Off Topic Alcohol - Cutting down, moderation, how much is ok?

Interesting stuff here.

By any rational standard, I would be a problem drinker. I have a pint after work probably 3 or 4 times a week and the better part of a bottle of wine when I get home. On the weekend I have a few more pints. If you add up my units per week you get a scary number.

So far, though, I haven't been able to see that it's caused me much in the way of problems. At 56 I'm in better shape than most 30 year olds. I don't have any mood swings that I am aware of, and people around me wouldn't be shy about pointing them out if they happened. I am never ill from drink and only have a hangover if I don't get enough sleep. I can quit for a month at a time. I don't feel any better physically if I do. Jokes are less funny though. I can spend a night in a pub surrounded by people drinking during an off month and not have any serious problem staying dry.

I only drink beer and wine. So far as I can tell, they make my life more pleasant. I am either completely deluded or have been unusually lucky in my constitution/personality type. I believe it is the latter, but then I would even if it was former, wouldn't I ?

 

My father-in-law is in his 80s and has only just stopped drinking (maybe the last four years). Before that he was like a fish, but he was never ill with it and never violent.

I reckon that's just the way he is, lucky enough to have consumed so much and yet still going into his eighties. Horses for courses, so they say.

 

I'm thinking I might have a drink tonight. Well when I say might I mean I bloody gasping for something to settle the nerves!

 

I've put on half a stone in the past two weeks, eating and drinking. Its been great. I'm exercising in my mancave gym in half an hour to burn off some calories.

Celebration drinks later, hopefully.

 

So, is this where Chippy has put in some "insurance/extra" exercising to lose some weight in case we win and he can then celebrate?

 

I am hoping that I will be in the mood to do some serious celebratory drinking down town in about 5 hours

 

Aye, it makes sense.

 

I'm happily losing my insurance bets. But to counter insure I'm down south drinking free beer so will still be up either way #acslogic

 

Hic!

 

10 year old Bushmills malt going down the hatch right now.

 

Nowt wrong with drinking lads...

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Mitro is proper in the mood. Like a big kid.

 

All the British lads with bottles in their hands and all the foreign lads without. Thank god we are getting out of Europe!