I do this all the time
but I am a sad internet shut-in.

I used to drink a bottle of wine, then fire up the internet poker while I started a second. My performance was... erratic.

Tend to stick to just the one bottle and avoid the internet poker these days.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 25 May 2012, 9:52, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

This may be a good plan
Its nice to have a glass or four of wine once the kids are asleep and everything is sorted
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 25 May 2012, 9:53, Reply)

Yep.
I read somewhere that a couple of glasses of wine an evening with a meal is actually a net positive. More than that is not, sadly.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 25 May 2012, 9:55, Reply)

A glass of red wine a day is good for you
4 bottles isn't
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 25 May 2012, 9:56, Reply)

Also, If a bottle holds 6 glasses
Drinking a bottle and then not drinking for 2 days does not "average out".
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 25 May 2012, 9:58, Reply)

Solution, buy bigger glasses

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 25 May 2012, 10:01, Reply)

I have a couple of "half-bottle" glasses
But I don't use them. I like to pit my laziness against my incipient alcoholism - if I use really small glasses I have to keep getting up and refilling, so I drink slower and hence less.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 25 May 2012, 10:10, Reply)

Has your paracetamol use become a drug problem?
It's ok man two or three glasses of wine don't make you a pissartist
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Fri 25 May 2012, 10:13, Reply)

A bottle of wine a night probably would though.
I think the government "recommendations" work out to 2 bottles a week.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 25 May 2012, 10:40, Reply)

Hypocrites
Blair was knocking back more than that when he was going around declaring war on anyone who thought they were hard enough to have a go.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 25 May 2012, 10:42, Reply)

the government recommendations are a shower of shite.
And the only large-scale meta-analysis of alcohol consumption suggests you need to be putting away about 50 units a week before it's statistically more dangerous to your health than being teetotal.

Also remember this is the same group of people who tell pregnant women not to drink at all, even when all available evidence suggests a glass or two of wine a week is quite benificial. Because they freely admit "they don't trust the populace to stop at one or two glasses" .. and think about what they then REALLY mean by "21 units"

so, y'know.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 25 May 2012, 10:46, Reply)

To be fair, they are right not to trust people to be able to follow the advice.
If you tell people not to drink at all, as they have done with pregnant women, most will limit themselves to one or two glasses.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 25 May 2012, 10:55, Reply)

While you've got a point
I'd much rather see them treat people like adults. Then those that can't behave like adults will fuck themselves up, and we'll start to slip back so some proper evolutionary strategies.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 25 May 2012, 10:56, Reply)

Only we won't because of modern health care
so we'll just treat the deformed offspring of these morons who in turn will have more fucked up offspring and so on. And it costs lots of money. You can't have it both ways.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 25 May 2012, 10:59, Reply)

I fucking can
just watch me.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 25 May 2012, 11:17, Reply)

Or they'll switch to heroin
just to be safe.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 25 May 2012, 10:56, Reply)