'Booze' Category
The Difference Between White and Red Wine Glasses
Many people are completely unaware that there are significant design differences between glasses intended for Red Wines and glasses intended for White Wines. After having just glugged a bottle and a half of a particularly tasty Bordeaux I thought I’d explain why the glass chosen for your wine is important: White wine glasses tend to [...]
The Power of Peer Pressure
Peer pressure is an enormously powerful influence that most young people need to contend with. It is responsible for many young people mindlessly going along with the crowd and not thinking for themselves leading them to start smoking, drinking, experimenting with drugs and sex and more. Recently, here in Sussex, there have been a few [...]
The Booze Gene
A friend just sent me this link to an interesting post on the subject of ‘The British Disease’, binge drinking. Booze, Brits and Binge Drinking. The fact is that this particular ailment is not exclusive to the British, many nations have the same illness, including North America. So why do people want to drink so [...]
Make alcohol a class A drug
So, the UK police are recommending that cannabis is reclassified as a class B drug. Hm. The Nurse wonders, fruitlessly, whether they’ll make alcohol a class A drug while they’re at it. A quick online search shows there aren’t any figures available for cannabis-related damage. But alcohol trails destruction, unhappiness and chaos behind it wherever it goes. Professor Ian Gilmore, president [...]
