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  2. I used to drink far too much and knew a lot of just plain alcoholics. It very soon became clear that everyone on this planet, including me, lied about how much they drank. Usually they had 3 times as many as they admitted, sometimes as low as twice, often 4 times or more.

    We did it by outright lying, pouring over-sized drinks or ‘forgetting’ the two beers we had with lunch, etc.

    So unless statistics are gathered by locking people up 24/7 for months or years at a time, I don’t believe them at all.

    Human beings tell lots of lies? Amazing, innit?

    Me, I only have 2 drinks a day.

    1. Fred,
      I’m not sure that a pint glass filled with Scotch can be labeled as “one” drink, but I’m not completely au fait with your Canadian customs.

  3. It’s not that white wine actually increases the risk of prostate cancer. It’s that the kind of “man” who drinks white wine engages in other pursuits that increase the risk.

    Or to quote Christopher Hitchens, “Wine Is Red.”

    > Me, I only have 2 drinks a day.

    The first one and the last one?

    What that graphic really says is “too much of a good thing ain’t a good thing.”

    The wise man knows that “moderation is all things” also applies to moderation. Sometimes you have to be immoderate.

  4. Last New Year’s Eve I made two resolutions. One was not to drink anymore.

    The other was not to drink any less.

  5. Seriously, alcohol, especially red wine, (says I) is a great gift from God and proof that he loves us.

    It is a great sin to refuse it and an equally great sin to abuse it.

  6. As said by Bela Lugosi, “I don’t drink…wine”. The corollary to that is that I don’t drink much bourbon/Scotch/whiskey/tequila/mezcal, either.

  7. As always with these stupid studies, this is correlation, not causality. Media scum doesn’t know the difference.

  8. My wife bought some mead, and we’re planning on trying it with Sunday dinner. I wonder how that fits into the summary, and the red vs white differences.

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