand that sick smell people have on there breathe when they have been drinking

I met a lot of drunks in my line of work and i can tell you
life makes drunks not alcohol

I definitely drink more than the recommended weekly amount, but then there's weeks when I'm bored with it and cut it down / out drastically for a while.

I get kinda chatty and happy when drinking, and have been told by family and friends it's been a long, long time since I became narky or unpleasant, and I agree with cockers here - it was probably more the unhappy state of my life at that time that influenced my behaviour rather than the wine or beer consumed....

I don't drink, but I still know how to have a good night out. So, in my opinion, you don't have to get drunk to have a good time.

When I was a dreaded student I was down the bar every night chucking snake bites down my neck. I built up such a tolerance to alcohol that I could drink 2 bottles of wine to myself and not get bladdered. When my other half and I met (almost 10 years ago) we went to the pub Fri/Sat/Sun night every week when we were dating. Then we moved in together and I stopped drinking, don't really know why. Now one glass of wine and I am tipsy - cheap date!

But to answer the question, I think I had a little problem with drink, in that I thought it made me more fun, adventurous, chatty so I didn't feel confident without it. However the down side was I had blackouts, did things I would never normally do, put myself in dangerous situations and suffered massive hangovers.

I am alot happier now whan I go out as I am less likely to do anything stupid, I may have one or two drinks , but I know my limits and I don't cross them.

I think a lot of people go through this Chris it’s like a right of passage

I can remember when I was eighteen one night at a party I drank 21 Bacardi and cokes and half a bottle of vodka and all most died

I was so ill on lager that I could not drink it for two years without being sick



But you grow out of it

Like you grow out of driving to fast

And thinking that you’re immortal

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When I lived in Germany I had a couple german friends who found us brits really strange. They could'nt understand the binge drinking mentallity and the way between 16 and 25 most people are getting ****ed at weekends. Their theory was that as nations we had different attitudes. For them they had been drinking watered down wine at the dinner table and with family since they were grasshoppers and if I remember right could drink beer in a pub at 14. Having the occasional drink was just part of normal social contact and so when they turned 18 it really was'nt a big deal.

I enjoy a drink or three, but i HATE being drunk. I dont like not being in control and so when i go out socially i try not to have too much to drink - especially if i have to commute home, and travelling with your head shoved down a British Rail lav is sooooooo common :sick:

I hadnt been drunk since last Dec (and that was Groucho's fault), but I did get a little tiddled last Thurs. I drank way too many brandy's and went to view our landlords cellar with him (ooohhhh eeerrr missus). I didnt like the feeling of being drunk though, and i couldnt sleep very well, and the room span way too many times for my liking :blink:

I hadnt been drunk since last Dec (and that was Groucho's fault)

How, pray tell :devil:

It depends on the company I'm with...I have some friends who don't think anything is fun without drinking...and thus if I go out with them and decide not to drink that night...they nag about it the whole time...which only puts me in a bad mood.

But if I'm with a group that doesn't care...I don't mind at all not drinking..and still have a good time.

But to answer the question, I think I had a little problem with drink, in that I thought it made me more fun, adventurous, chatty so I didn't feel confident without it. However the down side was I had blackouts, did things I would never normally do, put myself in dangerous situations and suffered massive hangovers.

I used to be a bit like this too. I didn't party that much, but everytime I did I would just get pastered, not remember the night, and then spend the next week wondering what stupid things I did.

I then decided that it was just not any fun to get that wasted, and now I hardly drink at all, and when I do I usually can't be bothered to drink more than one or two drinks. Occasionally now I'll drink enough to be in a the nice happy drunk stage...but have learned not to go beyond that. lol.

Having done 1.5 years without drinking before, I can confirm that one can go out to a pub/club or dinner party and have a good time. In many respects you are funnier and much better company.

Other people are not however and it is draining when others have had a few and you have not - also time goes a LOT slower.

