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There’s always someone more famous than yourself with the same name which takes up the first 100 Google search results….
Not always!!
Son is almost 21 and only drinks occasionally – usually out in his car anyway.
You want to have a word with him about that
No, my eldest is enjoying socialising and partying now she can. She seems to have inherited my ability to drink too without getting a hangover. Me, I rarely drink at home but do like one when on holiday in the pub. Rarely do a binge session these days, which is probably good.
Absolutely. I don’t have kids.
No kids but i hardly drank in my 20's much cheaper and more fun items that facilitated a night out clubbing than booze. When that lost it's appeal and civilised evenings at the pub with a few friends became more of the weekend thing then drinking increased. Probably have 6 500ml bottles of cider a week and a glass of wine or so.
My opinion on it… drugs is bigger than drink. I’m the wrong side of 20, enjoy a drink rather than drugs, probably because recreational drug taking would get me sacked. But the scene is huge, bigger than most realise. Balloons, mdma, ket, just to name a few. Whether parents can spot such hobbies is another thing! A pill & a couple of £5 bottles of water is a night out for some of my younger mates. If you’re not looking out for it, why would you spot it?
Avoiding their parents whilst their jaw is in another post code is also another fine art! My younger missus having worked as a paramedic out of the city centre in Birmingham, also shares the same opinion. They might not be blackout drunk… but don’t check their bloods!!
I enjoy a voluminous cornucopia of pleasures but try to balance it out with exercise and diet. Did go once to A STW party somewhere up north and was completely outclassed.
binners
Just to add it into the mix, apparently the younger generation are doing nowhere near the level of drugs we used to do either.
Mind you, reaching adulthood in Manchester in 1988, we didn’t drink that much either, but we did spend all weekend, every weekend, absolutely ripped to the tits on industrial quantities of weapons grade Ecstasy 😀
Did your parents know?
Young people drink less now because it is expensive and the alternatives are more readily available than they ever were.
Interesting thread. The usual suspects trumpets chiming in from the moral high ground.
It's all subjective isn't it. Tolerances and appetites vary. Your korma is a spicy curry to me, ( not really) My cask strength single malt is paint stripper to you....perhaps mibbe not.
Judgemental folk will judge.
The tee total brigade are the worst, worse even than a reformed smoker. I'm one of them but choose to keep my opinions on smoking fags to myself.🤗
Unless you puff a douche flute, you look like a knob for the avoidance of any doubt.
Do I drink more than my kids? Infinitely more, I don’t have any kids
Comment from Binners would apply to lots of insurance brokers I know and they lament the loss of that culture.
Played rugby at university and it was a right of passage to get pretty sloshed.
Now I only drink on a non school night.
Luckily my latest blood test revealed no damage from past drinky-poos.
Definitely, but they're not of legal drinking age yet so probably a good thing.
Judgemental folk will judge..The tee total brigade are the worst
Almost in the same sentence brilliant.
Almost.😍😘
Got four kids of drinking age, i have to really dig in to beat the four of them....
Was at my nephews 21th family party, and I'd say definitely ,my brother in law propping our side up by well over half.
That said the nephews had a double share of the 'cocktail tree', but on the score side, lots of flavoured vodka and rum for the grown ups*. Dark Matter spiced and some Project 173 chocolate rum I think we out did them.
*Relatively speaking.
Although there was only the five of us, Dominoes in that household is a hard banter match, and apparently after I left, the police turned up, neighbour complained,they saw a 21st party banner, 5 people riotously playing dominoes while drinking rum something to be upset about that you need to call plod to attend.
What a waste of their time.
I used to tell my parents "I don't drink much, I don't like the taste" I can't believe parents are still falling for it
But probably substitute recreational drugs for booze these days
My opinion on it… drugs is bigger than drink
This is very true. I am a Uni lecturer and we take students away for weeks field trips (pre COVID) and it been really noticeable in recent years we don’t end up with big drunken groups/hangovers. They don’t come out the shop with pallets of beer etc like 10+ years ago. One student had her 21st the last trip we were able to run, and they were all sober or at the most had 2 nice beers or shared a half decent bottle of wine between 3.
