GK wrote:
Now smokers have been banished to the wilderness, the health police have their sights set firmly on those beastly drinkers..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8242385.stm Limits, minimum alcohol unit costs, bans.... expect more.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8242385.stm Limits, minimum alcohol unit costs, bans.... expect more.
I know a bloke who blocks out the light from the door when he comes in, he is nearly stone cold sober after a bottle of claret during the meal.
I know a sparrow of a women, who is half cut after a small glass of pinot grigio...... therefore her tiny system is already polluted with 1 unit.
So, we deduce that a table that measures units per body mass (UPBM) could be a bit more useful for (a) health and (b) control and responsibilty.
If you don't take exercise, don't eat properly and are skinny and frail - dont drink. If on the other hand, if you are fit and healthy and take wine with a good meal in the evening - not too much as an apperatif, then good luck to you
All these numbers, standards, appointed tzars and sound bites are based on a regression towards the mean, to be interpreted by morons. Close the bar in the House of Commons at Lunchtime
A 44 ton 8 axle juggernaught going down a busy motorway, may do so at 70mph (legal limit is 60mph but the police do nothing). Go down the same motorway in a Boxster at 75mph and you might get stopped for dangerous driving. The jugernaught will mow down scores of people, killing some of them in a traffic pile-up, the Boxster just nips to the verge and avoids all hassles.
This is the way things are, and no, I don't own a Boxster.
The kids ought to stop binge drinking, and the supermarkets should stop selling alcho-shite. Young people in the Northern hemisphere have nothing better to do - A very sad day for modern society. Drinking problems among nations where the days are shorter is worse. Parts of Canada are the exception to that - Wide open space ? Lots to do ? - There are many factors.