Drinking

[Hipster Doofus]

I'm 19 and drinking with my mates is something I look forward to greatly most weekends or whenever we catch up. It's all just a bit of fun, in moderation of course haha; never really understood the hysteria of people who refuse to drink but it's their choice and all power to them.
Spent today hungover as ****, mothers day family lunch was painstaking to say the least

 

[Natho]

No real big drinking culture in my family so I was never that into drinking much underage. Obviously experimented with booze every now and then.

Now days I drink once every 2-3 weeks. Don't drink during the week. Although being in my footy season I have a few beers saturdays depending how I feel. Normally 2 or 3 does me after working and then playing on a saturday.

 

[Jimmy1992]

First year uni I was terrible with this, got over it, but sometimes I still have a bad night and regret my texts. Still, a bit of fun, nothing that bad has ever happened except some awkwardness. Whatever. Life's not that serious and important.

I have mentioned this in some thread, but I love the moment of looking at my drunk texts, and what stupid shit I have said. Tops off the night for me.

 

[Colin D'Cops]

I have mentioned this in some thread, but I love the moment of looking at my drunk texts, and what stupid shit I have said. Tops off the night for me.

Jim = woman?

 

[Jimmy1992]

Jim = woman?

I haven't been called that for a while... so thanks!

 

[Colin D'Cops]

Was expecting some shit flung back Oh well

 

[Xtreme]

I am sure i have posted in this thread at some point, but i'll go through it as though i've never posted in it and will probably contradict myself as a result.
I drank more when i was under age than i have since i turned 18, 14 years ago. It was a thrill to drink underage, yet when it became something i could legally do i just lost interest.

My dad and my sister are borderline alcoholics, i'm surprised their livers are still functioning (usually drink 7 nights a week). I often say i don't drink because of them, as they are not very nice people when they are drunk. And i figure i don't want to turn into an ugly person when drunk.

 

[Jimmy1992]

Was expecting some shit flung back Oh well

Well, I usually get called a ****, so I will take woman I appreciate how respectful you are.

You ****ing flaming pile of turd.

Better?

 

[Jimmy1992]

I am sure i have posted in this thread at some point, but i'll go through it as though i've never posted in it and will probably contradict myself as a result.
I drank more when i was under age than i have since i turned 18, 14 years ago. It was a thrill to drink underage, yet when it became something i could legally do i just lost interest.

My dad and my sister are borderline alcoholics, i'm surprised their livers are still functioning (usually drink 7 nights a week). I often say i don't drink because of them, as they are not very nice people when they are drunk. And i figure i don't want to turn into an ugly person when drunk.

My Mum I would say, is definitely an alcoholic. I sometimes wonder whether I have the tendencies as well. A lot of the time I will think something along the lines of "I could really go a drink". However, I never end up drinking for whatever reason. Usually because I will have work the next morning, and I don't usually sleep well if I have a drink. Especially if it's only 1 or 2.

It's a bizarre process for me, because I do not have an addictive personality in the slightest. I love a punt, but can stop at anytime, and I'm not known to get hooked on any sort of food or drink. So, it scares me when I think, often, "****, I could really go for a drink". However, it then reassures me that I don't end up drinking. Life is weird.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Don't drink anymore. No interest in it at all.

 

[BILC]

Binge drink usually 2 nights a week, probably should do something about it.

But I'm a 20 year old uni student, so I won't.

Continue.

 

[BALKAN]

I consume alcohol fairly often, but I don't drunk too much.

 

[The Passenger]

 

[James_Blues]

 

[La Dispute]

I like to a have a few brewskis but to be honest I've always hated the idea of the Australian drinking culture and I can't get my head around its idealisation its positive perception, particularly in younger males.

Sometimes I truly wonder whether you're drinking to be social or you're being social by drinking and it seems the two are inextricably linked and you can't really discern precisely why you're doing it other than you've been indoctrinated into a system which is completely self-perpetuating and self-fulfilling.

I have plenty of mates who are just far too aggressive when drunk and it's just not my thing and I honestly think it's a societal problem but I'm a fairly shy and relaxed person in general so I guess I find it harder being around people who have had one or eight too many. Unless hammered myself, I find them incredibly hard to tolerate. I can't really remember the last time I looked forward to a big night on the Jugs.

I think I'm more suited to taking recreational stuff because it completely suits me as a person. I much prefer the feels associated with acid because they allow me to do things I can't do while drinking - Thinking deeply, generating ideas, having moments of clarity and complete euphoria.. I wish it was safe to do it more than every so often. I actually find MDMA to be an even better substitute because you get that same energy and confidence (charisma) without being cumbersome and stupid.

I'll never stop enjoying a few premium beers with a couple of good mates around a Barbecue but I'll never completely buy into the boring, fractured system which is inadvertently ingrained in our culture.

 

[kfc1]

I have plenty of mates who are just far too aggressive when drunk and it's just not my thing

This is my biggest issue. It's not so much drinking that's the problem, it's the individuals and their behaviour.

