Useful life lesson number 3,006

[triskellian]

When out of the habit of drinking alcohol, it is unwise to drink large amounts of very bad red wine and medium amounts of rather nice port. Y'see, months of hardly drinking tends to cause a reduction in alcohol tolerance, leading to hangovers and feelings of general misery.

Now that I have valiantly sacrificed myself to bring you this useful information, I shall expect there to be no hangovers among my LJFriends this Christmas. And I shall expect any of you who see me drinking to remind me that I no longer have any alcohol tolerance. Please?

Comments

[al-fruitbat.livejournal.com]

Irrespective of the quality of the wine, port invariably leads to sore heads, in my (extensive ;-) experience.

I now prefer the simple nautical mnemonic - Port should be left on the table.

[arralethe.livejournal.com]

No, it's passed to the left on the table.....

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

I've never had any trouble with it in that regard.

[triskellian]

I never have before, either, but it was implicated in both this and the incident blondeccgirl mentions above. Although they are the only times I've had more than about a unit in ages, so it doesn't actually mean anything much. <sigh>

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Is this a deliberate try-not-to-drink-alcohol policy or are you just too busy writing essays to have fun ?

[triskellian]

Mostly the former. I decided in.... ooh, about April that I was drinking too much, so I stopped drinking entirely when not on holiday. I'm not not-drinking-at-all any more, but still rarely having more than a glass of wine.

[cuthbertcross.livejournal.com]

As they said in Blackadder I:
"Don't drink the wine!!!!"

It's ironic that when we were all skint students we drank a fairly large amount of poor quality alcohol (remember 20/20?*grin*)
Now we're playing at being grownups and are less skint, we drink a small amount of nicer alcohol.
therefore our livers have just got more picky, rather than intolerant.

I shall remind you at intervals how much you don't like alcohol, in the hope you'll then donate it to me.... *hic*!

[triskellian]

<warm fuzzy glow> It's so nice to know my friends have my best interests at heart ;-)

(I've only ever tried 20/20 once, and I was 14, so I didn't know any better.)

[smiorgan.livejournal.com]

Now we're playing at being grownups and are less skint, we drink a small amount of nicer alcohol.

You're half right.