What time do you start drinking on landmark occasions (e.g., weekends, Christmas)?

[Redway]

Are you the sort of person who can work your way through two bottles of Lambrini and Buck’s Fizz each with it without particular occasion (aka, on a garden-variety Saturday morning in March as well as Christmas morning, ‘just because’) or do you hold off until (well) after noon?

[Kizzy]

Every one of those options mean you have a problem with alcohol.

[thesheriff443]

Redway every thread of yours is drink and drugs

[Crimson Dynamo]

never before 6pm

never after 11pm

[Cherie]

I only have alcohol during the day if I go out for a special lunch

[Alf]

I usually start after I've watched an episode of Scooby Doo.



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[GoldHeart]

I don't drink much these days, but usually the odd evening.

I think the only time I'd drink earlier ,is on Christmas afternoon with the festive meal :shrug:.

[AnnieK]

The only time I've ever had a drink in the morning is when I used to go away with friends at the airport. I'm not a good day time drinker, my hangover kicks in early and I am then ruined

[Redway]

Every one of those options mean you have a problem with alcohol.
Coming from someone who doesn’t drink these days (albeit for totally valid reasons), it’s not really your place to decide. And there’s such a thing as low-key banter to lighten the Monday mood (hence the slight irony and exaggerations in some of those poll options). I don’t know why you’re always so hell-bent on adding a negative slant to every thread on drink and drugs. You could just not smoke and drink in peace and let other people be instead of judging them when it’s not even that deep.
Redway every thread of yours is drink and drugs

That’s obviously not true.

[Cherie]

The only time I've ever had a drink in the morning is when I used to go away with friends at the airport. I'm not a good day time drinker, my hangover kicks in early and I am then ruined

oh yeah used to do that as well in my yout couldn't do that now


if I am on an afternoon flight I might have a glass of vino to kick off the holiday spirit

[Alf]

They don't even allow you to drink on a coach trip now. What's all that about?

As long as the driver isn't drinking, I don't see what the issue is with passengers having a little tipple on a coach trip.

In the old days you could have a smoke and a drink on a charabanc trip and a train journey. That was real freedom.

[Crimson Dynamo]

They don't even allow you to drink on a coach trip now. What's all that about?

As long as the driver isn't drinking, I don't see what the issue is with passengers having a little tipple on a coach trip.

In the old days you could have a smoke and a drink on a charabanc trip and a train journey. That was real freedom.

I used to love getting the first class train from London to Edinburgh with 4 cans of Stella, a copy of the Face and 2 bags of salt and vinegar.

No phones or nowt just the window to look out of.

[bots]

im with Kizzy on this one. If you say i shouldn't drink before a particular time then it implies some sort of issue. Time shouldn't be anything to do with it

[Alf]

I used to love getting the first class train from London to Edinburgh with 4 cans of Stella, a copy of the Face and 2 bags of salt and vinegar.

No phones or nowt just the window to look out of.Great days. Before the nanny state took control of our lives.

Now they expect you to travel down to London for a cup final and be sober as a judge.

Unlucky for them, I can hide a hip flask full of whisky from them. So I win in the end.

[UserSince2005]

if i didn't drink a sip of alcohol on Christmas day I wouldn't cry about it.
That being said, I usually pop open the champagne at breakfast for some bucksfizz

[glib]

I’d hardly call the weekend a ‘landmark occasion’

[Cal.]

Only after 6pm

[Crimson Dynamo]

Only after 6pm

Cal is most wise

[Redway]

Yh, I’m not interested in spinning out a wider discussion on this topic on this thread but I’m just leaving it out there for people who might be interested. It’s not an invitation to argue or debate.

https://coreygilkes.wordpress.com/2019/08/25/the-racist-roots-of-cannabiss-criminalisation-in-trinidad-and-the-united-states/

That’s in the city text of the admitted racism behind the strip-searching of the black girl on her period all because a bit of Mary-Jane was smelt around her. Everything the police did to her that afternoon correlated exactly with the origins behind the criminalisation of weed in the first place (including sexual subordination of women to men) and that article nicely encapsulates that.

Again, this ain’t an invitation to spin this topic out further (this thread’s more about post-hangover Saturday bottomless brunches and Christmas morning Buck’s Fizz than anything else) but anyone who’s interested in discussing this in more detail can signify somehow (without derailing the thread otherwise) and I’ll make a separate thread for it (which hopefully won’t get deleted this time).

[Redway]

I’d hardly call the weekend a ‘landmark occasion’

It is as far as morning drinking is concerned.

[Beso]

Bucks fizz and a joint just after the pressies have been opened.

[Redway]

Bucks fizz and a joint just after the pressies have been opened.

Wise man.

[Kizzy]

Coming from someone who doesn’t drink these days (albeit for totally valid reasons), it’s not really your place to decide. And there’s such a thing as low-key banter to lighten the Monday mood (hence the slight irony and exaggerations in some of those poll options). I don’t know why you’re always so hell-bent on adding a negative slant to every thread on drink and drugs. You could just not smoke and drink in peace and let other people be instead of judging them when it’s not even that deep.


