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I totally blown it guys :( - No I never! He likes me!!!

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  • 19lottie82
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    daisiegg wrote: »
    Were the drinks Guinness and Baileys? .

    Jaegerbombs, I'm guessing!:rotfl:

    OP, I know you'll be feeling the fear right now, but phone him up and offer to cook him dinner to apologise!
  • Morglin
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    My daughter got bladdered and threw up on a first date with a guy...

    20 years wed, and 4 kids later, they are very happy lol

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  • daisiegg
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    19lottie82 wrote: »
    Jaegerbombs, I'm guessing!:rotfl:

    !

    When my cousin takes us to 'British pubs' in the US they have this disgusting drinking game that involves a pint of Guinness and a shot of Bailey's and downing it before it curdles!!! Where is a throwing up smilie when I need one......?
  • paddyrg
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    He made a point of checking if you were ok, and doing it lightheartedly. You're embarrassed of course, and there is no harm in being slightly sheepish and suggesting a daytime date over coffee somewhere. No need to dwell on it, things happen.

    Blame it on a 'bad prawn' (bad shrimp), nothing to do with the booze ohnonono...
  • Tell you what, in Britain it's VERY rare that a couple will indulge in a drinking game with strangers and I would lose the respect for a man who encouraged a woman he barely knew, to neck unknown drinks with a group of strangers.

    The OP has nothing to be ashamed of but he should be the one apologising. It's not a very British thing to do, if there is such a thing. Drinking games are for students. I find it weird that a bunch of people would encourage you both to join in.
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  • paddyrg
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    Ask him to teach you how to make a decent cup of tea. It's something you can do at work and make it a bit of a base for hanging out a little.

    Americans make the worst tea.
  • DKLS
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    Don't worry about it OP, I have held my wifes hair back while she has ralfed like a dog.

    And after my stag do I was found naked in a pool of vomit hugging the toilet :) stuff happens if you drink to excess and its a good ol british tradition and has been since it wasn't safe to drink the water and the only choice was gin or beer.
  • Pyxis
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    Ye gods! What part of Britain do YOU live in!!!:rotfl:
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  • fivetide
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    Oduliet,

    as a single British bloke.... can I buy you a drink ;)
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  • Tweeps wrote: »
    This is the first time i've ever heard someone british say a bar isn't a social place :eek: she says they were talking so they probably all got on very well. You must go to old fuddy duddy bars where if someone isn't local they get that outsider stare from the inbreds.

    Just noticed your location is north wiltshire. That says it all lol.

    Ahem - I'm originally from Manchester thanks, just living here for the time being.

    As for "fuddy duddy" bars and "inbreds" - wow what a vocab you have!
    I didn't say bars weren't social places and of course you meet new friends and get !!!!ed, etc.

    BUT

    She was on a date night. With a bloke she doesn't really know that well.

    Also, this wasn't a friendly, chit-chat, make new friends thing. They decided to all play a drinking game. Now this might sound "fuddy duddy" to you but generally drinking games are either for lads on a night out who all know each other, or students.

    I've never ever had a group of strangers I've just met in a bar ask me if I wanted to play a drinking game with them. Maybe that's just me? :D

    Then there's the question of safety of course. How many of you have been on a date night with a bloke who indulges in a drinking game with strangers you've just met and lets you get absolutely bladdered?

    Yeah, he got her a taxi home. Well done him. What a gent! What happens otherwise? Are you meant to make your own way home?

    I've lived all over the UK and I've done my fair share of drinking. I've never been in this situation though.

    I will pass on your comments to my North Wiltshire friends and I will desist from sneaking a peek at where you live just so I can make similar stereotypical assumptions ;)

    In all seriousness OP, I'm glad you got home safe but in future, do take more care and show this man the door. He was obviously more interested in his drinking game and new pals than he was in you.
    "Funny how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse, it does." - Marvin (Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy)

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