5 years of healthy extra life vs giving up alcohol

badabing106

If you could only choose one. Which would you choose?

darkpagandeath

5 more years of either not knowing who you are or immobilised in your nursing home ?

(no offence ment)

frozenfrozen

Give up drinking, then finish myself off with a 5 year binge. I've earned it, after all.

Pat Mustard

Or would life just seem longer?

whirlpool

You'd have to be depressed or addicted - i.e. alcohol dependent - to choose the alcohol option.

The Backwards Man

Healthy years, doesn't matter how many.

Suryavarman

whirlpool wrote: »

You'd have to be depressed or addicted - i.e. alcohol dependent - to choose the alcohol option.

Or maybe you could be one of those people that enjoys all the good times they have while drunk and prefer them to the idea of living to 85 instead of 80.

Idle Passerby

darkpagandeath wrote: »

5 more years of either not knowing who you are or immobilised in your nursing home ?

(no offence ment)

"5 healthy extra years". Healthy people usually don't spend their time not knowing who they are, imobilised in a nursing home as far as I'm aware.

brummytom

Drink

As I read once on boards

"I could give up alcohol, but I could never give up wine"

Vito Corleone

If there was no alcohol I'd kill myself.

c_man

Drink. *drinks*

I'll keep the booze, thanks.
Living too long would be boring.

badabing106

Deleted User wrote: »

I'll keep the booze, thanks.
Living too long would be boring.

It shouldn't be boring. There are hundreds of countries /different cultures to visit . Thousands of great books /films to see. If you are lucky enough to have family life etc( that never gets boring)

Banjo String

Five years?

Jeez, sure I didn't even last five weeks after Christmas FFS.

**opens third Paulaner of the evening**

badabing106

badabing106 wrote: »

There is no way that living too long would be boring? How many countries /different cultures have you not visited? how many great books /films have you not seen?

Well I lived in China for a few months and have seen a good few places in Europe. While I would love to do a lot more travelling, that sadly requires money. Which requires working. And since there's nothing I'm particularly good at or passionate about, employment is a tedious chore, the benefits of which (having enough money to go travelling and stuff) aren't nearly worth the hours of mindnumbing boredom, servitude and feelings of inadequacy.

And while I do love books, I'm not much of a film person.

So yeah, I can manage without the five extra years, thanks.

MadsL

*taps a fresh keg*

Bollox to that.

Banjo String

MadsL wrote: »

*taps a fresh keg*

Bollox to that.

Madsl, I have been reading loads of an American craft beer called dogfishhead.

Haven't located any in Ireland as of yet, but have relatives away to Chicago for a few days who are keeping their eyes peeled for me.


Have you tried yet? Supposed to be amazingly good beer.

Tin Foil Hat

whirlpool wrote: »

You'd have to be depressed or addicted - i.e. alcohol dependent - to choose the alcohol option.

Or maybe just a have the brains to realise that the choice is bogus. It doesn't exist in reality. You could live the healthiest lifestyle possible and still get struck down by cancer - or a bus. Meanwhile plenty of people drink into their eighties and nineties. My grandfather, fond of Guinness and whiskey, made it well over a hundred. His daughter, who never drank, didn't make 70.
Death is a lottery. Yes, we can sway the percentages one way or the other, but I'll take my chances living a life I enjoy.

biko

Your life won't be longer, it'll just feel that way.

badabing106

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

Or maybe just a have the brains to realise that the choice is bogus. It doesn't exist in reality. You could live the healthiest lifestyle possible and still get struck down by cancer - or a bus. Meanwhile plenty of people drink into their eighties and nineties. My grandfather, fond of Guinness and whiskey, made it well over a hundred. His daughter, who never drank, didn't make 70.
Death is a lottery. Yes, we can sway the percentages one way or the other, but I'll take my chances living a life I enjoy.

There are no percentages in this poll, you are given a choice, a clear choice....nothing to do with genetics or family history etc.....


Choose A or B

Banjo String

bobdebollix wrote: »

Alcy Irish sad acts. Most of Europe is paying for you ****s to get drunk on the dole and not pay your credit union and mortgage.

Fcuk off Bob.

Ye big Bollox

Tin Foil Hat

badabing106 wrote: »

There are no percentages in this poll, you are given a choice, a clear choice....nothing to do with genetics or family history etc.....Choose A or B

Your simplistic internet poll doesn't overrule reality.
I choose reality. And beer. And I'll take those five years anyway. My grandfathers' average age was 99 - with the drinker outliving the non drinker by 8 years.:)

Kylo Ren

bobdebollix wrote: »

Alcy Irish sad acts. Most of Europe is paying for you ****s to get drunk on the dole and not pay your credit union and mortgage.

Now that, is a first post.

Santa Cruz

"Alcohol, the cause of, and solution to all life's problems" Mr. H Simpson 1997

MadsL

Banjo String wrote: »

Madsl, I have been reading loads of an American craft beer called dogfishhead.

