Dry January

Tons of the fuckers at work mate, pisses me off as they're so in your face at how wonderful they are and how strong willed. When you tell them they'e already failed by drinking after midnight on NYE, you'e met with a blank vacant stare.

I would love to do a dry 2018 to try and raise a bit money and awareness but I genuinely don't think I could manage 3 months never mind 12 so would only end up disappointing
 


I did 2 years when I was recovering from an illness and I didn't really miss it.

I only really drink now when I'm working away and have a couple of pints in the hotel bar.

I reckon working in bars for years has put me off spending time in them.
 
I'm not saying don't drink. I don't think official guidance is to not drink.

I think we've reached a point where alcohol is becoming really harmful to our society.

It's a wonderful social lubricant. I really love few things more than just sitting in a pub with three or four of my best friends that I went to school with and just drinking and talking all day, getting slowly hammered as the day goes on. I'm not anti-alcohol at all. I drink, I just don't drink often. I'd be surprised if I consume more than 200-300 units of alcohol a year (compared to the government guidelines of about 700 a year).

Unfortunately the levels of alcohol we're consuming - I believe - are way above that, and I think that's reflected in the increased incidence of liver disease, the rising rate of alcohol-related and alcohol-specific deaths, the rate of alcohol-related A&E admissions.

I agree with you to a certain extent, but the whole drinking landscape has changed in the last 30 years. Most people drank in pubs and clubs and very few people bought alcohol in supermarkets back then. Peer pressure from people in pubs and clubs kept a lot of people on the straight and narrow to a large extent (and the opening hours!). Nowadays people gan to the shop and get three bottles of wine for £15 and get hammered in their own home. There's no "shame" on their behalf cos nobody can see them do it. Lass puts "having a cheeky vino, just the one" on twatbook, but I know in reality she'll be coming to work tomorrow with a hangover after a couple of bottles.

FWIW I would never drink in the house on my own. At a house party I would mind. I love the social aspect of pubs and clubs and have done since I was a kid (my auld man used to work for Vaux so it's in my blood really).
 
I agree with you to a certain extent, but the whole drinking landscape has changed in the last 30 years. Most people drank in pubs and clubs and very few people bought alcohol in supermarkets back then. Peer pressure from people in pubs and clubs kept a lot of people on the straight and narrow to a large extent (and the opening hours!). Nowadays people gan to the shop and get three bottles of wine for £15 and get hammered in their own home. There's no "shame" on their behalf cos nobody can see them do it. Lass puts "having a cheeky vino, just the one" on twatbook, but I know in reality she'll be coming to work tomorrow with a hangover after a couple of bottles.

FWIW I would never drink in the house on my own. At a house party I would mind. I love the social aspect of pubs and clubs and have done since I was a kid (my auld man used to work for Vaux so it's in my blood really).

I think we agree, the landscape has changed and home drinking is a huge thing when it wasn't before. Not that I'd remember of course but you will.

I don't really like drinking on my own and if I do it's more for the novelty of finding a new beer and wanting to taste it rather than wanting to get drunk.
 
I think we agree, the landscape has changed and home drinking is a huge thing when it wasn't before. Not that I'd remember of course but you will.

I don't really like drinking on my own and if I do it's more for the novelty of finding a new beer and wanting to taste it rather than wanting to get drunk.

I have a map / chart which I studied a few weeks ago in my uni work, I think you may find it quite interesting , will have a look for it now and post it up.
 
Nope. Shows up as a little blue box, which if I click on it, takes me to a sign-in page for your university.

Whatever the image is, it's held behind a log-in screen!

Oh man ffs. 2 seconds I will find the original source.

I cant even find the original source, think it may be copyrighted by the uni.

Tried to save the pic use an image hosting website and copy to here but that won't work.

Basically it is a map of the UK divided up into the counties, and it went from light blue to dark blue by showing the amounts of alcohol related hospital admissions per 100,000 per county. It is fair to say the north was worse than the south. There was also a map showing unemployment per 100,000. As expected the level of alcohol related admissions were very high in the same counties that had very high unemployment and vise versa.
 
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Oh man ffs. 2 seconds I will find the original source.

I cant even find the original source, think it may be copyrighted by the uni.

Tried to save the pic use an image hosting website and copy to here but that won't work.

Basically it is a map of the UK divided up into the counties, and it went from light blue to dark blue by showing the amounts of alcohol related hospital admissions per 100,000 per county. It is fair to say the north was worse than the south. There was also a map showing unemployment per 100,000. As expected the level of alcohol related admissions were very high in the same counties that had very high unemployment and vise versa.
https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profi...984/pat/6/par/E12000001/ati/102/are/E08000024

https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/searc...1/ati/102/are/E08000024/iid/734/age/204/sex/4

This shows the correlation between employment and alcohol specific hospital admissions.

https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profi...ati/102/are/E08000024/iid/92313/age/204/sex/4

Take it as you will.
 
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I'm doing dry January 6th to end of January, maybe longer, not for any particular reason, i don't have any night outs planned and i don't drink in the house. I want to lose weight, get fitter and become a faster runner too like.
 
I've had 4 cans and 8 bottles in the house since last February, don't miss it at all but why I'd just stop drinking altogether for a month makes no sense.
 
I've had 4 cans and 8 bottles in the house since last February, don't miss it at all but why I'd just stop drinking altogether for a month makes no sense.

It’s to open people up to the idea of drinking less.

Some will give it a go, feel better for it and cut down. It gets people talking about it like we are on here tonight.

Someone reading this will consider drinking less. Maybe they’ll talk about it with someone else. Maybe they’ll entirely dismiss it, but it gets the discussion going and maybe some people will drink less now and in future.
 
It’s to open people up to the idea of drinking less.

Some will give it a go, feel better for it and cut down. It gets people talking about it like we are on here tonight.

Someone reading this will consider drinking less. Maybe they’ll talk about it with someone else. Maybe they’ll entirely dismiss it, but it gets the discussion going and maybe some people will drink less now and in future.

Well I just decided all by myself. ;)
 
Generally speaking I go 2-3 weeks between drinking anyway. I used to drink a lot more regularly than that but I was diagnosed with Chrons last year and if I get bladdered on the tablets I’m on the hangovers are horrific.

General day to day life is a lot less foggy, I sleep better, save a few quid, works out well for me.

Like some have mentioned the work folk that ram it down your throat are irritating, I haven’t mentioned it to anyone because I don’t think its that big of a deal to be honest.
 

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