Wine-drinking on TV

There’s always a case for something we enjoy.
It’s about knowing ourselves.
I know many functioning alcoholics who wouldn’t think they have a drink prob because they can work, or function whilst under the influence. They would be in a state if their booze of choice wasn’t available.
I do think TV normalise alcohol and it’s not something to encourage. Occasional drink ok but daily, that’s a prob.

A daily drink isn't necessarily a problem. It depends what you drink and how much.

My mother's GP recommended a tot of whisky on the nights she couldn't sleep. She was very abstemious and would not take it if she was still awake at 2.00am. But the bottle and glass were stashed in the wrdrobe, so that they were easy to access, but no one would see them!

I was a GP receptionist in my early 20s. Apparently the senior partner used to advise a teaspoon of brandy in the baby's last bottle at night 😴

Too much being normalised subliminally on TV and films and the Internet. . Alcohol. Drugs. Promiscuity, Swearing, Violence to name but a few. I know for some none of that is a problem to them but I don't doubt it can influences those behaviours in people's lives. We need more promotion of healthier lifestyles and safer ways of behaving. There is a lot of work to do.

hilz

Too much being normalised subliminally on TV and films and the Internet. . Alcohol. Drugs. Promiscuity, Swearing, Violence to name but a few. I know for some none of that is a problem to them but I don't doubt it can influences those behaviours in people's lives. We need more promotion of healthier lifestyles and safer ways of behaving. There is a lot of work to do.

Younger people are drinking less and less. University of Bradford had a teetotal bar at this year's fresher week.

So, as far as drinking is concerned, they can have as much of it as they like on tv or online young people aren't watching tv and are not drinking either.

No programme complete with out a bottle being opened. I prefer a cuppa.

V3ra

I was a GP receptionist in my early 20s. Apparently the senior partner used to advise a teaspoon of brandy in the baby's last bottle at night 😴

We’ve just been to Puglia. Our guide, who’s only in his sixties, told us how when he was young all school boys (not the girls) would be given a raw egg and Marsala wine for breakfast every day for the good of their health. When they were particularly silly at school their teacher would excuse them because they’d been “on the egg”.

Maggiemaybe

V3ra

I was a GP receptionist in my early 20s. Apparently the senior partner used to advise a teaspoon of brandy in the baby's last bottle at night 😴

We’ve just been to Puglia. Our guide, who’s only in his sixties, told us how when he was young all school boys (not the girls) would be given a raw egg and Marsala wine for breakfast every day for the good of their health. When they were particularly silly at school their teacher would excuse them because they’d been “on the egg”.

I used to ask for a drop of brandy for my poorly tummy when I was a very young child; it was put in a tiny glass with sugar and hot water.

I rarely touch brandy now.

Now that’s one way of putting someone off wine for life!😝

We got a little bit of rum for an upset stomach when we were younger. Mum used to say it would kill it or cure it, ie make us feel better or make us throw up and get rid of the tummyache that way.

Yes Allira and Mollygo and my dad would do that with brandy in an egg-cup sized glass if we were really suffering. Would be frowned on nowdays. I wasn’t complaining though- it worked, and everyone got a good nights 😴

Gripe water contained alcohol!
Highly recommended by my sister-in-law.

Yes, and they ARE buckets these days, too!
They might as well just swig it out of the bottles!
And have you noticed, its usually red wine?!

If a medic asks me I just tell them I’m a social wine drinker.

And how many depends on how sociable I’m feeling lol 🥂🥂

I gave DS, when a baby, a teaspoon of sherry once when he was having a non-sleeping night. It had no effect.

grumppa

Just as well the GP was only a locum, Allira. One definition of an alcoholic is somebody who drinks more than their GP. Our practice had a teetotal doctor once, but his partners more than made up for him.

I worked for an Asian gp many, many years ago, he was the only gp I knew who had a cocktail cupboard in his surgery room, ashtray always full. He died of a heart attack in his 50s 😞

I've said this for years, almost all programmes have people drinking, wine, beer, spirits for no apparent reason other than it's there. Smoking used to be a similar scenario.

MPs and Lords have subsidized bars in Parliament. That's very unfair on the rest of us.

My daughter and I play a little game of guessing when the red wine will get opened by the female lead in dramas, usually as soon as she gets home, Harlan Coben ones are especially predictable in their million pound house kitchen lol

I used to have a port before giving babies their last feed for the night. Worked fine and none of them are alcoholics now.

My husband uses drinking on the tv as a reason why he is not drinking too much. They are always at it he says
Interestingly when he has had too much the dog won’t have anything to do with him

Dogs aren’t daft🙂

This is off topic but in a similar vein. In every crime programme, the main police character is always eating. Usually some kind of takeaway or fat sandwich. I think the implication is that police have no time to eat proper meals. Once you notice it, it gets very annoying.

Probably not as annoying as it is for real police officers in "real life" Skydancer