Should middle class drinkers fear for their health?

[AB Asks]

The middle classes are causing severe damage to their bodies according to surveys. Drinking wine almost every evening is causing irreversible damage. The constant press surround Binge Britain where youths are drinking excessive amounts has made headlines, but this is reported to be just as serious. What do you think? Do you drink most evenings thinking that this is a safe way to unwind or are you aware that several drinks in the evening, although you may not feel drunk, is causing liver damage?

[funnygirl]

Blimey, I must be middle class!!!
Actually, I would have thought the middle classes too stuck up to drink!!!

[Octavius]

I think most people as you have mentioned would consider that they are doing no harm to anyone (i.e. not fighting in the streets and vandalising) like the other lower class toe rag ruffian types who binge drink in the town centre, other than themselves.

Adults should be aware enough of the benefits and pitfalls of overdoing things - gawd knows we are told often enough - to make an adult decision. You can't really tell people how to run their lives in their own home, even if you try, they usually revolt in some way or another.

I just hope that they are recycling their bottles sensibly and not walking off with traffic cones on their heads.

[Reverandfunk]

I'm middle class whenever I walk around Dudley town centre...

[Goodsoulette]

lol rever, funnily enough I thought that too!

[Gromit]

Shouldn't AB Asks questions be in pink?

[Reverandfunk]

Its like the land that time forgot...

Teds backed potato van
Shell suits
Roll ups
people in whitesnake tshirts

[China Doll]

That's what looked odd!!

Couldn't put my finger on it...Ta Groms.

What happens if you drink most evenings but don't count yourself as middle class? Is it all ok then?

[Skreecheeboy]

Bu99er the middle classes!

[Octavius]

Well, they probably do that themselves anyway!

CD, if you don't count yourself as middle class, then you have to go by what everyone else counts you as. After you find that out, you probably need a good string drink.

[Octavius]

...or a STRONG one. Damn my fongers.

[China Doll]

A) It is near on possible to bu99er yourself.

B) In light of Octavius's comment... anyone got any champers? Ta....(I'm very well spoken, fools them everytime).

[beryllium]

I wouldn't wanna put any consultants out of a job now would I?

[what..the?]

I am inventing a wine which doesn't damage the liver or produce a hangover. Although after all the testing and scentific research to afford to purchase just one case of this wine you have to sell a kidney! I am thinking of offering a bogof due to the fact you cannot really sell both your kidneys! Those interested should email me at:

Kidneyfree(at)what a rip off based in africa.com

[Octavius]

China Doll

a) If you are a woman, yes.
b) To be proper middle class you have to say the label. "champers" could be any low grade sparkly stuff pilfered from the taps of your retro-modern-gastro-pub for the local yobby yoofs. Try Cristal or a Pol Roger (a 96 if you can get it)

[Reverandfunk]

That pomagne aint alf noice

[China Doll]

Octavius...

A) You'd have to be an exceptionally well hung man. In view of the increase in women owning pet rabbits I'd say it was more feasible for her to be able to indulge in this carnal practice should she so wish.
B) It's the green bottle with the yellow label that I like.... hang on...

[Octavius]

I can almost hear a �.'ere Trace, whats that bubbly plonk called wot we 'ad last week when you got off with Kevin from the garage?

You've stopped resembling a posher, classier and more sophisticated Kelly Brook in my head�. which is a pity.

[China Doll]

With hindsight, green bottle with yellow label is not helpful.... It would appear most bottles are green with a yellow label. I know which one I mean.

[Ethel]

Don't think I am middle class - but am over pension age and fairly well behaved. :)

I have said here before that I had to stop drinking six months ago when tests for something else entirely showed my liver is damaged. Through alcohol.

For a number of years I have been drinking a bottle of wine a day - a glass or two at lunchtime, the rest at night.

Maybe a beer in the hot weather. :)

Can't remember being drunk, never had a hangover.

Thankfully those tests were done at a time when my liver disease is not too advanced. Had I not known and carried on drinking, it would probably have killed me.

Can't ever drink again though.

[theonlyone]

I used to drink Mumms champagne ,but only when I went out to dinner with the rich guys , never liked it , much prefer a lager . I think it is another health scare , butter , eggs , meat are all on the list , not to forget vegetables which now have to be organic . People make a lot of money from scaring the public .