Cab-over Pete
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- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Surrounded by a big nettle patch
Alcohol
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Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Probably manage to sell some nettles and thistles .
Pint of milk before drinking, pint of water afterwards
Nearly
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- Location
- North of York
Both with a bag of chips?
HolzKopf
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- Kent&Snuffit
Interesting post - and it just shows how much our habits and lives change. The solid citizens on here that have already posted represent a good cross section of the ag community and the message that's coming across is that alcohol now is not the 'drug' for us that it used to be.
Younger years for me were out with the lads, then out with the lads + girlfriends and then wives. Saturday nights in particular we'd down a round at a time with maybe seven or eight blokes getting up to the bar during the course of an evening. We'd then go back and play cards, poker or brag till the wee hours consuming whatever that week's 'host' had in their house. Winter weekends were worse. I played rugby so would have started drinking in the clubhouse and by the time I got in, three parts pee'd already and reeking of nicotine, a shower and change of clothes and we were off to the pub. Sunday nights after supper, three or four of us would congregate in the village pub (which is now a house
) for a few bevvies and a few games of spoof - sometimes 'locked in' till way past midnight. Then up early to start work. That was the social life we had then - no coming round to 'yours' or 'ours' for supper, it was pub, pub, pub.
There were many times when clearly I shouldnt have driven the next morning but I never really suffered from hangovers and to be honest, I doubt if any of us thought of the detrimental effects. Age does bring responsibility and also the recognition that many of today's 'beers' produced in industrial quantities and served up in pressurised pumps contain more chemicals than the local brews of yesterday. I think that's why local microbreweries are so pouplar and when I do have a pint, the 'hand made' beers are my preference.
I see no problem with a social pint and still enjoy the craic of the local - but it's one, max two and then home. I've never enjoyed a drink at lunchtime and still stare if I'm in town and see drinkers outside at three or four in the weekday with a table full of pints. For me the sun needs to be over the yard-arm. As many have said I can take or leave it and recognise the distateful after-effects of those rare occasions when I've had a few more at some social gathering.
So many of our now mature children do not drink or will drink to be social but just have one glass of wine or a small beer. Several youngsters in our wider family also drink zero-alcohol drinks but personally I can't see the point and will drink 'soft' at family gatherings - there is now no social stigma and very little 'oh go on, just one for the road' etc.
I think tastes change and without the massive advertising campaigns for alcohol (almost on a par with 24/7 gambling ads) there would be a lot less consumption.
Great post @Cab-over Pete, a real and interesting barometer
Younger years for me were out with the lads, then out with the lads + girlfriends and then wives. Saturday nights in particular we'd down a round at a time with maybe seven or eight blokes getting up to the bar during the course of an evening. We'd then go back and play cards, poker or brag till the wee hours consuming whatever that week's 'host' had in their house. Winter weekends were worse. I played rugby so would have started drinking in the clubhouse and by the time I got in, three parts pee'd already and reeking of nicotine, a shower and change of clothes and we were off to the pub. Sunday nights after supper, three or four of us would congregate in the village pub (which is now a house
) for a few bevvies and a few games of spoof - sometimes 'locked in' till way past midnight. Then up early to start work. That was the social life we had then - no coming round to 'yours' or 'ours' for supper, it was pub, pub, pub.There were many times when clearly I shouldnt have driven the next morning but I never really suffered from hangovers and to be honest, I doubt if any of us thought of the detrimental effects. Age does bring responsibility and also the recognition that many of today's 'beers' produced in industrial quantities and served up in pressurised pumps contain more chemicals than the local brews of yesterday. I think that's why local microbreweries are so pouplar and when I do have a pint, the 'hand made' beers are my preference.
I see no problem with a social pint and still enjoy the craic of the local - but it's one, max two and then home. I've never enjoyed a drink at lunchtime and still stare if I'm in town and see drinkers outside at three or four in the weekday with a table full of pints. For me the sun needs to be over the yard-arm. As many have said I can take or leave it and recognise the distateful after-effects of those rare occasions when I've had a few more at some social gathering.
