Weight Watchers today. A lady who'd lost all her weight, reached her target looked great, and was going home to celebrate with a whole bottle of champagne all for her, and a bottle of wine too. But that was ok because she hadn't had any alcohol for the last four months.
And she used to have a couple beers when cooking dinner. Followed by a bottle of wine. Every night.
I will confess to having raised a judgemental eyebrow to my friend. Yes, I did.
But mostly because she was blithely considering this as a bad thing, because of the fat content. Not because there was anything even slightly alcoholic about drinking two beers and a bottle of wine every night. That didn't seem to be an issue for her.
Oh, I know, it's not the end of the world, plenty of people drink more than that, blah blah, I'm not so horrified that I need to preach about it - it's more the country's general tacit acceptance of casual alchoholism and what so many people accept as the norm.
More power to her for stopping though.
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Can I just say that after four months of no alcohol a bottle of champagne and a bottle of wine are going to result in nothing very good.
Must be an Irish thing - that does sound like an awful lot of alcohol to this Belgian.
Indeed, Ms M. Indeed.
And Mwa, I think there is no question that it is an awful lot of alcohol.
Nice lifestyle if you can afford it!
It's awful how quick the addiction forms though, it's a huge pity that alcoholism is so cool in this country. My heart goes out to her liver.
P.S. LOVE the clip!!!!!!!!!!
Of course Kate. It wasn't so much that she did it, more the way she had no issue with it. Mummy deserves her little treat, maybe. Seemed v cultural alright.
Maybe of she d been a man talking about 8 pints though, it would seem more acceptable, which is depressing too.
that poor woman..must have been very thirsty...
ha..i love smack the pony
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