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This seems apposite.
"More than 80 percent of both men and women reported drinking alcohol in the seven days preceding the survey," said Kypri, "and 37 percent reported binge drinking in the seven days preceding the survey. There was also a high prevalence of alcohol-related problems, for example, 33 percent of students experienced blackouts in the preceding four weeks. The risk factors for binge drinking included being younger, starting to drink earlier, being a binge drinker in high school, and living with other students."
And this on gender skew, or lack of it.
"In other words," said Connor, "the majority of New Zealand university students are drinking in a hazardous or harmful way, and this is as common in women as men. These levels of drinking were associated with frequent adverse events, including one in 10 students being exposed to a drunk-driving trip during the preceding four weeks."
From this article Hazardous drinking among New Zealand university students has its roots in high school.
Full Journal Article & Abstract here.
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Some of the more literary amongst you may have noticed a surfeit of commas in my last post.
I thought you were just doing it for comma'cal effect. It worked by the way. Bloody hilarious. Comma, colon, umlaut. ,:ö
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Has this thread been sufficiently flogged for a music link yet?
Oh well, you can all flog me if it hasn't.
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Bloody hell - thanks so much for that link.
Your welcome. Was starting to think no one had noticed. Quite an amazing piece of writing in it's own right, IMhO. But thinking of the audience it was delivered to, bloody remarkable really.
I quite enjoyed it but found the plot twists unconvincing.
Hmm, I think our experiences were quite different. It certainly dragged me through at a fairly break-neck pass towards the end, and the plot twists didn't bother me so much. Might wait for the DVD, although the subtitles will be smaller then.
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I mean on them... ;-D Damn! That's me done.
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Ah, naruhodo, ne! Yes furious is an appropriate response. Still, if this is the quality of their editing abilities; little own important enough to receive a medal, perhaps we shouldn't be too hard in them.
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That comment from "JD" makes me so furious.
Sorry, but since it was my link, which comment and who is JD?
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Just finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Bit slow, I know. Some friends saw the movie and said it was 'Swedish', and 'Authentic'. Frankly, that scares the hell out of me.
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My apologies to anyone reading who found me too judgemental. Thanks for the tip, Emma. My objectivity was dancing round it's own maypole.
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Dyan then moves from criticising female binge drinkers to talking about alcoholics. Alcoholism is a physical addiction with a genetic component - I think calling it a 'bad choice' is a bit... I was going to say 'simplistic', but I think the word I want is 'unfair'.
This is so complex and fraught with 'the fine line' of interpretation that it's doing my head in. Can't you all be a bit more simplistic about it?
Emma, your point is well made, and it is something I was trying to express earlier, but deleted for lack of reference. 'Bad choices' depend on the capacity to make good ones, and too often people lose that capacity, for reasons that are not at all simplistic, and are often very unfair.
Think I'll go re-read the Holiday Musings post, which now involves nudity and German tourists...