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Re: Ontario Booze Price Increase Many will cruise along as high functioning into their 30s, 40s or even 50s and one day realize they can't stop all the while telling themselves they could any time they wanted. |
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| I'm flabbergasted by the sheer volume. 5 cases a week, is 40 L, or 9 gallons. (1790 Royal Navy beer ration: 7 gal/week).
Average annual beer consumption for Canadians is 68 L/year. Highest annual average is Czech Republic at 157 L/year. This guy, 2,080 L/year.
Start saving up for the liver transplant, I hear if you have enough dough you can go to the top of the list in the U.S. |
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| said by GlugGlugGlug :I'm flabbergasted by the sheer volume. 5 cases a week, is 40 L, or 9 gallons. (1790 Royal Navy beer ration: 7 gal/week).
SHUT UP! He's my new hero.
Today, I'd likely roll over and die with that amount. Even half that amount... likely even a 1/3 of that.
*Bows before the almighty BryceS* |
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Peterborough, ON | reply to GlugGlugGlug
said by GlugGlugGlug : Start saving up for the liver transplant, I hear if you have enough dough you can go to the top of the list in the U.S. If you don't die from some sort of alcohol related incident first. Enjoy it while it lasts. |
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| Thats actually not a large amount for people in this area. At my worst at 18 or so I'd drink 26 ounces of wisers in a sitting. 400 bar bills in an evening.
The year i quit I bought a new Mariah 18 foot bowrider inboard 4.3 V-6. The money saved from not drinking made the 500/month payments. |
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said by GlugGlugGlug :I'm flabbergasted by the sheer volume. 5 cases a week, is 40 L, or 9 gallons. (1790 Royal Navy beer ration: 7 gal/week).
Average annual beer consumption for Canadians is 68 L/year. Highest annual average is Czech Republic at 157 L/year. This guy, 2,080 L/year.
Start saving up for the liver transplant, I hear if you have enough dough you can go to the top of the list in the U.S.
Based off my usage it's probably closer to 4 cases.
6 or more beers a day Mon - Thurs
Then about 20 beers a day on the fri night/weekends that I don't work at the bank.
I then drop down to maybe 1 case a week during examination times in school. (3.90 GPA last semester).
I am still at the gym at least 4 times a week...running 15km and rowing 10km each week.
I don't enjoy doing weights...i find them boring. |
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| BryceS... you remind me of myself in school. Similar habits and similar grades. I ended up graduating with just regular Honours, not High Honours (although my one roomate who was the same did get High Honours).
Don't worry kid, you don't have to change your habits all that much. I'm now 34 and I personally go through 2 cases a week, minimum. In the summer peak BBQ season it's more like 3 or 4. And I have a solid, well paying job and am very active in the community and am out several nights a week at events. My girlfriend, same on both counts as well (although she's a tiny girl so her consumption is relative). What we do after hours and after all the commitments are done is of no consequence.
I'm the picture of relative good health. My last physical came back stellar. My BMI is good, and I workout daily on the home gym. Now, if only I could lay off on the salt and get my blood pressure back down...
Don't let people tell you you can't do it, nobody likes a quitter! heh.
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| said by zong:Don't worry kid, you don't have to change your habits all that much. Don't worry?! Jesus people, the alcoholic factor aside, have you even considered the long-term health impacts of that much alcohol consumption? Does the idea of dying in your 60s sound appealing? |
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| said by Gone:said by zong:Don't worry kid, you don't have to change your habits all that much. Don't worry?! Jesus people, the alcoholic factor aside, have you even considered the long-term health impacts of that much alcohol consumption? Does the idea of dying in your 60s sound appealing? I've literally almost died twice this pas year alone.
I don't see myself living past 40.
Had a 18wheeler run over the front of my Jetta.
Skydiving line over accident and plummeted into the ground at an incredibly fast speed from a 4500ish foot jump.
I'm already blind in one eye with the probability of becoming fully blind by the time I'm 50. I have nearly lost my sense of smell and am slowly going deaf.
Live while you have the chance. |
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| said by BryceS:Live while you have the chance. I'd rather do what I can to live to see my kids grow up and give me grandchildren, and I've had my fair share of brushes with death. To each their own I guess.
