Ric Flair Posted 25 June 2014 Author Posted 25 June 2014 Just a little update for you. I'm currently in hospital after my forehead and eye sockets swelled up badly last night. Hahahahaaa this just furthers my determination to pack up getting leathered. What a complete fcukin penis.
Alf Bentley Posted 25 June 2014 Posted 25 June 2014 Just a little update for you. I'm currently in hospital after my forehead and eye sockets swelled up badly last night. Hahahahaaa this just furthers my determination to pack up getting leathered. What a complete fcukin penis. Just hope the aforementioned penis doesn't swell up as well. Could get embarrassing. In all seriousness: get well soon. Hope you're out and about supping tea and walking up hills very soon!
Buzzell Posted 25 June 2014 Posted 25 June 2014 The older I've got, the less I drink. The hangover is too much to handle. The last time I went out I went around Brauny gate with a few work mates as one of them was quitting and moving away. After a couple of swifty ones down Brauny gate we moved onto town where it just got out of hand. Ended up leaving the club, entering McDonalds and ordering a Big Mac meal, into a taxi, then ended up jumping out the taxi half way home, chucking the Big Mac meal without even touching it and staggered home. The hangover the next day was unbelievable. I've never felt so ill in all my life. The day was a right off. Literally laid in bed and on then the sofa all day feeling sorry for myself. I always say 'never again' but it will happen again I'm sure, but not for a long time. It helps that I don't drink at home. I don't feel the urge to drink unless I'm getting pissed. And with the new arrival of my new born baby daughter, my nights out are probably well and truly over.
Beliall Posted 27 June 2014 Posted 27 June 2014 That mentality of not drinking unless you are going to get pissed is what you need to grow out of.
Ric Flair Posted 27 June 2014 Author Posted 27 June 2014 That mentality of not drinking unless you are going to get pissed is what you need to grow out of. It's not even that for me. I have often enjoyed just a couple of drinks but there are also a lot of times when I enjoy an absolute skinful and there's no limit to that, it ends when i'm ended. I've got a lovely booze free weekend lined up though, so far so good.
Beliall Posted 27 June 2014 Posted 27 June 2014 Ive never really drank since I had kids. Went years without and its only comparitivly recently ive started again. If I go to the pub I only have 2 or 3. At home I have a bottle of vodka I mix and that lasts me bloody ages
Ric Flair Posted 27 June 2014 Author Posted 27 June 2014 Ive never really drank since I had kids. Went years without and its only comparitivly recently ive started again. If I go to the pub I only have 2 or 3. At home I have a bottle of vodka I mix and that lasts me bloody ages I know I need to build a life that doesn't revolve around getting arseholed with my mates, girlfriend etc at most social occasions. If I can do that then I know I can start to enjoy a few drinks and know my limits. The same is for people who have kids, they change their way of life naturally and that's what i'm looking for but without the need to have a kid as by and large they irritate me.
Beliall Posted 27 June 2014 Posted 27 June 2014 . Kids are like farts. You dont mind your own but cant stand other people's.
Ric Flair Posted 27 June 2014 Author Posted 27 June 2014 . Kids are like farts. You dont mind your own but cant stand other people's. Hahahahaaa i'm just worried even my own would annoy me!!
Jimothy Posted 27 June 2014 Posted 27 June 2014 . Kids are like farts. You dont mind your own but cant stand other people's. I've done farts that have been so bad I've wanted to get out the car I was driving at the time. I imagine my kids would be the same!
SystonFox Posted 27 June 2014 Posted 27 June 2014 i wish i could stop getting shit faced at most social occasions. do it on a saturday it ruins your sunday. do it on a friday it ruins both your saturday and sunday. do it midweek and your work really suffers. wedding tomorrow in which i am the best man. would ideally like to go no further than 5 pints and just enjoy the day but knowing what i am like i will end up doing three times that plus many shorts. however i have monday off work. every cloud and all
Manwell Pablo Posted 27 June 2014 Posted 27 June 2014 if you dont want to drink, dont drink surely? Most people want to drink they just know they shouldn't
Ric Flair Posted 27 June 2014 Author Posted 27 June 2014 Most people want to drink they just know they shouldn't I don't want to drink, but know I should. I have a duty to ruin my life and make people feel better about themselves.
Ross-Kemp Posted 27 June 2014 Posted 27 June 2014 I don't want to drink, but know I should. I have a duty to ruin my life and make people feel better about themselves.Unless they're fat chavs from Newcastle
Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot Posted 27 June 2014 Posted 27 June 2014 I knock back quite a few on a night out or when the lads get together. Never thought of it as a problem.
Ric Flair Posted 27 June 2014 Author Posted 27 June 2014 Unless they're fat chavs from Newcastle Hahahahaahaaa she still gives me the fcukin willies, what a horrible gig that was.
