Tired of going out

Yeah, you can only snort

by jc100021 (Baboon, 125 Points) on 7/12/10 at 4:30pm

Yeah, you can only snort cocain off a stripper's ass so many times.

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Getting older is perfectly

by Anthony . (Neanderthal, 3478 Points) on 7/12/10 at 5:19pm

Getting older is perfectly fine. It's like being a battle veteran. You know your enemy, you know the territory, you know how to roll. I go out and see these newbies and chuckle. My level of dont give a fuck has reached epic proportions. If you ever see a dude in track pants and slippers at a bar it is me.

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I felt the same way after

by SAC (Senior Gorilla, 765 Points) on 7/12/10 at 7:38pm

I felt the same way after this weekend. Didn't even bother watching the world cup final with buddies. Got to hit up new places and meet new people.

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I feel the same. There are

by Banker88 (King Kong, 1144 Points) on 7/12/10 at 8:05pm

I feel the same. There are either sleazy college bars or expensive nightclubs where you can't even get a conversation going. Hard to find a happy medium.

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You should get yourself a

by jhoratio (Gorilla, 702 Points) on 7/12/10 at 8:32pm

You should get yourself a girlfriend, bro.

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Have you ever played poker?

by jhoratio (Gorilla, 702 Points) on 7/12/10 at 11:13pm

Have you ever played poker? Hours upon hours upon hours of folding. 90% of all hands you will fold. Folding and folding for hours on end. Grass is greener, my friend.

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jhoratio wrote: Dude, what's

by DashaandSafin (Monkey, 33 Points) on 7/12/10 at 11:27pm

This is the first time I have laughed on WSO. Well done sir.

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IlliniProgrammer wrote: This

by LIBOR (Gorilla, 720 Points) on 7/12/10 at 11:50pm

hahaha +1 if you actually said illiniprogrammer instead of your real name during a drunk call that would be epic... next time i go out ill make sure to introduce myself as LIBOR to everyone

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Yep, the club thing is pretty

by Bottles and DCF... (Senior Monkey, 93 Points) on 7/13/10 at 12:05am

Yep, the club thing is pretty much old news for me. I don't even like the music they play, unless it's a grimey hole in the wall. I guess it's time to find other hobbies and interests.

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IlliniProgrammer

by LIBOR (Gorilla, 720 Points) on 7/13/10 at 12:15am

haha this is a lesson i continue to relearn, and it never seems to get through to me that bringing my phone out is a bad idea

I've def had a few nights where I came back drunk and then surfed the web (including this site).

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I don't know. I happily sit

by Anthony . (Neanderthal, 3478 Points) on 7/13/10 at 1:50am

I don't know. I happily sit around drinking J&B by myself. When I was working I used to hit up a bar after work like every day. Place was usually pretty empty so I would stake out a corner and go to town. Go home after crushing 6-7 scotches. Good times.

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I was in Pamplona for the

by Edmundo Braverman (Senior Neanderthal, 4335 Points) on 7/13/10 at 7:02am

I was in Pamplona for the Running of the Bulls last weekend and was blown away by what a party it was. I saw people there more fucked up than I've ever seen anywhere. While Mardi Gras in New Orleans is a party for drinking professionals, the Festival San Fermin in Pamplona is a party for drinking amateurs. Allow me to present Exhibit A:

This guy was so fucked up he was passed out on the street at 3 in the afternoon, his body reflexively puking on itself. Beautiful.

So if you're bored going out, maybe you need to do something crazy like catch a major drinking festival. Just don't be that guy.

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Do you have other dreams that

by levelworm (Baboon, 102 Points) on 7/13/10 at 8:06am

Do you have other dreams that could be fulfilled in 10 years?

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I hate to say it, but get a

by someotherguy (Monkey, 57 Points) on 7/13/10 at 9:24am

I hate to say it, but get a girlfriend or do some serious dating. Match, plenty of fish, even craigslist if you like really rolling the dice.

I was getting to where you were, and quite frankly once you hit your late twenties, it gets a LOT harder to get your friends to all go out and get wasted. There were few worse feelings than trying to rally the troops to get out to a bar at night, and failing utterly because everyone was "tired" and just sitting around because I didn't have anything better to do. Trying to pick up women never really got old to me though, at least when I was successful.

