davieG Posted 8 October 2005 Author Posted 8 October 2005 Right, i havent read this thread at all and i havent even read the first post but i will make my comments based on the title.I have just had 1 week of Freshers week. That means you go out and enjoy yourself and have a good time. Some people like to stay in and play scrabble or even clean, others like to go down to the Students Guild/Union or bar to enjoy the atmosphere. Some people there also like to have a drink, and me included! I enjoyed myself fully as did alot of other people and we had a fantastic week. The drink just helped with the merryness and made it easier for people to get along. Sometimes it did get out of hand but most of the time it was a good atmosphere. However, some people didnt drink sensibly and think that its ok to keep drinkin even thought they are way past their limit. These people have the obesssion and think thats its "cool". I drink because i enjoy the drinks i have. The effects that it has on me are a good bonus IMO. I know my limit and i know when to stop drinking. But i rarely get to that limit now because i find myself spending loads of money before i am drunk or i just get too full of drink! I dont have an obsession with getting drunk. I may have an obsession with going out and enjoying a pint at the bars but thats it. Some people just like to go out and get pissed and dont think about where they go/what they do! No problem there then - still would be useful, courteous and respectful to read the original post before commenting, after all how long would it take, about 1 minute of your drinking time?
Hitesh Posted 8 October 2005 Posted 8 October 2005 No problem there then - still would be useful, courteous and respectful to read the original post before commenting, after all how long would it take, about 1 minute of your drinking time? I have now read it..
Durnerz Posted 8 October 2005 Posted 8 October 2005 Im off in a minute to get hammered!! WOOHOOO bring on the stella, and the fosters, bring on tequila's by the score.....
Hitesh Posted 8 October 2005 Posted 8 October 2005 Ready for a drink now Nope, im gonna have a quiet night in and although i am very tempted to go out with my mates and go clubbin i need to chillax especially after the two weeks i have had. Gonna watch GoodFellas or Lock Stock and i might open a bottle of beer but i doubt it very much!
Rincewind Posted 8 October 2005 Posted 8 October 2005 I only have a drink with meals. On my twentieth dinner today. No Just opened a bottle of Newcastle Brown to go with a Madras curry.
freund Posted 9 October 2005 Posted 9 October 2005 i agree with davieg, there are loads of better drugs out there
davieG Posted 9 October 2005 Author Posted 9 October 2005 i agree with davieg, there are loads of better drugs out there Please don't misrepresent my views especially relating to drugs, which have ruined many a young life in this world; even if it is in jest.
Benji Posted 9 October 2005 Posted 9 October 2005 don't get me wrong, you don't have to drink to have a good time however i think it's all part of the social occassion. It gives some people the self confidence to do stuff fun that normally they wouldn't and would just think about doing it. Getting overly drunk doesn't instantly mean becoming aggressive, a thug, and a hooligan. Depends what kind of a person you are and how you handle it. But it's all part of having a good time. Its like fans at a football game. The ground doesn't HAVE to be full for the game to go ahead, but if it has that extra thing it can add to the experience.
Ric Flair Posted 10 October 2005 Posted 10 October 2005 Cos I'm invariably the driver I don't often get the chance to get wrecked and I don't often have the inclination either, unless I'm in cracking good company and there's no problems about crashing out afterwards. One such occasion cost me an entire day of my life. By chance I got to know an author named Frederick Covins (The Breaking Sword and TV adapted Battle for Badger's Wood) and his lovely wife Maggie from Worcestershire and before long had been invited to guest for Fred's cavalier "no-stars" cricket team. Fred and Maggie had a particular way of making cricket matches interesting in that they marked the boundary with newly purchased barrels of scrumpy cider and strategically placed pint glasses alongside. The preliminary lunch with all its free-flowing wine over, the match began and as my bowling required a decent run-up I was quickly all-a-sweat and into the cider at the rate of a pint every three or four overs. Batting was wonderful too cos, instead of just the one ball to hit, you could see three or four and I had no inhibitions about despatching any one of em into the nearby cornfields...including five in one over before being given out caught for the sixth ..... 