if you're TT people are a bit sniffy and think you're religious or something or a moralist. It's uncomfortable in societies where there is so much drinking going on. And there is quite a lot.
My wife is the nice lady, but she’s not a dirty old stopout and has proven to be a much needed calming influence.My Mrs doesn't mind the booze but baulks at the nice lady.
I’m the other side of 50 and married and know full well it would have been undignified to still be carrying on like that.
Maybe, but people have been consuming alcohol and other inebriants since records began, and for the same reasons they are consumed now; as a relaxant and (partial) escape from reality. It's never really been a 'foodstuff', except for when weak beer was used as a substitute for water when water itself was unsafe to drink.It's an interesting thought whether alcohol (or Ethanol to give its proper name) would be allowed as a foodstuff if it was to be introduced today as a new product. Lethal in not very high doses, addictive, depressant, prone to causing violence, damaging to organs. We are socially conditioned that it's a bit of a laugh, but really, if we could step outside ourselves for a minute we'd probably view it with the same distain as heroin.
It's an interesting thought whether alcohol (or Ethanol to give its proper name) would be allowed as a foodstuff if it was to be introduced today as a new product. Lethal in not very high doses, addictive, depressant, prone to causing violence, damaging to organs. We are socially conditioned that it's a bit of a laugh, but really, if we could step outside ourselves for a minute we'd probably view it with the same distain as heroin.