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January 6th, 2025 at 4:16:49 PM permalink
My car mechanic has also warned me against KIA's and Volkswagons.
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January 6th, 2025 at 4:35:32 PM permalink
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Yep, on the mechanics channel they don't want Kia's, Volkswagens and believe it or not BMWs. What they praise all the time is the Toyota Celica, especially the older ones from 10 or 15 years ago, apparently they were built like tanks and some got five and six hundred thousand miles.

None of them like American cars but my wife bought a brand new 2014 Chevy Cruze and she now has 70,000 miles on it and it's never been in the shop. It looks brand new. The fact that she only has half the mileage should have might have something to do with it. She lives in a really small town and everything is within a mile of her house so she never drives anywhere. She always takes it to the dealership for an oil change, because she's a woman, and every time they send her an email saying they want to buy the car from her because it has such low mileage and they know it'll be in a lot about 20 minutes.
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January 6th, 2025 at 4:51:49 PM permalink
Chevy Cruzes are in such demand, especially ten-year-old models. 2011-2015 models are notorious for tranny issues, but on bobs planet, that is a good thing.
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January 6th, 2025 at 5:26:28 PM permalink
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Chevy Cruzes are in such demand, especially ten-year-old models. 2011-2015 models are notorious for tranny issues, but on bobs planet, that is a good thing.
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Who cares, she only drives maybe 2,000 miles a year so in 10 years she still won't have a hundred thousand miles on it. It will be the last car she ever owns.
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January 6th, 2025 at 11:04:59 PM permalink
According to mechanic reviews and reliability reports, mechanics generally consider Kia vehicles to be very reliable, often ranking them high among mainstream brands, with praise for their quality, low repair costs, and above-average longevity, especially in recent years; however, some older models might have more common issues depending on mileage.
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January 7th, 2025 at 5:43:55 AM permalink
I just tend to avoid American cars, I have owned new, Nissan's, Kia, Toyota's, Honda's, Isuzu (used), BMW's, Mazda's, and a Mitsubishi. I have also owned a Chevrolet, Ford, Dodge, and Cadillac in the past. I have had better luck with the foreign cars. Currently I only own a Honda.
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I just tend to avoid American cars, I have owned new, Nissan's, Kia, Toyota's, Honda's, Isuzu (used), BMW's, Mazda's, and a Mitsubishi. I have also owned a Chevrolet, Ford, Dodge, and Cadillac in the past. I have had better luck with the foreign cars. Currently I only own a Honda.
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American cars (before the big advent of foreign cars) tended to be model and year specific as whether it had a better mechanical rating. I don't remember any manufacturer getting high scores year after year.
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January 7th, 2025 at 6:10:52 AM permalink
In the 1960s, if you bought a Buick, you got a car with a Buick engine. My father liked Oldmobiles. We had a series of used Olds, when I was a kid. He also had a 59 Olds Super 98, which was a project car.
In 1976, he bought a new Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme and discovered it had a Buick engine in it. GM was using its parts interchangeably without announcing it, so the biggest difference between a Monte Carlo and a Cutlass was the badge. That chased a lot of customers away from the company.
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January 7th, 2025 at 8:00:26 AM permalink
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In the 1960s, if you bought a Buick, you got a car with a Buick engine. My father liked Oldmobiles. We had a series of used Olds, when I was a kid. He also had a 59 Olds Super 98, which was a project car.
In 1976, he bought a new Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme and discovered it had a Buick engine in it. GM was using its parts interchangeably without announcing it, so the biggest difference between a Monte Carlo and a Cutlass was the badge. That chased a lot of customers away from the company.
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There was a huge lawsuit over those engine swaps. GM thought nobody would notice much less care. But the guy who grew up wanting a Rocket V-8 got very upset when there was a Chevy V-8 under the hood.
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January 7th, 2025 at 12:31:55 PM permalink
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A storm coming in from California may merge with one heading up from Mexico. I've got seven different Weather Alerts on Alexa since 9 AM
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January 8th, 2025 at 7:43:00 AM permalink
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the world's population is about 8.2 billion
India has surpassed China in population
that happened in April of 2023
both India and China have more than 4 times as many people as does the U.S.
the world population is growing by about 70 million per year
at that rate the population will be about 9 billion in 14 years


https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

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Has anyone tried a weighted blanket? I picked one up at an auction last week. A thirty-pound blanket may sound absurd, but crawling under it at night is incredible. I slept until 8 AM, when I usually wake up around 6ish. Five days in, and I'm loving it. I am worried that a thirty-pound blanket will be problematic to wash.
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January 8th, 2025 at 7:48:16 AM permalink
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Has anyone tried a weighted blanket? I picked one up at an auction last week. A thirty-pound blanket may sound absurd, but crawling under it at night is incredible. I slept until 8 AM, when I usually wake up around 6ish. Five days in, and I'm loving it. I am worried that a thirty-pound blanket will be problematic to wash.
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we have a very heavy comforter - yes, it's great for sleeping in the winter - not as heavy as yours

we have to take it to a laundromat with big machines to wash it - it won't fit in our machine

