This guys could have used this article years ago.

I'll drink to that.

/Maybe they can find a way to legalize another way to have altered states of mind that don't shred the liver.

kidsizedcoffin: /Maybe they can find a way to legalize another way to have altered states of mind that don't shred the liver.

What's up with your normal state of mind?

meekychuppet: kidsizedcoffin: /Maybe they can find a way to legalize another way to have altered states of mind that don't shred the liver.

What's up with your normal state of mind?

It wants a vacation.

Bah. I need more coffee.

I read half that farking article looking for mention of Pete Townsend or a hotel room being trashed before I realized they were talking about the WHO and not The Who.

FTA: Young people prone to drinking to intoxication and heavy episodic drinking were found to be particularly vulnerable.

And if there's anyone that'll listen to WHO recommendations, it's young people prone to drinking to intoxication.

Recommendation #1: Give all of your alcohol to girljen. This will decrease the harmful effects of alcohol for everyone except girljen, who will be too drunk to care.

/yes, it is my "friday"
//only one more hour left of work

I'm drunk as a skunk and I'm getting a kick out of these replies...

The WHAT did this years ago.

Wadsworth: Professor Plum, you were once a professor of psychiatry specializing in helping paranoid and homicidal lunatics suffering from delusions of grandeur.
Professor Plum: Yes, but now I work for the United Nations.
Wadsworth: So your work has not changed.

A report presented to the executive board found that harmful drinking caused 2.3 million premature deaths worldwide each year, accounting for nearly 4 percent of global deaths.

In fairness, those are some pretty High Numbers.

Ditto, Moe!

/and now back to playing Drunken Rock Band ...

girljen: Recommendation #1: Give all of your alcohol to girljen. This will decrease the harmful effects of alcohol for everyone except girljen, who will be too drunk to care.

/yes, it is my "friday"
//only one more hour left of work

lucky, I got 3.5 hrs to go. And I have to work tommorrow. My life sucks anyone wanna trade.

gigamortis: lucky, I got 3.5 hrs to go. And I have to work tommorrow. My life sucks anyone wanna trade.

i guess in this great big elementary-school lunchroom of life you must be the kid the with crushed pb&j sandwich :(

well my sandwich has soggy lettuce on it, you'll be just fine.

/i'm just foolin' with ya chap.
//DNRTFA

I_Can't_Believe_it's_not_Boutros: A report presented to the executive board found that harmful drinking caused 2.3 million premature deaths worldwide each year, accounting for nearly 4 percent of global deaths.

In fairness, those are some pretty High Numbers.

"Premature death" stats tend to skew numbers something shocking. For example, it's highly likely that a huge number of those deaths were old men in Eastern Europe and Russia who died of something that was put down to an "alcohol-related illness" even though they were within a few short years of their life expectancy anyway.

"2.3 million premature deaths" sounds bad, but the number of truly tragic "young lives cut short" kind of deaths is much smaller.

It's the same as with smoking. Stats show that annual "smoking-related deaths" are in the millions, but if you filter out the 65+ year old people who died of something that might or might not have been related to their smoking, it doesn't look at farked up as when you look at the raw number.

I'm not advocating some kind of careless stance regarding smoking/drinking/other vices here. Just saying, these raw numbers need some perspective. People tend to get a "young life cut short" sort of impression when they see a "premature deaths" number, but very often it's not so much a "young life cut short" as just a normal cause of death in old age in a given society.

/Over-indulgence in calories causes FAR more "premature deaths" in the Western world than all "vices" combined twice over.

phillydrifter: Legalize all drugs, that's how.

This headline is sufficient. +1

Melgania: "Premature death" stats tend to skew numbers something shocking...

Thanks for the info. Here's some for you, courtesy of Wiki:

The Detours changed their name to "The Who" in 1964 and, with the arrival of Keith Moon that year, their line-up was complete. However, for a short period during 1964, under the management of famed mod Peter Meaden, they changed their name to The High Numbers, during which time they released "Zoot Suit/I'm The Face", a single designed to appeal to their mostly mod fans. When it failed to chart, the band fired Meaden and quickly reverted to The Who.

I_Can't_Believe_it's_not_Boutros: Melgania: "Premature death" stats tend to skew numbers something shocking...

Thanks for the info. Here's some for you, courtesy of Wiki:

The Detours changed their name to "The Who" in 1964 and, with the arrival of Keith Moon that year, their line-up was complete. However, for a short period during 1964, under the management of famed mod Peter Meaden, they changed their name to The High Numbers, during which time they released "Zoot Suit/I'm The Face", a single designed to appeal to their mostly mod fans. When it failed to chart, the band fired Meaden and quickly reverted to The Who.

Well played. ;)

I_Can't_Believe_it's_not_Boutros

Melgania: "Premature death" stats tend to skew numbers something shocking...

Thanks for the info. Here's some for you, courtesy of Wiki:

The Detours changed their name to "The Who" in 1964 and, with the arrival of Keith Moon that year, their line-up was complete. However, for a short period during 1964, under the management of famed mod Peter Meaden, they changed their name to The High Numbers, during which time they released "Zoot Suit/I'm The Face", a single designed to appeal to their mostly mod fans. When it failed to chart, the band fired Meaden and quickly reverted to The Who.

I came to give you the obligatory "I see what you did there..." nod, but I see I was a little late to support a fellow Whohead. Good play, sir.

What's the name of the band on the stage?
Who.

Who invented the steam engine?

