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PalerThanAle
Senior Member
Username: Palerthanale
Post Number: 1598
Registered: 04-2002
Posted From: 65.168.73.125
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 07:04 pm: | 
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Luckily Denny, Bill P and Tim Roth no longer have to worry about this. 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051130/hl_nm/drinking_dementia_dc
PTA
Water separates the people of the world, beer unites them.
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Josh Johnson
Junior Member
Username: Msujdog
Post Number: 81
Registered: 07-2003
Posted From: 167.73.110.8
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 07:39 pm: |
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The only bad thing about Alzheimers is that you forget how good beer tastes.
By the way, the only bad thing about Alzheimers is that you forget how good beer tastes. |
Dan Listermann
Senior Member
Username: Listermann
Post Number: 2140
Registered: 03-2004
Posted From: 216.215.203.37
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 07:56 pm: |
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What were we talking about?
Dan
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Bill Pierce
Moderator
Username: Billpierce
Post Number: 4041
Registered: 01-2002
Posted From: 24.57.229.8
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 07:58 pm: |
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***** for Josh.
So much for Cliff Clavin's theory of the buffalo herd.
(Message edited by BillPierce on December 01, 2005) |
tim roth
Intermediate Member
Username: Hopdude
Post Number: 334
Registered: 03-2003
Posted From: 69.179.23.43
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 08:16 pm: |
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Herd of Buffalo? Yah, I herd of buffalo.
Thanks alot PTA! Now I can worry about something, other than my IIPA. Or, is that IIQ? Dang, now I can't abbreviate.....
Or, can II?
You know I'm on the level because, my bubble is in the middle.
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PalerThanAle
Senior Member
Username: Palerthanale
Post Number: 1599
Registered: 04-2002
Posted From: 65.168.73.125
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 08:20 pm: |
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like it states - middle age - so you are in the clear.
PTA
Water separates the people of the world, beer unites them.
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q-ceps
Member
Username: Qceps
Post Number: 153
Registered: 11-2004
Posted From: 209.50.91.70
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 09:31 pm: |
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So they got a group of middle-aged people to accurately recall and fill out questionnaires with details regarding amounts of alcohol consumed during their alcohol binges...
How can they have dementia - that alone is above-average mental performance. |
Vance Barnes
Senior Member
Username: Vancebarnes
Post Number: 2011
Registered: 03-2003
Posted From: 208.49.148.10
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 09:39 pm: |
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My mom has dementia big time and she never drank a drop until she was in her 70's. Even then she never had more that a couple of glasses of wine at a time. So much for that therory.
Did Dean Martin have dementia? |
J. Steinhauer
Advanced Member
Username: Jstein6870
Post Number: 770
Registered: 03-2002
Posted From: 69.19.14.18
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 10:00 pm: |
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Of course I did not read the study (and I suppose the journalist knows as much of the study as I do). They did say "overall". This suggests to me that they did not account for other health problems, smoking, socioeconomics, pre-midlife IQ, family history of dementia, etc., etc., etc. What if you isolated all binge(?) drinking MENSA members? They could lose half their IQ and still not be demented.
If you ever watch Jay Leno's interviews of the people on the street, you know that the Average American is already demented, anyway.
These alcohol and health studes are always so lamearse. Geez, virtually every night that I don't work the next day I drink 60 ounces of beer or more. |
Magnus Graham
Member
Username: Cellarman
Post Number: 225
Registered: 03-2003
Posted From: 84.201.149.189
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 10:30 pm: |
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Next thing they'll try to tell us prions exist.
Is the incidence of dementia higher in the UK population where binging is great fun and occurs every Friday? Compare France (habitual) and Scandinavia (bingers).
The report suggests a bit of a pick and choose of statistics?
Drink on and forget about the potential consequences.
keep it simple they've made beer for millennia
mash it boil it hop it yeast it drink it
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don price
Advanced Member
Username: Donzoid
Post Number: 785
Registered: 02-2003
Posted From: 24.94.122.117
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - 11:59 pm: |
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....and chlorinated water causes an increased cancer risk. Big deal. You're going to take the big dirt nap someday and nothing can stop you.
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Bryan Perkins
Junior Member
Username: Bryanperkins
Post Number: 32
Registered: 05-2003
Posted From: 66.87.224.52
| | Posted on Thursday, December 01, 2005 - 12:06 am: |
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Since when is 5 beers considered a binge? |
Tony Legge
Member
Username: Boo_boo
Post Number: 104
Registered: 05-2005
Posted From: 142.163.136.43
| | Posted on Thursday, December 01, 2005 - 12:17 am: |
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And Don, the way to last longer is to be pickled when you go. |
Tim Wi
Intermediate Member
Username: Riverkeeper
Post Number: 317
Registered: 03-2005
Posted From: 65.7.92.247
| | Posted on Thursday, December 01, 2005 - 02:30 am: |
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Tony, and if you prefer cremation, if you are pickled your carcass will burn faster, not to mention all the lipids that you will have built up. |
Miker
Intermediate Member
Username: Miker
Post Number: 338
Registered: 02-2003
Posted From: 69.15.183.207
| | Posted on Thursday, December 01, 2005 - 07:38 pm: |
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....and chlorinated water causes an increased cancer risk. Big deal. You're going to take the big dirt nap someday and nothing can stop you.
