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Post by bazookagoof on Mar 12, 2020 0:44:59 GMT
I actually don't touch alcohol at all. I've hung around some folk that drank like giants, but never acquired the taste for it myself. This usually means I'm the guy to ask what happened last night, because I was the only one who saw & remembered anything!
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Post by Bean on Mar 12, 2020 9:54:09 GMT
Did you find hanging around with big drinkers very dull if you were sober?! A drink or two doesn't seem to change people much, but much more than that and I find people become quite tiresome! It's like they're convincing themselves they're having the best time ever, but really they're just slurring their speech, repeating themselves and staggering around!
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Post by 3piggles on Mar 12, 2020 22:16:48 GMT
I never acquired much of a taste for it, either, but used to have an incredible tolerance for it. Then I stopped drinking when I got pre,and never got back into it. First chance to go out to dinner alone, we both ordered drinks and found we'd lost interest. Saves a lot of money.
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Post by bazookagoof on Mar 12, 2020 23:17:32 GMT
I used to go out with the heavy drinkers mainly because they were good company, even if we ended up going to sports bars, which I hated. The conversations were always lively, and no one ever tried to start fights, so I was good with all of it.
I recall a bachelor party where the groom was drinking heavily a week before the party- I asked him what on earth was he doing, and he replied, "I'm in training!"
Apparently the plan was to get him so smashed he didn't know what was going on. At the end of the night, he and I were the only ones left standing. Everyone else was passed out or throwing up in the bathrooms.
Today he's in Alcoholics Anonymous, and in better shape than the rest of the groomsmen today. (Well, apart from me, that is.)
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Post by Bean on Mar 13, 2020 7:45:54 GMT
Oh I feel nauseous just thinking about that! I bet the other guys were miffed that they'd planned to floor him but ended up chundering themselves!
My husband's not much of a drinker, but many of his peers have paunchy bellies from too much beer!
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Post by bazookagoof on Mar 13, 2020 23:07:52 GMT
Oh I feel nauseous just thinking about that! I bet the other guys were miffed that they'd planned to floor him but ended up chundering themselves! My husband's not much of a drinker, but many of his peers have paunchy bellies from too much beer! They failed miserably; the guy loves a challenge.
Yeah, I think I'm in the same group as your husband- a large portion of my friends all have that "gut."
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Post by Bean on Mar 14, 2020 8:04:59 GMT
It's certainly a good look to avoid if you can! Your livers will thank you too, I'm sure.
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Post by 3piggles on Mar 14, 2020 15:46:38 GMT
That's so sad, Baz. I've never understood why some people don't think they can have any fun, if they aren't at least half plastered. Does he have the belly, too, or just the addiction? Hubby isn't much of a drinker, either, though he'll have a beer, if everyone else is having one. We're way passed the drinking and driving, and running the risk of losing our licenses. Leaving that for the younger people.
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Post by bazookagoof on Mar 14, 2020 17:01:33 GMT
That's so sad, Baz. I've never understood why some people don't think they can have any fun, if they aren't at least half plastered. Does he have the belly, too, or just the addiction? Hubby isn't much of a drinker, either, though he'll have a beer, if everyone else is having one. We're way passed the drinking and driving, and running the risk of losing our licenses. Leaving that for the younger people. He's got the drinking belly, too. He used to drink LOTS before he joined AA. I think in his case, he drinks to forget his problems. It's started to backfire on other people he deals with because as he puts it, "They're used to dealing with the drunk version of me. Now they forget they're dealing with the sober version, and now I don't forget anything!"
I used to know a guy in high school who was dead set against drinking. He used to go around proclaiming that drinking was killing the youth of America, and Prohibition was a good thing and should be brought back. After his second year in college, he transformed into a drunken frat boy.
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Post by 3piggles on Mar 15, 2020 21:46:11 GMT
The drunken frat boy is even more sad We don't need prohibition. We need to face up to our responsibilities, and take care of ourselves. Sadly, there are so many people with emotional problems, things they're trying to forget, that all of the drugs(drinking, pharmaceuticals, endless working, long distance running, etc.) are all ways to forget. The people don't forget, so they just keep trying I can imagine your AA friend is having an interesting time dealing with those who used to deal with him as a drunk. He's seeing them as they really are. Probably not pretty I had two friends who were victims of child sexual abuse. One drank. The other worked endlessly. She's leave her paid work, and go to a volunteer job. She would go out at all hours of the night, all weather, to help friends, etc. It came off as being a wonderful person, but I knew it was an attempt to escape. I also knew, if she didn't find some peace, she would crash and burn at some point The alcoholic friend finally lost her job, her children, her second husband, and her friends. I got her to stop drinking while she was pregnant with her last child, but couldn't get her to continue after her daughter was born I have no idea what happened to her. She dropped off the radar. The workaholic is a social worker, dealing with women in prison, so she's all set to work endless hours for little reward. At least she's contributing while she's escaping.
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Post by gremlin40 on Apr 28, 2020 8:52:54 GMT
Lol I had a brief stint partying in Kelowna BC...young and spunky lol.
The last time I went out drinking with my friends I came a snails ball hair away from being arrested for streaming lol.
Good thing the cop couldn't stop laughing or I would have gotten a ride in a cop car stark naked lmao 🥴
I was 23. After that the damage from the car accident really deepened and took hold and I stopped going out.
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Post by Bean on Apr 29, 2020 7:31:47 GMT
Crumbs, you certainly packed a lot in early on!
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