<p>That’s exactly my point. All these surveys ask if you have binge drunk in a certain time period, and then specifically define binging as 5+ drinks. Well damn, that makes me a weekly binger then. In reality, 5 drinks is not much for a person my size (and no mini, I’m not an incipient alcoholic - my tolerance has never increased), and so I would be classed in a stupid class. mini loves th binge drinking percentages like they’re his children, but in reality there’s obviously a tendency to overstate/a certain irrelevance to reality in those surveys.</p>
<p>to follow up on my previous post in this thread (#50)</p>
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<p>She recently visited and overnighted at the so called “SUBSTANCE FREE dorm” of the college, and she found the people there a bit abnormal, almost social phobic.</p>
<p>(NOW THAT is a concept, huh? - having a floor or a dorm dedicated to “substance free”? This seems to be a typical concept at many colleges, and ironic in this thread. )</p>
<p>This seems to be the problem: extreme 21 shots binge drinking or social phobics. How about, for example, playing some monopoly, participating in a drum circle, or re-creating the last scene of The Planet of the Apes, for fun?</p>
<p>This leads to another question: from my lookseeing into residential colleges, it seems, to a one, the admin of every college that we have looked at puts out a ton of things to do for the students. Then why do so many seem to resort to uber-drinking for fun? Is the stuff ‘the man’ creates too ‘the man’ and the kids gotta do their own thing?</p>
<p>For those who claim that Europeans don’t have a teenage drinking problem:
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She started drinking alcohol at the age of 12. One year later, Natasha Farnham was drinking up to six bottles of wine a day.</p>
<p>And even when she was diagnosed with liver failure at the age of 14, Farnham, of Twerton in Bath, Somerset, England, didn’t stop drinking.</p>
<p>In fact, she was rushed to the hospital after drinking 16 bottles of wine, hard cider and other alcoholic beverages over the course of three days.</p>
<p>Now, at the age of 18, Farnham has entered rehab and suffers from permanent memory loss, it is being reported by London’s Daily Mail.</p>
<p>“I didn’t think my drinking was a problem because all my friends were getting wasted every weekend as well,” Farnham told the newspaper. “But, now I have no short-term memory and doctors warn me that if I drink anymore I will die."</p>