First of all i smell a troll but i will give an honest reply anyway.

Yes some people do have too much to drink to the point of addiction (have
been close myself in the past when i went to the pub every other day). but
everything is fine in moderation. Drink too much you will get addicted,
gamble too much you end up addicted, eat too much you get fat. Everything is
fine in moderation.

Note the conversation in here, its what beers taste the best, and what's
available in area X. If we had a drink problem we would get whatever beer we
could even if it was crap just to get drunk.

Being in the UK there is a sterotype that anyone that has superstrengh beers
or special brews (6-%10%) has a drink problem. I find this is true from
personal experence but the people in here just want nice beers. i.e. taste,
if you have a problem you will take anything with it in.

Whers my aftershave...lol (joking folks)

"Booked_moss" > writes:

>First of all i smell a troll but i will give an honest reply anyway.

>Yes some people do have too much to drink to the point of addiction (have
>been close myself in the past when i went to the pub every other day). but
>everything is fine in moderation. Drink too much you will get addicted,
>gamble too much you end up addicted, eat too much you get fat. Everything is
>fine in moderation.

There's a certain type of alcoholic who can't bear the thought
that he's got a disease, because he'd think of it as a horrible
character flaw rather than the Disease it is. So rather than
decide "well, it's a disease; it's not someone's *fault*" he then
reasons "It must be the Substance's fault, because I can't think
that it's mine, and there MUST be something at fault." Fine. But
the trouble there is, if it's the substance that's at fault, then
nobody else can drink, because if they drink they're alcoholics
(and if they argue otherwise, they're alcoholics in denial).

These people, I think, mellow out over time. Perhaps with help
from people who've been in AA longer and have figured more stuff
out about the nature of addiction. The poster, I'm thinking, was
making the whole thing up to be "funny".

--
Joe Bay Cancer Biology www.stanford.edu/~jmbay/
"We are all lying in the gutter, but some of us BLEAAAAGHH, AARGGH HRRRRRRRK"
--Oscar Wilde
Putting the "harm" in molecular pharmacology since 1998.

"Joseph Michael Bay" > wrote in message
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> The poster, I'm thinking, was
> making the whole thing up to be "funny".

Yeah, that's the way I saw it, I was surprised anyone took it seriously.

Katherine