 

[treefingers]

I have mentioned this in some thread, but I love the moment of looking at my drunk texts, and what stupid shit I have said. Tops off the night for me.

I've got a real problem with snapchats atm. I wake up in the morning and have absolutely no idea what I've sent. But I've sent about 50 of 'em

 

[Dont be a lemon]

I can't get my head around its idealisation its positive perception, particularly in younger males

Advertising and marketing.

Assisted by all the other fun drugs being an illegal hassle to get.

 

[Silent Alarm]

I have mentioned this in some thread, but I love the moment of looking at my drunk texts, and what stupid shit I have said. Tops off the night for me.

I mean who really cares? I've said some questionable things, added some people on facebook I shouldn't have, but it never had any real change on my life. The people who begrudge you for it tend to be on HMAS Struggletown with girls anyway. Life doesn't really mean that much and drinking is no more an activity than going to the footy, having a kick... why take any of it as something shameful? I bet the people who receive the texts don't even care that much either.

And I mean drinking is all about carrying on. If everyone just talked shit, complained about chicks and then at 3am decided to lament how much they love them, texted people with both the normal and baffling, and then continued to carry on like a dickhead then we wouldn't have a toxic culture of king-hits. I don't get coming home and drinking to just act like you would sober. How ****ing boring. Where's your sense of hedonism and adventure?

I'm with you Jimmy.

 

[Vekgib]

I certainly did my fair share of drinking between about 17 and 25.But looking back now,I'd probably wonder what we were "celebrating" 90% of that time.
Nowadays, I have a couple of schooners every Friday night at the local Bowling Club with dinner. And maybe a scotch or two on cold winter nights in front of the fire.But that's it for me.I guess,even though I was part of it, I've never understood the Australian culture that suggests that every occasion is a bore unless alcohol is consumed.Examples like: "Oh beauty, the V8's are on this weekend.Better buy a slab." or: "Hey, the wife and I just bought a block of land.Lets go there and stand around on it drinking in front of our soon-to-be neighbours.I wanna be the first to spew on it." I'm sorry, but I just don't quite understand.
I'd already slowed down my alcohol intake when I met my wife at 34.She has never been a big drinker, heavily influenced by the fact that when she was 15, her 20 year old brother was killed by a drunk driver.Out of respect for that, I've cut down alcohol even more ,to the level described above. She did say she found it unusual to see me on my buck's night after I'd had about 15 Crownies.The only time since I met her that I'd really had a few.
I'm no wowser, and accept that alcohol has it's place in society.I guess I just don't see the attraction anymore in consuming so much of it that you have no control over yourself.

 

[Silent Alarm]

Sometimes I truly wonder whether you're drinking to be social or you're being social by drinking and it seems the two are inextricably linked and you can't really discern precisely why you're doing it other than you've been indoctrinated into a system which is completely self-perpetuating and self-fulfilling.

I have plenty of mates who are just far too aggressive when drunk and it's just not my thing and I honestly think it's a societal problem but I'm a fairly shy and relaxed person in general so I guess I find it harder being around people who have had one or eight too many. Unless hammered myself, I find them incredibly hard to tolerate. I can't really remember the last time I looked forward to a big night on the Jugs.

I don't think it's either hanging out and the beers are a byproduct, or whether it's hanging out to drink. It's admittedly probably the latter. But I don't think I've ever hung out with people purely to drink – they're my mates and like most people, you enjoy hanging out. The fact you're having some beers is a nice byproduct.

I don't think there is any inherent issue

Lately I've been getting pretty angry drunk but apparently it's always been lingering there. I'm only really 'laid back' when I don't know people well. Once I know someone I'm not a loudmouth or speak in a decibel nine times louder than everyone else, but I am emotional. In fact the more I think about it, the more regimented my escalation of feelings are. Beers at the pub or at a mates: jovial, pretty upbeat. Heading out: I get really anxious about being at places on time, making sure I know where I am. If I'm having no luck I tend to try and sit by myself and brood and feel lonely and start questioning if I'll ever have a root again. Coming home: usually jumping up and down and calling chicks and acting like an idiot and laughing or either getting really emotional and angry. But I don't think I'm that unique. A lot of people have different outcomes and different feelings. Alcohol just exacerbates how intensely I tend to feel things.

But I tend to have fairly big ones every weekend and have never gotten in anything resembling a fight. I've never purposefully hurt anyone. I've never even mouthed off.

I don't think there's any issue in that. My old man stopped drinking when I was about 10 but would buy me beers when I was 17. I thought it was all pretty normal. He never said "don't drink," but never glorified drinking as something really cool or something I had to do. He said it was some of the best fun you could have (absolutely, it is) but could very quickly become the worst thing in your life (I've seen it happen). That's fine. And he raised me as a decent enough person that I don't go out and touch chicks on the arse on dancefloors when they brush past, I don't try and punch on, and I don't carry on like some Lad Bible worshipping twat. But I like a beer and there's no issue with partaking in that culture if you're a decent participant of it: which 70% of people truly are for all their drinking days.

