To find stories of people getting really drunk so boring?

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There's one woman particularly who I work with who is in her 40s and tells these long stories about how drunk she got and what she did when she was really drunk. I just don't care

Sorry, i thought you might find it amusing.
Or at least be able to throw some light on how I got that rather bizarre tattoo. 🙁

It's boring when they're with you and you have to be witness to it let alone a long story when you weren't even there!

I just find it pathetic at age 40. Falling down drunk may have been mildly funny in my early 20s but at 40 its just sad and it makes me think that person has a problem

I think she may have a problem but it's hard to know, especially when you don't live with someone. Just so bored of being like ahh at her stories of what she's managed to get up to while she's smashed.

Yanbu. One of my oldest friends is like this. Posts pictures of her drunk face. I'm teetotal now and find it so boring. Maybe I'm boring!

I've never really understood the way that some people think it is hilarious to get drunk and be out of control and vulnerable. It is excruciating to witness. Alcohol dependency is often a problem with these people too, in that they have decided that it's a socially acceptable state to be in.

Oh dear. I’d feel the same. It’s one thing getting slaughtered and acting the fool when you’re, say, 20 (altho stories are still a bit boring tbh!) but at double that age, it’s just cringey to still be acting that way and thinking it’s ‘cool’ or worth telling stories about. That’s not to say you never overdo it or have a bit too much but choosing to then boast about it is just embarrassing.

I wonder if, deep down, she knows she has a problem with alcohol and this is her way of denying it to herself by normalising it and presenting it as amusing.

YANBU, I’d find that boring too. A bit like when people tell you about the weird dream they had. It’s interesting/entertaining to them but not to anyone else.

I would just use quite a monotone voice and make minimal interjections of: ‘oh right’, ‘oh dear’ etc while maintaining a fairly blank facial expression. I’ve found most people understand this as a hint that you aren’t very interested in what they’re telling you.

Another option is to go the other way. Look really shocked and say ‘Oh my goodness- this keeps happening- what are you going to do about it? You can’t keep going on like this, surely?’

I think this too. I also wonder what her friends think of it, having to babysit her every time they go out to ensure she gets home safely. Nothing wrong with overdoing it on occasion but if this is a regular occurrence (which it seems like it is, if she has so many stories) I would imagine they're getting pretty fed up of it.

Hell yes. These kind of stories wear very thin, very quickly. It's like they gained cool points for drinking too much when they were teenagers and they think it's still some kind of social currency. It makes me cringe actually.

Obviously it's great to be around people who have a couple of drinks and become even more fun than usual. But someone who gets slaghtered and can barely stand up? Where's the humour in that?

I’m 49 and like to get drunk every now and then

it’s a good way to be silly, have some fun and live in the moment. Think we all need a bit of that tbh

YANBU. I’m teetotal and I hate it when all people talk about is where they drink, what they drink, how much they drank, how drunk they got, what they did when drunk.

I think their lives must be so dull if this is what their lives revolve around.

I think their lives must be so dull if this is what their lives revolve around

Yup. I can have loads of fun and be silly with friends without having to get absolutely hammered. If you need to get smashed to do that it makes me think your personality is probably pretty dull in the first place

Bit sad in her 40s.

I like a drink but know my limits and don’t get utterly legless any longer. And I go for quality over quantity.

YANBU, but I find it bores me in every age group.

I stopped going to Friday night knees up in my 20s, because I had no appetite for babysitting drunks. And it’s no fun being the only one sober, so no point in being there. Pathetic really ☹️.

Long stories about something the storyteller did, unless told brilliantly well, are invariably dull, whether they’re about getting shitfaced and passing out in an alley or the time you caught a really, really enormous fish.

There is nothing as boring as a drunk person. Especially at that age.

Ah I love my herbal teas at night. Couldn't be bothered with drinking alcohol tbh.

I worked with a woman who was like this - I was in my 20s and she was in her 40s. Every time she went out she would be ridiculously drunk and everyone found it hilarious. If that was me I'd just feel that everyone was laughing AT me and I'd hate that. But everyone really did seem to find it a hilarious thing.

She'd injure herself, fall down every time then usually puke all over her bed or stairs and her husband would have to clean up after her. Her young child would witness this too and she thought that was also hilarious.

I’m early 30s and don’t drink much anymore. I agree might have been funny in early/mid 20s but at some point you grow up a bit. I remember being 18/19 and telling my friends I’d still be clubbing in my 40s. But now I don’t know why I’d regularly want to hang out with sweaty teenagers! I find very drunk people embarrassing and when I hear drunk tales I just think I’m glad I wasn’t there! I’ve entered my grandma era and would rather go for dinner then go home to my cats and a book

I occasionally get drunk too (less and less) and you are right that occasionally it can be fun and harmless to let off steam but it’s deeply tedious to hear other people’s drinking stories.

I don’t know who would find someone else’s account of how they fell down the stairs in a pub, cut their knee open and vomited would be interesting? There’s a woman at my work who comes in on a weekly basis with stories like this and I am bemused as to what she thinks other people will think of it. It’s bizarre.

Also as PPs have said one thing when you are 25 to share the war stories. Embarrassing at 45.

What's her age got to do with it? If she was in her 20s or 30s telling the same stories, would you find them any less boring?

I am usually the sober one in a particular group as I don't live local.
One is a hideously embarrassing drunk. Loud, nasty and very over the top. When sober she's lovely.

I like hearing stories of fun nights out but would actually feel sad for her if her idea of a good time was being paralytic

It's pathetic. I hate drunks.
On several occasions now things have happened where the drinkers have a narrative they're adamant is fact, sober me being the only one to contradict them.
This includies an event where SIL was adamant she gave me the cards from her DD's wedding, which contained several thousand pounds. When she arrived home she was becoming more and more hysterical that she 100% gave them to me when I'd left earlier, as I was driving straight to her house with DC. She had a complete scenario in her head. She was so sure and everyone believed her. This went I for several hours. Even when I walked away I could hear her screaming, relaying in minute detail handing them to me.
She didn't want to inform DD as it was her wedding night being spent in a hotel. Hours later it emerged DD took the cards to the hotel to open there. That single occasion ruined a thirty year relationship with my in laws. She couldn't have been more apologetic but her mind told her I must have stolen her DD's wedding gifts and others believed her.