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to think that falling in your plate is not on at lunch?

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Hullygully · 10/10/2011 11:51

So, Sunday lunch at a friend's yesterday. A couple that we know slightly are also invited. The woman who is very bright and very pleasant for the first hour, drinks so much that she is literally unable to speak (but doesn't stop trying), and we all carry on with lunch pretending that everything is normal and not laughing where she can see.

Is this normal? In any way?

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PinotScreechio · 10/10/2011 14:57

YY to Jack Whitehall. Can we share?

ShirleyKnot · 10/10/2011 14:57

oh oh oh oh oh oh oh!!!!

BUPPY!!!!!!!! That silver fox Lob is on SCD. Did you know that?

Have you been wanking yourself bandy?

ShirleyKnot · 10/10/2011 14:57

Channel 4 Pinot.

PinotScreechio · 10/10/2011 15:00

Dan Lobb is shittola at dancing though. But so pretty to look at.

ShirleyKnot · 10/10/2011 15:02

I would do some shit to him.

PinotScreechio · 10/10/2011 15:03

ahahahahaha Shirls

ShirleyKnot · 10/10/2011 15:04

I'm serious. I would do some nasty fucking shit to him.

GetOrfMo1Land · 10/10/2011 15:05

They cut a strip off the back of his head about an inch wide and iirc about 6 inches across, they then just hoiked up the skin (medical term) and sewed it up.

He then had to sit there fpr hours with nurses plonking hairs in his head.

dp keeps dropping hints Hmm

GetOrfMo1Land · 10/10/2011 15:05

What are yoiu two perves talking about?

ShirleyKnot · 10/10/2011 15:06

Dan Lobb

I'd give him a Lobb on

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Hullygully · 10/10/2011 15:08

I haven't got boxes n sky n shit I don't know who any of these people or programmes are

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PinotScreechio · 10/10/2011 15:08

:o

GetOrfMo1Land · 10/10/2011 15:10

Who the hell is he?

Bugsy2 · 10/10/2011 15:12

Eeeewwww, no - he looks mean. Not that I'm being judgy or going on first appearances at all!! Grin

TandB · 10/10/2011 15:13

I wouldn't necessarily equate this sort of drunken behaviour (even if it happens regularly) with alcoholism. I would probably actually be more concerned if she drank 8 glasses of wine and remained coherent and physically in control of herself while getting aggressive and loud - I know someone who behaved like this and he turned out to be an alcoholic who had become so used to dealing with large quantities of alcohol that the only signs were the nasty mood-changes he experienced when drinking.

She could be a closet alcoholic - or she could equally just be someone who has no self-control when it comes to social drinking.

I don't blame people for laughing - nervous laughter is often the default position when you simply don't know how to react. A few years ago I went to a very large, very fancy charity dinner and quiz night. It was organised through one of our professional bodies and was hosted by someone Very Eminent in our field. There was a fair bit to drink and a few people were quite tipsy but one youngish woman pretty much brought the whole place to a standstill. She was at the next table to us and started off with fairly low-level drunken behaviour - shouting out the answers to the questions and heckling the quiz-master. She then got up and started harassing one of our young, very new trainees who was sitting next to me. he was getting embarrassed so I intervened and suggested that she should go and sit back down as people around us were trying to hear the quiz - I got a whole lot of mocking from her and she then started blowing loud, wet raspberries at me. She then tried to steal the trainee's drink and managed to spill red wine all down his shirt. At this point 2 of us got up and escorted her back to her seat but she got back up, came back and started trying to perform gymnastics on the back of the trainee's chair. One of her colleagues got her back to her table where she started slugging from a bottle of red wine before getting up, going and standing in front of the quiz master and dancing with her eyes closed and her arms waving in the air.

Up till now people had been laughing and cat-calling. At this point the laughter started getting a bit strained and people began shushing their colleagues. She then tried to remove some of the raffle prizes and had a row with one of the hosts who stopped her. By now the place was completely silent and no-one knew where to look. One of her colleagues got up - it eventually transpired that he was also her DP- why he had let it go on so long without intervening I will never know. He tried to get her to sit down but finished up having a domestic directly behind the quiz-master and in front of the entire room. It culminated in her pushing him away and falling over in the process, lying on the floor with her skirt hitched up and her pants on display. Her boyfriend stormed off and left her and none of her colleagues intervened so I and one of my colleagues got up and tried to cover her up and get her off the floor - she fought us off and swore at us but we did manage to drag her up and then some of her colleagues came and escorted her out of the room where she passed out.

