You know, there's something to be said for the man who walks down the middle of the road...
I'm not condemning a 'glass of wine with dinner.'
But if you find you're "stopping after work" on three or four days per week, or you automatically get a case of beer to watch football, you've got a problem.
Now you might feel you don't have a problem, or bristle at the accusation, but if it is no problem then it should be easy to stop for a few days.
My club has a black brick patio with a flagpole at our clubhouse. We enter the member's name and date at the time of his death.
We have fourteen members who have died. With the exeption of one death by gunshot, the rest died young of smoking, drinking and poor diets. These rough-tough bikers had trouble making it past fifty years of age.
Is that the way you want to go out? In a smoke filled room full of stupid, drunken townies, a barstool stuck to your ass and arteries packed with glue and gumbo?
I hear it feels like a cinder block being driven through your chest at the end...
Well people, you can drink alcohol and you can abuse it, big difference. There seems to be a majority here composed of non or seldom drinkers. Nothing wrong with that. Saves money and brain cells. I come from a family of drinkers although only two abused alcohol going back three generations. I drink nearly every day, a vodka before dinner and a couple glasses of wine during. I can still walk a straight line, stand on my head, do cart wheels, whatever. It neither impares my speech nor makes me do inappropriate things. Moderation, moderation, MODERATION, simple as that. Know your limits and stick with them. If you don't have the strength of character to stay within yourself, don't drink. For the rest of us I see no problem. Hick.
Buzz
Well people, you can drink alcohol and you can abuse it, big difference. There seems to be a majority here composed of non or seldom drinkers. Nothing wrong with that. Saves money and brain cells. I come from a family of drinkers although only two abused alcohol going back three generations. I drink nearly every day, a vodka before dinner and a couple glasses of wine during. I can still walk a straight line, stand on my head, do cart wheels, whatever. It neither impares my speech nor makes me do inappropriate things. Moderation, moderation, MODERATION, simple as that. Know your limits and stick with them. If you don't have the strength of character to stay within yourself, don't drink. For the rest of us I see no problem. Hick.
Buzz
Moderation, moderation, MODERATION, simple as that. Know your limits and stick with them.
Right now in Wisconsin there is a very public debate about drinking and driving. We have a serious problem here.
Kind of makes you wonder why so many are having trouble with "moderation."
It's a mindset. And I think it's the exact same set of values as to why smokers flick their cigarette butts onto the street and empty their car ashtrays in parking lots.
Chico, there is no moderation intended by those folks. They drink to get drunk or they drink to forget.
In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E. Coli) - bacteria found in feces. In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop.
However, we do NOT run that risk when drinking wine &
beer (or tequila, rum, whiskey or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through a purification process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting.
That is what AA is for.
Those who must remain absolutely sober, or they end up in the deep end...
I think that we are the fortunate ones who can have a few, but not need to drink ourselves silly...
indeed. too many folks drink for the wrong reasons. instead of just havin a beer, or a cocktail while watching tv after work, they stop off at the bar, and drink their paychecks away.
Rusty, you raised this issue and evidently were serious and invited comment.
Then, when people tried to be helpful because they sincerely care about you,
you started back tracking and rationalizing.
Whether or not you have a problem is your own business and whether or not you choose to do something about it is your own business, too. However, don't be surprised by the responses and don't feel the need to justify yourself to anyone else. It is yourself that you need to be brutally honest with and for your sake, I hope you do.
However, I dated an alcoholic who was one year sober when he went back to drinking and I have no idea whether he is or is not sober today. For his sake, and his family's sake, I hope he is. He is no longer a part of my life and for the obvious reasons.