Booze
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Christine
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Ah - the Volstead Act made many Norwegians proud of what we could achieve in the world. Unfortunately the prohibition enabled smugglers and bootleggers to flourish in both our countries.
I wonder if we are repeating this with the war on drugs.
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The only reason I drink is to dull the frustration I get from typing on this d@mn windows computer. 
Imagine my surprise when I learned the study was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation!
Imagine my surprise when I learned the study was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation!
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She was the nut who wanted prohibition as I recall. It was a giant failure and just turned drinking into business for the mob.
Mine too!
He ran a speakeasy in an out of the way part of Brooklyn, getting supplied by cigarette boats that took cases of booze from freighters outside the three mile limit and brought them in to shore. The booze came from (or often through) Canada, specifically Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.
As a result, my Irish grandfather was on very good terms with a lot of Mafia types, and he told me the slightly famous gangster Bugsy Siegel once worked as a bouncer in his speakeasy.
When I was very young I thought it was kind of odd that a very Irish guy like my GF had so many Italian friends, and could get almost anything done politically. As I got older, I became much closer to him and he explained his background. What a fascinating era he lived through!
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Will this be before or after SS runs out of money? It may impact my SS decision.
As to these studies... I wonder sometimes if the motivation is "most studies day X, so we need to come with something that says Y, in order to get attention". Of course, I might be influenced by seeing the movie "Sleeper" at a young age.
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Red Badger
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The good ol' boys in the south weren't the only booze runners. My grandfather saved their small family farm in North Dakota during the great depression and dust bowl, making frequent trips to Canada and hauling back a truckload of whiskey.
I'm sipping some Maker's in his honor.
I'm sipping some Maker's in his honor.
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I don't drink because:
1.) Alcoholism in the family
2.) Overweight and it makes me gain weight
3.) I don't like the taste
4.) It's expensive
5.) I prefer being fully aware through my thoughts and mental processes, instead of being so drunk or high that I can't even think rationally.
But still, I drank a glass of wine now and then due to peer pressure, until, around age 50, I was able to just cast peer pressure aside and quit drinking for good.
You have NO IDEA how hard it is these days, to meet someone of the opposite sex who doesn't drink and yet isn't either a reforming alcoholic or a religious zealot. But Frank is neither of these, and I'm not either. We both feel lucky that we found each other.
As for prohibition, I have mixed feelings. We have both known so many lives and families that were ruined by alcoholism. But as a non-drinker, I feel like I can already do what I want (not drink), and who am I to tell drinkers that they can't do what they want (drink). To tell them they can't drink, assumes that drinking absolutely must lead to unemployment, domestic violence, liver problems, and other awful outcomes that sometimes are associated with drinking. But plenty of people drink without any of these bad outcomes. All in all, it's all just too confusing so I just don't have an opinion except that personally, for me, alcohol is not part of the way I want to live my life.
1.) Alcoholism in the family
2.) Overweight and it makes me gain weight
3.) I don't like the taste
4.) It's expensive
5.) I prefer being fully aware through my thoughts and mental processes, instead of being so drunk or high that I can't even think rationally.
But still, I drank a glass of wine now and then due to peer pressure, until, around age 50, I was able to just cast peer pressure aside and quit drinking for good.
You have NO IDEA how hard it is these days, to meet someone of the opposite sex who doesn't drink and yet isn't either a reforming alcoholic or a religious zealot. But Frank is neither of these, and I'm not either. We both feel lucky that we found each other.
As for prohibition, I have mixed feelings. We have both known so many lives and families that were ruined by alcoholism. But as a non-drinker, I feel like I can already do what I want (not drink), and who am I to tell drinkers that they can't do what they want (drink). To tell them they can't drink, assumes that drinking absolutely must lead to unemployment, domestic violence, liver problems, and other awful outcomes that sometimes are associated with drinking. But plenty of people drink without any of these bad outcomes. All in all, it's all just too confusing so I just don't have an opinion except that personally, for me, alcohol is not part of the way I want to live my life.
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My doc told me I could have 1 beer every 2 days. I have no clue how she came up with that number. Next time I see her I'm going to lobby for 1 beer a day.
flintnational
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I told my doctor I had bad headaches after only 1 or 2 beers. He said, "Have you thought about giving up drinking?" I said, "No".
aja8888
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I think you should go in with a higher number and compromise back a bit. Say 4 per day and see if you can get the doc to agree to 2?
Then ask if you can save up the days you are alloted 2 beers, and don't use them, and use them later or together.
Makes sense to me.
Ronstar
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I like your advice! I'm already using the stockpiling option - if I go beer free for 8 days, that means I can have 4 beers in a single day. It's simple math.
What you need is a bigger glass. Something like this https://www.amazon.com/German-Style-Extra-Large-Glass/dp/B002STPP5Q
Beer free for 8 days? What a strange concept! How is that done?
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I was a wedding photographer when I was in high school and early college. Went to several Baptist weddings. They were the most dull, sad, people I have ever seen. Drinking fruit punch. Nothing like a Greek, Catholic, Italian wedding everybody is happy and the bride and groom are always having a good time. A little booze won't hurt anyone! But don't drink too much GreekOuzo you might end up married before the night is over.
This one made me laugh. The night my (Greek) husband met me, he drank ouzo with his friends to celebrate that he met the girl he was going to marry. (Needless to say, I didn't know anything about it at the time.)
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Nice! and it's eligible for Amazon prime.
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Not all drugs are created equal.
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I don't remember how I beer fasted last time. But I went longer than that when my appendix ruptured 14 years ago. Just didn't have a taste for beer.
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Wow, this almost could have been written by me, except, I never did drink. Rather have put the extra calories towards food, LOL. (Felt the peer pressure as a teen and very young woman; but used the excuse that I would be the designated driver. Had kids early and after they came along, any consideration of peer pressure was tossed, I had other priorities.)
Since we've been married, DH has one beer every few months.
I would have been a beer heiress if it weren't for prohibition. Grandad's parents owned a brewery in the midwest. My great grandfather's family was first generation American, his parents having emmigrated from Bavaria. When prohibition came along they had to shut down the brewery - repurposing the building to another factory... (Grandad was at Yale and they needed the income coming in to pay his tuition.
My other prohibition story is a cute one. My grandmother was best friends in high school with grandad's sister. One summer they decided to double date - fixing up grandma with the "college boy" brother. Grandma was in high school at the time. I asked her about this. Apparently they would go to a speakeasy and drink bathtub gin. My grandmother was a very proper lady when I grew up - so it was delightful and surprising to hear her stories of telling her parents she was spending the night at her best friend's house - only to be going to a speakeasy and listening to jazz. (My mother was horrified to learn this - it was pretty funny.)
So, yeah, I know about prohibition and come by my love of beer AND gin (not together) naturally.
