Posted on 09/15/2004 1:05:19 AM PDT by MadIvan
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable,
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table,
David Hume could out-consume Schopenhauer and Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya 'bout the turning of the wrist,
Socrates himself was permanently pissed...
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, with half a pint of shandy was
particularly ill,
Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whiskey every day,
Aristotle, Aristotle was a beggar for the bottle,
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart, "I drink therefore I am."
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed.
Just where in the article does it say that the alcohol industry is encouraging or promoting drinking as a health benefit?
I have seen no magazine articles, no television ads, no billboards that say "Drink Beer. It's healthy."
I knowed this THE WHOLE TIME!!! Lemme juss tell you sumpin'. Are you listening? Ok. Ok. Wait. What I MEAN is I knew beer wass good for you. And THAT'S why I'm the HEALTHIEST man in this whole place. What are YOU laughin' at? You callin' me a LIAR, Buddy?
I'll take YOU and YOU and this whole stupid......THUMP zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.........
You know, it's funny. I didn't make an argument. I asked you a direct question in the hopes that you would defend your position. Rather than answer my question, you decide to make assumptions and pretend that I made an argument for one position or another, which I did not.
Your "case" is based upon your own experiences and preconceived notions, not upon evidence or anything based in the article that started this discussion.
I don't want to be involved in a flame war here, but I would like you to answer the question I asked before....
Just where in the article does it say that the alcohol industry is promoting or encouraging consumption of their product as a health benefit?
Unless you can answer that question or give any other evidence of the industry being involved in such a practice, your argument simply won't hold. Please defend your position with fact, and remember, you are the one who made the accusations to begin with. I am simply asking you to prove your point.
Same here! My OB told me a drink would help let my milk down. Of course, that was 22 years ago with my eldest.
Well they're still suggesting it, or at least they were 6 years ago when my one and only was born!!!!
I asked my doc with my second boy about the benefits of a drink and he was evasive. My OB with my youngest ( she had a son the same age as my middle child and twin girls) said "Yes! But don't tell anyone I said so."
Ah, the duplicity that docs must engage in these days. ; )
moderation my a$$
ping
Tell me about it.
When my OB came into see me early the next morning (Jax was born at 5:40pm) she was shocked to find me coming out of the bathroom unassisted and immediately decided I was ready to go home if I wanted!!! But prior to her leavaing, after doing the exam thing, she said to me that if I wanted a cigarette I was to not hesitate to call a nurse to take me down to the courtyard, and she would put that in her report so there was no "mistake" that I had her permission.
I jokingly said that after 9 months I would much prefer a beer - she turned to my husband and said "Go get the woman some beer." Little did she know he had brought me some the night before!!!
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