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Re: When do you call someone an alcoholic ?
Reply #90 - Mar 30^th, 2017 at 10:41pm

You're uncivilised Sprint, on ya bike son.

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The invention of bread and beer has been argued to be responsible for humanity's ability to develop technology and build civilization.[4][5][6] The earliest chemically confirmed barley beer to date was discovered at Godin Tepe in the central Zagros Mountains of Iran, where fragments of a jug, from between 5400 and 5000 years ago was found to be coated with beerstone, a by-product of the brewing process.[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_beer

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Re: When do you call someone an alcoholic ?
Reply #92 - Mar 31^st, 2017 at 12:07am

Umm (sips on fine ale)........ not sure... I think it is when there is an absolute dependency on the imbibement.... (hic-cup)...

(damn - I need another beer.. wasn't going to - but that hyperbole just cut me to the quick and I need anaesthetic (correct spelling for a change)... I'm medically trained.. partly anyway).....

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Re: When do you call someone an alcoholic ?
Reply #93 - Mar 31^st, 2017 at 12:10am

AiA wrote on Mar 30^th, 2017 at 10:40pm:

I lived in Japan for 16 years and saw plenty of Japanese men who were alcoholics but society didn't label them that. Had they been in the USA they would have been called "alcoholics." It is all about the context.

I lived in a Japanese Yamamoto lady of the First Order of Samurai for a short time.......... she lives in me to this day..... but it was all a matter of context...

Truly life can be hard.......

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Reply #94 - Mar 31^st, 2017 at 12:13am

Sprintcyclist wrote on Mar 30^th, 2017 at 10:21pm:

mothra wrote on Mar 30^th, 2017 at 8:41pm:

Saying "I like beer" makes a person an alcoholic now?

Saying it ? Course not.

Having that as your online ID, brewing your own beer, extolling the 'virtues' of beer throughout mankinds history, often talking about beer , reacting explosively to a comment about alcoholism .........

All points to an obsession.

To quote me old work-mate Paul Kelly - I've done all those bad things.... but if God made beer - why does it cost money? Oh - never reacted explosively to a comment about 'alcoholism'.... buggar - nobody's perfect....

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Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 90223 Proud Old White Australian Man Gender:	Re: When do you call someone an alcoholic ? Reply #95 - Mar 31^st, 2017 at 12:15am "When do you call someone an alcoholic ?" Whenever you feel like it - for right or wrong.... but unlike the bear sleeping in the woods - you don't get to ride over anyone else......
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Sprintcyclist Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 41728 Gender:	Re: When do you call someone an alcoholic ? Reply #97 - Mar 31^st, 2017 at 6:32pm Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Mar 31^st, 2017 at 12:15am: "When do you call someone an alcoholic ?" Whenever you feel like it - for right or wrong.... but unlike the bear sleeping in the woods - you don't get to ride over anyone else...... What alcoholic told you that ?
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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 78311 Gender:	Re: When do you call someone an alcoholic ? Reply #98 - Mar 31^st, 2017 at 6:39pm Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Mar 31^st, 2017 at 12:13am: but if God made beer - why does it cost money? If god made water why does it cost money?
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Setanta Gold Member Online \/ Peace man! Posts: 17316 Northern NSW Gender:	Re: When do you call someone an alcoholic ? Reply #100 - Mar 31^st, 2017 at 11:31pm Raven wrote on Mar 31^st, 2017 at 8:51pm: Don't like to drink water, fish f.uck in it. And ducks shyte in it.
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Re: When do you call someone an alcoholic ?
Reply #101 - Apr 1^st, 2017 at 11:55pm

Lisa Jones wrote on Mar 30^th, 2017 at 8:50pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Mar 30^th, 2017 at 8:47pm:

Whenever alcohol intake is seemingly an addiction. I have been there. Lasted a couple years. Then it came down to drinking a 6 pack at least once a week. Real alcoholics would laugh at a drinking session once a week, seeing it as a bit "light on" with the drinks.

Basically, if you have a strong urge to drink regularly, you are an alcoholic.

You've been there?

Really?

What do you think made you go in that direction in the 1st place?

I would probably average a drinking session once a week. Some weeks it would be one night a week. Sometimes two nights a week. A few times it is once a fortnight. My drinking was never really out of control. One week, though, I considered having a drinking session every night. But it became a matter of drinking a 24 pack over 4 days. That is about as bad as it got for me. So, it was not too bad.

I think it was about boredom. Other than that, it was more about trying to get my thoughts into perspective. Some days, I would have problems trying to recollect information about my past. Otherwise, my drinking was about relaxing.

In 2015, I went 9 months without drinking. Then the next year, it was an average once every couple of months that I would have some drinks. I did another New Year's Resolution (actually starting Christmas Eve, last year) to not drink for a whole year. So far, I'm 3 months into sobriety, and I REALLY want to have a night with some scotch and colas. But, I realise all the good that sobriety has done me. I don't know if I will be able to have a drink on New Year's Eve, because I might stick to my commitment of sobriety.

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Re: When do you call someone an alcoholic ?
Reply #103 - Apr 2^nd, 2017 at 1:04am

Sprintcyclist wrote on Mar 31^st, 2017 at 6:32pm:

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Mar 31^st, 2017 at 12:15am:

"When do you call someone an alcoholic ?"

Whenever you feel like it - for right or wrong.... but unlike the bear sleeping in the woods - you don't get to ride over anyone else......

What alcoholic told you that ?

You did.

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Re: When do you call someone an alcoholic ?
Reply #104 - Apr 2^nd, 2017 at 8:11am

UnSubRocky wrote on Apr 1^st, 2017 at 11:55pm:

Lisa Jones wrote on Mar 30^th, 2017 at 8:50pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Mar 30^th, 2017 at 8:47pm:

Whenever alcohol intake is seemingly an addiction. I have been there. Lasted a couple years. Then it came down to drinking a 6 pack at least once a week. Real alcoholics would laugh at a drinking session once a week, seeing it as a bit "light on" with the drinks.

Basically, if you have a strong urge to drink regularly, you are an alcoholic.

You've been there?

Really?

What do you think made you go in that direction in the 1st place?

I would probably average a drinking session once a week. Some weeks it would be one night a week. Sometimes two nights a week. A few times it is once a fortnight. My drinking was never really out of control. One week, though, I considered having a drinking session every night. But it became a matter of drinking a 24 pack over 4 days. That is about as bad as it got for me. So, it was not too bad.

I think it was about boredom. Other than that, it was more about trying to get my thoughts into perspective. Some days, I would have problems trying to recollect information about my past. Otherwise, my drinking was about relaxing.

In 2015, I went 9 months without drinking. Then the next year, it was an average once every couple of months that I would have some drinks. I did another New Year's Resolution (actually starting Christmas Eve, last year) to not drink for a whole year. So far, I'm 3 months into sobriety, and I REALLY want to have a night with some scotch and colas. But, I realise all the good that sobriety has done me. I don't know if I will be able to have a drink on New Year's Eve, because I might stick to my commitment of sobriety.

well done unsub.

I have found alcohol improves no situation.

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