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FACT - I've never ever drank alcohol on a NYE and it's never bothered me.
For those that don't drink, how to deal with christmas/New years.
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Man I wish someone had only told me that when I was retching up pieces of my stomach lining and debating whether to kill myself then or just drink myself to death as quickly as possible!
Serious advice: there are usually all day AA meetings at christmas that are worth attending while your family wake up to champagne and sherry. See if there's one near you. It helped get my head in the right place talking to other people in the same boat.
If you aren't too worried about your ability to stay sober over the holidays, but more concerned about how to enjoy them, then I recommend either skipping the big night out in town, or just leaving when the guys start telling you how much they respect you and how you're their bestest friend in the world. I don't enjoy nights out once everyone is ******ed unless there's a good band/music (in which case I bust out my best dance moves), so I leave once I have some good videos of my mates acting like **** to blackmail them with. If you have non-drinking friends on the night out (designated drivers etc), then you'll have a buddy who appreciates the situation and who you can hold normal conversations with.
I spend xmas with my family, and we usually watch a film or something at the end of the day, if everyone is still awake at 7:30pm that is. I just watch the film/stand-up dvd while they slowly pour red wine onto their laps and snore.
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You've got to be bored, posting that ?
Please confirm you are, or else my faith in humanity is right out the window
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It's not that easy guys. If you've tried not drinking with friends who are, expect some gip.
Just be strong don't sway or say oh I might have one, they will pressure you further. Set your stall out and stick to it. Be tough skinned and accept you might be slightly on the outside but know you are doing the right thing for you.
Just be strong don't sway or say oh I might have one, they will pressure you further. Set your stall out and stick to it. Be tough skinned and accept you might be slightly on the outside but know you are doing the right thing for you.
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Another quality GD thread.
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Try and remember what you had when you were kids during the Christmas fortnight. Go to the pub and your parents probably gave you normal or diet coke. At the dinner table, we probably just had squash, then age 15/16 parents gave us wine on the dinner table for Cmas dinner and for the roast meal on Sundays. It depends on why you don't want to drink, and how long for whether it's cessation for this fortnight or for longer.
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Instigating a discussion about a tech related subject on a tech based forum is definitely in the same league as 'how do I avoid putting certain drinks in my mouth?', yes.
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This.
I don't drink, haven't drunk for over two years. I don't support it. I hang around people with different ideas of fun. Life is too short to spend it doing pointless crap. You only live once.
Do what you want to do. People aren't even confident enough to be themselves and decline a drink due to social pressure.
**** those people off, match them up with someone else who's unconscious.
I can't stand it when people nag "Why don't you drink, why are you so into fitness, why do you eat so many bananas, cry cry cry."
**** that.
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