4 pints = Binge Drinking ?!!!!!!!!
4 pints = Binge Drinking ?!!!!!!!!
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Vitesse39

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731 posts

277 months

Monday 27th June 2005
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I was gob-smacked while watching GMTV today, apparently 4 pints now constitutes binge drinking - what brain dead, bleeding heart donkey came up with that crock of do do !!!!!!!!!!! :drink:

I only mention GMTV to be able to ask Does anyone else remember Penny Smith in a PVC Cat Suit on Banzai ages ago ?!!!!!!!!!!! :bounce:

minimax

11,985 posts

285 months

Monday 27th June 2005
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only 4 pints? that's not very much judging by my usual intake.

on the other hand, it may be why my kidneys are hurting..

remal

25,102 posts

263 months

Monday 27th June 2005
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4 pints.
Thnak god for that. Must make sure I don't drink more than that every night

scruffy

3,757 posts

290 months

Monday 27th June 2005
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Sorry, just got up, what's a GMTV?

minimax

11,985 posts

285 months

Monday 27th June 2005
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anonymous said:
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I bet it has a kick, metaxa is foul stuff - even the 9 star stuff

bilko2

1,693 posts

261 months

Monday 27th June 2005
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I'd be lucky to drink 4 pints nowadays although i could easily drink a 2 litre bottle of red. Go figure

jimothy

5,151 posts

266 months

Monday 27th June 2005
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Seen loads of signs on cans/bottles/pub walls pointing out that you shouldn't exceed a daily maximum of 4 units for a bloke and 3 for a woman... Once again its a campaign to protect everyones health based on no scientific evidence whatsoever.

samwilliams

836 posts

285 months

Monday 27th June 2005
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I was under the impression that drinking more than 4 pints causes damage to the liver. That may be wrong, or just false information I've picked up somewhere, but I'm sure I've heard it from somewhere.

Psychobert

6,318 posts

285 months

Monday 27th June 2005
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minimax said:
on the other hand, it may be why my kidneys are hurting..


Still got kidneys mate? You're not trying hard enough..

Must resist urge to post Minimax passed out at Le Mans picture..

FourWheelDrift

92,281 posts

313 months

Monday 27th June 2005
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4 pints!!!!! This survey was obviously compiled in the south of the country.



(A southerner suprised no northener has already said it)

Twincam16

27,647 posts

287 months

Monday 27th June 2005
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Christ! I'm an alcoholic then.

Sorry, but it's my liver and I'll decide what I do with it. It's not like anyone around me suffers from 'passive drinking' is it?

I've had enough of this 'the government recommends that you live like this' bollox. How long is it going to be before 'the government recommends you only drive a Korean wardrobe'

kerfuffle

5,253 posts

283 months

Monday 27th June 2005
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FourWheelDrift said:
4 pints!!!!! This survey was obviously compiled in the south of the country.



(A southerner suprised no northener has already said it)


And the four pints includes the lemonade!



(A now southern shandy drinking nonce)

Fatboy

8,267 posts

301 months

Monday 27th June 2005
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samwilliams said:
I was under the impression that drinking more than 4 pints causes damage to the liver. That may be wrong, or just false information I've picked up somewhere, but I'm sure I've heard it from somewhere.

If it were true, I'd be dead. So it's obviously bollox.

bigandclever

14,355 posts

267 months

Monday 27th June 2005
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4 pints? Pah! 27 pints of Guinness and a handful of goes on the vodka luge in one session. Now that's binge drinking!

vetteheadracer

8,273 posts

282 months

Monday 27th June 2005
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The Government etc. would have you believe that drinking, smoking, driving etc are all "bad" for you.....this is mostly bollox and should be treated with the same contempt that all other "Government" advice is taken.

Drinking to excess over the long run will probably shorten your life, as will living on a diet of fatty food blah, blah, blah.

Do you want to live to a ripe old age? Or do you want it to just seem that way?

princeperch

8,268 posts

276 months

Monday 27th June 2005
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my mate did 17 pints of the black stuff on st paddys day this year....if this surveys true he has a problem...

The Gman

2,508 posts

284 months

Monday 27th June 2005
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princeperch said:
my mate did 17 pints of the black stuff on st paddys day this year....if this surveys true he has a problem...



I do that with Stella all the time. The weekend just gone, started for me on Thursday and I finished it Sunday night.

I don't have a problem, I just love Stella and will never leave her.

Actually I might meet her again tonight.

Cheers

>> Edited by The Gman on Monday 27th June 16:43

richa

534 posts

313 months

Monday 27th June 2005
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I see a pis$$ing contest coming on (pun most definelty intended)

"My mate can drink 14 pints, yeah but my mates dad can drink 21 pints" etc etc...

Me, I can just about manage 3 pints on a good day, but then I'm a southern softy!

Balmoral Green

42,561 posts

277 months

Monday 27th June 2005
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bilko2 said:
I'd be lucky to drink 4 pints nowadays although i could easily drink a 2 litre bottle of red. Go figure
Funny that, me too. Four pints would finish me, but two bottles of red, no problem. Or even a large amount of single malt.

groucho

12,134 posts

275 months

Monday 27th June 2005
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4 pints, binge drinking? Crikey, whoever said that wants to come over the snooker club where we all drink at weekends, 4 pints an hour for some before midnight and then onto the hard stuff.
I know one bloke, in his forties now, who drinks at weekends for the whole weekend sometimes, without sleep, no exaggeration. He's been doing it for many, many years also, no sign of liver damage yet.