If you can cork a wine bottle after you open it of a night you can sleep easy, if you Always finish it then you need worry. Ask yourself this: Imagine that you were invited to a office type party, where lots of people you do not know were going to - a fairly fancy thing. Now imagine that you would have to attend and not drink - how would that make you feel?

If that makes you sweat and you drink every night then personally I would check yourself out. Drink is far more persuasive than you are.

(insert scary music)

I was out last night with some very very boozy workmates and I'm proud to say that I went out sober, I came back sober and I thoroughly enjoyed myself! I feel no guilt, no shame and I feel happy!


I admit I did have a few large vodkas - but the important thing is I handled them well! I started off on mineral water and when anyone got me a drink they INSISTED I have an alcoholic drink (which I refused for about the first three) - funny isn't it the way people like buying alcohol for you and think it's weird to have a soft drink! I like people who have soft drinks - it's a cheap round!! Anyway I didn't start drinking until about 9.30ish so I think I paced myself well and deserve a pat on the back!!

I paced myself well and deserve a pat on the back!!

You certainly do, well done :D

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WELL DONE DOLL

i can say that yes i can have a good time without drink!! like karenh i dont really like the taste of drink either so when i drink i usually drink to get drunk. i reckon a good night out really depends on the company, e.g. when i used to go out with my ex-friends, they wouldnt get drunk because they had fear it would make them fat so many nites i would drink and be the only drunk one just to make my night a bit better coz hanging with 3 boring sods who only go out to sit and pose wasnt much fun!! therefore drinking doesnt make me have fun. but on the other hand i could go out with other friends only have a few but have the time of my life!! it all depends.

It has to be said I can be just as daft sober as tiddled and generally speaking my mates can't tell the difference...in fact I only know I've been drinking a tad much by the number of trips I have to make to the loo....the dreaded first trip that breaks the seal and then it's oo off again every 30mins or so! :blush:

I can have just as much of a laugh sober as I can with a drink which is why I am often more than happy to be the driver......

It's funny as I have freinds that feel odd about sitting in a pub drinking soft drinks but I don't care what people think when I order my Grapefruit and soda!

Ive been out before, not touched a drop of the loud-mouthed soup and had a good night.
But in all honesty, I have a better one when Im drunk.

I'm taking a halfway house stance...

I cant go out and not drink, I love a drink or three, but I never get drunk.
I prefer to be at the merry stage and thus have a good time without all the throwing up and hangovers that getting blathered means

Must be mi age :)
M

Never been drunk. Never want to be. Prefer to have sufficient wits about me to ENJOY my fine whiskies. :)

I go out every Wednesday with a group of 6 friends & 1 out of 4 weeks I have to drive - 2 of the people live round the corner from the pub, lucky blighters.

On the week I have to drive, I invariably have a crappy day at work & feel like a drink - however, not having one doesn't ruin the night for me - what I don't like is the beery breath in the car on the way home when all are shrieking with laughter at not funny comments!

When it is not my turn to drive, I do my best to annoy the driver with beery breath & not funny comments knowing my turn is due..........

This is just being tipsy though - the most I have is 5 vodka's - I really hate being very drunk because I feel foolish & I get very loud & love everyone - I have got myself into some nasty situations being drunk & affectionate to those who don't know me that well! :unsure:

I tend to find that if I get OTHERS drunk I have a VERY GOOD time.....







:devil: If you get my drift!!! :devil:

I tend to find that if I get OTHERS drunk I have a VERY GOOD time.....







:devil: If you get my drift!!! :devil:

Slipper - you dirty, dirty boy :devil:

I had to go two weeks once without a drink

And my so called mates where saying things like

This pint is lovely the best I have tasted for a long time

How’s your orange juice



The bast*rds

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I'm reviving this thread cos i went out last night and had two diet cokes cos (a) I was driving (b) I couldn't afford much and (c) I didn't want to break my diet.

