Reply to: Given up alcohol this year ...

[Platypus]

Being someone who used to go out drinking every weekend for around 25 yrs I recently cut right down, to about once a fortnight sometimes not even that. I dropped about a stone within a couple of months and my energy levels rose. I feel about 10 yrs younger and rarely have any moments of feeling fed up like I did when drinking. You come to realise how many people you know are borderline alcoholics. Quite a few people I know drink EVERY night and some obviously have a problem.

I recognise that. Most of the people I know in my local are borderline alcoholics. I've recently given up drinking 2 nights a week. But I used to be in the pub every night for a few and that's where a lot of my social life is still.

Anyway, can't dawdle. Friday night and time for early doors pip pip

[minestrone]

You couldn't even abstain from CUK and had to beg for a ban.

Says the man that has 4 CUK logins.

[MaryPoppins]

Quite a few people I know drink EVERY night

I've never done that, and do find that a bit odd.

[sasguru]

Not drinking is just part of an overall fitness drive.
TBH I was well impressed with Brillo's ironman exploits and would like to try somefink like that in a year or so.

[d000hg]

Bizarrely I was just up at the coffee machine and there was a conversation going on about people in a team who don't drink, someone said "not drinking, that is just not right".

Says more about the British psyche... getting drunk and being a tit is "a good night out". Maybe we ARE all more boring than our European counterparts!

[ZARDOZ]

Being someone who used to go out drinking every weekend for around 25 yrs I recently cut right down, to about once a fortnight sometimes not even that. I dropped about a stone within a couple of months and my energy levels rose. I feel about 10 yrs younger and rarely have any moments of feeling fed up like I did when drinking. You come to realise how many people you know are borderline alcoholics. Quite a few people I know drink EVERY night and some obviously have a problem.

[minestrone]

Bizarrely I was just up at the coffee machine and there was a conversation going on about people in a team who don't drink, someone said "not drinking, that is just not right".

[sasguru]

Don't visit here then. That will give you more time. And show us that you don't have the addictive personality (you clearly have).

But what would I do without the side splitting laughs you give me?
Like the time you tried to account for a leap year by adding 0.25 to all sides of an equation.
See, that's got me chuckling again ....

[darmstadt]

Bought some booze today actually but probably won't drink it, at least for a long time: ReichsPost Bitter ? Home

[darmstadt]

“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
― Charles Bukowski

[eek]

Next!
Don't have much time, got to do some work in a bit

Don't visit here then. That will give you more time. And show us that you don't have the addictive personality (you clearly have).

[sasguru]

I resemble that remark. So for all the pooftahs on here, I'll make up for you this weekend

I wish you all the fun in the world.
At least, you're not like some of these weak holier-than-thou-because-I-drink losers

[darmstadt]

Where's the image of V8 driving, hard drinking, chain smoking Contractors gone!

I resemble that remark. So for all the pooftahs on here, I'll make up for you this weekend

[sasguru]

Next!
Don't have much time, got to do some work in a bit

[sasguru]

Some of us can make changes to our lifestyle without the need to announce it to the world.

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Yeah course you can, fat boy.