[Closed] Anyone not 'drinking' this New Year?

Imperial century ride planned for 1st Jan, so I'll not be going overboard 🙂

Sad old fart.

Nah i will be doing exactly the same. You going Fyrishing?

Hi Martin. Not decided yet. Heard Fyrish was waterlogged. Worse than Contin big time. Will see how the weather holds up.

Hoping to call in tomorrow to catch up if your working.

Not drunk in best part of 15 years, so another "dry" NYE for me!

Will probably be working too anyway, so no biggie.

Dry one for me, driving. Yeeha

doubt i will be drinking, just cant be arsed with it any more.

martymac +1

haven't touched the booze since NYE 1988 and i don't plan on starting tomorrow...

no booze for me.. my digestive system has turned treacherous and is waging guerilla warfare on me at every opportunity..

booze won't help according to the quack..

After working late/early, on-call or nights every NYE since the millenium, I [b]am[/b] drinking tomorrow night. Although just at home with our four beshtest friends so probably nothing horrendous...

i haven't drunk alcohol/smoked since 2004.so will definitely not be drinking in the new year (well except coffee 😉

I'm also dry because of digestive issues, quite happy to do so, I'll probably be in bed for 10 anyway 😛

Yep, me. I'm pretty much done with drinking completely apart from a very rare social pint like today. But I don't see any logic in alcohol in all honesty.

Won't be drinking that night and not sure when I will again

Yep haven't done drinking for over 6 years due to health, looking to ride the beast at coed Sunday so will have a clear head for that, don't miss hangovers whatsoever had some proper nasty ones too 🙂

I won't be.

WTF is an imperial century? Doesn't sound very British if it requires sobriety.

I am considering getting a nice bottle of malt and getting smashed with a few mates in the house.

I haven't drank since 1999 so it's rather likely!

Mids cx race new years day so I'll be in bed by 00.01 tee total

im driving so wont be drinking till i get home ! 😉

Been exactly a year since I last drank. Will do when I get to target weight. (2st off, another 2st to go).
No place for booze if I'm keen on shifting weight.

Will be abstaining until April at the earliest... 🙂

SBZ what's your address again?

Doubt i'll be drinking.

Up early for a Calderdale ride on New Years Day & don't want a hangover!

No drinking for me either, never really drink but have a ride planned over the hour of midnight tomorrow anyway. Won't miss it at all!

Surely it's a 100+ mile ride with minty sweets?

I will be drinking on behalf of you lot and may accidentally shout your usernames once inebriated in tribute. I'm glad "anus" hasn't contributed yet.

I have a lot of respect for those that forego the temptation and participate among the drunken idiots without damaging their own brains. Here's to you *raises a glass of Weston's*

Not back to work until Tuesday,Alek!

WTF is an imperial century?

A [i]proper[/i] Wunundred. Not some namby-pamby poncy foreign muck one.

Proper = metric

I'll be dry. Possibly driving around Sunday morning and planning on getting up at 6am for an early ride before my 6 year old wakes up. No he'll not be left alone, his mother's in the house. Maybe I'll get back in time to make them breakfast :o)

Proper = metric

BLASPHEMER! 😡

Burn him! 👿

Being a good guy grey and babysitting so my brother can go get smashed, so doubt I will bother drinking.

Just can't be bothered that much any more!

So an imperial century is.....a century.

Anyone thinking a [i]metric[/i] century can have its prefix omitted is quite clearly wrong.

I'm going to try. Not had a drink since Boxing Day, been drinking far too much in recent years and decided enough is enough, can't say I won't drink again but I hope I don't.

Having a dry one. I've never really liked or got the NYE thing anyway. Mid winter feasting yes, man made calendar stuff no

Wifey is 8 mths pregnant and it's not much fun drinking solo, might have a dram but that's all - riding early nyd though 🙂

I'll be dry and happy , really hate NY it's a load of pap, just another day best treated like one,Totally with yossiarian on the calendar thing

Looks like a dry one due to digestive issues here as well, although with 2 kids under 5 it was never going to be a big night anyway.

Seeing as how I can't hold down any food just at the moment I figure I might give it a miss tonight.

Couple of glasses of wine maybe. Less than a normal Saturday night I expect.

Working through until Tues so even less point than normal for NYE.

why cant you lot drink when you're eating digestives? cant you just switch to a hob nob?

Working New Year's Day so no drinks for me. 🙁

Dry here too.
I've been told about a cave near by full of bugs and spiders. So an early start tomorrow with my wife,son,some pots and torches 🙂
Can't wait!!!!!!

20 mile XC run tomorrow so very happy to drive tonight. One glass of fizz at 12:00 will do.. Had the mild bender last night at home and still need to recover!! Washing up til 01:15 so might have a wee nap again now. Too lazy to fix yesterday's puncture and go for a ride.

