What's the difference between binge drinking...
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...and simply getting drunk?
Seems to me that if the authorities want to frown on something, they have to invent an "evil name". Why not call it what it is "getting drunk". Alternatively, why don't the public invent evil names for the Government's actions, possibly:
"Citizen Theft" = squandering tax payers money.
"Bollox Squeezing" = finding new tax opportunities.
"Creative Fiction" = Labour manifesto.
I'm sure there are others, but I'm off to bed!
Seems to me that if the authorities want to frown on something, they have to invent an "evil name". Why not call it what it is "getting drunk". Alternatively, why don't the public invent evil names for the Government's actions, possibly:
"Citizen Theft" = squandering tax payers money.
"Bollox Squeezing" = finding new tax opportunities.
"Creative Fiction" = Labour manifesto.
I'm sure there are others, but I'm off to bed!
Have you ever drunk a "binge"?
I think in official (PC!) terminology, binge drinking would be something like deliberately drinking large amounts of alcohol with the intention of getting drunk (as I will do after my exams 
) whereas getting drunk is basically drinking but not doing it to get deliberately very pished.
IMO it's all daft terminology for drinking!
Creative Fiction one might say
) whereas getting drunk is basically drinking but not doing it to get deliberately very pished. IMO it's all daft terminology for drinking!
Creative Fiction one might say
tomtvr said:
haha i totally agree about the evil name thing
and why wen someone falls off their bicycle they say i "came off my bike" when what they did was fall off
True. Any why do poople go "in" a car and yet they go "on" a bus/train?
>> Edited by srebbe64 on Monday 10th January 23:46
los angeles said:
Binge drinininkin', if I may be so...hic... bold, is someone, or two, perhaps three, who takes one too many...hic; just doesn't know his bloody limmmm-burp-it. Can't stand those tips, taps, tops, types, ye know...as for me...at the moment...I hiv to admit I may be a...burp...teensy-weensy little bit drunk. Hic!
*sotto voce*(mutter, mutter).... I just hope those visiting Commonwealth over-indulging goofs remember to stay on the RIGHT side of the road.....(mutter...)*/sotto voce*
Dave
los angeles said:
Binge drinininkin', if I may be so...hic... bold, is someone, or two, perhaps three, who takes one too many...hic; just doesn't know his bloody limmmm-burp-it. Can't stand those tips, taps, tops, types, ye know...as for me...at the moment...I hiv to admit I may be a...burp...teensy-weensy little bit drunk. Hic!
It is only 4.50pm los angeles. I think you may have a drink problem.I thought that binge drinking was a term given to the practice of getting extremely drunk periodically. Whereas me, I just get drunk every night. 
So, not being an infrequent affair, it cannot be considered to be a binge, if that makes sense.
The dictionary definition of binge is: n (sl.) drinking-bout, spree. [probable origin dialect, = soak]
Theoretically speaking, of course. I'm not really an alcoholic.
So, not being an infrequent affair, it cannot be considered to be a binge, if that makes sense. The dictionary definition of binge is: n (sl.) drinking-bout, spree. [probable origin dialect, = soak]
Theoretically speaking, of course. I'm not really an alcoholic.
EmmaP said:
Binge drinininkin', if I may be so...hic... bold, is someone, or two, perhaps three, who takes one too many...hic; just doesn't know his bloody limmmm-burp-it. Can't stand those tips, taps, tops, types, ye know...as for me...at the moment...I hiv to admit I may be a...burp...teensy-weensy little bit drunk. Hic!
Hi Emma
! I had a thought about this ( ha, ha! only one, Dave?)
Having heard that writers get in touch a "Muse" (what ever that is), it now seems that I have mis-understood, it must have been "Booze"!!!
Dave
just dave said:
Binge:
(US) Consuming 5 drinks or more at one time. Say a party or an evening.
5 drinks translates to about 2.5 UK pints or 5 mixed drinks, glasses of wine, etc..
Don't want anybody who has done that driving on my roads until the next day.
Dave
2.5 pints? Thats it? I thought there was a time span in there as well, like not more than 2 times a month. Anywho, 2.5 pints puts me just beyond buzzed, I wouldn't call that "binge" drinking.
sirtophamhat said:
just dave said:
Binge:
(US) Consuming 5 drinks or more at one time. Say a party or an evening.
5 drinks translates to about 2.5 UK pints or 5 mixed drinks, glasses of wine, etc..
Don't want anybody who has done that driving on my roads until the next day.
Dave
2.5 pints? Thats it? I thought there was a time span in there as well, like not more than 2 times a month. Anywho, 2.5 pints puts me just beyond buzzed, I wouldn't call that "binge" drinking.
Yes there is, I can't find the whole list of stats right now. More than 3 times a month could be the figure, maybe.
Remember though, those UK pints are almost 20 US oz., so you are talking about 4 and-a-bit 12 oz. beers. If that only gets you buzzed, next check-up ask for a liver function test. Might be suprised.
Dave
>> Edited by just dave on Tuesday 11th January 01:05
Father Ted said:
i'm completely screwed then........
when not on shift (i work 4 on 4 off) can drink 4 pints a night each night without even thinking......
....found my new years resolution.......
>> Edited by Father Ted on Tuesday 11th January 01:05
Another item to add to th' list, Father, of things we can't do well or at all, any longer.
Or aren't supposed to be doing, 'at our age'.
Dave
los angeles said:
If I'm around drinkers I'll keep it down to a glass of wine. When not among them it's coffee, orange juice or water. (Ooo, who's Mr Cleansie Weansie, spoilsport Teatotaller, then?) Not quite, but as far as liquid intake is concerned, almost bionic. Also, I'm a bartender's nightmare. I do not have a boozer's face. I can stand at an empty bar waving a bunch of notes and still not get served. Over here! Excuse me! I say! Ah, thank you. Barman, what kind of sherry do you serve?
HA!!!!!
I can hear it now, "Sherry?? She went off shift an hour ago, sorry."
And then back to the real customers.
Dave
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