Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
You see 'leathered' is a very relative term. I've known people who are starting to get incapable on what I'll have before 9 O'Clock.
Well quite, it is an entirely individual thing and even for a person it varies depending on intangibles such as fatigue, prior consumption of food etc.

I suppose leathered could be defined as consumption to a level where one actually feels quite bad the next day and as a result one’s body is under stress, perhaps enormous stress, to deal with and overcome the effects. Monday to Friday you force yourself to deal with it, Sunday you lie on the sofa with The Sunday Times and a six pack of McCoys crisps.

If you were doing this regularly, school nights, as your daughter at college for example, then to stop would clearly bring physical and others benefits.

If one is having 1-2 glasses of red per night then to stop would provide negligible obvious physical benefit.