Food, Drink & Dining Out Pre-Drinking Alone

[Tarkyn_24]

I'm surprised so many people find it weird. Will happily have a few drinks by myself before heading out/mates arrive. Can just as easily not.

 

[Duritz]

Lottttttt of pussies ITT.

 

[edgie]

Is anyone ever right proper alone these days? Last time I was drunk I was at home watching John Butcher tear up the gabba, but was socialising on here heavily.

 

[perthblue]

Lottttttt of pussies ITT.

a lot of pop psychology ITT too

 

[ioppolo]

Never been one for pres tbh. I am a lightweight though.

 

[Kynge of Begrem]

No problem with being drunk alone at home, downing beers, listening to tunes - good times.

 

[Mofra]

When I was studying a couple of years back I'd have a whisky after work and read, and later on if writing / reading I'd drink again.

I don't think I would have passed alcohol free, my attention span is terrible when completely sober.

 

[La Dispute]

When I was studying a couple of years back I'd have a whisky after work and read, and later on if writing / reading I'd drink again.

I don't think I would have passed alcohol free, my attention span is terrible when completely sober.

What are some of your favourite titles?

I find reading and drinking a strangely good combo also.

 

[Mofra]

What are some of your favourite titles?

I find reading and drinking a strangely good combo also.

Read mostly classics and philosophy since I've finished - onto "The Fatal Shore" by Robert Hughes at the moment, interesting read.

 

[Silent Alarm]

Didn't Mofra used to hang s**t on me for being a pretentious twat?

 

[Carl Hooper]

Usually smash a few tins n punch a few billys before heading out, oath

 

[the_interloper]

Didn't Mofra used to hang s**t on me for being a pretentious twat?

Well you are aren't you?

 

[Silent Alarm]

Usually smash a few tins n punch a few billys before heading out, oath

A slab of Tim Finns and a coupla Rolling Stones?

 

[Duritz]

Usually smash a few tins n punch a few billys before heading out, oath

Do you slice em?

 

[Carl Hooper]

A slab of Tim Finns and a coupla Rolling Stones?

Nahh tbh most the time I just roll a Jay Leno or pack a few decent Conan obriens and write myself off

 

[Carl Hooper]

Do you slice em?

I don't get it

 

[katana]

this is stupid and inefficient. a lot of your feeling of 'drunkness' is contributed to by the serotonin/endorphin releases from relaxed socialisation or laughing - you'll be drinking more to feel as inebriated, and building tolerance based on that. also solo-drinking is high-risk for abuse, you'd be normalising that in any way which is bad.

it has danger written all over it.

 

[Silent Alarm]

this is stupid and inefficient. a lot of your feeling of 'drunkness' is contributed to by the serotonin/endorphin releases from relaxed socialisation or laughing - you'll be drinking more to feel as inebriated, and building tolerance based on that. also solo-drinking is high-risk for abuse, you'd be normalising that in any way which is bad.

it has danger written all over it.

Yeah solo drinking is a good way to get into a depressing habit. Some people who are older rely on it once a week or so, but they're more so feeling lightly pissed and not completely wrecked. I think the issue is that when you begin to drink a bottle of wine or seven beers every night, you end up with your drinking exacerbating your feelings. So sometimes you can come home in a decent mood and get pissed and you'll probably end up feeling normal, and the chance of feeling anything intensely is small. But come home from a s**t day, a break up, or a fight on the tram (lol) and drink simply out of habit – not realising you're really doing it – and you'll end up in a pretty bad spot. You're basically coming home and just intensifying whatever it is you've felt all day.

In my opinion, if you are drinking alone, you sort of need to have your first beer at the wind down of your day. I knock off at 11:30 most nights and a few beers is a just reward, but by the third I'm ready to sleep. Sometimes I've cracked a beer at 2pm on a sunny Wednesday when I have nothing on, hoping someone else is free, but you're then in a situation where you haven't exerted any energy, it's not late, and you have nowhere to go. It takes some solid willpower to not go to the fridge that third or fourth time. When you're trying to build up to something alone that only socialising can give you, that's when you're exchanging the emphasis from 'fun +/= drinking' to 'drinking = fun.'

This is why I never get why people call chefs and shift workers 'functioning alcoholics.' These people work seven plus hour shifts and don't finish until late at night. Walking around, cooking in a hot kitchen, putting up with arseholes, or being under stress for that long equates to beers for most of us. There is a huge difference: these people aren't drinking at 1pm or whatever, they're not doing it at odd times or fitting it into their schedules.

Just don't smoke weed solo every day, that's when you end up depressed and a shell of a person. I have nothing against marijuana fundamentally but this idea it's some cool, zany, creative drug that should be celebrated is beyond me. I have more respect for a girl swapping cuddles with her best friend once a month at a club, than I do for some pseudo-tweed wearer who's basically listening to the same album they always do but going through pangs of angst, neurosis, and fatigue while doing so. I know a few people with zero interests outside of *-level Bush Doofing and scummy sharehouse facebook page politics as a result of smoking cones every single night. They're impossible to converse with and very, very odd when you manage to.

 

[Silent Alarm]

Also, where do solo pints at the pub fit into this?

