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I think some people, like the OP, may either be associating with the wrong sort of people, or, like many ex-smokers, are now hyper-sensitive to it and noticing it more. I love a good alchoholic drink, for the flavour of it, NOT for getting shitfaced several nights a week, and I've never noticed any tendency among any of the people I work or socialise with to go on about it like the OP does.
Bloody football, on the other hand, like wobbliscott's post, seems to be an absolute obsession with a significant number of the male workforce where I work; fortunately my main area of work involves being with an almost entirely female staff, except for two of us blokes, and occasional agency staff. Much more fun, I know nothing, and care less, about football.
I'm with the OP on this. Get branded as being boring for not wanting to get drunk. I find being drunk and drunk people boring.
Quite like beer as a drink though, just not enough to ruin the next day.
Tullamore Dew Blended Irish Whiskey 70cl - half price at Co-Op!
Taylor LBV port 2009 - half price £8 at Co-Op!
I think I may get a bottle of each ... arrggghhh ... 
Jeremy Paxman wrote a book called 'The English' where he said the English habit of getting leathered and having a scrap with random strangers was the basis of the Empire which made us the most powerful nation on earth - a wealth and power which we're still the recipients of even now. We basically got drunk, went and fought foreigners and nicked their stuff.
So your local high street on a Friday night is just carrying on an great English tradition 🙂
We basically got drunk, went and fought foreigners and nicked their stuff.
Makes you proud*
*we should raise a glass to all the homicidal piss heads that repeatedly invaded us the millennia prior to the empire and sowed the seed of our greatness
Sorry for the late reponse....i was rat arsed last night! 😉 Lots of 40 odd year olds in tight tweed jackets with brogues on, right up my street! 🙂
Stevious, here here my man!
CountZero, dont get me started on football.... To be in with the in crowd just use selective footballesque phrases like; switch it, down the back, man on etc etc 😉
mid 40s now and never been a big drinker, rarely get drunk any more. just cant be arsed with the hangovers, just doesnt seem worth it to me.
went out last night meeting a few mates i hadnt seen for years, we did use to drink quite heavily when went away together years ago. anyhow my son had an athletics competition today, quite important final round for him, so i wanted to be in a fit state to drive and enjoy the day with him. so sticking to shandy last night, grief from all the guys i was out with, getting told to man up have a few pints blah blah. thing is a probably enjoyed the night as much if not more than they did and could still get up and out this morning and enjoy the day with my kid.