Is drinking safe? Government guidelines - fact or fiction?

[The History Man]

Re: Is drinking safe? Government guidelines - fact or fictio

I haven't been legless for years. The secret is to become 'merry' then maintain it.

I rarely have more than a couple of pints. The above requires more and I'm not interested these days.

 

[technodup]

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Is it some narcisstic self-destruction, or Tyler-Durden-esque desire to hit rock bottom?

Some fannies think it makes them look hard to drink x shots or x pints. Most wouldn't be quite so mental if I offered them a needle of brown or a bag of sweeties. They're plebs who think they're rocking the boat but are actually conforming to social norms for wankers.

Basically because they're fannies. Nothing more.

To be found in any chain bar on a Friday or anywhere with a test your punch strength machine. A true fanny magnet.

 

[legrandefromage]

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I'd been made redundant that day so I wouldnt have cared if I'd drunk x amount of shots/ pints etc until I dropped dead.

Been everywhere except the needle so that probably wouldnt have fazed me that day.

Touch nowt now despite clearly having one more stupid night left in me before I retire.

 

[T'boo Ted]

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The other day we we following a bus and it had a big ad poster on the back along the lines of more then 4 standard drinks is binging... now of course we australians are famous for binge drinking and in my youth I sure did. But these day my GF and I hardly drink at all, but 4 standard drinks? Thats like nothing.

 

[TGR]

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I have been Down Under - Aussies don't binge drink - they just drink regularly - very regularly. I loved it there!

Richard

 

[benjy]

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spent about £120 just on booze on a night out just on myself once lol

 

[The History Man]

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Been everywhere except the needles.

I've been there too.

Coat already on.

 

[konatime]

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Found the body of me nutty 2 para mate melted into his cellar floor cause of drink, there for the grace and all that...they played 'Crazy diamond for him at his funeral...i didnt go...i told him i wouldnt while he was alife.....he opened another can (he could do 50 of them serious black or blue coloured pisscans in the same innings) and said ever so matter of factly 'all the wretches will be there wont they....innit' and necked the can in one hit like it was sasperella (sp?). Selfish twat....but book wortherly comical.

Ps....lost me train of thought then thinking of him...i forgot to say, he started on two cans a night

 

[Neil]

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spent about £120 just on booze on a night out just on myself once lol

Couldn't you have just cut to the chase, cut out the middle-man, saved yourself potential liver damage, and hangover, by just flushing the cash down the toilet?

As to the socialising aspect of it, I keep thinking of that scene in the Simpsons (where he briefly gives up beer) where he recalls being at a party, as a sophisticated and elegant man, telling "whimsical japes" but in reality was a boorish ass.

 

[highlandsflyer]

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I hammer it pretty much three to five times a week, much more over the 'festive' season, yet my liver function panned out as normal yet again last week. My doctor, who also drinks with us, can't understand how that is possible. She doesn't see how much water I work my way through every day, nor the number of supplements I take.

Brought up in the hospitality business, and to some extent still involved with it. Occupational hazard.

Some people don't understand the attraction of drinking. Fair play, but some of us enjoy it.