Is it a Good Thing or a Bad Thing

[Lex Diamonds]

When you become so used to hangovers that you stop even noticing that your head is in splitting pain and your throat is dry and your stomach hurts and you're seeping alcohol through the pores because it happens pretty much every day?

Is that bad?

Let me know ASAP.

[Kid Presentable]

The best thing for me was not needing to try and impress people with my drinking.

[Drederick Tatum]

I'm a doctor and my diagnosis is bad thing. when your sweat begins to smell like alcohol it's time to slow down and take a shower.

[kaiser soze]

if you think it makes you cool - it's good

if it proves that you're a tool - it's bad

[Kid Presentable]

I was being real, sharing and shit, honest bruh. How much are you drinking? How often? What are you drinking?

[miss soul fire]

It's a great thing. You are right at the point to not feel anything if you are dead or alive. That's probably awesome.:p

[Lex Diamonds]

Ha, I knew some people would do the whole "stop trying to be cool" thing. I'm not drinking for the sake of you guys, rest assured.

Probably drink around 8-10 beers a night average? Sometimes it'll only be like 3 or 4 but then some nights will make up for that. Then bits of whiskey & the occasional Bloody Mary/White Russian etc. as and when (maybe like 2 nights a week I have spirits).

I'm not worried about my health, I eat well and keep hydrated which is the main thing but the whole smell/taste the day after which you can't get rid of no matter how much you wash or brush your teeth is annoying as fuck. I shower a lot by the way, at least once a day often more.

[Burnout18]

Ha, I knew some people would do the whole "stop trying to be cool" thing. I'm not.

Probably drink around 10 beers a night average? Sometimes it'll only be like 3 or 4 but then some nights will make up for that. Then bits of whiskey & the occasional Bloody Mary/White Russian etc. as and when (maybe like 1 night a week I have spirits).



ten beers a night? All i have to ask, is don't you want your tolerance to go down a little bit? I mean eventually that average will your body and your wallet.....

[Lex Diamonds]

Yeah that's a good point, but I'm not drinking to get drunk really. I genuinely enjoy it and I like being able to carry on throughout the evening without getting all fucked up.

[TAL]

I've never had a hangover. No matter what or how much I drank. That is a good thing.

[venusvenus123]

Ha, I knew some people would do the whole "stop trying to be cool" thing. I'm not drinking for the sake of you guys, rest assured.

Probably drink around 8-10 beers a night average? Sometimes it'll only be like 3 or 4 but then some nights will make up for that. Then bits of whiskey & the occasional Bloody Mary/White Russian etc. as and when (maybe like 2 nights a week I have spirits).

I'm not worried about my health, I eat well and keep hydrated which is the main thing but the whole smell/taste the day after which you can't get rid of no matter how much you wash or brush your teeth is annoying as fuck. I shower a lot by the way, at least once a day often more.

Yeah, but you are very young. If you keep that level of drinking up your liver will probably have packed in by the time you're 30.

I watched that junior doctors reality programme on BBC3 last week. A 29 year old guy went in because he didn't feel quite right and was experiencing the odd chest pain.

His heart was fine but his liver was massively engorged. he drank 60 pints a week. When he told the doctor, she said, "sorry, 16 pints?" "no, 60".

We didn't see a follow-up, perhaps it will come this week.

[rirv]

I like drinking too.

[Lex Diamonds]

I kind of wish I hadn't made this thread. I guess I just wanted to moan. Ignore it now.

[Helvete]

Depends on the drugs.

[miss soul fire]

Every time I try to start a serious thread, people do the same thing to me, so that's life. They only respect Bob around here. Someday I'll find out why.:p

[Documad]

This woman used to come to staff meetings and sit next to me and her smell was foul--I think because it was first thing in the morning and I was just getting to my coffee. Even though she was clean and immaculate looking, the alcohol and cigarettes from the bar the previous night would come out of her pores no matter what she had done on the morning of the staff meeting. She was a few years older than me and not a friend so I never had the guts to mention it to her.

I don't know what's worse at a staff meeting -- old guy noises or barfly smell.

[Dorothy Wood]

you're poisoning your body and damaging your brain. doesn't matter how healthy the rest of your choices are.

you're dependent on alcohol, make plans to cut down. if you can't cut down, you probably need to stop altogether.

make all the excuses you want, but alcohol is literally poison.

[Lex Diamonds]

Most things we enjoy are poison... almost everything good has a bad side to it. Yin and Yang and shit.

