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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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To not see the attraction?

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Crafty11 · 09/02/2020 00:38

Went on a much awaited night out/event. Beginning of the night was fine because everyone just turned into drunken animals!! Falling off chairs. Drinks flying, fights breaking out. It was crazy. I just do not see the attraction of getting so drunk you don't know what you're doing. Why get that drunk that you fall about every where. Fall on people, be sick and have huge hangover the next day?? Surely have a few so you're a tipsy drunk is better? For context I'm almost 30. AIBU or just a grump

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Juliette20 · 09/02/2020 07:30

Perhaps you need friends who have a bit more class, OP. They sound a right bunch of chavs.

When I was younger we certainly used to drink but have a dance and a laugh. It was probably just as much high spirits as alcohol.

CripsSandwiches · 09/02/2020 08:07

Can't say I've ever been anywhere where the majority of people behave like that! Sounds awful.

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Crafty11 · 09/02/2020 08:24

They werent my friends they were random people. Tbh it was funny to a point and then it went from funny to annoying and crazy pretty quick. The girls beside us were drinking all sorts trying to get me and my friend to get up on the tables with them. When they spilt their drinks on us didn't apologise just laughed.
I don't think I'll be going there again. It was interesting!

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Ponoka7 · 09/02/2020 09:37

"trying to get me and my friend to get up on the tables with them"

You're supposed to get up and dance on the tables. That wasn't them going to far, that's what bongos has encouraged from the start. Before it properly caught on they'd have the people to do with the theme, dance on the tables.

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Crafty11 · 09/02/2020 09:53

@ponoka7 no they weren't allowed on the tables security told them 2 times to get off. The 3rd time they got told to leave

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Getitwright · 09/02/2020 10:06

It’s not funny, it’s appallingly selfish. On the rare occasion I have to go to A&E with one of my elderly parents, it’s not uncommon to see idiots in there with self inflicted injuries and illnesses, often carrying on with loud, foul mouthed bad behaviour. The genuinely ill and injured shouldn’t have to share the same space or air as such trash. It’s about time NHS could test for too much alcohol, like drink drivers, and charge them for treatment. Waste of public money and staff time.

Winterwoollies · 09/02/2020 10:53

I know someone who went to an event like this and left when one woman got so drunk she drank a candle. A lit candle. My friend’s retelling of the story is both hilarious and tragic.

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Crafty11 · 09/02/2020 12:36

She drank a lot candle? Just for laugh? 😂 Oh dear that is tragic. Well does make an interesting story. I've had some times I've been very drunk but never have I thought you know what I'm going to drink a candle.

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TheFaerieQueene · 09/02/2020 12:41

Shows what I know. This is how I imagined bingo would be. (Tbh I don’t really think about bingo!)

TwoZeroTwoZero · 09/02/2020 12:49

Last time I went to the bingo hall I got mucky looks and tutted at if I dared make a sound because they couldn't hear the numbers being called!

contentedsoul · 09/02/2020 12:58

My dad was a total piss head - from my very earliest memories right up until I left home 30 odd years ago, and yet I still cannot abide being near drunk people...they give me the fucking rage.
I despise them with a passion, along with the smell of alcohol, sluring, falling over, vomiting....Just why!!

Ginnyrellas · 09/02/2020 13:14

Im 30 and I couldn't tell you the last time I went on a "night out" purely for this exact reason. I do like a drink but when it gets to a point where its surpassed people just getting a little bit Leary! I'm out. Its embarrassing.

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Crafty11 · 09/02/2020 13:53

I'm almost 30 too ginny and this is exactly how I feel.

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Ginnyrellas · 09/02/2020 14:24

Not only that but I feel old as buggery. Would I rather sit In a bar pay a stupid amount of money for a drink, socialise with people that I don't even really like and watch 18 year olds try and out twerk each other. or sit at home with a bottle of wine in my pjs with my hubby and pets and only have a 2 minute walk up to bed.

Winterwoollies · 09/02/2020 15:34

@Crafty11 she was so drunk she thought it was her drink. It was one of those scented jobs that comes in a sort of tumbler glass. Absolutely mental.

Vulpine · 09/02/2020 15:46

If they're happy and not doing you any harm then i cant see the problem but obviously alot of drunk people are unhappy and harmful

Mlou32 · 09/02/2020 16:19

@Winterwoollies what ended up happening to her? I'd imagine the liquid wax would solidify while being swallowed and block your airways if you downed too much of it??

GroggyLegs · 09/02/2020 16:31

I stopped drinking heavily after going to work on camp on America at 21 - no alcohol allowed and yet we still managed to have a great time.
I can even remember feeling panicked at the first alcohol free 'dance' but amazingly it was okay!

I genuinely believe our drinking culture makes people believe good times = getting whammo'd and alcohol becomes a crutch. Can't cope with going out without it.

squizzles · 09/02/2020 16:36

I don't understand why people drink. Boring I suppose?

I'm 27 and can't believe how those older than me can be so irresponsible towards their health. Still trying to look cool? Fucking pathetic

Winterwoollies · 09/02/2020 16:42

@Mlou32 she was fine by all accounts. A waxy tongue perhaps. I don’t think it can have gone down too far. Absolutely staggering to be so drunk you drink a scented candle though.

Echobelly · 09/02/2020 16:47

I've always been too much of a control freak to get very drunk - I think I always want to be able to pull myself together in case of any problems. I also don't get the attraction of being out-of-control, puking, stupid-decision-making drunk. And I am a lightweight whose body gives out before my brain does - I just get to a point when I think 'If I drink any more I'm just going to feel dizzy and confused and weird so I'm going to stop now'.

But you never know what people are trying to get away from, or social anxiety they may be trying to overcome.

No, alcohol/drugs is not a good way of dealing with this, but I can see to some extent why people do it. There is also the unhealthy British drinking culture that encourages this way of drinking.

HollowTalk · 09/02/2020 16:56

Did anyone else laugh out loud at the woman doing a forward roll?

BobbyBlueCat · 09/02/2020 17:11

The second I read your first post, I KNEW it was going to be a Bongo Bingo night.

They're a victim of their own success.
First few were great, with a good mix of all ages.

Now, it's young, chavvy idiots causing trouble so the older crowd are stopping going.
Openly doing drugs on tables and in toilets, overpacked venues, serving more and more alcohol to very drunk people, not enough security, fights openly taking place and total chaos.

Somebody is going to get seriously hurt and the whole thing will finish for good.

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Crafty11 · 09/02/2020 18:24

bobbycat I went to one a year ago at a different venue in a different town. It was still a good party atmosphere but it was no where near on the level last night was. There was also a mixture of ages. I was completely sober at that event and I didn't feel unsafe and had fun.
I agree with you something is going to happen and it will stop as quick as it started.
No one else laughed at the girl they were all too busy dancing and being too drunk to notice I think. I luckily managed to save my bingo slip but the girls beside me kept spilling their drinks. I actually wanted to win some money lol I wouldn't have been happy if they ruined my bingo pages

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BobbyBlueCat · 09/02/2020 20:21

www.bongosbingo.co.uk/

Watch the video that will auto play at the top of the screen if you've never seen what this carnage is like!

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