matty01

I just think it's very risky drinking so much so often given that alcoholism is such a nasty Beast I know many people who are alcoholics drinking many pints a day but refuse to accept that they are actually alcoholics that I think is the major problem if you drink socially glass of wine with a meal not a problem but for so many people that drifts into drinking many pints every day and before you know it you're 20 year long alcoholic

ALi-B

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As already mentioned with stoptober, it's a useless non-gesture and doesn't really address any of the core issues.

A hard long-term addict can stop drinking cold turkey for a month, easy. I've seen it first hand time and time again and dealt with the consequences. The real challenge is to stop drinking for a year or more.

There is a difference between drinking to excess out of habit (social or otherwise) and actually being addicted to it. Addiction is sometimes a condition that is often inescapable and incurable regardless of any "drinking culture".

*He says whilst finishing off a bottle of LAN Rioja

ALi-B

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....Anyway....

Honestly, I do not have a drink problem....





But I do eat far far too many Jelly Beans

StrangelyBrown

Problem is very subjective

dpb

High-functioning alci !

ALi-B

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I only have one jar of Jelly Beans left, once that's gone I'm going cold turkey for JellyBeanJanuary!

StrangelyBrown

Tried mars free March last year, failed completely

The Trooper 1815

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The current gin stash.

StrangelyBrown

AND that is a good stash. Due to recent festivities mine is somewhat depleted.

lozgti1

Hah! Some quality stashes of whisky and gin. up there.lol

I only got a half bottle of Glenmorangie for Christmas still lovely though

And a toblerone and a book so its been a peaceful relaxing Christmas

SJ_Skyline

I gave up drinking for good.

I now drink for evil.

madscoob

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over the last 5 years i have watched the sister inlaw go from 2-3 cans every night to now opening a can as soon as kids have gone to school, she is now on 60-70 cans a week

andy97

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Yesterday 10:27 PM
madscoob over the last 5 years i have watched the sister inlaw go from 2-3 cans every night to now opening a can as soon as kids have gone to school, she is now on 60-70 cans a week

dpb

We need save every penny for indigenous to go about their everyday drinking habits


And not waste it on supplementing hard earning migrants incomes



Country's going to the dogs

madscoob

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supplementing hard earning migrants incomes, would be easier to just give the money to corperations and big buisness,then make them pay a decent wage in the 1st place ( no resentment then from uk born workers ) being brutally honest if i didn't get ctc i wouldn't bother working, i left school at 15 (now 52) and have never signed on in my life, and yes she is a waster but is spending 70 quid a week on booze but don't drive so unlike us she aint spending out for a car and fuel, she knows i hate her i have called her allsorts over the years (passenger on the platform of life etc) but this dates back to liebour days, have a few kids don't worry we will give you a house money etc all in the name of leftism and buying votes, same as now with in work benefits buying the vote of immies and the poor trump might be a madass but he has the right idea lower corperation tax but make them pay a proper wage, then tax the workers therfore getting more in tax in the long run

GlesgaKiss

I never get that drunk anymore after a bad incident a few years ago while working away.

I think the reason some of us look forward to a beer certain nights after work or a few drinks at the end of the week is the same reason alcoholics drink, i.e. it provides a degree of relief - a 'good' feeling, especially socially. Like ALi-B earlier in the thread, it does get rid of some tension and help me relax and switch off when I tend to get wound up with stress through the working week. I'm well aware that's how alcoholics get started but I've always kept it at a constant, and there are some nights I'm p*ssed off that I won't even have a beer for that reason. I'm happy enough knowing I can enjoy it in moderation.

ditchmyster

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I quit drinking this year for january and ended up not drinking for 3 months, main reason was I couldn't remember a period in the previous 20yrs that I'd not had a drink for more than a day or two.

Never really been a big drinker as I'm quite a light weight... fortunately can only cope with about 3 pints, after number 4 it's game over for me so tend not to go there... that said I've drank quite a bit over the past week... bareing in mind I'm a 3 pint wonder... 5 pint session with a couple of mates and a few whiskies after saw me spending half the day in bed and the rest of it wounded on the couch not done that for years, it was only because I was in England and not seen them for a while.

I've now got to the point where I don't drink (generally) during the week and just have the odd one or two beers now and again with a mate here and there... not really that bothered tbh, have the odd glass of wine and a whisky now and then... mostly when I hang out with my whisky drinking mates, also love a nice Pale Ale too, which is how/why I got wasted.

I think I've finally become a responsible average consumption drinker, won't give it up completely though as I do love a pint and a whisky every so often when the opportunity presents it's self.