KEVIN COLEY'S THOUGHT FOR THE DAY-A DRINK PROBLEM
A British couple allegedly got so drunk they passed out while in charge of their children on holiday in Portugal. The kids were briefly taken into care and their parents are expected to appear before a judge. This doesn’t necessarily mean they will face charges. But the rest of us might.Back in the UK lately there have been calls to abolish discounted drinks, happy hour and two for the price of one bar deals. That’s not the way to do it. First of all, you need to treble the prices on all youf drinks. All under 21s should pay over the RRP for alcohol. But what shall we do about the drunken female epidemic gripping our nation? Arrests of drunken women are up 1,100 percent. That’s because they can’t take their ale like us men. Mrs McGuckin said she drank only three beers. That’s nothing compared to the volumes we men consume and remain standing.
Take for example the former leader of the Tory party William Hague. Between the ages of 15 and 21 he drank 14 pints a day during a summer job hauling crates of drinks into pubs across South Yorkshire. “We used to have a pint at every stop and we used to have about 10 stops a day," he said. "You worked hard so you didn't feel you'd drunk 10 pints by four o'clock - you used to sweat so much." And the day's drinking did not stop there, he explained. "Then [we would] go home for tea and then go out in the evening to the pub’.
So you see we men can take our drink. But it would seem that ladies are more aware of things in their intoxicated state. The drunken holiday mother in Portugal actually remembers how many pints she downed; three. That’s why she’s requested details of hospital blood tests because she was "very surprised" at her reaction after drinking only three pints. But when Russian man Yury Lyalin, 53, got drunk in April, he didn’t even notice that he’d been stabbed and there was a knife in his back. Perhaps someone could encourage this Russian gentleman to become tea total. He would benefit immensely. Scientists say that new brain cells develop during alcohol abstinence.
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