What age should you calm down with drinking?

[QueenAdrock]

We're all out of college now. Yet I have one friend who insists on drinking all the time still, so much to the point that she threw up at the bar last weekend and got thrown out.

At what point in your life should you think "Wow, I need to get my career on track" and stop drinking so damn much? Like, yeah, it was fun. And yeah, it still can SOMETIMES be fun. But it's not a necessary weekend activity now?

I didn't drink in college, because I commuted and it just didn't work out well at all. So I've been drinking a lot more in the past year since my friends moved back home. A few weeks ago I decided it's going to be much more infrequent, only when we want to go out to clubs or whatever. Like, once or twice a month.

So, when do you think people should settling down with alcohol?

[b-grrrlie]

Stop drinking?

What DO you mean?

[QueenAdrock]

Not stop drinking altogether. Just stop drinking every other day to the point where you black out and wake up in a pool of vomit, just like you used to do back in college.

[b-grrrlie]

Well it must've been the sports holiday back in 1978...

[Rock]

i just had this conversation with my boss about 5 minutes ago.
I don't think there is a certain age to calm down. it all depends on how you handle yourself while drunk and how much you are willing to become an alcoholic.
you can get soused every night but if you aren't causing any trouble then do it til you 60. if you don't mind all the physical negatives that go with drinking.

[b-grrrlie]

and I'm drunk right now...




heh heh

[b-grrrlie]

It totally depends how much you're deitrinkin an if youcan handle y9ure dringk

[QueenAdrock]

Well my friend seriously has the maturity level of a 15 year old. Gets mad at her parents for them telling her to clean her room (and they're NOT like BA01's parents, btw), told me she'd be DD for my birthday party but gets way too drunk and kicked out of the bar and now she wants to drink again not one week later, thinks boobie and penis jokes are still hilarious (just saying the words to her will make her giggle), thinks farting and burping is still hilarious, etc.

I don't know whether or not to do an intervention with this girl. Just because no matter what happens to her when she's drunk, she still is willing to drink the next day. And that's concerning. :(

[Loppfessor]

I dunno if there's a set age but for me it's been last year up till now. So I guess around 25. I think I have been "drunk" maybe 6 times since February.

[b-grrrlie]

Damn you cheap bag-in-boxes and lonely nights!!!

[Rock]

thinks boobie and penis jokes are still hilarious (just saying the words to her will make her giggle), thinks farting and burping is still hilarious, etc.
dude....she and I need to hang out. you just described me and my friends...sober and drunk.

[QueenAdrock]

I predicted I was going to get to 5,000 today.

I was right. :(

Anyways, you are pure class bgrrrl. What time is it in Sweden, anyways? Because my clock reads 4:44 PM, which is way too early for ME to start drinking.

[QueenAdrock]

dude....she and I need to hang out. you just described me and my friends...sober and drunk.

hahaha. it's different in some ways though. she's a bigger girl so her burping and farting are definitely more potent and terrible to be around, and completely makes me ashamed of being the same sex as her.

seriously, when she came with me to pick up brett at the airport, she was drunk and then said her feet stank like hell, so sat down in the terminal and pulled out her hand sanitizer and rubbed it into her feet.

she embarrasses me on a regular basis. yet i'm one of her only friends, so i don't want to be rude. :(

[Rock]

Anyways, you are pure class bgrrrl. What time is it in Sweden, anyways? Because my clock reads 4:44 PM, which is way too early for ME to start drinking.
you are sooooo L7. no tit, dick, and fart jokes? happy hour is too early to start drinking? you and my grandmother would get along famously.

[b-grrrlie]

I predicted I was going to get to 5,000 today.

I was right. :(

Anyways, you are pure class bgrrrl. What time is it in Sweden, anyways? Because my clock reads 4:44 PM, which is way too early for ME to start drinking.It's only 22:47. bee n on the chat and <i'm preyytty drunk alreaydy....
waitin for a booyty call..

[b-grrrlie]

I thin k I might pass out before he calls...
Heäs veen deringking since the agfternoon, metsome comompn fr8ehdds ffr9jm the t9wh where OI löived as a teenager = loads of emvarrassing storeis...

[QueenAdrock]

you are sooooo L7. no tit, dick, and fart jokes? happy hour is too early to start drinking? you and my grandmother would get along famously.


I'm still at work, so too early to start drinking for me. I do love me some happy hour, though.

Tit, dick, and fart jokes are fine, as long as they're funny. Just going up to her and saying "Boobie" will get her rolling on the ground. :rolleyes:

[b-grrrlie]

I thin k I might pass out before he calls...
Heäs veen deringking since the agfternoon, metsome comompn fr8ehdds ffr9jm the t9wh where OI löived as a teenager = loads of emvarrassing storeis...OK di d anyone ujnderstand tohat one? ö heh heh heh heh!!!!
:D :cool: :eek: :p

[Rock]

hahaha. it's different in some ways though. she's a bigger girl so her burping and farting are definitely more potent and terrible to be around, and completely makes me ashamed of being the same sex as her.

seriously, when she came with me to pick up brett at the airport, she was drunk and then said her feet stank like hell, so sat down in the terminal and pulled out her hand sanitizer and rubbed it into her feet.

she embarrasses me on a regular basis. yet i'm one of her only friends, so i don't want to be rude. :(
eh...simple solution to that. don't hang out with her as much, that way..when you do see her once a month or so. it won't bother you as much. i have had to do it with some of my friends that I have known for over 15 years. It makes it so that when we do hang out....its much more fun. i think it probably saved our friendships.

