Is wine addictive?

[EternalOptimist]

Drinking alcohol every day is a recipe for throat cancer. There was an article published last week that stated new evidence of just small amounts of alcohol taken each day greatly increases the risks due to the chemical reactions in the mouth.

http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/healthyliving/alcohol/

http://www.cancer-info-guide.com/throat-cancer.html

I wonder what you will be doing in 35 years time cyberman ?
let me guess - you will be dead.
not only will you be dead, but
no-one will remember you
no-one will give a flying turd about your 'life'
there will be a cure for throat cancer (so peeps will say - 'poor barstards')
even CUK will be a memory


so get out and have a bottle, leave me to jiggle Sallys good points

[expat]

I wonder what you will be doing in 35 years time cyberman ?
let me guess - you will be dead.
not only will you be dead, but
no-one will remember you
no-one will give a flying turd about your 'life'
there will be a cure for throat cancer (so peeps will say - 'poor barstards')
even CUK will be a memory

so get out and have a bottle, leave me to jiggle Sallys good points

I hope so, for myself. I would hate to think that everything I did would live forever. I would rather be able to make mistakes and commit folly, stupid and other*, and know that some day the trace of it will be gone and it won't matter any more.


*What's a non-stupid folly? Falling in love, I guess.

[expat]

Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears
To-day of past Regrets and future Fears --
To-morrow? -- Why, To-morrow I may be
Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years.

[vetran]

Its not the fancying a bottle of wine its needing it that makes you an alky.

On the wagon a week a month is best, stops the wobbly bits as well. now where is my scotch?

Everything gives you cancer cyberman. A LITLE BIT of what you fancy does you good!

[suityou01]

Yes It Is

I am a part time alcoholic. I will drink on an evening and feel rubbish the next day, and have a few days good living to compensate (including exercise) to compensate and then start over. I had a mate who drank red wine cos it was cheap. Then he brewed his own!! He drank 3 bottles of red religiously every night for years then got a pain in his side and went to the doctors fearing the worst. Turns out it was nothing (diagnosible anyway) and this was after an ultrasound of his liver (he was 53). Doctor said his liver was A1.

I think we live in an information age and one week beer is good for you, the next red berries are all the rage.

I operate a common sense policy.

Is my wallet emptying every night in the pub?
Do I feel crap every morning?
Is my football suffering?

More often the answer is yes so I cut back and try and remedy it.

I could be a top drawer professional alcy if I tried but I have too high standards of fitness and too many people (family,kids) making demands on me so I cant concentrate on making it a reality, no matter how hard I try.

I would join the wine club, and thrash your tail off at the gym mon-thurs and fit your drinking in around that.

[bobhope]

If you want to stop / cut down on the drinking, I recommend having kids.

There's nothing like the prospect of being woken up / jumped on at 5 am on a Sunday morning whilst nursing a hangover, to put you off drinking.

[BrilloPad]

If you want to stop / cut down on the drinking, I recommend having kids.

There's nothing like the prospect of being woken up / jumped on at 5 am on a Sunday morning whilst nursing a hangover, to put you off drinking.

Its a good way of cutting back on sex too. Children : nature's contraceptive.

[TCL]

Not my business, but think carefully about diverging from your wife in this lifestyle: it might be worth trying to give up the drink when she's off it (permanently if need be), the hard choice one day might come down to vino or her. Sorry to be dramatic.

Not at all, I think you are right. Maybe actually putting it into words has been the first step to realising that its actually a bit of a problem. I'll give it some thought.


On a lighter note, this is my 100th post! Do I get a cake? And a nice glass of wine....oh no, hang on...

[AlfredJPruffock]

I managed to get myself into a terrible state at the age of 13 mixing a few drinks in my folks drink cupboard - the upshot being that I had alcohol poisoning the upshot being is that I cannot enjoy drinking alocohol - so Im nearly 50 now but in tiptop state - still cycle every day play five a sides football I Feel Fine.

So for 'recreation' I have enjoyed psychedelics instead - no cancer, no violence. no hangover inexpesive and some cacti and mushrooms I cultivate/harvest so that involves no money at all .

But Im curious , please tell me the attraction of alcohol - does it make you feel more sexy ?

The Psychedelics certainly do increase the libido - oh and Ive also seen the Death of the Universe.

So there.

Im painting the room
In a coloufull way
And when my mind is Wandering
There I still go

[Moscow Mule]

But Im curious , please tell me the attraction of alcohol - does it make you feel more sexy ?

Alcohol is a depressant.

In the first instance it depresses your inhibitions, but too much and you'll end up kicking the tulip out of a bus shelter at 3am.

edit: from the government - http://www.talktofrank.com/drugs.aspx?id=166