UK to ILX FAP participants: drop dead

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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 September 2003 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)

They are expected to recommend a more continental style approach to drinking - what they call the "Mediterranean culture of moderation".

FAC -- Fancy a Chianti?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 September 2003 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"We are talking about families literally dissolving into a sea of alcohol."

LITERALLY dissolving? Fucking scary shit...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 19 September 2003 07:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"thousands of days of productivity lost" BOO FUCKIN' HOO

― dave q, Friday, 19 September 2003 07:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Work is depriving me of thousands of days of productive drinking. I mean thinking.

― Nathan W (Nathan Webb), Friday, 19 September 2003 09:14 (twenty-two years ago)

The BBC site has removed that ludicrous pull-quote, thus spoiling my fun :(

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 19 September 2003 09:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm gonna check out this binge drinking thing this evening. If I don not ever post again, you will know why!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 19 September 2003 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, you will have dissolved into a sea of alcohol...

― smee (smee), Friday, 19 September 2003 09:22 (twenty-two years ago)

this and the regrading of cannabis to class C = MIKE SKINNER HAS WON. "The Irony of it all"

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 19 September 2003 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Britain's binge drinking culture is costing the country £20 billion a year, according to a government report.

but all that money spent on booze is doing the country some good and generating wealth too surely

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 19 September 2003 10:26 (twenty-two years ago)

It's all trickle-down. But no-one ever asks what's trickling down.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 19 September 2003 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

why should i care that my drinking is losing my employer money?

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Friday, 19 September 2003 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

binge drinking is great fun i think, as long as its not everyday

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Friday, 19 September 2003 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Having a pint at lunchtime hasn't affected my productivity. I'm posting to ilx as much as ever.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 19 September 2003 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Y'all just need some RU-27!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 19 September 2003 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Men should drink no more than 21 units of alcohol per week

WTF? Holy sweet mother of christ. If I could afford 10.5 pints of beer a week that would be pretty sweet. On top of food, video golf and pool and other such beer soaked concerns.

But boo urns for classify "binge" drinking as 5 pints.

Young, white, unemployed men are more likely to abuse alcohol

No shit eh?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 19 September 2003 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

T minus 2 hours!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 19 September 2003 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

T? You big poof.

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 19 September 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Alcohol costs £6.4bn in lost productivity

Most of that must be to employers in the private sector.

The government raises £7bn through taxes on alcohol

All of that goes straight into government coffers, for stuff like improving public transport (and slurring incoherently at other countries 'Wanna fight? C'mon then?').

So think of alcohol as a way of transferring wealth from the private sector to the public.

The NHS spends £1.7bn treating alcohol-related illnesses.

Still leaves 6.3bn profit from alcohol.

Alcohol-related crime costs £7.3bn.

Again, most of that cost is surely to private property, employers and companies. A very small proportion must be extra policing costs. Which still leaves the government making a very tidy profit from alcohol, as they have done from smoking over the years.

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 19 September 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

~~6.3bn~~ 5.3bn

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 19 September 2003 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

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