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January 8th, 2025 at 7:51:18 AM permalink
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the world's population is about 8.2 billion
India has surpassed China in population
that happened in April of 2023
both India and China have more than 4 times as many people as does the U.S.
the world population is growing by about 70 million per year
at that rate the population will be about 9 billion in 14 years


https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

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India and China each have over 40,000 births a day. Almost as many turn 18 each day.
From a military perspective, the two nations could engage in a prolonged war, losing forty thousand men a day and not being any weaker. To put that in perspective, the deadliest battle of WW2 for the Americans was the Battle of The Bulge, where just under 20,000 GIS were killed in the month-long fight.
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January 8th, 2025 at 8:01:32 AM permalink
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the world's population is about 8.2 billion
India has surpassed China in population
that happened in April of 2023
both India and China have more than 4 times as many people as does the U.S.
the world population is growing by about 70 million per year
at that rate the population will be about 9 billion in 14 years


https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

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India and China each have over 40,000 births a day. Almost as many turn 18 each day.
From a military perspective, the two nations could engage in a prolonged war, losing forty thousand men a day and not being any weaker. To put that in perspective, the deadliest battle of WW2 for the Americans was the Battle of The Bulge, where just under 20,000 GIS were killed in the month-long fight.
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yes, but China has about 31,973 people die each day
and India has about 26,166 die each day
that's a big disparity between the 2 countries - not sure why - they have almost the same population
and of course each year many become too old for their Governments to have interest in them as soldiers
several countries now allow women to serve in combat - but not India or China
but that could change

https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/deaths-per-day

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January 8th, 2025 at 8:16:46 AM permalink
Countries that allow women in the military generally do so out of necessity. Israel, for example, was fighting a war for its very existence when it allowed women. The US does it because they couldn't fill their needs otherwise.
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January 8th, 2025 at 8:17:33 AM permalink
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Has anyone tried a weighted blanket? I picked one up at an auction last week. A thirty-pound blanket may sound absurd, but crawling under it at night is incredible. I slept until 8 AM, when I usually wake up around 6ish. Five days in, and I'm loving it. I am worried that a thirty-pound blanket will be problematic to wash.
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Don't you live in Arizona? In the summer you could just hang it on a line, spray it down with one of those car/wash suds combined garden hose implements' and let bake in the sun. If dust is a concern throw a painters plastic sheet over it while it dries. Probably fade like hell, but it will be clean (er)

HOWEVER, in Sweden (I think it's Sweden) they don't wash their heavy blankets, they put covers on them, and wash the cover. Much easier.
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January 8th, 2025 at 8:24:34 AM permalink
I won't sleep with a blanket in the summer unless I get addicted to it.
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January 8th, 2025 at 8:29:26 AM permalink
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the world's population is about 8.2 billion
India has surpassed China in population
that happened in April of 2023
both India and China have more than 4 times as many people as does the U.S.
the world population is growing by about 70 million per year
at that rate the population will be about 9 billion in 14 years


https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

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I watch a lot of travel videos on YouTube and India is pretty much a crap hole. It's filthy for one thing, litter and garbage everywhere no matter where you go. China is the polar opposite. Every place you go in China is super clean and the people are super clean, they are poor but they have pride in their surroundings. You never see that in India, they have no pride at all in their country. It's gotten so bad in India that some of these experienced travel people are never going back there. If they see that you're an American they never leave you alone, constantly begging you, constantly scamming you, constantly ripping you off. You never ever get that in China.
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January 8th, 2025 at 8:40:06 AM permalink
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average life expectancy:

India - 67.74 years
China - 78.02 years
U.S. - 79.46 years
S. Korea - 84.83 years
Japan - 84.85 years

several countries have an average life expectancy into the 80s - longer than the U.S.

not really close to it now but I'm not really high on living well into my 80s - if you can still take care of yourself - fine - but if you can't it really sucks

https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/

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January 8th, 2025 at 9:33:23 AM permalink
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average life expectancy:

India - 67.74 years
China - 78.02 years
U.S. - 79.46 years
S. Korea - 84.83 years
Japan - 84.85 years

several countries have an average life expectancy into the 80s - longer than the U.S.

