wafflycat
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Ahem... only from the odd one or two.
My not having alcohol has naff all to do with morals of high ground, and everything to do with a medication I'm on.
How much booze do you consume?
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Ahem... only from the odd one or two.
My not having alcohol has naff all to do with morals of high ground, and everything to do with a medication I'm on.
Probably a good
What am I having? Hmmm, have you finished the cooking sherry yet?
I'm not taking the high moral ground at all. I just decided alcohol wasn't for me so stopped doing it but everyone else is free to continue imo, just so long as they observe a few conditions, i) Don't be sick over the top mof me, ii) Don't drive into me, iii) Don't smash bottles on the road and iv) Don't sing Sweet Caroline at the top of your voice outside my bedroom window at 3am.
Dave Davenport
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I was thinking about getting a Trangia stove so we've always got some meths as back up on tour. I've tried inhaling camping gaz but it just doesn't hit the spot.
With the best of respect, the question was raised. We all have our vices, it just isn't necessarily drink.
Unfortuntately I inherited a genetic predisposition to drink; if I drink I tend to become maudlin or positively paranoid. My dad was the same, so it doesn't really make any sense to do so (to excess). I do not judge those who drink and if my circumstances were different, I probably would drink more. Chance would be a fine thing to have other life choices of which you would disapprove. Apart from occupying the moral high ground that is.
Manonabike
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Well usually zero. But every now and again I sort out a bottle of wine in one sitting - so 4 or 5 units? Binge drinker me
Quite similar situation here but I will not finish the bottle by myself and my wife also would drink a glass or so.
I also drink a beer every now and again.
HLaB
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Back when I was at uni, I took prancreatitis (alcoholics disease) which was ironic because I didn't drink much at the time as I was on medication too for Epilepsy, 3pints at the most with months in-between pints. I ended up loosing over 2 stones in less than a month and had to get my medication lowered. Thank goodness I've been off it for over 10 years.
Belated Happy Birthday, Matt! If I'd remembered it was your birthday, I'd have had a drink to celebrate...
It's funny how this topic comes up every now and again and there's a rush, from the moderate to heavy drinkers, to immediately assume that the non- or very light drinkers are claiming some sort of 'moral high ground' and patronizing them into the ground.
Why should anything of the sort be the case? All I ask of the heavy drinkers is the same as Tyred's requests: (i) don't puke all over me etc. etc. (yesterday I cycled along one of my usual routes and had to swerve to avoid a 'pavement pizza' which some thoughtful drinker had deposited right in my path. Very thoughtful of him/her to consider other pedestrians and avoid the pavement, however no help to cyclists at all - that sort of thing can bring a cyclist down ...
).Oh and another one. (v) don't use up all the NHS's A&E resources at once and increase the risk that someone with a non-alcoholic emergency will face delay in being seen to ....
Dave Davenport
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It's funny how this topic comes up every now and again and there's a rush, from the moderate to heavy drinkers, to immediately assume that the non- or very light drinkers are claiming some sort of 'moral high ground' and patronizing them into the ground.
Why should anything of the sort be the case? All I ask of the heavy drinkers is the same as Tyred's requests: (i) don't puke all over me etc. etc. (yesterday I cycled along one of my usual routes and had to swerve to avoid a 'pavement pizza' which some thoughtful drinker had deposited right in my path. Very thoughtful of him/her to consider other pedestrians and avoid the pavement, however no help to cyclists at all - that sort of thing can bring a cyclist down ...
Oh and another one. (v) don't use up all the NHS's A&E resources at once and increase the risk that someone with a non-alcoholic emergency will face delay in being seen to ....
Sorry, but I really don't see where anyone is being 'patronized into the ground'. And just for the record, although I may drink considerably more units of alcohol per week than the goverment guide lines say I should I don't tend to get 'drunk' and haven't thrown up from drink for many years.
Oh and another one. My mate broke his hip when he crashed in a bike race a few weeks ago and he's had loads of treatment on the nhs, I must tell him not to start racing again when he's recovered as it's an obviously avoidable risk. (ok that last bit could be percieved as a bit patronizing).
Soltydog
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I can't remember the last time I had a drink, must be a good few weeks back, but I'm off to a beer festival on Thursday & riding the tpt at the weekend with an overnight stop, so my alcohol consumption is going to increase a little this week :-)
Riverman
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The question is; would you take a tranquiliser instead if it were made available, assuming that use of the tranquiliser offered won't have many of the negative consequences associated with alcohol such as increased risk of liver disease, CVD, death by overdose, high physical dependency, aggressive and general high risk taking behaviour etc? And would you take it if scientists were able to mimic many of the effects of alcohol and make those effects part of the effect of this drug? I certainly would.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...drunkenness-and-hangovers-in-development.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...drunkenness-and-hangovers-in-development.html
Do I take it, its the one in Hull, I'm going Friday as I'm working the Thursday, then I have to be up at dawn on Saturday for a 90 miler into Lincolnshire. So I think I'll be carbo loading with a greasy doner kebab on the train back to Beverley as I've done in the past, most of it used to end up on the floor of the train, its hard to find your mouth when your swaying and the trains rocking.
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I don't drink to excess, but I do like a glass of wine and would probably take a glass of wine if it was offered - I like the taste. However I don't like being drunk, and have never seen the point in drinking to the point of loosing control of myself or throwing up etc. I would drink between 0 to 10 units in a week normally, maximum of 3 glasses of wine (OK large glasses) in one night - usually with food too.
I don't mind how much others drink, as long as (as some have said before), that they don't injure themselves or others in the process, don't drive and do it responsibly.
The scary bit is realising that my children are at the age when alcohol starts to become available at parties - so far my eldest goes so far she seems to behaving better than I did at that age.
I don't mind how much others drink, as long as (as some have said before), that they don't injure themselves or others in the process, don't drive and do it responsibly.
The scary bit is realising that my children are at the age when alcohol starts to become available at parties - so far my eldest goes so far she seems to behaving better than I did at that age.
Yeah. Just as I would ride a static exercise bike instead of going out for a proper ride with all the negative consequences of traffic danger, air pollution etc. Oh, wait ...
<div><br></div><div>To answer the original question, I'd guess at about 4-6 pints of beer and a bottle of wine weekly. So, about 25 units?</div>
