Looks like the docs have seen fit to re-classify the average Aussie beer drinker.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/080614/2/17a7a.html

4 middies of beer is binge drinking?

The Aussies that I know call that "breakfast".

If it's everyday, it's hardly a 'binge' is it?

I'd think that 'binge sobriety' might be more of an issue...

4???
The first two are to wash the dust away and the next two wet the whistle for the follow up

I'm afraid this report will make most Texans look bad as well.

I don't normally post in this section, but this is one case where, from a Texans point of view, you blokes need to grow some cahones and start voting some folks out of office.

I figured losing the right to own firearms would be enough, what is next, Prohibition????

Bugger . Just worked out that I and a lot of my friends are alcoholics .
Think the new definition has come from the Salvation Army by the sound of it .

We need leaders in Australia with balls not pander to the weakness of others !! I feel we are heading for crap future and feel sorry for the younger lot growing up because the current lot ,us are giving the wrong message as weak as piss. To much f...king blaming culture going on IMHO.

Looks like I'd better get in touch with AA asap.
What complete & utter balls. just the sort of hysterical over reaction you'd expect from pollies though. Hell, after that amount I'm just getting broken in, at least what I assume to be about that amount, I normally drink stubbies (330ml bottles), what the hell does a "middie" hold? To me binge drinking is what all too many of our young folk seem to think is necessary for a good time, ie to drink themselves to oblivion in the shortest possible time.
Steve

Sounds like a bunch of Kalifornicaters were transported to Adelaide and allowed to breed.

Don't go down without a fight mates.

At least sanity seems to have prevailed on this side of the Tasman, on the Tele News this am, an ALAC (Alcohol Advisory Council) spokesman said, very diplomatically, that it was somewhat of an overreaction & they wouldn't be going to those extremes. His definition of binge drinking wasn't too far removed from mine & that was where they saw the need to focus. Whew, safe again.
Steve.

quote:

Originally posted by Gayne C. Young:
I'm afraid this report will make most Texans look bad as well.

Guess I need to get some help... Actually I think it has to do with the quality of water here so close to Mexico... much safer to drink beer....

so, guns, sex and beer are dangerus, what is left to have fun with.

that is not the aus i know and love.

cheers

peter