Obviously, sitting down the pub for four hours trying to chat to the tidy 21-year old barmaid is pretty pathetic. So too is being turfed out of the Sporting Globe after your nine hour pot-session has resulted in annoying one too many groups of Essendon lads. But I know plenty of people who have shot me a look of pity and sadness when I've informed them I've just had one pint.

Honestly, try walking past a good looking pub on a warm day when you're bored shitless, knocked off your classes or finished your errands, and try and tell me having one or two pints alone is a sign you're a piss-head or pathetic. People who can't tolerate being alone tend to assume these things. It's a rare but simple pleasure to sit out the front of a dead-quiet pub and sneak in a beer when you shouldn't, while reading a book or just soaking up the quietness. Great stuff. Keep it to a rarity and it's a nice little change to hanging around the usual campaigners you do.

 

[blueboy25]

Also, where do solo pints at the pub fit into this?

Obviously, sitting down the pub for four hours trying to chat to the tidy 21-year old barmaid is pretty pathetic. So too is being turfed out of the Sporting Globe after your nine hour pot-session has resulted in annoying one too many groups of Essendon lads. But I know plenty of people who have shot me a look of pity and sadness when I've informed them I've just had one pint.

Honestly, try walking past a good looking pub on a warm day when you're bored shitless, knocked off your classes or finished your errands, and try and tell me having one or two pints alone is a sign you're a piss-head or pathetic. People who can't tolerate being alone tend to assume these things. It's a rare but simple pleasure to sit out the front of a dead-quiet pub and sneak in a beer when you shouldn't, while reading a book or just soaking up the quietness. Great stuff. Keep it to a rarity and it's a nice little change to hanging around the usual campaigners you do.

When I lived in the London, if we had nothing on, the missus would drag me to one of big shopping centres. I could usually handle 30 mins of wandering around aimlessly why the missus shopped. Luckily the shopping centre had a pub and I would head there and have a couple of pints by myself reading one of the daily papers. The missus came and grabbed me when she was ready to go home.

It was not a bad way to spend a afternoon and I was not the only one in the boozer doing the same thing.

 

[perthblue]

Also, where do solo pints at the pub fit into this?

Obviously, sitting down the pub for four hours trying to chat to the tidy 21-year old barmaid is pretty pathetic. So too is being turfed out of the Sporting Globe after your nine hour pot-session has resulted in annoying one too many groups of Essendon lads. But I know plenty of people who have shot me a look of pity and sadness when I've informed them I've just had one pint.

Honestly, try walking past a good looking pub on a warm day when you're bored shitless, knocked off your classes or finished your errands, and try and tell me having one or two pints alone is a sign you're a piss-head or pathetic. People who can't tolerate being alone tend to assume these things. It's a rare but simple pleasure to sit out the front of a dead-quiet pub and sneak in a beer when you shouldn't, while reading a book or just soaking up the quietness. Great stuff. Keep it to a rarity and it's a nice little change to hanging around the usual campaigners you do.

was just about to ask this.

whenever I go into the city I always stop at the pub for a pint, no matter if i'm alone or with people. just a nice way to relax. In summer its nice to sit down in a nice beer garden and relax, in winter its good to hide away from the wind and rain in the warmth of a pub.

wouldnt stay there and get hammered, but a solo drink or two is fine.

 

[Plugger35]

When I lived in the London, if we had nothing on, the missus would drag me to one of big shopping centres. I could usually handle 30 mins of wandering around aimlessly why the missus shopped. Luckily the shopping centre had a pub and I would head there and have a couple of pints by myself reading one of the daily papers. The missus came and grabbed me when she was ready to go home.

It was not a bad way to spend a afternoon and I was not the only one in the boozer doing the same thing.

I occasionally drank in a pub or bar on my own when I was travelling overseas and had no one else to drink with or I wanted to watch a sporting event on a big screen there but I still felt awkward and it's not something I would do here, I'd rather just drink at home on my own.

 

[craigos]

When I first moved to Melbourne I would often head down to the local and have a pint and read a book for a bit/do some work or watch some sport alone. If you're lining up outside waiting for a place to open so you can sit down for a 10 hour session then you may have issues but having a few pints alone once or twice a week? Who cares. Unless you're talking to yourself or being a creep people don't care, most people go to the pub to socialise and talk s**t with a friend and unwind, not to scan the room and try and psychoanalyse every person in the room.

Also, people focus on time way too much I reckon. 12 o'clock better have lunch, 7pm better hurry up and have dinner even though I am not hungry. Can't have a beer because it's not after 1pm? Come on, if you want to get pissed by 5pm and fall asleep by 9pm then go for it. Most people would judge someone that was drunk in the afternoon on a Wednesday but make that Saturday at 10pm and that's cool.

 

[Brad Goodman]

Solo pints are often unavoidable in cities that aren't your own, can't think of a time I've done it in Melbourne though.

 

[perthblue]

last time i was in melbourne was the only time i got drunk alone (in public) Was walking back down swanston st, wandered into a pub and ended up getting hammered while watching the footy. The bartender shouted me a cocktail, i assume out of pity.