What's is with drinking and people?

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Nobody says did you see David Attenborough a lovely programme about nature or something similar?
Just did anyone watch binge drinking wonderful not.

Did you think the binge drinking documentary was celebrating binge drinking?

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This is what I was thinking.

Nobody says did you see David Attenborough a lovely programme about nature or something similar?
Just did anyone watch binge drinking wonderful not.

Utter bollocks and quite weird considering you've chosen to start this thread, rather than one about David Attenborough 🤣🤣

I think compared to the amount of people in the UK who drink and have alcohol issues, there aren't that many threads about it overall.

80s/90s clubber here. Hi to all the others.
God I miss the days when I could say to people "Great party got completely trollied" and then it was the party people wanted to talk about, not the alcohol.

Blimey Op, even your thread title sounds like it's slurring.

That seemed like a brain fart. Have you been drinking, OP?

I’m 52 and have found the opposite. I don’t actually drink much at all, ever, but alcohol certainly has less of an effect on my these days.

This.
But, although raw, life works better without alcohol.
(Especially after certain age).
Apparently, in some women (not men), the enzyme in the liver responsible for breaking up booze disappears! Must have happened here.
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So you are basing this on one post about a parent smelling of drink and one random tv programme?

Hit a nerve has it?

it's like when you buy a red car, it seems like everyone has suddenly got a red car.

your post makes you sound like you need help. There's a topic on giving up alcohol.

Agree with this.

Alcoholism is an illness.
It's a disease.
It's commonly connected to CPTSD, so for example being severely neglected as a child, being brought up in extreme poverty, being sexually or violently abused as a child. Being a war veteran as an adult, having mental health problems like bipolar or ADHD. It's a recognised disorder of self-medication. Alcohol makes you feel warm, numb and dissociated. When life is too much, it's a widely available drug of choice.

But carry on being judgemental towards people who are unwell. You do you.

I don’t think there’s much discussion about drinking on MN actually. Certainly not nearly as much as about parking and MILs.

But the reason I think people do get a little bit obsessed with drinking is because they have some discomfort about their own drinking and this is how it bubbles up. I’m sober now, but definitely when I was drinking (and quietly ruminating on how problematic or not my drinking was) I talked a lot about drinking, I watched documentaries about it, I would have clicked on a thread on MN to talk about how normal it is to have some prosecco at 10am for brunch with the girls. Most people who now admit they have drinking problems would say they had the same preoccupation. In fact, when people hear I don’t drink anymore, all they want to talk to me about is their drinking habits and how they are sure they’re all very moderate at 1-2 glasses of wine a day (but sometimes more).

Often it’s just anxiety about something that’s taking up a lot of space in their heads.

Because people like drinking. It's a very British working class thing.
Im sure you are not ‘like’ these school mums but don’t be so judgy.
Not everyone has to be like you. Not everyone can be like you.
Unfortunately life is not fair or easy for some.

Your post is unclear as to whether you think people drink too much or whether you think people need to mind their own business regarding others' drinking.

MN has a lot of anti-drinkers - casual/social drinking gets a very bad press on here. There's plenty of hyperbole trotted out in honour of it.

You could have a few drinks while watching your animal programmes 🍷🍸🍹🍺🍻🍾🥃

I enjoy a drink and it doesn't ruin my life. Not everyone drinks to excess! If you don't like a post scroll on past

People talk about drinking because those of us who have survived living with alcoholics have trauma that we will never truly recover from. when we see other people still in that situation, we want to help get them free.

as a society, we should be talking about excessive drinking. It is a scourge that destroys lives.

I am not anti-alcohol. I had a nice glass of wine yesterday. There is a line though and when people cross it they can destroy their relationships and even actively hurt people.

Why would it be strange for people to watch the programme about binge drinking?

It may be because they grew up with so called social drinker parents who were just awful. My own dad's drinking put me off alcohol, or at least I see it very differently and as quite threatening. The sound of his beer glass hitting the table still makes me cringe.

First post nails it again.

Scientists seem to need a target, I suppose to attract funding, in the past it's been salt, cholesterol in eggs, fats, trans fats, smoking, sugar, beef, etc etc etc. The media pick up on this, then the politicians, especially the ones who believe in a nanny state/need to be seen doing "stuff" for votes. Hence why the eu has made it law that drinks bottles should have attached lids....we have it because manufacturing isn't going to have two set ups.

So drink in all its guises is once again evil....remember the usa banned alcohol in 1920, which went so well that drink consumption actually increased as did crime, the mafia especially thrived.

People like me who enjoy a social drink, occasionally get drunk, don't drink and drive, dont commit crime, don't start fights are penalised for the actions of others...but given that apart from violent crime,most crime is either drug related or fraud related to organised crime, drink isn't a huge problem.

Yes parts of the nhs are effected by drink related health issues, especially in Scotland (it seems) but obesity is a much bigger issue and there doesn't seen to be the concentrated campaign against chips like there is drink.

Stigma against people who drink is growing, especially in the younger generation, but they are the generation who seem to me much more likely to die of a pizza and burger induced heart attack at 40 than any of the drinkers I know (all of whom are well over 40 and have been pissing it up for years)