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A colleague of mine said today: "If you can't have any alcohol, that means you can't use mouthwash, doesn't it?" I pondered a moment, before espousing the obvious virtues of using a quality mouthwash, and suggesting that it be spat out post-swill, and not consumed. Argument over :-))
I watched a documentary on BBC iPlayer this evening about 21-year-old Laura Hall from Bromsgrove, the UK's "poster girl" for binge drinking. Well, the little madam! Drunk all the time, aggressive, in and out of court, fines, sentencing, more drinking, and possibly the most annoying, whining West Midlands accent you've ever heard. The conclusion of the documentary was Laura turning her life around, going to the Nova Vida clinic in Portugal to get clean, and then start to take her life into her own hands and continue her new-found teetotalism to get her back on track. A very positive, fitting end to the programme was crapped on however by the revelation that she's been drinking again, and has gone back to Portugal. I'm all for helping these people, but if they won't help themselves, then I'm all for them knocking their livers out - let's see how they enjoy a bout of hepatic encephalopathy when their liver stops filtering dangerous toxins (which go straight to the brain, do not pass go, do not collect £200) ...
On a slightly different (you might say random) note, isn't this just the WEIRDEST album cover you ever saw?
Rant over. As you were.
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