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Abusive behaviour?
Today's newspaper headline tangent -- "Alcoholism down, alcohol abuse up."
How do _you_ abuse your alcohol? Beat it? Subject it to sleep deprivation? Sexual humiliation? Forcing it to wear silly little paper umbrellas? Or is it strictly verbal abuse for you -- demeaning, finding fault, shouting, cursing?
I think I'll open a shelter for abused alcohol -- fine single-malts preferred. And then there's all that brandy burned alive by French chefs....
On a lighter note, saw a bald eagle cruising down the river when I went for my morning walk to get said newspaper. And no skunks.
How do _you_ abuse your alcohol? Beat it? Subject it to sleep deprivation? Sexual humiliation? Forcing it to wear silly little paper umbrellas? Or is it strictly verbal abuse for you -- demeaning, finding fault, shouting, cursing?
I think I'll open a shelter for abused alcohol -- fine single-malts preferred. And then there's all that brandy burned alive by French chefs....
On a lighter note, saw a bald eagle cruising down the river when I went for my morning walk to get said newspaper. And no skunks.
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Ah, um?
All seriousness aside, I think a shelter for abused alcohol is a fine idea. There's probably room for one over thisaway. OTOH, building Self Esteem in Allen's Coffee Brandy has gotta be a bear...
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Well, ya know, sometimes the abuse is justified.
(Ducks the outraged screams and brickbats from the PC crowd.)
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"Men who consume five or more drinks in one sitting, and women who consume four or more drinks in one sitting, one or more times within a two-week period are classified as binge drinkers."
This, alas, puts the usual 4th of July picnic at my parents into perspective. There it wasn't unusual to have people arrive (and have a beer) by 10 am or so, and to have another beer or three -- hey, there was usually a 1/4 keg or two, and a couple cases of Rolling Rock, a couple cases of Schlitz, a couple cases of National Bo, a couple cases of National Premium, a couple cases of Bud, a case or so of Hamm's. a six pack or two or or three of Schaeffers.... and etc...
Often those picnics roared from early morning until 3 or 4 am the next morning -- we lived in the country, with no neighbors within a mile or so. Along with the beer were mulitple courses of hamburgers, hotdogs, crab soup, steamed crabs, crab cakes, birthday cakes, ham-and-cheese, baked beans, crab soup, dim sum, polish sausages... there were at least three softball games -- one for the little kids, early, a pick-up game in mid afternoon, and then the "big-game" with serious sides and serious play (even some quiet betting) -- later. Some of the players kept beer behind convenient out of bounds trees...
"Down back" at my parents consisted of a softball field, two horseshoe pits, a badminton set-up and often a volleyball set-up, a croquet course, -- and then on top the hill was the pool. There were two permanent picnic tables -- one near the pool and one down back, there were two permanent wood-fired firepits and on the 4th there wwere easily a dozen other charcoal grills at work.
I daresay most of the adults present would have had more than 5 beers during the course of a 4th of July. Binge drinkers, alcohol abusers, everyone.
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