So personally, I choose not to drink and I'm sure there's a few of you out there that don't either. Health, hangovers, just being retarded, and messing up my game are all factors. So it annoys me because I'm the outcast and I'm not the guy that will take advantage of the chicks that are drunk.

I feel like I can't get away from it. The way I see it either I find friends that don't drink (which will limit a lot...?) or I find a way to cope with it. Idk, it just sucks. For those of you that don't drink, how the fuck do you do it.

I used to be the guy that didnt drink, did it affect me?, no, more-so girls found it attractive. Its hard to go out and not be in the same mindset as everyone else I wont deny that but you just get in there and do what they all do even if it feels wierd because your sober. Dance, Laugh, Sing nobody cares because they are drunk.

The reason I didnt drink is because of sport so I hung around with these guys too which helped but the rest of my social circle all drink so fake it till you make it, act like your drunk or hang around with others that dont drink

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'Nothing is impossible to a willing mind'

the response would possibly be go somewhere where there isnt alcohol involved stay away from bars, people go to bars to drink

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life sucks and then you die! deal with it

Yes but if all your friends drink you need to adapt to the environment, and yes I do agree with you too crazy

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'Nothing is impossible to a willing mind'

Yeah one problem is most of my friends drink. I find it hard at my age of 21 to find people that don't drink and events where there isn't alcohol. Also, I perceive girls that drink to be trashy. I wish alcohol never existed

i don't understand whats the problem you can drink and not be drunk and the same time just don't take taquilla shots - go with beer or something like that with low alchol and alot to drink..

man im just starting out but i dont drink because i want to get serious with my boxing. i dont know how you get around it but im sure there are plenty of people that dont drink. maybe just get some soda water and say its got alcohol in? or just wander round with a pint and dont drink it. but its probably best to just make up a good cover story for why you dont. one that makes you seem like an interesting person. i.e. im training for the olympics or im on medication to control the malaria i got helping orphans in africa (obviously those are jokes but you get the picture. something that makes you seem like there is a vailid reason and will make you look like a better person)

I guess the difference is I have a problem with everyone drinking around me and acting retarded. It f*cking irritates me. Jish put it best though I guess I will just have to deal with it and act retarded as well, it seems like I just can't escape people and their alcohol.

My biggest question now is how do I find the right girls? Maybe I shouldn't even worry about getting girls while I'm at these parties/bars/etc. because I think girls that drink are trashy? I just feel when I talk to girls that are drinking the convo just doesn't feel genuine ya know?

So for any of you that don't drink do you hook up with girls that are drinking? I won't judge. Or do you just get their info if you end up hitting it off (maybe due to her being drunk idk) and settle it out later?

I sure have!, there seems to be a stigma that if your sober and hook up with a drunk girl your playing dirty, and that your taking advantage of her when shes vunerable ect ect, I personally disagree and when you start not drinking you find that alot of girls dont get smashed when they go out its just the smashed ones you pay attention to because they are in the spotlight. Is it wrong to pick up a girl thats having 1 standard drink per hour? she can still drive right?

As for you thinking drunk girls are trashy your holding a limiting beleif man, I know plenty of HB8+ that have degrees and a very stable life that like to go out and dance and drink to let their hair down

Its your call though:)

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'Nothing is impossible to a willing mind'

I don't drink, and I'm not afraid of letting people know.

"Nope, I don't like to drink."

If asked why, "I have my reasons."

Of course, body language will trump words. You have to genuinely be comfortable with your decision of not drinking.

Ginger Ale is your friend. Most people will never know it's not booze.

I've always found that when someone asks

"How come your not drinking?"

Reply "I just don't want to tonight"


Subject quickly goes away, I find that having a few helps my game a lil bit, especailly with AA anyway

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To Succeed You Have to Stop being Ordinary and Start being Legend...Wait For It....Dary!!!

If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got.

Live for the Moment, Never see a Chance you didn't take!

As I am writing this there is a half full/half empty (make your choice) bottle of beer in front of me (I am at Uni so drinking is regular business). Drinking can help you overcome some fear, but it is confidence you must master, after all do you really want to be reliant on alcohol to have courage in delivering your approach?

I usually drink 2 or 3 stiff drinks to at least get me loosened up and to kill me AA, which I still have even after coming so far in the game. However there have been times I didnt want to drink, so I just said "I dont feel like" people usually leave you alone. The only time a girl really pestered me to take shots with her and I didnt want to I just told her I was Muslim (I'm not but you would believe me if you saw me)

Nope. That's another reason I don't want to drink. The main reason though is for health/bodybuilding reasons.

And Jish, you've enlightened me again. There are a lot of girls that go out that are sober enough to hook up with.

A good line I heard from someone before getting the k-close (credit due to whoever said this) went something like "I really want to kiss you, but I never kiss a girl that's drunk."
Now thinking about it a drunk girl will probably say she's not drunk..