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To my friends who enjoy a glass of wine...

Posted: 25 Jul 2016, 08:19
by Filonian
To my friends who enjoy a glass of wine... and those who don't.

As Ben Franklin said:
In wine there is wisdom,
in beer there is freedom,
in water there is bacteria.

In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 litre of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of E. coli - bacteria found in feces.

In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop.

However, we do NOT run that risk when drinking wine & beer (or tequila, rum, whiskey or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through a purification process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting..

Remember: Water = Poop, Wine = Health.

Therefore, it's better to drink wine and talk stupid, than to drink water and be full of crap!

There is no need to thank me for this valuable information: I'm doing it as a public service!



Graham Image

Re: To my friends who enjoy a glass of wine...

Posted: 25 Jul 2016, 09:01
by Paul K
Thank you, Graham. When I next have a hangover, I shall think ' No pain, no gain'. ;)

Re: To my friends who enjoy a glass of wine...

Posted: 25 Jul 2016, 10:16
by Dev One
Must tell my GP, she keeps telling me to drink more water, so keeps on prescribing more pills to take with said water, its just that the water I drink is purified with a generous slug of Scotlands best!! Talisker preferably.
Keith

Re: To my friends who enjoy a glass of wine...

Posted: 25 Jul 2016, 12:03
by Filonian
Dev One wrote:Must tell my GP, she keeps telling me to drink more water, so keeps on prescribing more pills to take with said water, its just that the water I drink is purified with a generous slug of Scotlands best!! Talisker preferably.
Keith
I'm with you Keith.

I cannot take water neat - have to dilute it with something and I must say, don't mind Talisker myself.


Graham

Re: To my friends who enjoy a glass of wine...

Posted: 25 Jul 2016, 13:04
by Airspeed
Have to agree! :agree:
I always seek the truth.
And if there's truth in Champagne, I can't wait to get to the bottom of it. :party:

But now I'm in a quandary, should I seek truth, or freedom?

Re: To my friends who enjoy a glass of wine...

Posted: 25 Jul 2016, 19:04
by blanston12
I do not dispute the truth of the quote, but it could not have been Franklin, the work 'bacteria' did not enter the language until the mid 1800's, well after Franklin passed.

Re: To my friends who enjoy a glass of wine...

Posted: 26 Jul 2016, 02:27
by nigelb
Thank you Graham! I am also being told by my doctor to drink more water. Not so difficult when the temperature is 99F like today but hard when it is at the other end of the spectrum. So I shall follow your sage advice and maybe people will stop telling me I am full of it.

NigelĀ²

Re: To my friends who enjoy a glass of wine...

Posted: 26 Jul 2016, 08:08
by Dev One
nigelb wrote: ....but hard when it is at the other end of the spectrum.

NigelĀ²
What, no ice in your 'doctored' water?
Keith :hide:

Re: To my friends who enjoy a glass of wine...

Posted: 26 Jul 2016, 12:39
by Airspeed
blanston12 wrote:I do not dispute the truth of the quote, but it could not have been Franklin, the work 'bacteria' did not enter the language until the mid 1800's, well after Franklin passed.
Hmmm, I don't think "passed" was about then, either; it was good old "died." :hide:

Re: To my friends who enjoy a glass of wine...

Posted: 26 Jul 2016, 17:30
by blanston12
Airspeed wrote:
blanston12 wrote:I do not dispute the truth of the quote, but it could not have been Franklin, the work 'bacteria' did not enter the language until the mid 1800's, well after Franklin passed.
Hmmm, I don't think "passed" was about then, either; it was good old "died." :hide:
I stand corrected :party: :cheers: