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People who drink are even more annoying at Christmas?

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ChristmasAlcoholObjection · 19/12/2024 09:30

I mean, some drinkers are always annoying - “it’s only one” “aren’t you toasting” “loosen up you boring bugger” etc. we all know them.

But by God they’re worse at Christmas. Unsatisfied unless everyone’s drinking, plastered the entire day, insisting on buying people alcohol for presents even though they know they don’t really drink. It’s just frustrating, I think far more drinkers have a problem than know it or admit it.

I know several that particularly annoy me by being being superior about other things especially at Christmas - like one of my friends has a joint every now and then, which I’m not saying is a good thing, but honestly put me in a room full of stoners over drinkers any day, less loud, less aggressive and less likely to punch anyone. (No crime comments please, it’s legal in multiple countries and much of this non criminally made stuff is what’s here, can even buy directly online and loads of people grow one plant of their own so just stop with the slave trade stuff). I don’t smoke it myself, just making a point.

They’ll mock the “fatty that can’t stop eating” while downing their 5th glass, yet from everything I’ve read if they swapped booze for mounjaro we’d save about 20bn on the NHS and have less crime, violence and car accidents! 😂

I’m not seriously suggesting everyone should quit, thousands of years of habit isn’t that simple no matter how bad it is or even the fact that medically it’s literally poison!
But stop trying to drag the bloody rest of us into it!! You incredibly dull boozehounds.

OP posts:
LarkspurLane · 19/12/2024 10:35

Wow. You need new friends. I drink but I would steer clear of anyone who behaved like that.
Cannabis is not legal here whatever you might think. And county lines is a real problem, even if you don't want to consider that.

NeedToChangeName · 19/12/2024 10:31

I drink but none of my friends are like that

I think it's lame when folk in their 50s and above joke about being hungover

boulevardofbrokendreamss · 19/12/2024 10:30

Agree you need new friends. I don't know anyone who does this.

ThePoshUns · 19/12/2024 10:29

I dont know anyone like this. You should choose your company more carefully.

TheMousePipes · 19/12/2024 10:28

You need new friends.

Katemax82 · 19/12/2024 10:21

My husband is probably the most annoying drunk who ever lived

Dietingfool · 19/12/2024 10:14

Good grief, your social circle is grim. Find new friends, who the hell drunks all day and mocks the fatty, what are yoh doing with these people.

and so many of them. That’s so sad for you. I don’t know anyone like that and we are a mixed bag of drinkers, non drinkers, and yes a few stoners.

Cattery · 19/12/2024 10:14

Live and let live

ItGhoul · 19/12/2024 10:12

Alcohol has nothing to do with the fact that you apparently hang out with people who are total cunts. Drinking isn't the issue here. I don't know anyone who behaves like the people you're describing.

EveryKneeShallBow · 19/12/2024 10:05

I honestly don’t really recognise these people. I drink rarely, and have a close group I go out with which is mostly teetotal. I’ve never passed comment on whether someone is drinking wine/beer or Diet Coke. Doesn’t really affect me one way or the other. We have a great time either way.

SlightDrip · 19/12/2024 09:58

You sound as if you have a lot of people who are tiresome drunks in your circles. I barely drink, but I don’t encounter these people.

toomuchfaff · 19/12/2024 09:49

Remove them from your life... one thing about aging is that I've realised my time is precious, and if I don't like who you are, I'm not wasting my time spending it with you....

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