Does living in Thailand drive you to drink?

[shackleton]

When we go out  to a restaurant my son drives me in the car

So  I enjoy a few cold beers 🍻 

Been drinking alcohol nearly 60 years  only  suffered a lot of hangovers 🙃 

[Aussie999]

16 hours ago, proton said:

 Drunks are boring but ex drunks going on about how long it is since they had a drink are worse

Mate, I could really nah you... 40 years sober... Now, where can I start

 

[Ralf001]

5 minutes ago, Aussie999 said:

Mate, I could really nah you... 40 years sober... Now, where can I start

 

 

kudo's on 40 yrs but yeah nah..... fark that !

[Don Giovanni]

Just now, Ralf001 said:

 

kudo's on 40 yrs but yeah nah..... fark that !

you drunk already, ralf?

 

Thought you might be doing a bit of overtime, since you seem in need of the extra dough...

 

The Don.

[Ralf001]

2 minutes ago, Don Giovanni said:

you drunk already, ralf?

 

Thought you might be doing a bit of overtime, since you seem in need of the extra dough...

 

The Don.

 

No  OT champ.... company shutdown the whole week.

Love me a 9 day long weekend without any leave used !

[Don Giovanni]

2 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

 

No  OT champ.... company shutdown the whole week.

Love me a 9 day long weekend without any leave used !

sat in front of your computer on a 9 day paid holiday??

 

you sad bugger!

 

The Don.

[Ralf001]

1 minute ago, Don Giovanni said:

sat in front of your computer on a 9 day paid holiday??

 

you sad bugger!

 

The Don.

 

I wake at 3am.... already done what i need to do outside... now the sun is biting, iam indoors loving the AC.

[Mark Nothing]

Nice try blaming your circumstances on your surroundings.  A weak mind is to blame for your predicament.  Focus on developing mental strength and toughness.  But you probably don't know how to.  If you knew how you would have already done it.  You will get a wakeup call if there is anything to salvage.

[Harrisfan]

2 minutes ago, Mark Nothing said:

Nice try blaming your circumstances on your surroundings.  A weak mind is to blame for your predicament.  Focus on developing mental strength and toughness.  But you probably don't know how to.  If you knew how you would have already done it.  You will get a wakeup call if there is anything to salvage.

All fake stories

[Acharn]

Well, I would recommend Alcoholics Anonymous, but you don't sound like you've hit bottom yet. I interpret your post as blaming others for "making" you drink. I don't care how much you spend on rehab programs, you aren't likely to achieve long-term sobriety until you accept that you drank because you're an alcoholic. In other words, I think you want to be reassured that alcoholism is not your problem. Anyway, according to Tradition Three, anyone who wants to stop drinking can be a member of Alcoholics Anonymous Go to a couple of meetings. They don't force you to join. Some groups are not for everybody; the first meeting I went to was a disaster. Don't be put off by the "God Thing." It's not really necessary.

[spidermike007]

4 hours ago, Don Giovanni said:

Whats so good about thailand, mike?

 

The Don.

It's one of those silly bait type questions, and if anybody asks it, there's certainly no point in answering it. You obviously don't live here, and if you do live here you likely living in Pattaya or Phuket, the two worst spots in the country. 

[Don Giovanni]

17 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

It's one of those silly bait type questions, and if anybody asks it, there's certainly no point in answering it. You obviously don't live here, and if you do live here you likely living in Pattaya or Phuket, the two worst spots in the country. 

Wrong Mike. Never lived in any of those.

 

Still hate the place.

 

The Don.

[Anthony mellows]

6 hours ago, phetphet said:

No. Quite the opposite.

I no longer drink alcohol at all. I wasn't a daytime drinker, but I didn't want to end up spending all my days propping up a bar, so I decided to start exercising more. Drinking (dehydration and hangovers) don't really go together with training, so I found it very easy to stop.

 

I wonder if susceptibility to alcoholism is in the genes of some people.

I exercise 2-3 hours every morning, then usually have a few cold beers in the afternoon. Never get a hangover.Cant stress how important exercise is to ones mental wellbeing.

[sidjameson]

6 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

Go to a gym. Chat up the chicks.

How old are you? How old you think most forum members are????

[marin]

3 hours ago, Don Giovanni said:

sat in front of your computer on a 9 day paid holiday??

