Don't drink, Don't smoke, what do you do?

[Cubist]

See, those years of mind numbing 30 pint throughers have really addled my brain. Right, so the 25 g packs that used to just about last me a couple of days were ounces? Bugger. Well, in that case, yes, I used to do about half an ounce a day. Maths is not my strong point.

 

[jig-sore]

OK here we go....


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3g5G0PFuXQ

 

[rich p]

Britain is very into drinking. I'm still flabbergasted that there are pubs in airports and trains sell drink at all hours....
!

Well, all cafes on the continent sell alcohol at any time of the day and when cycling through Germany I was pleasantly surprised to see miniatures as the checkout impulse sale in filling stations and supermarkets. A very welcome nightcap in the tent every night.
I think the reasons for alcohol abuse in the UK are to be found elsewhere.

 

[wafflycat]

The British drink problem is not exactly new. Beer Street & Gin Lane anyone?

 

[BearPear]

I don't regard heavy drinkers as "macho" and I don't think I did in my youth either. I do think that people put some unsavoury things on Facebook, and I cringe sometimes (sex lives, weekend drinking etc). If Mr BP goes out (he does enjoy a good beer festival!) he doesn't come home trollied because he can't handle it now he's older either!

Personally I can manage a couple of glasses of wine, and will drink one glass on an evening now and again. I did the whole drinking to excess as a teenager and although I have been blathered on occasion since then, I really cannot stand the sensation of being "fresh" and the hangover next day is too awful. I am never pestered by friends about my lack of alcohol, but I wouldn't be bothered if they did.

I agree with what others have said - all things in moderation!

 

[bobg]

That's true enough. But smoking - at a low level - is good for the soul.

Right on RT, my soul is good verging on perfect.... Without wishing to gloat, I'm lucky enough to be able to have have 2 or 3 skinny ones and thats it.

Mrs BG was going for non smoking counselling and her lungs or whatever were tested every week and every week an improvement until one week she drove there with the car window open ( about 1/2 hour down a busy road) The counsellor said her tests results were back where they thad been 5 weeks before. She now drives with the windows closed and still smokes......

 

[swee'pea99]

Brits have always been pissants. It goes way way back. There was a most entertainign programme on a year or two back where they got a number of pissheads to recite - in increasingly drunken voices while on a 'typical night out', historical texts in which continental ambassadors and the like wrote of their astonishment at the drinking behaviour of the British - and these were going back 100, 200, 400 years.

 

[SavageHoutkop]

yes, but cafes do food and drink as well, the typical 'pub' in (say) an airport is there to serve alcohol; and alcohol pretty much alone....

 

[Funtboy]

I drink far too much wine.

 

[hackbike 666]

I drink far too much tea.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Britain is very into drinking. I'm still flabbergasted that there are pubs in airports and trains sell drink at all hours....

And long may that continue. One of the great pleasures of going on holiday is having a full English breakfast washed down with three or four pints at 6.30 in the morning prior to boarding one's flight.

 

[vernon]

Who was it that wrote that the downside of being t-total was that when you woke up on a morning that the best that you were going to feel all day?

I can't understand the sanctimonious who can't understand the folk who like doing things to excess. Live and let live I say.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Nice one Vernon. Another pint?

 

[swee'pea99]

Who was it that wrote that the downside of being t-total was that when you woke up on a morning that the best that you were going to feel all day?

Dean Martin. Who also said: 'If you can lie down without holding on you're not really drunk.'

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Was it Dean Martin who had a boat called "Cirrhosis Of The River"? Or was that W.C. Fields?