To dislike the culture of alcohol worship on MN?

[MumblingRagDoll]

I know it's all lighthearted....but I find it icky. Not people saying ..have a to cheer someone up so much...but all the "Just waiting till' wine o clock statements get to me.
I think it's because a close relative is an acoholic and I have seen the damage.

Alcohol is such a damaging thing...and I'm genuinely surprised (and yes...judgey) about how many parents seem to rely on it every night.

But i do like a lime and soda occasionaly...

Before i get stuck in....

pass me a bottle big glass ,reeling

Well hello usual......

I is on the lime and soda tonight.

The politics forum is full of pissheads? I didn't even know that there was a politics forum..let alone that it was the groucho club!!!

I enjoy a nice glass of wine or a g&t on a friday evening to put some distance between me and the working week...and I'll follow that glass with a few more

However age and knackerdness means that generally by 10pm I'm so tired that I have to go to bed.

Having said that I don't think there's a culture of alcohol worship on here...apart from the gin lovers thread last week, and the drunk threads

Acksherly,i is not........

How are you?

I'm not actually drinking tonight ,reeling

I don't like the word icky.

The bloody co op is shut...

You are too late....

Have a cup of tea cooking sherry.

Maryz, enjoy it

I would also have been defending my right to drink very energetically.

Are you back yet usual?....

'Are you back yet usual?....'

No. She's on my balcony smoking a spliff.

It's nice to work hard all week and the first pint / glass of wine on a friday evening is fanstastic. you don't feel like you've earnt it if you drink every night in the week. Alcohol should be something special , a treat. very few people treat it like this though.

my OH had to give up alcohol for medical reasons (not due to abusing booze) but when we're out there is definitely social pressure to drink and we've had people say "oh i see your're being boring and miserable" and getting really quite funny. I know this indicates more of a problem with them....but does go to show how ingrained in the culture booze is.

'The politics forum is full of pissheads?'
Yes, there are a lot of Guardian readers on there.

The problem I have with this thread is that it gives the impression that MNers drink all the time, but that's just not true, we have to sleep, you know.

'But if you dont give a rats then why are you still here on the thread?'

Because I love earnest people who take much seriously. They make my world go round. :)

And let's not forget that work is the scourge of the drinking classes.

Bedtime for me, off to dream of a long cold gin on a sunny friday evening...

Nah, she up at the co op.....

I was too late

It fosters their culture of dependency, alistron. If only they could shake of their shackles of fecklessness and violence, all fuelled by the demon drink, of course. And probably fags.

God... it's half ten and it's BEDTIME......

Goodgrief.

Pass it on......PLEASE.....

desperate.

Don't forget your nightcap.

'tis white and frilly and properly starched.