[Redway]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7ve155r1d9o

[Mystic Mock]

Well when we have a culture that actively encourages drinking yourself to death, then the cause of death from drinking too much of it was always going to increase.

There's nothing wrong with casually drinking Alcohol imo, but it's not "boring" if you don't want to drink 6 pints of Beer every night.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Santa Goth

Well when we have a culture that actively encourages drinking yourself to death, then the cause of death from drinking too much of it was always going to increase.

There's nothing wrong with casually drinking Alcohol imo, but it's not "boring" if you don't want to drink 6 pints of Beer every night.

Many countries simply laugh at our excessive drinking
..

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Zizu

Many countries simply laugh at our excessive drinking
..

Because tbf we do take our drinking culture to an extreme.

[Redway]

And yet some people swear cannabis is the problem. It is well.

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Cranbred Goose

And yet some people swear cannabis is the problem. It is well.

Well we now have a test for those driving under the influence of cannabis aswell as drink driving

Both can be abused by the person taking it

And the the idea of your friendly drug dealer is bollox

[Maru]

Originally Posted by Zizu

Many countries simply laugh at our excessive drinking
..

For what that's worth, I've never really heard of the UK being part of that culture. We know about the prevalence of pubs and how much drink is relished (as a pass time), but not binge drinking per say... it's more often connected to Irish culture more than anything because of St Pattys

Binge drinking is very common with parts of Mexican culture though, so it's certainly a thing culturally. We have an alcoholic (prone) family member who travels well and could make a nice living here, but then to move this direction, because of the proximity to alcohol we couldn't recommend it because they'd almost certainly be a part of that with their job (they work in a luxury brand dealership)... It's mostly for the young though... there are older people who obviously cling to that in their spare time, but it seems less and less the more well-employed they are. So it's not like there aren't huge swaths of that culture that work very hard and don't have time to sit around be drunk because they have to get in the morning. So it's just in balance...

As for death, unfortunately, most of our alcoholic deaths are going to be connected to vehicles and mixing with Fentanyl. Cars are absolutely required here. There's Uber, obviously, but it's not like there aren't people who get brazen and in the car all the time and drive despite whatever they have taken or have had to drink... in TX, it used to be more normalized and some of that stigma still hasn't gone away from the 80s... so I'd say that's our alcoholic curse in the South, is there are still remnants of a relaxed mentality with driving vehicles while impaired like it's just a basic thing we laugh about... many of us don't, thankfully.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by MaRuDolph

For what that's worth, I've never really heard of the UK being part of that culture. We know about the prevalence of pubs and how much drink is relished (as a pass time), but not binge drinking per say... it's more often connected to Irish culture more than anything because of St Pattys

Binge drinking is very common with parts of Mexican culture though, so it's certainly a thing culturally. We have an alcoholic (prone) family member who travels well and could make a nice living here, but then to move this direction, because of the proximity to alcohol we couldn't recommend it because they'd almost certainly be a part of that with their job (they work in a luxury brand dealership)... It's mostly for the young though... there are older people who obviously cling to that in their spare time, but it seems less and less the more well-employed they are. So it's not like there aren't huge swaths of that culture that work very hard and don't have time to sit around be drunk because they have to get in the morning. So it's just in balance...

As for death, unfortunately, most of our alcoholic deaths are going to be connected to vehicles and mixing with Fentanyl. Cars are absolutely required here. There's Uber, obviously, but it's not like there aren't people who get brazen and in the car all the time and drive despite whatever they have taken or have had to drink... in TX, it used to be more normalized and some of that stigma still hasn't gone away from the 80s... so I'd say that's our alcoholic curse in the South, is there are still remnants of a relaxed mentality with driving vehicles while impaired like it's just a basic thing we laugh about... many of us don't, thankfully.

Not St Patty's Day! St Patrick's Day or Paddy's Day.

[Maru]

Originally Posted by ChristmasNeeve

Not St Patty's Day! St Patrick's Day or Paddy's Day.

Thanks. I wasn't sure I have never seen it spelled shortform

[Livia]

I feel quite shamed by the behaviour of Brits abroad on the pi55. It seems to be some kind of badge of honour, get as drunk as you can as fast as you can. We certainly do have a strange and dangerous relationship with alcohol.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Livia

I feel quite shamed by the behaviour of Brits abroad on the pi55. It seems to be some kind of badge of honour, get as drunk as you can as fast as you can. We certainly do have a strange and dangerous relationship with alcohol.

Yeah the young guys get drunk and cause bedlam whilst the drunken , young women are seen as the ‘easiest’ in the world to bed .

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Zizu

Yeah the young guys get drunk and cause bedlam whilst the drunken , young women are seen as the ‘easiest’ in the world to bed .

I'm always worried by the sight of young women staggering around drunk, not knowing where they are or what they're doing. They make themselves so vulnerable.

[Gusto Brunt]

Best thing I ever did was quite drinking at 32. TEN years ago.

I've saved thousands of pounds and lost 10 stone in weight. I feel younger than I did.

I still feel like when I was 26.

It's very sad what alcohol does to people. There was a guy who lived near us. Just 49 years old and never considered himself an alcoholic. But his belly started to swell, he went to the docs and was told he had a month to live. Cirrhosis of the liver.

Docs were right. He died a month later.

Thank God I will wake up every day of the festive season sober .

[MTVN]

Not surprising post covid and cost of living crisis where people have needed an outlet for misery. Not that alcohol is the solution for that of course

Most of the damage here is done by people sat at home drinking strong, cheap booze rather than people enjoying a pint in a pub

[Crimson Dynamo]

thankfully not as dangerous as the classic gateway drug cannabis

the real threat to children

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Christmas Dynamo

thankfully not as dangerous as the classic gateway drug cannabis

the real threat to children

Your baiting’s hilariously pathetic at this point.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Cranbred Goose

Your baiting’s hilariously pathetic at this point.

Sorry, what?

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Christmas Dynamo

Sorry, what?

You keep telling yourself that. In the meantime I’ll wait for you to pull out 1 statistic listing even a single direct death from cannabis or comparable rates of knife-crime, domestic abuse and saturation in prisons fuelled weed vs. alcohol. Everything from you until then is just white noise. Alcohol is a far, far more dangerous and destructive drug than cannabis could ever be on most solid counts. It might not suit you to admit it but there’s no way around that fundamental truth if we put bias and hypocritical anti-drugs propaganda aside.

[Beso]

English lightweights.

[bots]

Not all countries collect stats in the same way. I would have thought the reporting of covid cases around the world would have educated everyone on how false statistics are

[Zizu]

Enjoy

Play LOUD !

Listen to the beautiful bridge late in the song

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[Alf]

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