But this business of sip, sip, sip, all day long has got to stop!
If you look back in history (in this country anyway) we are at historically-low levels of drinking anyway. After all, drinking water these days isn't a short-cut to the morgue..
(And the levels of consumption of alcohol in the Georgian days was enormous - especially in the middle and upper classes.. I seem to remember reading about how an average gentleman would consume up to 6 bottles of claret[1] a day. Even though wine wasn't as alcoholic then (yeasts having inproved somewhat) that's still a *lot* of booze).
[1] Was it a former El Reg journo that used to be enthusiastic about his claret? My memory-retrieval apparatus appears a trifle fogged..
Biting the hand that feeds IT