Fuck, even eggs and steak give you cancer.

[Dorothy Wood]

I find that I'm much happier and my body feels better when I make choices that don't involve poison. so I would tend to disagree with your point.

[cosmo105]

Most things we enjoy are poison... almost everything good has a bad side to it. Yin and Yang and shit.

Fuck, even eggs and steak give you cancer.

Not as quickly or as assuredly as alcohol will. Dorothy's right. Alcohol is a poison. I just finished reading an interesting book about poisonings in the early 20th century, and methyl (wood/industrial) AND ethyl (grain) alcohol were both used to kill people off. It's not something like a particular food where if you eat it over the course of your life it COULD lead to this or that. Alcohol will destroy your liver. Moderation is key - such as it is with any food or drink we put into our bodies - and it sounds like your intake is anything but moderate, man.


Also, go vegan

[Burnout18]

how old are you padster? are you in college?

oh wait you are in india for a year, right?

[Lex Diamonds]

What's with all the questions and life lessons, I just said I have a lot of bad hangovers, fuck.

Alcohol & meat are the best drink & food groups so naturally they'll kill you quicker. It's an exponential graph of life enjoyment/life span.

[Bob]

you're young you'll probably be fine as long as you don't think about it too much

[Dorothy Wood]

yeah, you could probably keep going at your pace for a couple more years before you get sick.

a friend of mine is 26 and has high blood pressure from drinking too much booze and eating too many high fat foods, her doctor says she's in serious danger of having a heart attack if she doesn't take that shit down a notch. that doctor's probably a pussy though. I mean, she's well-groomed and physically fit. obviously she's fine. what do doctors know anyway?

[venusvenus123]

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

[rirv]

I find that I'm much happier and my body feels better when I make choices that don't involve poison. so I would tend to disagree with your point.

How can you rail against the puritanic attitude towards Charlie Sheen's alcoholic and narcotic intake (nb: not his violence/abuse) in one thread and now give it all the roll eyes at a young man's heavy drinking? I'm sure Padster will get over it, certainly when he gets back to Britain and booze begins to ruin your wallet quicker than your liver.

[abbott]

Let me be a good reason drinking is bad

I mean look at my post.... so true they are boring

Drinking and posting results in ugly truth... and beautiful truth


So. Time for rugular AA meetings

Seems to get me by

[Dorothy Wood]

How can you rail against the puritanic attitude towards Charlie Sheen's alcoholic and narcotic intake (nb: not his violence/abuse) in one thread and now give it all the roll eyes at a young man's heavy drinking? I'm sure Padster will get over it, certainly when he gets back to Britain and booze begins to ruin your wallet quicker than your liver.

I don't know what that means. I had a change of heart and very mixed feelings in the Charlie Sheen thread, and admittedly commented without thinking hard enough about things from the get go.

I'm not sure rolling eyes is what I'm meaning to do for Padster. Charlie Sheen is a stubborn old man in a completely different country, he has nothing to do with Padster. I was trying to be straightforward because everyone else was being sarcastic at first. It's just obviously bad to drink that much alcohol, but people do it all the time anyway. I'm just trying to save the kid some grief down the line. I drank way too much for way too many years and wasted a lot of time. I had a lot of fun, but I guess I'm saying I don't recommend it, I fell behind in a lot of life improvement kinda steps to adulthood. No one ever directly told me to slow down partying, ever. Only my mom's voice in my head saying, "promise me you'll only drink 3 drinks in one sitting", kept me sometimes from drinking that next drink. But I would often drink at least 6 servings of alcohol in a given night, 4-5 nights a week. Which is too much, most health professionals would agree.

Even still, everything I do socially involves drinking. There's beer everywhere, or you can bring your own, no matter the event. When in the unfortunate position of being somewhere where you can't drink, one or two friends will inevitably be carrying a flask of whiskey.

Anyway, I'm telling you that not just to bore you, but to say that I'm not a prude. I'm saying that it's possible to hang out and have fun and enjoy being fucked up without going so far that you guarantee the destruction of one or more of your organs.

[Lex Diamonds]

How can you rail against the puritanic attitude towards Charlie Sheen's alcoholic and narcotic intake (nb: not his violence/abuse) in one thread and now give it all the roll eyes at a young man's heavy drinking? I'm sure Padster will get over it, certainly when he gets back to Britain and booze begins to ruin your wallet quicker than your liver.
Yeah in England I spend around 80% of my money on booze (the other 20% is clothes & smokes, and I guess a little bit of food).