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Hey happy friday everyone - I am off to my brothers stag do tomorrow but I need a good excuse not to drink!!
Its for medical reasons but the hard A*** London drinkers that are going wont take that as a reason for me not to drink.
Help - even telling them I have a problem (I don't) and I am going to AA wont count either.
It was fine when I was in North America a couple of weeks back, my friends used to think I drank too much anyway but this is London UK - if you don't drink 5 or more pints in a night out.... well your a girl (no offence to the ladies).
Tell em that after 3 drinks you always spew chunks violently over everything and everybody in the room. That should shut them up. ;)
balou
08-31-2007, 01:58 PM
I'm calling you a girl for not being able to say no. Grow a spine. They'll harass you for a bit and let it go. Just ignore the name calling and it will stop. If you let it bug you or respond to the teasing, it just adds fuel to the fire. And for the aholes that keep bugging you, who needs friends like that?
morea
08-31-2007, 01:58 PM
you're on medication which, when combined with alcohol, will result in "explosive" trips to the bathroom for the rest of the evening. You'll gladly join them in a few rounds when the drugs run their course.
Virgo Nightingale
08-31-2007, 03:22 PM
Explosive diarrhea is something to avoid.
At least so I've heard. :rolleyes:
John G
08-31-2007, 03:28 PM
Explain your bad habbit of urinating on friends and strangers whenever the urge hits you while under the influence.
I don't know. I think if I knew I had the opportunity to make a friend throw up, pee, or shit on themselves I would do it. Hate to see what a London drinker would do.
Jackimalyn
08-31-2007, 04:18 PM
if you don't drink 5 or more pints in a night out.... well your a girl (no offence to the ladies).
Oh I will drink you under the table!!!!! Milwaukee chick vs. London boy, who wantes to come??
Im using my youth as an excuse to my alcoholism. I'm trying to take advantage of the fact that I can still look back on today and say "I was young and stupid"
maybe just pretend to drink. get a mixed drink and just get soda (or "pop"... wait whats the london word? cola?)
Satchel
08-31-2007, 04:29 PM
I'm with Balou on this one... just say no!!?
What's the problem?
gluhen
08-31-2007, 04:33 PM
All you have to say to them is this:
http://www.gluhen.com/pics/rubbish.jpg
I SAID GOOD DAY!
Broacher
08-31-2007, 05:05 PM
Reasons TO drink tend to tap into mob mentality. And that's reflected in our cultural support of ethanol as the socially acceptable, legalized drug of choice for 'coming of age', important celebrations, socializing, sexual 'foreplay', etc.
The reasons NOT to drink, or even to not drink to excess, tap into individual choices of self-control, personal health, and interpersonal relationships. It isn't easy to resist the pressure, but ultimately, you have the choice. Free-will/won't-- it's your choice. To try and pass the decision off to peer pressure is another choice YOU can make.
Just make sure to choose one that you can wake up the next day and feel okay about living with.
(from someone who lived with an alcoholic for a big chunk of his life)
gobes
08-31-2007, 05:16 PM
Don't be soft... get absolutely wasted! A few years back... I went out on a serious session whilst on some pretty awesome medication. The result? I spent 3 days chucking up, and poisoned my liver so bad that it's damaged for life!
That said... I'm off for another trolly load tonight... but as a great man once said... "do you really want to face death sober?"
teniworks
08-31-2007, 05:20 PM
You could always say that you become insanely violent after just two drinks. If they have that fear of someone getting them kicked out of a place b/c they starting acting like someone from Fight Club, then they'll leave you alone. Or you could just say "no" like I do.
gobes
08-31-2007, 05:27 PM
How about... you don't tell them. Pretend to be getting just as drunk as the rest... then you can start stealing money off them whilst they are wasted!
I always wake up on a Saturday morning and wonder why I started out with a ton - and have been left with a fiver in my pocket... even though I only remember buying 1 round! Mind you... the average round in London usually cost about a ton anyway!
Oh I will drink you under the table!!!!! Milwaukee chick vs. London boy, who wantes to come??
$500 on jackie. any takers?
budafist
08-31-2007, 11:45 PM
How about you offer to be designated sober driver? Around here no one wants to wear that hat so any offers is gladly taken up. Or is public transport just too good over there for things old-world luxuries like private cars?
urstwile
08-31-2007, 11:51 PM
I'm with Balou...just say no.
Or if you must use an excuse, tell them you're on medication for something that wouldn't work if you mixed it with alcohol.
Or tell them you're taking this (http://alcoholism.about.com/od/meds/a/antabuse.htm).
tell them that when you drink it makes you have hardcore raunchy sexual thoughts about the same sex....... then moan a bit, look at them, lick your lips, and wink.
budafist
09-02-2007, 01:55 AM
Haha good plan CE. You wouldn't want it to be one of those stag dos now would you?
frankster
09-02-2007, 03:43 AM
That said... I'm off for another trolly load tonight... but as a great man once said... "do you really want to face death sober?"
Reminds me of the last words of Dylan Thomas...
I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record . . .
~~ Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet, d. 1953
Drazan
09-02-2007, 01:34 PM
If they press you about it, do what I do. Threaten them that even one drink will have them taking you to the ER.
I'm actually allergic to grain based alcohol, and even so I'm a super light weight that 5 strong drinks would probably put me out of commission.
You have a legit reason not to drink, then don't, you don't have to be smashed to have fun.
Jade
gobes
09-03-2007, 10:20 AM
Yeah... that's right... you don't have to drink to have fun. I'm sure a few lines of monkey - and some crystal meth will do the trick.
Thanks for the excuses, the night went without a hitch - told everyone that I would chuck my internal organs over their shoes if I so much as had a sip!!
As for the challenges laid down in the drink comp - I have been off the drink for almost 3 months now and so would generally be left well and truly under the table but if you insist I am sending out for reinformence from my budies in Newcastle - I have never seen anyone drink these guys under table!!
Drazan - My wife is also alergic to Alcohol, she doesn't have the enzimes to breakdown alcohol and will only drink Khalua and Milk as the milk helps breakdown the booze - after 2 of these I have to carry her home!!