Stone Cold Sober

[Manc]

Is there anyone who doesn't get on the sauce? Have you ever done a stretch of sobriety? Did you reap the benefits?

[Spikey M]

Lewis and Mahow are tee total I believe.

[Giggles]

Ian.

[Disco]

With the exception of the odd beer (maybe one so far this year) I don't drink either.

[mo]

I haven’t had a drink since I was about 19. I hadn’t really drunk much before that either. I’m not sure that I’m ‘reaping’ benefits but am hoping my liver is in decent shape.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Lewis and Mahow are tee total I believe.
I am.

[mugbull]

Beer is the greatest. I don’t fuck with hard alcohol unless I have to, and wine is disgusting but i’ll have that sometimes too

[SincereTheRebel]

I have never purchsed the devils nectar in my 30 years. Never been drunk. Had less than 10 sips. Its not for me.

[Shindig]

Whiskey around Christmas and the odd drink with the guys from work. It's a social thing and, if I'm not out with anyone, I tend to just leave it.

[Ian]

Ian.

Straight edge, mate.

[Lewis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QRFCuqF7lw

[Kikó]

Having a drink is quite enjoyable so no.

[Offshore Toon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QRFCuqF7lw
:cool:

I'd love to be a full time wreckhead but a much finer balance is required to live a sustainable lifestyle, so I don't drink much these days. A few hours of drinking just writes a day or two off and it's rarely worth it these days.

[Spikey M]

Having a drink is quite enjoyable so no.

Even formal drinks?

[Lewis]

I wouldn't describe myself as 'teetotal', which I take to mean someone who abstains from alcohol on weirdo moral/health grounds. I've just never got a taste for the stuff.

[mugbull]

:cool:

I'd love to be a full time wreckhead but a much finer balance is required to live a sustainable lifestyle, so I don't drink much these days. A few hours of drinking just writes a day or two off and it's rarely worth it these days.

Have you ever heard of Pedialyte? If you can manage to down a bottle of that before you pass out after a night of consumption, you'll be completely fine the next day.

[Giggles]

Even formal drinks?

On THE list :moody:

[Kikó]

Even formal drinks?

I'm having formal drinks tomorrow.

[Baz]

Have you ever heard of Pedialyte? If you can manage to down a bottle of that before you pass out after a night of consumption, you'll be completely fine the next day.Send me some and I’ll test the theory on Grand National day.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I love a drink. One or two or three. As a very quiet, reserved person it helps me loosen up a bit and have more fun. I don't like getting hammered, though. Never seen the point.

[Raoul Duke]

I did dry January and it made me want to die. You just need something to take the edge off occasionally.

[Offshore Toon]

I am becoming more prone to a Guinness now and then, which is a change I did not see coming. Unless there was a long day/night of drinking ahead, I'd probably choose a Guinness. I'm out next weekend all day, so I might just use the opportunity to explore similar beers. Anybody got any recommendations?

[Ian]

If you're looking for similar to Guinness and can be arsed then if you're in somewhere that has wanky beers/ales on tap just ask if they have any stouts on. Guinness is relatively bland as these things go but they'll let you try a bit, usually, so you're not committing to chuck a few quid down for something you might not then like.

[Spikey M]

Porters are very similar to Stout, So try some of them n'all.

[Baz]

Imperial Russian Stout.

[Queenslander]

Imperial Russian Stout.

Does not get any better than one of these.

[Ian]

Good shout on porters. Talking about 10%+ beers in the sobriety thread, though. :D

[Queenslander]

Not even a page before the boozehounds hijacked it.

[Giggles]

O'Hara's if you don't want to be pissed in about 4½ minutes.

[Shindig]

Aye, Guinness varies from pub to pub for me. The XX Porter version goes down nicer.

[Bam]

I'm having formal drinks tomorrow.

Better give Phonics a call then.

[Kikó]

Don't think so.

[Offshore Toon]

If you're looking for similar to Guinness and can be arsed then if you're in somewhere that has wanky beers/ales on tap just ask if they have any stouts on. Guinness is relatively bland as these things go but they'll let you try a bit, usually, so you're not committing to chuck a few quid down for something you might not then like.
I think the blandness is probably why it appeals to me. I'm not actually a huge fan of the taste of beer, so the stronger the taste the less I tend to enjoy it. There's no alcohol out there that tastes nice for me. Still, I'll try all of the above, especially Porters.

[Ian]

Stouts are the ones that taste the least boozy so even some of the nerdier ones might be a winner for you.

[Queenslander]

Stouts are the ones that taste the least boozy so even some of the nerdier ones might be a winner for you.

Like an Imperial Russian Stout.

[Pepe]

I find the high alcohol content ones to be almost universally shit.

Porters are my favorite type of beer by a wide margin. Unfortunately it is all IPAs and the occasional Stout over here.

[Offshore Toon]

Stouts are the ones that taste the least boozy so even some of the nerdier ones might be a winner for you.
I'll tuck in at some point then.

