Drinking alone

[Save_Ferris]

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[CommonKnowledge]

For me this is an opportunity to practise written English and in that regard yeah its really meaningful. Im glad you find my perspective interesting, thanks, and I welcome language tips. Your name here has a decent reputation and by your own admission I think you should cut down on the drinking.

It gets said often but the quality of English on CFC is pretty high generally. I've certainly met English people with poorer literary skills.

Anyway I think I should make my position a bit clearer so allow me to recant last Friday. Nothing particuarly unusual for me, just a quiet night in with a Vindaloo hot enough to strip wallpaper and some beer. I wake up the next morning with nothing that a cup of coffee won't cure and get on with the day. Contrast that to my flat mates who spent Friday night at a poker game with some friends and stampeded home long past the witching hour. I don't see them until gone 11 the next morning and, to put it bluntly, they look like hell because they were drinking for almost seven hours straight.

Now to them I'm the one with the problem because I stayed at home and drank, whereas to me it shouldn't matter where you do your drinking but rather the amounts. Which is why I find it so odd that a lot of people think that drinking alone is just inherintly wrong whereas going out and getting absolutely trollied isn't.

 

[Leifmk]

I rarely drink on a regular basis anymore (pretty sure it's been at least a couple of months since I last touched a drop) and these days when I'm alone I'm usually not really alone but keeping watch over the (hopefully sleeping) kids while my wife is out and I'd never consider drinking then. I don't see anything particularly wrong with having a couple of beers or something while chilling in solitude, though; used to do that sort of thing when I was single. I agree it's the amounts (and frequency, I guess) that matters, not the absolute fact of drinking or not.

 

[Disgustipated]

It gets said often but the quality of English on CFC is pretty high generally. I've certainly met English people with poorer literary skills.

Anyway I think I should make my position a bit clearer so allow me to recant last Friday. Nothing particuarly unusual for me, just a quiet night in with a Vindaloo hot enough to strip wallpaper and some beer. I wake up the next morning with nothing that a cup of coffee won't cure and get on with the day. Contrast that to my flat mates who spent Friday night at a poker game with some friends and stampeded home long past the witching hour. I don't see them until gone 11 the next morning and, to put it bluntly, they look like hell because they were drinking for almost seven hours straight.

Now to them I'm the one with the problem because I stayed at home and drank, whereas to me it shouldn't matter where you do your drinking but rather the amounts. Which is why I find it so odd that a lot of people think that drinking alone is just inherintly wrong whereas going out and getting absolutely trollied isn't.

I touched on this a little with my first post, but I'll put it a different way. I'd say if you are more an introverted person, then drinking alone is no big deal. But if you were normally an extrovert, and you were drinking alone, I'd think there was a problem. For me, I have social phobias around strangers, so I prefer to drink alone. Although you could argue it's better to face your fears and experience anxiety rather than not, but that's a topic for another thread. I'd be concerned if you previously had a happy go lucky, extrovert who suddenly pulled away from people and started spending a lot of time drinking alone. But if it was an introvert who normally doesn't spend lots of time in public places, I wouldn't be concerned.

In short, some people just prefer the comfort of their own home to a crowded, smoky club or bar.