how often do you drink, how much, and why

Postby zanev » Sun Jan 01, 2012 4:42 am

I dont really share a lot of personal stuff on here but whatever...

I normally drink to punish myself. To drink to the point where i either pass out, or become so numb to what was bothering. I rarely do it though, because of those reasons. Yeah ill have some wine here and there, but if i get really depressed to that point i mentioned i will just drink and drink until i feel nothing. Normally whiskey or rum.

When im not drinking to thearphy my self, i enjoy wine, whiskey, absinthe and some beers.

How often...ive only gotten drunk like i mentioned above maybe twice last year. Drinking for fun, maybe once every 2 months.
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And reminisce of those palmy days
I moon o'er you, Inis Mona
As long as I breathe
I'll call you my home

Re: how often do you drink, how much, and why

Postby The Black Falcon » Sun Jan 01, 2012 4:48 am

Ooh, drinking....college.....
Yeah, as one can imagine, drinking is a major part of college life. It's kind of a peer pressure thing, and I myself am kind of a lightweight. However, when I drink it's mainly to have a good time. I know one doesn't need alcohol to have a good time, but when it comes to college socializing, the parties themselves are pretty depressing if you're not drunk to some degree.
College student by day. Crime-fighting vigilante by night.

Re: how often do you drink, how much, and why

Postby zanev » Sun Jan 01, 2012 7:13 am

From experience, sometimes one does need alcohol to have a good time. Just depends how boring or lame everything else going on is...cant have beer pong with out beer...or pong, but no one really gives a shit about pong.
I close my eyes, Inis Mona
And reminisce of those palmy days
I moon o'er you, Inis Mona
As long as I breathe
I'll call you my home

Re: how often do you drink, how much, and why

Postby Chase Ricks » Mon Jan 02, 2012 12:44 am

Once to twice a year only but never get drunk actually. I do it if feeling depressed or melancholy on New Year's Eve unless on St. Patrick's Day.
From whence I came and whence I went heaven said I was too evil and sent me to hell. Demons and devils succeeded in breaking my soul.

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Re: how often do you drink, how much, and why

Postby viking » Mon Jan 02, 2012 7:20 am

i drink some perhaps 2-3 times a month, but i never drink enough to get wasted.
usually just one beer.

it happens that i'm drinking one glass of whiskey or cognac, or even tequilla.
Once a scout, always a perverted pyromaniac with a fetish for knives and duct tape

Re: how often do you drink, how much, and why

Postby Misquamicut » Mon Jan 02, 2012 7:31 am

I got really drunk only twice in my life. The second of those times (and the LAST one) I was in my early 20s and I was driving home and I drove off the road and up on a lawn and struck a lantern -- and I didn't even know it. I fell asleep in the car. The guy who owned the house came out and read me the riot act but he did not call the cops, and he drove me home. Next day I went over, paid the damages, and drove my car home. I never got drunk again. hahaha.

Re: how often do you drink, how much, and why

Postby xtc » Mon Jan 02, 2012 9:30 am

Most days, far too much, and why not?
Do you honestly expect honest reactions to this questions from "drinkers"?
Only the abstemious are likely to answer in anything like a truthful, and probably in very self-righteous, manner.
Let's just agree that drink-drivers are totally despicable.
Boxer shorts are cool,
but little speedos rule!

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Re: how often do you drink, how much, and why

Postby sarobah » Mon Jan 02, 2012 3:52 pm

xtc wrote:Only the abstemious are likely to answer in anything like a truthful, and probably in very self-righteous, manner.

I only get self-righteous when I’ve had too much to drink.
In my neck of the woods, abstention is more a vice than a virtue. It’s like announcing “I self-flagellate* and I’m proud of it.”

* No, that’s NOT what it means. Look it up.
Words, like Nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Re: how often do you drink, how much, and why

Postby zanev » Mon Jan 02, 2012 5:15 pm

xtc wrote:Most days, far too much, and why not?
Do you honestly expect honest reactions to this questions from "drinkers"?
Only the abstemious are likely to answer in anything like a truthful, and probably in very self-righteous, manner.
Let's just agree that drink-drivers are totally despicable.


I answered honestly,i would guess since its a message board where no one uses their real names people would just share. By my own admission though i just wanted to talk about my self.
I close my eyes, Inis Mona
And reminisce of those palmy days
I moon o'er you, Inis Mona
As long as I breathe
I'll call you my home

Re: how often do you drink, how much, and why

Postby xtc » Mon Jan 02, 2012 5:21 pm

Fair enough. Who doesn't?
Boxer shorts are cool,
but little speedos rule!

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Re: how often do you drink, how much, and why

Postby Kyle » Mon Jan 02, 2012 5:39 pm

The only time I ever drink is when I drink whiskey to knock out a cough. It's a shot then.

Re: how often do you drink, how much, and why

Postby fabolous1024 » Mon Jan 02, 2012 6:00 pm

xtc wrote:Fair enough. Who doesn't?


I don't. I also tend to notice that people who like to get drunk to have fun tend to be some of the most boring people I know. It's unfortunate that people (especially the ones I know) have to get inebriated in order to actually be fun to be around. I mean, why live with a stick up your ass your entire life? My ex-best friend was like this.

On a side note, college drinking is such a joke. Universities make billions for students to go on their drinking binges, they graduate with a fine arts or communications degree, and then wonder why they couldn't get a job after 4 years of "higher education". Occasionally someone dies, a fraction of them develop alcohol addictions that are oh so fun, and the rest just waste a couple years of their life during their most productive age.

