BRITAIN would like to know if being fast asleep counts as time off the drink.
As experts once again made it their business to recommend two alcohol free days a week, Britain reckoned it would probably be okay to do it on a pro-rata basis.
Emma Bradford, from Stevenage, said: “I sleep for about eight hours a night, I spend 10 minutes per day in the shower, then there’s the bus to work and I generally stay off the sherbert until about 12-ish.
“So five 10s are 50 plus two and a half hours plus 20 hours and then seven nights a week at eight hours a night makes, let’s see – sorry, I’m a bit hungover – anyway, I’m pretty sure it’s more than 48 so that’s me government approved.”
Roy Hobbs, from Darlington, said: “I don’t drink on Mondays. Monday is Skunk Day. So I suppose I could just make Tuesday Skunk Day as well. Splendid. Now the experts will think I’m great.”
Helen Archer, from Hatfield, added: “I do drink at my desk in the afternoons, but it’s just a couple of mugs of homemade Drambuie. It’s not as if it’s one of those huge, incredibly dangerous glasses of white wine that one hears so much about these days.
“And anyway, I’m always asleep somewhere by half-eight.”
