Is it time to give up drinking when...

[MacB]

I'm not looking for sympathy, I am treating this as the moden equivalent of being put in the stocks.

seems to be working, how long was your sentence coz I think I'll need to buy you a beer to get over this

 

[martint235]

seems to be working, how long was your sentence coz I think I'll need to buy you a beer to get over this

Isn't there a queue of people waiting for you to buy them beer??

 

[MacB]

Isn't there a queue of people waiting for you to buy them beer??

queue sort of gives the impression of a beginning and an end, I'm not sure that's the case with my drinks owed list

 

[GrumpyGregry]

[QUOTE 2643533, member: 1314"]The answer to the OP is no...yeah a time and a place but...

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Absolutely no way to treat a good wine before drinking. It would be like tying your partner to a live road drill as a form of foreplay.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

We've all done dumb stuff. Welcome to the club - don't beat yourself up. Look after Mrs cd - hopefully she'll look after you as well.
At least, in 1997, you didn't decide to cycle 25 miles home, somewhat 'refreshed', from the office Christmas party. Sigh...

21 miles in my case. 1998. Still don't know how I got home or what happened to the bike.

 

[dellzeqq]

Nice Colnago!

er - pre Master Section. Just another bike.

 

[PaulB]

It might be a good time to give up drinking if you are an alcoholic and get some good news - let's say you are found not guilty on charges that you raped and sexually abused a girl from the age of 6 to 14 - I'm just plucking that one out of the air, obviously, and then tell the world you are going to go out and get drunk! Why not tell the world you are going out to get absolutely steaming sober?

 

[ComedyPilot]

IMO, if you are drunk and have to be dealt with in any way shape or form by any of the emergency servies, then you should be billed for their time.

 

[ColinJ]

IMO, if you are drunk and have to be dealt with in any way shape or form by any of the emergency servies, then you should be billed for their time.

I can see your point, but by the same argument we would be charging for treating smokers, and junkies, and obese people, and people who refuse to exercise, and those who eat nowt but junk food, and walkers who stumble off mountain paths, and cyclists who fall off their bikes, and ... Then you haven't got an NHS any more.

 

[ComedyPilot]

A smoker Colin, isn't likely to be aggressive, nor is a walker with a twisted ankle, or a cyclist with road rash.

A drunk on the other hand......

 

[Dayvo]

All things in moderation,especially moderation.

Everything in moderation and I mean E V E R Y T H I N G!

 

[steve52]

charge the drunks for the cost of aresting them or picking them up, prior to arrival at A and E

 

[ColinJ]

A smoker Colin, isn't likely to be aggressive, nor is a walker with a twisted ankle, or a cyclist with road rash.

A drunk on the other hand......

Very true!

There were some drunks in A&E during my last visit. They at least had the decency to be happy drunks, but they had self-inflicted injuries (one who had fallen off a wall twice, once each side, when trying to walk over a swimming baths (!), and another who discovered that drunken impromptu football matches are all very well, but heavy tackles when playing in car parks are not).

On my first A&E visit, several young chaps ended up being kept in overnight and police officers were in attendance throughout the night to stop them absconding, so they must have done something pretty bad.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

What is it, I wonder, about some people, that makes them a happy or an angry drunk?

Sober I'm a grumpy miserable nobber. Drunk I'm lovely. I've never had a fight drunk. Plenty sober.
One of my many b-i-l's? Sober, charming as the day is long. Drunk? The nastiest meanest s-o-b I know. (To the degree that if he drinks I don't.)
Guy at work. Git sober. Even gitter drunk.
Girl at work. Lovely sober. Lovely but very tearful drunk.

 

[morrisman]

Gave up drinking 552 days ago (but who's counting). Finally stopped when, in retirement, I went to Tesco's every week with Mrs Morrisman and it dawned on me that ~30% of the weekly bill was for booze. So I am now much better off, 1.5 stones lighter and seem to have a large number of new chums who would like me to drive for nights out.

ps. According to the government's recommended drinking recommendations I am now 184 bottles of decent wine in credit, thinking of selling the units on eBay!