Millennials think getting drunk is pathetic and embarrassing

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I read something about this the other day

metro.co.uk/2017/09/27/millennials-think-getting-drunk-is-pathetic-and-embarrassing-6958560/

I'm "late millenial", I presume this survey is more from those at the other end. Being early 30s I have friends on both sides of the bordering generations; I must admit, if I scroll down my Facebook newsfeed on an average weekend, I see more photos of my 37-45 year old friends getting hammered than I do of friends in their 20s. Drunken selfies, videos of them being raucous, pictures pretending to grope each other, blurry pics - it does come across a bit cringey at times.

I think that millennials get a hard time and called narcissists (and sometimes that's deserved), but I do think there's a generation in the "born in the 70s, with kids under 13, middle class" category whose decorum on social media could give millennials a run for their money at times
I realise that's a sweeping statement but that's based on my own personal experience so I hope it doesn't cause offence.

There were articles last year about reducing numbers of nightclubs across the U.K. due to mllenials going out less.

It got me thinking, one of the reasons I went out and drank was to meet guys and part of the bonus of alcohol was Dutch courage. I don't think there is as much chatting up going on as people connect on social media or dating websites and then meet for a safe coffee or quiet drink.

I'm a millennial and everyone I know drinks in moderation but takes a shit load of drugs at weekends. Just different things being in fashion at different times right?

You’ve never met an early 20s millennial. I’m 22 ... I’m pretty sure most of the people I know are headed for serious liver damage and alcohol issues as they age, I even worry for myself, they are out of control.

Only Straight-Edge Hipsters take the embarrassed stance.

The difference is however that they’ll get smashed one night on a bottle and a half of wine ... but they don’t go to the pub 3 nights a week and drink all night without considering it a ‘night out’ because it’s just the pub.
I worked in a bar for the last 4 years and where millennial are weekend clubbers ... older generations just seem to drink beer like water in the pub and get to bed by midnight

People born in the seventies definitely aren't millennials BTW. Even the most generous cut off is early 1980s (early 30s now) and there's a very big difference in wealth between older millennials and younger ones (I also think the class differences are very pronounced don't know if that gets taken into account...)

Anyway. I'm a millennial, we don't drink that much. Can't afford it! Do like alcohol though. Actually, I don't know that many people that take drugs. Though I knew a lot more who did at University.

I think we probably are a bit more clean living.

You have to slightly bear in mind that many of our parents were those workaholics/alcoholics in that 80s excess boom and don't necessarily find it appealing.

Also I am gen Z and a millennial apparently so who the fuck knows

Don't know about millenials but getting drunk IS pathetic and embarrassing.

Yes to this, and it seems to be largely a British/Australian thing, that I have seen.

Just to add I don't think drunk people are pathetic! Occasional drunkness is awesome!

But multiple times a week, don't fancy that. (can't afford that and not a hangover fan,)

smoking, alcohol, drugs....waste of time and money

Good. It is.

No one was ever made more attractive or more interesting by getting pissed. Drunks are saddos.

As mn isn't good on comprehension, to clarify that doesn't mean no alcohol. Just have some self control.

What is it about getting drunk that attracts? I have never understood this. There have been only 2 occasions in my life that I have had too much to drink and on both occasions I felt terrible (on one of them I was actually sick). Why would anyone deliberately want to make themselves feel ill? It's not at all enjoyable! I've obviously missed something but can't think what!

I think this applies more to those in their early twenties right now (and younger) - my daughter is 21 and has been drunk twice in her whole life. Same for her 24 yr old bf and neither have ever been to the point of losing control/vomiting etc. They have purposefully chosen to hang around with folk who are the same too so all their friends are like this.

They just want to work and save for a house without making life more difficult and expensive (and probably embarrassing too given social media etc)

I don't drink at all and my life insurance is insanely cheap. I do think drunk people are embarrassing.

They're having less sex too.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/aug/02/less-sex-please-were-millennials-study

When I think Millenial I get a mental images of Saffron Monsoon looking down sternly at my lifestyle and judging. I know its just a stereotype (and a prophetic prediction from the 90s) but that is the image I get.