not really close to it now but I'm not really high on living well into my 80s - if you can still take care of yourself - fine - but if you can't it really sucks

https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/


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You really cannot count the US in any of these statistics because we have such a huge number of minorities that don't live very long. They skew the numbers by either killing themselves when they're extremely young in homicides or they're prone to be diabetics or a myriad of other things. In the US you have to take each demographic and list it separately you can't just lump them all together.
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January 8th, 2025 at 9:34:36 AM permalink
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yes, but China has about 31,973 people die each day
and India has about 26,166 die each day
that's a big disparity between the 2 countries - not sure why - they have almost the same population



Because China is older than India. China started the one-child policy what, 45 years ago? India had a total fertility rate of 3.0 as late as the 1990s. China is in population decline and probably has been for 5-10 years now. World population will peak probably in the 2060s. Most developed nations will see decline by the 2040s, many are probably there already but not actually reporting it. It is hard to notice, it happens slow at first.

The 2100s will be a time of worldwide depression because of the collapse. My prediction is humanity goes extinct between 2300 and 3000.
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January 8th, 2025 at 12:35:18 PM permalink
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the U.S. has the 4th highest rate of cancer in the world (2022 data) - 367 cases for every 100,000 - over 2 million have it

if you exclude non melanoma skin cancer the U.S. is 9th in the world - still very, very high - 303.6 cases for every 100,000 - almost 2 million have it

a google search indicated that the reasons for the very high rate are obesity, highly processed foods, and a sedentary lifestyle


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_cancer_rate


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FDA just put alcohol consumption as the third leading cause of multiple cancers.
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That can't be true, if it was I would be diagnosed with at least four cancers.
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FDA just put alcohol consumption as the third leading cause of multiple cancers.
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That can't be true, if it was I would be diagnosed with at least four cancers.
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Maybe you're a tumor.
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January 9th, 2025 at 3:13:15 AM permalink
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I'm convinced the current anti-alcohol movement is a continuation of the Cycle of Prohibition which comes around every 50 years ... the rough time it takes to forget that prohibiting or restricting alcohol is also a disaster. Current proposals to "do something about it" include warning labels and increased taxes. Certainly I don't think 50 years is a magic number, it varies surely, but on the other hand it is about 100 years ago when we had 18th amendment Prohibition
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January 9th, 2025 at 4:05:17 AM permalink
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I'm convinced the current anti-alcohol movement is a continuation of the Cycle of Prohibition which comes around every 50 years ... the rough time it takes to forget that prohibiting or restricting alcohol is also a disaster. Current proposals to "do something about it" include warning labels and increased taxes. Certainly I don't think 50 years is a magic number, it varies surely, but on the other hand it is about 100 years ago when we had 18th amendment Prohibition
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Anti-alcohol? I thought we were just warning people why they might be dying. At least you don't have to breathe smoke while people drink.
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January 9th, 2025 at 4:18:39 AM permalink
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the U.S. has the 4th highest rate of cancer in the world (2022 data) - 367 cases for every 100,000 - over 2 million have it

if you exclude non melanoma skin cancer the U.S. is 9th in the world - still very, very high - 303.6 cases for every 100,000 - almost 2 million have it

a google search indicated that the reasons for the very high rate are obesity, highly processed foods, and a sedentary lifestyle


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_cancer_rate


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No the reason for the high rate is diagnosis. Note the countries at the bottom of this are all Third World. These are places where very few have access to diagnosis or treatment of cancer. So if someone gets ill, they put him in a bed, they take care of him, maybe the witch doctor comes and does whatever he does in their culture. Then the person dies and they bury him. If he had cancer, there is no way for anyone there to know or to do anything about it. This was something that existed to some degree in the civilized world too, and sometimes poor people or rural people would just get sick and die, and they bury them, with any further investigation deemed pointless.

