Dry January anyone.
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mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
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I call this "I drink far too much. Not big quantities but virtually every night." a type of it. Others may not. It also seems like some have many drinks to celebrate successfully abstaining too
I hate football.*
*This isn't true, but I thought it might help fill people's bingo cards.
I think that's the point - might as well pack all the misery in early and get it over with at once.
Levo-Lon
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I'd recommend a warm up young lady..you'll be steaming on a few after a few months off..
Be safe if you go on the P after a vacation..tho i know your a smart street wise lady x..
Dec66
A gentlemanly pootler, these days
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Slick
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I remember during a medical for work explaining my drinking as next to non existent at the time, I could go for months with zero but 9n the odd occasion I would go out, I liked to make it worth while by enjoying it. He put binge drinker on the form even if it was no more than twice a year.I call this "I drink far too much. Not big quantities but virtually every night." a type of it. Others may not. It also seems like some have many drinks to celebrate successfully abstaining too
vickster
Legendary Member
I normally only drink a couple of pints. I doubt I’ll end up steaming. I once went through to mid May....and then went to a wedding. Oops
I like drinking, really enjoy it, I wish somebody would pay me to do it.
Still, by the end of December even I have had enough and I always have a dry January and it usually goes a lot further, I think my record was well into April before a trip to Sicily saw be spotting a deli where you could fill up empty 2L plastic bottles of wine..........for 2 Euros..........how pleased MrsF was when I returned, a great day.
Still, by the end of December even I have had enough and I always have a dry January and it usually goes a lot further, I think my record was well into April before a trip to Sicily saw be spotting a deli where you could fill up empty 2L plastic bottles of wine..........for 2 Euros..........how pleased MrsF was when I returned, a great day.
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nickyboy
Norven Mankey
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I really enjoy drinking and have done all my adult life
However, for the past 15 or so Januarys I've had a "dry" month. Just become a habit of having the month off really. I don't feel any better for not drinking (all this "after I few days I felt full of energy and slept so much better" is utter bollocks to me). Helps get the weight off a bit mind you
However I've got a one week business trip in the middle of January so I'm sort of cutting that week out of January and appending it to the beginning of February. So I shall recommence normal service 2nd week of Feb
However, for the past 15 or so Januarys I've had a "dry" month. Just become a habit of having the month off really. I don't feel any better for not drinking (all this "after I few days I felt full of energy and slept so much better" is utter bollocks to me). Helps get the weight off a bit mind you
However I've got a one week business trip in the middle of January so I'm sort of cutting that week out of January and appending it to the beginning of February. So I shall recommence normal service 2nd week of Feb
Well if you’d like me to pop round and flagellate you, just shout up.
(Sorry - bit weird - but then I’ve had a beer)
I'll pass for now, but thanks for the offer. There may be others who will take you up on it...
slowmotion
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I'm not doing a dry January. I did a dry ten days in 2012 when I was incarcerated in hospital. I spent a fair bit of it planning how to hoist a few cans of beer up into my room from the car park four storeys below, but my wife wouldn't play ball. The rest of the idle hours were spent dreaming of how to walk out of Reception in my surgical gown and nip into the local pub without detection or arrest. I eventually gave up and suffered for the duration.
Never again.
Never again.
This. I've had three days without beer. I have sacrificed sleep and pleasure for no discernible improvement in anything except the wallet. I have had three beers tonight and feel marvellous.
I am aware that it is more complicated than this. I walk an uneasy line between hedonism and alcoholism, and I don't wish to trivialize the prospect of becoming dependent on booze. My brief flirtations with sobriety are really about protecting the pleasure of drinking - if you need booze more than you want it, it compromises the pleasure and threatens the prospect of future pleasures. I have survived a dry February before (which, despite Smeggers' gloom, is already a more hideous month than January) and, this year, have endured a Christmas where booze was relegated to a coping mechanism. The trick is not to imagine that there is a perfect life without booze, or to kid yourself that booze will make a bad life better, but to bring the joy of life and the joy of intoxication crashing together.
