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From: ogden on 18 Dec 2009 07:25
M J Carley wrote:
> In the referenced article, ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> writes:
> >M J Carley wrote:
> >> In the referenced article, ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> writes:
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >> >http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/european_football/articl
> >> >e1073904.ece
> >> >
> >> >"French teenagers get the taste for binge-drinking"
> >>
> >> Roux!
> >
> >No, you are.
>
> The timestamps do not lie.

No, you really are.

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From: Pip on 18 Dec 2009 10:37
In article <KuuK3p.BL3.B.birch(a)bath.ac.uk>, M J Carley says...
>
> In the referenced article, ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> writes:
> >M J Carley wrote:
> >> In the referenced article, ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> writes:
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >> >http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/european_football/articl
> >> >e1073904.ece
> >> >
> >> >"French teenagers get the taste for binge-drinking"
> >>
> >> Roux!
> >
> >No, you are.
>
> The timestamps do not lie.

Aha!

The curse of modern society ... ginge-drinking!

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From: Beav on 18 Dec 2009 10:41

"Pip" <gingerbloke(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Heheheh, you must have gone to our pub ... very well put ... ;)
>
> Way to go, Paul.
>
> By adding just one line of comment, four lines of .sig and seven blank
> lines, you managed to increase an already lengthy (at 56 lines)
> conversation to one that overspilled a fullscreen page (at 68 lines).
> It isn't difficult to snip and leave quite adequate context without
> quoting pages of irrelevant stuff, you know - as I've demonstrated above
> for you.

You must've done some serious counting there Pip :-)


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From: Beav on 18 Dec 2009 10:43

"Ben" <ben(a)bensalesDOTME.uk> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:29:01 +0000, Paul Corfield
> <aooy65(a)dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>
>>So what does ukrm make of Sir Liam Donaldson saying that parents are
>>turning their children into binge drinkers by allowing them a sip of
>>beer or wine when they're young and by drinking alcohol in front of
>>them?
>>
>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8413559.stm
>
> I think he's wrong. Obviously a parent shouldn't be getting their
> offspring comatose every night, but I think a little booze as they get
> older is good to teach them what effect it has on you,

One bout of being pissed should be enough to do that.

> and the
> etiquette of how to behave whilst drunk.

When you're pissed, etiquette is the first thing to go down the bog.
>
> One thing I remember from going to uni was the amount of people who
> simply didn't know how to behave whilst pissed.

If they knew how to behave, they weren't pissed.


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From: Beav on 18 Dec 2009 10:44

<spike1(a)freenet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> And verily, didst Paul Corfield <aooy65(a)dsl.pipex.com> hastily babble
> thusly:
>> So what does ukrm make of Sir Liam Donaldson saying that parents are
>> turning their children into binge drinkers by allowing them a sip of
>> beer or wine when they're young and by drinking alcohol in front of
>> them?
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8413559.stm
>>
>> While it was a bit harder to get hold of alcohol when I was a teenager I
>> can certainly remember getting very drunk. It hasn't turned me into
>> someone with a drink problem but I suppose having an alcoholic mother
>> who drank herself to death did rather teach me a lesson or two.
>>
>
> The man's an idiot. The french give their kids wine from an early age and
> we
> never hear anything about their problems with binge drinking.

But does that mean they don't?
>
> If anything, letting kids have the odd tipple from an early age would
> teach
> them to drink responsibly, rather than think "gotta drink as much as
> possible, last orders in an hour".

Ahh, the UKRM way.


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