Thread: Binge drinking

Originally Posted by one_iota

Yes I know this has been done to death but we need a practical guide to "binge drinking"

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How do you know when you have been "binge drinking"?:

These days it's when you have opened a bottle of wine to drink by yourself and you wake up the next morning without a hangover and there is half a bottle left.

I am old enough to remember and have participated in the days of having 12-15 schooners and driving home and no-one turned a hair. This was accepted normal practice. I grew up in Western Qld. and saw shearers, ringers, drovers "cutting out a cheque". Drinking rum and beer chasers until incoherent, vomiting, passing out, and doing it again until they ran out of money. My family had the Royal Mail and Tattersall's Hotels in Winton at different times. Going for a drive and pulling the cork out of a rum bottle and throwing it out the window is another Western Qld. habit as is measuring distances by stubbies or rum bottles.

Is this binge drinking? Many of the participants may not have another drink for months at a time.

Any bottle shop attendant can tell you of the sad souls who skulk around the streets near the bottleo waiting for it to open and buying the cheapest cask of wine. Sometimes twice a day. Is this binge drinking or is it loneliness?

I worked with many a person who was a functioning alcoholic who never missed a day from the effects of drink, did their job, skilfully, proudly and well, but drank staggering amounts by the standards of the do-gooders and the medical profession.

The arbitrary limit for driving under the influence is 0.05% blood alcohol. How many drivers have skill levels that are not affected to the point of incompetence at this level and higher, and how many are totally incompetent at this level or below?

Waiting to hear your opinions.

Ah, drinking.

I'm a binge drinker, haven't had a drink in a month or two,
not a 12 step thing, just the way it happened.

Woke up the next morning with a hangover.

Three glasses of beer, and I'm not talking schooners.

Part of the reason for the long stretch between drinks.

Takes all the fun out if it if you get the hangover without getting the fun.

Cheers
Simon

Originally Posted by RonMcGr

True!

Rudd's strip club visit - National - smh.com.au

"Kevin Rudd has admitted visiting a New York strip club during a drunken night while representing Australia at the United Nations.

Mr Rudd issued a statement yesterday to News Limited papers, confirming he went to the club but could not recall the events of the evening because he "had too much to drink"."

KRUDD is a Binge Drinker Himself , hahah


Takes one to Know one i say...

Binge drinking has been going on from day dot . The only difference now is the media are all over it and making a big story out of it . There has always been drunkin idiots staggering around the streets of a weekend and there has always been fights in the pub and out the front of the pub . Only now they have cameras all over the place and the media loves the footage they get ........Like most things television has brought it into every home ........ thats my 2 cents ..... god i need a beer .

Just to prove that politicians love a bad idea especially when it's someone else's bad idea...

ALCOPOPS, super-strength lager and cider will soar in price to stop underage boozing, Tories will pledge today.

Favourites like Bacardi Breezer, Smirnoff Ice and WKD will rocket at least 50p a bottle under the plan.
But Tories will vow to make low-strength booze CHEAPER by cutting its tax. Shadow Chancellor George Osborne will not hit responsible drinkers.
But he wants to tackle Britain’s ugly booze-binge culture in the wake of tragic dad Garry Newlove’s murder.
Mr Osborne – who writes in today’s Sun – said: “I propose to raise tax on booze preferred by young drinkers – who are very sensitive to price.”

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The Tory plan will almost certainly be copied by Chancellor Alistair Darling in next week’s Budget.
A bottle of Diamond White or White Lightning cider will go up by £1.25 while cans of super strong lager like Tennents Super and Carlsberg Special Brew will rise 32p.
But lower alcohol drinks like Carling C2 will fall 3p. Similar policies in Australia and Germany have successfully halved the number of youngsters drinking alcopops.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...e-boozing.html

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Similar policies in Australia and Germany have successfully halved the number of youngsters drinking alcopops.

Maybe true, but has not reduced he number abusing alcohol ! May even have increased it !

Originally Posted by VladTepes

<snip> but has not reduced he number abusing alcohol ! May even have increased it !

How could anyone abuse alcohol..

I've always got on very well with my drinks

This is just one step closer to the day when our public health system will not look after you for lifestyle related deiseases (ie obesity,diabetes,heart disease etc etc etc)

What a funny thread to read today considering I am feeling the pain from a hangover after last night.

I didn't intend to get drunk but was at one of the Mens Clubs in town (not the strip club type) and everytime i looked at my glass of wine it was full.

Was in good company though, 3 people on my table were in the top 200 BRW rich list.

Fair to say the food and wine was very good!

Matt