Minimum Booze Pricing

[Sifu Ben]

Define binge then? You say it can't be stated enough, but how are you defining binge? The definition that the health promotion is using is that you intermittently drink more than is good for you on a semi-regular basis.
If you ate 3 chocolate bars in an evening you'd probably describe that as a binge.

[Sifu Ben]

+ 1

'cept I don't 'work out' quite as much as that !  8)

As the last time I checked there wasn't a workout for your liver (medicinal Qigong aside), perhaps not ;)

[Sailor Charon]

Define binge then? You say it can't be stated enough, but how are you defining binge? The definition that the health promotion is using is that you intermittently drink more than is good for you on a semi-regular basis.
If you ate 3 chocolate bars in an evening you'd probably describe that as a binge.

Er, no I wouldn't. Unless we're talking about maybe one pound bars. and I fail to see what the semi-regular basis thing has to do with anything. Define binge? To me, a binge is a large quantity of something. Something done to excess, regardless of how often or not. Eating two 12 inch pizzas would be a binge. Drinking 6 litres of *anything* (even water) would be a binge.

[Sifu Ben]

Something done to excess

This being the point surely?

It's the threshold at which it can start to have negative health consequences,

The regularity thing being because if you only do it once it's not that big a deal, if you do it with regularity then it's an issue.

[Sailor Charon]

Something done to excess

This being the point surely?

It's the threshold at which it can start to have negative health consequences,

The regularity thing being because if you only do it once it's not that big a deal, if you do it with regularity then it's an issue.

tell you what, I'll switch to 2 pints a night, 3 times a week. because that won't be so bad for me... yes... of course it won't (sarcasm)

[Sifu Ben]

Yes, because taking 8 paracetamol a day 3 times a week is as bad for you as taking 30 in one go (heavy sarcasm)  :roll:

[dave_mc]

:lol: touché

[Sailor Charon]

Because yes, the difference between two and three is the same as between eight and thirty. Oh wait *no it isn't*. And i couldn't give a stuff about it being the same principle.
Look, I'm not going to argue anymore, because... well, I can't see the point. We'll have to agree to disagree, and if you can't then... (shrug) not my problem.

[Sifu Ben]

It appears it is your problem, as you're the one who's taking it all very personally. It's about the amount that your body can safely metabolise. Once you're past that point you've crossed the toxic threshold of the substance and your body will suffer. If you do that with regularity it's a problem.
It's not complicated.

[dave_mc]

^ yep

8 paracetamol (assuming 500mg tablets) is, as far as i'm aware, the maximum safe daily dose.

from the looks of it 2 pints is the safe daily beer dose (obviously depending on strength etc.).

pretty much a straight analogy :?