My experience meeting up with the lads who drink more frequently than me, is after a few drinks, they ending up on the same conversations as last time we where there, same politics, cultural differences between the west and asia (basically how stupid thais is) and last but not least of course solving world problems, and that means all of them.
In the meantime I ride another interesting route, went to an Island, offshore for work, planted new crops and hope they will survive, but I just cant talk about that. That is so far from their reality and not interesting at all.
When did people talk about the last book they read to their friends? Nobody do that anymore, not even talk about movies, I mean good quality movies,
As long I keep up with football\soccer teams I have something to talk about for a few minutes, but not really my sport.
Drinking and socilizing I find very shallow to be earnest.