This is strange logic to me. If you knew something caused an increased cancer risk (can't say I've heard this about chlorinated water, but it wouldn't surprise me a lot) wouldn't you try to avoid it if possible. Sure we all gotta go, but believe me there are nicer ways to go than cancer. |
Tim Wi
Intermediate Member
Username: Riverkeeper
Post Number: 321
Registered: 03-2005
Posted From: 170.141.68.99
| | Posted on Thursday, December 01, 2005 - 08:02 pm: |
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Miker, I think don p is talking about the formation of trihalomethanes when chlorine reacts with organic matter in water. THM are thought to be a cancer concern.
But hell, if we did not use chlorine or some other disinfectant with residual effects, we would all be preoccupied with crapping ourselves to death with typhoid, cholera, ditptheria, giardia, dysentery or any number of other water-borne nasties.
So we elliminate a huge risk and replace it with a tiny one. I'll take it.
T |
Vance Barnes
Senior Member
Username: Vancebarnes
Post Number: 2013
Registered: 03-2003
Posted From: 208.49.148.10
| | Posted on Thursday, December 01, 2005 - 08:06 pm: |
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There are so many things known and still to be discoverd that can cause cancer that where do you start to be concerned? If you worried about them all you'd go crazy so what's the point. I look at it as the price we pay for living in the time period we do. We still have a longer life expectancy that people a century ago before most of the carcnegins were around anyhow.
Although I read last week about a town in CA where there is such a high level of naturally occuring asbestoes that the baseball fields are toxic. |
Mike Mayer
Advanced Member
Username: Mmayer
Post Number: 546
Registered: 12-2002
Posted From: 67.39.200.222
| | Posted on Thursday, December 01, 2005 - 11:00 pm: |
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I don't think any of it matters, your demise has been pre-determined, and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it!! That's my theory anyway, and I'm sticking to it. Going down to pour beer 2 of 5 for tonight. |
Michael
Advanced Member
Username: Hoppop
Post Number: 728
Registered: 03-2002
Posted From: 65.82.104.120
| | Posted on Friday, December 02, 2005 - 03:34 pm: |
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>>>Since when is 5 b**rs considered a binge?>>
http://www.drinkingandyou.com/site/uk/biggy.htm
Depends on where you live...see the link...maximum recommended by each countries Health Organizations....
Austrailia - 4 per day (men)
Canada - 7 per WEEK (men)
France - 5 per day (men)
US - 2 per day (men) |
Bill Pierce
Moderator
Username: Billpierce
Post Number: 4058
Registered: 01-2002
Posted From: 24.57.229.8
| | Posted on Friday, December 02, 2005 - 04:03 pm: |
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I'm glad to see I'm doing my part to keep up the long tradition of Canadian binge drinking. Of course at about 10 beers per week I'm a small-timer. |
Michael
Advanced Member
Username: Hoppop
Post Number: 731
Registered: 03-2002
Posted From: 65.82.104.120
| | Posted on Friday, December 02, 2005 - 04:09 pm: |
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Yeah, Bill...I'm a Frenchman living in North Carolina! |
PalerThanAle
Senior Member
Username: Palerthanale
Post Number: 1601
Registered: 04-2002
Posted From: 65.168.73.125
| | Posted on Friday, December 02, 2005 - 05:27 pm: |
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I must be 2.5 frenchmen. This really explains a lot.
PTA
Water separates the people of the world, beer unites them.
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Denny Conn
Senior Member
Username: Denny
Post Number: 5263
Registered: 01-2001
Posted From: 140.211.82.4
| | Posted on Friday, December 02, 2005 - 07:19 pm: |
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Damn...middle ages. Are they referring to a historical period or my age? 
LIfe begins at 60...1.060, that is.
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Tim Wi
Intermediate Member
Username: Riverkeeper
Post Number: 323
Registered: 03-2005
Posted From: 170.141.68.99
| | Posted on Friday, December 02, 2005 - 08:00 pm: |
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Damn PTA! consider changing your handle from "PTA" to "FNP" |
PalerThanAle
Senior Member
Username: Palerthanale
Post Number: 1604
Registered: 04-2002
Posted From: 65.168.73.125
| | Posted on Friday, December 02, 2005 - 08:16 pm: |
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FNP = Friendly Nice Person? , Furry Nocturnal Preditor? , Fast kNuckleball Pitcher?, Funny Not Political?
PTA
Water separates the people of the world, beer unites them.
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Tim Wi
Intermediate Member
Username: Riverkeeper
Post Number: 325
Registered: 03-2005
Posted From: 170.141.68.99
| | Posted on Friday, December 02, 2005 - 09:03 pm: |
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Feeling No Pain
or ... well... in deference to tranquil liza I will forego that one.
T |
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