'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 have […]Forget the Rich List. Here’s the Ridiculous List.
The Nurse has a lot of time on her hands at Her Majesty’s Pleasure. Which is why she’s typing this post from underneath several unfurled and chaotic rolls of Elsan toilet roll. You know, that crinkly stuff that’s about the same thickness as tracing paper and twice as shiny. And utterly non-absorbent. Dreadful for personal hygiene but highly effective for writing lists.
This […]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 high […]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 […]
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 of […]Feed ecstasy to the masses!
The Nurse doesn’t get out much. But she devours the TV news avidly from her cell. So it grabbed her attention when a senior UK police officer recently recommended we make all drugs legal and face the consequences, rather than spending obscene amounts criminalising drug users as well as the abusers.
Millions of ordinary law-abiding […]The glories of booze… not
The Nurse finds drunk people creepy, boring, stupid, ugly, unpredictable and occasionally frightening. What a nasty, nasty drug booze is. As the Chief Surgeon says, how on earth can it be socially acceptable for people to get so blasted on drink that they can’t tell their silly, fat arses from their elbows? It’s quite simply appalling.
The Nurse also wonders why the media doesn’t seem […]Binge Drinking
I heard a report today in which binge drinking was defined as consuming more than 4 units of alcohol in one session. What does that actually mean? This would equate to 2 pints of ordinary strength beer or lager, 4 small pub measures of spirits or around 2.5 glasses of wine. (Recommended safe limits for […]
More Warnings Please
So we are about to see new, graphic warnings on cigarette packets presenting the grizzly effects that smoking has upon the human body. Good idea. If it contributes towards people kicking the habit then it’s a good thing, in my opinion.
We here at Amateur Brain Surgery think that the visual warning system should be extended […]
