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Beeb saying 41% of Londoners will be observing Dry January. This is BBC nonsense….do you know anyone doing it ? Me neither. What about keeping our pubs alive.
41% saying they’ll do it isn’t the same as 41% getting through the month doing it and I’d have thought that doesn’t include those who just never/rarely drink for religious reasons or otherwise. I’m not a big drinker and have probably had more in January than December so I’m doing my bit for the pubs.
I do it because I like the challenge and it's good to be able to 'take back control of your orders',
No one is forcing you to do it, it's just that for some, they can't do it and that suggests to me that the problem isn't dry Jan per se!
When I trained for endurance events, I went off booze for four months. Peoples' reactions were always interesting: some respected why, others tried to tempt or ridicule. It's the latter group who were invariably on the border of alcohol dependency in my view.
If you think it's bollix, fine, your choice but don't have a go at those who try and can. You could still do dry Jan, just have: dry cider, dry white wine, or dry gin instead.
Oh, and for the support the pub brigade...you do realise that a pub will earn more profit in my tonic water than if I ordered a pint! How's that for irony.
Cheers....
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Just tackle this the same way as carbon credits - there are three little lads running around Africa right now with livers like a French goose so that I can drink more than a GP's receptionist whenever I choose...
I've posted this elsewhere on this website, but its natural home is here:
"Dry Jan, dry Jan, in December, I'm drinking as much as I can".
NB: Please drink responsibly .
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
After a particularly full on December on the booze one year I decided to give the old liver a rest and managed to do a dry January & February. Cant say I felt any better for giving up the booze and caned it again in March of that year.. so a relatively pointless exercise from a health perspective, but from a mental point of you, it proved that I could do it.
After a particularly full on December on the booze one year I decided to give the old liver a rest and managed to do a dry January & February. Cant say I felt any better for giving up the booze and caned it again in March of that year.. so a relatively pointless exercise from a health perspective, but from a mental point of you, it proved that I could do it.
Lol I got back from Goa last Sunday night after 3 weeks of mayhem I vowed to have 3 weeks off before I rerturn for Hilltop..........that wemt well i'm absolutely cnted today and will be at Quest on 30/1
You from Blackfen mate?
I noticed you knew a bloke A (now in Leigh on SeA) Do you know SL from Eltham & ND (sadly deceased in 2001)?
After a particularly full on December on the booze one year I decided to give the old liver a rest and managed to do a dry January & February. Cant say I felt any better for giving up the booze and caned it again in March of that year.. so a relatively pointless exercise from a health perspective, but from a mental point of you, it proved that I could do it.
As Churchill once said, "If you stop drinking, you don't actually live longer. It just feels like you do".
Lol I got back from Goa last Sunday night after 3 weeks of mayhem I vowed to have 3 weeks off before I rerturn for Hilltop..........that wemt well i'm absolutely cnted today and will be at Quest on 30/1
You from Blackfen mate?
I noticed you knew a bloke A (now in Leigh on SeA) Do you know SL from Eltham & ND (sadly deceased in 2001)?
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Yes that is me.
Known A from Leigh-on-Sea for 40 years
Was a good pal of ND who died out in Thailand
I do know SL. Took him to the Leicester game and went out with him after. Had to put him in a cab as he was ruined and could barely stand up. LOL
I assume I have been in your company QPsyR, how would I know you?
It is weird but was in the pub in Canary Wharf before the West Ham game and bumped into a couple of old faces and got chatting to them and in the space of 10 minutes found out both of them had lived in the Sidcup / Blackfen area in the past . Small world
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in 2001)? 
