Booze report.

[Sir C]

Still not a drop taken since Monday.

I'm seriously considering extending until tomorrow. :yikes:

Am I supposed to feel better yet?

[Burney]

Still not a drop taken since Monday.

I'm seriously considering extending until tomorrow. :yikes:

Am I supposed to feel better yet?

You're just being silly now. This is starting to smack of dirty presbyterian behaviour.

I can't imagine going to bed sober on a Friday night.

[Sir C]

You're just being silly now. This is starting to smack of dirty presbyterian behaviour.

I can't imagine going to bed sober on a Friday night.

:nod: It is the Friday element that's bothering me. Perhaps I shall partake tonight, then aim not to drink on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday next week? Imagine how healthy I will be!

[SWv2]

:nod: It is the Friday element that's bothering me. Perhaps I shall partake tonight, then aim not to drink on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday next week? Imagine how healthy I will be!

I think the early impact is that without doubt you will feel worse as your body misses or craves what it has grown accustomed to – even if that something was allegedly bad for you.

In time you may feel a benefit, or should do.

You were not I presume getting leathered on school nights so the physical improvements will be small but tangible.

[Burney]

:nod: It is the Friday element that's bothering me. Perhaps I shall partake tonight, then aim not to drink on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday next week? Imagine how healthy I will be!

Just how dire was this doctor's visit? Because you do seem to be going - and I say this with enormous affection - a teensy-weensy bit completely fûcking mental ever since.

[Burney]

I think the early impact is that without doubt you will feel worse as your body misses or craves what it has grown accustomed to – even if that something was allegedly bad for you.

In time you may feel a benefit, or should do.

You were not I presume getting leathered on school nights so the physical improvements will be small but tangible.


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. :shrug:

[Luis Anaconda]

Still not a drop taken since Monday.

I'm seriously considering extending until tomorrow. :yikes:

Am I supposed to feel better yet?
Is cider alcohol? I find it nicer than orange juice for breakfast now

[Sir C]

Just how dire was this doctor's visit? Because you do seem to be going - and I say this with enormous affection - a teensy-weensy bit completely fûcking mental ever since.

It wasn't serious, it just made me angry.

I eat better than 95% of the population, I exercise every day, and STILL they tell me my blood pressure is higher than ideal? The absolute ****s.

I'll show them.

[SWv2]

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. :shrug:

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.

[Sir C]

Is cider alcohol? I find it nicer than orange juice for breakfast now

For a healthy sunday breakfast drink I like to take a glass of Pineapple and babana smoothie and add a large measure of white rum. An instant pina colada, and you can't argue with that.

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

Still not a drop taken since Monday.

I'm seriously considering extending until tomorrow. :yikes:

Am I supposed to feel better yet?

Don't listen to these so called friends urging you back to the bottle to keep you 'as you are'.

Stay sober tonight c and you will rediscover that wonderful Saturday morning feeling of being energised for the weekend, devoid of that nagging, remorseful hangover.

[Sir C]

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.

But if one is having a bottle of red wine per night but feeling no ill effects in the morning?

[Sir C]

Don't listen to these so called friends urging you back to the bottle to keep you 'as you are'.

Stay sober tonight c and you will rediscover that wonderful Saturday morning feeling of being energised for the weekend, devoid of that nagging, remorseful hangover.

I get about two hangovers a year, h :shrug: Drink or no drink, I will be up at 6:30 and running by 7 tomorrow morning, like most mornings.

[Burney]

Is cider alcohol? I find it nicer than orange juice for breakfast now

My folks used to be friends with a couple who served cider and boiled eggs as a breakfast repast.

They of course both died of drink.

[SWv2]

But if one is having a bottle of red wine per night but feeling no ill effects in the morning?

Over the period of 1-2 hours with a reasonable meal???

Personally I would see no issue with that but undoubtedly some medical **** would lecture you on units.

[Pokster]

It wasn't serious, it just made me angry.

I eat better than 95% of the population, I exercise every day, and STILL they tell me my blood pressure is higher than ideal? The absolute ****s.

I'll show them.

Makes your blood boil... but that will stick your blood pressure up

[redgunamo]

Still not a drop taken since Monday.

I'm seriously considering extending until tomorrow. :yikes:

Am I supposed to feel better yet?

Are you replacing the drink with anything? Water perhaps?

[Burney]

Are you replacing the drink with anything? Water perhaps?

We must assume so. Otherwise, the poor chap would expire, surely?

[Sir C]

Are you replacing the drink with anything? Water perhaps?

Yes, sipping water as if it were wine.

Pissing like a racehorse, naturally.

[Pokster]

Are you replacing the drink with anything? Water perhaps?

Spice imo.... whatever that is :shrug:

[Pokster]

Yes, sipping water as if it were wine.

Pissing like a racehorse, naturally.

Well that is good as at our advanced age we tend to lose the power... I'm expecting to have to take viagra in a few years just to stop me pissing on my shoes

[Burney]

Yes, sipping water as if it were wine.

Pissing like a racehorse, naturally.

You want to watch that. Dangerous stuff, too much water.

[Burney]

Spice imo.... whatever that is :shrug:

I'm curious about that. Another genius attempt - along with PCP - to create a legal, synthetic alternative to cannabis that's resulted in something much, much worse than cannabis. Well done, everyone.

