AIBU to drink more?

[CuboidalSlipshoddy]

So I am off to read the Lancet paper, which I suspect is more nuanced, but the guardian reports that if from 40 onwards I drank an extra glass of wine a day I would shorten my life by 30 minutes. At face value, that sounds a fantastic deal: five minutes of pleasure a day for about 40 years, ie about 50 days, in exchange for 30 minutes’ less time as I die. Around 2500x pleasure than loss. A great deal, I think.

You've read it wrong. Each individual glass loses you half an hour. From the Guardian “The paper estimates a 40-year-old drinking 4 units a day above the guidelines [the equivalent of drinking three glasses of wine in a night] has roughly two years’ lower life expectancy, which is around a twentieth of their remaining life. This works out at about an hour per day. So it’s as if each unit above guidelines is taking, on average, about 15 minutes of life, about the same as a cigarette. i.e. 4 extra units per day every day loses you 2 years. 2 years not half an hour. So think again.

2 years of possibly sitting in a nursing home? Yes I’ll take the risk

What if you don't drink wine but eat chocolate instead

I would happily shorten my life for quality of life

I thought it sounded too good to be true.

Mind you, watching my parents and I’m laws in their 80s, if I can book a sure-kill heart attack in my early eighties i’ll Take it over dementia (esp. Lewy Body). Unfortunately, the drinking probably increases vascular dementia risk, so back to the badoit for me.

I had a few drinks earlier, and then read this and got depressed. After a few more drinks I stopped caring.

If I could go back and have the extra 2years in my teens yes definitely.
Extra 2 years waiting for the grim reaper they must be joking.

Surely they should be encouraging us, we keep being told we’re an ageing population that’s costing the NHS a fortune, and bed blocking etc. Send us off a bit early and nicely sozzled

2 years of possibly sitting in a nursing home? Yes I’ll take the risk

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I would happily shorten my life for quality of life

You do realise that you will have at least the same risk of spending your last 2 years sitting in a nursing home, it's just that you will be doing it 2 years earlier? And in reality, your health will be affected along the way so the quailty of your life may well be reduced and possibily mean that the need for a nursing home may come even sooner and last longer ...

As I said, I’ll take the risk

Totally worth the risk.
I’ve lost more than two years of my life doing unbearable crap stuff. Like cleaning the toilet

I would crack on OP, if you look at the actual figures hidden away in the appendix you see that it's over 25 units a week that negative effects kick in and levels below that are more beneficial than not drinking at all.
Bit inconvenient for the temperance movement but it's being spun to provide "evidence" for the likes of MUP etc..

We're around for a good time not a long time.