This thread is getting personal......I am only responding to your comment that you are probably an alchi.
Its a known fact you either are or are not an alchi.......its like being pregnant....you can be early pregnant....or early alchi....but its not a nearly thing.
It is your comments that have driven this thread......
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do you drink?
I do...quite a lot !
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I suppose i'm not the best person to comment on this subject as i think i'm a alcoholic.... to a small degree...but an alcoholic all the same.
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I looked into the units to point out that somebody has looked into it and worked out a threshold for being an alchi.Would you frown on me if had one pint over the limit every week?
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There is no threshold that says you are an alchoholic......you can drink twice the so called limit and not be one, and drink half the same limit and be a real down and out alchi.
Its the dependency that makes someone an alchoholic not the amount comsumed.
The way you talk you are a big consumer....but that doesn't make you an alchi.
I never made out my geordie friend as a bad guy....think I said he was a nice guy.He was a sad guy though, very sad.
I saw the photos of his wife and kids, and heard the way he spoke of them.He had 2 grown up lads, one was sporty, and doing well, his wife was a cracker, worked in the Tax Office.......he was still in love with her....he had lost her respect and that of his boys that he was so proud of....there may have been other reasons.....but I got the impression it was down to drink.He would have a can or two most nights......but come Friday night (if he wasn't working Saturday) he would roll up most times very very late,fall out of a taxi, then take ages to find the front door key (My room was facing the street) He was banned from several bars in our small town because he never knew when to stop.Sober .......a lovely man.I only ever went out with him once or twice both were embarrasing.
To be honest I have no idea if you are alcohol dedendant or not....it was you that said you were an alchi.If it was a joke or said tongue in cheek....its in poor taste.....alchoholism is no joke, especially if you are one, or related to or live with one.
I do enjoy a drink.....drink a bottle of red several times a week.....drinking a can of beer as I write this.But could never be called dependent....hope I would know and stop before that happened....but who knows?
The offside law is now down to whether the referee thinks he is or not offside.Or if the offending player is gaining an advantage by being in that position........or something like that