I'm 27 when I was 18 I went out got completely head over arse and enjoyed myself. The next time I wasn't drunk I really didn't enjoy myself you see how twatty people are and how ridiculous they look. I realised to enjoy the town scene I had to be drunk which is just stupid. Why waste money to get drunk think I had an awesome night and not remember it, but going off what my mum says a night out isn't the same maybe a lot of people like me when young go out do the clubbing thing realise how shit it is and move on maybe that's why at least my town it's now full of 18/19 year olds then skips to 40+ you don't see the middle ground. Theres definitely more pubs that seem to attract the older generation than there is clubs for the young and there always shutting down. I have so much more fun going to dinner or the cinemas. I just don't get drinking. I know when out with my mum she's always encouraging me to have a drink but I just dont like it. I always notice at family parties it is the older generation downing the drinks. I also now work a few shifts where drunks can come in and I find the older generation to be a lot more embarrassing and hard work although the young that are drunk can be idiots too. Drunk people do look like twats I also would have young customers I'd see on the weekend being knobs acting like idiots that would come in through the week shy as anything embarrassed where as the older generation wouldn't be bothered and would still chat away to me about why I ended up kicking them out. My Facebook has a few people getting drunk there the 40+ men. My younger friends it's mainly pictures of them travelling.

Interesting. I wonder how much of this perception is that as parents we want to convince ourselves that our children won't be interested in drinking though.

I'm 43. Never been drunk. I'm not teetotal, just never saw the point in getting plastered. Being drunk occasionally is one thing, but being drunk on a regular basis (ie, most weekends) is pathetic and embarrassing and I feel a bit sad that people who do that think they can't find other stuff to do that's enjoyable.

Alcohol abuse is a problem in the older generation.

I am still to meet a drunk person who is not pathetic and embarrassing.

You really do not need to be a millennial to see this.

I agree that we're maybe mixing up our terms here, as my understanding is that the statistics show that it's the under 25ish group where the numbers who don't drink are soaring. I'm a lecturer and I've definitely noticed that my students don't go out like my generation of students did. While I don't particularly want them to be doing unhealthy things, I do think this change is a bit sad because I think it's linked to three depressing things:

1. they can't afford it. Where I teach housing is expensive; they all seem to work almost full-time jobs in shops, etc. just to get by. Spending £30 on a night out just doesn't seem feasible to them.
2. they're all so focused on doing well and getting jobs. Again, obviously, as their lecturer I want them to do well and be successful afterwards. But this seems so fear driven - we've made them all constantly terrified of failure so they won't 'let their hair down'.
3. I'm convinced it's all connected to an Instagrammy focus on clean eating, etc - which would be great if it were for health but I think it's because they're chronically insecure about their looks in a social media age. They're not treating their bodies like temples as an expression of self-love, they're avoiding the alcohol calories because they feel like failures if they don't look like Deliciously Ella or whatever.

Actually most early twenties millennials drink a lot. I think this talking about people my age - so people in late thirties who grew up in the noughties - even at uni it was considered sad to get drunk.

Lovely. More wine and more likelihood of a seat in a busy pub for me, then.

I'm gen x, have taught a lot of mellenials / gen y students.

My thoughts.

Much more conformist in everything- I rarely meet someone in that age group who is truly edgy or eccentric. Very conformist in dress, mannerisms, hair, make up etc.

Much less into boozing, and drugs (my generation took buckets of drugs and booze every weekend.)

Much more consumerist - which ok if you're paying for uni then I get, but much more into 'stuff.'

Much more entitled. They are more likely to have cars, phones, apartments etc than we were. The expectations of my student times was that you lived in a pit and ate beans.

They're nice kids, all of them, but there's something lacking, they're so afraid of failing, they seem neutered in some way. Very afraid to not conform, very into looking identikit perfect

I also see worsening grammar and critical thought by the year, but I'm sure someone will point out that that's been a whinge since Socrates was around.

I think saffy too -