If there is one thing about alcohol, it is that it can be a bit confusing. How much is enough? How much is too much? The fact is, its all a bit ambiguous.
Units for instance. What is a unit of alcohol - and just how many can I have?
Who bloody knows.
We're all told to take a certain amount of units a day, but it all gets a bit complicated.
A man can have more than woman, but then a large woman could probably have more than a man.
It's mad.
It's hard to have a hard and fast rule for what is appropriate really.
Beer varies in strength quite a lot for instance, so half a pint of one thing is no where near the same units as another.
It's hard to tell then, whether I should be operating machinery (probably not,) driving (certainly not,) getting a tattoo (a really bad idea) or joining the navy (very really really bad idea.)
Maybe they should fit breathalysing machines in pubs and the like, to make it easy to know how over you really are. The only issue however, is the British drinking culture - which would probably result in lads competing to get the highest blood alcohol level.
That couldn't end well now could it?
Probably not. Though it could get rid of the surplus of bloody idiots out there.
One way or another, they should make things clear and easy to work out, its the ambiguity that makes things awkward!
Rant over.
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