 

you sad bugger!

 

The Don.

Its what you do all day long, for now weeks on end. 🤣

[Don Giovanni]

2 minutes ago, marin said:

Its what you do all day long, for now weeks on end. 🤣

I'm not on a work holiday though...

 

I have enough money do buy out you and ralf 100x over.

 

So there!

 

The Don.

[KireB]

I totally stopped drinking. I went from 3 big LEO's a day to zero, best decision ever. Smoking a joint at night, combined with some otc meds, keep me calm and sane without a hangover.

[spidermike007]

1 hour ago, Don Giovanni said:

Wrong Mike. Never lived in any of those.

 

Still hate the place.

 

The Don.

I assume you must have left already. I can't think of many more things in life that would be more terrible than hating the place that you're living. Some of us are fortunate enough to absolutely love it here. Contentment is a beautiful state of mind. Fight for it like nothing else matters. 

[KireB]

12 minutes ago, Don Giovanni said:

I'm not on a work holiday though...

 

I have enough money do buy out you and ralf 100x over.

 

So there!

 

The Don.

People who do, would never brag about it. Are you a compuslive liar?

[Don Giovanni]

7 minutes ago, KireB said:

Are you a compuslive liar?

No.

 

But I (used to be) a compulsive crypto gambler back in 2011 and now I have won BIG TIME, at least financially.

 

Would you like to know exactly how much I have in my HK bank account right now?

 

The Don.

[marin]

6 minutes ago, Don Giovanni said:

Would you like to know exactly how much I have in my HK bank account right now?

 

[Don Giovanni]

Just now, marin said:

 

Jealousy. Stuck in Thailand without a safety net.

 

I feel so sorry for you.

 

The Don.

[marin]

6 minutes ago, Don Giovanni said:

Jealousy. Stuck in Thailand without a safety net.

 

I feel so sorry for you.

 

The Don.

You really are clueless donny/bob. Here by choice and happy with my choices in life. If you only knew how many of us live. Absolutely no contact other than the net with losers like you. 

[sidjameson]

16 minutes ago, Don Giovanni said:

No.

 

But I (used to be) a compulsive crypto gambler back in 2011 and now I have won BIG TIME, at least financially.

 

Would you like to know exactly how much I have in my HK bank account right now?

 

The Don.

Good for you. All financial worries gone. What makes your life meaningful these days? 

[sidjameson]

26 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

I assume you must have left already. I can't think of many more things in life that would be more terrible than hating the place that you're living. Some of us are fortunate enough to absolutely love it here. Contentment is a beautiful state of mind. Fight for it like nothing else matters. 

Very enviable position. Don't know where in Thailand you live, but can you really find that beautiful state of mind with the air quality as it is?

[Don Giovanni]

1 minute ago, sidjameson said:

Good for you. All financial worries gone. What makes your life meaningful these days? 

Nothing.

 

I am an alcoholic in recovery.

 

Doesn't change the fact that I could buy a small 6 seater plane tomorrow if I wanted to, though.

 

The Don.

[Don Giovanni]

Just now, sidjameson said:

Very enviable position. Don't know where in Thailand you live, but can you really find that beautiful state of mind with the air quality as it is?

The place is a living hell.

 

Japan is so much nicer.

 

The Don.

[sidjameson]

7 minutes ago, Don Giovanni said:

Nothing.

 

I am an alcoholic in recovery.

 

Doesn't change the fact that I could buy a small 6 seater plane tomorrow if I wanted to, though.

 

The Don.

Do you see a danger that alcohol filled the vacuum and if you recover you'll still have the problem of how to fill the empty?

[Harrisfan]

1 hour ago, sidjameson said:

How old are you? How old you think most forum members are????

Most here act 5

[NoshowJones]

20 hours ago, save the frogs said:

what percentage of foreigners are alcoholics?

can it even easily be defined? if you're retired and you dont need to work anymore and you're in a bar all day, is it considered alcoholism? 

did meet a thai girl who was dating a foreigner. she said she cut him loose because he had a drug problem. 

 

 

Being a life long teetotaler I am no expert where alcohol is concerned, but I would say if someone  drinks alcohol every day then he has a big problem even if not an actual alcoholic, but he is definitely on the road to it.