When Taking Risk Leads to Injury
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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In this weeks retrospective we talk about all the crazy risks we took as binge drinkers.
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| 0:00.0 | I thought that the attention that I was getting from guys is because they thought I was |
| 0:12.8 | cool and nice and sexy, but it's in fact because I was behaving like a slut and I was an easy |
| 0:17.8 | lay. Oh, it's awful. And I think, I mean, I think I knew that, |
| 0:22.1 | but I was so desperate for the attention. I think that's a theme, isn't it? We're even just |
| 0:26.6 | coming to terms, talking about it to each other now. Yeah. That desperation for attention because |
| 0:31.7 | we weren't particularly happy with the people that we were and however we were going to get that. |
| 0:37.0 | And with a guy guy it was generally like |
| 0:40.1 | the the most important attention you could get was sex if they wanted to have sex with you |
| 0:44.4 | it meant that you were okay it was like confirmation wasn't it yes it was yeah and i was |
| 0:48.8 | i wasn't naturally sexy you know i was always a tomboy you know i was in my DMs and my jeans and I never wore sort of sexy revealing clothes or anything like that. Yeah, I'm the same, yeah, I don't think I'm naturally like a really sexual person. No, no, and I, but I was, yeah, when I had a joke, you know, a drink, you know, I'd be doing the dance around the bedroom, you know, feeling really, really cool, but obviously probably looking absolutely awful. |
| 1:13.3 | But the shame after that even, knowing that that is not who you are, then the next day I'd feel so embarrassed about my antics. |
| 1:20.5 | Yeah. Oh my God, what was I doing? Yeah. And, you know, if the belated, if this, if this guy that you've slept with and you've sort of been really wild in the bedroom with, even if it carries on for a bit longer, they kind of expect you to perform the same way again. And you're like, they probably think, God, I'm onto a right winner here. I mean, you can't actually remember what you did, but you can't even know you did a few classic moves in the bedroom. |
| 1:47.6 | I was going to ask you what your classic moves are there, but I don't think I need to know. |
| 1:49.4 | Well, I never remembered any of them. |
| 1:53.4 | And I don't think they were that good because no one really wanted to see him again. |
| 1:55.9 | I just couldn't face it. |
| 1:58.4 | That's why I would always go on and find someone else. Yeah. |
| 1:59.2 | And also I can remember going out and wanting, you know, sometimes going out with your mates, you know, you all go, you think, I would get a pool tonight, which is fine to do that. It's fine to go out and think I were going to want to meet someone and, you know, whatever. But, you know, you have to do it whilst you're in control of your faculties. Of course, I never was. |
| 2:18.0 | And if I couldn't pull, I'd just drink more. And then my standard in men would just drop and drop and drop the more I drank until I got to the point where I honestly, anyone would do. |
| 2:30.0 | Yeah. Really, anyone. Yeah. It's somebody who I might know, you know, someone I work with who I have absolutely no interest in would suddenly appear really sexy. What? I mean, that's big of all, isn't it? I wonder what the scientific thing. Yes, we have to ask what important. We've got so many questions for him. I mean, why do we do that to ourselves? It's like standards get so low. Can we not talk about it anymore? Can you move on to the next time? Because I'm really glad we got that. Thanks for picking out at the beginning. So that is promiscuity, everybody. Promiscuity, you put yourself at risk from all sorts of reasons, but you put yourself in danger in those situations and there are things that we probably wouldn't do when we're sober. |
| 3:12.0 | So the next thing we want to talk about is the drunken injuries. This is another way we put ourselves at risk. Up to 15 people die and more than 430 people are admitted in hospital |
| 3:17.2 | every day in Australia due to alcohol-related illnesses and accidents. I mean, that's huge. Imagine all the resources being used for people being drunk and falling over and |
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