People who drink are even more annoying at Christmas?

[ChristmasAlcoholObjection]

I mean, some drinkers are always annoying - “it’s only one” “aren’t you toasting” “loosen up you boring bugger” etc. we all know them.

But by God they’re worse at Christmas. Unsatisfied unless everyone’s drinking, plastered the entire day, insisting on buying people alcohol for presents even though they know they don’t really drink. It’s just frustrating, I think far more drinkers have a problem than know it or admit it.

I know several that particularly annoy me by being being superior about other things especially at Christmas - like one of my friends has a joint every now and then, which I’m not saying is a good thing, but honestly put me in a room full of stoners over drinkers any day, less loud, less aggressive and less likely to punch anyone. (No crime comments please, it’s legal in multiple countries and much of this non criminally made stuff is what’s here, can even buy directly online and loads of people grow one plant of their own so just stop with the slave trade stuff). I don’t smoke it myself, just making a point.

They’ll mock the “fatty that can’t stop eating” while downing their 5th glass, yet from everything I’ve read if they swapped booze for mounjaro we’d save about 20bn on the NHS and have less crime, violence and car accidents! 😂

I’m not seriously suggesting everyone should quit, thousands of years of habit isn’t that simple no matter how bad it is or even the fact that medically it’s literally poison!
But stop trying to drag the bloody rest of us into it!! You incredibly dull boozehounds.

Remove them from your life... one thing about aging is that I've realised my time is precious, and if I don't like who you are, I'm not wasting my time spending it with you....

You sound as if you have a lot of people who are tiresome drunks in your circles. I barely drink, but I don’t encounter these people.

I honestly don’t really recognise these people. I drink rarely, and have a close group I go out with which is mostly teetotal. I’ve never passed comment on whether someone is drinking wine/beer or Diet Coke. Doesn’t really affect me one way or the other. We have a great time either way.

Alcohol has nothing to do with the fact that you apparently hang out with people who are total cunts. Drinking isn't the issue here. I don't know anyone who behaves like the people you're describing.

Live and let live

Good grief, your social circle is grim. Find new friends, who the hell drunks all day and mocks the fatty, what are yoh doing with these people.

and so many of them. That’s so sad for you. I don’t know anyone like that and we are a mixed bag of drinkers, non drinkers, and yes a few stoners.

My husband is probably the most annoying drunk who ever lived

You need new friends.

I dont know anyone like this. You should choose your company more carefully.

Agree you need new friends. I don't know anyone who does this.

I drink but none of my friends are like that

I think it's lame when folk in their 50s and above joke about being hungover

Wow. You need new friends. I drink but I would steer clear of anyone who behaved like that.
Cannabis is not legal here whatever you might think. And county lines is a real problem, even if you don't want to consider that.

I went out with 16 people I loosely know last night for Christmas Dinner. I was driving and had two drinks. Noone tried to force anything on me. The lady next to me was also driving and had coke zero. Another guy was driving, I didn't see what he was drinking. Everyone else was filling their boots and having a great time. Perhaps you need to try a new friendship group next time,

To be honest, your friends sound awful. And you sound judgemental too. Describing people as Fatties is just a horrible thing to do.

Nothing like a bit of casual ageism there. Over 50s are also allowed to let their hair down you know. 🙄

Oh stop it with the bloody ageism ffs! 🙄

@ChristmasAlcoholObjection
Alcohol is nit the problem here, it's the company you choose to keep.

I agree with you. Im a drinker but I would never try to push drink on someone else if they have said no. Pushing alcohol on others is pretty toxic behaviour that was always socially acceptable, although I think it’s becoming less acceptable over the years as attitudes to alcohol are changing.

I don't drink much at all (tend to get ill before I get drunk, so it's pointless) and as it happens my closest family don't either, nobody's fussed. We have all had variations on this theme over the years, particularly when we were younger - generally from acquaintances and colleagues rather than actual friends. It's infuriating, boring and bloody rude.

Now at 51, it almost never happens and everyone I spend time with knows I'll either have 0, 1 or maybe 2 small drinks and that'll be that. I'd consider who you're spending time with. Plenty of non-idiots around, whether they're drinkers or not. Dh likes a drink, as do his friends and family, but none of them have a go at us, they're just delighted to have a driver on the rare occasion we go anywhere.

I think what’s sad is yoh seem to think the extreme ott behaviour you describe is actually normal. like people would agree with you. Very few people will encounter something so extreme. It isn’t normal.

please find new friends, don’t socialise with these people. They are utter low life’s.

Everyone saying “choose new friends” -.she may be talking about family at Xmas!

I don't know anyone who behaves like that, so maybe you just need better friends, who can take their drink and not be arseholes about it.

Also, stoners are terminally dull, and most of them are not growing their own.

Quite possibly but she can still chose not to go, or not invite them

Then she needs to go no contact. It would explain why she’s written it like it’s something we would all experience or recognise.
these people are the dregs of the earth, I feel so sorry for her.

I drink, and i know lots of people who drink. The ones who behave like you describe are utterly that's, and it ruins drinking for me, personally. If someone starts putting the pressure on me to drink, my desire for alcohol just immediately vanishes! I have a parent like this and they then sit there as if you've offended them personally if you say no thank you....

My family on my husband’s side are big drinkers and loud. They’re still nice people. It’s just their thing and not mine. And they cannot understand why others wouldn’t want to spend Xmas like that. I don’t want to go for Xmas (and no longer do) but it certainly doesn’t mean I need to go no contact. But it’s tough saying no because they cannot understand why someone could not want to drink and play loud games. If we don’t go Xmas day they try to get us to do the same on Boxing Day or the 27th. I think they all think I’m a humbug!😃