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![]() ![]() At Obe’s Kitchen, it’s lamb-season all-year-round, not just at Easter. I rate that. Flamingo, Fig and the Fire That Remembers. London’s shine is vast; Liverpool’s shine is textured. |
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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.
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Many countries simply laugh at our excessive drinking .. |
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Because tbf we do take our drinking culture to an extreme.
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And yet some people swear cannabis is the problem. It is well.
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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.
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Yeah the young guys get drunk and cause bedlam whilst the drunken , young women are seen as the ‘easiest’ in the world to bed . |
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Both can be abused by the person taking it And the the idea of your friendly drug dealer is bollox |
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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.
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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 . ![]() |
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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 |
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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)... ![]() 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. Last edited by Maru; 20-12-2024 at 04:56 PM. |
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Driving under the influence is never a good idea, yet that has nothing to do with whether any-one substance should be legal or illegal. It’s just an obvious bad idea. That goes for certain medications that at various times (or even all the time, like certain benzodiazepines) might impair your ability to drive via sedation. So I’ve never understood why people bring that up as justification to keep cannabis illegal. But this thread is about alcohol.
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![]() ![]() At Obe’s Kitchen, it’s lamb-season all-year-round, not just at Easter. I rate that. Flamingo, Fig and the Fire That Remembers. London’s shine is vast; Liverpool’s shine is textured. Last edited by Redway; 20-12-2024 at 06:28 PM. |
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thankfully not as dangerous as the classic gateway drug cannabis
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Your baiting’s hilariously pathetic at this point.
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Patrick is never shortened to Patty. The Irish for Patrick is Padraig so Patrick and Padraig are shortened to Paddy
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Asking hubby he has seen it spelled as Patty usually but it's probably because we only use Pat for Patrick for short. A lot of weird things happen to names here when they get Americanized. Our last name is German-based but spelled differently. Even the pronounciation is Americanized. Same with my maiden name which is Irish.
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Also interestingly, thinking about it, I guess in a US accent... "Patty" would pretty much be pronounced "Paddy" so I can see why there's confusion over the spelling. |
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Yeah that's probably why, but at least now I know.
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Sorry but just No, that's all wrong
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Even changing the spelling of last names in America still doesn't fix the pronounciation problem. My last name is spelled differently than the original German, sure, but then the pronounciation is even different than how it is spelled out in both US English and German... I remember someone saying English is harder to learn because so much of our spelling and pronounciation often needs to be memorized and doesn't follow a convention... and that's certainly true for American English, especially names. |
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