|
|
Post by Totheleft on Apr 24, 2024 18:17:22 GMT
It can but can also have a very dark side to it. Me personally don't like being in the presence of an Alcohol drinker you never know how they React . Yes when indulged in excessively . The same as many other human activities..as was pointed out to you . What other human legal activities are you on about? Post them |
|
|
|
Post by johnofgwent on Apr 24, 2024 18:18:44 GMT
You will, i presume, recall the press coverage of an under age Leo Blair being brought to Downing Street by Special Branch having been found face down in his own vomit in Piccadilly Circus, and Jack Straw’s son expelled from his expensive fee paying school for cannabis dealing. When Sarah achieved GCSE success at 16 her fellow classmates invited her to come out and get pissed and her response was that she could do that at home on the stuff in my booze cabinet Which was the exact truth. The law says a child over the age of five may consume alcohol at home. Strangely this attitude of letting my children since mid teen years have access subject solely to telling me if stocks of something are getting low because if *** I *** ever went to pour myself something and found the bottle insufficiently full i would be quite pissed off has led to ZERO instances of either staggering around comatose or other unacceptable behaviours It’s not the drink that’s to blame It’s the lack of practical lessons given to the drinkers on where the boundaries lie, combined with left leaning philosophy on setting such - or not doing - in tbe first place Didn't the same thing occur with one of abacuses offspring or was that drug enduced? I think that was drug induced I think Bentley - and maybe others - have the entirely wrong end of the stick here. I’ve been at the epicentre of some earth moving drinking sessions where the participants are perfect gentlemen, and other occasions where the bastards are mean as shit and fighting after a mere mouthful of sasparilla. Whats that term in criminal justice ‘mens rea’ i think. It speaks to not so much the action, as the intent before the action. Alcohol is quite wrongly blamed for anti social behaviour. The fact is the mindset of being an anti social piece of shit is there from the off, and it is the combination of being allowed to think you can get away with it, and the actuality of getting away with it, that causes it. |
|
|
|
Post by Bentley on Apr 24, 2024 18:20:22 GMT
At the beginning of this century the Royal College of Nursing and another medical organisation said that half the hospital beds in the country were occupied by patients with alcohol related conditions. The logic being that a large number of health conditions are caused/aggravated by alcohol. Within two years of the introduction of Prohibition in America new admissions to mental hospitals had dropped by 90%. Maybe but could they determine whether people with mental illness tend to drink alcohol or people that drink alcohol tend to become mental patients. The last sentence would support the latter but I have no idea if that is true or even relevant. It seems too soon . |
|
|
|
Post by Bentley on Apr 24, 2024 18:20:55 GMT
Yes when indulged in excessively . The same as many other human activities..as was pointed out to you . What other human legal activities are you on about? Post them I’ve posted them in a previous post . Go find it. |
|
|
|
Post by johnofgwent on Apr 24, 2024 18:22:13 GMT
At the beginning of this century the Royal College of Nursing and another medical organisation said that half the hospital beds in the country were occupied by patients with alcohol related conditions. The logic being that a large number of health conditions are caused/aggravated by alcohol. Within two years of the introduction of Prohibition in America new admissions to mental hospitals had dropped by 90%. Probably because the people who found alcohol contributed to mental health issues found the prohibition era booze so toxic they were carted off to morgues instead I’m not sure we can really take much in comparison from that time given significant numbers of female incarcerates were there for the mental illness of not keeping their legs together before acquiring a wedding ring |
|
|
|
Post by Ripley on Apr 24, 2024 18:26:19 GMT
The drinking of alcohol lowers inhibitions and can lead to very pleasant social behaviour. It can but can also have a very dark side to it. Me personally don't like being in the presence of a Alcohol drinker you never know how they React . I like to cook with alcohol on occasion but I have never drunk it. I don't mind if dinner guests have a glass or two but I feel very uncomfortably insecure around people who drink to excess. It brings out the worst in people. |
|
|
|
Post by Bentley on Apr 24, 2024 18:28:17 GMT
At the beginning of this century the Royal College of Nursing and another medical organisation said that half the hospital beds in the country were occupied by patients with alcohol related conditions. The logic being that a large number of health conditions are caused/aggravated by alcohol. Within two years of the introduction of Prohibition in America new admissions to mental hospitals had dropped by 90%. I’m not sure we can really take much in comparison from that time given significant numbers of female incarcerates were there for the mental illness of not keeping their legs together before acquiring a wedding ring Tbh I thought that might be a reason . That and the consequences of a sudden withdrawal from alcohol. |
|
|
|
Post by Bentley on Apr 24, 2024 18:29:14 GMT
It can but can also have a very dark side to it. Me personally don't like being in the presence of a Alcohol drinker you never know how they React . I like to cook with alcohol on occasion but I have never drunk it. I don't mind if dinner guests have a glass or two but I feel very uncomfortably insecure around people who drink to excess. It brings out the worst in people. Indeed. You know the real person when they are drunk . |
|
|
|
Post by Totheleft on Apr 24, 2024 18:31:54 GMT
Like what other human activity? What's legal Driving cars, eating , sex,sports etc etc . You probably don’t realise that your OP addressed excessive indulgence . You need to read your own posts. I'm not addressing over inducance but Social drinking if you read my post And most of your other activities are certainly ilegal if they poss a danger to one selves or public. |
|
|
|
Post by Ripley on Apr 24, 2024 18:34:36 GMT
I like to cook with alcohol on occasion but I have never drunk it. I don't mind if dinner guests have a glass or two but I feel very uncomfortably insecure around people who drink to excess. It brings out the worst in people. Indeed. You know the real person when they are drunk . Finally we agree on something. |
|
|
|
Post by Totheleft on Apr 24, 2024 18:34:46 GMT
It can but can also have a very dark side to it. Me personally don't like being in the presence of a Alcohol drinker you never know how they React . I like to cook with alcohol on occasion but I have never drunk it. I don't mind if dinner guests have a glass or two but I feel very uncomfortably insecure around people who drink to excess. It brings out the worst in people. I agree |
|
|
|
Post by seniorcitizen007 on Apr 24, 2024 18:39:59 GMT
In the 18th century hefty taxes were placed on Spirits because parts of the country (especially Yorkshire) were becoming depopulated.
|
|
|
|
Post by Bentley on Apr 24, 2024 18:41:55 GMT
Indeed. You know the real person when they are drunk . Finally we agree on something. I thought you agreed with me on the other thread . It just took a while for you to admit it. |
|
|
|
Post by Bentley on Apr 24, 2024 18:43:46 GMT
Driving cars, eating , sex,sports etc etc . You probably don’t realise that your OP addressed excessive indulgence . You need to read your own posts. I'm not addressing over inducance but Social drinking if you read my post And most of your other activities are certainly ilegal if they poss a danger to one selves or public. Your OP was addressing over indulgence ie excessive . I repeat..you need to read your own posts . |
|
|
|
Post by Fairsociety on Apr 24, 2024 18:47:50 GMT
A man walks into a bar with a piece of asphalt under his arm and says “A beer please! And one for the road!”
|
|
