The Whining and Bitching Thread
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The Ozzman
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Man, I always tell myself that I'm going to stop drinking on work nights but it never happens. Feel like hell today.
Carpe Mortem
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I don't get alcoholism. How bored are you that getting smashed is a better idea than playing video games or something equally unproductive but less taxing? Is it a depression thing to make doing absolutely nothing more bearable?
Serious inquiry. I hardly drink.
Serious inquiry. I hardly drink.
The Ozzman
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There's a difference between alcohol abuse and alcohol dependency. I would say that a majority of people who binge drink/get drunk on a semi regular basis partake in the former category. People here talk about alcoholism but it's in a tongue in cheek manner because I don't think anyone here is seriously an alcoholic. If they are, they should probably get help.
I mainly drink out of boredom but other times it helps as a social lubricant. I mean, I could play video games, but those are also enjoyable (sometimes moreso) with alcohol so I don't really know if that comparison works. Combining one mindless activity with another and it's still a mindless activity. It also helps to turn off my brain (lol hurr durr guys here comes a joke from someone) as it's constantly going. It's probably the reason I've had sleep issues for years (that or some undiagnosed issue. I should probably do a sleep study at some point).
Alcoholism is the point where someone needs alcohol to function (at least how I understand it). I can function without it. But then there's the whole 'functioning alcoholic' thing that I don't really get. I don't drink every day either. I think with alcoholics it's a constant thing.
I ponder this a lot. There's a line in The West Wing about drinking/alcoholism that I can relate to at times. It's a five minute conversation but it's the part about 1 drink vs. 10 drinks:
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Krow
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I do stupid shit like this occasionally. I also don't go to bed until after midnight and my alarm goes off at 5:00...
I've also been mixing alcohol and diet pills (which at a cursory glance are nothing more than glorified caffeine pills) for cheap thrills lately. Two shots of whiskey and a hydroxycut my mom had and never used are a decent buzz. I'm probably going to nuke my liver one day.
Still I feel like two shots and a caffeine pill has to be better than the 12 ounce glasses of 50/50 gin and apple juice or downing a 40 of hurricane in two minutes.
That all sounds really bad but I've actually cut way back on the amount of alcohol I've been consuming lately. Probably why you guys haven't got any drunken retard posts from me lately.
The Ozzman
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I'm trying to keep my really heavy drinking to Friday or Saturday night. I used to binge drink almost every day. I don't buy craft beer anymore unless I'm at a restaurant that serves it.
My drinking has become heavier over the years and I'll admit that to anyone. I ultimately need to just get off the sauce at least for a while to give my body a good cleanse. I'm finding that it is quite the challenge. It was easier back when I got a DUI and had an interlock in my car for a while.
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My confusion is more centered around drinking to a regrettable point, where you're feeling terrible the next day or even during. I've been there myself in the past, but it was 100% social lubricant and hoping that by getting drunker I'd reach that jolliness people associate with it. Never worked out that way and now I hardly drink. I might have a beer by myself while engaging in activities but I literally never have drank so much alone that I pay for it later.
That I don't understand whatsoever, pure wastedness just isn't fun alone, and rarely fun with others. Your motor functions are literally compromised so you really can't do anything fun except be drunk. Maybe be one of those savants who's suddenly awesome at beer pong, as if that game didn't lose its luster 5000 parties ago. On top of the hangover, which is harder to deal with the older you get.
Imo, I guess. To each their own etc.
That I don't understand whatsoever, pure wastedness just isn't fun alone, and rarely fun with others. Your motor functions are literally compromised so you really can't do anything fun except be drunk. Maybe be one of those savants who's suddenly awesome at beer pong, as if that game didn't lose its luster 5000 parties ago. On top of the hangover, which is harder to deal with the older you get.
Imo, I guess. To each their own etc.
The Ozzman
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Sometimes I don't feel terrible the next day though. I don't drink with the intent of getting super wasted (usually). It just happens.
See the Youtube clip I posted. It's alluded to later in the series about 'Why wouldn't people want to feel like this? Why would someone want just one drink?' re: being drunk. It's hard to explain.
CiG
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I agree with this.
I drink to either enhance an already fun activity's fun-ness or I drink to reach a certain state of consciousness, wherein I usually end up reading Carl Jung all night.
The only time I've ever drank to the point of regret was when I was 17 and it was a whole bottle of vodka to myself. Now I can't drink vodka.
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I drink because I enjoy the taste and the feeling of becoming more drunken. A cold beer on a hot day with an empty stomach is blissful. I usually pass out before I get to the point of complete retardation so it's not really an issue.
I've cut drinking back to just Fri/Sat/Sun after getting to the point of drinking every night last year. It just became a habit and we live like a two minute walk from our favourite bar. Was starting to feel like an alcoholic, my liver was inflamed, blood pressure was high and my midsection was expanding. So after NYE the wife and I both initialised the new No More Fat Drunk Cunts regimen. She also quit smoking at the same time. Mon-Thurs I come home and work out for an hour and eat a smaller meal than I usually do for dinner. The weekends are still a debaucherous free-for-all. I've dropped about 6 kilos and feel heaps better.
I've cut drinking back to just Fri/Sat/Sun after getting to the point of drinking every night last year. It just became a habit and we live like a two minute walk from our favourite bar. Was starting to feel like an alcoholic, my liver was inflamed, blood pressure was high and my midsection was expanding. So after NYE the wife and I both initialised the new No More Fat Drunk Cunts regimen. She also quit smoking at the same time. Mon-Thurs I come home and work out for an hour and eat a smaller meal than I usually do for dinner. The weekends are still a debaucherous free-for-all. I've dropped about 6 kilos and feel heaps better.
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i don't handle alcohol all that well, but not in the sense that most people mean by that. like, it takes quite a lot to get me drunk, but not much at all to give me a shit of a headache and a godawful hangover the next day. that's especially true with beer, less so with spirits. a pox on people who don't get hangovers, anyway. they were probably evangelicals in a past life or something.
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lol
When's the last time you got through a work week without drinking? If you can't manage that, I don't think you qualify as "functional" without it.
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The Ozzman
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