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Manuel wrote: ↑02 Feb 2025, 10:22

Mike Oxsaw" wrote: ↑02 Feb 2025, 08:28 Just moderate your drink intake; sometimes, these days, I'll prefer a mug of tea - when I first came to Thailand after Covid, I'd easily do 6 large beers between 15:00 & 22:00 every day.

Now if I get through 3 I've had a session and often end up pouring half the 3rd bottle down the drain the following morning, which, if I'm honest, is the best place for all Thai beer.

Back to Blighty/Cloggieland soon, so I'll be able to test my resolve further then.

I like Leo, and you do realise that you don't HAVE to drink Thai beer, you tight cսnt. I'm not surprised you drink at home alone either.

Mike Oxsaw" wrote: ↑02 Feb 2025, 08:28 Just moderate your drink intake; sometimes, these days, I'll prefer a mug of tea - when I first came to Thailand after Covid, I'd easily do 6 large beers between 15:00 & 22:00 every day.

Now if I get through 3 I've had a session and often end up pouring half the 3rd bottle down the drain the following morning, which, if I'm honest, is the best place for all Thai beer.

Back to Blighty/Cloggieland soon, so I'll be able to test my resolve further then.

Sydney_Iron wrote: ↑11 Jan 2025, 08:04 Giving it a go this year, been nearly 2 weeks, fuck all change!

GP kept telling me i drink too much, 10 standard drinks a week is the recommended amount but given your average Aussie bottle of beer (375ml @ 5%) is 1.5, you cant even have 1 a day  worked out my average consumption is 2 or 3 beers a day plus will drink about the equivalent of a bottle of wine a week, i thought nothing of this if anything pretty moderate, but it works out at  3 to 4 times the recommended amount.

Having been teetotal for 11 days i can honestly say i feel no different despite Doc telling me i may have withdrawal symptoms, but fuck all has changed apart from feeling a bit bored in the evening when i usually sup a few beers, if anything i miss it, enjoy a few bevies whilst watch a movie or Netflix, going out isn't the same either, no wine with dinner, just dull im afraid, plus i actually like drinking, makes me feel good, don't get pissed but just like that feeling you get, i miss it.

Does this make me an alcoholic or on the way to being one? Bit late really im 60 and been doing this since my teens, if anything how the fuck is only 10 standard drinks the maximum??? Personally think its all down to the medical profession being overly nanny state with us, TV ads over here make drinking seem like its suicidal or will see you with a much higher chance of dropping dead, disease, marriage break up, lose your job, its well and truly taken over by the do gooders who know better than everyone else. 

Could understand if you were necking a bottle of Vodka a day but surely in moderation its no worse than binging multiple packets of chocolate biscuits every day, soon as January is over i intend to go straight back on the beers and will only finish the month as too many people know im doing it

Any other WHOERS doing this farce of a month and getting something or like me fuck all from it? 

Manuel wrote: ↑12 Jan 2025, 02:00 Boring Sydney. Just carry on drinking ffs, you'll be dead soon anyway. As you say, you have it under control with just a few drinks a day, so this is all for nothing, and you have spoke about this before too. A big fucking Z with your Facebook stylie post, you old bore.

Get your point Manuel, although im going to blame the drink on this as well

If people thought i was a bore when i was drinking, then stopping has only seen it get worse and TBH i do feel bored so tend to waste my time ranting about shit like this  prior to Jan 1st i would at least ease off especially in the evening as i enjoyed a few beers whilst watching a movie/Netflix and wouldn't give a shit about much at all............

Will see the month out, in some ways it's not difficult, not like im craving or anything but with family and friends knowing im doing it, if i throw in the towel now it's not a good look and fingers will only get pointed and the piss taken, just be a bit more of a boring cսnt than usual

wils wrote: ↑12 Jan 2025, 00:01

I agree to a point. If you feel the benefits of going without for a month (sleeping better, lose a bit of weight, more energy, better diet etc) it can motivate you to cut down longer term. The health benefits become something tangible rather than  something abstract that doctor tells you that you should be doing.

Well, im 12 days in now and no real change, get your point it's not an overnight change but i do feel skeptical as to how bad "moderate" amounts of alcohol actually are? Sure, if your overweight, do no exorcise and eat a shit diet then it's going to compound and made worse by drinking, but so it would be by binging on pies or packets of crisps, i just don't get this one shoe fits all approach from the medical fraternity, because in my view its bollocks.

When seeing my GP, as i had fucked my shoulder he suggested a blood test as i hadn't had one for a few years, came back and all was good, no sign of diabetes, good liver function etc etc, add in my blood pressure was good and i take no medications, but as soon as i tell him how much i drink he starts going on about all this nasty shit that WILL happen, but im like hang on a minute, I've been drinking in this way for the best part of 40 years, but the blood test show fuck all wrong????? 

Not so long ago they recommended nearer to 20 standard drinks a week, now its 10 and some are saying it should really be zero if you really want to avoid any risk, but couldn't that be applied to any number of factors, eating red meat can have health risks, fatty foods, diary, just about anything really, stress and anxiety see some pretty poor statistics to your health so for my money its all about a balance in how you live, not just one thing (Alcohol) 

Its also fast becoming the demon of choice for the do gooders and those who want to run our lives, seeing similar to the stop smoking campaigns in the 70,s and 80,s in they know want to ban on advertising, health warnings on bottles, nasty pictures of infected livers etc and encouraging government to increase taxes etc to encourage us to stop or drink less, bunch of cunts in my book, the nanny state can fuck off its nowhere near as bad as smoking.

I like a few beers, glasses of wins and the odd shot and the nice feeling it gives you (in moderation), also like the taste and the satisfaction and relaxing feeling you get, no need to get bladdered every session. 

As you were, rant over

Sydders

One Sunny Day" wrote: ↑11 Jan 2025, 23:54 Doing dry January is completely pointless, from a health point of view if you just go back to your normal pattern after the month is over. If you're not an alcoholic, it's far more beneficial to your health to cut down with a  sustainable and realistic goal that you can keep going indefinitely.