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Hoke
Achieving Wine Immortality
11420
Sat Apr 15, 2006 1:07 am
Portland, OR
Robin Garr wrote:Hmm, I tried to delete one of Nigel's duplicate posts, and it seems they both disappeared when I did so. A system glitch, I suppose, but apologies to Nigel ... certainly no censorship was intended!
Robin Garr wrote:Hmm, I tried to delete one of Nigel's duplicate posts, and it seems they both disappeared when I did so. A system glitch, I suppose, but apologies to Nigel ... certainly no censorship was intended!
Hoke wrote:but the stats [alcohol related liver disease in particular] show that an increasing number of people of both sexes , from an already substantial base, are drinking more than is healthy and in an also increasing number, much more than is healthy.
This of course conforms to the bureaucratic tendency to always apply a shotgun approach when precision marksmanship may be more appropriate, Nigel.
Hoke
Achieving Wine Immortality
11420
Sat Apr 15, 2006 1:07 am
Portland, OR
Hoke wrote:Nigel, I deleted my post (albeit only one post) after Robin inadvertently deleted your posts, figuring that a response to a non-existent post was strange.
My now-deleted post was, as I best recall, indicating that the comment was not in regard to what you specifically had said, but in regard to what others had said about the tendency of a control agency in government---a bureaucracy---to respond in a wholesale manner---or shotgun approach---without regard to individual cases.
I can see, by the tenor and fervor of your response, that you are personally invested in reform issues on this subject; I, on the other hand, am at a distance (i.e., I don't really know what's going on in the UK on this issue so can't speak from an informed position).
As I responded to Tim on this matter, nowhere have I seen any comments on the why of this issue: if bad drinking habits are increasing (sometimes it is reported as merely over-consumption; sometimes it is specifically reported as 'binge drinking'), WHY? Seems to me knowing the reasons for a behavior would be the first step in attempting to correct or remediate that behavior. So far I've heard "We have a problem" but I haven't heard "...and these are the reasons why we have a problem."
Hoke
Achieving Wine Immortality
11420
Sat Apr 15, 2006 1:07 am
Portland, OR
Paul Winalski
Wok Wielder
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Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:16 pm
Merrimack, New Hampshire
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