So, if I am passed out for 7 hours each night, I am good: right, subby?

/Just asking for a friend
//Okay, for Drew

I tried this once. ONCE!!

Anymore than 48 hours and you're out of practice. That means a really bad hangover.

If you can go 48 hours without a drink, you have a problem.

Waitaminute....

I do this anyways. I'm not a big drinker.

squegeebooo: Part of my diet contest for new years has me not drinking at all. First time I haven't had a drink at least 6/7 days a week in...well I'm not sure. First week was hard. Similar to caffeine withdrawal. But now I feel more alert and wake up no issues.

/it's like I don't even know me any more

Me too, though I was more of a two glass of wine a night type girl and not drinking until I passed out type of girl. Still though, I miss the relaxation feeling after a long day.

I alot myself 1 or 2 beers every Friday (pizza night) depending on how many calories I burned during the week. This week I got two beers, but I had a bad Saturday and also had a bottle of wine between Saturday and Sunday. That means I'm probably not going to be allowed my beer this Friday which is sad.

On the bright side, I've forgotten how much I love herbal teas and drink it at night instead.

You're not going to drink that, are you?

What the fark? If you CAN'T go 2 days without drinking, you're what we call "An Alcoholic".

Since I'm a working stiff that wants to keep my job, my liver only has to really look forward to working overtime on Friday nights. Booze turns me into a raving arsehole, which isn't compatible with my continued employment, which I learned the hard way many years ago.

Saturday is hangover recovery day (Gatorade and BC Powder!) and on Sunday I sit with the other hypocrites in church pretending I'm better than you.

texdent: I do this anyways. I'm not a big drinker.

I take it you don't work with or around morons.

Saturday Get drunk
Sunday Take a hair of the dog
Monday Say "fark it!", get a little drunk
Tuesday Take a hair of the dog
Wednesday Go dry
Thursday Go dry
Friday Get drunk by nine or ten, if not sooner

There's your weekly schedule. How to drink like a civilized Anglo-American.

The civilized French version would be to have a one or few drinks with meals. Have a small nip or a few drinks between meals. Complain about your "liver", the source of all maladies.

The German version would be: have another beer. Of course, there are several kinds of beer, including small beer and strong beer, so it's pretty close to the Anglo-Saxon or French civilized model. A civilized and bourgeois German drinks surprisingly little. Now that safe drinking water and other beverages are plentiful, some Germans are abstemious and severely respectable in their drinking habits as in all things.

Here's the uncivilized version

Saturday Binge
Sunday Re-cap your alcohol levels
Monday Go teetotal
Tuesday Go teetotal
Wednesday Go teetotal
Thursday Have a little nip to steady your nerves, or, get falling down drunk, miss work on Friday
Friday Binge

Binge drinking is bad drinking from both the social and the health perspective.

Then there is the alkie version

Saturday Binge
Sunday Binge
Monday Binge
Tuesday Binge
Wednesday Binge
Thursday Binge
Friday Binge

The only difference between drunks is 1) when pay day is and 2) how fast they run out of booze and have to resort to desperate measures such as drinking something far more toxic or doing hard drugs.

I come from a long, long line of drunks and teetotalers so I recognize four types of drinkers: alcoholics, bingers, teetotalers, and civilized drinkers. There is over-lap--anybody can be an alcoholic in ovo, even the lifetime teetotaler. Even the most thorough alcoholic can be a civilized drinker almost all of their life (if they have the self-control and a steady supply of good drink, they can be lightly toasted at all times).

Fortunately, my parents are both sensible drinkers, which is to say they seldom drink more than one drink in any given day (or month, or year), or a couple with meals. They have formed a psychological and genetic dam which has pretty much cut off the flow of both alcoholism and teetotalism.

I have a few bottles in my refrigerator because they would evaporate if I kept them anywhere else. If you buy good brands, they won't be any worse than the cheaper brands by the time you finish the bottle. A nice bottle of single malt Scotch or a bottle of gin or vodka for mixed drinks, a few aperatifs, a bottle of decent port or sherry, is all the functional non-drinker really needs unless he likes beer or wine, which most of us don't.

I tried to drink more because they say it's good for you, but I just couldn't fit the booze into my schedule because it spoils your appetite for food and other drink, except for creating a bit of a thirst for water.

I guess there are five basic kinds of drinkers, then, each available in various degrees of alcoholism from non-alcoholic to full blown basket case) :

teetotalers (non-drinkers or alcoholics)
binge drinkers (ditto)
civilized drinkers (ditto)
lapsed drinkers (ditto, "recovering" alcoholics, can't be bothered, can't afford the booze or just don't like it much)
non-drinkers (ditto)

I'm trying the only drink on Friday and Saturday schedule for the New Year. Tried to give up smoking at the same time, but it didn't take.

squegeebooo: libranoelrose: I'm trying the only drink on Friday and Saturday schedule for the New Year. Tried to give up smoking at the same time, but it didn't take.

If I smoked, I would give up booze first, from a weight loss perspective it makes more sense.

It's only been a week, we'll see how fast the pounds melt away. When I gave up soda (about 15 years ago) I lost 15 pounds in the first 2 months.

I see you live in Rochester, that's where my son is going to school. Says he likes it so far.

FormlessOne: Wait - seriously? You have to tell folks "don't drink for two days in a row - it's just a good idea" as a friggin' government report?

This is Britain we're talking about here.

I'd heard one doctor say that an ounce of alcohol is like drinking a shot of liquid Crisco. Once I envisioned that, I just decided to step back from the stuff for 'a while'...

/6ft, 185lbs

squegeebooo: Part of my diet contest for new years has me not drinking at all. First time I haven't had a drink at least 6/7 days a week in...well I'm not sure. First week was hard. Similar to caffeine withdrawal. But now I feel more alert and wake up no issues.

/it's like I don't even know me any more

I feel sorry for people who dont drink, when they wake up in the first thing in the morning, thats the best they fell all day.

numbone: Jon iz teh kewl

Why drink any alcohol at all? All it does is make you look like a loser in the eyes of God. And your family..

God made alcohol so I could put up with my family.

And my colleauges.

Jon iz teh kewl: Why drink any alcohol at all? All it does is make you look like a loser in the eyes of God.

So what was it that Jesus turned water into.....