DRINK.

[pat blewitt 41]

I used to knock a lot back when I was a welder working up and down the country on various contracts . Nowadays tho, got a lot more responsibility at work in the health care sector, so only drink a couple of nights a week, fri and sat, no work the next day see. Just drink at home usually, snakebites are my tipple now

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

My name's " Ditch Shitter " (as far as you lot are concerned), and I'm an alcaholic.

 

Seriously.

 

I got detoxed, volantarily, about ten, eleven years ago. That was due to one f*ck of an event - not drink related at all. I wound up in hospital and the rest followed.

 

I started drinking again almost a year ago, having come to Eire. But now I drink for the pleasure of it and do so just to relax, much as others may watch a television. I've actually 'Had a Few' just once in that year. Realised I was talking a tad indiscreetly in my local and felt a complete c***. I don't want to get pissed. I have no earthly reason to get pissed. I just drink and grin quietly to myself. Then stop and either coast along or else pootle off to bed - which I no longer piss. (Oh, I used to. Every night. Good as gold)

 

Why is this? Simple. I worked it out: In my home town I was so f*cking wretchedly miserable, trying to live a lie and fit in, being out of my skull was my way of trying to cope, day and night to day. Now? I'm perfectly content. So a couple or few Guinnii in the pub, on the couple of days a week I go into town, suits me. Meet some faces and exchange 'What's Strange'.

 

Other than that, I sit here and down some cans each night. Rounding off with my allowance of two, measured, tripple JD's. Then I sleep like a baby for eight hours and wake up feeling fine and thinking only of a nice cuppa tea and getting on with a days work

 

Trust one who knows because he's been there on this, peeps: If ye life's shit? Drinking will only make it shittier.

[Ossie 11]

i like getting pissed with my mates. we've had some damn cracking nights together. i used to be a right pisshead, when i was about 18/19 (who isn't at that age?). i lived in Norwich at the time, i was out every night getting wrecked. good times. i've been drinking since i was 4 (the odd tot of homemade sloe gin), started going to pubs with my parents when i was 14. i could pass for 18 & never got ID'd. by the time i was 16 i could outdrink my dad

when i moved back home from norwich, my drinking got out of hand, in a big way. bored rigid, no driving licence, no friends, and my brother hated me hanging out with his mates. if i wanted to go out, i had to go with my parents. so most of the time i ended up staying in, with a bottle of JD. then my brothers best friend, who i had the biggest crush on, got killed in a car crash the day i was gonna ask him out. i ended up drinking a bottle of Jack a day, pissed within an hour of getting up. held down 2 jobs though, pissed on my bike cycling between the two .

then a little miracle happened - i passed my driving test after 5 attempts. stopped drinking for 3 months (apart from a party where me & a friend polished off my last bottle of Jack... just to get rid of it :whistle: ). cleaned right up, lost a stone. after 5 goes, no way was i gonna lose my license drink-driving. i've always said i wasn't an alcoholic at the time. i didn't need the drink. i just really enjoyed getting pissed, and it cheered me up no end. i just got a bit carried away on it. but i stopped drinking, no problem, wasn't ill from it.

now? i started drinking again after the 3 months. but only a pint or 2 when i'm out down the pub. can't get pissed when i have to drive home! i might sit in with a bottle or two of wine, get some mates over & get trolleyed. but that's it. sometimes go a couple of weeks without a drink. my liver is quite grateful!

[Guest Frank]

Cheers folks.

 

Ossie, thats how it creeps back in, just a pint or 2 to start with.

 

Ditch, looks like prehaps you have it under control, but as Ossie, it has a nasty habit of being part of you again, especialy in this country.

 

BOOTS, thats the way to do it, have fun and know when to stop. If only i could of been the same.

 

Frank.

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Thanks for the Heads Up, 'Dr' Frank.

 

Now; We've all had the inside track on ye other troubles, mate; You sure there's nothing else ye wouldn't like to hop up onto the couch and get off ye chest?

 

I'm Not taking the piss here. This is all of ours Pub. This is where we can let it out with some level of impunity.

 

You out on that bog, alone but for ye pup, again mate? Talk To Someone Frank.

 

I recognise that ye a very private and insular bloke mate. But, believe me; If ye only try to let it hiss out of a self monitored pressure relief valve it'll never get clear. Ye need to Blow.

 

When ever ye ready, mate .....

[Guest Frank]

Thanks Ditch.

 

I blew my lid last week for 3 days, so im kind of melowing out now.

Prehaps i got a wee bit personall in my last post, but no harm intended at all, just some freindly advice.

