[Kizzy]

Watched this a couple of weeks ago, it is very upsetting. Just shows how dangerous alcohol is.

Youtube video

[InOne]

So you're still on the wagon then?

[Kizzy]

I am joe, care to join me? this is one bandwagon I would love to see you jump on fella.

[InOne]

No you wouldn't LOL you love winding me up

[Omah]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

I am joe, care to join me? this is one bandwagon I would love to see you jump on fella.

I watched the start - I'll catch the rest later .....

[Kizzy]

I don't wind anyone up joe.

[InOne]

You seem to like arguing with me, we even both got banned for a week cos of it

[Kizzy]

I'm not discussing that joe, are you interested in this thread or not?

[AnnieK]

Have you not had a drink at all Kizzy?

[Marcus.]

well to you kizzy
i take my hat of to you

[InOne]

Not really, I will post an Oliver Reed quote

"I don't have a drink problem. But if that was the case and doctors told me I had to stop I'd like to think I would be brave enough to drink myself into the grave"

x

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by InOne

Not really, I will post an Oliver Reed quote

"I don't have a drink problem. But if that was the case and doctors told me I had to stop I'd like to think I would be brave enough to drink myself into the grave"

x

Well they did...and he did. Being dead is not clever joe.

[InOne]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Well they did...and he did. Being dead is not clever joe.

Yep, he died in a pub whilst filming Gladatior. He is a legend.

[InOne]

If you want a good film about drinking Leaving Las Vegas is probably the most depressing film I've ever seen

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by anniek76

Have you not had a drink at all Kizzy?

No it was the best decision I ever made, and lately friends or family of friends seem to be really struggling, it's heartbreaking to see folk who were so happy and full of life reduced to nothing.

[Josy]

I can't watch the vid atm but have been hoping more people would realise the negative effects for years, it's never gonna fully happen though most people especially teenagers class drinking alcohol as something cool for them to be doing with mates at the weekends and think nothing at all about the long term dangers and effects it could have if it escalates out of thier control.

I'm not one to judge others if they like to have a drink though and I think drinking in moderation is fine but some just don't know when to stop.

Please don't take this as being rude Kizzy as I'm genuinely interested but did you only become aware about the negative effects of alcohol once you stopped drinking?

[GypsyGoth]

I just looked at the first 40 seconds of that vid, I don't think I could watch it all. He seems to be an obsessive compulsive and an alco, but I hardly watched any so I don't know.

Sadly I think people doing damage to themselves through alcohol is socially accepted. Also people my age consume so much of it at weekends that they make themselves sick, their body has more sense than they do, their body realises that it has ingested dangerous levels of the poison so it makes them throw up.

It reminds me in a way it's like the people from the capital in the hunger games books, the ones who eat soo much and then puke it all up so they can eat more.

I think if alcohol was only discovered today, it would be made illegal or far more regulated, at the very least it would be treated with the same respect with give to other harmful poisons.

One of the tricks with alcohol is that one drink makes someone feel good, so logically they think that another will make them feel twice as good, but it doesn't work like that.

And then there is the alcoholic, the person who has an addictive personality who latches onto alcohol, or as they would have you believe alcohol latches onto them. Actually I think I'll stop, this post is turning into a bit of a rant

[GypsyGoth]

Originally Posted by Josy

I can't watch the vid atm but have been hoping more people would realise the negative effects for years, it's never gonna fully happen though most people especially teenagers class drinking alcohol as something cool for them to be doing with mates at the weekends and think nothing at all about the long term dangers and effects it could have if it escalates out of thier control.

Maybe it would be good if it you had to wait until you were 21 before you could drink, like in the states. I think people could make better choices for themselves then.

[arista]

Originally Posted by InOne

No you wouldn't LOL you love winding me up

No
not every thread is about You.

[Josy]

Originally Posted by GypsyGoth

Maybe it would be good if it you had to wait until you were 21 before you could drink, like in the states. I think people could make better choices for themselves then.

I think that was suggested a few years back wasnt it? but I'm not sure it would work theres always someone willing to purchase it for underagers.

[InOne]

Originally Posted by arista

No
not every thread is about You.

You're never getting into Kizzy arista so give up being the hero

[Ninastar]

My generation is ****ed. They are too stubborn to care and too stupid to do anything about it.

Please note: I do not in any way mean every single teenager in the uk, I mean a majority of them.

[GypsyGoth]

Originally Posted by Josy

I think that was suggested a few years back wasnt it? but I'm not sure it would work theres always someone willing to purchase it for underagers.

True, I've seen kids who didn't even look like teenagers asking for people to buy them drink. Maybe it's the parents who have to change or at least help their kids make better informed choices.

[MTVN]

I think raising the drinking age to 21 would be a terrible idea, by the time you're 18 you're legally an adult, can drive, be working full time, have left home, get married, vote, serve in the army etc. etc. be a bit silly if you can do all that but still have to wait 3 years to be considered trustworthy to buy a pint in your local pub

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Josy

I can't watch the vid atm but have been hoping more people would realise the negative effects for years, it's never gonna fully happen though most people especially teenagers class drinking alcohol as something cool for them to be doing with mates at the weekends and think nothing at all about the long term dangers and effects it could have if it escalates out of thier control.

I'm not one to judge others if they like to have a drink though and I think drinking in moderation is fine but some just don't know when to stop.

Please don't take this as being rude Kizzy as I'm genuinely interested but did you only become aware about the negative effects of alcohol once you stopped drinking?

That's it I didn't know or care about the dangers, but recently alcohol seems to be everywhere in huge quantities and not woodpecker or fosters, vodka and other spirits that untill recently were pocket money prices.
12 years ago I worked in a pub, we sold wine by the 125ml or 175ml glass... now it's sold by the bottle everywhere.
Over the last 10yrs my consumption increased too, but it is so socially acceptable...
It became harder to function following drinking too, and I was even factoring it into my weekly shopping budget.
People around me were finding it harder and harder to cope, it stopped being the fun thing it had been as nobody I knew seemed to enjoy it anymore.
Like they say hindsight is a wonderful thing.
I think more people have a problem with alcohol and don't even realise as they are going to work/uni and functioning reasonably normally, yet managing to polish of a bottle of wine or a few beers everyday.
I quit and now it's like being on the other side of the mirror, you see things that others miss.