Teetotalism

[DCLane]

Do you miss missing it?

No. It's got to the point that I don't even think about having a drink; I've given anything I had away and work colleagues know I'll have an orange juice.

Oddly enough, my students will be looking at Brewdog next week - which includes some tasting, but I'll not bother.

 

[jann71]

I haven't had any alcohol for 7 months due to medication I am now on.

Never was a big drinker but had the odd shot or Bacardi on social occasions.

Get the odd urge to have one but I know I can't and just have to get the thought out my head!

 

[summerdays]

I'm about to give up for lent .... and so I'm having a drink every night in the the run up to lent .... which is more than normal!!!

 

[ianrauk]

Used to be a very heavy drinker. Mainly due to the business I am in and the culture of drinking in my family (one of my siblings is a recovering alcoholic ) . In the year 2000 both myself and Mrs Ian decided to cut it right back. No drinking monday to thursday leaving friday and the weekend for drinking. Found this very tough. Seeing as when in the office my lunch break every day usually included 3 pints then back to the pub after work. When on the road there wasn't really a set working day, so drinking would start and any time and not really finish at all during a tour. And of course there was football weekends which usually meant I ended up blind drunk more often then not on football days.
It got to the stage where I would only have a drink at football or out at a gig or a social. Since giving up the footy S/T the drinking has been cut right back. I now go weeks without a drink. I do have booze in the house but am at a stage where I can take it or leave it. Sometimes it's hard to beat sitting in the garden in the summer with an ice cold beer.
I would never give it up as when I do drink I do enjoy it. And having a drink after a few weeks of not, God it tastes glorious.

 

[TheDoctor]

Good Lord.
I don't have a problem with drink - I didn't touch a drop for most of January - but why on Earth would I give up something I like so much?
If you have to do it for medical reasons, then you have my deepest sympathy.
But don't try to tell me that sobriety will make me a better person.
It won't. It'll make me a lesser person.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I don't really drink, like a glass of nice wine with a good meal and good company, but I think the last time this happened was about 2 years ago, on my holidays.
There is a lot of pressure to get drunk it seems, any occasion is a good one.
I will sit quite happily with a fresh orange or a coffee in a pub or on a night out.
My "weirdness" is legendary
I find that after a bit people forget that the glass in front of you is non alcoholic and give you peace

Edit: working in catering really puts one off drunk folks!

 

[theclaud]

No. It's got to the point that I don't even think about having a drink; I've given anything I had away and work colleagues know I'll have an orange juice.

Oddly enough, my students will be looking at Brewdog next week - which includes some tasting, but I'll not bother.

I guess that what I mean is that I can't imagine wanting an orange juice in the way that I want a beer, and that part of the attraction of booze is the desire itself. There's something ineffably sad about the notion that I might one day feel the same way about wine as I do about orange juice - it sort of threatens to sap away the meaning of things.

 

[TheDoctor]

Resist this temptation, TC. Go and get a drink now.
Do it for us. Do it for me. But FFS go and do it.
I'm going to get a Laphroaig.

 

[ColinJ]

I've given up for 1 or 2 years at a time, 3 or 4 times now.

When I was a mature student, I only drank alcohol when I went home for the hols. That was because I'd drunk away any chance of getting a degree first time round, and didn't want to mess up my second attempt.

I'm currently 6 months into another alco-break. I can't really spare the money anyway, but the main reason is that I don't think that it would be a good idea while still suffering my well-documented health problems. Losing weight is a very pleasing side effect of my abstinence.

I hope that one day I will be well enough and solvent enough again to be able to enjoy one or two evenings a week where I drink a few pints, a maximum of 4 or 5, say. If it doesn't happen, fair enough - I'll carry on as I am.

 

[theclaud]

Resist this temptation, TC. Go and get a drink now.
Do it for us. Do it for me. But FFS go and do it.
I'm going to get a Laphroaig.

Ha! I'm afraid the house booze is down to some pretty uninspiring dregs, Doc. My best option is a slug of mediocre rum in a mug of cocoa. I don't want to create an air of desperation, but the triple sec that I've moved house twice with is starting to look alarmingly inviting. I'm sort of relieved I got rid of the absinthe...

 

[TheDoctor]

Not Laphroaig. Caol Ila, which is just as good

 

[TheDoctor]

Rum in cocoa is good.
Absinthe, eh? That is hardcore!!

 

[MissTillyFlop]

Rum in cocoa is good.
Absinthe, eh? That is hardcore!!

I used to drink whisky in tea. It tastes of rich tea biscuits

 

[TheDoctor]

I used to drink whisky in tea. It tastes of rich tea biscuits

I've had rum in black tea before - Jagertee.

 

[Crankarm]

Not a word that Paul Gascoigne could begin to understand.