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Saturday, December 03, 2005

best

call me callous but i just don't get what the fuss over george best is about.
so he was a good footballer. but what has he done for the last 20 years aside from getting pissed and using a liver that could have gone to someone else?
in short i have no idea why it is so many people are so concerned or so worked up about the whole thing. perhaps it is the dianna factor that means that everyone has to join in with mass crying and mass hysterics. the radio 5 was full of it this morning.

interestingly (well for me at least) there has been no mention of best as being an example of the fact that you don't have to be a binge drinker for drink to do you damage. for best there was no need for 24 hour drinking laws in his local pub, he was either in clubs or he had drink in the house. oddly it was the same for my parents (both who died of alcohol related problems) they had booze in the house and they drank it. you don't need the pubs to stay open longer to get a serious skinful in you.

the other thing was the recent report about marijuana being dangerous, the usual old saws about it being addictive were trotted out. of course no one mentioned that booze is also addictive and is also something that can kill. but that sort of argument is not a good one because more people drink than do drugs,

i have argued in the past that drugs should be made legal because that gets rid of many of the undesirable aspects of drugs. the recent to do over marijuana just serves to add weight to my arguments.

and for the record i don't do either. my drug of choice is coffee and the sooner there is a 24 hour coffee shop in my area the better i will be.

1 comment:

Hobbit's Journal said...

For me the Best thing has highlighted losing my mum who passed away with liver problems due to the dreaded grog. My gripe being if she was a celeb she may have got better treatment but in truth nothing could have been done. I empathise with alcoholics because it is something that is seemingly hard to overcome.