Haven't located any in Ireland as of yet, but have relatives away to Chicago for a few days who are keeping their eyes peeled for me.


Have you tried yet? Supposed to be amazingly good beer.

'Tis. But I have about 12 craft breweries near me so drink almost exclusively draft these days. Two just opened this last couple of months.

Just fresh tapped a new nano-brewery's keg of a traditional bock and I'm just off out to pick up a Dortmunder from La Cumbre (their IPA gets 100/100 beer advocate score)

So I rarely buy out of state.

Banjo String

MadsL wrote: »

'Tis. But I have about 12 craft breweries near me so drink almost exclusively draft these days. Two just opened this last couple of months.

Just fresh tapped a new nano-brewery's keg of a traditional bock and I'm just off out to pick up a Dortmunder from La Cumbre (their IPA gets 100/100 beer advocate score)

So I rarely buy out of state.

Meh.

Bet ya you'd trade it all for a 6er of Dutch gold. :pac:

MadsL

Banjo String wrote: »

Meh.

Bet ya you'd trade it all for a 6er of Dutch gold. :pac:

What would you trade for a couple of days in this cellar?

http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/10099/

Look out for La Cumbre though if you like IPAs, they are canning it and it is sublime. Pretty can too. http://craftcans.com/craftcanspics/lacumbrecansBIG.jpg
7.4%

badabing106

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

Your simplistic internet poll doesn't overrule reality.
I choose reality. And beer. And I'll take those five years anyway. My grandfathers' average age was 99 - with the drinker outliving the non drinker by 8 years.:)

This choice was without genectics? A STRAIGHT UP A OR B ?

Micky Dolenz

If you pick alcohol over life, you really need to examine what your priorities are.

~*hick*

Fox_In_Socks

Jesus, I'll need to be stopped from shortening my life with alcohol included, never mind taking alcohol away.:pac:

Tin Foil Hat

badabing106 wrote: »

This choice was without genectics? A STRAIGHT UP A OR B ?

But there is no straight up A or B, without or without genetics. You're not listening. That choice does not exist.
And even if life was so simplistic that an individual person could make a single choice and get some extra years in return, then that person would be better off drinking moderately than not drinking at all. So your question is bogus on two levels.

badabing106

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

But there is no straight up A or B, without or without genetics. You're not listening. That choice does not exist.
And even if life was so simplistic that an individual person could make a single choice and get some extra years in return, then that person would be better off drinking moderately than not drinking at all. So your question is bogus on two levels.

...No alcohol vs 5 years extra healthy life....

badabing106

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

But there is no straight up A or B, without or without genetics. You're not listening. That choice does not exist.
And even if life was so simplistic that an individual person could make a single choice and get some extra years in return, then that person would be better off drinking moderately than not drinking at all. So your question is bogus on two levels.

A or B

Tin Foil Hat

badabing106 wrote: »

Question is - no alcohol vs 5 years extra healthy life....

Right so, I'll cut you some slack.
If you can explain the mechanics of how I would execute that choice, then I'll try my best to give you an answer.

uch

fuk that, thought I'd be dead by the time I was 30, drug habit and serious drinker, off the gear 12 years, still drink like a fish , it was my 44th birthday last week so everything after this is a bonus, so lean ar aghaidh, upwards and onwards

rustedtrumpet

uch wrote: »

fuk that, thought I'd be dead by the time I was 30, drug habit and serious drinker, off the gear 12 years, still drink like a fish , it was my 44th birthday last week so everything after this is a bonus, so lean ar aghaidh, upwards and onwards

Keep er lit mate :cool:

mickdw

I knew a chap that was told by his doctor in 1982 that if he didn't give up drink, he would be dead in 3 years.
His reply: I will take the 3.

He didn't give up the drink and died only a couple of years back aged 92.

Banjo String

MadsL wrote: »

What would you trade for a couple of days in this cellar?

http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/10099/

Look out for La Cumbre though if you like IPAs, they are canning it and it is sublime. Pretty can too. http://craftcans.com/craftcanspics/lacumbrecansBIG.jpg
7.4%

I'm salivating here.

bnt

Um... both? Moderate drinking doesn't take any years off your life expectancy. Why is drinking in Ireland an "all or nothing" activity?

AlanS181824

I don't drink or smoke so 5 extra years for me please!

uch

AlanS181824 wrote: »

I don't drink or smoke so 5 extra years for me please!

Sorry bout that

AlanS181824

uch wrote: »

Sorry bout that

Ah jaysus shur don't be sorry!

Sir Arthur Daley

The computer says no

southcentralts

If you can guarantee that I will lose only 5 years, drinking heavily everyday, then you sir have a deal and I will go back on the sauce.

anonimity

I honestly think anyone who would seriously give up 5 years of their life in place of alcohol has a serious problem.

Spunge

I dont drink alcohol anyway.

Can i still do mdma, methamphetamine, cannabis, lsd, heroin, cigarettes, caffeine ?