Beliall Posted 27 June 2014 Posted 27 June 2014 I knock back quite a few on a night out or when the lads get together. Never thought of it as a problem. and thats fair enough, but if your questioning yourself, maybe its time to stop. that what i did with the drugs, i kept asking why i was doing it all the time, eventually i stopped, i just wish i had of stopped sooner
Fez of Mahrez Posted 27 June 2014 Posted 27 June 2014 I'm pissed, been in the pub since 4 Is there a complete salad in there having a shit gig, acting like a norris?
Bert Posted 27 June 2014 Posted 27 June 2014 You'll be fine Ric. If you're out and everyone's getting on at you and you can't be arsed just tell people you're on tablets so you can't drink. I'm not a great fan of alcohol myself. Enjoy the odd cider every now and then and to be fair shouldn't be drinking at all whilst I'm on Citalopram.
separator Posted 27 June 2014 Posted 27 June 2014 I quit drinking about 4 months ago, not had a drop since. I'm the sort of person who after one drink just wanted more and would go on supping ale until I ran out / shops shut / pub closing time. Difficult first few weeks but after a while you get into a routine & find other addictions like cups of tea . I work in the rail industry and get random drug & alcohol tests done, and although I wasn't drinking at work, i'm sure the previous nights fun and games would have failed a test. Luckily for me I passed all my tests but decided one day thats it. Don't miss booze and luckily as I get older going out on the piss isn't such an issue. I'm off to Reading Festival in august, that should be a good test of will power. Good luck
Ric Flair Posted 28 June 2014 Author Posted 28 June 2014 I quit drinking about 4 months ago, not had a drop since. I'm the sort of person who after one drink just wanted more and would go on supping ale until I ran out / shops shut / pub closing time. Difficult first few weeks but after a while you get into a routine & find other addictions like cups of tea . I work in the rail industry and get random drug & alcohol tests done, and although I wasn't drinking at work, i'm sure the previous nights fun and games would have failed a test. Luckily for me I passed all my tests but decided one day thats it. Don't miss booze and luckily as I get older going out on the piss isn't such an issue. I'm off to Reading Festival in august, that should be a good test of will power. Good luck Well done mate, keep up the good work!
Alf Bentley Posted 28 June 2014 Posted 28 June 2014 It's hard for people who don't drink excessively to understand why some people struggle to consistently drink in a controlled way. My understanding (as a "semi-controlled chronic binge drinker" now mellowing with age) is that it is due to a combination of the changes in individual brain chemistry caused by alcohol and personal psychology. Likewise, I struggle to understand addictions to nicotine or gambling. I don't smoke, but a couple of years back a mate had been to Cuba and handed around the Cuban cigars. I had a very tasty cigar but felt no inclination to take up smoking; if my wife had done that, she'd have been back on 30-a-day within a week. Likewise, I've had a few World Cup bets, but don't feel inclined to start splurging vast sums at the bookies. Probably won't bet again for months. During my worst boozing years, ending up in police cells, at some distant rail terminus - or upsetting people that I cared about was a regular occurrence. Never once did I want any of that to happen, even if I laughed about some of it after the event. Indeed, I was often absolutely determined not to do it again....only for the same things to happen over and over again, because my brain changed once it had a few pints' worth of alcohol in it. I enjoyed the freedom and excitement of "getting a bit out of it", but once I was "a bit out of it", I'd have a strong urge to carry on drinking until something (sleep, lack of money, disaster...) stopped me. It's not as if I ever had any physical addiction (anyway, physical addictions to alcohol are conquered within days, with medical support, just as physical addictions to nicotine are quickly eliminated). For the chronic binge drinker, the problem's down to personal brain chemistry and personal psychology, in my book. Confusingly, I was quite capable of staying sober when I really needed to. If I had a job interview, exam or important work the next day, I simply wouldn't drink. If I was on a date or something, I'd drink in moderation. Beyond a young age, I was quite happy to meet people socially and not drink if there was some reason for that.....but if I had more than 3-4 pints and there was nothing specifically to stop me, I'd carry on boozing until something did stop me - often getting in disastrous situations and upsetting people. A good mate reckoned that it might be partly because I had a need to let off steam. Certainly, as a young bloke, I was both very energetic and emotionally volatile, but also very rational-controlled, so maybe excess booze acted as a destructive escape valve for the excitement, anarchy and expression that I needed psychologically? That's maybe, too, why the only times that I managed to control the booze long-term were (a) by stopping completely; and (b) by doing things in life that gave me that excitement, anarchy and expression. If I just tried to discipline myself through will power, I just got bored and frustrated and ended up back on the booze - and back in Hassleville Arizona! Sorry to anyone I've bored with that, but it might be helpful to anyone with a similar psychology and brain chemistry! Now that I'm in my declining years ( ), I just can't take so much booze, so the worst that usually happens is that I doze off. I still waste too much time through booze....but the positives generally outweigh the negatives again these days!
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