Plus most people on this forum are probably working class-cum-middle class and a natural part of our history is drinking. Traditionally there was nothing else to do. It's all you had to relax and it took up your leisure time and it's how people met and socialised. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

And personally I think there's a humour and exposure of the human condition at drinking. It genuinely interests me. It's something I like to think about and I like when it's reflected in art. So many people like it because it's relatable and says something more. That first Arctic Monkeys album still makes me chortle sometimes, the way he talks about it... I maintain not enough people understand he's saying something more profound.

If we want to begrudge unhealthy social norms we should look at the fact so many intelligent people end up eating shit like McDonalds that's bad for them and even worse for our world and environment.

 

[Silent Alarm]

I certainly did my fair share of drinking between about 17 and 25.But looking back now,I'd probably wonder what we were "celebrating" 90% of that time.
Nowadays, I have a couple of schooners every Friday night at the local Bowling Club with dinner. And maybe a scotch or two on cold winter nights in front of the fire.But that's it for me.I guess,even though I was part of it, I've never understood the Australian culture that suggests that every occasion is a bore unless alcohol is consumed.Examples like: "Oh beauty, the V8's are on this weekend.Better buy a slab." or: "Hey, the wife and I just bought a block of land.Lets go there and stand around on it drinking in front of our soon-to-be neighbours.I wanna be the first to spew on it." I'm sorry, but I just don't quite understand.
I'd already slowed down my alcohol intake when I met my wife at 34.She has never been a big drinker, heavily influenced by the fact that when she was 15, her 20 year old brother was killed by a drunk driver.Out of respect for that, I've cut down alcohol even more ,to the level described above. She did say she found it unusual to see me on my buck's night after I'd had about 15 Crownies.The only time since I met her that I'd really had a few.
I'm no wowser, and accept that alcohol has it's place in society.I guess I just don't see the attraction anymore in consuming so much of it that you have no control over yourself.

Look I'm by no means a massive drinker. I never came home to my people having a wine or beer every night. But what's wrong with drinking in celebration? Is it really any different to the way another culture would celebrate a birth? Say what you want but for me there's something romantic and endearing about that. My olds made money from houses and thats's when I realised how widespread it is but also what it can mean – working class people have beers at the end of the week to reward themselves, you buy the brickies a slab as a thanks, if you sell a house you get some shocking Shiraz or something from the agent... just because it's alcohol does that mean you're going to spew it up or end up punching on? Probably not.

I think it's almost a nice thing; something definite.

Of course it depresses me when I buy some beers and see some poor prick getting stung by stealing a cask because he's an alcoholic, poor, and crippled by the shit. And the way it's acted as a cancer in Indigenous communities is depressing and shameful. But cocaine ruined Mark Bosnich's career but I bet it's made a few people's too!

 

[Vekgib]

Look I'm by no means a massive drinker. I never came home to my people having a wine or beer every night. But what's wrong with drinking in celebration? Is it really any different to the way another culture would celebrate a birth? Say what you want but for me there's something romantic and endearing about that. My olds made money from houses and thats's when I realised how widespread it is but also what it can mean – working class people have beers at the end of the week to reward themselves, you buy the brickies a slab as a thanks, if you sell a house you get some shocking Shiraz or something from the agent... just because it's alcohol does that mean you're going to spew it up or end up punching on? Probably not.

I think it's almost a nice thing; something definite.

Of course it depresses me when I buy some beers and see some poor prick getting stung by stealing a cask because he's an alcoholic, poor, and crippled by the shit. And the way it's acted as a cancer in Indigenous communities is depressing and shameful. But cocaine ruined Mark Bosnich's career but I bet it's made a few people's too!

Don't get me wrong. I'm not criticising a celebration.What I meant was the culture of celebrating inane moments like: "Hey, it's Monday,let's have a few"
The points you've made are valid and I'm not here to shout you down.I've certainly bought slabs for tradies who have helped out and received bottles of "rough red" at Christmas from my customers.I guess what I was trying to point out is that there's almost a social rule in Australia that you can only be having a good time at a social occasion if you are consuming alcohol.That's all.

 

[bkozican]

My real father (darth vader voice), was an alco so if it runs in the family, I was next.

In my late teens to early 20's, I would smash the piggy bank to get a carton of jacks. Now days I cant even stand the smell.

I put it down to just getting old

 

[Jimmy1992]

I've got a real problem with snapchats atm. I wake up in the morning and have absolutely no idea what I've sent. But I've sent about 50 of 'em

I love snapchatting while drunk. It's usually just videos of me singing drunkenly so some song, or dancing to some song. Either that, or me pulling some stupid drunk face.

On the emotions of drinking: I am naturally a relatively quiet sort of person, and very laid back. As I drink I get more and more rambunctious. I get relatively loud and obnoxious (only with people I know) and then I become very self centred, try and make everything about me. Then, as I start to sober up I start to get more and more emotional (for lack of a better word) and then I start texting every chick I have the number of.
I never get overly disappointed or pissed off if I'm not pulling as it's not the reason I go out, but I may get down on myself if I miss a chance.