Modern US is the opposite of that, and our doctors and hospitals have both the advanced equipment and a lot of financial incentive to diagnose cancer. So it gets diagnosed. Simple economics. Also all men will get prostate cancer if they live long enough. After enough age the testosterone level is low enough that those cancers are indolent and you will almost surely die of something else. But it still counts in the statistics, as defined.
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re the above post:

it's not just 3rd world countries that have better cancer rates than the U.S. -

so do UK, Sweden, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Japan, Greece, S. Korea, Israel, Finland, Germany, Austria, Greece, etc.

cancercenter.com attributes rising rates of cancer in young adults to:________________see link

excessive use of alcohol
western diet
obesity
getting too little sleep
etc.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_cancer_rate


https://www.cancercenter.com/community/blog/2023/01/why-are-cancer-rates-rising-in-adults-under-50
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if you are a big boozer your diet tends to be real crap
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January 9th, 2025 at 6:59:07 PM permalink
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I was going to say that I resemble that remark, but the truth is since I moved to Florida I probably only average one drink per week. That is down from about 50 drinks a week when I lived in Vegas.
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January 9th, 2025 at 7:03:33 PM permalink
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I was going to say that I resemble that remark, but the truth is since I moved to Florida I probably only average one drink per week. That is down from about 50 drinks a week when I lived in Vegas.
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I never took you for a quitter. I'm the same way; I don't think I averaged a drink a week.
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January 9th, 2025 at 7:33:41 PM permalink
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The bar that used to be across the street from my old office had a fantastic buffalo chicken sandwich. (I think it had a single scrap of lettuce on it, so I probably considered that as meeting my vegetable requirement.)
My rule on lunchtime drinking was that when vodka tonics started to taste good, I cut myself off until happy hour.

So, anecdotally, yes.
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January 10th, 2025 at 3:56:23 AM permalink
I tried professional level drinking, but even as a young man my digestive system did not like too much alcohol. So, like, even if I wanted to drink too much it just wasn't going to be a problem. I don't try to avoid it, but I might have two drinks every 3 months.
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one last thought about world population
the combined population of India and China is about 2.85 billion
the world population is about 8.2 billion

that means that more than 1 out of every 3 people in the world resides either in India or China

pretty astonishing

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January 10th, 2025 at 5:34:40 AM permalink
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one last thought about world population
the combined population of India and China is about 2.85 billion
the world population is about 8.2 billion

that means that more than 1 out of every 3 people in the world resides in India or China

pretty astonishing

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Recently i read something stating people think the Chinese have greatly exaggerated their population numbers. One article said they think the true population is less than one billion. According to these articles their birthrate is only 30% of their death rate. A lot has to do to migration to cities and the former "one child" policy.
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January 10th, 2025 at 5:53:25 AM permalink
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one last thought about world population
the combined population of India and China is about 2.85 billion
the world population is about 8.2 billion

that means that more than 1 out of every 3 people in the world resides in India or China

pretty astonishing

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Recently i read something stating people think the Chinese have greatly exaggerated their population numbers. One article said they think the true population is less than one billion. According to these articles their birthrate is only 30% of their death rate. A lot has to do to migration to cities and the former "one child" policy.
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The theory that China is over-estimating its population seems to stem from a single researcher, a Chinese dissident who teaches at a school in Wisconsin. I've no idea if he is correct, but all the articles I have seen use his work to make assumptions. Local government people adding population so they get more government funding sounds feasible, but people are shot for less.
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January 10th, 2025 at 5:57:09 AM permalink
I have a drink before the evening meal without fail, and bump it up to two on the weekend, but that's a pale shadow of my former self. Thus I can say with experience one problem with drinking more is you get all the calories you need from the hooch and it's obligatory to cut down on food ... leading to malnutrition right there. Plus, the stuff that's around where you are hanging out is of dubious value ... unless somehow spicy chicken wings are good for you.
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January 10th, 2025 at 6:00:04 AM permalink
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... unless somehow spicy chicken wings are good for you.



I thought they were a component of the Food Pyramid.
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January 10th, 2025 at 6:42:59 AM permalink
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I have a drink before the evening meal without fail, and bump it up to two on the weekend, but that's a pale shadow of my former self. Thus I can say with experience one problem with drinking more is you get all the calories you need from the hooch and it's obligatory to cut down on food ... leading to malnutrition right there. Plus, the stuff that's around where you are hanging out is of dubious value ... unless somehow spicy chicken wings are good for you.
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I consumed way too much alcohol in the 80s and 90s but I cut it way back and now I quit drinking entirely for about the last 6 months. I'm trying to lose the last 20 lbs and I just got tired of it, tired of drinking. At Christmas I had three drinks of dark rum, which I love. I could totally feel the effects and the next day I actually felt like crap because I had a hangover. From three lousy drinks. You keep hearing now that they've retracted their theory that one drink a day is okay. Now they're saying alcohol is poison and you shouldn't drink at all. That stupid hangover from three lousy drinks, it sure felt like I was poisoned. My tolerance is completely gone and my liver is back to reacting to any alcohol at all.
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January 10th, 2025 at 7:32:11 AM permalink
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I have a drink before the evening meal without fail, and bump it up to two on the weekend, but that's a pale shadow of my former self. Thus I can say with experience one problem with drinking more is you get all the calories you need from the hooch and it's obligatory to cut down on food ... leading to malnutrition right there. Plus, the stuff that's around where you are hanging out is of dubious value ... unless somehow spicy chicken wings are good for you.
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I consumed way too much alcohol in the 80s and 90s but I cut it way back and now I quit drinking entirely for about the last 6 months. I'm trying to lose the last 20 lbs and I just got tired of it, tired of drinking. At Christmas I had three drinks of dark rum, which I love. I could totally feel the effects and the next day I actually felt like crap because I had a hangover. From three lousy drinks. You keep hearing now that they've retracted their theory that one drink a day is okay. Now they're saying alcohol is poison and you shouldn't drink at all. That stupid hangover from three lousy drinks, it sure felt like I was poisoned. My tolerance is completely gone and my liver is back to reacting to any alcohol at all.
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I noticed that when I was drinking a lot I lost lots of weight. I would leave work at around 2pm, meet my girlfriend and drink until about 7pm. I would then go home and pass out. There was rarely any food consumed.
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January 10th, 2025 at 7:57:55 AM permalink
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That is down from about 50 drinks a week when I lived in Vegas.