However drugs are becoming normal (thankfully not on field trips but round the city). So so easy to get hold of and tutees have told me it is normal at every single house party they go to (that wasn’t the case for me nearly 20 years ago).
we don’t end up with big drunken groups/hangovers
You don't lecture in Geology! When my son went away to Spain on a group fieldtrip they had a special broefing presentation on the perils of hungover fieldwork in the sun. Didn't stop one young lady falling off a rooftop whist inebriated and breaking her leg. One of the lecturers was arrested for removing samples whilst hungover too! When I was at university it was always the Geologists too.
You don’t lecture in Geology!
This is EXACTLY what I lecture in! There are always exceptions and we give them similar talks, as it has been an issue over the years. But it is really noticeable on many of our trips over the last 5 years or so the amount of drinking has hugely reduced.
have told me it is normal at every single house party they go to (that wasn’t the case for me nearly 20 years ago).
all different sorts of drugs around but I believe its actually less prevalent now than 20 / 30 years ago
all about the circles you mix in of course but while weed is perhaps more common party pills / coke are not. 20 / 30 years ago city of london financial district was coked up all the time. I believe much less so now. My local pillheads bar is cleaned up
heroin is less of an issue now as well
Edit - I know a some youths and while they smoke a little weed they do nothing like the amount of drugs their mothers did at the same age!
I only really drink on work nights out, or a little when on holiday - of which there have been neither over the last 18 months.
Last time I touched a drink was second May bank holiday.
My wife has the occasional binge drink evening when we meet up with friends but only 3-4 times a year.
My kids are 14 and 10 - we're happy to let them try a little splash of whatever we're drinking, and the oldest likes a glass of cider on holiday but that is it.
Interestingly one or two of her friends drink, but this is facilitated/egged on by family members who also drink a lot.
Yes and no. Son is 30 drinks mostly moderately but occasionally has a session with his buddies. Daughter doesn't drink. Me somewhere in between still drinking but never have a session, can't stand the hangover these days.
I enjoy a voluminous cornucopia of pleasures but try to balance it out with exercise and diet.
This. Love the piety on threads like this.
There’s always someone more famous than yourself with the same name which takes up the first 100 Google search results….
Not always!!
One of my many namesakes was starring in the local theatre the other year, hence my name was up in posters all over town.....
Also probably worth noting that age checking in pubs has got way way stricter in the last five or ten years. It is unlikely that a 16 or 17 year old would even get in to a pub now, never mind be served or manage to buy alcohol themselves from a shop. Certainly in central Edinburgh the 'challenge 25' thing seems to be extremely strictly enforced and the days of the dodgy off license serving anyone at any time of day seem to be a thing of the past.
As another bit of balance to the thread, friends of mine with 17 year olds who didn't drink got a bit of a shock when those 17 year olds turned 18 at university and started hammering it pretty much every night all over social media!!
Edit. Forgot to add I am 43, don't have children, haven't been to a pub since I think February of last year, but now that everything is back open can't wait to go for a proper night out and end up in the Banshee Labyrinth.
all different sorts of drugs around but I believe its actually less prevalent now than 20 / 30 years ago
all about the circles you mix in of course but while weed is perhaps more common party pills / coke are not. 20 / 30 years ago city of london financial district was coked up all the time. I believe much less so now. My local pillheads bar is cleaned up
heroin is less of an issue now as well
Edit – I know a some youths and while they smoke a little weed they do nothing like the amount of drugs their mothers did at the same age!
Mmmm you can order any drug in any quantity via a text message or online, delivered to your door in any city now, it's as easy and efficient as ordering take away food, pay by paypal or credit card.
I work with youngish people in education and they are quite open about it, cocaine is more prevalent and affordable, and comes up on swabs in every toilet in the UK, it's certainly different to back in the day but I think it would be naive to imagine drugs are not used considerably wider now than ever, and at a younger age.
I agree. It is like Uber drugs (alongside your Uber Eats). Radio 4 did an interesting half hour piece based upon this https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-51237885
10 and a couple of whiskeys sounds about normal, maybe not every week but a fairly common pattern for me would be post thursday night ride, 2 or 3 pints. another 2 or 3 on a friday tea time at the local cricket club. Footy on a saturday, pre-match/halftime/post-match pints; thats 8 then family walk on a Sunday, pub lunch, another 2 pints easy. then whiskey on the couch watching tele in between.. thats on a weekend where im not going out-out!
my kids are kids so cant compare but i do notice the youngsters at work have a completely different attitude towards drinking than we did (do) that reminds me, forgot pre-pandemic lunchtime beers with lads from work!