I think most people I know have drunk enough time to have caused themselves a bit of liver damage. What is considered "normal" or "reasonable" is quite different from what will actually do harm over the long term. It might not seem like excessive drinking but going out most nights and having big nights out a couple of times a week in your twenties and thirties soon adds up and by the time you are forty you really need to start being sensible or you are looking at serious consequences.
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Originally posted by oracleslave View PostWas out boozing last night at the Gunmakers in Marlyebone. After a promising start to the evening the emergency services had to be called as one of the on-shore development team went a bit overboard on brandy and passed out cold, unable to be revived.
Failing the ability to do that. I stop drinking!What happens in General, stays in General.You know what they say about assumptions!Comment
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I only drink about 1-2 bottles of wine a month, so that makes me teetotal - but I do drink a shed load of tea...Comment
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Originally posted by doodab View PostI think most people I know have drunk enough time to have caused themselves a bit of liver damage. What is considered "normal" or "reasonable" is quite different from what will actually do harm over the long term. It might not seem like excessive drinking but going out most nights and having big nights out a couple of times a week in your twenties and thirties soon adds up and by the time you are forty you really need to start being sensible or you are looking at serious consequences.Comment
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Originally posted by Churchill View PostThe number of units is an artificial measurement. It means sod all unless you know details about the person consuming the units.
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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View PostSpot on. There is no way in the world that a skinny little bird would be able to consume the same as a muscely fit and lean adonis like me. Maybe blokes get beer bellies as a sort of biological and evolutionary defence of the liver against the ale. Its like the body saying, we need more mass-quick, make a beer belly
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Originally posted by doodab View PostI think most people I know have drunk enough time to have caused themselves a bit of liver damage. What is considered "normal" or "reasonable" is quite different from what will actually do harm over the long term. It might not seem like excessive drinking but going out most nights and having big nights out a couple of times a week in your twenties and thirties soon adds up and by the time you are forty you really need to start being sensible or you are looking at serious consequences.Comment
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostNever understood how people can get so pissed that they pass out or cannot walk. I've always had this 'home beacon' that kicks in when I've had too much. I just sort of get up and leave.
Failing the ability to do that. I stop drinking!
I agree that the guideline limits are a nonsense, but when you consider that the medical and political establishments felt they had to give a guideline they were bound to pick a number out of fresh air which was on the cautious side. With so many body types, racial types, lifestyles, diets and levels of physical fitness it was always going to be a massive fudge.Comment
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Originally posted by russell View PostYour liver regenerates, so you need to be drinking heavily every day for years to cause any long term damage. Having a few weekends out will not cause that.While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'Comment
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I've been off it completely for about 3 months now - feels great. Occassionally I get the urge when walking past a load of pubs etc but on the whole I'm enjoying life after alchahol. It's early days still though
Finally accepted (stopped denying) that I've got the drinking demon that so many people have. I don't facy ending up on a park bench with a can of tennants which is where it ends up ultimately.
Like doodab says so many people drink heavily and don't think it's a problem because it's so "normal""Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like? If that is the case then we have free speech."- Elon MuskComment
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