That’s obviously not true.

My place to decide what?.. all I gave was my opinion on the poll choices. The only decision being made i's once again for some reason you have determined I'm not worthy of participating in this thread.
If it's low key banter you were after then why post in serious debates?
I haven't judged anybody... :/

[Redway]

My place to decide what?.. all I gave was my opinion on the poll choices. The only decision being made i's once again for some reason you have determined I'm not worthy of participating in this thread.
If it's low key banter you were after then why post in serious debates?
I haven't judged anybody... :/

Erm … because this particular thread wasn’t posted in Serious Debates but general chat. I didn’t think it would ever get to that stage between us where I’d have to spell out the blatantly obvious.

Not interested, like. This thread isn’t the place so I’m putting a cap on this nonsense on my side now.

[michael21]

Redway do you work if yes do you ever drink before work or when your working

[Crimson Dynamo]

Redway do you work if yes do you ever drink before work or when your working

lets hope not

[michael21]

lets hope not

I just can't see anyone employing some one that drink and dose drugs all the time

[Crimson Dynamo]

I just can't see anyone employing some one that drink and dose drugs all the time

no as it is dangerous to people and safety

[Redway]

I just can't see anyone employing some one that drink and dose drugs all the time

Some of those poll options were tongue-in-cheek so you can make what you want of them.

Of course I don’t drink on the job. And all that. But you know that. You just want a reaction.

[Redway]

no as it is dangerous to people and safety

Right.

[Redway]

I work and I work and I work, Michael. Whatever I do off-site doesn’t concern anyone other than me.

[michael21]

Some of those poll options were tongue-in-cheek so you can make what you want of them.

Of course I don’t drink on the job. And all that. But you know that. You just want a reaction.

tongue-in-cheek is fine but when you talk about drugs and drinking all the time can you see how members might get yhe impression that is what you do also I don't think you should be joking about these topics when there are younger people on the forum

[michael21]

I work and I work and I work, Michael. Whatever I do off-site doesn’t concern anyone other than me.

Well I did say anyone not you but would you employ anyone that drink and dose drugs a lot or would you like to work with some one that dose

[Beso]

tongue-in-cheek is fine but when you talk about drugs and drinking all the time can you see how members might get yhe impression that is what you do also I don't think you should be joking about these topics when there are younger people on the forum

Tbf you hardly ever shut up about gambling.:shrug:

[AnnieK]

Well I did say anyone not you but would you employ anyone that drink and dose drugs a lot or would you like to work with some one that dose

What someone does in their own time is nothing to do with an employer as long as it doesn't impact on their work or happen in work. Problems may arise if laws are broken and criminal charges are brought as that could impact on their ability to undertake their role.

[michael21]

Tbf you hardly ever shut up about gambling.:shrug:

True

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[user104658]

It's always been more a timespan thing for me. When I drink at all these days it's usually daytime (starting with lunch) but then I'm home by 6. If I was to go on a night out, I wouldn't start before about 7pm. I generally haven't had alcohol on Christmas because of having young kids.

[Crimson Dynamo]

I remember the Capital Radio days when we were made to go out on huge booozy lunches 3 x a week. We would get back at 3.30 and by 4 in the The Hot Rockin Tower at Euston, we were sobering up. My manc mate Benji and I had 2 bottles of of wine in the bog cistern and would take turns to recharge till we got the shine be on again. By 6 we were in the boozer and the pain was gone.

[Beso]

I remember the Capital Radio days when we were made to go out on huge booozy lunches 3 x a week. We would get back at 3.30 and by 4 in the The Hot Rockin Tower at Euston, we were sobering up. My manc mate Benji and I had 2 bottles of of wine in the bog cistern and would take turns to recharge till we got the shine be on again. By 6 we were in the boozer and the pain was gone.



Did you ever wander down to mables tavern.?

[Crimson Dynamo]

Did you ever wander down to mables tavern.?

On the way to Leicester Square yep, always took in a Shepherds Neame pub

[Kizzy]

Erm … because this particular thread wasn’t posted in Serious Debates but general chat. I didn’t think it would ever get to that stage between us where I’d have to spell out the blatantly obvious.

Not interested, like. This thread isn’t the place so I’m putting a cap on this nonsense on my side now.

Ah well whatever.. in general there was nothing to suggest you only wanted lighthearted responses. I didn't notice my bad , my opinion is the same however.

[Redway]

tongue-in-cheek is fine but when you talk about drugs and drinking all the time can you see how members might get yhe impression that is what you do also I don't think you should be joking about these topics when there are younger people on the forum

I don’t think you should be making sexual jibs at females on here who aren’t interested in you at any costs (not least because there might be some younger kids knocking around) but whatever. You’re going to have to troll harder.