Anyway, I started dating a girl seriously two years ago, and at times I do miss going out, getting blasted in the west village and trying to convince chicks from the burbs to sleep at my place, but my hangovers just get worse, I have maybe one or two friends left that are still interested in doing the same, and I must say even I am less interested in sweet talking some bitch all night who has an attitude and being really excited about her job as an assistant buyer in fashion. If I ever become single again, its going to be online dating all the way- its much more civil. With a girl, I have built-in plans every night, and luckily she is the type that likes to go out. Its comfortable. At least dating a few girls will be different and hopefully get you out of your funk. From what my friends say, its pretty easy to get laid from online dating.

Keep in mind that I am writing this post still feeling the hangover from the weekend, so perhaps I am biased at the moment.

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IlliniProgrammer

by IronkidMS (Monkey, 61 Points) on 7/13/10 at 9:51am

a 6 pack will get you wasted...? good thing i didn't become a Fightin' Illini...hahaha

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I felt the same way until I

by Mezz (King Kong, 1026 Points) on 7/13/10 at 11:17am

I felt the same way until I picked up a motorcycle a couple of months ago. I have a better relationship with that thing than any other person haha. Plus, doing 130M+ sure aint boring. And its an easy chick magnet (atleast the supersports are).

I suggest you do the same, or something equally as exciting. Good luck.

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IlliniProgrammer

by IronkidMS (Monkey, 61 Points) on 7/13/10 at 11:23am

haha what am i saying, i'm usually down for the count at 7.

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Ninja 250 or 500 is an

by IlliniProgrammer (King Kong, 1694 Points) on 7/13/10 at 2:33pm

Ninja 250 or 500 is an excellent first bike. If you want to get really good at riding, I recommend getting to the point where you're doing a few trackdays on it before moving to a 600.

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CUBuff wrote: Im crushing a

by cphbravo96 (King Kong, 1020 Points) on 7/14/10 at 3:15pm

Need some proof man.

I would suggest getting certified in diving like someone mentioned. I did it a couple years ago and thought it was one of the coolest things I ever did. Unfortunately it was while I was in school and I didn't have money to go on dive trips but its a great thing to have if you like to travel because you can almost always find some place to dive while on vacation. Hopefully, now that I am employed, I will have the chance to take advantage of my certification...too bad I'm not still in Florida.

I like the money idea too. I want to take a couple 'epic' trips...one to the North Pole and one to Antarctica. Someone posted a link about doing a cruise or something there a few weeks back so I looked into it and you can do some diving under the ice bergs/shelf which would truly define epic. The stuff I saw would run $15k-$20k, for like a couple weeks...so I need to start saving, lol. One of them I saw you actually travel to the North Pole on some nuclear powered super ice breaker vessel.

I understand where you are coming from. I got tired of going out after being in my last relationship...truthfully, I probably just became more accustomed to lounging, dinners, movies, wine, etc...but at any rate, I am in a new city now and have new places to go and things to do.

I'm sure business school would be great for this situation because you will likely be in a new place...which means a new scene with new people to really get to know/network with. Plus you will be busy, so going out will become more of an escape from the craziness then just a socially acceptable place to get drunk.

Good luck.

Regards

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~cph that shit sounds

by LIBOR (Gorilla, 720 Points) on 7/14/10 at 9:52pm

~cph

that shit sounds awesome... im an indoors person, low risk, not extreme, and i don't think i'd have the balls to do any of that... i wish i did though.

jjc,

it seems like you want to go to bschools... youve posted a few threads on this... im still in college but if i were in your place based on what you descried i'd go to grad school... it sounds like you'd enjoy making friends from that, plus you can move your career into a new direction

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cphbravo96 wrote: CUBuff

by IlliniProgrammer (King Kong, 1694 Points) on 7/15/10 at 9:39am

If you're in New York, check out Dutch Springs. You can get a season pass to dive there for $260. It's a 1.5 hour drive from NYC.

You can do it for more like $6-7K+ airfare for a 10 day cruise. Obviously, AOW and Ice Diving cert and a certain level of experience would be required. (AOW is actually required for most wreck dives here in the Northeast.)

Get your drysuit and AOW certs, and get some practice doing cold-weather diving and maybe an ice diving cert this winter. GUE Fundamentals or Rescue Diver training would be icing on the cake; rescue diving teaches you to deal with stressful situations underwater, while GUE fundamentals does a lot of work on buoyancy and diving skill (just don't drink the kool-aid). They're going to be looking for a lot of experience in cold-water diving before they let you go diving in the Weddell Sea.

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