Help desperately need from NSC people

[fatbadger]

Premature senile dementure

Immature puerile dementia, more like.

 

[Sam]

I need some help and advice. I am not an alcoholic. HOwever after anything more than 6-8 pints (usually Kronenberg or Stella) in the bar outside my office I suffer from complete memory loss.

I think this has been happening only over the last few months. It ranges from s Thuesday or Wednesday night when I have a few, especially in this weather, to an anbsolute skinful on a Thursday and Friday (sometimes).

It was all brought home to me the other day when a quite attractive girl was chatting to me in the bar and said, "Oh yes and I remember you said blah blah last night and you talked about....... The details aren't important but the fact was that Ihad only had a few, was not pissed or out of order or lairy, but had no recollection of the conversation I had had with her.

What the hell is going on? Am I alone on this one??

dont worry mate, i have this all the time, but then again ive got an excuse, im a student

 

[Sam]

If you're drinking 6 - 8 pints several times per week, you are doing yourself damage my friend.

i'm screwed

oh dear, looks like i dont have much hope of living past thirty

 

[Yorkie]

If you're not an alcoholic, try going 2 weeks without a drink - at all. See what you're like after a few days.

An alcoholic does not have to get rat arsed all the time, just the need to drink a reasonable valume regularly is enough.

Alternatively, try to stop after 2 pints and drink soft drinks, or start with them and finish off with a couple of pints.

If you're drinking 6 - 8 pints several times per week, you are doing yourself damage my friend. I think the safe weekly limit is something like 20 units (about 10 pints), but that will depend on the alcohol content : it will be less pints for Stella.

One last point, do you drink to socialise or get drunk? If it's to socialise, why not drink weaker lagers or shandies? If it's the later, then you may want to question your first statement.

This is true. I was married for 21 years to a man with a drink problem.
He would never admit he had a problem but he could not go one single day without going down to the pub for the last two hours.
He lost his driving licence and it broke up our marriage.
I had to ask my mother in law for money for shoes for my son at one stage because the money had gone on drink.

Again he wouldn't admit he had a problem. He only drank beer. He only went to the pub for the last two hours (& Sunday lunchtime) but it affected his job and his relationship.

That is a drink problem.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I need some help and advice. I am not an alcoholic. HOwever after anything more than 6-8 pints (usually Kronenberg or Stella) in the bar outside my office I suffer from complete memory loss.

Have you considered moving up to the Tennents purple tin? At a full-bodied 9% alcohol, you'll still be able to achieve that complete memory loss, but this will occur after four or less pints, thereby saving you a considerable sum of money over the course of a week. The more you drink, the more you save! Your problem of being approached by attractive women who wish to engage you in conversation in bars will also be but a distant memory. Or not, as the case may be...

(smiley may not depict actual contents of purple tin)

 

[Beach Hut]

I would cut down - I was drinking far too much for a while but doing much better now.

It goes in cycles - are you pi$$ed of at work possibly or something else is making you turn to drinking more than normal ?

I stick to weekends now so have something to look forward to Friday nights and it has the added bonus I arrive at work fresh faced and ready to work as opposed to hung over and not in the mood to do anything.

It isn't that hard to do either so try it, just a minor lifestyle change nothing to serious.

 

[elbowpatches]

Fortunately or unfortunately I have never suffered from memory loss from drink. I now know when to stop before I remember something the following morning that I did the night before.

Has to be said as a student I drank a lot more than now and memory did take a couple of hours into the hangover to recover but it always did. On some occasions I wish it hasn't.

 

[berkshire seagull]

I need some help and advice. I am not an alcoholic. HOwever after anything more than 6-8 pints (usually Kronenberg or Stella) in the bar outside my office I suffer from complete memory loss.

I think this has been happening only over the last few months. It ranges from s Thuesday or Wednesday night when I have a few, especially in this weather, to an anbsolute skinful on a Thursday and Friday (sometimes).

It was all brought home to me the other day when a quite attractive girl was chatting to me in the bar and said, "Oh yes and I remember you said blah blah last night and you talked about....... The details aren't important but the fact was that Ihad only had a few, was not pissed or out of order or lairy, but had no recollection of the conversation I had had with her.

What the hell is going on? Am I alone on this one??

To awnser the question YESSSSSSSSS YOU ARE

 

[Brighton Breezy]

My advice:
Enjoy the gift of memory loss. If you upset people you will never need to feel guilty about it.

 

[berkshire seagull]

He must be on E's as they f*** up your memory

 

[Brighton Breezy]

He must be on E's as they f*** up your memory

Or just stupid.


Perhaps there is someone who looks exactly like him and he is the one who has been talking to this girl etc? Maybe SHE was drunk and got talking to someone and then later mistook you for him.

 

[berkshire seagull]

Its him alright the druggy and alchy

 

[NMH]

It's sad really. Alcoholism is not a disease that YOU can diagnose for yourself ! Drinking that many beers in an evening is stupid, and is definitely damaging as hell.
When are men going to realise that it isn't 'clever' or 'macho' to be able to open their gullets and pour in something that poisons their mind and body, until they're basically in a stupor or.....can't remember anything they said and did. Alcohol is a depressant, it does NOT enhance experience of anything, or make anyone more interesting, lucid, free, or fun.

Get a grip lads, cut down the drinking or switch to soda after a couple. It just makes sense.

 

[Braders]

My advice:
Enjoy the gift of memory loss. If you upset people you will never need to feel guilty about it.

well said


the worst thing is half-remembering something after going out drinking