The prospect of a premature death is not one that I find appealing. I try to do whatever I can to mitigate those chances, and frankly I often feel I do not do enough.
However, based on what you described, I think your drinking issues have very little to do with 'living while you have the chance' |
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Re: Ontario Booze Price Increase said by Gone:However, based on what you described, I think your drinking issues have very little to do with 'living while you have the chance'
It does when you are young.
Which is exactly why the Ontario government is raising the price of a 2-4 by 55-cents. To prevent young vulnerable people like BryceS from drinking.
Well, at least, that's what they said to the press in regards to the price hikes. |
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said by BryceS:Live while you have the chance.
As a broad generalization that's a good life principle -- it argues for experiencing life to the fullest. If someone has a chance to tramp through Europe while they're young, take a trip around the world, visit the Amazon rainforest or remote parts of Africa, why not do it?
However living life to the fullest is not a concept found in a bottle. Or in a consistent pattern of drug abuse, either. I'm not moralizing here as I despise those who try to make moral arguments against alcohol. It's purely a practical argument. Up to a point alcohol can make life more pleasurable, good wines make good meals taste better, and for those who prefer beer it works the same way, and it's enjoyable just by itself sometimes. But beyond a certain point -- and the point is different for different people -- it turns around and starts to degrade life. So one might say, yes, live life while you have the chance, and stay sober enough to appreciate it once in a while.
It's too bad that this thread has drifted away from the original topic, which is that we are once again being gouged more than ever by a totally hypocritical self-serving government that wants nothing but a cash grab, while the LCBO itself actively promotes drinking with expensive magazines and displays and ad campaigns. Not that there's anything wrong with drinking up to a point, as I said, and personally I enjoy the bright new consumer-oriented LCBO, but the hypocrisy of these moralistic pronouncements is just stunning, and the smug hypocritical arrogance with which we are told that raising prices yet again is all about "preventing immoderate drinking" is absolutely infuriating.
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| I'm just happy the self righteous holy rollers are going after booze this time instead of smokes again. I drink about 6 beers a year. I can handle the price hike  |
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Hallelujah Brother Wolfie!! 
Well put to the young man.....who should take a trip to SE Asia and help some poor kids instead of drinking booze in suburban Ontario and thinking that's "life lived to the max!" |
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said by hm :It does when you are young. It does, to a point. Based on what he had just said, I'd hazard a guess to say that his excessive alcohol consumption has less to do with being young and living it up and more with using it as a coping mechanism for the shitty challenges he has to deal with in life. There's better ways to cope than alcohol. |
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said by lugnut :I'm just happy the self righteous holy rollers are going after booze this time instead of smokes again.
I do believe you may be in a state of denial.
Today's press release:
Harper urges Canadians to quit smoking
»cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2012···841.html |
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said by Gone:said by hm :It does when you are young. It does, to a point. Based on what he had just said, I'd hazard a guess to say that his excessive alcohol consumption has less to do with being young and living it up and more with using it as a coping mechanism for the shitty challenges he has to deal with in life. There's better ways to cope than alcohol.
Nah lots of young males are like that, if not the majority (not to that excess maybe).
One life to live
Live for today.
Ride on and don't look back.
Tomorrow is another life time.
TGIF!
Live it up while you can.
When I asked for a young person to speak, I think BryceS spoke very well for kids his age.
Plus social mingling with peers, booze and babes at that age is all that matters in life. Were you never young? Lived on a convent?
Tomorrow doesn't matter I don't expect to live past "enter age here".
He spoke very well.
In another 40 years I expect bryceS to be wearing a T-shirt that says: "If I would have known I would live this long I would have taken better care of myself".
Do you think the Ontario gov doesn't know this? Do you think they raised prices to help poor young vulnerable people?
Same old. Rinse. Repeat. |
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Peterborough, ON | reply to Wolfie00
said by Wolfie00: It's too bad that this thread has drifted away from the original topic, which is that we are once again being gouged more than ever by a totally hypocritical self-serving government that wants nothing but a cash grab, while the LCBO itself actively promotes drinking with expensive magazines and displays and ad campaigns. Then do what many like myself do and don't buy booze in Canada if it's a such a cash grab. Or do and fund my healthcare and other provincial programs. |
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