I think I’d wet myself after 4 pints of anything.
This is me also. I just can't handle the quantity these days.
120 quid a week?
PFFT!
You’re clearly unfamiliar with what Daz drinks
Only IPA’s distilled from the tears of angels, at exactly 2,000ft above sea level
Jeanne Calment, who at the time was the oldest woman in the world, gave up smoking at the age of 117. Five years later she was dead!
Wonder why she gave up? Can't have been for longevity reasons... 🙂 I suspect a pious hectoring relative. I was my poor old nan's only mate for the last years, most of the family having shunned her punitively over the smoking. Or at least using that as an excuse not to visit.
I used to smoke heavily myself but like Binners, gave up about ten years ago after noticing diminishing returns, plus it being generally harder to smoke anywhere. Since then I've struggled with my weight which I'm not certain is the greater evil. I'm sometimes tempted to take up vaping if only for weight control. I assume it's the nicotine that is an appetite depressant, plus the having a fag/vape in place of eating' thing... any vapers care to share their experience? Bit of a thread detour I suppose, soz.
If beer was cheaper, or I was richer, then I’d drink more, for sure.
Years ago, I was dreaming about what I'd do if I won the lottery and one of the ideas was to travel around Europe buying good wine and whisky, stocking up a good wine cellar, and then I realised what I'd actually turn into. I'd have no self control, and would be inebriated from lunchtime every day. I'd still like to win the lottery, of course, but I'd probably not stockpile booze in the house, with easy access. 😀
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My nan was one of the smartest people I knew. She was very active in the garden and ate very little, but she chain-smoked rollies from a very young age and drank wine from the box from getting up in the morning until bedtime.
Then one day out of the blue aged 88 she just died!
Reminds me of my late Uncle Jim. Smoked unfiltered woodbines until the day he died at 96 after a life of outdoor farm and quarry work. Spent everyday of his retirement until not long before he died out collecting wood and then sawing/chopping logs which he mostly gave away.
Not a big drinker though, had a glass of port every night of his life following an illness when young and the local quack advised him to drink port as it was good for the blood and the odd pint while out playing dominos.
Never had a woman in his life...............
The thing about the 6 pint a week limit, is that I and a lot of people I know drink more than that.
No-one seems to suffer any significant problems.
That's why it's looked at quite cynically.
Never had a woman in his life……………
Bingo. Uncle Jim wasn't daft!
take up vaping if only for weight control. I assume it’s the nicotine that is an appetite depressant
Yup, nicotine is a pretty effective appetite suppressant, but so also is strong coffee imo.
Never had a woman in his life……………
Bingo. Uncle Jim wasn’t daft!
I'm trying to work out how he avoided women by going to bingo? 😀
You’re clearly unfamiliar with what Daz drinks
I was secretly relieved when the local craft ale bottle shop closed last year. Saved me about 40 quid a week. I do miss the £9 a bottle belgian lambics though.
ONS Stats say average pint is now £3.95.
I’d drink a lot more if that were the case 😀
I’d drink a lot less if that were the case. 😀
There's a lot of variables to an "average" price of a pint. A pint of fizzy pish from the Manchester Arena recently I think came to eight quid. At the other end you've got old men's pubs in Northern towns turning out "bitter" and "lager" for sub-£2. And then there's the perpetual anomaly that is London.
When I was drinking in pubs semi-regularly (like, once a fortnight) pre-Covid and pre house move, the going rate pretty much everywhere in town was about £2.60. I don't actually know what it would be today, my local is a little real ale pub that shuts at 9pm so probably isn't typical of the area.
Don't drink much at all if I'm honest. Had a couple of drinks at Easter, before that was new year, before that was the start of lockdown.
Guess there's a bonus to being stuck in the house every night, gets a bit boring having a drink by yourself after a while.
We're presently watching a good friend who was, for a while, a functioning alcoholic descend into becoming very much a non-functioning alcoholic
Thats literally and metaphorically a very sobering experience
It's tragic. Short of kidnapping them and locking them up, theres absolutely nothing you can do
Thanks for the clunking reality check.
