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all anyone around me wants to do is drink
#26456549 - 01/28/20 10:03 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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and i'm kind of over it.
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: wrestler_az]
#26456552 - 01/28/20 10:04 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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Sounds like you're toxic, mate. Try smiling more.
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: christopera] 1
#26456555 - 01/28/20 10:05 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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thanks
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: christopera] 1
#26456561 - 01/28/20 10:08 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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Alcohol never had appeal to me, it utterly has society by the balls though.
I'm glad I escaped the alcohol bear trap. Friends and family all arounde wrestle with their habits.
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: wrestler_az]
#26456564 - 01/28/20 10:11 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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wrestler_az said: thanks
No problem, I'll be here all week.
Drinking is a large part of the culture my friends and I share. I drink too much, as do they. It gets old, but it can also be a real blast.
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: christopera] 2
#26456569 - 01/28/20 10:15 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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good luck with that.
i'm not completely against drinking. and i do enjoy it occasionally. but it's ok to do things without it sometimes, right?
or am i just being socially awkward again?
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: Asante]
#26456572 - 01/28/20 10:16 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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Alcohol never had appeal to me,
Same here. I still have a couple to a few on a weekend here and there, and an occasional one during a dinner on work nights, but rarely. I am lucky to have legal cannabis smoke, and I'm a light smoker. All in moderation as they say.
Wrestler, you don't have to drink as much or any around them. If they give you grief get new friends, easy to say I know but hard to do, I know that too. Remember the bucket of crabs story, it's true!
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: wrestler_az] 1
#26456573 - 01/28/20 10:18 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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Quote:
wrestler_az said: good luck with that.
i'm not completely against drinking. and i do enjoy it occasionally. but it's ok to do things without it sometimes, right?
RIGHT!!!
or am i just being socially awkward again?
NO!!!
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: tyrannicalrex]
#26456577 - 01/28/20 10:21 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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yeah, it seems making new friends is near impossible after a certain age. i left all mine in the desert.
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: wrestler_az]
#26456581 - 01/28/20 10:23 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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Well, I made new friends after 50, but I am in CO, and they were my mates bunch. Still, get out there!
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: wrestler_az]
#26456584 - 01/28/20 10:24 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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I used to drink a lot everyday when in was young. The older i get the less I can drink. Now I drink zero alcohol. Shits crap. Zero enjoyment or desire in alcohol
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: wrestler_az]
#26456595 - 01/28/20 10:34 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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People should set a goal that any alcohol they drink should be untaxed.
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: Amanita86]
#26456621 - 01/28/20 10:49 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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My father has a 50 gallon pot still. The only tax you pay is for the materials needed for the mash. Makes drinking pretty cheap, it just depends on how much time you want to spend aging it. It’s pretty good off the drip though.
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: Amanita86]
#26456622 - 01/28/20 10:49 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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always thought it would be fun to make some shine. i do plan to give it a go someday.
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: Amanita86]
#26456630 - 01/28/20 10:59 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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I loved drinking, if I wasn't alcoholic, I'd drink all the time.
In actuality, I had a love/ hate relationship with it that eventually turned to hate / hate...but I was one of those people that didn't stop until I passed out.
I still enjoy parties when others are enjoying it, but when peeps get loud and obnoxious, I usually leave when I can. I have less and less tolerance for that as I get older but once upon a time, I was that loud obnoxious drunk.
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: wrestler_az]
#26456642 - 01/28/20 11:06 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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if you don't want to drink than dont.
most of my friends drink and ill either not drink at all or only have some.
i mostly just wanna smoke usually and not drink
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: tyrannicalrex]
#26456645 - 01/28/20 11:08 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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Tell me about this bucket of crabs
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: Herbologist] 1
#26456653 - 01/28/20 11:12 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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it's not even about feeling pressured to join in.
it's about the bullshit drama that inevitably follows.
i'm tired of the fights. i'm tired of the puke. i'm tired of trying to be the voice of reason for people who don't want to hear it.
