Alochol???????

[j0nb0y]

I have decided my alcohol intake has been excessive recently and have decided to cut right back, in fact, I thought I would do "stoptober" and not drink alcohol for a full month, longer if I feel any benefit from it.
My problem is, I still want to socialise with friends and can only drink so much diet coke, so thought I would drink lager shandies. NOW I know I am still drinking alcohol, but in my mind, in very diluted quantities.
I got into a discussion with someone earlier who said, I am still having the alcohol equivalent of half a pint, for every pint of shandy. My argument is 1) they normally do less than half a pint and fill the rest with lemonade. 2) even if it was 50% lager and 50% lemonade, that would dilute the alcohol content to half the original quantity and thus, I am actually only having a quarter of an actual pint. So 4 pints of shandy would be equal to the alcohol of 1 pint?????
Your thoughts please.

[bednobs]

your maths is ridiculous. There is 1/2 a pint of lager in every glass, so you are having 1/2 a pint of lager for every pint of drink

[Prudie]

Alcohol doesn't get diluted in the sense it loses it's strength though. A shot of rum in a glass has the same alcohol content as a shot of rum in a glass filled to the top with coke.

[Islay]

There are loads of soft drinks out there - not just diet coke.
Are you just trying to justify not giving up drinking?

[j0nb0y]

If that were the case, a measure of vodka in a bucket of lemonade, would still have the same alcohol content of a neat vodka????

[EcclesCake]

Your arithmetic is seriously out of kilter.

I have it on good authority that pubs sell other non-alcoholic drinks.

[douglas9401]

Sometimes you have to take a step back and double check if you've been doing stuff wrong all your life. :-)

[bednobs]

if you drank the whole bucket, you'd be getting the same amount of vodka and alcohol as just drinking the shot

[snags]

''Your thoughts please''

I'm thinking now I fancy a pint. Wanna come? We could chow down on loads of high salt snacks too and get a calorie and fat-laden kebab after closing tonight on the stumble home :)

[Bazile]

Is this a case of , if i quarter fill a tumbler with ribena and then fill it to the brim with water ; there will be less ribena in the tumbler , than if i fill it to half way with water

[Prudie]

yeah if you wrapped your kebab in 3 extra pittas it wouldn't have so much fat in it....

[woofgang]

My thought is that you aren't doing stoptober. If you want to have a drink, have a drink and if you don't then don't but don't fool yourself that you have stopped drinking alcohol when you haven't.

[Bazile]

lol , i see that others have posted the point before me .
Only bednobs's answer was there when i decided to contribute

[j0nb0y]

Bazile....you would have the same amount of Ribena, but the sugar content would be much less per glass had you filled it half way. Wouldn't it?

[douglas9401]

Schoolboy error Jonners, it's diet Ribena, sugar free.

I think somebody has a free period but is taking the joke too far.

[Bazile]

No it wouldn't

[dannyk13]

Have you tried non-alcoholic wine?

[ummmm]

You don't have to stick to diet coke. Go crazy, be a rebel and have something like lime and soda.

[Bazile]

Try a pepsi max ginger

[j0nb0y]

lime and soda.....that's just madness!!!

[ummmm]

Quite refreshing actually.

I stopped drinking a few weeks back due to medication and considering I'm still on said medication I feel great. I don't think I'd go back to it except maybe at weddings/funerals.