Would you consider this weird/strange?

TheCenturion said:
Over to you :)

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I'd say you're missing out bigtime. I used to be like you until I went to Uni and seriously tried the 'partying' thing. It was just so, so, SO good. But before I went to uni, I already thought my life was good! I'd sit with my entire video collection of DS9 and do other 'non-partying' stuff and thought 'this is all I need'. Goodness, if I stuck with that my whole life - it's staggering what I'd have missed out on - and probably never even known :(

You can read medical journals to your heart's content all week - but on Friday if you're not going out getting wasted the chances are your missing out on quite a large chunk of fun stuff that you really should enjoy. Basically, girls and funny stories.

I just worry that you'll get to the age of 48, be sharing a bottle of wine with friends and realise they have got huge numbers of interesting stories of their youth - and your conversation about medical theories that are 20 years old is not interesting to anyone .. and you have spend time self-justifying the fact you've only had 3 serious girlfriends and zero 1-night stands!!!

If I told you half the stuff we got up to when wasted, you simply wouldn't believe me. You'll hate this next sentence, but we used to feel so sorry for people who didn't party bigtime in their early 20s. Such a waste :/ You've got a whole life for medical journals. If you're not having crazy fun now - by the time you're into your 30s it'll be too late - everyone else would have moved on.

Go out on the beers. Be young. . Even David Cameron did it - it will help your personality develop - which in turn will help your career more then staying in on your tod reading medical journals - of that I promise you ..
 
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It sounds a bit boring as variety is the spice of life.

However, it is more interesting than constant talk about booze, football and women. (and I do like all three)
 
Really this is not strange just a conflict of interests. I used to go out almost every weekend and maybe even one weekday night to. Then all of a sudden it just became stale and boring for me, im now 21. At the end of the day its your life and you decide how you spend your free time.
 
4Play said:
Really this is not strange just a conflict of interests. I used to go out almost every weekend and maybe even one weekday night to. Then all of a sudden it just became stale and boring for me, im now 21. At the end of the day its your life and you decide how you spend your free time.
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Yes I am in my 30s and it got boring.

If you have done it and got bored of it (after a decent try - at least 6 months of every weekend out with your mates on the lash)--- no probs.

If you have never tried it because you think it's not your bag - you could be losing out
 
i dont really understand what you mean

so your mates just get wasted and never have conversations with each other ?

its possible to drink/party and still have sensible discussions you know... im sure they dont 'get wasted' 24/7
 
Hey Centurion, I'm 40 this year, and "going out" consists of the odd beer festival. Not just because as far as going out and getting wasted goes I'm firmly in the "been there done that got bored" camp, but also because I don't have the physical capability to party as hard as I did back when I was in my early 20's, I also don't have the lack of responsibility that's needed to take Monday and Tuesday to recuperate.
I completely agree with what Britboy's been saying, I'd recommend doing it now, because if I hadn't had all the experiences I did back then, I'd 100% not be the same person I am now, and I like the person I became from those experiences a hell of a lot more than the person prior to them.
Sorry mate, that sounds harsh but you asked the question and that's my honest answer. Be happy with whatever you do though, your way is always the right way for you, anyone else can only advise and give their perspective.
Tony
 
25 now and don't go out anywhere near as much as from 16-20, but had great times then and I wouldn't change anything we did.

Now I just tend to have a few drinks round my mates or my house on a Friday night maybe once a month, cheaper and we all have wives/partners now so nobody is on the pull.

Do whatever makes you happy, but there is more to life than just study/work.
 
Morba said:
Ah so I need brain cells to understand your in jokes of people eh? Well done you.
UB40 wasn't mentioned so your dig at him seemed out of order. I would think you would have more brain cells to understand it could be taken like that.
Shouldn't expect any less though I guess.
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But there was no need to make things up. I never said that only old people should listen to UB40. Don't know where you got it from.
 
You said that a 16/17 year old liking UB40 should get a grip, that it's weird.
16/17 is young, so young people liking UB40 is weird.....

Not hard to understand how I came to the conclusion that you think young people shouldn't like UB40.
 
Morba said:
You said that a 16/17 year old liking UB40 should get a grip, that it's weird.
16/17 is young, so young people liking UB40 is weird.....

