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Dry January is a long month, cold and grey, and for drinkers (January cleaves the populous into two kinds of people: the drinkers and the non-drinkers, those who succeed at Dry January and those who do not) the length of the month is exacerbated by non-drinkers. I would say you can add a decent 24 hours onto how long January feels each time someone says: "Soda and lime for me, mate, I'm not drinking." Add a week on for every time you here someone say "I feel really good".January stretches into infinity – until the sun burns out and the stars slowly fade grey to black – whenever someone says they are "saving a load of money" and they've "found something else to do with my time now I'm not drinking beer! I'm writing a screenplay!"On MUNCHIES: This Chef Is Pairing Burgers With £500 Bottles Of Wine
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But let us mark the fact that the 1st of February is the day we are mathematically furthest away from Dry January, and celebrate it as such. Pubs today will be full of the type of people who think doing half-marathons is good and have arguments on commuter trains about their right to give their folding bicycle its own seat and who didn't drink all January. People who get the Abel & Cole vegetable box every Monday and actually figure out recipes to use up their black radishes instead of just throwing them away. People who do countdowns to their holidays on Facebook instead of just silently going on holiday. People who have the word "Gin" as an absolute statement in their Twitter profile. The people who do Dry January are propping up the entire detox tea industry and the adult colouring book industry. They go to wedding expos.Elbow them out of the way of the bar tonight and order your drink briskly and properly. Watch them descend into Monday Night Madness after one white wine spritzer and a packet of nuts. It is 11 months until they can bother you with their worthiness again.Follow Joel on Twitter.On NOISEY: I Went On The Jonathan Ross Show With Big Narstie