How often do you get drunk?

Rohypnol is a bitch like that.

I get tipsy at least once a week - usually on about 6 or 7 pints of real ale. I'm in the pub at least 3 times a week though (Thursdays, weekend nights (not both!) and the odd pint on a week night.

I probably binge drink too much, but don't do the townie "let's see how many we can cram in between Last Orders and Closing thing (as I'm not a townie!). If there's a party and wine about, I can easily drink 2 bottles of red back to back if I'm in the right mood, and I dont' very often get hangovers...

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Don't wanna be cremated or buried in a grave
Just dump me in a plastic bag and leave me on the pavement
A tribute to your modern world, your great society
I'm just another victim of your highrise fantasy!

I like to feel the warm merriment of a bottle of wine or beers on a Friday / Saturday night.

In the week, maybe average a glass a night.

I can't remember the last friday night I didn't have a drink.

Avoidable brain damage is worth avioding!

Cheers

Harry

I would do Tom, but you keep bumming the roach.

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Originally posted by garyi:
I can't remember the last friday night I didn't have a drink.

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Originally posted by Mekon:
I would do Tom, but you keep bumming the roach.

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Don't bogart that joint, dude - pass it over to me (etc etc!).

Everything gives you brain damage these days - living is dying, so why not have fun doing it?

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Don't wanna be cremated or buried in a grave
Just dump me in a plastic bag and leave me on the pavement
A tribute to your modern world, your great society
I'm just another victim of your highrise fantasy!

About your signature. You realise that that quote is meant to be humourous/ironic, yes? It's just that quoted like that out of context it might seem like exactly the sort of bad undergraduate style agit-pop lyrics it seeks to satirise.

BTW I always assumed that that song ("I'm Gobbing on Life") was ripped off my Mel Smith for "Gob on You" Not the Nine O'Clock News.

Matthew
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A mistake has been made,
It's a fact they can't hide,
Though I'm partly to blame
It cannot be denied.
There aint no use defending,
It seems I've been tending the wrong grave for 23 years.

A letter dropped onto my doormat one day
And I thought I'd ignore it,
It might go away.
And I took up my shears to the place for years
I'd presumed my sweet darling had lain.

Curse those in charge of plots,
Curse these forget-me-nots,
I've been sharing my inner most thoughts with an Edward McGrain
I'm inconsolable
And at times uncontrollable
But you wouldn't know 'cos you're 200 metres away...

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Originally posted by domfjbrown:
Everything gives you brain damage these days - living is dying, so why not have fun doing it?

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But what's fun about getting drunk? I really don't understand. [I hasten to add that I did get drunk once, for the express purpose of finding out, but it just made me feel miserable].

As with all things Jeremy, there are degrees. Slightly blurred, merry, drunk, horribly drunk and shitfaced.
To what degree did you go?
To nicely maintain a level of slightly blurred going towards a merry towards the end of an evening is very pleasant IMO. I manage very well to keep to this on a regular basis and very, very rarely exceed it.
By not drinking ( I assume you don't) you are very vulnerable to being out of control if you ever did have a drink again. It is worth mastering the art to prevent future embarassment.

Having said that Rasher, alcohol is a depressant is it not?.....

A depressant in that it depresses the Central Nervous System rather than makes you depressed.

Tendency for some to get maundlin notwithstanding.

Matthew

If I had all the money I'd spent on drink

I'd spend it on drink.

Regards

Mike

Spending money I don't have on things I don't need.

so you don't need a drink then Mike?

You've met The Nagger...

Mike

Spending money I don't have on things I don't need.

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Originally posted by Rasher:
As with all things Jeremy, there are degrees. Slightly blurred, merry, drunk, horribly drunk and shitfaced. To what degree did you go?

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On that scale: drunk - difficulty walking in a straight line and a hangover the next morning.

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By not drinking ( I assume you don't) you are very vulnerable to being out of control if you ever did have a drink again. It is worth mastering the art to prevent future embarassment.

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Hehe . [I do drink but not often and not much. I can't say there's any chance of my accidentally getting drunk].

It's strange that Matthew picked up on the fact that alcohol is not a depressant, because it's not.

It slows down the nervous system and "numbs" it, as Dr Robinson says.

So, stop being weak, stop watching your soaps and find an attitude yourself.

I'll get off my soap box now.

P.S. Surely you mean maudlin Matthew, not maundlin?

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Originally posted by JeremyD:
But what's fun about getting drunk? I really don't understand. [I hasten to add that I did get drunk once, for the express purpose of finding out, but it just made me feel miserable].

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You've not been "blotto" then.......

Everyone should get seriously rip-roaringly drunk at least once. It gives you a great perspective on sobriety and all the varying degrees of intoxication after that.

Many a great story results from a gathering that ends up getting OTT. My "claim to fame" was whilst crashing down on a friends floor after a great night out in a Working Man's Club outside Newcastle (double Jameson's £1.50 and a pint of beer at only £1.00).

I had rolled up my jacket to use as a pillow (all the other b's had nicked the cushions....) and managed to roll over, my head falling off the jacket onto the floor.

Aparently my quote was "Fuck me, I've fallen off the floor......"

Needless to say, the lady of the household was less than chuffed with the resultant uproar and laughter - it was 4am.

What was the song ?

"Those were the days my friend......."

Count D.

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'So, stop being weak, stop watching your soaps and find an attitude yourself'

Got a drink problem then ?

[This message was edited by FISBEY on Fri 14 May 2004 at 10:30.]

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Got a drink problem then ?

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Look, I can easily get by on just two bottles of wine a day.

Oh OK.

care to explain your 'watching soaps/attitude' post, as I feel it may have been aimed at me?

Perhaps I should have added one of those smiley things above, but I don't like them and thought it didn't need them.

I don't know anything about you and the post wasn't aimed at anyone specific.

It just seems general public attitudes appear to come from the TV.

OK thanks, I guess I'm pretty sensitive to some posts.

Incidentally I don't watch too much TV, especially soaps, life itself can be too much of a soap opera sometimes....

And yes I think a lot of us are influenced by the media in general, I guess we're lucky if we can see it for what it is, which is hard sometimes given the recent Mirror pictures for example.....

'Life is difficult' as the Buddhists say...

Have a nice day

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Originally posted by FISBEY:
OK thanks, I guess I'm pretty sensitive to some posts.

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Four and a half weeks and the signs are showing, eh?

Rasher - naff orf! - you're right though....

Tom - the honest answer is (for me) that we generate our own bad karma a lot of the time, I know only too well that I'm my own worst enemy sometimes, but am learning to be my own best friend too, hence giving up smoking, not drinking and doing other drugs etc (if other people want to that's fine, having said that that I'm not too happy being around very drunk or very stoned people). I know full well the meaning of the word 'Dukkha', which in simple terms means 'suffering' and its place within the four noble truths, the last of which (the cessation of Dukkha) I'm trying to work on.

I very much try and 'look within', which is where Buddhism and psychotherapy are very similar, psychotherapy being something I do use.

I guess being on this forum is a bit of a paradox for me right now, I do own a Naim system, but am trying to concentrate on the less is more theme these day, I've spent years looking outward and grasping at straws and it didn't really help me a bit, but as I said in an earlier post 'each to their own'.

Very much the road less travelled.

Did I need to write a justification?, I don't know, but I did!