Four days dry

[doodab]

I think most people I know have drunk enough time to have caused themselves a bit of liver damage. What is considered "normal" or "reasonable" is quite different from what will actually do harm over the long term. It might not seem like excessive drinking but going out most nights and having big nights out a couple of times a week in your twenties and thirties soon adds up and by the time you are forty you really need to start being sensible or you are looking at serious consequences.

[MarillionFan]

Was out boozing last night at the Gunmakers in Marlyebone. After a promising start to the evening the emergency services had to be called as one of the on-shore development team went a bit overboard on brandy and passed out cold, unable to be revived.

Never understood how people can get so pissed that they pass out or cannot walk. I've always had this 'home beacon' that kicks in when I've had too much. I just sort of get up and leave.

Failing the ability to do that. I stop drinking!

[PinkPoshRat]

I only drink about 1-2 bottles of wine a month, so that makes me teetotal - but I do drink a shed load of tea...

[norrahe]

I think most people I know have drunk enough time to have caused themselves a bit of liver damage. What is considered "normal" or "reasonable" is quite different from what will actually do harm over the long term. It might not seem like excessive drinking but going out most nights and having big nights out a couple of times a week in your twenties and thirties soon adds up and by the time you are forty you really need to start being sensible or you are looking at serious consequences.

True I know a couple of people who have been told by their doctors if you touch a drop ever again, you're dead.

[EternalOptimist]

The number of units is an artificial measurement. It means sod all unless you know details about the person consuming the units.

Spot on. There is no way in the world that a skinny little bird would be able to consume the same as a muscely fit and lean adonis like me. Maybe blokes get beer bellies as a sort of biological and evolutionary defence of the liver against the ale. Its like the body saying, we need more mass-quick, make a beer belly

[Churchill]

Spot on. There is no way in the world that a skinny little bird would be able to consume the same as a muscely fit and lean adonis like me. Maybe blokes get beer bellies as a sort of biological and evolutionary defence of the liver against the ale. Its like the body saying, we need more mass-quick, make a beer belly

All hail the Ale!

[russell]

I think most people I know have drunk enough time to have caused themselves a bit of liver damage. What is considered "normal" or "reasonable" is quite different from what will actually do harm over the long term. It might not seem like excessive drinking but going out most nights and having big nights out a couple of times a week in your twenties and thirties soon adds up and by the time you are forty you really need to start being sensible or you are looking at serious consequences.

Your liver regenerates, so you need to be drinking heavily every day for years to cause any long term damage. Having a few weekends out will not cause that.

[TykeMerc]

Never understood how people can get so pissed that they pass out or cannot walk. I've always had this 'home beacon' that kicks in when I've had too much. I just sort of get up and leave.

Failing the ability to do that. I stop drinking!

True enough, I have something similar, but when I've had enough I feel slightly sick and if I carry on drinking, very sick. I guess it's a built in self preservation mechanism.

I agree that the guideline limits are a nonsense, but when you consider that the medical and political establishments felt they had to give a guideline they were bound to pick a number out of fresh air which was on the cautious side. With so many body types, racial types, lifestyles, diets and levels of physical fitness it was always going to be a massive fudge.

[doodab]

Your liver regenerates, so you need to be drinking heavily every day for years to cause any long term damage. Having a few weekends out will not cause that.

That's my point. A lot of people are drinking heavily nearly every day, but they don't think they are at risk because they are surrounded by people doing the same thing so it becomes "normal".

[Jog On]

I've been off it completely for about 3 months now - feels great. Occassionally I get the urge when walking past a load of pubs etc but on the whole I'm enjoying life after alchahol. It's early days still though

Finally accepted (stopped denying) that I've got the drinking demon that so many people have. I don't facy ending up on a park bench with a can of tennants which is where it ends up ultimately.

Like doodab says so many people drink heavily and don't think it's a problem because it's so "normal"