Tarkyn_24
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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.
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Lottttttt of pussies ITT.
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.
Read mostly classics and philosophy since I've finished - onto "The Fatal Shore" by Robert Hughes at the moment, interesting read.What are some of your favourite titles?
I find reading and drinking a strangely good combo also.
Didn't Mofra used to hang s**t on me for being a pretentious twat?
A slab of Tim Finns and a coupla Rolling Stones?Usually smash a few tins n punch a few billys before heading out, oath
Usually smash a few tins n punch a few billys before heading out, oath
Nahh tbh most the time I just roll a Jay Leno or pack a few decent Conan obriens and write myself offA slab of Tim Finns and a coupla Rolling Stones?
I don't get itDo you slice em?
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.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.
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.
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.