Oh Perleeeese...

[beryllium]

What next?

Now then all you/us middle working your socks off lot!!!!

Stop your drinking. How dare you try and relax after a long hard days work.

It's dangerous you know!!!

The liver is evil and must be punished I say!!! and apparently Guildford is in the lead lol...

Are you going to stop having a glass of wine with this warning???....

[The Builder]

In a word........**&&*%�$$**!

[daffy654]

I don't drink wine,i'm a whisky drinker.lol. No government warning will stop me from having the occasional glass.Anyway what will the government do for income if we all stop smoking and drinking? Put income tax up?charge more VAT?

[China Doll]

That Guildford area is a right dive I hear... full of riff raff. No wonder it has a drink problem!

I personally never touch the stuff except on special occasions.

[Sweep2k]

Why do people get so antagonised by government health campaigns?

Think of it as friendly advice.

If there were no warnings on cigarette packets or alcohol adverts, people would accuse them of doing nothing to stop people killing themselves.

They're not stopping you from drinking/eating salt/smoking. They're just making you aware of the facts. Feel free to ignore them.

[Gromit]

Did you notice the North / South divide. The affluent south east could only manage to be good at harmful drinking. You have to come to the north west for proper hazardous imbibing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7045830.stm

[anotheoldgit]

I have often wondered how they managed to get King John down to Runnymede to sign the Magna Carta..

[beryllium]

Government... friendly???.... best paradox yet Sweep :)

So... what's the difference between Harmful and Hazardous.... anyone??? anyone???.....

[China Doll]

Harmful = When you bump in to something when tipsy and don't notice that it hurt and you have a bruise in the morning. Also known as a UDI.

Hazardous = Me drunk on white wine, a cliff edge and something shiny near near the neon sign that has fallen down that says 'Danger, Cliff Edge'

[Gromit]

Says in the link:

Harmful = 22 - 50 Units a week

Hazardous = More than 50 units a week

[Booldawg]

We're also being told our pensions will be worth nothing and we'll have to work until we're 75. Drinking ourselves into an early grave is not such the problem it used to be.

[beryllium]

Wahaaaay!!! way to go CD ;) mind the cliff!!!

Now then, the old bloke on the lunchnews. A Liver Expert... was basically saying that him and his colleagues were fed up with not having enough time for golf as the middle working class drinkers were taking up their time.

The upper class??? well...

Next!!!

[Ethel]

I was shocked into stopping drinking in April after blood tests for something else entirely showed my liver is damaged.

I was never drunk, never had a hang over, but did drink a bottle of wine a day, every day. A couple of glasses at lunch time and finish the bottle during the evening.

The last result showed a marked improvement - but still not right. Next test due in November.

I was very lucky to have the blood test, I think.

[beryllium]

Life's a gamble innit Ethel. :)

[society]

Hope everything turns out great with you and your liver, Ethel.

Best Wishes,
xx

[sambro]

Makes you wonder what state the livers of all these youngsters who binge drink at the weekend are in doesn't it?
A lot of them get drunk before they go out too!

[fletcher.5]

Why are you posting your comments on this site the middle class ******** will not respond, however you do not need to be middle class to be a **** head. the only difference is, is what you drinkl

[ruby27]

I am with Sweep2k on this one. Especially as if the government didn't inform the public, no doubt someone would then try and sue the government if they found they had health problems associated with excessive drinking.

Booldawg have you seen someone die because their liver is cancerous due to booze, I have and it was terrible for us and I don't think my father relished it overmuch.

[gelda]

China doll, I live in Guildford and quite aggree with you, it used to be a lovely quiet market town but now at night it's full of loudmouthed drunks.

[Booldawg]

Its full of loud mouthed drunks from Bordon

[CushtyFred]

Guildford is cushty my moosh! As BOOLDAWG said, it's full of loud mouth Bordoners fighting at the train station and up and down the highstreet on a Friday and Saturday night. Don't forget to gel on up Time, it's got more chavies than Minnesota's!