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This week it was revealed a student,ostensibly studying agriculture,died off alcohol misuse,See link below.Do you think it would be wise to outlaw this type of activity.I remember many university departments were stuffed full of middle-class chaos who seemed wholly incapable of adjusting to their new life.The worst offenders were architects and engineers,courses dominated by men wearing M&^S anoraks,Faulkner trousers and Polaris =shoes

How can this juvenile practice be eradicated?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/h ... 96716.html

[Psamathe]

Can the practice be adequately defines? Initiation, drinking games, OTT parties. Most of us have done stuff like that (not done any initiation things myself but OTT drinking - I was young once).

I'm unsure about how effective any bad would be given that the recent tragedy was at a University I understood had banned such things.

Thinking back to my younger days I wonder if education as to when others need help might be more effective. I remember one party where somebody I knew went very very OTT and we ended up calling the Police and an ambulance and he survived (but Police said he might not have had we not made that call). Trouble is we were all pretty far gone and your judgement suffers so you are less likely to recognise others need help.

But how widespread is the problem? Anybody dying from things like this is a tragedy but is it a one off or something that happens regularly? In my student days I don't remember anybody dying from drinking (but there were deaths from other causes)

Ian

[reohn2]

I think it's the amount of concentrated alcohol in a short time that's doing the damage.
When I was young I'd go out of an evening and get steadily drunk as the evening passed over a period of maybe 5 hours,because I and everyone else drank beer and enjoyed a decent pint,high volume low concentrate,but not too drunk that we couldn't walk a couple of miles home if we missed the bus.
Further more if a landlord thought someone had had enough to drink they'd refuse to serve them,likewise if a group were rowdy they'd be refused entrance into a pub or club.
These days it seems the done thing to throw back as many low volume high alcohol content shots of vodka etc as possible,the shock to the system must be like being hit with sledgehammer.
Some systems,as in the case mentioned,can't stand that kind of shock.
And landlords and club owners in city center pubs and clubs only see profits,it doesn't matter to them if someone is legless so long as they can order a drink.

[djnotts]

Amateurs I guess. When I arrived at University in '67, I was surprised at how difficult it was to score dope! Had to go home to Stockport! Some of the "chaps" in Hall tried the initiation nonsense - once I had told them exactly what I was going to do to them with the fully studded belt held in my hand they left me entirely alone. I guess the main problem is having enough money to drink "shots" rather than 8 pints of bitter and some wacky baccy. Poor kid.

[pete75]

An old ex merchant navy officer I worked with used to say 'Always keep one drink ahead of hangover'.
When I was young I didn't get hangovers no matter how much I drank.

[djnotts]

"Further more if a landlord thought someone had had enough to drink they'd refuse to serve them,..."

Only ever in Jersey in my experience! One of my mates once had to crawl to the bar in The Eldon, couldn't stand, simply reached up his hand with the cash, and crawled back to the back room with his pint!

[pete75]

"Further more if a landlord thought someone had had enough to drink they'd refuse to serve them,..."

Only ever in Jersey in my experience! One of my mates once had to crawl to the bar in The Eldon, couldn't stand, simply reached up his hand with the cash, and crawled back to the back room with his pint!

Ah so you were in Leeds. Surprised you had problems scoring dope there.

[djnotts]

Took me a few weeks before I connected, thus failing the W Burroughs definition of cool!

[661-Pete]

.I remember many university departments were stuffed full of middle-class chaos who seemed wholly incapable of adjusting to their new life.The worst offenders were architects and engineers,courses dominated by men wearing M&^S anoraks,Faulkner trousers and Polaris =shoes

Be careful with those generalisations please! I was for a while an engineering student (after starting off in Physics) - and I suppose I should rank myself as middle-class. I don't recognise in myself the behaviour you describe - although it is true I occasionally had more to drink in a session than I ought to.

Today I hardly ever drink.

And I've never heard of "Faulkner trousers" or "Polaris shoes". Perhaps someone can enlighten me?

For the record - in my undergrad days at Oxford many moons ago, the "worst offenders" were actually the so-called "Hooray Henrys". Upper-class idiots with too much money and too little inclination to attend to their studies. Forever indulging in black-tie dinners, copiously lubricated, and then throwing up all over the quad.... I'd never heard of the Bullingdon Club back then, as it happens, but on later hearing of it I sure recognised its antics!