Bad News from the Doc Today

[Crackle]

This Doc has been known to get through 35 units or more on Friday evening.
The resulting catastrophic hangover lasted till Wednesday
Sadly, photos were taken, and the negatives cost me a fortune...

The days when I could get seriously rat arsed and still function the next day have gone. The days when I could get seriously rat arsed and still do some heavy excercise the next day, have long gone.

 

[ChrisKH]

This Doc has been known to get through 35 units or more on Friday evening.
The resulting catastrophic hangover lasted till Wednesday
Sadly, photos were taken, and the negatives cost me a fortune...

Indeed, and I have been there, believe me. But I am a terrible drunk much like my father so am best off it. In the same vein, a close friend retains the negatives of me, a camera box and little else in the hope that I will some day be famous. I'm doing my best to make sure this is never published.

 

[Jonathan M]

I've not had a drink since 2nd June, been advised not to, not missing it but I'd be more impressed if I'd actually managed to loose some fecking weight!!

 

[tdr1nka]

If it's any consolation Jonathan M, I gained weight when I gave up drink.

 

[Fab Foodie]

To be honest dellzeqq, were you surprised? Your tacit acceptance of the need to follow doc's advice suggests that you knew already that reduced consumption was going to be part of your future?
I've recently figured this out and have been curtailing my daily red-wine habit from 3 very large glasses an evening to just 1/2 a very large glass (for medicinal purposes see) and I have even had my first few alcohol free days since... well, since I can't remember. What's weird is that I'm starting to like it, in fact I'm starting to feel happier and less grumpy as a result and maybe even sleeping better. It's not all bad. That doesn't preclude the odd social bender though!

 

[dellzeqq]

I do remember joyfully announcing to my housemates after I'd been working for about 4-5 years, going to the pub and saying Well lads.. today I know I'm old.. because this week I've kept within the Government limit of 31 pints for the week.. to be told apparently it was 21, and the number was for units not pints.

brilliant! I tip my hat to you, sir!

Thankyou all for your advice and good wishes, but, to be honest, all that's at stake here is pleasure. I devote my life to the pursuit of pleasure, so I am just a little miffed that there will be, from now on, one pleasure less, but I am told (and convincingly told) that consuming a paltry half bottle of wine a night is going to increase the risk of a heart attack, which, thanks to my fantastically poor choice of forefathers, is remarkably high for one who looks, outwardly, to be in decent shape.

This isn't to say that I won't get plastered apres-FNRttC to Whitstable again.........

 

[MacB]

That much alcohol in the system messes with the personality too much irrespective of what it is doing to your liver.

This leads me to wonder what personality will emerge when the enforced sobriety takes hold..........could Dell be a Linf MarkII?

I don't drink often these days but can still pack it away when the mood takes. In fact rather a lot of red wine vanished between myself and RichP last night. We both road 50-60 miles today, wasn't keen before the off but all seemed well once I got going.

 

[galaxy1]

All this talk of alcohol is making me want a drink. I think the shops open till 11

 

[rich p]

This leads me to wonder what personality will emerge when the enforced sobriety takes hold..........could Dell be a Linf MarkII?

I don't drink often these days but can still pack it away when the mood takes. In fact rather a lot of red wine vanished between myself and RichP last night. We both road 50-60 miles today, wasn't keen before the off but all seemed well once I got going.

I ended up with 65m due to a meandering habit that wasn't caused by the 3 or 4(?) bottles of vino rosso we shared. I won't be glugging often with such indulgence but it was very enjoyable binge.

 

[MacB]

I ended up with 65m due to a meandering habit that wasn't caused by the 3 or 4(?) bottles of vino rosso we shared. I won't be glugging often with such indulgence but it was very enjoyable binge.

I'm afraid the empties definitely number 4

Glad you made it back ok, I actually got home without going significantly astray. Seemed a bit less brutal on the way back, I think we had the worst of the hills going.