tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post6428925605646618827..comments2024-03-18T16:40:32.561-07:00Comments on Shut up about Barclay Perkins: SabotageRon Pattinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-4977802933318085952013-10-01T11:27:40.431-07:002013-10-01T11:27:40.431-07:00Sorry to hear the wheels have been spinning, Ron, ...Sorry to hear the wheels have been spinning, Ron, and I know just what you mean about alcohol helping them disengage. KBO, as Churchill used to say; keep buggering on.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07009879034507926661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-66287309160858567682013-10-01T09:23:20.670-07:002013-10-01T09:23:20.670-07:00"For they will drink and forget what is decre..."For they will drink and forget what is decreed, And pervert the rights of all the afflicted. Give strong drink to him who is perishing, And wine to him whose life is bitter. Let him drink and forget his poverty And remember his trouble no more.…"<br /><br />From a little thing we call Proverbs 31:6.Alanhttp://agoodbeerblog.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-30652742360166446362013-10-01T09:13:01.381-07:002013-10-01T09:13:01.381-07:00Alcohol is a dangerous drug. That is, it can be, ...Alcohol is a dangerous drug. That is, it can be, and is often, abused with adverse consequences for the sufferer and those around him. IIRC, Frederick Martin made an interesting observation in his classic (IMO) "Drinks and Drinking". (I know this work only under a 1979 Coles imprint but I think it was written about a decade earlier). He wrote that the great majority of people who drink alcohol do so without any chance of becoming alcoholic. He further observed that for some people alcohol is a poison in that it cannot be tolerated by them, and they should avoid it. He felt alcohol should be, not a crutch but a "gay partner" (in the non-sexual sense of the term), something that adds to the enjoyment of life and doesn't deaden it, in other words. With that I fully agree. Alcohol can indeed enliven life without actually taking any in, through studying beer and brewing history, say.<br /><br />Martin didn't say this but it is my view that alcohol is a chemically addictive drug, the body simply gets used to it after a time, just as it will with caffeine or nicotine, say. This is why regularly taking in too much causes or perhaps greatly exacerbates the dependence and you get a kind of cascading effect. Some are more susceptible for some reason and thus it becomes a poison to them.<br /><br />At the end of the day, each must decide for himself what is right for himself. You mentioned The Who Ron, a band I have idolized for 40 years. I also think of a line Pete Townshend wrote (for a solo tune), "just a little is enough". In the same song he wrote of "Champagne Cognac", "the perfume nearly beats the taste". So you can see where he is going and as I get older it is an approach that recommends itself to me. To every thing there is a season, as the Bible says..<br /><br />GaryGary Gillmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-7583053996790856342013-10-01T05:11:53.833-07:002013-10-01T05:11:53.833-07:00Never had you pegged as a drinking man, Ron :)Never had you pegged as a drinking man, Ron :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com