Bars and The Lifetime Education of Drinking.

[MANICHAEAN]

I was sitting this evening in the Camp bar on my own, reading Hemingway’s “To Have and Have Not” and my second Drambuie on the rocks glistened before me, the gold of its sweet honey liquid suffused in cold partnership with its ice cube companions. I must confess that I was feeling quite mellow and at peace, having previously worked up a sweat in the gym & now it was that time to unwind. Mind you, it is perhaps pertinent to note that this second Drambuie had been proceeded before by three vodka and tonics. And you know what its like! For those of you that have, for good reasons or bad, graduated through that questionable discipline of alcohol consumption with honours. ‘I got more out of alcohol than alcohol got out of me” was the way Churchill phrased it. The guy who sits on his own, with the drink before him, oblivious to those around him, his mind and memories free wheeling back over women he has known, friends he has cherished and those who have passed on. I always find it’s important at such times to evaluate in a dispassionate manner upon one’s mood. If morose or depressed, walk away. It’s a dark alley with strange demons lurking on shaded stairways. But if the reflections are pleasant, then indulge them. Catholics have the confessional, Americans have the Larry King Show & Oprah; writers, by the grace of Divine Providence, have the drink and the imagination that is its life force.

Looking back, I suppose I had had a good basic education in drinking. A two handed Irish father, who when you were old enough, you used to accompany down to the Hand & Flower for Black & Tans, the taste unusual at first, but then, like mothers milk it grew on you. Over the years I felt an appreciation in having been blessed to have drunk at some of the best bars to my particular taste in the world, with barmen and women who were consummate in their professional ability & who exhibited qualities of a sterling quality comparable with any more acknowledged profession.

Memories came back to me. The Liquor Cabin in Montego Bay. Invariably I only flew the Atlantic once a year, but upon arrival, having checked in & showered I joined the local evening celebrants. “Same as before Tim, Appleton Gold Rum, long glass, plenty of ice & coke” from Norma or Joyce the long serving barmaids. As if I’d been in yesterday!

The smart suited head barman at the Holiday Inn in Rome, who would guide you with pride through the whole range of Italian aperitifs, digestives & cocktails.

The Nigerian stewards on a warm African night in the Plateau Club, that proffered ice cold beers on silver trays, and then rang your steward to help you home when you’d had too much.

Good barmen and women, like good whores, are never appreciated fully in the service they provide for that restless tribe of transit individuals that exist uneasily on the fringes of international work places these days. The one complements the other, or perhaps in moral terms, they are the same?

[zoolane]

Weird read but good . The question end will suppose answer could rethectie yes only because barperson offer company and you it end pay for it. The word in red I know is not spell right.

[jambojersey]

Jambojersey Here in Jersey, Channel Islands.
I was sat on the Bus coming home from visiting a friend.
Hung over from last nights session of drinking Whiskey etc!.
I started thinking, "I wonder what on earth makes us drink"
And came up with this short story.

"A Marchen Gene".
The True Cause Of Drinking In Humans Is Via Hops.

Hops an herbal shrub, used for making beer for hundreds of year's.
Hops mentioned since the twelfth century a remedy against melancholy.
For it's aperitif, (stimulating the appetite) Depurative, laxative, and vemifuge,
also a very common soothing action of relaxing our Body. Hops contain a resin,
edible volatile oil, also unique tasting flavonoids.
Flavanoids this one is also found in marigolds. (Calendula Officinalis)
Acting as an anti-oxidant in our body, proteins, starch, glucids, phytoestrogens.
A marchen gene starts of as a microscopic endophyte fungi in hop vines.
Marchen gene endophytes, which can produce severe tolerance to alcohol.
Marchen genes are also known to be a fast growing internal parasitic mimic.
Genes are then processed, by a little known process as imprinting.
This ensures Genes reach full term, before transferring,
as long as no imprinting errors interfere.
Most answers are found largely in variations in our genes,
and hundreds of biochemical activities, they influence in our cells,
and ultimately our organs and behaviours.
Different individuals and different ethnic populations,
can have different Gene variants, to yield a four-fold difference,
in their metabolic and behavioural responses to alcohol symptoms,
including disorderly by fighting, rape, gibberish, smoking,
exhibitionist dancing to the extent of body showing-off,
always sleep, waking up groggy and trying to recollect those exiting lost moments.
In puberty it sends toxins to the human brain, saying I want more alcohol please.
Birthday's, weddings, New-Year celebrations, any old excuse for a good party.
Interplay between genes and Meme environments,
affects a youths choices to drink and their physical and behavioural,
responses to alcohol. It takes on a role-model of
a parasitic gene creature taking control, that will even brainwash innocent victims.
Its staggering what it makes victims do, it can actually change the DNA of our body.
Parasite genes can live off our body's life forces, and sustenance's that we ingest.
Parasite genes live a parallel daily life, inside our warm ideal human body's.
Stem cells interact with astrocytes, most common cells in our brains and spinal chord,
where they get together, and try to repair all repairable damage,
done through heavy drinking, but at this moment in time,
cannot repair damage done to our liver and kidneys.
A serious system called foetal alcohol and chronic kidney syndrome.
There could be help, a stem cell treatment developed in future cures for all alcoholics.
Its known from medical studies, that 95% of all adult populations,
has a parasite gene of some description, smart parasite genes like the marchen genes,
live without being detected, because if it is detected,
of course something is going to be done to eradicate it.
If you think parasite genes are stupid,
think again for they have survived for hundreds of years.
Their ability to Survive, is like all others on this weird
planet, this knowledge is becoming every-day awareness.
There is little good being done, to stop rapidly spreading marchen gene infections,
most of us being very unaware.
Brewery giants just love gorgeous marchen genes, keeping them in every-day business.
Most prominent physicians tend to agree, that in human history,
most unrecognised of all endemics is our marchen genes,
because they remain invisible from detection, from actually causing serious disorders,
like our invisible marchen gene cleverly does. Scientists
have long argued, over whether strange behaviour in marchen gene invested humans,
is deliberately engineered, or simply an accidental side effect of viral infections.
Alcohol exerts its principle action into our brains, causing an happy or aggressive mood.
It is here that our heavy alcohol use, results into odd repairable brain cell adaptations,
that lead to most alcohol addiction. persons constellation of genes live in a specific receptor,
a docking site with a brains in-built endocannabinoids, trying to baffle us
by letting some good things through, a very clever move.
This is enabling us to identify structures, also functions of neural circuits.
Networks of brain cells that work in concert,
as intermediaries of alcohol behavioural outcomes. welcome factors being stress relief.
Folklore is filled with fantastic, descriptions of symptoms and also abnormal behaviour.
Like (Keratogenic) able to cause growth of hair, horn, skin,
mistaken sometimes for probiotics (For Life) Bacteria causing aggression,
moodiness, irritability, (anger) for no apparent reason, sleep problems, giggling,
bad body odour, bad smelly breath, stinky sweat, streaking in underwear.
Alcohol misuse, costs society approx 150 billion pounds each year throughout the world.
A very well known reason alcohol takes such a heavy toll,
is it's not just a psychoactive substance, but a very dangerous active toxin,
creating disturbances of our immune and endocrine systems,
throughout long year after long year,
consumption of our daily pint or three decimating millions of human body's.
A Meme consists of any idea or behavior that can pass from one person to another
by learning or imitation. Examples include thoughts, ideas, theories, gestures, practices,
fashions, habits, songs, and dances.
Memes propagate themselves and can move through the cultural sociosphere
in a manner similar to the contagious behavior of a virus.

