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On the gin and lime diet tonic tonight.

ditto

I make a pint of lager (bud light) last 20 mins then wait 10 mins until I move onto next drink


Do you think that's too fast?

I would be burping if I drank it that fast

Do you get drunk and then get in trouble related to being drunk?

If so, yes.
If not, it's probably fine.

I would have thought the taste of lager goes of after 20 mins

I bet jamesys the fastest beer drinker in the pub

I ate food fast as well

I remember you said it takes you roughly half an hour to drink a pint

Yeah probably

It's a long time since I had one though

Does going out later mean you drink less?

Yeah I think so

Currently recovering from heart defects for which the usual risk indicators; intake of too much fat, salt and sugar, a family history of the complaint, and not enough exercise, don't apply, so the quacks blame it on the only one left; alcohol consumption!

Like you, I enjoy a drink, but I've know a great many people who drank a lot more and didn't seem to suffer from it. Also, my usual tipple for the most recent years was red wine and beer, only quite recently enjoying more hard likker.

That was then, and I've not touched a drop for over 15 months, having cut down for a couple of years before that.

I'll admit that I'm now in pretty good shape, but so one would expect with all the pills I have to take. I don't get around as well as I used to (no more 20 mile Sunday hikes) but who does having reached 70? My memory seems to have become notably sharper, but not that I've noticed any improvement in Sudoku, nor remembering passwords, and besides, I've been taking fish oil tablets in the meantime, which might account for that.

So, was it the alcohol? I have my doubts, and I've many projects in hand, so I need my wits about me, and I won't be partakeing any time soon. That's not to say I never will; if I get a place of my own with space for invited guests, then it would be unsociable not to have a few drinks with them, right? I'll limit to one drink for each day, of course (the first will be for June the 3rd, 1927) and it boils down to balancing enjoyment and risk. You make your choice and take your chances.

I'm pretty sure, though, that I'll never again drink myself to sleep each evening, just because I've got nothing better to do...

4.23 BST in the morning and I've not slept and am on the gin and diet ginger ale. Birds are tweeting outside and it's starting to get light.

Mate I used to hate that

Staying up all night and then it comes light
Aaaaarrrrrggggg

When I was far younger, I was given a drop of beer and gosh, it was terrible. I was told it'd be different once I grow up and yeah it is... Even more repelling.

I just can't find any kind o' enjoyment in drinking protein denaturator or in it's bitter, aggressive taste (esp. of vodka, which would make sense as it often goes over 40%)

Guess I rather belong to "WP Alcohol Abstinent Club" instead