Alcohol, the changing face of.

Oldbiggles

It now seems that my endeavours to keep a healthy heart by having a glass (or two) of Red Wine now and then, (after being told repeatedly told by the powers that be that this had been proved beyond any shadow of doubt), has resulted in my being labelled as an excessive drinker. Hic! Pardon me.
Apparently a younger man can drink 28 units of the stuff but you and I of the older generation can only have 14. Women pensioners only 11.
As I don’t get into town very much, it must be some of you other pensioners that are causing all the trouble by partying in town to the early hours of the morning, fighting in the streets, abusing the police, spaying graffiti and vomiting all over the place.
Why else would they be trying to stop us having a drink?
Afterthought1 (Unless they are using it as an excuse to reduce our pensions because of our out of control drinking habits). :rotfl:

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Errata

I've just read about it in the Times. Apparently I will have to tell the doc I'm binge drinking and they will have to create a treatment plan for me which they will supervise. On the other hand, I could lie through my teeth like a true plonky and swear the only alcohol that passes my lips is when I take communion.

Next week's warning from the Health Police: Breathing causes cancer, stop breathing and live longer!

margaretclare

Well, I don't know who it is, but it certainly ain't me. When I go out I drink sparkling water with ice and lemon. No one can tell it isn't vodka!

Also it isn't DH either. He drinks diet coke (that's cola, not cocaine). Although we both like real beer on occasion - a pint of Black Sheep bitter for him and half a pint for me. But that doesn't amount to units per week or even per month, more like per year.

Tigsteroonie

This amazes me - surely the government would prefer you oldies to die early of liver failure, rather than life a long healthy life that would mean extended pension payments and possibly expensive care home fees?

Farway

As has been said before, stop drinking and live longer, or at least it will seem like eternity :beer:

lilac_lady

A glass (or two) of wine or a gin and tonic or abstinence? Hmm - let me think. (pours a glas of red wine while I think). Ok, decision made. :beer: Cheers!

Robin_T_Cox

The study that was reported this week is simply that - a study report.

It does not constitute official medical advice, and may never do so.

Until then, just continue drinking responsibly, knowing your own personal limitations.

chesky369

And to think, the Royal College of Psychiatrists (why them, for God's sake) were probably paid vast amounts to do this research.

pollypenny

This 'instruction' just made want to drink and sod 'em!

Gers

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

This amazes me - surely the government would prefer you oldies to die early of liver failure, rather than life a long healthy life that would mean extended pension payments and possibly expensive care home fees?

Just what the author of this article says:

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/news/BMA-Let-patients-die-39to.6791259.jp

Not advocating his opinion BTW!

Bunter_2

OK! I wil own up: It is me. I drank for England for thirty years but now I am in Wales I find it hard to get in the first team.

I was introduced to the joys of serious drinking as a lad in the merchant navy. The rule was that (on a night out in a foreign port) you drank copious amounts of wine and spirits until you were firmly comatose and then staggered back to the ship, if you could find it and then "flaked out" (as the terminology then described it.) on your bunk. The next morning you would fail to rise for work (you had "fell through the hole" as the saying was) and could expect to be hauled on to the bridge where you would be "logged" a days pay or two by the Captain. Happy Days.

My Drinking inspiration is Winston Churchill. Brandy for breakfast, dinner and tea. In FBI files he was reported to be a "two-handed drinker"; What a compliment. He lived to his eighties.

I once had quite a (quiet) chuckle, when I was in hospital for a heart prodedure and they wired me up to a tv screen. You need a heart bypass the doc told me. No surprise there. But there was this poor guy on the hospital bed opposite. He was told he needed a bypass too. "But I am a keen cyclist and keep fit" he bemoaned, "this should not be happening to me." Then he said, I dont even drink alcohol. Well, said the consultant my advice would be for you to drink a couple of glasses of red wine as it is good for the heart.

HA HA

My own philosophy is based on two old maxims.

First One.

Wine is a good servant and a bad master. This notice was posted up on the wall in every Yates Wine Lodge.

Second One:

There are many good reasons for drinking; and one has just entered my head; if you cant have a drink when you are living, How the hell can you drink when you are dead.

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As far as I am concerned the drinks police can go and stuff themselves.