But boy oh boy could i have done with having a skin full! what a long evening it was (even though I was only there from 8-9.30). I'm not sure if I'm more interesting when I'm drunk or whether the people i go out with are more boring when I'm sober! Admittedly they weren't people I know particularly well, but I think with a few beers I would have "appreciated" them more! :cool1:

Mr. Breeze and myself always have a booze free month February and November. These 2 months I feel much better in myself and always say I won`t get back into the same old habits....yeah right. Usually within these months I do go out with my friends and have a really good time. The only thing I don`t enjoy is my friends saying throughout the whole of the evening " Oh you must be miserable without a proper drink in your hands ". I can still have a really good time and a laugh. Saying that though I do prefer to go out and have a drink :angel_not

No...my best friend and I are nearly unbearable sober at having too much fun.!! Drinking is always fun when having fun though.:angel_not

I've said it before and I'll say it again.

YES

Yup !!! :devil:

No...my best friend and I are nearly unbearable sober at having too much fun.!!

:blink: Did anyone understand this? Jennifer, please explain what you mean dear. Are you saying you're nearly unbearable when you're sober, or when you're drunk? When are you having too much fun? I don't understand. :sad:

:blink: Did anyone understand this? Jennifer, please explain what you mean dear. Are you saying you're nearly unbearable when you're sober, or when you're drunk? When are you having too much fun? I don't understand. :sad:

My best friend and I are continuously having a good time when we get together or talk on the phone or e-mail. We only get to see each other a few times a year and it's like we are really joined at the hip, b/c we have that kind of rare friendship. We are always goofing off embarrasing our children and picking on each other and finishing each others sentences...it's kinda hard to explain. We do have serious conversations, but we are just goofy together like two hyped up teenage girls, even though one of us will be 38 this week and one of us will be 41. Sober, we can make fluids spew from our noses and mouths...drunk, we need a translater, Tenna Lady pants, and to run from the men in the white coats with the butterfly nets. Does that make any sense?? xo msgirl

My best friend and I are continuously having a good time when we get together or talk on the phone or e-mail. We only get to see each other a few times a year and it's like we are really joined at the hip, b/c we have that kind of rare friendship. We are always goofing off embarrasing our children and picking on each other and finishing each others sentences...it's kinda hard to explain. We do have serious conversations, but we are just goofy together like two hyped up teenage girls, even though one of us will be 38 this week and one of us will be 41. Sober, we can make fluids spew from our noses and mouths...drunk, we need a translater, Tenna Lady pants, and to run from the men in the white coats with the butterfly nets. Does that make any sense?? xo msgirl

awwww msg reading that made me laugh cos it was like reading about me and my bessie mate (its her laptop I have while she is off in Spain this next week, I guess this was the next best thing she could do for me, well Im not fit to go with her cos Ive got another prolapse disc.......so she has lent it to me bless her - so I could catch up with you guys!)

As for do I need a drink to have a good time - CHANCE WOULD BE A FINE THING!!!!!!!

My name is Isis and I USED to be a binge drinker, I am now as sober as I was as a baby, but the morphine, diazepam and weeeeeeeeeeeed is making up for it I can tell ya - one voddy or stella and I would be in coma :sleepy: :laugh:

awwww msg reading that made me laugh cos it was like reading about me and my bessie mate (its her laptop I have while she is off in Spain this next week, I guess this was the next best thing she could do for me, well Im not fit to go with her cos Ive got another prolapse disc.......so she has lent it to me bless her - so I could catch up with you guys!)




