Just venting...

[devilock76]

and I leave specifics out, I just need to as this is probably the forum that I know the least people IRL, yet has had lively discussions.

I hate alcohol. And understand I try to abstain from saying "I hate" about anything.

Just watching what it has done to my family, what it almost did to me. 2.5 years now without it and as I see constant incidents around me as a gigging musician and seeing the impact in other family members and friends, well I just get constant reminders that I don't miss it.

No I am not calling for a new era of prohibition but we have done so much to stigmatize cigarettes and tobacco as society maybe we should look at stigmatizing alcohol. Mass drinking not only seems an accepted part of college life but just about encouraged as a right of passage in our society. I just don't think that our society in general recognizes how destructive alcoholism can be.

Just ranting, sorry, have a good Wednesday everyone.

Ken

[precious007]

I mean you don't have to abuse Alcohol ...

You can drink it for pleasure...



I'm planning on two bottles of Whiskey (Chivas Regal) .. 4 bottles of red wine and 10 beers for the whole Christmas and New Year

Won't drink them alone. :-)

[sgreger1]

Yah, alcohol can be pretty destructive. Alcohol got it's grips into our culture very early on, so we let it stick around even though it is one of the "worst"drugs.


Just stay away from it yourself and you won't be subject to having to deal with it as much, that's about all you can do.

[sgreger1]

I mean you don't have to abuse Alcohol ...

You can drink it for pleasure...



I'm planning on two bottles of Whiskey (Chivas Regal) .. 4 bottles of red wine and 10 beers for the whole Christmas and New Year

Won't drink them alone. :-)

Damn, that Chivas'll put some hair on your chest this christmas!

[devilock76]

I probably should have better clarified alcohol vs alcohol abuse. Although I think my meaning is understood. And again like I said ranting/venting.

Ken

[precious007]

Damn, that Chivas'll put some hair on your chest this christmas!

Hope so :-D

[Frosted]

There's a few people in my family that are hardcore alcoholics - my dad being one of them. I think it's a genetic problem myself - I definately haven't got the gene thank God. If I drank as much as that lot I'd be so ill I'd be dead in a week.
My uncle has been a major alco since he was 16, never missed a days work in his life and he's now 67. He drinks spirits from breakfast to supper and there's not a single day that he's abstained. He'll go through a couple of bottles a day.
Having said that - he's a wanker.

[Darwin]

Alcohol is pretty damned stigmatized as it is. PSA's and print jeremiads against drunk driving probably outnumber all others combined. As this group knows all too well even the most draconian levels of public disapproval of consumption of something is only effective to a certain degree. The only recourse subsequently left is greater regulation of said substance. Morphing disapproval into prohibitionist law merely moves a disapproved practice underground as has been proved in 100% of all cases. Alcoholism is a terrible scourge but ultimately it is a phenomenon not reducible to zero, by any means, by the force of either public opprobrium or legislative fiat. There is no conceivable program of public disapproval or structure of law that can save people from themselves all, or even most, of the time. Even in Muslim countries, where in some cases alcohol consumption risks punishment the likes of which we would never contemplate, there are those who will indulge despite all.

[precious007]

There's a few people in my family that are hardcore alcoholics - my dad being one of them. I think it's a genetic problem myself - I definately haven't got the gene thank God. If I drank as much as that lot I'd be so ill I'd be dead in a week.
My uncle has been a major alco since he was 16, never missed a days work in his life and he's now 67. He drinks spirits from breakfast to supper and there's not a single day that he's abstained. He'll go through a couple of bottles a day.
Having said that - he's a wanker.

LoooL

Can't wank if you drink all day =))

Well, I have a few relatives uncles .. mainly over 60 that all drink heavily...

My grandfather I remember used to drink Rum ... around 3 L a day .. 6 500 ml bottles every single day .... apart from that he smoked 3 packs of non-filtered...

I would die in the first day lol. Alcohol gives me headaches anyway... I can't imagine how some people drink so much.

It's quite funny though... When I was 17 ... until like 21 ... I used to manage 20 - 25 beers in one night ... now I barely take 5 ... on occassions....

[Premium Parrots]

who farted?

[sgreger1]

I was pretty much an alcoholic for a while, drinking 30 packs every other day. Since my Dr put me on my special meds however, I no longer feel the urge to (nor do I partake in) alcohol. But alcohol rocks, you just have to keep it in moderation. The problem is that moderation is not the nature of the beast.

[Roo]

What is a 30-pack?

[lxskllr]

What is a 30-pack?

A custom size container so the big name brands can monopolize more shelf space ;^)

Edit:
On topic, I don't have any opinion of alcohol 1 way or the other. It's sometimes fun, sometimes miserable, but just a life tool to be used or abused as people see fit.

[sgreger1]

What is a 30-pack?

Really? have you never been to a liquor store?


Google search results for Bud Light 30 pack:
http://www.google.com/images?q=bud%2...N&hl=en&tab=wi




Bud Light 30 pack



Am I the only one who lives in a state where they sell 30 beers at a time? lol In that case, my alcoholism is the liberals fault. (I knew it)

[lxskllr]

They have them around here, but the brands I drink don't come packaged that way.