All of the later part of the incident was conducted in a deathly silence from the guests with the quiz master soldiering gamely on with the questions and trying to pretend it wasn't happening. When she was finally gone we did all look at each other and laugh a bit, mainly from relief that it was over. It was hideous. Her boyfriend came back later and made some half-hearted apologies along the lines of "oh she always gets like this, she can't hold her drink, what can you do?" and got a right mouthful from one of my female colleagues who told him he was a disgrace for not intervening earlier.

I always wondered how she could possibly face everyone the following day.

GetOrfMo1Land · 10/10/2011 15:13

He looks like a baddie in Emmerdale Farm.

GetOrfMo1Land · 10/10/2011 15:14

oh he is a newsseeader

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Hullygully · 10/10/2011 15:16

kungfu that is magnificent. Particularly her dancing with her eyes closed and arms in the air. I didn't laugh even once no not one bit.

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ShirleyKnot · 10/10/2011 15:17

He is LUSH.

KungFu - that sounds horrendous!

Snorbs · 10/10/2011 15:19

"Her boyfriend came back later and made some half-hearted apologies along the lines of "oh she always gets like this, she can't hold her drink, what can you do?" and got a right mouthful from one of my female colleagues who told him he was a disgrace for not intervening earlier."

You ever tried intervening with a drunk woman who is determined to get drunker? I have. The cuts and bruises took quite a while to heal.

TandB · 10/10/2011 15:31

Snorbs - perhaps. But she was with her boyfriend and a table of 8 other colleagues and as far as we could see not one of them made even a token effort to stop her drinking. When she was hanging around our table we just kept moving the drinks away from her and eventually managed to get her back to her seat. The person who should have had the most care for her well-being simply let her get on with it - if he knew how it was likely to go then he should have been a bit more pro-active earlier on.

limitedperiodonly · 10/10/2011 15:34

kungfu I'm laughing now and I wasn't even there.

Reminds me of someone I used to work with who I avoided after one night out when she called a doorman I knew an arsehole for no reason on leaving a club. Called me sobbing about her behaviour at 7am, four hours after I'd fallen asleep. At work completely forgot all of this and asked me to get his phone number for her.

She once hogged the karaoke at an xmas party and when the DJ tried to pack up at 2am refused to hand over the mic and snarled at him to turn it back on because 'you're working for us.'

She routinely harangued senior colleagues at work dos to order more wine and 'put it on expenses, you tight bastard.'

One colleague was staying the night in a Park Lane hotel after a do for work purposes - he had to remain sober.

She crashed his room, emptied the minibar and passed out. He couldn't argue with her and didn't feel like calling security.

In the morning she denied doing this and refused to cough up for the enormous mini bar bill.

LtAllHallowsEve · 10/10/2011 15:41

We once left a friend (male) asleep, standing up at the bar with his chin in his hand whilst we carried on with a pub quiz. He regularly fell asleep in pubs/clubs etc.

He slept for over an hour, gently snoring, still standing.

Bastard woke up and shouted out a completely obscure answer that I was convinced our team were the only ones to have.....thanks to him the bloody Doctors won yet again.

Snorbs · 10/10/2011 15:43

I find it particularly curious that your colleague chose to castigate him for what his girlfriend did. Does the rat-arsed woman have no responsibilities for what transpired? Did no-one give her a right mouthful for being a drunken disgrace?

Her boyfriend wasn't holding her down and pouring wine down her throat. She was a grown-up following a course of action she chose for herself. Maybe he saw himself as her boyfriend rather than her dad, her keeper, or the booze police.

Or maybe he was absolutely sick and tired of her drunken bullshit and knew that it didn't matter what he did or said, if she wanted to get pissed she was going to get pissed and he couldn't stop her.

BupcakesandHaunting · 10/10/2011 15:51

DAN LOBB HUBBA HUBBA

He can, erm, boff me into next year any time he likes. The sexy, silver-haired, chisel-jawed filth merchant.

PHWOOOOOOOAAAAARRRRRR