To wonder why going out drinking is so looked down on here?

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Typical night out for my friends and I - around 3/4 bars and then usually at the end a bar that has music and dance.

Throughout the night some of us leave at 10, some much later, some don't drink at all, never any pressure to drink, never any pressure to dance (a couple of them hate it), we can handle our drink, are not throwing up on the streets etc

I don't understand why in most peoples minds on here that going out involves drinking until you pass out, throw up all over yourself and get with random strangers. What kind of friends do you have?

Pre DC I was a total heavyweight drinker. Out most weekends and tbf some weekdays too at my worst point... Could drink just about anyone under the table and would make it home for 8 am in one piece to watch T4 with a strong cup of coffee . Only got sick three times from drinking I think... First time I ever drank at 14, alcohol poisoning once and once when I'd mixed drinks a bit too much.

Since DC I can't hack drinking anymore. I have three drinks and I get chronic stomach cramps and subsequently the shits. I'm not sure what having children has triggered, some kind of allergy or intolerance I think... Maybe I'm just getting on a bit now, who knows . Needless to say I don't drink often anymore.

Don't look down on people who do go out and drink, how could I given my past? But I do get a bit at the drunks that waste emergency services time, particularly paramedics and A&E staff. Other than that knock yourself out I guess, none of mine or anyone else's business.

This still isn't making sense. You accuse MN of looking down on anyone having a drinking session as immature and assuming that going out for an evening's drinking will inevitably lead to chucking up and sex with a random, but you can't actually back it up with any examples. What a load of utter shite.

Oh well others have agreed with me so it can't be that much of utter shite as you so nicely put it.

I think most posters assume that occasionally we mostly all go out and let our hair down. I have never witnessed any negative comments I don't think?

Yes, that's the way it goes on Am I Being Unreasonable. Some will say yabu and some will say yanbu with about 0.001% of aibu threads reaching a consensus.

Just because other haven't witnessed them doesn't mean no one else has.

I have seen such things as OP mentions. People have said binge drinking at the weekend is disgusting yet openly admit drinking 4 glasses or more a night.

It seems binge drinking is only acceptable if it's done at home with wine

OP asked a question and people could have answered without sounding like bell ends but it is AIBU

And plenty haven't agreed with you, and you still haven't bothered providing any examples.

Precious and only one parent drinks (alone presumably) so the other can rush any other member of the family to a and e through the night

I sometimes get a vibe that going out late/drinking and dancing/staying out is a bit frowned upon by some...but there are Friday might threads full of MNers in the house with kids in bed guzzling bottles of wine, so...hmmmm

Puking, fighting and losing complete control is not fun. But I LOVE the odd proper night out on the town with lots of cocktails and wine...even the hangover the next day is usually worth it

Going to a party tonight and fully intend to get tipsy and dance my socks off.

I disagree that it's looked down on.

HTH

I'm not sure who agrees with you, because I still don't know what your actual proposition is.

I review several scientific papers per year and this is just a mess.

You don't drink too much, other people do. Fact of life.
MN seems to frown upon drinking "To wonder why going out drinking is so looked down on here?" but OTOH "why in most peoples minds on here that going out involves drinking until you pass out".

So, which is it?
Does one thread (or even a few) a site make?

The op is mentioning that she has noticed something. I have also mentioned I have noticed the same thing.

MN is a big site, we won't all of seen all the same threads hence the different opinions.

Why does it matter what the op is trying to achieve?! What the fuck are half the threads here trying to achieve.

I think it meant precious as in "PFB".

No I was addressing you, agreeing with your comment about people mainly drinking at home.

This is a chat thread not a scientific paper!

Oh come on now. There have been loads of threads where if someone admits to more than 2 glasses of wine in a single night there are cries of "binge drinking!!!" with guidelines quoted and projections of ruined weekends while children sit sadly as mum sleeps off the hangover.

precious do you ask every Op what they want to gain from every thread you comment on?

Why are people so obsessed with what this thread is trying to achieve? Most threads descend into chat and observation, why does this one have to be more rigorous?

Because people are on the defensive, probably too hungover from their binge drinking last night

Ouch! Hope you're feeling better soon

Has no one else noticed an almost competitive "old before my years"ness on mn? People seem keen to talk about anything they think makes them seem middle aged when they're not. This "can't face big nights out, would rather be home in my slippers with a cuppa" seems to me to be an extension of that
Maybe it's just me who has noticed that