How many of you or those you know get mangled on a weekend?

I go out drinking in pubs probably 8-10 times a year now, but still drink regularly at home (not getting rat-assed).
The irregularity of going out to pubs is probably for social reasons rather than price. Most of my mates have long term partners & children, and we don't live close, so going out usually requires a bit of planning, whereas in the past it could usually be totally spontaneous.
I haven't noticed that the London pub scene is becoming a "ghost town", but it is quieter then in the past.
The prices in London are obscene ~£6 for a pint, and that has got to put people off. As I go out so rarely, the pricing isn't really an issue, but I don't think I would have been out 4-5 time a week as I was in my 20's with these prices. I imagine the pricing has a big effect on groups like students as well.
 
Cost has definately become prohibitive for me and I rarely drink outside of my home/friend's homes. I'd rather have 8 cans of brewdog and a kebab at my mates for £15 than go to a pub and buy 3 pints for the same money.

I'm a 36 year old student and most of my younger friends don't or very rarely drink. When I was their age I lived for the weekend loved getting wrecked, the difference could be to do with the type of people studying my degree, but they really are completely different to how I was at their age.

Whilst I have no experience of internet dating, I think getting laid without having to go to pubs and clubs is also big driver for young people not drinking so much.
 
The breweries have destroyed the pub industry by purposely pricing out pubs.

I remember towards the end of my pub/club days, I noticed more and more people starting off the evening at home drinking. Then they would go right to the night clubs.

I used to go out clubbing 3 nights a week at my peak, tuesday, friday and saturdays.

Though these days the places I used to go, the towns are dead. It's hard to believe that 10 years can make such a difference. There used to be so many people moving from pub to pub, or pub to club, that people had to walk in the roads as the paths were filled with people. Now there is nobody around, even on friday and saturday nights.
 
chaparral said:
Am always thinking now they made the price of alcohol to be very expensive has it push many people to use drugs instead ?
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Come to think of it cocaine use seems to be rife at the moment, last time I was out in town there were people sniffing in the gents of a good few establishments. It’s been rife since the 90’s though when people started getting a bit more spare cash to spend, I think people are just less bothered about hiding it now.
 
Never done it, never will. Used to know some people who did, and they were the best possible advertisement for not doing it.
 
It's the Alcohol tax and stupid prices they charge for a drink. People DON'T want to spend £100 on alcohol on a night out, why not drink with your mates a lot cheaper or we have a thing called pre-loading where you drink then go out.

There's other drugs than alcohol also, with MDMA prices dropping so much WHY would you waste £40-£60 on alcohol at a bar over a night when a £3 pill will have you ****ed up all night?

Also as you get older or in a relationship you don't have that drive to go out as much. I'll admit it I don't go out as much now.
 
The no smoking inside ban also really helped kill off the pubs...(specially the public bars)

I remember going out and seeing more people standing outside the pubs smoking then there were people inside the pub..:p
 
I don't go out as I'm getting older and I've got kids but anecdotally the young apprentices in our place go out every few weeks, they mainly have house parties.

When I was young it was out Thursday, Friday and Saturday and still in the pub Wednesday and Sunday for quizzes and Mondays after football :p

Purely anecdotal but I get the feeling its getting less popular purely down to cost.
 
Jambo said:
I'm in my local 3-5 nights a week and it's usually fairly busy. I don't drink in the house.
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I go to the pub two or three nights a week. The Mrs watches rubbish TV and natters on the phone so three hours talking ******** with Andy are quite appealing every now and then.

Don't get smashed like I used to though
 
chaparral said:
The no smoking inside ban also really helped kill off the pubs...(specially the public bars)

I remember going out and seeing more people standing outside the pubs smoking then there were people inside the pub..:p
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Public bars? I don’t think I’ve seen ‘public’, ‘saloon’, and maybe ‘lounge bar’ since the mid fifties, when my grandma used to send me to the Admiral Vernon in Broad Street, in Dagenham, to tell granddad that his dinner was ready!
As for smoking, I don’t smoke, and I hate the smell, but it never bothered me in a pub, I guess it was a case of it had always been there, you didn’t notice it.
If I have to go into an office building now, and the pavement outside is full of smokers, I take a deep breath, and get inside as quick as I can, I don’t make a big production out of it, waving my hands and making a face, it would only antagonise them.
If I’m in a restaurant with a smoker, and he/she goes out for a smoke, you can definitely smell it on them when they return, but there again, I just keep my trap shut, and carry on with the conversation.
I personally know at least three publicans who quit the trade, citing the fact that hikes in brewery prices had turned a well paid vocation into an average paid job, and with the aggravation of occasional drunks, it wasn’t worth doing the job.
 
I used to every weekend until it just became to mich and I opened my eyes. Not touched a single drop of alcohol in almost 2 years. Drastic I know but sometimes it’s far easier nipping things in the bud
 
chaparral said:
I thought the very high price increases were due to huge TAX increases on alcohol
(the same as been done with TAX on cigarettes over the last 10 to 15 years)
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If it was that then how come the alcohol in the supermarkets and corner shops is so cheap?
 
chaparral said:
Am always thinking now they made the price of alcohol to be very expensive has it push many people to use drugs instead ?
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I paid £2.80 for a bottle of beer a little while ago and it was only that expensive because I bought it in a corner shop. I could probably have got it for half that price if I shopped around. I am now drunk. I think that it's not "very expensive". It might well be "very expensive" to use alcohol so much that you develop a tolerance for it and require higher doses, but that's a different thing.

_tucker_ said:
I used to every weekend until it just became to mich and I opened my eyes. Not touched a single drop of alcohol in almost 2 years. Drastic I know but sometimes it’s far easier nipping things in the bud
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Very true. I drank no alcohol for almost 20 years for the same reason. Now I think I can use alcohol sensibly enough. One bottle of beer at a time and not often.

chaparral said:
I thought the very high price increases were due to huge TAX increases on alcohol
(the same as been done with TAX on cigarettes over the last 10 to 15 years)
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Tax is only one factor. The markup on alcohol in premises with an on-licence is often very high, which is why other places can sell the same product at a much lower price and still make a profit.
 
I live in a seaside town and late 90s and early 00s was just crazy compared to today, you would literally have thousands of people out on the weekends, several nightclubs and even more pre bars, it was a lot cheaper to drink out then than it was to drink at home, £1 pints of Stella, strongbow e.t.c and spirit mixers, all you can drink nights for £10, lots of stag, hens and groups, weekday nights the clubs were open you would have to que up for to get into because it was that busy, forward to now and pritty much all of them at least 15 bars/clubs all closed down and no where is open weekdays and on the weekend there is 1 club that is open which is empty, smoking ban and recession in 2007/8 was what killed it I think. Glad I got to experience clubs around 00's time
 
I've not long turned 32, I don't go out drinking anymore. None of my friends I used to go drinking/clubbing with do either. Most of them are settled down with mortgages and children. For me personally, it was down to high rent costs to pay, had a girlfriend so didn't need to pull and lost interest in the same old places. I think the "younger generation" are just having their income squeezed through massive mortgage deposits, high rent and a lot of monthly credit payments. Something has to give and I guess it's clubbing. If my partner and I do meet up with friends, it's often at our house or we go out for a civilised meal.
 
i think there are fewer younger people drinking...!? but you'd need to ask them.
once you hit 30 you will naturally stop drinking as much, most adults would fall into this category. you are not special for not drinking as much if you're older.
adults will have gatherings in their houses too rather than hit the pub, it's just easier and cheaper.
 
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