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: wrestler_az] 1
#26456657 - 01/28/20 11:14 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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Quote:
wrestler_az said: it's not even about feeling pressured to join in.
it's about the bullshit drama that inevitably follows.
i'm tired of the fights. i'm tired of the puke. i'm tired of trying to be the voice of reason for people who don't want to hear it.
i get that.
i personally do not have much patience with drunk people. especially the rowdy fighting ones.
i can concur that it gets old FAST and I choose to try and avoid some people when they're drinking because I know how they get.
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: Herbologist]
#26456670 - 01/28/20 11:20 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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Fight prone drunks are no fun at all. My friends husband always gets shit canned, then either passes out or he mistakes something somebody said and gets angry about it. That's not a great time. We tend to to invite them out a lot less as a result.
My close friends and I like to joke around, poke fun at each other, go to concerts, play board games. All harmless fun.
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: wrestler_az] 1
#26456673 - 01/28/20 11:22 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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Sounds to me like you're not really tired of the alcohol so much as you're tired of your friends...
My friends can be getting smashed and we have never had a single fight. Little arguments here and there, but I am usually that person and I can shut if off no matter how drunk I may be... Getting black out drunk is for college kids.
I definitely share your perception of making friends. That's part of why I moved back to my home town. Spent a year actively trying to make friends and didn't make a single one. And I am not shy. I even tried to hide my weirdness from everyone lol. There's something about western culture, in my opinion. Every conversation with a stranger is somehow awkward.
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: Thayendanegea]
#26456676 - 01/28/20 11:24 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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I’ve kind of lost my tolerance to being around drinkers. Some people I’m fine with being around and some I’m not. Interestingly, my level of tolerance to being around a person drinking seems to directly correlate with where they’re at on the possible alcoholic spectrum. Like my uncle for instance, no problem at all being around him and he is certainly not an alkie. Some people I’ve met though, start easy talking, telling those ‘amazing’ stories and getting loud and annoying... I choose not to be around them and chances are they’re at some level an alcoholic.
There’s subtle personality and behavioral traits that start to build a pattern to where you can see what’s coming. Two or so drinks in and I can see where this is going.
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: metalfaith]
#26456681 - 01/28/20 11:30 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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maybe it wasn't so clear in the way i worded my post, but yeah, pretty much.
my problem isn't so much with alcohol, but with how people behave while on it. and there isn't much to choose from out here in belgrade, MT in the way of new friends. i do kind of want to move back to AZ to be closer to my friends, but everything else up here is great. i like my job, like the scenery, weather, etc.
and i'm over the fucking heat. no way will i ever live in the desert again.
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: wrestler_az]
#26456690 - 01/28/20 11:37 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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It seems like most people I meet nowdays are alcoholics. I see that as a lack of other options and hopefully things change a bit as weed is more legalized & normalized. some people alcohol is just their fave and theyre gonna get drunk everynight regardless.
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: mt cleverest]
#26456691 - 01/28/20 11:39 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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I love the high desert. I'm trying to get back there
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: ichugwindex]
#26456696 - 01/28/20 11:41 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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ichugwindex said: Tell me about this bucket of crabs
i'm also interested
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: wrestler_az]
#26456698 - 01/28/20 11:42 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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angry crab?
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: Herbologist]
#26456700 - 01/28/20 11:44 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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tyrannicalrex said: Remember the bucket of crabs story, it's true!
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: wrestler_az]
#26456717 - 01/28/20 11:57 AM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: wrestler_az]
#26456730 - 01/28/20 12:04 PM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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My 2c Give up on alcoholics These are alcoholic tendencies from what you describe
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Re: all anyone around me wants to do is drink [Re: wrestler_az] 1
#26456834 - 01/28/20 01:09 PM (4 years, 1 day ago) |
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Thank you!
And yes, get away from those "friends". It kind of sucks being lonely, but it's better than having that shit/stress around you all the time. Find new people to hang with.
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