Count me in. As Chuck C. would say, I got me a new pair of glasses now.
Everything in moderation. Alcohol is a solvent - cleans out the fat buildup in your arteries. Also you liver is evil and must be punished.
“If you mean whiskey, the devil’s brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys the home, creates misery and poverty, yea, literally takes the bread from the mouths of little children; if you mean that evil drink that topples Christian men and women from the pinnacles of righteous and gracious living into the bottomless pits of degradation, shame, despair, helplessness, and hopelessness, then, my friend, I am opposed to it with every fiber of my being.
However, if by whiskey you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine, the elixir of life, the ale that is consumed when good fellows get together, that puts a song in their hearts and the warm glow of contentment in their eyes; if you mean Christmas cheer, the stimulating sip that puts a little spring in the step of an elderly gentleman on a frosty morning; if you mean that drink that enables man to magnify his joy, and to forget life’s great tragedies and heartbreaks and sorrow; if you mean that drink the sale of which pours into our treasuries untold millions of dollars each year, that provides tender care for our little crippled children, our blind, our deaf, our dumb, our pitifully aged and infirm, to build the finest highways, hospitals, universities, and community colleges in this nation, then my friend, I am absolutely, unequivocally in favor of it. This is my position, and as always, I refuse to be compromised on matters of principle.
(Address to the legislature by a Mississippi state senator, 1958, “Whiskey Speech”)
Well I only drink when I’m by myself or I’m with somebody.
Easily, but I don’t want to.
Given that I consume perhaps half a dozen or so alcoholic beverages over the course of a year, this wouldn’t be much of a challenge.
Stay Sober in October??
Go on a bender in November.
22 years for me.
Can’t quit.
I don’t want to go to meetings.
routinely do it.
Q: Can you go a month without alcohol?
A: Why would I? I hate to answer a question with a question, but sometimes it is the only response.
I’ll go without when I’m dead. Why would I deny myself a nice scotch or a beer or two with a pizza?
A year in August here.
Sober 19 years, 8 months and 3 days. But who is counting?
Before I got sober, a psychologist said I should stop drinking for a year.
He said there was no harm from not drinking.
He said if I could not stop, then I should stop entirely.
His specialty was moderation management, not total abstinence.
Of course I wasn’t ready yet. Only later when I did stop, did I understand the phenomenon of addiction, etc.
I could, but why would I want to?
4 months sober. I didn’t have a problem drinking its that I no longer have the desire to have a drink.