It's almost like prohibition of cannabis is a really fücking terrible idea, isn't it?

[Pokster]

I'm curious about that. Another genius attempt - along with PCP - to create a legal, synthetic alternative to cannabis that's resulted in something much, much worse than cannabis. Well done, everyone.

It's almost like prohibition of cannabis is a really fücking terrible idea, isn't it?

I'm not an expert on drugs as i am lucky (?) that I have never partaken..... but imo cannabis has been shown to have medical beneits so fo that reason alone should be legalised. if you want to bring in tighter controls regarding driving while under the influence etc than do it

[Luis Anaconda]

My folks used to be friends with a couple who served cider and boiled eggs as a breakfast repast.

They of course both died of drink.

There are worse ways to go, b. We have to die of something

[Burney]

I'm not an expert on drugs as i am lucky (?) that I have never partaken..... but imo cannabis has been shown to have medical beneits so fo that reason alone should be legalised. if you want to bring in tighter controls regarding driving while under the influence etc than do it

The only issue I have with cannabis is the sheer bloody strength of it these days. This again came about because of prohibition. As crackdowns on imports of lower-strength (and very enjoyable) hashish started to bite, it created a gap in the market for domestic growers to create varieties with much higher THC levels, which is how we ended up with skunk. So, again, prohibition created a stronger nastier drug than existed in the first place.

[Luis Anaconda]

The only issue I have with cannabis is the sheer bloody strength of it these days. This again came about because of prohibition. As crackdowns on imports of lower-strength (and very enjoyable) hashish started to bite, it created a gap in the market for domestic growers to create varieties with much higher THC levels, which is how we ended up with skunk. So, again, prohibition created a stronger nastier drug than existed in the first place.

Bill Bryson on prohibition in 20s America is one of the best things I have read. Takes it apart and shows the dangers

[Burney]

Bill Bryson on prohibition in 20s America is one of the best things I have read. Takes it apart and shows the dangers

Yes, the thing I found particularly shocking in that book was that the US government deliberately poisoned industrial alcohol in order to put people off drinking it - IN THE FULL AND CERTAIN KNOWLEDGE THAT THEY WOULD KILL THEIR OWN CITIZENS BY DOING SO. :yikes:

Always worth bearing that in mind whenever some public health prick or prohibitionist type tells you they're thinking of the public good. Just remember these freaks would see you dead in order to achieve their ends.

[Luis Anaconda]

Yes, the thing I found particularly shocking in that book was that the US government deliberately poisoned industrial alcohol in order to put people off drinking it - IN THE FULL AND CERTAIN KNOWLEDGE THAT THEY WOULD KILL THEIR OWN CITIZENS BY DOING SO. :yikes:

Always worth bearing that in mind whenever some public health prick or prohibitionist type tells you they're thinking of the public good. Just remember these freaks would see you dead in order to achieve their ends.

Incredible wasn't it

[The Insider]

Yes, sipping water as if it were wine.

Pissing like a racehorse, naturally.

Brandy is the answer here.

It is its own food group and therefore excluded from any alcohol consumption tally.

[Sir C]

Brandy is the answer here.

It is its own food group and therefore excluded from any alcohol consumption tally.

Brandy gives me a headache, though :-(

[IUFG]

Brandy gives me a headache, though :-(

Port, then.
lots of it...

[Burney]

Port, then.
lots of it...

Both. Together. In the same glass.

I remember telling an American that this was a thing in Britain. He looked horrified. Odd lot, yanks.

[Burney]

Brandy gives me a headache, though :-(

That’s only because it’s too easy to drink in unwise quantities.

[The Insider]

Both. Together. In the same glass.

I remember telling an American that this was a thing in Britain. He looked horrified. Odd lot, yanks.

That is my wife's family's universal cure-all. Medicinal compound....

[Sir C]

That is my wife's family's universal cure-all. Medicinal compound....

It's certainly good for an upset tummy.

[IUFG]

That is my wife's family's universal cure-all. Medicinal compound....

Copious amounts of any alcohol is a panacea, TI

[Burney]

It's certainly good for an upset tummy.

In this, as so many things, Dr Johnson was sound/slightly deranged: “Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy."

[Burney]

That is my wife's family's universal cure-all. Medicinal compound....

Yes. I said this was a widely used hangover cure, to which the American fellow had the temerity to say: ‘Sure...for alcoholics.”

These people are puritans at heart, of vourse. What can one do?

[The Insider]

Yes. I said this was a widely used hangover cure, to which the American fellow had the temerity to say: ‘Sure...for alcoholics.”

These people are puritans at heart, of vourse. What can one do?

This wasn't for hangovers. My wife has been given it for all illnesses since she was three. She has kept the tradition up with our daughter. It is for females only!

[Burney]

This wasn't for hangovers. My wife has been given it for all illnesses since she was three. She has kept the tradition up with our daughter. It is for females only!

I can only applaud your wife's family. They truly make me proud to be British. :bow:

[Luis Anaconda]

Copious amounts of any alcohol is a panacea, TI

I love you IUFG

[barrybueno]

Update: I'm leathered
wd you btw thumbs up smiley