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Tanglefoot 7:16 Tue Feb 27
How much do you drink?

Since the lock downs a few years back I have found myself drinking most days. Normally a few ciders and a bottle of wine, more on weekends or when at football, events etc. I realise that this is too much but have got right into the routine of it now and to be honest it doesn't seem to effect me, never miss work, appointments etc

How much (if any) does everyone else drink?

zico 7:29 Tue Feb 27
Re: How much do you drink?

I pretty much quit a couple of years back. Never drank at home anyway but had a good few every time I went out. Will still have the odd brandy and coke or when on holiday I'll have a Black Russian or two but that's it. I find it odd though that my mates are constantly trying to persuade me when we go out. But at least I don't have to get a CAB or feel like crap the next morning. Good friend of mine has just lost an ex, the father of her daughters, through liver failure due to drink at 63. His best friend and her friends husband died from the same three years ago at 59. Both heavy drinkers in their time.

Hammer and Pickle 7:54 Tue Feb 27
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The absolute minimum these days - a Guinness plus a larger in a black and tan plus a glass or two of quality wine and its bedtime for a good sleep. Can't afford to be strung out the next day with all this work.

Spirits at a part is fine as long as there is plenty of dancing involved. A spicy curry and plenty of gardening/housework the next day is then compulsory.

Gary Strodders shank 8:00 Tue Feb 27
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I never drink at home bar the odd glass of wine of beer on Christmas day.
I go to the pub three or sometimes four times a week and drink real ales or maybe cider in the summer
Over the course of the week maybe twenty pints in total.

In the first lockdown I never drank at all but once.i started again i developed stomach cramps which lasted for a few weeks.
Second lockdown used to buy bottles of Timothy Taylor landlord and meet up with a couple of mates over the fields a couple.of times a week which was really enjoyable
When the pubs reopened drank normally as I had done before and no stomach cramps.

I just like the social side of drinking and pub culture particularly unwinding after doing some hard graft and working up a decent
thirst.

Phall Throw 8:16 Tue Feb 27
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Don't drink, stopped around 10 years ago, not because of health, simply because I didn't enjoy it anymore.

goose 8:22 Tue Feb 27
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Not a huge amount - couple of glasses of red at the weekend, usually with food. Italian of course.

Once the weather turns there's a lot to be said for a cold beer, a BBQ and a few games of cards.

Mike Oxsaw 8:34 Tue Feb 27
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I've got into"Early away" since retiring. 4 beers, every other day, starting about 4 in the afternoon and stopping at 10pm; anything undrunk gets poured down the sink unless it's an unopened bottle, which goes back in the fridge for another day.

Don't drink to get pissed, just sip a mouthful every now and again while I'm reading or fart-arsing around on the computer.

My friend's wife thinks I drink too much, my friend's mother-in-law thinks I drink too much and my cleaner thinks I drink too much...until I offer her a beer.

That being said, my choice at the moment is shit lager or shittier lager or even shittier lager, so no real incentive to drink.

Moncurs Putting Iron 8:41 Tue Feb 27
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Usually have dry school nights* then a few beers or G&Ts at home on Saturday and Sunday unless going out.


* Europa nights excepting ;-)

ludo21 8:49 Tue Feb 27
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I will have a glass of wine with my evening meal most nights, a couple at the weekend.

A G&T or a rum & coke 2/3 times a week.

A couple of pints of bitter with a pub lunch every fortnight or so.

Not too bad but feel as though I should cut down more but don't suppose I will as I enjoy it.

Used to go to the pub drinking once a week or so and would have 5/6 pints but that avenue of pleasure has been closed since we moved a year ago.

ludo21 8:51 Tue Feb 27
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... what I really need to do is some exercise!!

lab 9:07 Tue Feb 27
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I average four pints a day . I’m Sixty three years of age and been doing this since I was about forty . I had a lot of chat with Ted Fenton about this and he gave me advice and warnings , unfortunately I’m really struggling with it and wish I could give up or walk away after a pint 🙁

Nagel 9:23 Tue Feb 27
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About 20 years ago I started doing 2 day binges whenever I drank, mainly because I hated the day after hangover so much. So, I'd start at lunchtime on Friday and finish in the early hours of Sunday morning (with a 10-12 hour break in between).

I still do the same now, only every 2-3 weeks instead of every weekend. Usually have about 20 pints each time, although avoid the stronger lager these days.

BeauLarkyBuff 9:56 Tue Feb 27
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Try not to drink Monday through Thursday but often succumb to a couple of gin n tonics on Thursday.

Couple of ciders on a Friday, Westons Vintage (8.2%), Stowford Press or my homebrew. Open a bottle of Malbec and will probably have half of it.

Saturday is sport day so couple of ciders and remaining Malbec.

Sunday depends on what's happening. If decent sport then another couple of ciders and might open another bottle of red (if I do then I'll have to finish it on Monday).

Nurse Ratched 10:39 Tue Feb 27
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I genuinely don't mean this in a spiteful way, but I would be delighted to see a video of Pickle dancing. Proper tipsy and uninhibited dancing.

Hammer and Pickle 10:44 Tue Feb 27
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Sober, tipsy or drunk, the only video footage is uninhibited, my little rhododendron.

Dick Shaftsbury 11:09 Tue Feb 27
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Recently stopped drinking Monday - Friday and feel much better for it. I'm sleeping a lot better and feeling so fresh in the morning.

joyo 11:17 Tue Feb 27
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goose and Oxbore...what a pair of boring tits,l hardly drink only really at football,but if l was in their company I'll get paralytic

Pagey 11:25 Tue Feb 27
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Me lager, Finchy lager, Gareth lager sometimes cider

goose 11:26 Tue Feb 27
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Can anyone smell piss?

Oh it’s ginger joyo.

You’re teetotal? Just when I thought you couldn’t be anymore dull you drop that bombshell.

ray winstone 11:55 Tue Feb 27
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More or less gave up when my alcoholic father died from Liver Cancer about 12 years ago.

I’ll have the odd pint of Guinness maybe once a month and a few lagers when on holiday but apart from that, I enjoy waking up sober and being able function on Sundays.

Mike Oxsaw 12:00 Wed Feb 28
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joyo 11:17 Tue Feb 27

Spoken like a man who shares his squat in an abandoned Upminster lock-up with the finest tramps Essex has to offer.

The only reason joyo doesn't drink is because his squat-mates can smell an open can of tramp juice from 4 miles away and every time joyo cracks a tube they're onto him like a rash whooshing it away.

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