Idiots and alcohol

[User482]

I can see where you went wrong here...

I wonder if being blind drunk makes him seem funny?

 

[Peter Armstrong]

If you go to a small venue like the comedy store. If you get idiots the performer will rip them to pieces. If they get too loud they just get kicked out.

 

[Maz]

I was unfortunate enough to be taken to A&E with food poisoning on a Friday night once. The bloke in the next bed was heavily drunk and shouting racist abuse at me and anyone else who was non-white and within earshot. Not a nice experience.

 

[wormo]

I don't understand why people have to get tanked up at events especially when they can be so expensive, I want to be able to remember the event not fall asleep or spend my time going back and to the loos.

 

[MrJamie]

I think most people manage to drink appropriately, be that a couple of pints or some friends having a heavy night without causing any harm, but like anything theres a few people who really need to avoid the stuff altogether. I drank a lot in my mid 20s, never needed to go to A&E, never had any trouble with the police, or got into fights etc and it never made me aggressive, but i knew of people who would get in fights on a weekly basis through how confrontational it made them and then brag about it like just another drunken funny story. There is a ridiculous culture in this country of a lot of young people having no interests other than drinking as heavily as possilbe, working all week so they can go get smashed at the weekend - I might be wrong but most people I know/met outside the UK seem to have more hobbies/interests.

That said I think it's way more to do with social issues than alcohol, the culture of "sod everyone else" as long as im okay. "How dare you tell me to stop having fun chatting with my friends just because it affects what you're doing, I can do what I want, <question your sexuality>" etc etc.

 

[Browser]

It's not really drinking with any kind of social element from what I can see, more just seeing how fast one can consume stupidly large quantities of what is, at the end of the day, a toxic substance. There was an early Aarman Animation cartoon about a guy, just a plasticine shape really, and it showed him at the pub, and he turned into different characters depending upon whom he was drinking with. One mate he ended up with transformed him into a dustbin and he and said mate proceeded to just throw pints into themselves, rather apt I thought!

 

[dellzeqq]

i canot understand why we tolerate this sort of behaviour, my thoughts? shackels on every lamp post , thats where they stay till sober,and if ya choke on ur own vomit,well thats a shame.

exactly. McInDire should have been locked up years ago!

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I work at the bar at this events: most of the punters come in already half pissed, only so much we can do to control their drinking if they have it hidden on them.
G4S is very effective ime, lots never get to see the event they paid tickets for.
You should have reported it to security immediately, confronting a drunk person is never a good idea.
In the hotel also, you should have maybe phoned reception?

 

[Arch]

Perhaps anyone found to have a blood alcohol level over a certain figure should be billed for their treatment...

I'd happily see antisocial drinkers like those in the OP shot. I'm liberal like that....

(OK, to be really liberal, it would only apply to people over, say 21. I can understand kids new to alcohol over doing it. If you haven't worked out the effect after 3 years of legal drinking, tough).

 

[swee'pea99]

One of the more sobering experiences of my life occurred when a friend and I were backpacking in the far north of Australia and bumped into a trio of cheerful aborigines who had come into town from the local 'reservation', you'd have to call it, with the express (and clearly regular) purpose of turning the entire community's social security payments into booze, which we then transported back to the place in a couple of ancient, wheezing Holdens.

Stark is not the word. The place was in the middle of nowhere - a community of perhaps 1000 people, all living in wooden, tin-roofed huts, with, typically, a table and a few chairs, a dresser, a few simple wooden beds and a wood burning stove. Running water was available from a standpipe - one at the end of each row of a couple of dozen huts. No electricity. We got to 'town' in the mid-afternoon, to a raucous welcome. Within an hour, the place was silent. Every man, woman and child had drunk themselves into a stupor.

Alcohol is a truly terrible drug. I speak as one of its biggest fans, and I love it in almost every variant, but it really is the most pernicious stuff known to man. Heroin is nothing by comparison.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

It's often said by folk who have been addicts of both that alcohol is harder to quit than smack, because alcohol is everywhere.

 

[asterix]

I was recently in hospital in Halifax over a weekend and saw 3 or 4 young guys brought in to the wards next to mine on the Friday and Saturday nights, clearly the worse for wear and accompanied by policemen who had to stay through the night to keep an eye on them.

What are manacles for if not these 'people'?

There's a lot of em [British bellends] about I'm afraid.

Best to move abroad.

Have witnessed several parties in France. They can be loud but aggression is absent and often they don't even play music, loud or otherwise. Not too surprising perhaps when you think of Johnny Hallyday.

 

[CopperCyclist]

Am I being too much of a puritan for expecting fellow Britons to exercise just a smigeon of resatraint when it comes to alcohol consumption, maintainance of basic behaviour when out with friends and the ability to see reason? Thoughts welcomed.

You're not being too much of a Puritan, no. However you are expecting too much from our current society based on my personal experiences.

Sorry your night was ruined. It might be worth sending a letter of disappointment to the theatre explaining how your night was spoilt. They may offer you another show to make up for it if they value customer service.

 

[CopperCyclist]

I sometimes if this country has their drugs all wrong - totally legal to suck yourself full of cheap booze that makes some folk a **** to all concerned and yet gentle stoner-folk are persecuted as criminals.

I've never known a stoner to start a fight or be aggressive.

I've known plenty of habitual cannabis users get massively paranoid and commit domestic violence - and then their lawyers use said habit as mitigation in court - does that count?

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I've known plenty of habitual cannabis users get massively paranoid and commit domestic violence - and then their lawyers use said habit as mitigation in court - does that count?

Totally, I think (probably like a lot of people do) of gentle creative types when it comes to soft drug users, and I know that as with anything putting the criminals in charge (by making soft drugs illegal) they get horribly altered for profit and become something very negative. In the case of weed the fact it's now so damn strong would certainly induce paranoia and general mental hell.

I'm not saying drug use or drinking is either good or bad, but the current controls appear to exacerbate the issue and the folk who get it in the neck are the poor buggers trying to police it all. I say this with the greatest of respect for the police.