[QueenAdrock]

I'd definitely do that if I could. But like I said, I'm one of her only friends. She kind of pushed away the others when she went to college, and she'll ONLY call me. If I don't see her, she stays in and drinks alone.

She'll also pop by my house randomly and call me 24/7, so it's hard to keep making excuses why I didn't answer. :-/

[little j]

i drink occasionaly during the week...i get drunk maybe twice amonth...and i get WASTED like once every two months.

Its harder to recover from a long night of boozing these days...i find my hangovers stick around all morning and into the afternoon. when I was younger i could do a thursday night drinking session and wake up and go to work on friday with a stop and mcDs no problemo...now not so much.

[Rock]

you are weak. don't answer the phone. don't open the door. if you do, say you got shit to do. say you are going to your parents. say you are going to have a freaky deaky cyber/phone sex session with DS.
or better yet...tell her you don't like hanging out with her when she drinks. and tell her why.
you are making it much more harder than it is.

[marsdaddy]

Never start with the sugary juices.

[cookiepuss]

when the hangovers start to get unberable that's a good sign.


most humbling moment: the day after my 23rd birthday I had to work in a tiny office and so I went out to my car and barfed in a garbage bag for 30 minutes. (I didn't want them to hear me yaking in the bathroom.) and that pretty much laid it out for me that I couldn't drink like I use to any more.

[skra75]

yeah it hits me harder nowadays. I think it's more about how often you do it rather than the amount of drink therein...

[Monsieur Decuts]

Kick the shit out of your body until you are 30 then just think about it everyday on the treadmill....

fountain of youth right there

[bigblu89]

Before this past Sunday, I haven't been drunk in a long time.

It seems the older you get, the more reasons you need to drink.

As in only drinking at Weddings, or other parties, and not drinking because it's Friday, like most of us did in college.

Not the Football season has started, I see my self drinking more, but not necessarily getting wasted more.

[like2_drink]

i have to shit real bad so i had to skip most of this thread, sorry:o ..did we decide yet? im thinkin after the stereotypical age of 27 your gettin past it if you know what i mean.

[roosta]

every fucking i tell myself its time to slow it down...then, something else comes up! i think my body is beginning to tell me, hangovers are getting more and more unbearable....

[QueenAdrock]

you are weak. don't answer the phone. don't open the door. if you do, say you got shit to do. say you are going to your parents. say you are going to have a freaky deaky cyber/phone sex session with DS.
or better yet...tell her you don't like hanging out with her when she drinks. and tell her why.
you are making it much more harder than it is.

I don't answer the phone, unless I want to speak to her. I don't answer the door when she comes over uninvited. And when I do, I do say I have shit to do. And then she gets depressive on me and gives me a total guilt trip like I'm a terrible person. Like "Well, I wouldn't want to hang out with me either if I were you." IT'S TERRIBLE!

I just have too much of a conscious. I wish I could tell her to fuck off for a wee bit and deal with the backlash and not care. She just needs to mature, stop drinking/smoking/eating fast food everyday, move out of her parents house, learn responsibility, make OTHER friends, and get therapy for her depression or deal with it in other ways than drinking. She's a good person deep down inside and that shows when I hang out with her...it's just this terrible side of her she has that comes out that I absolutely hate.

[skra75]

Girl Drink Drunk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZK6RISIuPU)

[little j]

HA^

i haven't seen kids in the hall in a long minute

[Lyman Zerga]

Girl Drink Drunk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZK6RISIuPU)

i kinda like that

too bad they never showed that stuff over here

[kaiser soze]

death

[Justin]

We're all out of college now. Yet I have one friend who insists on drinking all the time still, so much to the point that she threw up at the bar last weekend and got thrown out.

At what point in your life should you think "Wow, I need to get my career on track" and stop drinking so damn much? Like, yeah, it was fun. And yeah, it still can SOMETIMES be fun. But it's not a necessary weekend activity now?

I didn't drink in college, because I commuted and it just didn't work out well at all. So I've been drinking a lot more in the past year since my friends moved back home. A few weeks ago I decided it's going to be much more infrequent, only when we want to go out to clubs or whatever. Like, once or twice a month.

So, when do you think people should settling down with alcohol?


well hopefully your drunk tonight so you won't remember the ass kicking wvu is giving maryland tonight:p

[QueenAdrock]

I opted to sleep instead of watch the game.

Damn this cold. :(

[ToucanSpam]

30 is the age where you need to settle the kettle and just start thinking about what your life is going to be like, family, etc.

[QueenAdrock]

I would say around 27ish, for me at least. No more going to bars and stuff, I'd just want to get my career on track, think about getting married. No babies till later, but going to bars when I'm married seems kind of...odd.

It's like when I used to go to this huge annual music festival held by our local radio station every year. I went in high school, every year, and had a blast. I stopped going in college because they had shit bands, but then last year they had an awesome lineup again. I went, and saw just how many young people were there in comparison to me and thought "Wow, I'm outta my element here."

[Otis Driftwood]

At what point in your life should you think "Wow, I need to get my career on track" and stop drinking so damn much?
Quit drinking to become a career whore? Unless your career is drinking that is f**ked up. And about your friend: She stayed sober for a whole week. That is nothing to worry about no matter how smashed she gets.(y)

[Kid Presentable]

The day after my 34th birthday.

[Nivvie]

All I'd have to do is sniff the barman's apron I'd be on the floor with my undies showing.

My mother's Italian and so we had wine as kids, but I stopped taking it about 14 or so, and haven't drunk anything much since.

I think it's how it effects you as opposed to an actual age. All people who become annoying or violent upon drinking should be banned by law from purchasing and consuming alcohol, regardless of age.

Only chilled or funny drunks allowed.