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hollysmom

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1. they sure as heck don't make a lot on me.

Reply to cally (Original post)

Mon Oct 6, 2014, 06:10 PM

Oct 2014

After my ex started going to AA, I lost interest in alcohol, even thought he kept telling me to drink, drinking was never that important especially since I am allergic to sulfur and lots of people serve wine with dinner - no thanks to the migraines. I prefer scotch anyway.

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The Alcohol Industry Needs Alcoholism to Survive [View all] cally Oct 2014 OP

they sure as heck don't make a lot on me. hollysmom Oct 2014 #1

A fifth of liquor is 12 drinks, your body metabolizes one drink every 2 hours therefore KurtNYC Oct 2014 #2

This message was self-deleted by its author Electric Monk Oct 2014 #31

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue." Aerows Oct 2014 #3

Made ALOT on me..back in the day KinMd Oct 2014 #4

i don't drink and don't understand why people DesertFlower Oct 2014 #5

I don't understand why some people eat mushrooms... awoke_in_2003 Oct 2014 #6

i don't eat mushrooms either. DesertFlower Oct 2014 #7

I'll drink to that awoke_in_2003 Oct 2014 #8

I don't post "I don't....." responses and don't understand why people do. brooklynite Oct 2014 #12

I don't really get it, either. WhiteAndNerdy Oct 2014 #27

Some people won't be happy until we institute Prohibition again. alarimer Oct 2014 #9

What does this have to do with the alcohol industry, alcoholism and my post cally Oct 2014 #13

Much of that 30% who doesn't drink are our Jesus riding on a dinosaur fundamentalists. NutmegYankee Oct 2014 #10

Yoiks! TEN drinks a day??? hunter Oct 2014 #11

Our neighborhood isn't so bad... Egnever Oct 2014 #20

The California ABC can put restrictions on licenses. hunter Oct 2014 #21

and at at least 150 calories per drink, that would almost be an entire day's worth of calories for spooky3 Oct 2014 #26

Five 40's cost you $10 in Petworth Recursion Oct 2014 #34

Nonsense. former9thward Oct 2014 #14

Higher alcohol taxes could help whom? The alcoholic or the government? hughee99 Oct 2014 #15

Glad to hear that I am not in the 90 percentile corkhead Oct 2014 #16

The rehab industry loves the alcohol industry. YOHABLO Oct 2014 #17

Privatization of social services throws open the doors to grifters and religious freaks. hunter Oct 2014 #35

Just today on DU I read posts to abolish swingsets and slides at schools, panader0 Oct 2014 #18

Not buying Egnever Oct 2014 #19

this isn't really news Mosby Oct 2014 #22

Nobody is addicted to orange juice. Nye Bevan Oct 2014 #23

YOU DON'T KNOW ME MOTHERFUCKER!!!!! linuxman Oct 2014 #24

88,000 deaths per year, yet we allow it to continue. linuxman Oct 2014 #25

I'm opposed to regressive taxes. Period. Yes, even on cigarettes. nomorenomore08 Oct 2014 #28

It's not just the US either davidpdx Oct 2014 #29

of course they do gopiscrap Oct 2014 #30

"With all drugs, including alcohol, the users should pay as much of the full social cost of the drug hedgehog Oct 2014 #32

They shoul not be able to make a profit until they care for every alchoholics in the country. grahamhgreen Oct 2014 #33