Drinking In Your Old Age
- Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,883
22 June 2011 09:05111261Watching BBC Breakfast this morning there was an item that the elderly should only drink half the recommended amount for younger adults.
When questioned the psychiatrist who thought up this daft idea said it was because the elderly can fall. I have one question for all of us elderly drinkers, have you fallen over recently because you have had an alcoholic drink?
I admit I have had several falls in the past all of them when I have been stone cold sober and not having had a drink for a couple of days. The best fall was when I was in my early twenties and I was on my way to the local pub with my mother-in-law for a girlie night out, ended up with two black eyes and a cup of sweet tea instead.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 22 June 2011 09:07111262My answer to this report: pish!
- 22 June 2011 09:12111264Has he not heard that drunks hurt themselves less when they fall because they are more relaxed?
- 22 June 2011 16:17111332And it hurts less when they do the stitches at A&E!I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
- 22 June 2011 17:41111347i remember when they first issued the guidelines they were much more draconian than today.
when i looked at the weekly unit limit i thought blimey that is just friday night surely.
thankfully the reds raised the limits, imagine the lost duty to the treasury. - 22 June 2011 17:43111348Howard, referrring to the other thread, you can honestly tell the doc I had SIX units and actually consume 8½
- 22 June 2011 17:50111350i have often wondered why doctors ask us what we eat drink, smoke, whether we exercise etc.
i cannot imagine anyone ever telling the truth, completely useless exercise. - Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,883
22 June 2011 18:55111352Howard, from what I understand the docs do not believe what we tell them, so why bother. I would rather live another six months happy over eating and drinking than six years miserable having done all the right things.
The thing I really can not understand is that it is a head doctor not a body doctor that is telling us what we should do.
What has it to do with a psychiatrist what we drink, it is not as if he is saying it is sending us all mad.
One of the advantages with growing older is that the vast majority of us actually drink less than when we were young. I think I will have an extended nightcap tonight so I can forget this silly idea.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 22 June 2011 19:12111356i will drink to that one jan, i always maintain that if you can lie flat on the floor without needing something to hold onto then you are perfectly sober
- 22 June 2011 19:13111357At my time of life i am feed up with these so called do gooders telling me what I should eat or drink first butter is no good for you,then sex is bad for your health,now drinking what is the point going on when i go I want a chip butte in one hand a pint in the other and a great big grin on my face as they lift me of.
- 22 June 2011 19:49111359
- 23 June 2011 02:14111411A report by the Royal College of Psychiatrists reveals that the over 65′s are rubbish drinkers whose bodily functions are no match for superior youngsters.
The report highlights that older drinkers drastically cutting down on the amount of alcohol they consume could have a significant impact upon how much they smell of pee.
"An average 25 year-old man would have to indulge in a session lasting in the region of 12 hours before he finally collapsed in his own filth," revealed Professor Ilana Crome, Professor of Addiction Psychiatry and chair of the group that wrote the report.
"The over 65′s experience the same fate after just half a pint of lager or a small glass of wine."
The report also revealed the small amounts of alcohol required to make the elderly dance like twerps or make crude sexual innuendos.
"The use of expressions like 'have it off' or 'having a stroke' were significantly amplified after as little as a few sips of sherry." revealed Professor Crome.
The elderly have reacted to the news that they should consider reducing their intake of alcohol as they approach death with disdain.
"Come 'ere, come ere, I love you, you big barsteward!" revealed 78 year-old Edna Kirkland before soiling herself.
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