Beer used to be the top drug of choice, it's different now

[swissie]

Was meant to appear in the "health" forum. No acceptance there. So it appears here:

 

Drug use dates back to the stone age. "Beer" entered the stage quite early. Soon it was discovered that with the consumption of beer, all kinds of personal "catastsrophies" are easier to bear.
Back then as well as today, people find it necessary to escape some harsh realities of daily life. 30% of the world population still lives on less than 2$ a day. Expats in Thailand, having lost love and fortune. Those Farangs sitting in front of a 7/11, feeling no pain anymore. Or sitting at home, staring at a white wall, no boredom emerging while staring at a white wall while drugs do what they are supposed to do. = remove the consumer from an increasingly harsh reality. Few like the taste of Alcohol, but cherish the effects.

As more and more people feel the urge of escaping todays harsh reality, plenty of "merchants" will supply the ingrediants that enable people to escape the harsh realities of a predatory world. Nobody likes the taste of drugs. But it's the effect that an increasing number of our neighbors yearn for.

Drug addiction starts as a sociological problem, followed by chemical dependency.

Today, we are far removed from Benjamin Franklins quote: "God gave us Beer, wanting us to be happy". At that time, he diden't know that eventually we would "overshoot" the target massively, due to the fact that todays world is far more "predatory" than in his time.

Rant over. Or was I just looking at the great mirror reflecting todays world?

[GammaGlobulin]

3 hours ago, swissie said:

Was meant to appear in the "health" forum. No acceptance there.

 

You should have posted it in the MENTAL-health forum, maybe....

 

Edited May 29 by GammaGlobulin

[GammaGlobulin]

 

[GammaGlobulin]

 

[save the frogs]

3 hours ago, swissie said:

remove the consumer from an increasingly harsh reality.

it reality increasingly harsh?

2 people can live in the same reality and have a completely different perspective on reality

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

4 hours ago, swissie said:

Today, we are far removed from Benjamin Franklins quote: "God gave us Beer, wanting us to be happy".

 

 

 

 

Read it for FREE....here.....

 

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/20203/pg20203-images.html

 

 

And, so on.....

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

4 hours ago, swissie said:

30% of the world population still lives on less than 2$ a day

 

Total baloney 

[fredwiggy]

16 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Total baloney 

Actually not too far off. This from 2022.........https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/developmenttalk/half-global-population-lives-less-us685-person-day

[2baht]

Well, SOMEONE absolutely trashed this OP, GG??? 🙄 Elvis has obviously left the building!

[GammaGlobulin]

59 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

Actually not too far off. This from 2022.........https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/developmenttalk/half-global-population-lives-less-us685-person-day

 

Still....

 

Baloney.

 

 

[LS24]

5 hours ago, swissie said:

Few like the taste of Alcohol, but cherish the effects.

 

I'm the opposite. I thoroughly enjoy a thick, rich flavourful Begian beer. I enjoy an ice cold Singha after a hot day. And love to savour a warming Speyside single malt in the evening. I really don't enjoy the effects or after affects of alcohol, though.

 

As for the king. Elvis died and soon after in the early 1980s a new King arrived all dressed in regal Maroon. And his name was Wally.

[KannikaP]

Differet??????

[fredwiggy]

1 hour ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Still....

 

Baloney.

 

 

If one doesn't leave the comfort of their moo ban,and travel to different poverty stricken countries, one doesn't begin to understand what millions of other people go through besides what we see on the news, which doesn't come close to what's actually out there. There are thousands of people living in the US that go without food daily, something the locals here cannot fathom.

[ericthai]

On 5/29/2024 at 7:19 PM, fredwiggy said:

Actually not too far off. This from 2022.........https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/developmenttalk/half-global-population-lives-less-us685-person-day

8% ??  that's not close to 30%

[swissie]

On 5/30/2024 at 2:19 AM, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Still....

 

Baloney.

 

 

Look at a world map. How many countries will qualify as "western standarts"? You can count them on less than 10 fingers.

Why does half of south America want to emigrate to the US?

Why does half of the world want to emigrate to Europe?

Because they have a financially comfortable life in their home country?

To you, apperantly, it's all Baloney. Look at the world map once more. Do you realise that to buy a Baloney-Sausage, for a majority of people in those less fortunate countries it will take 2 days wages to buy "your Baloney"?