Surin has lowest per capita heavy drinkers in Isaan
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Big cans or little cans.?
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Posting for another:
AA states "imbibing 8 alcoholic beverages (ie: beer pints , one ounce shots) daily reads like somebody in denial."
Personally I'm not judgmental albeit that kind of daily alcoholic intake would not be considered healthy by medical specialists.
Rice
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A friend of mine went to his doctor after he told him how much he drank the Doctor asked him "Do you want help with your drinking"
He said NO, I have enough friends that drink my beer as it is. That really happened.
Lots of differences as well in someone's tolerance to alcohol. A daily drinker can build a tolerance and gain an ability to handle it better than teetotalers. Size and mass can come into consideration. Timing and spacing between drinks can have an effect. Even racial differences and how they were 'taught' to drink alcohol, especially in a social setting. Exposure to drinking at an early age and within a family unit. Binge drinking is another issue. If you drink over a weekend to excess but not for days, weeks, months in between binge episodes is another thing. Alcoholics come in many flavors. If you HAVE to drink to not feel physically ill from the lack of alcohol that to me is a true alcoholic. Another thing I have seen are those who hate to drink alone and want to almost force others to drink with them, to sort of justify their drinking. Do they drink at home alone to the point of inebriation, or do they go out and socialize and drink with others? Closet drinkers are another type, who try to hide how much they are drinking from others. Trying to hide from society their drinking habits and how much they truly are 'addicted' to the alcohol (for whatever reasons) and be stigmatized as an alcoholic by others.
I don't judge, everyone has their reasons for drinking to whatever extent. I just hate being around drunks and fools, especially drunken fools.
CO-CO
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In all honesty I would need to see a certified medical report to verify that statement........................
Red wine is good for you they say.
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Prakhonchai Nick
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What about longer weeks?
Ivor the Engine
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Back in England, a long time ago, my mother was an Auxilery nurse and most of the doctors were alcoholics!
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After further reading I found 'a unit' is equal to two teaspoons of pure alcohol.
(ie: one 750ml bottle of wine is ten 'units'.)
Fifty 'units' is approx 16 pints of beer.
Previous my friend assumed [being an American I did as well] that you were referring to either bottles of beer, pints or ounces of alcohol.
Now I realise a unit is something else entirely.
True 'seasoned alcoholics' can kick back 500ml (20 'units') upwards to a litre (40 'units') of hard (40% ABV) grain alcohol every night.
Again I'm not judging. To each their own.
Cheers.
C
CharlesLittle
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It's not quite that simple.
16 pints of a beer can range from 32(ish) units to 40(ish).
I prefer beer with ABV of about 5%. That equates to approx 2.3 units per pint.
Your American beer, weak as p$#s, would be <_2 units a pint.
georgefromcanada
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American beer is like sex in a canoe, f' ing near water.
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Coffee
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Not every American drinks piss.
Unfortunately we'll be forced into another royal piss come the first Tuesday of November.
It's Fat BOYD'S.