What's annoying me today

This is probably the most Shady thing Shady has posted this week.

Textbook. Great work team.110%. Smashed it.

Had a few drinks last night for absolutely no good reason. Didn't especially enjoy them and now I have a hangover.

I drink maybe once a week these days and I honestly don't think I'd find it that hard to give up completely. I don't feel like I enjoy drinking all that much any more.

That’s pretty much where I am too.

When I was first on some arthritis drugs that (happily) I no longer have to take - we’re talking 25+ years ago - I wasn’t allowed to drink any alcohol at all for about 4 years.

After a short while I found I really didn’t miss it (though I rapidly learned that pissed people are not even close to being as funny as they think they are).

I have long since started drinking again (wine in particular), but I very much doubt I drink even half as much as I did as a young man.

Working in London ad agencies in the 80s, I'd almost always drink two pints every lunchtime, sometimes more. Then a couple of pints after work or on the train home to Brighton, sometimes followed by wine with dinner. Like Brid, I don't expect I drink half as much these days.

I rarely had a hangover when I was younger, but now I can't seem to manage more than two pints or half a bottle of wine in an evening without being awake for most of the night and feeling rough in the morning. I went a couple of weeks without a drink recently, but the fact is that I do enjoy booze despite the hangovers, red wine in particular. There's nothing quite like a glass while cooking the evening meal, and of course one glass leads to another.

Luckily this doesn’t apply to me.

I had acupuncture last week, and in discussion we talked about alcohol, said I'd had 4-5 beers last night and a glass of wine. The guy looked like he was about to call AA. I don't do that level of alcohol often .. maybe once every 10 days? Often linked to a Forest game. But it didn't seem that crazy to me at all.

In your bollocks?

This is me and it's hugely irritating. As I've got older, I've got even more boring and learned to value sleep - insofar as I've realised how much better I feel when I've had a decent amount of it.

Even very small amounts of alcohol disrupt my sleep ridiculously these days, which mostly causes me not to bother imbibing.

I do still crave beer (mostly) from time to time and will usually relent at some point. I've mostly stopped drinking red wine, though, because it's the worst offender in the sleep stakes, and that pisses me off a lot because I really like a glass of rouge.

Thankfully no. Arse.

You’re paying a man to prick you in the arse? Fair dos.

A viagra will do that for you with much less effort

A 10mph speedball?