Drinking Advice, Help needed.

[E.Martin]

The booze has a lot to answer for, I put my hand up as it ended my life at sea.It took 10 years to get dry and also stopped smoking. Changed my life went to work in the gulf for 16 years made a packet and now live a dedt free life own every thing and owe nothing to nobody. It was hard work with out help from any one just the will power to make a better life for the wife and kids.I am also the family taxi on a friday.It does give me something to talk about as can relate what went on the night before.The first step is to admit that there is a problem and work at it.

I congradulate you for what you achieved regarding the booze it must have been one hell of a struggle.
I still have a couple of cans of Mcewans a day which I throughly enjoy.
I did manage to pack up smoking 35 years ago,I reckon that put a new car in my garage every 4 years.

[John Gill]

a Double Diamond works wonders.....

[Keith at Tregenna]

Had a motor accident years ago, while dealing with all, heard one voice above all: HAS HE BEEN DRINKING ?

Worrying enough at the time, as I am certain, had I , I would have been lynched.

Fortunately, I am not that stupid and the incident was quite minor, never been so pleased to see the Old Bill (British Police) though:

K.

[John Blythe]

drinking is what you make it. Ive been drinking 40 years .And i have drunk muck in my time. but i can stop tomorow

[happy daze john in oz]

drinking is what you make it. Ive been drinking 40 years .And i have drunk muck in my time. but i can stop tomorow

And how long would it be for John???????????????

[John Pruden]

when you can drink all day and night and not get drunk it was time to pack it in and i did 15 years ago and i don't miss it one bit.john

[happy daze john in oz]

The average level of alcohol per person was advertised here in Oz last week. All to do with the amount of tax the government raises. There is a push, which thankfully the gov has rejected, to raise the tax according to the volumetric level of alcohol per item. But what concerns me is the average level of consumption per head. I am well ahead of this which just goes to show some are not pulling their weight and as a result I have to drink for about three others.

[Captain Kong]

I have just found this on todays News....................
On The A REGISTER.
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.Average sozzled Brit sinks 5,800 pints during life
Spends £58,201 on booze before kicking bucket

By Lester Haines • Get more from this author

Posted in Bootnotes, 19th August 2011 08:58 GMT

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A "shock" survey has revealed that the average Brit will sink 5,800 pints during a lifetime of hardened drinking, washed down with 8,700 glasses of wine, 2,900 bottles of cider, 5,800 shots of spirits, 1,450 cocktails, 1,450 glasses of liquor and a similar number of glasses of bubbly.

The cost of this boozing is £962 a year, meaning that by the time your liver heads off to the great off licence in the sky, you'll have spunked an impressive £58,201.

That's according to Benenden Healthcare Society, which notes that most of us take our first livener at just 14, and then proceed to "have an alcoholic drink on at least three nights a week and consume nine drinks in total".

By Vulture Central standards this is a very modest estimate, but Benenden does correctly note that "four in ten Brits admitted they can’t go longer than a week without having a drink, but one in ten said they would struggle to make it through two days without cracking open a bottle".

A shocked Lawrence Christensen, Benenden Healthcare's Communications & Strategy head honcho, said: "Day by day, we may not notice our drinking habits and may not think about what it’s costing us. But add it all up and the amounts become quite staggering.

"Recommended guidelines for alcohol consumption are 3-4 units per day in men, equating to around a pint and a half of 4% strength beer, and 2-3 units in women - a single 175 ml glass of 13% strength wine for women.

"This means that by getting through 456 drinks a year on average, many Brits are sailing perilously close to the wind and, in many cases, most likely exceeding guidelines.

"The yearly financial cost of this level of consumption also gives pause for thought, with £962 a year being no small sum for many families in the UK."

That's all well and good, but as Vivian Stanshall's Sir Henry Rawlinson once put it: "If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink". ®

[happy daze john in oz]

Well captain according to that I am doomed. I find bying wine by the case is a lot easier and cheaper, but sadly once opened it must be consumed to prevent evaporation.

[Colin Hawken]

We were discussing this some time ago in my local. We agreed that according to the daily guidelines,we all should have been dead fifteen years ago. This resulted in much hilarity and,of course,another round of drinks.