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Successful Drinking

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deleted_user
I know it's best not to drink.
BUT.
All I hear is the classic drinking till falling over stuff here, or the ones that warn against it.That's cool but I like the taste AND try to keep a limit.

I need help with finding out.
Who can actually say they can drink the right amount ..?
Just have a couple of drinks and stop there !
In social circumstances...


Or do BP's only drink in order to be drunk ?

Thanks.Interested, cos it's almost done surreptitiously, it seems.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I don,t know if we drink to till we're drunk or if we drink to much cause we can't seem to get drunk enough
tommymott
tommymott
Drink is the curse of the working class.

But then...

Work is the curse of the drinking class.

You decide!
deleted_user
deleted_user
Oscar Wilde....i love it!
deleted_user
deleted_user
I miss getting drunk... it was a rare event, but I had fun feelin that way.
dancingd
dancingd
The other night I had a shot of Johnny Walker Red....just about a half shot glass.It was the first drink I've had in a year or so.
It gave me a nice warm feeling in my tummy,and just a glimmer of a tiny little buzz.I woke up feeling fine.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I was (and I guess still am) an alcoholic. BUT, the urge to drink has left me. I can have a couple of beers now and stop. My downfall is pot. I use it to self-medicate my symptoms.
peace, t
deleted_user
deleted_user
I'm dying for a beer... Just not sure with my meds. I know it's just a beer, but
deleted_user
deleted_user
I drink... I went sober for four years and ended up in the hospital, or switching meds, or something.

Problem for me is, in ANYTHING in life, too much is never enough. I smoke cigs too much, I want too much sex, I want to drink till I pass out, so on and so forth.

So I try to find a middle ground in everything I do now, and I don't always like it, but so far so good, I haven't been in trouble again, or broke, or picked up other bad habits, but if you can go without drinking and be ok, I recommend that.
dobiedots
dobiedots
I can actually drink ONE beer or ONE glass of wine and then feel satisfied. Don't need to drink any more than that. Which is odd because I AM an alcoholic and spent many years in AA.
However, I cannot drink the hard stuff. If I have one drink I'll have 10.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Never worked for me...took a test that said "don't exceed 3 drinks in the course of a day no matter what" My thought was why bother drinking if you're only going to have 3 drinks..My friends though was who would want 3 drinks...I gave it up..recognized I have an addictive personality and overdo everything...wish I could have just one...just one drin...just one cigarette...just one cookie but no...curses...it's all or nothing
deleted_user
deleted_user
drink shandy - it works n its cheap! One pint n im anybodies...
deleted_user
deleted_user
I'd rather have the stigma of BP than the stigma of drinking shandy.
Kind of funny , kind of true
deleted_user
deleted_user
i just drink one glass of tasty red wine.

then i usually go to sleep.
deleted_user
deleted_user
24 hours in the day...24 beer in a case. Coincidence? Hmmmm... I wonder...
deleted_user
deleted_user
I drink to get drunk but, then, I *am* an alcoholic...
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