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I think everyone understands the maths.
The point I think is it is a lot easier to drink a fatal dose of alcohol with spirits than it is beer. For average strength beers the sheer volume required is the limiting factor.
Your wine maths doesn't really hold sway it's just stronger than beer. Look at the relative volume.
When I was about 25 I drank a half a bottle of Southern Comfort in half an hour neat. Never again, I thought. And I never did do it again!
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As I said it's alcohol by volume. Half a pint of whisky will contain a lot more alcohol than half a pint of wine; but who would be stupid enough to drink half a pint of whisky?
I'm sure it is possible to drink a lethal dose of whisky, but it would take some doing. The poet Dylan Thomas was a heavy drinker, and died after going on a bender having drunk 18 straight whiskys. Yet the autopsy showed absolutely no sign of alcohol poisoning, brain damage or cirrhosis of the liver.
You stick to your half a bottle of Southern Comfort drunk in half an hour, and I'll stick to my bottle of Bordeaux which will last the two of us 2 - 3 days.
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I think it's important to remember that enjoying an alcoholic drink is supposed to be a pleasurable experience, so if you're causing yourself harm, you've gone too far! I'd put hangovers into that category.
Drinking responsibly and in moderation is the key. I have no desire to get drunk; haven't done so since I was a teenager, or to 'escape reality', as I rather like my reality
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Precisely! That is why wine is usually drunk with a meal, and beer is drunk in the company of friends.Originally Posted by Marco
I think it's important to remember that enjoying an alcoholic drink is supposed to be a pleasurable experience, so if you're causing yourself harm, you've gone too far! I'd put hangovers into that category.
Drinking responsibly and in moderation is the key. I have no desire to get drunk; haven't done so since I was a teenager, or to 'escape reality', as I rather like my reality
Marco.
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Yup, although I mostly drink beer with food, in the company of friends or otherwise. Wine, always with a meal. Whisky, after a meal while I'm relaxing, watching TV or listening to music
Very rarely do I drink alcohol on an empty stomach.
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Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
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Drinking alcohol on an empty stomach is asking for trouble.
Barry
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But I didn't stick to my half bottle of Southern Comfort, did I Barry?
Whatever.
I don't think this conversation will change my drinking habits in any way.
Not that any of you have any idea what they really are!
What is this? Preacher city or something?
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Lol, we're just concerned for you, bruv.
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Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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+1
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