So many of our now mature children do not drink or will drink to be social but just have one glass of wine or a small beer. Several youngsters in our wider family also drink zero-alcohol drinks but personally I can't see the point and will drink 'soft' at family gatherings - there is now no social stigma and very little 'oh go on, just one for the road' etc.
I think tastes change and without the massive advertising campaigns for alcohol (almost on a par with 24/7 gambling ads
) there would be a lot less consumption.Great post @Cab-over Pete, a real and interesting barometer
Ideally, yes!
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- Scottish Highlands
I managed a hotel on Speyside (the whisky capital of Europe) for a short while and couldn't understand why the working men in the public bar all drank glen (or single malt) whiskies which are more expensive. Then one of them told me, "You don't get a hangover. It's the bad alcohols in blended whiskies that give you a hangover. That's why all whisky has ti be stored in wooden barrels for at least 3 years so the bad alcohols can evaporate"".
Drink is a science but I wouldn't advise the OP to drink too much cider. It contains wood alcohol (methylated spirits anyone?) and is addictive. It attacks the brain, makes the face go red with a purplish tinge, and especially enlarges the nose. Cider addicts are easily spotted.
Drink is a science but I wouldn't advise the OP to drink too much cider. It contains wood alcohol (methylated spirits anyone?) and is addictive. It attacks the brain, makes the face go red with a purplish tinge, and especially enlarges the nose. Cider addicts are easily spotted.
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ollie989898
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If you want a reason to give up drinking it is this: in my experience I have seen people/lives far more fudged up by alcohol than I have by any amount of drugs. The effects of long term alcohol abuse scare me and I'm not squeamish normally.
Cab-over Pete
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- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
I’m not sure I was a victim of alcohol abuse, but it doesn’t seem to like me anymore.
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- Welshpool Powys
Try drinking more daily so that you are in a constant state of drunkenness maybe that may help?
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Chae1
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- Aberdeenshire
Just can't see the point in alcohol free beer/cider wine personally.
Just have a orange juice, irn bru or diet coke. Water.
It's a bit like vegan burgers, mince etc.
Just have a orange juice, irn bru or diet coke. Water.
It's a bit like vegan burgers, mince etc.
Group 1 carcinogen
Alcohol is a group 1 carcinogen – the same category as asbestos, tobacco, and other known cancer causing agents. Add to that the acetaldehyde (another group 1 carcinogen) which is thought to be a product of alcohol processing in the body.
Yum, Yum,
Alcohol is a group 1 carcinogen – the same category as asbestos, tobacco, and other known cancer causing agents. Add to that the acetaldehyde (another group 1 carcinogen) which is thought to be a product of alcohol processing in the body.
Yum, Yum,
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
As one said down the pub , alcohol free beer/larger is a bit like muffing your sister ! Tastes them same but its just wrongJust can't see the point in alcohol free beer/cider wine personally.
Just have a orange juice, irn bru or diet coke. Water.
It's a bit like vegan burgers, mince etc.
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Chae1
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- Aberdeenshire
I was going to mention that analogy, but thought I better not!As one said down the pub , alcohol free beer/larger is a bit like muffing your sister ! Tastes them same but its just wrong
Glad you did though.
ollie989898
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As one said down the pub , alcohol free beer/larger is a bit like muffing your sister ! Tastes them same but its just wrong
I was going to ask you to hold up there bud whilst I considered adding a new entry to the TFF glossary of terms but now I'm a bit too hesitant to ask you to explain the word in question.
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ollie989898
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Just can't see the point in alcohol free beer/cider wine personally.
Just have a orange juice, irn bru or diet coke. Water.
It's a bit like vegan burgers, mince etc.
Fudge, I was about to make another Irn Bru joke but you jumped in and ruined it.
plenty of other things to do with yr spare tim like learn the trum
pet