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I want to stop drinking
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heres the thing;
i really want to stop getting drunk. I dont enjoy it, i hate the state it puts me in and the social situations created by it.
this isnt one of those post-hangover 'never again' things, i dont even drink that regularly....i just dont want it anymore.
the effects of this drug are becoming unpleasurable in their entirety, i cannot think of one thing about being drunk that i would percieve as being pleasurable.
Im not talking about never having a pint for the enjoyment of it, im talking about the use of alcohol as a drug (when you drink to get drunk you are following a behaviour pattern that conforms to my idea of drug use).
i dont have a problem with alcohol or even get drunk that much, so on paper it shouldnt be a problem. But i wonder?
Has anyone had cause to do this before, i think it would be quite an interesting social experiment if anything
i really want to stop getting drunk. I dont enjoy it, i hate the state it puts me in and the social situations created by it.
this isnt one of those post-hangover 'never again' things, i dont even drink that regularly....i just dont want it anymore.
the effects of this drug are becoming unpleasurable in their entirety, i cannot think of one thing about being drunk that i would percieve as being pleasurable.
Im not talking about never having a pint for the enjoyment of it, im talking about the use of alcohol as a drug (when you drink to get drunk you are following a behaviour pattern that conforms to my idea of drug use).
i dont have a problem with alcohol or even get drunk that much, so on paper it shouldnt be a problem. But i wonder?
Has anyone had cause to do this before, i think it would be quite an interesting social experiment if anything
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you obviously do have a problem though.
as i said in the other post, how so? im intrigued
i'm not saying your an alcholic ...different issue.
there are problem weed smokers ...problem foodies ...
you talk about a problem but see that you don't have a problem ...see what i mean mate?
no i dont to be honest.
the only point at which i used the word 'problem' was to express the idea that relinquishing high levels of alcohol intake should not be a hard task.
i think theres a little bit of a conceptual problem here; you are saying that you only ever give up if there is a problem.
This depends on what you define as being problematic.
It is not a problem to me that i do not find a substance pleasurable anymore, this is only a motivational change in my perception of the substance which removes my desire to use it.
Is it to be percieved as a problem, that i no longer wish to take a substance i do not enjoy?
the only thing i could possibly think you are getting at is the fact that the substance effects have themselves become undesirable, but this in itself is a 'problem solved' by abstaining from them.
then all that remains is an absence of the undesirable, which in itself cannot be problematic
The way you have described your recent drug experiences have sounded more like abuse rather than use.
The fact that you are giving up might suggest that you feel there is a problem. However it might be for other reasons.
Well, whatever it is, we worry about you thats all, you're all grown up now but we cant help but still see you as our little martin. Oh, they grow up so fast, you'll be bringing home a girlfriend any day now.
But I would encourage you to try it if you are so inclined. No reason not to, is there?
i suppose you could derrive this idea from my recent posts, and maybe there is an element of that in there, but i would whole heartedly profess the idea that its mainly a fun thing.
see thats what im getting at! i'd love to be able to do that.
mmm thats what im getting at.
But thats just me.
So do. Just decide one night before you go out that there is absolutely no way you are going to drink, and stick to it. Just to prove to yourself that you can.
Yes, but you are a grumpy old man. Some of us find it quite liberating.
There is that, it stems from just not liking people, drunk or otherwise.
:chin:
well i dont see it can be much of a problem, given that i've hung around drunken strangers for 8 hours a day for 3 1/2 years (bar work)
i think im gonna make a go of this tbh.
oh and while we are on the topic...
Anyone heard of Vodbull in Brum? Its held at The Works club on broad street. The idea is that you buy a ticket for £4 and it opens at 8:30pm.
check out the flyer for the next one here
notice the big warning about binge drinking, and how this company have now made it single vodbull for £1 all night? and this was done 'in the light of recent binge drinking awareness' yes?
Well lets consider what happened before this; last Vodbull it was £1 for a double vodbull b4 9pm, then £1.50 for double vodbull 9pm-10pm, then £2.00 for double VB 10pm-11pm, then £2.50 all night til 2am for the same drink.
If you had seen the monumental scale of binge drinking victims in the Medical (a small room about 20ft square so im told, although i only peeked through the door as i couldnt get near it!), that spilled out of the doors into the hallways and the queue outside, i wonder what you would have thought of this.
Everywhere, people being sick into (and out of) buckets, laying half-comatose in the corridoor, no jokes it was like walking into an A+E on a saturday night about 2am.
Now; the systems in place are as follows; one customer can buy only 3 drinks at a time. Thats it. So single VB's from 9pm-2am, for a quid :eek2:
I wonder; do you think its the company that should take the initiative or the punters the responsibility?
However, drink really shouldnt be that cheap, it encorages binge and over drinking, especially when its mixed with that much caffine.
This really is a matter for the local licencing authority who should be clamping down and stopping any pub/bar/club which does things like this.
That and anyone causing drunken trouble in the streets at night should be hosed down in mace and then dumped on their doorstep.
i'd love to be able to just press a button and release the gas on a room full of rowdy drunk people, or chase them with Customer pacification sticks that have rags of Cloroform strapped to them 'Just stop struggling it will all be over momentarily....'
Vodbull's been going six years.
Oh and we worked out that at the last Vodbull, a freind of mine (who happens to be from Milton Keynes, sight of the famous Sanctuary <RIP> complex that they tried to shut down on drug an health grounds for oh so many years <rant over>) consumed over half a litre of vodka and ingested roughly a gram of caffeine.
A large cafe late at Starbucks is normally about the 400-500mg mark.
You couldnt use cloroform, the sedative effects of that would be increased by the alcohol and they'd be dropping dead like flies.
Where as the mace option would leave them alive, yet in misery pondering whether it really is a good idea to break a bus shelter at 3am while singing.
:yes: :yes: :yes:
This is the liberation of bar-toiling proletarians through the miricle of cloroform.
However the market dictates that drunken lout-ish actions are not wanted, so they are punished.
Simple.
I still think the mace idea is slightly more palatable though than just culling thousands of drinkers.
legaly, i'm not ment to be drinking anyway, but i thought of the affect that the 1 pint or so i have has on me when i go out on the weekend, and i don't really like it. i much prefer to get stoned, it's so much of a nicer feeling and i don't feel even the slightist bit down afterwards.
why waste money on drinking when i don't really like it?
be careful how you look at that idea. that used to be my philosophy, so i often looked at my cannabis use and justified it in terms of other's alcohol consumption, which it not entirely helpful as they are two different substances with markedly differing effects and health implications.
next thing we know skive'l have a new one :rolleyes:
its the Siemens mobile syndrome