No wonder this country has a problem with binge drinking

HangTime said:
There was this club in Bournemouth (Opera House) which used to do free bar all night if you paid £10 entrance fee. It soon increased to £15 and then was eventually stopped.
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I'm hoping Opera house start this offer again! The £10 entry gave you access to certain bars with a wrist band where you could only get certain drinks. Single shots, Pints, Bottles etc. £15 got you a different wrist band where you could access diff bars IIRC - you could get double vodka redbulls etc at these for free.
 
Tute said:
Without trying to start a flame war, I don't see the point of alcohol at all.

There are hundreds of drinks that taste just as nice, but don't make you act like a plank, spew, and wake up feeling like living hell.

I know not everyone gets drunk to that point, but even if you just had a couple of drinks you'd probably end up saving money by buying non-alcohol ones.

Just my $0.02. :)
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thats my feelin too mate.
i mean folks my age drink and stuff, but as soon as i'd say "i've jus got a coke" its like are you Gay? wtf is with that??
now i just dont bother goin to the pubs, whats the point if u get branded cos u dont drink alcohol?
 
J2Os are my non-alcoholic drink of choice should I be driving, but they're normally about £1.75 for only 275ml though! That's £3.50 a pint. Back to beer we come...

I think pubs were designed to sell beer :p
 
Tute said:
Without trying to start a flame war, I don't see the point of alcohol at all.

There are hundreds of drinks that taste just as nice, but don't make you act like a plank, spew, and wake up feeling like living hell.

I know not everyone gets drunk to that point, but even if you just had a couple of drinks you'd probably end up saving money by buying non-alcohol ones.

Just my $0.02. :)
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:p Thanks for the amusing post :)
 
Tute said:
Which you can still do with non-alcoholic drinks, and save some money?
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you can, and you can't, its not the same. i'm not saying ones better than the other. but why do you sometimes go to a football match, sometimes to a pub, sometimes go bowling, because they are different things that are enjoyable and you want to do them. you don't decide to never go to a footie match just because you can enjoy bowling do you?

i'm kinda guessing you don't drink, have never drunk or found you'd get wasted/someone close got wasted every time they drank.

alcohol IS a DRUG< it DOES alter how you act, sometimes marginally, sometimes a lot. you simply, physically, chemically DO act differently and feel differently while drunk. you can go to a pub sober and have a good time, you can go to a pub and get slightly drunk or off your head hammered and have a good time either way. its just different. theres no reason not to, and theres no reason to do it either. its simply an option, and if everyone did the same one activity all the time just because its ok and you can, life would be boring.

alcohol can make you behave much worse than other illegal drugs, and sometimes those drugs can make you behave worse than alcohol, its case specific, person specific and theres no real difference, except ones taxable, wonder why that ones still legal?

can someone explain why mind altering drugs, including alcohol are bad? they aren't, its just different, who cares? i already think violently , incredibly differently to anyone who likes Spurs, or Bush(not the good kind, i mean the president) or many other things. we all think differently anyway, whats so wrong with drugs that change things temporarily? nowt.

remember, an ungodly and HUGE amount of the worlds best art, music, film, books, acting, philosophy and well, some of the best of everything comes from people who have been on alcohol, absinthe, coke, weed, everything. how can a society praise the work someone on cocaine produces, and love the person and give him awards, but say cocaine is bad and lethal and terrible?
 
Tute said:
Without trying to start a flame war, I don't see the point of alcohol at all.

There are hundreds of drinks that taste just as nice, but don't make you act like a plank, spew, and wake up feeling like living hell.

I know not everyone gets drunk to that point, but even if you just had a couple of drinks you'd probably end up saving money by buying non-alcohol ones.

Just my $0.02. :)
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There may be hundreds of drinks that taste just as nice, but they don't taste the same. Personally, I like a decent whisky. There is nothing that tastes the same oe even similar that isn't another decent whisky. I also like, for example, Assam tea. That doesn't mean it tastes the same.

Alcohol is a drug that can have pleasant effects when used in moderation. You describe a fair degree of overdosing on it, which doesn't make all use of it incomprehensible.

If you're going out, it's often cheaper to drink beer than non-alcoholic drinks because the mark-up on non-alcoholic drinks in pubs/clubs/hotel bars/etc is astronomical.

The point of alcohol is that it's a recreational drug. The point of drinks containing alcohol is (a) to dilute the drug because it's extremely toxic in its pure form and (b) in some cases, to make the drinking itself a pleasure due to the taste and smell. Making high quality alcoholic drinks is an art form.
 
After spending months working in Warrington I'm not surprised the locals require booze. Luckily I've never had the pleasure of staying in the centre as it looks like chav central during the day so I can only imagine what it is like in the evening.
 
The point of alcohol is it gets you laid. Granted, you may wake up lying next to something marginally smaller than the deathstar, but you did get laid.
 
Tute said:
There are hundreds of drinks that taste just as nice, but don't make you act like a plank, spew, and wake up feeling like living hell.
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I feel pretty crappy this morning after what I drank last night. Does it bother me? Not really as I had a really enjoyable night, good fun and did things I would not even consider doing when sober. Will I be doing it again? Hell yes. Alcohol rocks :p

Recreational drug use is just another method to relax.
 
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