40 yards into the bloody field. Anyway, no-one bothered too much about this bending of the rules least of all me cos it was another excuse to have a rest nice and close to the cider barrels. However, with the match over the fun was about to begin in the form of a whisky party and I was partnered with a diminutive lawyer from Lincolns Inn Fields by the name of Geoffrey. He's the architypal Proper Person and I'm yer average bit of scrag-end so it was an unlikely pairing but we did share an affinity for Malt Whiskies and because of that our friendlship has lasted 20 years and more. The last thing I clearly remember that Saturday was Geoffrey putting his arm drunkenly around my shoulder and looking at the type-written list of whiskies we'd had to consume one nip at a time. "D'yu know what" he said, "It's been bloody good fun drinking down to the bottom of this lisssst ..... how's about we drink our way back up to the top...?" And so we did, and I swear on my life, Sunday never existed. I woke up Monday morning on hay bales in a barn and staring up into the eyes of the best looking teenaged blonde I will ever sleep alongside in my life. Turned out she too was a lifelong friend of Fred and had cycled from Lincolnshire for the party en route to America and a career as a front page model for Vogue etc. The irony is, I spent hours alongside her completely oblivious to the fact that she was there, and taking nothing more for the memory of her than a great, big, lingering kiss and the comment "thank God you've woken up alive" whispered into my ears. And all the way home I was thinking. Fancy getting THAT pissed. PS: Cricket didn't always work out that well for me. At Wyggeston I managed four successive ducks in school matches and only broke the sequence the day City played Spurs in the FA Cup Final. I'd upset my tutor by insisting I wouldn't play at all unless I could put my transistor radio behind the wicket and listen to the game as I batted. With my record I was confident I'd be back in the pavilion within a few minutes but, sods law, despite one haymaker swing after another I couldn't get out and ended up with a reputed school record 135 runs in 40-odd minutes and the match nearly over by the time I was out. Running down my subsequently bleak playing record, my form master later reflected that it was a pity City didn't play in a Cup Final every week!!!!. You make me laugh mate! Quality story, shame you didn't get to hang out the back of that blonde!
Katy Posted 10 October 2005 Posted 10 October 2005 I had a fantastic time on Saturday without the pop, just Red Bull for me cheers...on the rocks. It think it depends who you are with I think, I was with some cracking people and didnt feel the need to drink (even though I couldnt as I was driving) I can take it or leave it.
The People's Hero Posted 11 October 2005 Posted 11 October 2005 I had some lovely stuff last night. A few bottles of cabernet shiraz and then a few nips of cognac. All tempered by the irresistable allure of a variety of cheeses. Oh yeah.
cisono Posted 11 October 2005 Posted 11 October 2005 I had some lovely stuff last night. A few bottles of cabernet shiraz and then a few nips of cognac. All tempered by the irresistable allure of a variety of cheeses. Oh yeah. cheese + wine -> putting on weight?!?!
Hitesh Posted 11 October 2005 Posted 11 October 2005 I went out last night, hence the reason i am in 2nite but i didnt drink, yet i had a good night! Met loads of people and had a good laugh! Another example of having a good time and not drinking! thinking about it though, if i had drunk then my dancing would have been worse but i would have gone and danced (tired to at least) with a lot more girls!
rossporterlc Posted 11 October 2005 Posted 11 October 2005 anyone in oakham tomorrow night come to the railway to watch england and celebrate with me
cisono Posted 11 October 2005 Posted 11 October 2005 I went out last night, hence the reason i am in 2nite but i didnt drink, yet i had a good night! Met loads of people and had a good laugh! Another example of having a good time and not drinking! thinking about it though, if i had drunk then my dancing would have been worse but i would have gone and danced (tired to at least) with a lot more girls! So are you saying that you should have been drinking last night too?
Hitesh Posted 11 October 2005 Posted 11 October 2005 So are you saying that you should have been drinking last night too? i would have pulled, put it that way!
cisono Posted 11 October 2005 Posted 11 October 2005 i would have pulled, put it that way! aha! but then you would have pulled just about anyone?
Hitesh Posted 11 October 2005 Posted 11 October 2005 aha! but then you would have pulled just about anyone? true! ....but its the fun about going out sometimes! Although you could end up with one feching dirty minger!
cisono Posted 11 October 2005 Posted 11 October 2005 true! ....but its the fun about going out sometimes! Although you could end up with one feching dirty minger! Hmm I guess Italians prefer to be sober (or thereabouts)
cisono Posted 11 October 2005 Posted 11 October 2005 i like italian girls There are a few in Nottingham... Heard a couple in the Portland building last week
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