How often do you get drunk?

I voted "never" (but that doesn't mean I shouldn't....)

regards,

dave

Professionally perhaps I should encourage you all to get very drunk, very often (on wine).

But I never do. Honesht.

Teetotallers have a significantly lower life expectancy than those who drink moderately.

And there's stuff (google: resveratrol) in red wine that is a positive elixir for lifelong health. Drink more.

Oh well I suppose I'd better start drinking again

I have a couple of glasses of wine a couple of times a week, and occasionally Fiona and I will consume a 2nd bottle (the decadence!). That'd put me over the drink driving limit but does it make me drunk?

I don't think I've been properly drunk since I've been married - over 14 years now - as my stag night put me off drink for quite a while!

Between the two of us, we drink 4-5 bottles of wine a week, but with no other alcohol.

It does bother me that this is too much as I'm a bit of a fitness freak.

Is this too much and what is acceptable?

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Originally posted by count.d:
Is this too much

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No.

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and what is acceptable?

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Who cares?

No doubt the goverment will have as all down as binge drinkers (I read somewhere that the definition for this was something silly like 3 glasses of wine in a sitting) anyway!

Speaking as someone who doesn't drink (myself and alcohol are old adversaries...) I think you only have a problem if you can't do WITHOUT a drink. Just a thought.

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Originally posted by FISBEY:
Speaking as someone who doesn't drink (myself and alcohol are old adversaries...) I think you only have a problem if you can't do WITHOUT a drink. Just a thought.

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Fair point. As an experiment earlier this year I did a month without alcohol at all and not only wasn't it a problem but I barely noticed.

I can't believe none of you drink! How do you cope with such dull, empty lives?

Matthew
Functional Alcoholic

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Originally posted by Matthew Robinson:
I can't believe none of you drink! How do you cope with such dull, empty lives?

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It's you folk that have to drink to fill your dull, empty, citybound lives. I feel sorry for you (and for your MTB).

Alcoholics Anonymous; 020 8733 0022

Nice people.

Ashford hospital psychiatric ward.

Nice people

The summer gets me a fridge of cold beer, so I crack open a can by habit when I get in after work. I am aware that this is not a good thing, but when I try to stop, somebody turns up for a curry or something and we have a few beers anyway. I don't drink more than one when alone. When we have friends over, or we go out (once a week I suppose) I can easily do a bottle of red wine on my own, which is just about OK, but I never get a hangover, and I'm up and fixing up the kids breakfast at 7.00am like any other day with no ill effects. I can forget having alcohol for a week or so sometimes without even noticing, but it is always circumstances that put it in front of me.
I must knock the "beer on re-entry" on the head I think.

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Nice people.

"beer on re-entry"

Blimey

Seriously beer is great, wine is great, pubs are great. Not drinking would seriously reduce the amount of pleasure and fun I have in much the same way as not having music would.

Steve G. said "It's you folk that have to drink to fill your dull, empty, citybound lives"

Living in a big city is great. As in living in the country. The people who have got it totally wrong are those that live in the suburbs or some god-awful provincial town.

"I feel sorry for you (and for your MTB)"

My Cove is very happy to get my undivided attention. and daily usage. I imagine your Epic feels like Joe Cole in the Chelski style squad rotation system that operates with your bike fleet.

Matthew

I don't like drinking - so I don't drink.

I don't like smoking cigarettes - so I'm trying to give them up.

Taking other drugs messes with my head, so I don't take them.

'Each to his/her own'

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Originally posted by Matthew Robinson:
"I feel sorry for you (and for your MTB)"

My Cove is very happy to get my undivided attention. and daily usage. I imagine your Epic feels like Joe Cole in the Chelski style squad rotation system that operates with your bike fleet.

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Hmm - possibly true. I haven't used it for a couple of weeks, since breaking the chain when I fell off in the Pentlands. I've got a chain to go on it but I haven't decided whether to fit the XTR rear mech and XT chainset/BB I have lying around at the same time.

I was out on No.3 bike last night which, while fun, reminded me why mud + V-brakes wasn't the best of ideas. I might use the Inbred tonight as it's getting close to its last outing with me as it's owner *sniff*

I feel sorry for those out there who do not drink.

Imagine waking up in the morning and knowing that this is as good as you are going to feel all day.

Regards

Mike

Spending money I don't have on things I don't need.

Is that you Jack?

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I view "drunk" as being "passed out, sleep on a park bench, wake in a pool of own kebab filled vomit"..

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I think I've only ever been drunk once then. When I feel I'm drunk, people ask me why I never seem drunk. I don't really get to falling over stage ever.

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Originally posted by FISBEY:
Speaking as someone who doesn't drink (myself and alcohol are old adversaries...) I think you only have a problem if you can't do WITHOUT a drink. Just a thought.

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Excessive drinking is potentially harmful to alcoholics and non alcoholics alike.

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Originally posted by alexgerrard:
I used to drink quite a lot.

"passed out, sleep on a park bench, wake in a pool of own kebab filled vomit". Anything else is, frankly, lame.

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Visions of a younger AG wandering the streets of London in an old mac clutching his bottle of meths wrapped in old newspaper.

You let that one slip

Mike

My worst hangover in living memory followed my trip to Jonathan Ribee's and Pog's on 11/9/2001.

(At the time that the Towers were hit, I was sipping red wine at Pog's in front of a formidable stack of angle iron, and completely oblivious to the tragedy unfolding in NY in this house without TV.)

I recovered enough to feel totally safe to drive on the morning of the 13th when Jonathan put on the radio as I was about to depart, and I first heard of the terrible events of two days previous.

As I only work in the evenings a sesh on a monday or tuesday night (my nights off) usually leave me feeling clear before I start work at 6pm on the Wednesday.

The rest of the week I either abstain altogether for night or two or I drink moderately (2 to 3 cans of German lager) while I do what I'm doing now...



Regards,

Steve.

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Originally posted by mike lacey:
Imagine waking up in the morning and knowing that this is as good as you are going to feel all day.

Regards

Mike

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Imagine waking up in the morning feeling so good, that this is o.k.