Not hard to understand how I came to the conclusion that you think young people shouldn't like UB40.
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He's started 8 threads about UB40 which is weird (he made some under another username) and it's my duty to stop his OCD :)
I personally know 5 people who are infatuated with one artist and their lives revolve around only that one artist and it's the only thing they listen to.
They don't all like the same one: we have Jethro Tull, Kiss, Van Morrison, Styx and Rush.
They are the most weirdest and boring people on the planet and if TheCenturion is bringing conversations round to UB40 all the time (which I 50% don't think he is) then his friends are going to think him weird.
One of the blokes above didn't speak to me for 5 years because of a trick I did on him.
I found a band called Stingray that sounded exactly like Styx and got an outsider to tell him it was outtakes from various albums.
It even helped that they had an album out called Paradise Theatre and the opening track on the Stingray album was called Sweet Paradise.
He played it on bootleg cassette for weeks saying it was the best Styx album ever and then I bought him the cassette cover in.
He pulled the tape from the cassette and launched it over the assembly line never to speak to me for 5 years.
I don't want TheCenturion getting as bad as that :)
 
Go out and don't get drunk, but just go when you feel like it. I don't drink, never have and never will (for health and simply because I don't want to).

Spend your time how you choose, just make sure you enjoy life.

That's about all there is to it.
 
dmpoole said:
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Here we go:

It's not as obsessive as you might think. Granted that I do listen to a lot to them, they are my favourite band. A significant amount of the songs on my iPod are of them. I have around 1200 songs, and about 300 of those are by the band. Although there is some overlap between albums, due to Best of albums etc, so I have around 250 different songs. That's just over 20% of my music collection dedicated to this one band. Not only that but I'm not really one of those people that has loads of songs that they don't listen to.

I just found a band whose music really speaks to me, they have recorded 350+ songs, so occassionally I find stuff by them that I've never heard before, and it covers a wide range of reggae. They're awesome live (I can have a great party seeing them live!) and having met them, I've seen how down to earth they really are.

Now, the reason that mention them more on here than any other band is because I often see threads about other bands and hundreds of replies. Whenever there's any new news about the band I like (new tour, album etc) I'll start a thread in hope that I can get a lot of people interested. Usually, I only get a small handful of replies, so each time I start a thread, I hope more people will click on it and like it.

Around 80% of my collection is completely different. I could name a whole load of other arists that I listen to, but are not my favourite artists.

Alas, this has gotten off topic :o
 
I am in a similar boat to you.
Same age, same atmosphere but actually wanting to make something decent out of spare time and a bit of effort. Funny thinking that 6 months ago I was just another drifter, not knowing where I was going.
Hopefully come march the 10th I will be happily whistling while others facepalm, seems as if I dropped ~ 3 marks in maths and aced Electronics. Just gotta get over the fact that I might need to take another stab at physics, average is not good enough.
I would say forget anything remotely to do with friends, they are nice to have but not get in the way of things. A crushed dream is much worse than missing a bit of fun, at least have fun when you are in a position to do it but not now.
 
chaosdestro0 said:
I am in a similar boat to you.
Same age, same atmosphere but actually wanting to make something decent out of spare time and a bit of effort. Funny thinking that 6 months ago I was just another drifter, not knowing where I was going.
Hopefully come march the 10th I will be happily whistling while others facepalm, seems as if I dropped ~ 3 marks in maths and aced Electronics. Just gotta get over the fact that I might need to take another stab at physics, average is not good enough.
I would say forget anything remotely to do with friends, they are nice to have but not get in the way of things. A crushed dream is much worse than missing a bit of fun, at least have fun when you are in a position to do it but not now.
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Your profile says that you are 55 :confused: :p
 
I feel that your friends should respect you for what you find interesting and would rather do with your time.

They're not very good friends if they can't do that and you'd do better without them.
 
It's all to do with the weird inability a lot of people have to understand why people don't like drinking, or find no interest in it. I don't drink myself, I have no interest in it, and I've lost count of the amount of people who get confused by it, they simply don't understand it. Nearly all my friends are the same, don't drink, don't see the point because we can have fun being ourselves, and again all get the "what, you don't drink? You're boring, what do you do for fun?".

Just think for a second about what they're saying. They're saying you're boring because you don't need alcohol to have fun. I have some friends who do drink, but it's just that, they drink and enjoy it, the fact that some of their friends don't isn't an issue and doesn't really come up. So in essence, it's basically because a lot of people are ignorant.
 
I much prefer having big debates with mates to drinking lots, but it still has its upsides - The comedy of drunken people, the way that most of them are far more entertaining when drunk, and I think they are much more open and honest when drunk, which makes conversations more interesting. I would prefer just to talk about economics (which I know nothing about, so enjoy the education), politics, other current affairs, moral issues, and 'deep' stuff, but in the end drink provides a bit of variety, and other people seem to like it, so meh.
 
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