• Visitors can check out the Forum FAQ by clicking this link. You have to register before you can post: click the REGISTER link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. View our Forum Privacy Policy.
  • Want to receive the latest contracting news and advice straight to your inbox? Sign up to the ContractorUK newsletter here. Every sign up will also be entered into a draw to WIN £100 Amazon vouchers!

Giving up alcohol

Collapse
X
  •  
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

    Giving up alcohol

    Going to give it a go. Not that I was a massive drinker anyway. But I suspect that some of my so-called "mates" will suddenly become supremely uninteresting without the warm beery glow.
    Anyone else tried it?
    Hard Brexit now!
    #prayfornodeal

    #2
    Tried it a few months ago - managed one day.

    Comment


      #3
      Multiple times, longest I lasted was 16 months. Funny thing was each time got easyer. Now bearly drink at all (once every two months)

      Really nice thing is now when i drink my bar bill is a hell of a lot less if looking to get reasonably drunk as my resistance has gone to hell.

      Comment


        #4
        Yes... which is difficult in Scotland as the social life does often revolve around booze.

        I limit myself to drinking wine mostly... try to keep it to friday and saturday nights if possible as i have overdone it before on a 'school night'...

        Best thing is to branch out into a different social circle.. im into different genres of cinema, comedy, meals out etc... but most of the culture here is pubs / clubs... it takes perservance...

        I have to say when i realised i was spending an average of 2k a month on booze I saw the light.
        Vieze Oude Man

        Comment


          #5
          Originally posted by mcquiggd
          I have to say when i realised i was spending an average of 2k a month on booze I saw the light.
          Bloody hell man. How can you spend 2K a month on alcohol?
          Hard Brexit now!
          #prayfornodeal

          Comment


            #6
            >Bloody hell man. How can you spend 2K a month on alcohol?

            Ah the good old days, walking into a bar, flashing the gold card and ordering a couple of bottles of vintage Dom Perignon to impress the girlies.

            Threaded.
            His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

            Comment


              #7
              Originally posted by Mordac
              >Bloody hell man. How can you spend 2K a month on alcohol?

              Ah the good old days, walking into a bar, flashing the gold card and ordering a couple of bottles of vintage Dom Perignon to impress the girlies.

              Threaded.
              We were once on a jolly in Poland doing a branch upgrade, he would go into the girly bars and buy bottles of shampoo, until he discovered how much he had spent and went as white as a ghost, oddly the girls all disappeared, apart from two very "occomodating" one's I seem the remember
              SA says;
              Well you looked so stylish I thought you batted for the other camp - thats like the ultimate compliment!

              I couldn't imagine you ever having a hair out of place!

              n5gooner is awarded +5 Xeno Geek Points.
              (whatever these are)

              Comment


                #8
                2K a month on alcohol


                A thousand pints of Whitbread pale ale for example, which would be 33 pints a day, or 12 bottles of wine a day.

                Sh*t


                Did you cut down or simply fall over?

                I'm alright Jack

                Comment


                  #9
                  2k a month is easy... 1k in one day on champagne, long island iced teas, a £275 bottle of Chateau Latour '78, a £175 quid bottle of white (cant remember which), oh and some food and a romatic view over Edinburgh from the balcony of the Tower Restaurant at 1am on our own...

                  Thats why I contract I guess. I have to to support the lifestyle...!


                  P.S that was when I had just had a signed renewal for 6 months for £50 an hour - highest rate ive had in Scotland, and the first 'proper' date with the current ex-to-be. Unfortunately a week later Atos Origin reneged on their signed contract.
                  Last edited by mcquiggd; 7 November 2005, 14:14.
                  Vieze Oude Man

                  Comment


                    #10
                    All on expenses, I hope...
                    His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

                    Comment

                    Working...
                    X