ossobuco wrote:
I think it is all rather sad in that spirits and wine can enhance enjoyment of food, can be, at a moderate level even good for you... need not always be a road to obliteration. I think that obliteration is a cultural number, on top of whatever genetic susceptibility may reign.
Irish and native americans have a higher tendency to be alcoholics, genetically speaking.
Oh, sorry for the confusion. Could you please define your interpretation as I could not find it in the dictionary.
John Creasy wrote:ossobuco wrote:
I think it is all rather sad in that spirits and wine can enhance enjoyment of food, can be, at a moderate level even good for you... need not always be a road to obliteration. I think that obliteration is a cultural number, on top of whatever genetic susceptibility may reign.
Irish and native americans have a higher tendency to be alcoholics, genetically speaking.
Crapola, where do you get this ****?
"Bastard" can also mean inferior.
dyslexia wrote:John Creasy wrote:ossobuco wrote:
I think it is all rather sad in that spirits and wine can enhance enjoyment of food, can be, at a moderate level even good for you... need not always be a road to obliteration. I think that obliteration is a cultural number, on top of whatever genetic susceptibility may reign.
Irish and native americans have a higher tendency to be alcoholics, genetically speaking.
Crapola, where do you get this ****?
Uh, it's pretty well known.
John Creasy,
Do you mean a lower tolerance for alcohol?
Quote:Uh, it's pretty well known.
right, pretty well known by who? It's not known at all let alone pretty well known.
C.I.,
Seems to me, and not long ago, you made a promise that you would never again berate or belittle Christians.
"Some population groups, however, such as Irish and Native Americans, have an increased incidence of alcoholism while others, such as Jewish and Asian Americans, have a lower risk. Although the biological or cultural causes of such different risks are not known, certain people in these population groups may have a genetic susceptibility or invulnerability to alcoholism because of the way they metabolize alcohol."
http://adam.about.com/reports/000056_2.htm
A product of birth?
I know that is the usual cold term.
Whew. Leave for a little while and all hell breaks loose.
C.I. Imposter Wrote:
Quote:"Bastard" can also mean inferior.
Hmmm. Seems to me that you are calling us inferior? So, that means you would be superior?
cicerone imposter wrote:"Bastard" can also mean inferior.
Does that, therefore, mean that you consider yourself (and other non-believers) superior? Not wanting to put words in your mouth. Just reading what appears to be the case.
These numbers seem a might high to me, but this is what I found at
http://webpages.charter.net/rfhale/alcohol.htm
Less than 10% of white Americans are predisposed to alcoholism but more than 80% of American Indians are predisposed to alcoholism.
hogwash, find any reputable source that claims such nonsense and I will retract my claim. AA affiliate sites are not reputable.
Maybe I'm missing something but I thought bastard means to be borne of a non married woman.
Now there's a cultural derived distaste... that we should be well over. Not only since stigmatizing of infants has gone out of style, but because we now understand more fully that infants within marriage may not be fathered by the male of the family.
And stigmatizing of the women is even more problematic.
Ugly word, bastard, used in context.
I think its fairly commonly accepted that more American indians have a lower tolerance for alcohol...
I didn't link an AA affiliateed site. About.com is an objective credible site.
Also everyone knows that the Irish are drunks. Of course this is a stereotype, but behind every stereotype is some truth.
