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Mrs WES is insisting, so I'm left with no choice. 5th day in a row with no booze today. I watched the Bournemouth game without a beer. And I have some very nice red in my wine fridge, purchased for the holidays but yet to be drunk.
It's not right :-(
Course it's only partially Dry Jan. Back in the UK on the 22nd for my son's birthday and will be heading straight to my local in Bramley.
:nod:
I don't drink unless I go out so it isn't unusual for me to go a month without it.Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
So yes, I'll probably do it as well :-)
Gave up Dry January on the 1st....am I going to try an cut back though and knocking the cigs on the head, again.Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
was a good feeling of achievement first year, then last year it was a "farkin' ell! only half way" feeling. Weight falls of ya!Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
My 7th day today, so far not too hard. Plan is to go to our local bar and have a couple of Perriers on Friday night.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
If I make it through that I should be ok.
Does it change your drinking post January at all, Herb? Did you start drinking less the rest of the time?
:-\ "Le Defi de Janvier". Damn silly idea.Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
It doesn't really work in Europe as people binge more, on a seasonal cycle. For example, when asparagus is in season, you eat it every day until you're sick of it and then the season ends and you don't touch it anymore until the following year and everyone does it all again. During Karneval, you'll see middle-aged men and women, responsible folk with important jobs in stolid companies, dressed as clowns or Jedi or Pokemon or whatever, with full face-paint, sleeping on street corners in pools of vomit and piss and other things. But it's alright because it's carnival and they will be back at their desks, all prim and proper on Monday morning as though nothing happened. Ready to do it all again the next year.
It's only Anglos who insist on the right to eat everything, all the time, all year round and whenever we want. It's probably the main reason we don't like them very much or get along; these people even have rules and practices and procedures governing hedonism and getting ****faced.
You cannot regulate hedonism. It ceases to be hedonistic.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
This is why Britain produces genuinely great rock and roll bands. And the Americans, to a far lesser extent.
Europe gave us The Scorpions:-(
It's also why we created the free party scene and free festies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Why would you want to bin alcohol during the most depressing month of the year.....and yes, I'm very grumpy. No :smokin:
What?s dry January ? :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
:nod: Lucky if I do Dry MondayQuote:
Originally Posted by 7sisters
Yep. British people do not enjoy being told how, when and where they are allowed to get ****ed up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
don't have any kind of problem so you slacken off on your weekday abstinence regime. I used to be strict Fri, Sat & Sun but I now usually persuade myself Thursday is perfectly acceptable for the weekend to start. I do however, stick to beer these days. Most of the alcoholics I know arrived at their addiction through wine.Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
Did you actually wake up on Jan 1 and say to yourself that you were going to do Dry Jan, and then folded before the day was out, P?Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
Or did you just wake up and think 'sod it, not for me'?
That's not what I wanted to hear, Herb :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
I've actually found it pretty easy so far. My master plan was that if I did find Dry Jan easy, that going forward I would stop drinking at home Mon-Fri and drink as usual at the weekend.
I reckon that would be 30-40 % reduction in my alcohol intake with at least 3 days a week dry.
The Eurotrash certainly has incredible discipline. I blame Napoleon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter