Sober New Year?

[ginger beard 4,652]

48 minutes ago, gnasher16 said:

I took the grandson to Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park yesterday £9 for a can of Heineken poured into a plastic cup !!

Im not a tight fisted person but this place was taking the piss.....£34.50 for 3 burgers and 3 cokes .....they can go on their own next year !

Next year fill your pockets with your cans.

We went to a rather nice hotel called britianna where 1 shot of cognac was £40.

[THE STIFFMEISTER 14,553]

I used to knock about with a lad I worked with. He was a bit older than me , funny, sharp , smartly turned out hardworking lad , son of an alcoholic. 

He lived round the corner from me and when we got dropped off from work , I’d go get the dogs and walk them. 

Everyday I’d stroll back and pass him , without fail , showered and dressed ready to go out , walk jogging to the pub . 

It carried on throughout our youth , I clearly remember a weekend in Wigan and the train broke down at Lancaster. We got swapped onto a bus to Carlisle before getting dropped in town. He literally ate two pints at the bar. As in like Homer Simpson. 

For sone people , alcohol, the pub lifestyle is hard wired into their dna to sadly walk in their parents footsteps 

 

[NEWKID 26,094]

3 hours ago, gnasher16 said:

I took the grandson to Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park yesterday £9 for a can of Heineken poured into a plastic cup !!

Im not a tight fisted person but this place was taking the piss.....£34.50 for 3 burgers and 3 cokes .....they can go on their own next year !

I took the kids last week mate, my youngest bday..

Train from Exeter to Paddington, walk through hyde Park and into the mayhem...

Kids loved it, got a good deal on tickets on line, £32 each include, circus entry, 50 quid ride vouchers, big wheel entry and tickets for the Christmas Carol ice sculptures .

Went on a few rides, felt sick as f**k and my lad rode that big swinging arm thing on his own....f**k that!! Lol

Edited December 16, 2019 by NEWKID

[Accip74 7,112]

One of the things I miss the most about England is the classic country pub with a nice warm cosy atmosphere. It’s hard to find elsewhere.

However I don’t miss British highstreet drinking culture on Friday/Saturday nights. That can be truly horrendous, especially if you’re sober!

[NEWKID 26,094]

13 minutes ago, W. Katchum said:

I’m scared of a few of them rides now. Could do any as a youngster but nowadays them big swings that go up high then swing ye round, make me feel queasy even looking, kids think I’m a pure Fanny

Well...I'm.the same now, I done the rollercoaster 4 or 5 loop the loops, felt like shit after...then Fin says let's get on the big arm....you're on your own son...lol

 

[THE STIFFMEISTER 14,553]

48 minutes ago, Accip74 said:

One of the things I miss the most about England is the classic country pub with a nice warm cosy atmosphere. It’s hard to find elsewhere.

However I don’t miss British highstreet drinking culture on Friday/Saturday nights. That can be truly horrendous, especially if you’re sober!

A good Saturday night up the town is what I miss the most really. But perhaps I’m looking back in rose tinted glasses. 

I can’t be arsed with all the rigamorale that goes with it and up town has changed also .as a fella Your old at 30 now when your out. Musics shite , drinks too dear , I’d rather sit on the couch with the kids and have a steak when she’s away out with her pals getting mortal than trying not to put a stool around some Romanians head. 

Saying that we’ve got a date night in Feb at a band playing locally  we both like . I’ll probably take the motor though and try to be relatively sensible . 

[Accip74 7,112]

24 minutes ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

A good Saturday night up the town is what I miss the most really. But perhaps I’m looking back in rose tinted glasses. 

I can’t be arsed with all the rigamorale that goes with it and up town has changed also .as a fella Your old at 30 now when your out. Musics shite , drinks too dear , I’d rather sit on the couch with the kids and have a steak when she’s away out with her pals getting mortal than trying not to put a stool around some Romanians head. 

Saying that we’ve got a date night in Feb at a band playing locally  we both like . I’ll probably take the motor though and try to be relatively sensible . 

To be fair at 45 I’m not going to miss the high street much anyway.

I know there are much worse places to be, but I’ve never seen anything quite like British town high street drunkeness on a Saturday night except obviously in Brit resorts.

I’ll always remember a night me & my Mrs had in Copenhagen before we had kids. We were out late in a busy bar/club area in Vesterbro. At 2am we wanted somthing to eat & went to a typical kebab type place amongst the bars with seating & really busy. I clearly remember feeling uneasy about taking my Mrs in there, but after sitting down & scanning the place for the likely problem types I realised no body was apparently that drunk. It was actually really quiet & we were completely relaxed.

Theres a place round here that only opens 3 nights a week as a type of bar/club & at the weekends you can be in there until gone 3 in the morning, in a bar full of high percentage beer & never any security.

[gnasher16 29,613]

2 hours ago, NEWKID said:

I took the kids last week mate, my youngest bday..

Train from Exeter to Paddington, walk through hyde Park and into the mayhem...

Kids loved it, got a good deal on tickets on line, £32 each include, circus entry, 50 quid ride vouchers, big wheel entry and tickets for the Christmas Carol ice sculptures .

