There's drinking and then there's drinking???

[lugo35]

had our xmas party last friday. good night hog roast disco and a band. young lad i work with, he's 19. gave him a lift there talking he had already had 6 pints and 3 vodkas, on arrival he ordered 2 bottles of magners and a JD chaser. well continuing this he disappeared after an hour or so. later i went out side to make a phone call, you guessed it found him lying on the floor in pool of vomit.
talking to some of his friends since, this what he does every week!!!!!!
and everyone thinks its fine.
not sure what im trying to say here but we got big prob's in this country if this is thought of as ok with the youth of today

i sound so old

 

[andycktm]

Everything was ok up until the floor and the vomit :lol:

 

[Slim]

I'm only 26, so I feel I am qualified to speak on this topic. I don't drink much, but I know people who's sole purpose at the weekend is to get as drunk as possible. So much so that they keep piece of paper with their address on in their pocket, just incase they cannot remember it or are unable to speak when they get a taxi home. I really do not understand it.

Only once have I been absolutely paraletic. When I was seventeen and on the way to a school six form party. I had half a bottle of whiskey on the bus and was taken to hospital in an abulance. That was the last time I would ever lose my senses through alcohol.

What worries me is what could happen when someone is in such a vulnerable state. At best someone will have their wallet. At worst.. it doesn't bear thinking about.

On the few occasions I go out in Leeds at a weekend, the binge drinking culture is very evident and there are some sights that are really best unseen. It is a great shame as for the older generations, the city centre is pretty much a no go area at night.

 

[Hitch]

Just like Slim above, im in the age group of people that do it regualrly too.
Personally, i dont see the attraction of struggling to find ones way home.
Dont get me wrong, im far from t-total, and i enjoy a drink of few. But i know when to stop. It does annoy me when peple call me boring for not wishing to get into that state. But im the one who can do things on Saturdays and Sundays. :wink:

I see having a drink has something that aids you relax after a hard day, and loosens you up when your with a few mates. Theres no point in drinking so much it comes out again :lol:

Know plenty of people that do it though, 2-3 plus times a week, they always wonder why they are strapped for cash :?

 

[mr]

we got big prob's in this country if this is thought of as ok with the youth of today

i sound so old

Thing is though it's not the youth of today. 20 years ago my peers did it, I have on the rare occasion drunk copiously myself (rarely enough that I can recall those occasions as being an exception I hasten to add). Twenty years before that our fathers' generation did exactly the same. Twenty years prior to that our Grandfathers' and so on. The issue is that it may not be so exceptional across the population any more perhaps.

Cheers (a drinker's salutation if ever there was) Mike

 

[crazey]

There's only one thing worse than old fogeys and that's young fogeys. Get out and enjoy yourselves. Getting blind drunk is a rite of passage.

 

[Calpol]

I don't get it either. I'm 21 and never ever been drunk, just doesn't appeal to me whatsoever. Maybe I'm missing out on something but to be honest I really don't care, plenty more ways to enjoy yourself!

People like to talk about it on Monday though as if it's some kind of achievement as well... Makes me laugh when everybody talks about how they had a 'brilliant' weekend and it only cost them £270 and they're still feeling bad from it

 

[Saintsman]

I think the difference is that, when I was late teens/early twenties (not that long ago !), I cetainly overdid it once or twice, but it was a rare exception, NOT the rule.
Usually we just had a few drinks and that was it.

Now, it seems that the norm is to get blind drunk EVERY time one goes out, and, more worryingly, that it is impossible to enjoy oneself UNLESS this happens.

I feel very sorry for the ambulance crews who have to waste their time on these idiots every Friday and Saturday night.

Saintsman

 

[gatesmr2]

Just a few famous quotes on this subject

Work is the curse of the drinking classes

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on

it was a woman who drove me to drink, come to think of it I never did hang around to thank her for that' 'Hey lady! do I look all blurry to you? 'Cause you look blurry to me

If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt

I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted

Alcohol - the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems

feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilisers or a bottle of Jack Daniels



If you liked these check this out

http://www.saidwhat.co.uk/quotes/famous/

 

[Gill]

I'm not so sure this sort of conduct has always been around. I can remember my parents going out when they were around my age and being able to enjoy themselves without having to endure loutish, inebriated, young boors. Of course, there were high spirited youngsters and always those few who couldn't hold their drink, but rarely did they impose themselves on strangers. Unlike my parents, at their age I prefer to watch television or read rather than going out to socialise; it's not because I don't want to but because going out in the evening is scary.

Something else about today's culture has changed from my parents days - drugs. These are so much more widely available than they were 25 years ago and there seems to be a willingness to combine drugs with alcohol, creating a particularly volatile cocktail.

