Drink

I am not being a spoiler here, but showing a few facts about drinking alcohol...............................

.Alcohol can cause gout – and a whole host of long-term health issues
Heavy drinking can, of course, have more serious consequences than wobbly pecs and a beer belly. It can also cause gout, an arthritic condition that causes inflammation, swelling and pain in your joints which is most common in men aged 30 to 60.
In the long term, drinking to excess can have many adverse effects on your health, including increasing your chances of:
•liver damage
•heart disease
•cancer
•bone disease
•your pancreas becoming inflamed
•your stomach becoming irritated
•type 2 diabetes
•anxiety and depression

Just a few of the side effects of alcohol, there are many more,

When I was in hospital in Honolulu Hawaii, with severe Pancreatitis and a gangrene gall bladder, the Surgeons there told me to lay off alcohol as it is in the long term a Killer.
I have had the first five of those on that list, But so far so good. but scary all the same.
So that is why I am off it now, I am 83 next birthday and have promised the family I am going to get past 100.
We will wait and see on that one.
Cheers
Brian

hi capt
I was on one boat and two idiots tried drinking the compass fluid, I found out later that it was bay oil.
on another boat a bottle of blue blazer after shave was poured into the alcohol mix that was in a tea pot and although everybody smelt nice the next morning there where a lot of green gils.
tom

We had a first officer on the Windsor who was an alcoholic of top quality. He too was seen taking the alcohol out of the compass gimble and drinking it.
He would take any form of alcohol to satisfy his need, yet he conducted his duties in perfect order and ended up as skipper on one of UCL ships.

But as RLT tells it there is a very fine line between an alcoholic and a heavy drinker.

I have on one occasion been called an alcoholic by a GP when I told him, after he asked, how much I drank in a week.

But some are effected by alcohol more than others, for some it is like Heroin, must have a hit at every opportunity, for others they drink and it has little effect.

Some bodies organs react to it in a bad way, others it has no effect.

But we are all individuals so it is a question of do what you will until you get ill.

well I had a great night out last night watched ted sinking a few and me on coke{not nose coke cappy} had a great time terries so lee 40 what a lad and nice to see people enjoying themselves without a fight? I could have easy come off the wagon but its 21 years since my last pint 2 and a half years last ciggy I have seen first hand what both do to you is it worth it?? jp

morning john sounds like a good night ......21 years well done and the ciggies ...stopped cigggies when young charlie was born ......thought i wouldnt see him grow up they were not easy to stop.....he is now back in full training and i would expect to see him on the pitch shortly ......beloved ses we are having a run up to shields today ......so be it........regards cappy

good on him cappy one of my sons knee ligaments went on him finished him pity he was inline for a good future.. regards fags 52 years I smoked for don't get me wrong sometimes I could murder one but I dodged the bullet with the cancer and all the work and pain I went through and still am its not worth it mate. people say to me I would love to pack them in I have tried this and that I say to them ever tried a consultant telling you that you have lung cancer that do's the trick I stopped that day? jp

well john i dont miss them ciggies now but still have the odd little sol beer and recently had a couple of vodkas 3 or 4 nights a week....only drink wine if going out ....cos usually driving and a couple of glasses ok .....nice to be retired john and just have your own time for a change.....cappy

The Germans were great beer drinkers, have it for breakfast. Maybe why Hitler went to war fancied some orangeboom, or Heineken, and didn't like paying for it. Cheers JWS.

I think most of us were binge drinkers, nothing for weeks while at sea, then make whoopee as soon as the gangway was down. This caused a few problems when I first came ashore, the old habit, could not have just a pint, always a session, like ashore. Luckily, and with a good wife, I calmed down and became relatively normal, just a pint when we go for a meal out, and a glass of wine at home weekends, kt

I just got locked out Keith. My wife's family were strict teetotlars. Went back for the Father in laws funeral one time and asked where the half bottle of whiskey was which stood in the China Cabinet for years, thought I would put it out for visitors as the coffin was laid out in the front room. Oh! She said I poured that down the sink Ages ago I thought it would have gone off. She probably did so when she knew I was going around to pay my last respects. Went to a friends funeral last week and just the opposite all the wines and beers spirits as well at his house after coming from the graveside. Had to give a short Eulogy at a meeting last night in his memory. Was hard to do, as had to be very short. Cheers JWS