Thank you Isis for understanding me!! It's a rare and wonderful thing to have a mate like that innit??:yahoo:
PS!!! Glad to see you back on girlie!!
See Pats, Isis understands me!!:w00t:

Thank you Isis for understanding me!! It's a rare and wonderful thing to have a mate like that innit??:yahoo:
PS!!! Glad to see you back on girlie!!
See Pats, Isis understands me!!:w00t:


awwww thanks doll, its good to be back, and as for Patsy, she doesnt understand cos she is really a man :w00t: :yahoo: :yahoo:

LARF!!!! I still love you Patricia!!:wink_kiss

LARF!!!! I still love you Patricia!!:wink_kiss

Me too Patsy darling :wink_kiss :devil:

awwww thanks doll, its good to be back, and as for Patsy, she doesnt understand cos she is really a man :w00t: :yahoo: :yahoo:
Isis, for a woman with a bad back you sure are brave.....to make a comment like that and not be able to run like a gazelle:w00t:

Isis, for a woman with a bad back you sure are brave.....to make a comment like that and not be able to run like a gazelle:w00t:


:laugh: :laugh: good job Ive got me turbo streamlined wheelchair then isnt it chick :pimp: .............................hope she chases me DOWNhill :whistling:

Well i went to the pub yesterday, and i had shandys (and not many of them).

I really wasnt in the mood for a heavy session - and i laughed sooooo much. I also danced, sang and felt the knee of almost every person in the pub.

No, i dont need to be drunk to have a good time. I create my own entertainment.

Alcohol numbs the neocortex that makes us think, not feel.

So drink alcohol, and you will feel more and stop thinking less. Until you drink too much then the whole brain shuts down.

But that tipsy stage is priceless. But we don't need alcohol to feel that way. Its just that our protestant/catholic driven upbringings taught us we are sinful to feel, and alcohol is a temporary band-aid to the problems caused by our upbringings.

Drink, sing gospel, extreme sports, drugs, fall in love, sex: all shuts down that pesky neocortex that tells us to worry about today, tomorrow, and yesterday.

I think I had a neocortex bypass procedure.

last week anyway.

I believe it's called an 'ouzoptomy' :drinking:

There is a big but in this question.

there are principally 2 types of drinkers, one type, like you most likely, who drink and stop when you have had enough. Sometimes they drink too much and get drunk but mostly they know their limits and enjoy the whole thing. The second type have no real control once they drink one. Some nights they have a few, often they may refuse a drink but more times than not they wake up and think "oh sugar, why did i drink that much".

Its like a small bit of the mechanism has been broken and when the drink goes in the brain says drink as much as possible until you cant recall what went on.

To try and imagine what it is like to be the other person is almost impossible.

It is such a complex area and so little understood. Look at it this way, the only real solution to drink abuse/alcoholism is a voluntary organisation run by alcoholics themselves! and not by medical professionals - that tells you all you need to know about what we dont know about drink.

cheers

There was nothing knew to post on, so once again I am playing Dol's game and this is the 4th post down.

I don't have much to say though :unsure:

Except....I never did go teetotal, although I'm not drinking during the week at the moment. However, I never go out drinking with the objective of getting drunk any more.

Except....I never did go teetotal, although I'm not drinking during the week at the moment. However, I never go out drinking with the objective of getting drunk any more.

Bummer .... thats the part of you i used to enjoy. Going out and getting trollied :laugh: We knew it was going to happen, and by jove did i enjoy it :nerd:

Bummer .... thats the part of you i used to enjoy. Going out and getting trollied :laugh:

Well, I didn't say it never happens....just that its not my objective any more. :laugh:

I sometimes used to go out with the sole purpose of getting drunk. Nowdays, I prefer to get mellow and tipsy, but sometimes the ocassion takes over and I find myself 1 over the 8. :wine:

1 over the 8. :wine:

one for the byegone sayings I think Figs! I wonder what its origin is? Any smarty pants care to enlighten me, please!

im off out with my old firm on friday nite, i havent got really hammered for a couple of years, im really good friends with a couple of the girls that still work there but it will be those of us that no longer work there who will be up to mischief and no good.....fuelled by lots of vodka and redbull just like the good old days......

but in answer to the question, no, I dont need to drink to have a good time, I didnt realise this till I wasnt able to drink because of my meds though!

Have a fantastic time Isis but don't drink sooo much that you forget how great it was! :thumbsup: