What's the longest you've gone without a beer/drink?
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No assumption made, I know that he is. I also know how much study I had to put in myself for a degree, and how much colleagues did, and I know damn well that nobody can do that and work full time for 4 days a week.
Sue Pertwee-Tyr
Accuphase all the way down
I did my degree with the OU, working 5 days a week, average 50 hours a week work. No time off for study (this was my own initiative, not a work related thing). Took me 6 years. I reckon I could have done it in half the time if I'd had another day a week for study. I got a first. A lot of packet tops that was.
klfrs
chill out
Unfair to the point of ridiculousness. The environment gets a whole month, but beer only one day? Bah!
droodzilla
pfm Member
Sounds about right and is fairly typical of the OU student experience. Well done (from an OU tutor)!
david ellwood
Kirabosi Kognoscente
I stopped drinking for three months last year , didn’t make me feel any better so I returned to the ale.
klfrs
chill out
That is worthy of a spoof Viz article.
wow&flutter
pfm Member
It must be seventeen years since my last alcoholic drink I guess, and I only drank on holidays abroad for five years before then. Certainly don’t miss it at all, in fact milk, tap water and Clipper pure green tea are the only direct fluids I take these days!
Bart
pfm Member
I do like a drink, but not the socialising that sometimes goes with it 
Nothing better than a couple of beers and getting stuck into the hifi - on my own. Saying that I do like to stick to the guidelines (whatever they are) and do try to have a couple of consecutive alcohol-free days a week. I always admired my wife’s ability to have ‘just the one’ and knowing when to stop, unfortunately she didn’t always know how to stop me, those days are long gone though, I’m old and frightened now!
Nothing better than a couple of beers and getting stuck into the hifi - on my own. Saying that I do like to stick to the guidelines (whatever they are) and do try to have a couple of consecutive alcohol-free days a week. I always admired my wife’s ability to have ‘just the one’ and knowing when to stop, unfortunately she didn’t always know how to stop me, those days are long gone though, I’m old and frightened now!
James
Lord of the Erg\o/s
I think I can manage two pints at one sitting, mainly because I cannot burp and I hate the feeling of a distended stomach.
Joe Hutch
Mate of the bloke
Many years ago I went drinking with my cousin. He was on pints, I was on vodka and orange, and I matched him drink for drink. I simply can't imagine putting away the amount of liquid he did that night. Fair play, he was pissed as a newt at the end of the evening and I had to help him back to my parents' house. Although I was certainly drunk, I was able to walk unaided and talk rationally to my parents, who put my cousin to sleep on a sofa and hid his car keys (he had mumbled something about driving home, when he could barely stand).
My gas problem after drinking real ale is from an orifice a little farther south and so burping is not an issue.
Cav
pfm Member
If you were drinking single measures of vodka you drank half the units he did.
Joe Hutch
Mate of the bloke
Yes, I'd thought of that, pub measures of spirits being notoriously mean. On the other hand, he was a hardened boozer, being five years' worth of heavy drinking ahead of me.
The only time I drank anything like that amount of beer I was a) so drunk that I 'lost' several hours from the evening and b) was so ill and hungover that I was never tempted to repeat the experience.
awkwardbydesign
Officially Awesome
I followed that link and on to explaining to an American doctor about Irish wedding drinking!