bkkjames Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 (edited) When I used to work the Red Ete at the hospital, I'd normally have a couple of beers when I got home.Now here in Bangkok, I'll normally pop down and have a beer at the local pub near our office, so I guess around 5.30pm, although I have been known to nip off a bit earlier from time to time. Nothing heavy in the week, and normally back home by 8pm. now depending who you ask, the story is a bit different. I have it on good authority (Brian at Crossbar) actually, the Mr. Toad is a daily visitor - even has his own stool - as for his ETA, all you need to do is look at the times of his posts. Anything around this time or a few hours earlier and he is in the pub. Edited May 20, 2009 by bkkjames Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickBradford Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 I remember waiting for a train early one morning at Copenhagen railway station and watching the commuters arrive -- plenty of the office salarymen would stop off at a kiosk for a momentary Carlsberg before heading off to work. Drinking isn't about when you start; it's about whether you can stop once you've started. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses G. Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 I could be talking total nonsense (but based on nonsense friends have fed me with over the years!)but Ive been told that for Germans/Austrians beer is not much different to water? and hence they drink it all the time The only beer that is close to water is American. Or to quote Monty Python in Live on the Hollywood Bowl: (As Aussies) - We thought we would bring some of our own beer as we heard drinking your domestic kind was kinda like making love in a canoe. - Making love in a canoe? - F*cking close to water. Aussie lager is not much different from American. Ever heard of Fosters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrtoad Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 When I used to work the Red Ete at the hospital, I'd normally have a couple of beers when I got home.Now here in Bangkok, I'll normally pop down and have a beer at the local pub near our office, so I guess around 5.30pm, although I have been known to nip off a bit earlier from time to time. Nothing heavy in the week, and normally back home by 8pm. now depending who you ask, the story is a bit different. I have it on good authority (Brian at Crossbar) actually, the Mr. Toad is a daily visitor - even has his own stool - as for his ETA, all you need to do is look at the times of his posts. Anything around this time or a few hours earlier and he is in the pub. I may be a daily visitor James, but I am not in the pub at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiG16 Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 I could be talking total nonsense (but based on nonsense friends have fed me with over the years!) but Ive been told that for Germans/Austrians beer is not much different to water? and hence they drink it all the time (as in with meals, be it breakfast, lunch or dinner...at least when they are out at the pubs for meals. plus the fact that water costs just as much or sometime more than a beer?) is this really true? I mean it sounds logical, but have I been made a fool all these years? that's nonsense. I did have a disclaimer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G54 Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 Hic !! More important has to be what time you finish and after how long. Just remember, the ugly ones appear beautiful after a couple of hours on the booze. Then you wake up the next morning..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEFLMike Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 A little thought has just entered my head, If I can't have a drink when I'm living, How the h*ll can I drink when I'm dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrt273nva Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 early morning bloody marys to kill a hangover, but that isn't the start, that is the very tail end of a binge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mosha Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 Just thinking of the weddings I've attended here, The Thais at the groom's home look as though they have done an all nighter. They carry on until it's time to go to the venue. Usually the brides home. It gives me a hangover just watching 'em. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keestha Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 From a Bavarian friend I learned the German expression "fruehshoppen". It means meeting up with a lot of people in a pub in the morning, with the intention of having certainly more than 1-2 drinks. It might be a specifically Bavarian thing, and one can assume the vast majority of the people occasionally partaking in such a session in the weekend are not alcoholics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdman Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 (edited) I could be talking total nonsense (but based on nonsense friends have fed me with over the years!) but Ive been told that for Germans/Austrians beer is not much different to water? and hence they drink it all the time (as in with meals, be it breakfast, lunch or dinner...at least when they are out at the pubs for meals. plus the fact that water costs just as much or sometime more than a beer?) is this really true? I mean it sounds logical, but have I been made a fool all these years? that's nonsense. I did have a disclaimer ...so, your post was fabricated or what?? Edited May 26, 2009 by Birdman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierrot Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 It all depends what you want to do with your life. After 24 hours dry, is it something you're craving that stops you from thinking straight ? If the answer is yes, you may have a problem. If thinking straight is the least of your problems, why bother ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ijustwannateach Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 8-9 PM, unless there's wine at dinner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patsycat Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 I'm getting too old for all nighters... tried one a few months ago and had to head for bed at about 3 a.m. Got up at about 7 and a friend was still supping the vodka. I think the body tells you that you have reached your limit, if your head has not done it already. It is 4 am here in Swissland - I am drinking coffee and writing here because there is a rain storm outside. Also waiting for a phone call from the States... I hate time zones... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geekfreaklover Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 If somebody is regulary drinking at 6am continuing all day then you can safely say that is not social drinking and it is not drinking for fun. Over a long time of this routine (drinking all day) the body begins to need alcohol and the mind craves alcohol. To suddenly stop can cause epilectic seizures and in some cases death. A friend back in the UK aged 33 is currently at this stage and we are trying to arrange another intervention. It's sad. He doesn't want to stop. My rule is that if I haven't had a drink by 8pm, then I won't bother drinking as I know if I do I will be up until 12 - 1am and work will be crap the next day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zimba Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 don't knock Fosters my son will have to graduate from mom's milk soon the transition from milk to real beer can be harsh so thankfully there is fosters or we could try most American beers but not before breakfast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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