[igor_balis]

I do like all sorts of booze, but sometimes I really fancy something that doesn't really taste of much. Stout or even better a pint of mild over something hoppy any time.

[Mellberg]

Weighing up doing an as yet undecided amount of time off it. 1-3 months maybe. Nothing mega. 10 weeks off the smokes on Sunday and I'm easing into some midlife crisis health kick, so that's gonna be the next one.

[igor_balis]

Weighing up doing an as yet undecided amount of time off it. 1-3 months maybe. Nothing mega. 10 weeks off the smokes on Sunday and I'm easing into some midlife crisis health kick, so that's gonna be the next one.

how do you find avoiding being tempted by smoking when you're drinking? whenever i've quit i've been alright until i've had a couple of pints and it's like that bit in father ted where ted thinks dougal is a huge cigarette walking around the room

[Mellberg]

Was ridiculous to begin with. Stayed off the beer for the first couple of weeks, but in the end I needed a few pints just to take the edge off. Packed a load of chewing gum and completely devoured several cocktail sticks/straws. Let's just say I was shit company.

It's sound now though. Had a couple after work earlier, sat in the sun with a load of smokers and didn't really think about it.

[Baz]

Was ridiculous to begin with. Stayed off the beer for the first couple of weeks, but in the end I needed a few pints just to take the edge off. Packed a load of chewing gum and completely devoured several cocktail sticks/straws. Let's just say I was shit company.

It's sound now though. Had a couple after work earlier, sat in the sun with a load of smokers and didn't really think about it.Did you think about how much healthier you are now than them?

[Mike]

And how much better you smell!

[Boydy]

Dweebs.

[Mazuuurk]

I love a drink. One or two or three. As a very quiet, reserved person it helps me loosen up a bit and have more fun. I don't like getting hammered, though. Never seen the point.

That's because you stop at 3. If you just manage to push a few beyond that, you'll see that getting sloshed seems like the best idea you've ever had :nodd:

[Spikey M]

A couple more pints and that Llama goes on the prowl. Let him out Jimmy.

[Jimmy Floyd]

That's because you stop at 3. If you just manage to push a few beyond that, you'll see that getting sloshed seems like the best idea you've ever had :nodd:

I seem to remember having a lot more than 3 with you in 2008 and that was strong evidence on my side of the argument.

[Mazuuurk]

Necking Carlings like a proper don :cool:

The only mistake you made that night was go home. I believe you weren't around when we started drinking Baileys from someones shoe in the pub.

[Ian]

...from a shoe?

[Mazuuurk]

Yes a shoe. You pour the drink into a shoe, and then use it as a glass.

It's the kind of brilliant idea you get with if you stick with it past 3 beers, mate. Whole world out there.

[Ian]

I must just not be enough of a creative banterlad because beer has never led me to those sort of whacky antics.

[Giggles]

I must just not be enough of a creative banterlad because beer has never led me to those sort of whacky antics.

Resorting to drinking beer out of a shoe is probably a sign you should try the stone cold sober thing.

[Mazuuurk]

It wasn't beer lad.

[Giggles]

Yes, that's the problem.

[mugbull]

Isn’t that a recommendation direct from Noel Fielding

[Disco]

I did my share of heavy drinking but I don't think I ever stooped to drinking from a shoe, plus I'm not sure you could choose a worse thing to drink from a shoe than Baileys. Horror for all concerned.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Necking Carlings like a proper don :cool:

The only mistake you made that night was go home. I believe you weren't around when we started drinking Baileys from someones shoe in the pub.

After mixing some sort of rank light brown acidic alcohol with loads of beer, I had to keep my appointment to go and throw up in every coach of an 8 coach train on which I was the only passenger.

[Mazuuurk]

I did my share of heavy drinking but I don't think I ever stooped to drinking from a shoe, plus I'm not sure you could choose a worse thing to drink from a shoe than Baileys. Horror for all concerned.

Dude, you have to lift the shoe from the floor to do it properly. The floor is disgusting in pubs!

[Baz]

Isn’t that a recommendation direct from Noel FieldingIt is taken directly from The Mighty Boosh, yes.

[igor_balis]

Drinking baileys from a shoe in honour of the mighty boosh and i'm the zany one on the forum? Suck my dick Lewis.

[Giggles]

You'd have had three dates, two missed trains, and an awkward situation before drinking from the shoe.

[Bartholomert]

I drink every day. I don’t go over three beers as a principal on weekdays, because I can’t be foggy in the morning at work and still get everything done by the end of the day, but I can’t remember the last time I didn’t have at least one beer.

My life kinda sucks due to work and I don’t have a significant other to come back to, so I rationalize it as necessary to keep me sane and help me fall asleep.

[Ian]

Which it probably does help you fall asleep but only because your brain is so used to whatever buzz you get off your three beers it can't turn off without it.

[Shindig]

The important thing to learn here is mert got dumped.