Getting drunk? That’s for uncool parents

GOING out and getting worse for wear was once a rite of passage, but clean-living young people are turning their noses up at overindulgence at the bar – because it is the kind of thing their parents did.

Alcohol has fallen out of favour to such an extent that abstemious millennials see getting drunk as something done by an “older generation”, according to research.

The data, from a survey by Eventbrite, show that only one in 10 see getting drunk as “cool”. They are much more likely to consider it “pathetic” or “embarrassing”, with four in 10 having an overall negative view of someone who is drunk. Experts also suggested that millennials were not using alcohol to deal with their problems because they are more comfortable talking about them. “Generation X were still suffering from a stiff upper lip problem, they used drink and drugs to hide their problems. Younger people don’t want to cover up their problems with drinking and drugs, they want to face them,” said Nichi Hodgson, a dating and relationships expert who contributed to the report.

Lack of funds has also led to less drinking with one in four young people saying they would rather spend their money on other things.

Almost one in five confessed to going sober for an entire weekend music festival, and just one in 10 confessed to have passed out drunk while partying.