wow -
that works out to be a little more than 7 drinks per day
that's a very lot - you weren't messin' around
it's great and maybe lucky that you seem to be healthy now based on your posts

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January 10th, 2025 at 8:19:37 AM permalink
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Quote: DRich

That is down from about 50 drinks a week when I lived in Vegas.


wow -
that works out to be a little more than 7 drinks per day
that's a very lot - you weren't messin' around
it's great and maybe lucky that you seem to be healthy now based on your posts

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His liver must have been yelling "I surrender! I surrender!"
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January 10th, 2025 at 8:34:31 AM permalink
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Quote: DRich

That is down from about 50 drinks a week when I lived in Vegas.


wow -
that works out to be a little more than 7 drinks per day
that's a very lot - you weren't messin' around
it's great and maybe lucky that you seem to be healthy now based on your posts

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It's the famous gas station hot dog and tater tot diet that all recovering drinkers use.
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January 10th, 2025 at 8:40:08 AM permalink
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Quote: DRich

That is down from about 50 drinks a week when I lived in Vegas.


wow -
that works out to be a little more than 7 drinks per day
that's a very lot - you weren't messin' around
it's great and maybe lucky that you seem to be healthy now based on your posts

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I have never been considered healthy but i am healthier than I was.
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one last thought about world population
the combined population of India and China is about 2.85 billion
the world population is about 8.2 billion

that means that more than 1 out of every 3 people in the world resides either in India or China

pretty astonishing

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I have always wondered why Southeast Asia has such a large population.
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January 10th, 2025 at 8:53:35 AM permalink
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Quote: lilredrooster

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That is down from about 50 drinks a week when I lived in Vegas.


wow -
that works out to be a little more than 7 drinks per day
that's a very lot - you weren't messin' around
it's great and maybe lucky that you seem to be healthy now based on your posts

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His liver must have been yelling "I surrender! I surrender!"
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Having known many (and been) on the heavy drinking side, the general consensus I recall is that the liver is evil, and must be punished. Any cries for mercy are to be ruthlessly drowned.

41 of Wisconsin's 72 counties have made the Top 50 for "drunkest counties in the country". Clark County Nevada I believe got an honorable mention, about what we'd call "Tuesday".

Anecdotally, a "handle" and a 30-pack would be completely normal supplies for an individual for a weekend.
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January 10th, 2025 at 9:06:13 AM permalink
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Anecdotally, a "handle" and a 30-pack would be completely normal supplies for an individual for a weekend.


seriously______?

you or some of your buddies would drink about 15 beers on Saturday and about 15 on Sunday___________?

amazing

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January 10th, 2025 at 9:12:48 AM permalink
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Quote: Dieter

Anecdotally, a "handle" and a 30-pack would be completely normal supplies for an individual for a weekend.


seriously______?

you or some of your buddies would drink about 15 beers on Saturday and about 15 on Sunday___________?

amazing

I belonged to a frat in college - they did some pretty heavy drinking - but I don't think I ever saw anybody do more than about 7 beers in one day iirc

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"What are your plans this weekend?"
"Got a 30-pack. Gonna watch the game."

Yeah. Between Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday, it'd be gone.
Lewis Black did a bit about drinking in Wisconsin. I think he undersold it.

Personally, I'd show up to the bar for happy hour, and stay for 8 hours. I'd pass about 40 or 50 bars on my way home.
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