Used to be a nice pub outside Aberdeen where we'd go for lunch and have a stew and a couple o' pints to wash it down. After work we'd go back and have the same thing (well, "a couple" would turn into "a few") and hit the hay, early enough to get up and work productively again the next day. On Fridays we'd do the same but end up heading downtown and crawlin'. It all seemed quite civilized
Of course its civilised, a swift pint at lunch, a few after work, curry/kebab on the way home. Back in bed by midnight and in work bright(ish) and early next morning. Compared to here, going out after work, go for dinner at 11pm. In bed by 3-4am. Wake up a 8am feeling like shit and dragging your sorry arse back to work.