Gill

 

[woodbloke]

Gill wrote -

Something else about today's culture has changed from my parents days - drugs. These are so much more widely available than they were 25 years ago and there seems to be a willingness to combine drugs with alcohol, creating a particularly volatile cocktail

...and then get behind the wheel of a car :shock: Agree with the comments posted here. I think one of the factors maybe that alcohol is so very easy to obtain these days (or appears to be), every little corner shop or tobacconist seems to sell some sort of booze
It's also thought that in about 15-20 years time, there's going to be a huge increase in liver and associated illness caused by drink - Rob

 

[patl]

Well, the other crucial difference is money. Although I went out and got paralytically drunk on occasion as a lad, it was a rarity because I couldn't afford to do it very often even if I'd wanted to.
As I got older and had more available money, I became an alcoholic. But that's another story entirely :?

 

[White House Workshop]

Getting blind drunk might be a right of passage, but when you collapse in the passage every week you'll never manage to get it right.

I've been blind drunk, too - two times that is. The first was the typical university party and the next was someone else's 21st (remember those?). I enjoy a nice glass of wine with my meal, a cool beer on a hot day, even a Palinka or other exotic from time to time, but getting drunk is just plain silly and serves no purpose other than to annoy everyone else.

 

[woodbutcher]

i can think of nothing worse than a couple of young (ladies) so drunk and acting so badly that they show them selves up , but it is the women that in recent years that have taken up the habit and i don't think it becomes them.


woodbutcher

 

[Racers]

Hi,
I was in a lift last year and a student was boasting he went out at 4pm and returned at 4am he said he spent £120 unbelivable!!! I think they are going to have problems in later life.

I can't stand the out of control feeling after having a few drinks and find it hard to drink any more.

Pete

 

[lugo35]

i've been in a state once. learnt my lesson but to drink to get WASTED as they say is bl***y stupid.
the lad i am talking about drank as fast as pos to get in that state. defies logic?????

could think of some nice little toys to buy with all that money they are wasting

 

[OPJ]

I'm another member of the 'Young and Sensible' group. :wink: I'm only 22 and know plenty of people around my age who get very competitive over the amount of alcohol one can consume within a give time period.

I thank God I decided not to go away to university and to stick with local college courses - all my friends seem to do is talk about how much they drink there and how bad they feel in their lectures the next morning - I would never have made it through four years to achieve a degree!!

No-one with any power seems content to do anything about it - clearly, these people, our future, are setting themselves up for a very hard time later in life and setting an awful for the generation after them. Perhaps it's because of the money they get from the industry? (God, I sound old!!) :roll: :wink:

Remember the TV advert where one guy's had way too much and thinks he's a SuperHero who can save the day - before plummeting fifty-odd feet? I don't know what message it portrays to others but it makes me laugh! But what if the same happened to someone we know?

I just don't get it. I'll occasionally have one or two pints down the local pub for social purposes, that's enough for me.

 

[dedee]

When I was a lad, teenager, I played a fair bit of golf, and I was quite good at it, without really trying. I enjoyed it but knew I could not play with a hangover from alcohol (or more likely the evil weed :wink: ). I had mates at the time who would get stoned in the evening and not get out of bed until early afternoon - they had no reason to get out, no interests, no sports, no hobbies.

For different reasons I still don't get drunk - 3 young children. Trying telling them you have a hangover!

If the guy in the OP had anything better to do he would not behave that way.

Andy

 

[Losos]

I'm only 26, so I feel I am qualified to speak on this topic. I don't drink much, but I know people who's sole purpose at the weekend is to get as drunk as possible. So much so that they keep piece of paper with their address on in their pocket, just incase they cannot remember it or are unable to speak when they get a taxi home. I really do not understand it.

Only once have I been absolutely paraletic. When I was seventeen and on the way to a school six form party. I had half a bottle of whiskey on the bus and was taken to hospital in an abulance. That was the last time I would ever lose my senses through alcohol.

What worries me is what could happen when someone is in such a vulnerable state. At best someone will have their wallet. At worst.. it doesn't bear thinking about.

On the few occasions I go out in Leeds at a weekend, the binge drinking culture is very evident and there are some sights that are really best unseen. It is a great shame as for the older generations, the city centre is pretty much a no go area at night.

Slim - At age 26 you are indeed better qualified to talk about this subject than many others so thanks for your input.

Speaking as someone who can just about remember when I was 26 I would say that today young people are such drones of the media that anything they see in the papers / TV / radio is considered OK and of course the media are completely without ethics when it comes to portraying drinking, in fact they usually go out of their way to portray it as good and a 'must be done' type of thing. :x

When I was 26 I tried to do anything that was NOT in the media, so if a newspaper or TV programme showed something that everyone was (allegedly) doing I tried like **** NOT to be one those people.

Apart from yourself, IMO this ability to 'think outside the box' is woefully lacking in modern youth.

 

[Slim]

Maybe, I'm just old before my time. I get excited over power tools and shiny planes not drugs and alcohol. I am going bald, maybe thats got something to do with it. :?