Saying Goodbye To John Barleycorn

[sjc]

1 minute ago, throbber said:

I usually have only 3 beers on the Friday night so I’m left with 6 beers and a half bottle of red for the Saturday/Sunday so I’m only going over the limit 2 days a week and drinking responsibly on the Friday.

Tell that to your liver!

[Shandon Par]

3 minutes ago, throbber said:

I usually have only 3 beers on the Friday night so I’m left with 6 beers and a half bottle of red for the Saturday/Sunday so I’m only going over the limit 2 days a week and drinking responsibly on the Friday.

That's tremendous restraint well done. Consuming 4x the recommended safe weekly limit in the space of two day screams "ready to be a father". 

[Shandon Par]

4 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:

This is untrue.

Somewhere in a Wetherspoons, six months from now:

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

40 minutes ago, throbber said:

 

 

Progress is progress though. Once the child comes I won’t be able to drink so much either so it’s best that I cut down gradually until then rather than going cold turkey months in advance.

 

I think you'll find it's sleep.

[Sergeant Wilson]

2 hours ago, throbber said:

It doesn’t matter if you don’t follow all these medical guidelines word for word, I am still in good health. I don’t smoke, I have reduced my caffeine intake and get my 5 a day easily, even on the days I’m drinking. I also exercise every day through swimming running and playing 5’s so I’m not worried if there is one small guideline that I don’t quite satisfy. The safe drink limit is meaningless anyway and is merely just there for insurance purposes for when they privatise the NHS.

Why Bud though?

[DA Baracus]

I haven't drank any alcohol at all since September 23rd. I shall however be having some beers on Saturday.

[DA Baracus]

22 minutes ago, throbber said:

 

I just like them, sometimes I have a few nice Kraft bottles of beer as well but I very much go for quantity over quality when drinking.

 

Is that the same folk who make the cheese slices?

[The Moonster]

On 29/09/2017 at 14:30, ICTChris said:

Cannabis is extremely boring and once you reach the advanced years that Pete and I are at people that smoke cannabis all the time are utter wasters.

 

On 29/09/2017 at 14:30, Sweet Pete said:

 

Absolutely agree. There's very little social aspect to it like there is with alcohol.

 

Missed this thread but couldn't disagree more with the above.  There's very little social aspect to it because you can't sit in a cafe and smoke weed together like you can do in pubs, but if it were legal (as it should be) then you'd see the social aspect. Doobies are designed to be passed and shared, how can it not be a social thing?  Some are wasters, granted, others are normal people with normal jobs leading normal lives. The latter being the more prevalent among the folk I know.  And the ones who are wasters would more than likely be wasters even if weed didn't exist.

[Sweet Pete]

8 minutes ago, The Moonster said:

 

Missed this thread but couldn't disagree more with the above.  There's very little social aspect to it because you can't sit in a cafe and smoke weed together like you can do in pubs, but if it were legal (as it should be) then you'd see the social aspect. Doobies are designed to be passed and shared, how can it not be a social thing?  Some are wasters, granted, others are normal people with normal jobs leading normal lives. The latter being the more prevalent among the folk I know.  And the ones who are wasters would more than likely be wasters even if weed didn't exist.

Shut up, you stinking, hippy stoner.

[The Moonster]

1 minute ago, Sweet Pete said:

Shut up, you stinking, hippy stoner.

No.

[Honest_Man#1]

4 hours ago, Shandon Par said:

That's tremendous restraint well done. Consuming 4x the recommended safe weekly limit in the space of two day screams "ready to be a father". 

9 bottles of bud and a half bottle of red wine isn't even close to being 4x the recommended weekly limit.

[Sweet Pete]

2 minutes ago, Honest_Man#1 said:

9 bottles of bud and a half bottle of red wine isn't even close to being 4x the recommended weekly limit.

He said cans.

[Shandon Par]

4 hours ago, throbber said:

I have been managing to abstain from alcohol Monday - Thursday of late and have limited myself to 15 cans of bud and a bottle of red wine to distribute throughout the weekend. Feel much better for it.

 

59 minutes ago, throbber said:

 

I just like them, sometimes I have a few nice Kraft bottles of beer as well but I very much go for quantity over quality when drinking.

 

Sommeliers throughout the land nod in approval. "Oui monsieur, you are quite right, the  Sotanum 2009 is not fit to be used to clean your drain. 15 cans of Budweiser is an excellent choice. You have exquisite taste and class Monsieur throbber."

[Honest_Man#1]

2 minutes ago, Sweet Pete said:

He said cans.

In the post that was quoted he didn't, but fair enough then - 9 cans and a half bottle of wine isn't even close to being 4x the weekly recommended limit.*

*particularly as 9 cans of Budweiser equals 0.5 units.

[Sweet Pete]

Just now, Honest_Man#1 said:

In the post that was quoted he didn't, but fair enough then - 9 cans and a half bottle of wine isn't even close to being 4x the weekly recommended limit.*

*particularly as 9 cans of Budweiser equals 0.5 units.

Throbber's claim was that he "limits himself to 15 cans of budweiser and a bottle of red wine" consumed over Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

[Sweet Pete]

There's around 2.5 units roughly in a can. 15 cans gives you 37.5 units, plus the bottle of wine is 10 units, giving a total for his three days of between 40 and 50 units of alcohol. The recommended weekly allowance for men is 14.

[Shandon Par]

 

1 minute ago, Sweet Pete said:

There's around 2.5 units roughly in a can. 15 cans gives you 37.5 units, plus the bottle of wine is 10 units, giving a total for his three days of between 40 and 50 units of alcohol. The recommended weekly allowance for men is 14.

That was my maths. There's probably a higher allowance in Ayr though. Doctors recommend at least 80 units per week for those in KA7

[Honest_Man#1]

5 minutes ago, Sweet Pete said:

Throbber's claim was that he "limits himself to 15 cans of budweiser and a bottle of red wine" consumed over Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

 

2 minutes ago, Sweet Pete said:

There's around 2.5 units roughly in a can. 15 cans gives you 37.5 units, plus the bottle of wine is 10 units, giving a total for his three days of between 40 and 50 units of alcohol. The recommended weekly allowance for men is 14.

Shandon was quoting a post about the two days (even specifically in his post said "over 2 days").

Assuming you're correct with the units per can etc. 9 x 2.5 = 22.5, + half a bottle of red = 5 units, total 27.5 units.

Admittedly I didn't realise they'd changed male and female recommended limit to he the same down from men at 21 units, even still it's not even double, never mind 4x.

[Ross.]

He might be a bit of a jakey b*****d, but at least he is less of a jakey b*****d than he used to be. That's at least how I justify my cycle of binging...

I had 3 pints and 3 gin and tonics on Saturday and 3 and a half pints on Sunday. The weekend before I had 9 or 10 half litre bottles of beer. Time was that the numbers above would have constituted Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night on an average week.

This weekend should be heavier. One of my brothers is over visiting and it's going to be fucking baltic so there won't be a great deal of walking about and showing off the tourist pap. Should be a couple of days of solid drinking and a Sunday of recovering because I have work on Sunday and just can't handle drinking on a school night anymore.

[Sweet Pete]

11 minutes ago, Shandon Par said:

 

That was my maths. There's probably a higher allowance in Ayr though. Doctors recommend at least 80 units per week for those in KA7

And that's just to get them by til the smack is delivered.