[MANICHAEAN]

Zoolane
Yes I suppose it was a bit wierd when I read it again in the cold light of day. Glad you got the bit about the interface of the relationships involved.

jambojersey, or should I say "Chef?" Now that was a whole new slant on drinking that I never knew before. Cannot quite see Jamie Oliver getting it across in the same vein! If you don't mind me asking, where does the raw egg & Worcester Sauce, the morning after, fit in?

Regards
M.

[loki456]

Marchen genes? is that meant to be a parody on the german term for 'folktales' (clever if I do say so myself - I knew that having a german friend would come in handy). cause firstly I have never heard of a parasite changing human genes? actually I've never heard of anything doing that... except maybe retroviruses and hepatitis a,b,c,d viruses - although they never really change our 'genes' simply use our building blocks to form theirs. Although - mitochondria are not inherent to humans, so possibly mitochondrial DNA is the only exception here.

also stem cells don't interact with other cells - they are progenitor cells.
what the hell is chronic kidney syndrome? do you mean hepato-renal syndrome, chronic renal failure..... ahh have my text books been mistaken all these years!!!

before I keep going with this scientific gobbley gook - am I reading too much into this.

by the way - if you can't, don't want to, don't have the energy to beat them... might as well join them right?.... SO:
my query is, are asians exempt from this due to the fact the don't have alcohol dehydrogenase - sure they go a nice shade of red - but they have an increased threshold to ETOH - haha I wonder if this is classed as 'balanced polymorphism' - possibly.

[MANICHAEAN]

Beats me Doc. I've got enough trouble worrying about my water works!

[jambojersey]

Marchen genes? is that meant to be a parody on the german term for 'folktales' (clever if I do say so myself - I knew that having a german friend would come in handy). cause firstly I have never heard of a parasite changing human genes? actually I've never heard of anything doing that... except maybe retroviruses and hepatitis a,b,c,d viruses - although they never really change our 'genes' simply use our building blocks to form theirs. Although - mitochondria are not inherent to humans, so possibly mitochondrial DNA is the only exception here.

also stem cells don't interact with other cells - they are progenitor cells.
what the hell is chronic kidney syndrome? do you mean hepato-renal syndrome, chronic renal failure..... ahh have my text books been mistaken all these years!!!

before I keep going with this scientific gobbley gook - am I reading too much into this.

by the way - if you can't, don't want to, don't have the energy to beat them... might as well join them right?.... SO:
my query is, are asians exempt from this due to the fact the don't have alcohol dehydrogenase - sure they go a nice shade of red - but they have an increased threshold to ETOH - haha I wonder if this is classed as 'balanced polymorphism' - possibly.
HO! HO! HO! I knew my three years doing National Service in Germany in 1960 with Elvis Presley & co would come in hand.
You hit the nail on the head I looked up Marchen first.
PS: I had the energy:) & I left them :reddevil: Seven Years ago.

[loki456]

hahaha in that case.... BRAVO!!

I enjoyed it a lot... was hoping all the scientific mis-'usage' (for want of a better term) was a poke at current scientific beliefs vs Folklore.... I particularly like the fact that you crossed the two paths with a simple terminology such as 'Marchen genes' - as I previously stated... very clever.

haha... poor mani... you hijacked his thread!!

I'm sure he doesn't mind

Thanks for sharing

Loks

[MANICHAEAN]

Dear loki456 (or may I call you Doc?)
jambojersey & myself have exchanged a correspondence of mutual cordiality and neither party is offended. Brits are like that!
Your humble servant.
M.

[loki456]

you certainly may call me Doc if you like.

didn't know brits like cordial too? (that was a joke, a lame one I know)

I didn't think you would be offended, you seem too level headed for triviality.