Six-pack of beer will last me the best part of the year. Have to really want one before I can drink it.
Maybe go through 2 -3 bottles of spirits a year.
Never been drunk before. It just doesn't "grab me".
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Six-pack of beer will last me the best part of the year. Have to really want one before I can drink it.
Maybe go through 2 -3 bottles of spirits a year.
Never been drunk before. It just doesn't "grab me".
I spent 3 years in Darwin, leaving just after cyclone Max. I have never before seen so many people who thought it was normal social drinking to get through a carton or 2 every day. More on weekends of course.
I worked in the Psyche unit at Darwin Hospital. During the wet season we would get a few young blokes in with full on Delirium Tremens. They had been stranded in the bush for a week or more and run out of grog
Incidently I helped a mate sail his boat from Bris to Darwin early last year and didn't recognise any of it. Even the airport was in a diferent place :o I don't know about now but back then I think a significent portion of the population were never ever sober.
Surely there are a lot of people not covered by any of those choices in the poll.
The poll seems to assume that the only way to avoid problems is to be a non-drinker.
If you usually have a small glass of wine with dinner four or five nights a week and just occasionally have a second glass, then none of those apply (unless of course you are a cheap drunk who can get intoxicated on two glasses). :p
OMG
I'm a binge drinker :o
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We're loosing a lot of canefields to build houses for Mexicans, ;) and the Babinda mill won't be operating next season. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Ean Austral
Quite right, the article was framed in such a way that if you believe it, everyone who drinks has a problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by vnx205
Hi Kev, long time no hear/see. How's your Dad? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Fluids
We have something else in common. :twobeers:
He's good Ian, thanks for asking. He's 72 now ! Still comes in to work almost every day.
I've been getting on with life ... is what happens whilst you're busy making other plans.
Teenagers, kids, clients, parents, inlaws, ...... :bat:
I think Darwin and Cooktown have a lot in common.
I know folks who have half a carton by 10am to keep everything in order, up from down and all that.
I always thought you only had a drinking problem if you drink more than your GP...
Thats easy fixed, just need to shop around for the appropriate GP.
S
Too true, I spent a few years in Darwin, in the Navy, we sat out" Max" on a patrol boat in the harbour, non event, really. They had a novel way of calculating travel time, Darwin to Tumbling Waters was a six stubbie trip, and so on. On weekends we filled up a 6x4 trailer with beer, and drove it from place to place, mobile party, just top up the trailer for entry.A non drinker was treated with suspicion, someone to watch closely, obviously a southern blowin. Just escaped with my liver when posted south , much to the delight of my long suffering wife. Bob :twobeers:Quote:
Originally Posted by 51jay