Went on a few rides, felt sick as f**k and my lad rode that big swinging arm thing on his own....f**k that!! Lol

My littluns coming up 5... every ride we came to he,s shouting " Yessssss " and im shouting " Noooooo "

The daughter bailed me out on most 

[NEWKID 26,094]

8 minutes ago, gnasher16 said:

My littluns coming up 5... every ride we came to he,s shouting " Yessssss " and im shouting " Noooooo "

The daughter bailed me out on most 

My Mrs isn't over keen on heights  .infact shes petrified.....

Dont look down!! Lol

 

[bird 9,587]

funny reading this post, as i was out sat night with my younger brother and  the 2 women  my wife his lady friend . we went for nice meal  ( carvery ) which was great. ive stopped drinking the last 4 years , only drink water when out, this was for health reasons IBS , more than  2-3 beers or 3 cans lager  it wreaks your guts , never off the bog , be like it for 4-5 days .  my brother  not got my prob, but he dont drink much anyway , he had couple shandy s  . we got talking about booze , and was saying when i was younger how i got pissed  and did fookin daft things  when 1/2 cut. i was never one these looking for trouble , all ever wanted to do was  pull few birds and couple beers. but seen people pissed up looking for aggro , and i think these type people its in them anyway, but they aint got guts to do it sober   the tossers . i meet people on my dog walk , most never speak just walk past , but put these people in a pub  or at party etc, they speak to you , well fook them i say . i glad i dont drink not because  of my IBS  prob, but because people being false , rather be boring old prat, than false like them  .!!

[gnasher16 29,613]

Tipsy/Merry i think is a lovely state to be in either yourself or others in your company.....but drunks i cant be around,i would feel totally vulnerable drunk in public so try to drag that " tipsy " feeling out as long as possible 

 

[jukel123 6,570]

31 minutes ago, bird said:

funny reading this post, as i was out sat night with my younger brother and  the 2 women  my wife his lady friend . we went for nice meal  ( carvery ) which was great. ive stopped drinking the last 4 years , only drink water when out, this was for health reasons IBS , more than  2-3 beers or 3 cans lager  it wreaks your guts , never off the bog , be like it for 4-5 days .  my brother  not got my prob, but he dont drink much anyway , he had couple shandy s  . we got talking about booze , and was saying when i was younger how i got pissed  and did fookin daft things  when 1/2 cut. i was never one these looking for trouble , all ever wanted to do was  pull few birds and couple beers. but seen people pissed up looking for aggro , and i think these type people its in them anyway, but they aint got guts to do it sober   the tossers . i meet people on my dog walk , most never speak just walk past , but put these people in a pub  or at party etc, they speak to you , well fook them i say . i glad i dont drink not because  of my IBS  prob, but because people being false , rather be boring old prat, than false like them  .!!

I've got that IBS too bird. Irritable b*****d syndrome, it seems to get worse with every passing year.

[mushroom 12,352]

On another note lol

If you have been diagnosed with IBS but no real actual diagnosis. Go back to your dr and demand the fructose breath test

[Stoney100 1,179]

The pubs closing are not a result of people drinking less, it’s because people are drinking more and they are drinking at home because it’s cheaper to buy it by the crate instead of in pints......the breweries are better off selling it in supermarkets than pubs now, less overheads/wages etc and they can sell unlimited amounts of it as the supermarkets can just stock it up till its sells. 

It’s all well and good saying drink has positives and is a British institution but ask up your local A&E what their thoughts are on it, for every friendship it makes it breaks 100 more and drink has killed more people than any other drug EVER, last year more people died from drink or drink related accidents/attacks etc than the whole of all the illegal drugs put together so to say it’s harmless is just delusional IMHO

Figures don’t lie, yes millions of people drink it and don’t get in a mess with it, but that doesn’t make the fact that millions do get in a mess with it any better.

The real trouble begins if you start drinking alone imo, even just a glass of wine or a can a night......if you do that then it’s a problem because it instantly removes the “social side of it” claim and proves your just here for the beer so to speak.

I’m not an anti social person at all, I love being out an about meeting new people......one thing i can honestly say from the bottom of my heart is that the amount of new people I’ve met, the new businesses that I deal with on the scrap, the countries I’ve been to, the normal everyday people I meet that have never seen me drunk are far more interesting and mean a lot more to me than listening to someone talking the same old bollocks every night in a pub, getting glassed or stabbed and going home with no money.

I should also add that there’s going for a quiet little drink to get “a bit tipsy” and then there’s going for an unadulterated, no holds barred, let’s get absolutely battered on a weds night type drink......the two are obviously different, you can’t even compare them. 

If you can go for one pint and leave it at that then fair play, you won’t see it from a big drinkers perspective and I often wish I could of done just that myself but not a chance lol

If, however, that one pint sets off the trigger and you know what’s about to happen then you would be a fool to continue it as it will catch up with you one day. 

Two things you can’t argue with are science and maths and both tell us alcohol worldwide is the most dangerous drug available to man

[Stoney100 1,179]

That said, I hope you all enjoy your Xmas drinks and don’t get driving