i would kill my liver in another way
In a world without alcohol...
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In a world without alcohol...
Or my average weekend recently...
Above & Beyond followed by the Tidy Boys for next Friday/Saturday's entertainment, doubt there'll be a huge amount of drink consumed at either.
Used to drink like a fish when we only lived a 10 minute walk from the nearest pub. Then, when I was 18 (yeah I know) my parents moved house so I was 2 miles from a drink. It was walk and drink or drive and stay sober, so I virtually stopped drinking. If I have one acoholic drink a month now that's a lot.
we'd all be alot more well off (£18bn a year in tax payer money...2004 figure imagine what is it now!)
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i think i would break down and cry if someone took alcohol away from me.
if it wasnt there in the first place, maybe i wouldnt miss it but i'm sure something would still have to fill its gap.
if it wasnt there in the first place, maybe i wouldnt miss it but i'm sure something would still have to fill its gap.
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I rarely drink now. I've only really gotten drunk maybe once a month or so on average this year.
would turn to drugs tbh.
i dont think think i could cope with the boredom.
i dont think think i could cope with the boredom.
I'd much prefer to spend my drinking money on petrol thanks, even if most of it go's ... (wait, let's not make it a thread about that !! )
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would turn to drugs tbh.
i dont think think i could cope with the boredom.
Interesting answer, I'm sure many people also would say the same.
Thing is though, arent our brains supposed to be insanely powerful, yet alot of people (myself included) struggle to entertain themselves on the average weekend without drinking.
Is it that we're too used to being given entertainment (computers, tv, ipod, cars etc) than to actually using our brains do something off our own backs?
I feel that way a lot of the time..is not good
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i like to think of it as part of evolution
Beer has played a major part in the evolution of humans
it has played a significant role in the development of many societies (especially christian, but not muslim obviously) but it has had nothing at all to do with human evolution because your genes are not affected by alcohol. you could argue that in the long term (maybe 100k years) we could evolve a resistance to alcohol in response to continual abuse, maybe a more robust liver for example, but so far alcohol does not appear to have had any impact on our evolution because we have only been drinking it for a few thousand years, which is nothing in terms of evolution.Beer has played a major part in the evolution of humans
personally i think alcohol is a hard drug and it should be class A. yes i drink, but that is how i know it is a hard drug compared to cannabis, ecstacy, ketamine, speed or even coke. i've been addicted to them all and only alcohol caused any real harm to my mind, body or life. i think crack and heroin are probably harder, but alcohol is defo the 3rd most dangerous drug you can get your hands on. its a life destroyer.
If you go into any town or city centre on a Friday or Saturday night it looks like evolution is going backwards. I'll never understand this obsession with getting so drunk you can't stand up or remember anything the following day. Alcohol needs to be more tightly controlled, like they do in some Scandinavian countries. If you're so drunk you hurt yourself, why should the NHS and taxpayers pay to put you back together.
Above and Beyond are playing a 4hr set at Godskitchen this weekend.
Shame Im not into trance at the min, that would be unmissable!!!
Could probably go out, enjoy myself, save money and not be stabbed/killed on the way home!!
We're "only" getting 3 hours at the GPO in Galway, €20 in isn't that bad for them + support + another room also.
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Thing is, heavy/ binging alcohol consumption has become part of British 'culture' (or lack of...) and many will continue to drink to excess while denying that they are damaging their health. The ever falling age of those suffering liver disease may finally have an impact when the public see people in their 20's and 30's dying of liver cirrhosis.
"Professor Ian Gilmore, chairman of the Royal College of Physician's Alcohol Committee and liver specialist at Liverpool University Hospital said it was not surprising that deaths from cirrhosis were rising sharply.
He said: "This is supported by day-to-day observation on the wards, where cirrhosis has become commonplace in men and women in their 20s and 30s.
"While we support many aspects of the government's alcohol strategy, the bottom line is that alcohol-related harm will continue to rise until we address the fundamental problem that we are drinking too much as a nation."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4581530.stm
Very true words indeed Jug. Alcohol is not only able to destroy the lives of those that abuse it, but also affects relatives that are close to the abuser as well as causing huge social problems. In moderation alcohol is fine though sadly too many people do not know when they've reached safe limits.
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since i hardly drink anyway it wouldnt make to much of a difference
Think I paid £12 for my ticket (Early Bird FTW!!!)
Support on the night is from Jon O'Bir, Mark Eteson & Richard Durand with D Ramirez, Micky Slim, Paul Thomas & Duncan Murray in the other room!
Shame something else has come up and I cant go now.
