British study links alcohol with lower risk of developing cataracts
Research finds lower risk among those who drink up to 14 units a week – especially if they drink red wine
This being different from in veritas of course. The second is that people reveal themselves, the new finding is that the increased acuity enables us to see with greater clarity.
Coronavirus vaccine certificates could be introduced by pubs when they reopen later this year, Boris Johnson indicated on Wednesday.
People may have to prove that they have had a Covid jab or tested negative for the virus before entering a pub, and Mr Johnson said: “I think that that’s the kind of thing – it may be up to individual publicans, it may be up to the landlord.”
His lack of opposition suggests the Government will not intervene if pubs – and potentially other private companies – decide to require proof of Covid status.
The position is a stark departure from two months ago, when Government ministers were arguing that making people reveal such information within the UK was “discriminatory” and against British values.
Inaction is simply support for the current legal status. A landlord may refuse service to anyone on no grounds at all. It’s an absolute right.
True, if every tinted – or gammon – gets denied then we’d think there’s rather a pattern developing but that right still exists. Service is at the discretion of the landlord.
So, demanding proof of vaccination, why not? If it’s by the landlord then that’s just how the law currently works.
We, of course, get to show our view on such by drinking there or elsewhere….just as with a pub that allows or does not children. A pub may, these days, allow, but it does not have to.
My generation (X), and the Boomers directly above me, have a unique relationship with alcohol. Maybe that’s because we developed an early and voracious taste for it. As a 2018 Washington Post story reveals, teen drinking peaked in the late seventies and early eighties. In 1982, nearly half of all male high school seniors, and 31 percent of females, reported consuming five or more drinks in a row in the previous two weeks. In 2015, that figure had dipped to 30% of males and 20% of females. It may not be surprising, then, that my peers associate youth with an alcoholic excess our children don’t quite share.
The drinking age was moved up in the early years of the Reagan presidency…..
The UK rate of hospital admissions because of alcohol was higher than among users of any other drug cited in the report apart from heroin, and consumption of alcohol was much more widespread, with 94% of people in UK saying they had drunk alcohol in the last year, compared with 2.3% who had used heroin.
Err, 50 times safer than heroin at least.
He the government to stand up to the alcohol lobby and introduce mandatory health warning labels and minimum pricing, and lowering the drink-drive limit.
Winstock said: “These are all incredibly sensible things that have been recommended by several commissions, but have been ignored in the face of resistance from the alcohol lobby.”
Fuck off matey.
No, it’s not actually a propensity for consuming large amounts of Guinness:
Men should be screened for the “Celtic gene”, scientists urge, as a landmark study finds it increases liver cancer risk tenfold.
It’s about excessive iron. Which does actually provide that link to Guinness as the old, bottled, stuff used to be prescribed as a treatment for anaemia, the opposite problem.
So, you can distill anything that contains alcohol. Do it to wine, you get brandy. Do it to cider, calvados.
OK, so what about beer?
Hmm, not really thought about it before. And this search engine stuff, fun:
Whiskey is distilled fermented malted grain. So basically beer without the hops addition.
Suppose so, really. Whiskey is distilled ale. Discuss.
Whiskey is famously made by distilling beer, but any distiller will tell you that the “beer” that goes into the still bears little resemblance to the commercial stuff you sip on game day. While it won’t kill ya, those who drink the fermented wash before it is distilled hold little respect in the eyes of the distilling community.
The answer, it appears, is yes.
Drivers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are limited to 35 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, the highest limit in Europe, while drivers in Scotland are limited to 22.
A zero-alcohol limit for new drivers would reduce the risk of people driving home after one drink, after which they usually remain under the legal limit.
You’re over a zero limit if you used mouthwash two hours ago.
Idiot stupidity.
“Women do not lose their right to medical confidentiality simply because they are pregnant. Most women report drinking very little alcohol in pregnancy, if any at all, even if they may have drunk before a positive pregnancy test.”
Given the part alcohol plays in the existence of pregnancy all too often…..
The bars around here sell “balloons”. Which are nitrous oxide I think? A quick high etc.
A “balloon” looks to be a couple of litres.
