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AIBU?

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Original poster

To think getting quite drunk with a baby is odd??

576 replies

Choccywoccydoo10 · 16/11/2017 12:14

NC as could be outing.

So we are suppose to be visiting friends this weekend. They have a 6 month old we have a toddler. They want to go out for dinner and drink then go back to theirs and pop open the champagne. Apparently they have quite a few bottles. My DP friend then said he's going to guzzle the wine and his wife will be drinking too.

Obviously most of the drinking will be when the kids are in bed but AIBU to think you wouldn't do this?? What if something happened like an emergency and you needed to go out or the baby needed something. I wouldn't want to get really drunk while caring for my D'S.

I'm all for having fun and a laugh but a glass or 2 not 3 bottles of champagne and guzzling wine!

AIBU or would other people do this?

OP posts:
ProfessorCat · 16/11/2017 20:24

Maybe it's just the amount of alcohol you've had Grin

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 16/11/2017 20:27

You're obsessed. Just because you don't drink alcohol, doesn't mean everyone else knocks it back at the first opportunity. Dry house here this week.

ProfessorCat · 16/11/2017 20:28

Obsessed? With what?

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 16/11/2017 20:30

Alcohol.

ProfessorCat · 16/11/2017 20:31

Erm.... Hmm

grimeofthecentury · 16/11/2017 20:34

Professor cat you probably don't enjoy anything that involves other people or leaving your house from the sounds of your posts. I'd be absolutely mortified if you were my child's teacher, you come across as a massively judgmental & snobby, so far up your own arsehole you can't see daylight. Life's quite nice when you bloody unclench, you know, live and let live and alll that. I have a heart problem which means I can't get smashed but I can have a glass of wine, enjoy it, feel relaxed, be responsible and not be some saddo who relies on alcohol. This is true of most people. You don't have to be so uptight.

grimeofthecentury · 16/11/2017 20:35

"Saddo who relies on alcohol" should have been in quotation marks there. That's not my opinion, but what others on this thread seem to be implying

ProfessorCat · 16/11/2017 20:36

Why would you be embarrassed? That's weird.

You know nothing about my life, other than I don't like alcohol and people who are drunk. Your assumptions are hilarious 😂

ProfessorCat · 16/11/2017 20:36

Oh, and football tops.

grimeofthecentury · 16/11/2017 20:38

Embarrassed??? What are you on about? You're really making yourself look daft here, pedantry and smug judgement is a horrible look on anyone. I take it you and your children are absolutely perfect in everyway, then?

Strokethefurrywall · 16/11/2017 20:41

ProfessorCat - Your assumptions are hilarious

As is your assumption that parents who drink alcohol around their children are verging on the alcoholic and deserve scathing judgement. You know nothing of their lives either.

6 of one, half a dozen of the other.

Bubblebubblepop · 16/11/2017 20:42

Professor cat you're nothing but a goody fucker

Bubblebubblepop · 16/11/2017 20:42

Goady even. Fuck off phone

ProfessorCat · 16/11/2017 20:43

Grime, you said you'd be mortified if I was their teacher. Mortified means embarrassed....

No one is perfect Smile

Stroke - I didn't actually assume people who drink alcohol round their children are alcoholics. I don't agree with binging or being drunk while in charge of children.

ittakes2 · 16/11/2017 20:49

Your friends maybe drinking but it doesn't mean both of them are planning on getting plastered.

kali110 · 16/11/2017 20:53

don't agree with binging or being drunk while in charge of children.
No i dont think you agree with people drinking around kids full stop.( not drunk).
You've comments are very judgemental full stop.

grimeofthecentury · 16/11/2017 20:53

It means embarrassed or ashamed. I'd feel ashamed to say you were teaching my child with your attitude towards anyone that isn't, well, you

kali110 · 16/11/2017 20:53

Your*

Hulababy · 16/11/2017 20:57

It's when you depend on it to actually make you feel happy that there's a problem.

But who, on this thread, has actually said that?

Ecureuil · 16/11/2017 20:58

It's when you depend on it to actually make you feel happy that there's a problem

None of the people on this thread who’ve said they sometimes have a few drinks when their children are in bed have said they depend on alcohol to be happy.

Fresta · 16/11/2017 21:00

Professor, I think you fully understood what Grime was intending to say; undermining her arguments by nit-picking over her choice of vocab. is just showing how small-minded your judgements are.

ProfessorCat · 16/11/2017 21:01

No one, Hula.

Good, Grime. Luckily you have no reason to be ashamed, as I clearly don't teach your children.

Oh, OK, Kali. I'd better tell DH that I don't approve of him drinking in front of DD then, when he has the odd beer.

ProfessorCat · 16/11/2017 21:01

Just clarifying, Fresta.

kali110 · 16/11/2017 21:54

I'm in the minority that thinks it's absolutely disgusting to drink at all when in charge of children
That's why i get that impression...
Maybe its ok for some...

hotbutteredcrumpetsandtea · 16/11/2017 22:01

I'm thinking that one of two of those blithering on about parents drinking are actually completely hammered. That level of obtuse goady fuckery while sober sounds unlikely.