I'll be dry bar a dram at the bells but I'm intrigued, why do all the folk that stopped drinking a while ago not just say they won't be drinking instead of trotting out when they stopped and how its "highly unlikely"??

They're Scottish.

Those who haven't drunk since 19xx - what was behind your decision?

Offered to drive tonight to a friends house party, have had man flu over the whole Xmas break, just seem to be starting to get over it, so dont think a load of beer will help

I've decided I'm off booze since Boxing day till Feb. Nice fresh clear-headed start to the year and all that.

I'll be drinking tonight, but then that's it.... Until. February

Those who haven't drunk since 19xx - what was behind your decision?

for me there were a number of contributing factors.. not least that I had already consumed more than mine [i]and[/i] Lemmy and Ozzy Osbournes lifetimesworth of booze before I was 40.. (and had made a very valiant attempt at polishing off Charles Bukowski's helping too..)

but mostly because I like to drink to excess and that didn't fit in with family life

Ditch the family.

Simples.

why cant you lot drink when you're eating digestives? cant you just switch to a hob nob?

Or just drink digestifs.

i'm going to stay sober bar a couple of drinks as I'm doing the Newham 60 on the 2nd. Sort of regretting it at the moment .... entering the ride seemed like a good idea a couple of months ago, but know I feel like getting sh1tfaced 😈 😀

Off for a meal at a mates house. Driving there with the mrs, it will be a race as to who will who will get a drink first. The loser is driving home. May not even stay there until midnight, really not bothered about new years although I may be watching BBC for the london fireworks.

So an early start tomorrow with my wife,son,some pots and torches

Fancy adopting a 32 year old additional son?

Had the mild bender last night at home

*insert joke here*

given the hangover I have from last night I may never drink again !

Another 'driver' here.
Off to a friends 60th - live band etc, looking forward to it.
I'd rather stay sober than faff about booking / waiting on a taxi and a drunken, cold & wet 4 mile walk home on an unlit national speed limit road appeals even less....

sorry elfin!

"Proper = metric
BLASPHEMER!

Burn him!"

I read it wrong. I agree!

Gave up drinking 4 years ago, so a dry one for me. Hoping to get some motivation to go biking tomorrow!

Forgot to add i gave up due to change in work, and decided i had had enough of bad heads on a sunday morning, and less cash in the bank account. I don't miss it at all.

Whats a hangover?

Contin tomorrow then Martin 😀

See you there.

i will be having a good swill, not had a drink all xmas.

Caught a bad cold at work this week so I feel crap at the minute.. probably not drinking but still going out, most likely designated driver tonight. Just about to have a strategic nap to sort me out a bit.

Fancy adopting a 32 year old additional son?

Sorry one is enough. 🙂
 If we find anything interesting I'll take some photos and post them 🙂
(on a side note, I did find what I think is a L.rufescens or Mediterranean recluse spider a couple of days ago, she looks gravid too:) )

Delighted today not have a hang-over 😀

Got so much done and a bike ride. Its the way forward (meantime)

If we find anything interesting I'll take some photos and post them

And???

Did you get out to Contin,Alek? I got up late,breakfast at 2pm,then stripped some more bits off the MOT failure ready for the scrappy. Might go out for a ride tomorrow if it stops raining.

And???

+1

+2 yeah Roper, we want a New Year spider thread!

Didnt drink last night due to a 60 mile drive north this morning to visit family and have a meal. Back home now and making up for it.

Good on you who don't
Good on you who will

I personally will. Twice a week. If I didn't I need to take something else chemical. This is mine.

We are all different but the same 🙂

Martin: Trail maintenance on the 'puffer' course, the final decent. Didn't bother cycling as it was chucking it down with snow!!

Late breakfast.......my favourite 😀

derek_starship - Member

Those who haven't drunk since 19xx - what was behind your decision?

i'd have died many years ago if i hadn't quit when i did.
putting it in simple terms, alcohol's just not for me.

I think I must be doing this the wrong way round...
I hadn't drunk for a year, as I was really sick to death of it. I decided a while back that I'd get mashed on new years eve, with some warm up drinks the day before to be sure I remembered how!

Now I can just about see the light at the end of a two day hangover, and I'm bollocksed if I'm going to give myself this much grief for fun in the future. And for what it's worth, it was blinding fun!

One thing that'll stick with me from this last year is that it can be just as much fun to be with your mates in the pub when you're sober. You can still have a laugh, you can still get the rounds in (although the exchange rate for lime and sodas is a little higher!) and you can happily get yourself drunk on company. It's a state of mind.

So roll on a bright and sober 2012!

I was on a plane.