First they came after our weed. Then they came after our smokes. Now they come after our drinks.

As someone who's skunk as a drunk, I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

The Who was just doing research on the problem.

Damn. I was hoping it had a hangover cure. I feel like crap this morning.

Well done, TheHumanCannonball.

/Communism was just a red herring

How many children die each year of treatable illnesses? Methinks the WHO has more important things to worry about.

meekychuppet [TotalFark] Quote 2008-01-27 04:36:32 AM
kidsizedcoffin: /Maybe they can find a way to legalize another way to have altered states of mind that don't shred the liver.

What's up with your normal state of mind?

F that you puss. I spend 12 hours a day working, I don't wanna see more reality once I get home. I need drugs.

I tyhink every cvultyure knows the danmgersd of al;cohol.

You can't really dust for vomit.

Maybe a Miracle Cure would be to eat more Heinz Baked Beans?

Seriously, I wish marijuana and mushrooms would be legalized (and de-demonized from employers) so I could take a legal and responsible "mind vacation" once in awhile. In the meantime, I socially drink, and go on a bender probably every other month for blessed self-medication.

What's with all of you prudes who get your panties in a wad when other people want to smoke weed and don't hurt you directly? I've come to believe a lot of super-motivated republican types realize the world might be less than super-productive, albeit happier, if the masses smoked weed freely, and as a result, they'd be less super-rich from the physical work of others. They're not happy with being regular-rich; they must strive to always want more. There's no such word as "satisfied" or "enough" to the people who don't want the masses to be happier and a little sloppier.

I'd take a life that's a little sloppier and a lot happier because I know the meaning of the word "enough."

I probably won't be very popular on Fark (was I ever?) after this comment, but after having abused alcohol rather severely for more than 20 years I'd have to say that sobriety has its benefits.

Having quit cold turkey (no AA or any other direct help) I can say I'm happier and healthier than ever.

Some people can obviously use alcohol responsibly and function reasonably well. I'm not one of those people.

Boobies + beer = no match for the WHO.

Melgania: I_Can't_Believe_it's_not_Boutros: A report presented to the executive board found that harmful drinking caused 2.3 million premature deaths worldwide each year, accounting for nearly 4 percent of global deaths.

In fairness, those are some pretty High Numbers.

"Premature death" stats tend to skew numbers something shocking. For example, it's highly likely that a huge number of those deaths were old men in Eastern Europe and Russia who died of something that was put down to an "alcohol-related illness" even though they were within a few short years of their life expectancy anyway.

"2.3 million premature deaths" sounds bad, but the number of truly tragic "young lives cut short" kind of deaths is much smaller.

It's the same as with smoking. Stats show that annual "smoking-related deaths" are in the millions, but if you filter out the 65+ year old people who died of something that might or might not have been related to their smoking, it doesn't look at farked up as when you look at the raw number.

I'm not advocating some kind of careless stance regarding smoking/drinking/other vices here. Just saying, these raw numbers need some perspective. People tend to get a "young life cut short" sort of impression when they see a "premature deaths" number, but very often it's not so much a "young life cut short" as just a normal cause of death in old age in a given society.

/Over-indulgence in calories causes FAR more "premature deaths" in the Western world than all "vices" combined twice over.

i lol'd

it was a trap :P

Here comes prohibition part 2

Akuinnen: Here comes prohibition part 2

I'm pretty sure the WHO is aware that prohibition makes things worse.

Akuinnen: Here comes prohibition part 2

I was looking for a way to break into organized crime.

/Well I'll be the son of a bootlegger

luigibrasile: Boobies + beer = no match for the WHO.

Quick, somebody PhotoShop a plate of hot wings into this pic so that I can die happily.

I Don't Know.

THIRD BASE!

girljen: Recommendation #1: Give all of your alcohol to girljen. This will decrease the harmful effects of alcohol for everyone except girljen, who will be too drunk to care.

/yes, it is my "friday"
//only one more hour left of work

I like to think...that in the hereafter of our lives,when the gold has lost its luster and all we have left is the love of family and friends I'll meet you and shake your hand.God bless.

F42: Akuinnen: Here comes prohibition part 2

I'm pretty sure the WHO is aware that prohibition makes things worse.

And yet this lesson has yet to be fully learned, especially regarding marijuana.

Ow My Balls: ...I've come to believe a lot of super-motivated republican types realize the world might be less than super-productive, albeit happier, if the masses smoked weed freely, and as a result, they'd be less super-rich from the physical work of others. They're not happy with being regular-rich; they must strive to always want more...

I came in here to say that, but you've already done so quite well.

z_gringo: Bah. I need more coffee.

I read half that farking article looking for mention of Pete Townsend or a hotel room being trashed before I realized they were talking about the WHO and not The Who.

Exactly. This headline was kind of like getting rickrolled.

sift: meekychuppet [TotalFark] Quote 2008-01-27 04:36:32 AM
kidsizedcoffin: /Maybe they can find a way to legalize another way to have altered states of mind that don't shred the liver.

What's up with your normal state of mind?

F that you puss. I spend 12 hours a day working, I don't wanna see more reality once I get home. I need drugs.

You don't need drugs. You WANT drugs.
So do I, but, hey, let's call spades spades.

/water, food, shelter, companionship, experience, release: the six human hungers.

Best way to reduce harmful effects of alcohol: Leave the cap on the bottle, leave the bottle on the store shelf, let the dumbsh*ts of the world buy it instead.