 

A fella very drunk, walking home one summers evening from the pub, once stoped me on my bike and told me, '3 fecking things rong with this country, Drink, Women and the British!!....

 

That was back in 81, when their was hardly anycars over here and ass and donkeys were the norm.

 

Frank.

[IanB 0]

I drink a lot when I'm home, probably every other night, sometimes get wasted other times just a few, it does no good when your start getting on a bit though lol, round the mid section and the beer gut starts showing, theres always them lucky twats you see in the pubs not a scrat on them drinking all the day long, suppose thats the liquid diet though

[Guest Frank]

Isuppose thats the liquid diet though

 

agree , as their is experinced Guiness men over here that dont realy eat as such, but as Guiness is a sorta meal in its self, they just survive on that. , they have'nt a pick on them.

 

Aparently, its the excessive food intake after drinking alcohol, false hunger, that puts on the belly.

 

Frank.

[Guest MOLLY]

Lost a pal to the stuff back in '99, had the priveledge of finding him half melted into the floor...a smell i will never forget. He'd been a big fit 2Para of a lad in his day...ended up walking around with shit pouring out of him. Not for me.

 

Exactly ORT..........I dont, a couple of glasses of wine when out for dinner but thats it........seen a lot of people go down the bog on the fecking stuff.

Ditto, the odd glass of sherry or wine for me....sometimes up to 4 glasses a week, sometimes none for a month. Ill drink Malibu the odd time im out in public for a drink. I dont like the taste of most alcoholics drinks, dont like being drunk, room spinning and throwing up :sick:

It will destroy a family, kids lives, everything........but slowly, ever so slowly

Spot on, unfortunately the people doing the drinking dont realise this. They feel brilliant, confident, the life and sole of the party, what they dont realise, their nearest and dearest dont feel the same way about them.

MOLL.

[macker 5]

love the drink but do my best to try keep

it with hunting lads the last couple of years.

as i love to talk crap about dogs and wreck each others heads.

i find none hunting lads think i have a screw loose some where.

dont drink now as much but when i do will not stop till

the last drop is gone.

a few pints and and a bit of harmless slagging over dogs and days gone by

can be the best crack off all with fellow hunters.

[martin 332]

I haven't been in a pub for 12yrs,but I have already drank my share in the past.I was drinking 15 pints of port and guiness every night with a handful of glenmorangies to top it off.I am not proud of this fact,and my late father said that I probably drank a rank of houses.

[FastDogz 155]

Have been off the drink since Monday Meant to be out this eve but thats gone down the shitter so will resume aclkihol activieys Monday

 

Edited - Mum is a recovered alcholic and hasnt touched a drop for 10 years

Edited April 5, 2007 by FastDogz

[bigdan 11]

love a good drink

 

big dan

[highlander 0]

I love a drink. Dont get anytime in the summer to drink work every night, once october comes have a skin full. Then usualy have one or two at the shoots and keepers days go to my mates for a few drams. Dont go to the pup any more live too far away 15miles. Try not to drink to much because thats when a realy want a fag and I aint had one of them since last april.

[Ossie 11]

Cheers folks.

Ossie, thats how it creeps back in, just a pint or 2 to start with.

Ditch, looks like prehaps you have it under control, but as Ossie, it has a nasty habit of being part of you again, especialy in this country.

Frank.

 

my drinking is controlled. i'm just about to turn 24 ffs, i'm still allowed to get hammered every once in a while! part of being young (ah, the youth of today! ). big one coming up in a few weeks, my 24th birthday/moving away party. will be the first time i've been able to get hammered with my friends for the best part of a year (boy am i looking forward to it! ). its been almost 4 years since the bottle a day times, i've not had a "love of my life" die since then, so i've not felt the need to get munted on a daily basis. circumstances were pretty extreme, a lot of shit mounting up on me, then that, and i finally blew my top. i just really enjoy the sensation of being pissed, and back then it made it a bit easier to get through the month or so before the funeral, and all the crap afterwards. cheered me up no end. like i said, not an alcoholic. just a pisshead. there's a big difference. i know a fair few alcoholics, i know what they go through/have been through, and trust me, i've barely skimmed the surface of that. i did it because i wanted to, not because i needed to. and the fact i stopped dead one day, just like that, surely counts for something? i was dry on the days i had driving lessons, the days i had tests, no ill effects, and got my license with flying colours, gained some freedom & didn't need to sit in & get wrecked to cover the sheer boredom. now i'm just a regular boring old binge drinker. one binge every 6 months though