Re: [nukkad] alcohol

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> Drtaher wrote:
> >How many of you who are above 35 have been to a pub??

> >I feel embarrassed to take myself among the teenagers!!

As embarassed as while buying condoms?

If you can overcome feeling embarassed at pub by throwing a booze
party, or offering one drink to everybody in your account, the
same teenagers will love you for it and entertain you with the
naughtiest jokes, dance, songs, etc. If cost is a criteria, do
befriend some teenagers in your neighbourhood and go with them.

The point is: Once you go inside a pub, you will notice that
there are several non-so-teenagers also there, sometimes more
than the teenagers.

And to hell with him who says that you look old. That defeated
sad look on your face is due to marriage. :) Same here.

Bharat Kapadia wrote:
> I have NEVER been to a pub, since I have NEVER had ANY alcohol knowingly. 

I have never been to pub at Indore, as there are no pubs at
indore. I have visited Delhi, Jaipur, Baroda-ahmedabad (dry),
bombay, hyderabad, Lucknow, Kanpur, Bhopal, dehradoon and more
cities, but I don't think they had pubs, not at least when I went
there.

I guess Bombay has started having pubs. When I went to Mumbai
about 11 years ago, there was a WHITE HOUSE, near nariman or  VT
where, if you order bear, a girl will come and sit on your
table, and serve it to you. She will remain there and talk to you
while you are drinking it. I did not explore further. Alas! the
missed opportunities. :)

I did go to pubs at Banglore and enjoyed draught bear to my
heart's content long ago. I had also been to TalkOfTheTown and
Napoli at Majestic. I guess they have changed all that when I
went there on next visit.

What is the exact definition of a pub?
How is it different from a bar and other nomenclatures.

There is a new nomenclature getting popular "Coffee Bar". Wonder
whether there are cyber-bars?

Though in last two years, I have had alcohol a total of four
times or so.

> Dr. Vasudevan posed a query: Why drink alcohol? 

> From: Mahesh chandra gupta
There has been no real answer, just excuses for indulging in the
habit, which are sought to be passed off as answer.

That is a very simplistic and accusing view.

Alcohol does lighten the burden on the mind, at least for the
time being. It affects people in different ways. You feel bolder,
you don't care much for bad things. Your locked emotions come out
in torrents thus giving the much needed relief. Sleeping is
easier after it, though it can get mixed up with becomnig
unconscious. People also feel more able to enjoy their happiness.
It makes the physical or mental pain blunt.

Thus, people take it to highten or reduce their state of
emotions.

Some take it just as an expression of rebellion. Look at
teenagers. (I did when I was one).

Some take it (rum) to get relief from cold. (Thanks to doctors).
Though, they then try to store doses in their body to treat next
20 years' cold.

Husain K Jagmag wrote:
> would just like to say that no excuse is required for drinking alcohol...

Well. If a person takes the same thing to celebrate as well as to
remorse, abstainers point fingers.

> Lots of people do it just because they like to... in moderation.. i dont believe it is any worse an evil than most others.... its only when u have it in excess / it becomes an habit ... it can be dangerous... 

Well. I must add that everybody starts any addiction in
moderation, but then gets bogged down in it. It goes in the motor
functions of his body, and body starts craving for it at its
intake time.

Thus, beware! moderation does not last.

> but then so can drinking tea...

The extent is much much less unless you are chai-oholic. I take
no chai. I take black coffee without sugar. How many maximum cups
I should take a day. it is 4 or 5 at present.

> Too much of anything is bad...  (In the immortal words of Freddie "Too much LOVE will kill you")

love never kills.

> but taken in moderation.. theres nothing much wrong in it...

Meena Kumari (Anna: A film actress) started taking it in
moderation after a movie (Sahib Biwi Ghulam) where she played a
role who takes alcohol to please her husband. It grew till she
can't remain awake without alcohol. She died due to this.

> [NB: Everything can be preserved in alcohol, but dignity].

That is an incorrect generalisation. You will find people who
take bottles and behave most dignified.

-Rawat


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