DRINK.

[tommy.irene]

Im glad i dont drink..

[saasher2012]

Very good Tommy!

[millielilac]

Too true for some people ...and very sad.

[tommy.irene]

Please grant me the serenity 
to accept the things I cannot change; 
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

[rose2008-2008]

This rings so true for me as i went through a very bad phase of binge drinking about 10 yrs ago. I now do not drink at all. When i did,,, it started off (as i thought) so well. After going on anti depressants i was transformed into this social butterfly but went right off the ricter scale with drink and other substances. It took me down a rapid descent into trouble, getting involved with bad people and bad behaviour!!. I AM SO GLAD I EVENTUALLY STOPPED !!!.

[saasher2012]

Good on ya Rose!

[tommy.irene]

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@rose2008-2008 wrote:

This rings so true for me as i went through a very bad phase of binge drinking about 10 yrs ago. I now do not drink at all. When i did,,, it started off (as i thought) so well. After going on anti depressants i was transformed into this social butterfly but went right off the ricter scale with drink and other substances. It took me down a rapid descent into trouble, getting involved with bad people and bad behaviour!!. I AM SO GLAD I EVENTUALLY STOPPED !!!.

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I havent drank booze for 30 years now ..

[blackburn_stevie]

I've never been much of a drinker myself but I have seen the way that it can affect people. (Should that be "affect" or "effect"?. I never can tell the difference.) We have bottles of Vodka, Bacardi and Brandy in the fridge, each with 3 or 4 tots missing out of them and they have been there since before LAST Christmas. Not the one just gone, the one before that. We also have 12 -15 cans of Stella that we bought at the same time. The crazy thing is that when we go shopping to ASDA, we always check to see if we need ice . lol

[saasher2012]

Don't you find if your not a drinker, what fools people make of themselves when they over do it. & don't you feel just that little bit smug?LOL.

[cee-dee]

Yes.

[blackburn_stevie]

Not so much "smug" but knowing their income (relatives after all) I get to the stage where I feel like saying to them, "Do you realise that if you missed one session like this every week, you could spend 2 weeks in Las Vegas with us next year?" 

Before you all start saying, "Two weeks without you? What a bonus." They are always banging on about wanting to go with us but just never having the money to do it.

[rose2008-2008]

Well done tommy.irene!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

And yes i do sometimes fell smug,,,,, i see the same ole faces in the same pubs that i used to frequent and their going really downhill you can see it in them!!!.. Although i know people have terrible things happen in their lives they cannot get over,, and turn to drink,,, its true ,,you think it goes away and it does when your drunk. BUT it always comes back and slaps you in the face the next morning.

Can i come to Vegas with you Steve???? i have always wanted to visit ha ha ha abhlooooool,,,, i would probably become a gambler then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...... Ohhhhh no better not.

[saasher2012]

Are you leading people astray again Rose? LOL.

[rose2008-2008]

It could be a KEEP YOUR TOP ON vegas trip!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. you want to come saasher????. You know you want too!!!! LOL

[saasher2012]

What Devon & Vegas Rose , blimey girl can't keep up wiv ya!

[rose2008-2008]

You could be Thelma to my LOUISE???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! haaaa haaa haaaa

[saasher2012]

Sorry Rose I'm not driving off a cliff for anybody! lol

[rose2008-2008]

i THOUGHT YOU WOULD SAY THAT HAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAA lol

LOL

[5129frederick]

I've lived opposite a pub for the past seven years and only ventured in for a meal on a couple of occasions.  I felt a mug, not smug when I went up to the bar to order a drink with my meal.  One Coke for my wife, and one pint of cider for myself, without any crisps or anything came to exactly £6.00.  Practising Christian or not I blasphemed!    No wonder there were so few people at the bar!  As far as I'm concerned, they can make everybody redundant, raze the building to the ground and put up a block of flats for all I care.  The food wasn't all that either.  I don't know how they can justify the prices.  Doh - never again!