Re: how often do you drink, how much, and why

Postby zanev » Mon Jan 02, 2012 9:05 pm

fabolous1024 wrote:
xtc wrote:Fair enough. Who doesn't?


I don't. I also tend to notice that people who like to get drunk to have fun tend to be some of the most boring people I know. It's unfortunate that people (especially the ones I know) have to get inebriated in order to actually be fun to be around. I mean, why live with a stick up your ass your entire life? My ex-best friend was like this.

On a side note, college drinking is such a joke. Universities make billions for students to go on their drinking binges, they graduate with a fine arts or communications degree, and then wonder why they couldn't get a job after 4 years of "higher education". Occasionally someone dies, a fraction of them develop alcohol addictions that are oh so fun, and the rest just waste a couple years of their life during their most productive age.



I think he was asking who doesnt like to talk about themselves.
I close my eyes, Inis Mona
And reminisce of those palmy days
I moon o'er you, Inis Mona
As long as I breathe
I'll call you my home

Re: how often do you drink, how much, and why

Postby xtc » Tue Jan 03, 2012 2:39 am

Correct.

On the other points in the mis-directed reply, see my earlier contribution.
Boxer shorts are cool,
but little speedos rule!

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Re: how often do you drink, how much, and why

Postby Reidy » Tue Jan 03, 2012 4:29 am

Usually on a weekend. A couple of beers usually. Also if I have been out to the football, I'll meet my mate afterwards for a few beers, catch up, talk about the game etc.

Re: how often do you drink, how much, and why

Postby fabolous1024 » Tue Jan 03, 2012 12:49 pm

xtc wrote:Correct.

On the other points in the mis-directed reply, see my earlier contribution.


Next time you might want to use quotes then.

Re: how often do you drink, how much, and why

Postby mistofoleese » Thu Jan 05, 2012 10:50 pm

A Pint of Guinness goes well with a steaming bread bowl of stew or potato soup IF your lucky to convince you sweetie not drink as well some of the Renn Faires will let those who wish to stick around at the pub and help get rid of the beef stew Guinness And Kilians the part about it is that once the Shire closes they can no longer sell the Guinness so its it GIVEN away Guinness is always best when its free.

So to answer your question a pint here and there at what ever rennfaire I happen to go to, I cannot forget MEAD either some of the larger ones also make their own mead which is also as good (almost)
but the closing day of renn faire would be the day to enjoy a few pints a few even serve RUM as well CANNOT forget the RUM

Re: how often do you drink, how much, and why

Postby zanev » Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:57 pm

mistofoleese wrote:A Pint of Guinness goes well with a steaming bread bowl of stew or potato soup IF your lucky to convince you sweetie not drink as well some of the Renn Faires will let those who wish to stick around at the pub and help get rid of the beef stew Guinness And Kilians the part about it is that once the Shire closes they can no longer sell the Guinness so its it GIVEN away Guinness is always best when its free.

So to answer your question a pint here and there at what ever rennfaire I happen to go to, I cannot forget MEAD either some of the larger ones also make their own mead which is also as good (almost)
but the closing day of renn faire would be the day to enjoy a few pints a few even serve RUM as well CANNOT forget the RUM



Speaking of rennfairs, do you see the irony when they have turkey legs there?
I close my eyes, Inis Mona
And reminisce of those palmy days
I moon o'er you, Inis Mona
As long as I breathe
I'll call you my home

Re: how often do you drink, how much, and why

Postby xtc » Fri Jan 06, 2012 1:23 am

Tonight is the last of Yule. Several parties (including mine) will be wassailing tonight in Surrey.
As they say in the Wesy Country:
"Apple tree, we wassail thee,
Hoping thou wilt bear.
On every twig an apple big;
Little heaps under the stairs."
Hip, hip, hip, Hooray!

Wassail!
Xtc
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but little speedos rule!

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Re: how often do you drink, how much, and why

Postby Jay Feely » Fri Jan 06, 2012 4:43 pm

Last Time I decided to drink, I was so drunk that my friends who is supposed to help me, decided instead to draw on me with sharpie, so never again!
You will have to subdue me to restrain me. I been a bad boy so make sure you torture me too with anything but pain.

Re: how often do you drink, how much, and why

Postby zanev » Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:28 pm

...what did your friend draw?
I close my eyes, Inis Mona
And reminisce of those palmy days
I moon o'er you, Inis Mona
As long as I breathe
I'll call you my home

Re: how often do you drink, how much, and why

Postby Jay Feely » Sat Jan 07, 2012 7:07 am

Sexual things that is not cool
You will have to subdue me to restrain me. I been a bad boy so make sure you torture me too with anything but pain.

Re: how often do you drink, how much, and why

Postby rick63tied » Sat Jan 07, 2012 2:20 pm

I just quit drinking after along time of doing it everyday and I'm a lot happier I may have a drink once in a while from now on but I just don't need it anymore.

Re: how often do you drink, how much, and why

Postby truly_trussed » Sat Jan 07, 2012 8:07 pm

Keep in mind this is a TUGs site. All our life we've heard thru media "Don't Drink and Drive." Perhaps in our circle we should remind each other "Don't Drink and Tie---or Get Tied." Play Safe, Sane and Sober.

Re: how often do you drink, how much, and why

Postby zanev » Sat Jan 07, 2012 8:38 pm

More like dont get drunk and tie. Having a few dnks is fine
I close my eyes, Inis Mona
And reminisce of those palmy days
I moon o'er you, Inis Mona
As long as I breathe
I'll call you my home