A tank of 18,000 litres seems to be € 400 or so, mebbe €500. Dunno local prices and BOC might not be the cheapest etc.
A balloon is €5.
€45,000 revenue from a €500 tank?
No, I’ve got something wrong there. And it’s not just that most of it seems to be consumed by the staff.
I’ve got the wrong gas? Volumes are different? What? Because if this is right I’m thinking about a chain of mobile selling stations based upon a basic hot dog cart design…..
Tom Meighan has announced that he is leaving Kasabian, the Leicester rock band he co-founded as a student in the late 90s. The band shared a brief statement on Meighan’s departure, describing the decision as one taken by mutual consent.
Meighan had “struggled with personal issues that have affected his behaviour for quite some time and now wants to concentrate all his energies on getting his life back on track,” said the statement. The group said it would not comment further.
a) booze
b) drugs
‘Crystal clear’ drunk people can’t socially distance, say police in England
Given that the English have traditionally used alcohol to get over that social inhibition and personal space thing perhaps this is olds, not news?
I think we’re rather past it now too:
The Treasury has been accused of taking an irresponsible approach to the coronavirus epidemic after a backlash to a post on its official Twitter account that hailed Saturday’s scheduled reopening of England’s pubs.
“Grab a drink and raise a glass, pubs are reopening their doors from 4 July,” the tweet read, while a graphic carried the message: “Pubs are back”.
Many of those condemning the post, which was soon deleted, accused its celebratory tone of being in poor taste given that the virus has killed at least 43,000 people in the UK.
Sod off might not be enough. Can we shoot them?
There are, roughly, 550k deaths a year in the UK. We often enough gather in small groups in pubs to remember one or more of them.
Yes, shoot ’em
Lockdown easing is not an invitation to ‘run to people’s houses and drink beer’ says First Minister
After all, the pubs are still closed aren’t they?
The information on which of the good wines will be sold under which of the vin de table labels?
Swiss winemakers are to receive state aid to downgrade their finest appellation labels to cheaper vin de table after sales of quality vintages plummeted during the coronavirus lockdown.
Swiss wineries will receive 10 million Swiss francs (£8.5m) of government funds to repackage thousands of quality bottles unsold after restaurants and bars remained shut for two months in the Alpine nation, leading to a 40 per cent drop in sales, according to producers.
In a boon for wine buffs, wines that have received the coveted “controlled designation of origin” (appellation d’origine contrôlée (AOC)) designation – some of which can sell for hundreds of pounds – will now be on sale for a fraction of that price starting from June 1….
Umm, this blog does have a Swiss wine expert, doesn’t it?
and drinkers banned from propping up the bar under plans aimed at allowing hospitality firms to reopen from July 4.
Binge drinking among the over 50s could be fuelling a rise in violence within that age group, new research has suggested.
That third pint is what turns the Missus black and blue:
Binge drinking usually refers to drinking lots of alcohol in a short space of time or drinking to get drunk.
In the UK, binge drinking is drinking more than:
8 units of alcohol in a single session for men
6 units of alcohol in a single session for women
Examples:6 units is 2 pints of 5% strength beer or 2 large (250ml) glasses of 12% wine
It really is that third pint.
One of the things that does confuse here is why newspapers aren’t laughing this all out of court. Three pints used to be what journalists referred to as breakfast.
Dwindling supplies of carbon dioxide from ethanol plants are sparking concern about shortages of beer, soda and seltzer water – essentials for many quarantined Americans.
The possibility of a country with no beer.
Bugger that then, let that pandemic rip!
Something that Bloke on M4 likes to talk about:
I would expect there to be, in the post-Covid-19 economy, much more home working, perhaps part time and part in the office, than we had at the beginning of this year. Not because our technology has suddenly leapt forward, but because we have now had a taste of how the new way might work and, who knows, we might even like it.
Put into slightly more formal terms, it’s the coordination problem. As to who might benefit from more home working, one idea:
As to who will really benefit from this, my bet would be on the chimney pot pub. We humans are, after all, primarily social beings and once we are not getting our gossip at the water cooler, something will have to take its place. Why not that ancient grand hub of a British community, the pub on the corner?