Having a drink is a guilty pleasure that most of the human race is involved in. There are many habits involving excess that cause problems that are not alcohol related. Speed, drugs, smoking, sugar, fast food, gambling , etc. Whatever it is that we are exposed to we need to find a way of controlling the desire to do it excessively.
Also, if people can access alcohol to drink at home they will be less inclined to drink at the bar and possibly drive home.
Another Beer and Wine store, probually supported by Herb Pond as well. Seems kinda funny that all the Beer, and Wine stores seem to be from downtown to the east side. How long before they put one on the west side??? Let me see, we have the Liquor store, that has crappy hours, then there is Solly’s, Spirits of Cowbay, The Belmount, and The Rupert Beer and Wine. Here I thought that the city was looking at ways of breaking down on the number of alcohol related offences in Rupert, so erecting another Beer and Wine store should help the problem, or maybe even encourage more drinking, and driving. Pathetic, simply pathetic
Yes, sugar, that’s my addiction!
lets put one on Graham/Atlin St
And fill it with stock of real cheap shit that goes well in a brown paper bag and you can take it any where.
Kind of ironic that the Daily News considered the opening of another place to get alcohol in Prince Rupert as one of their “Good News” stories of the week. While I am certainly not against economic development or diversification it would have been nice to see our Good News be something that potentially benefits the entire community.
I heard that the new Beer and Wine place is going to be more like that Spirits place in Cow Bay, rather than like the Coast Beer and Wine store. It won’t carry the exact same product range as Spirits, of course, but it won’t be a place for winos to stop by with 4 bucks at 11am when they’re ready to get their drink on.
Eccentric, while you are at it,take a pot shot at the fat people lined up at fast food joints and the smokers that tie up the grocery check out lines to send the clerk for cigarettes! By the way, $4 buys dick these days, and chronic alcoholics are sick people who’s need for alcohol is not governed by the clock.
Actually, $4 bucks was about as much as it cost someone to get drunk from really crappy “74 Sherry” at the Coast Beer and Wine store. They bought it specifically for “winos”. That might have changed with the ownership change a few years ago, but that’s how it was when I worked there.
There’s nothing wrong with me saying that the new place won’t cater to that crowd–do you think a vegetarian restaurant should be forced to serve fat-filled cheesburgers just because fat people won’t be interested in what they’re selling?
Also, you don’t wake up one day and suddenly are an alcoholic. It’s a long process, and people make their choices. I know hindsight is 20/20–but if you don’t want to be labeled a wino by some random guy on the intraweb, but down the bottle.
NO they carry that type of wine to cater to that type of alcoholic/clientele who cant afford to buy better stuff; due to the fact they don’t work. I guess you would rather sell them mouthwash to drink…
were is your proof? can you please post it, thank you!!
LOL, I’m majoring in Psychology with an emphasis in biopsych–and even though I’m only in second year, I’ve been taught enough to know that before one develops a dependancy to a drug, one must first be directly exposed to copious amounts of the drug.
Social drinkers don’t become alcoholics–they just don’t.
what? OK fist dependancy is spelled dependency Second no you don’t need to be exposed to copious amounts of the drug to form an addiction. Its been proven that addiction can be inherent biological from a parent or both parents.
Psychology and biology are two different things and until you know more about addiction you should not talk about things you don’t really understand.
and stop trying to use your Psychology mumbo-jumbo all the time and use some common sense. 
Also depends on how you want to define alcoholic. Social drinkers go out every weekend. And they feel they need booze to have fun. Is that not dependant on alcohol? To me, if someone goes out and socially drinks, every saturday night, even if it’s just a few drinks, that’s an alcoholic. If they feel they NEED it, it’s a dependency right? People I know, go out, and don’t think they can have fun without liquid courage, even if it’s just once a month. They still can’t do it without alcohol.
It’s kind of a fine line.
I completely disagree. Just because someone goes out every Saturday night and has a few drinks, does not make them an alcoholic. A person who has an addiction to the consumption of alcoholic liquor is an alcoholic…Not a person who goes out every Saturday and feels like they need to have a few brews to loosen up. I think if you are a person with any kind of addiction you think, eat, and breathe it. It is the first thing you think about when you wake up and the last thing you think about before you go to bed.
Okay, Professor Astro.
With drugs like heroin, meth, and all that other fun stuff, addiction can possibly be passed down to the baby if the parent does drugs while pregnant or has a hell of a lot of it in their system. However, alcohol is much different than those. Alcoholism happens when a person chooses to drink - alot. If they choose to drink alone, then that’s a telltale sign. It’s not a chemical addiction, it’s a psychological one (unlike the aforementioned heroin, meth, etc).
Now about that Beer & Wine store…
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what? OK fist dependancy is spelled dependency[/quote]
Do you really want to make this a spelling argument? It’s a great way to start when you don’t know what to say–and I think we both know I’ve got a lot more ammunition if we make this a grammar war…
Now, I’m not sure if you mean “inherited” or not. Assuming that you do, then the child is still exposed to a large amount of alcohol–even if it’s indirectly from the parent.
I’m not sure about this–but I’m not sure I like the idea that alcoholism inherited. Wouldn’t we see new born babies going through withdrawal?
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Psychology and biology are two different things and until you know more about addiction you should not talk about things you don’t really understand.[/quote]
I’m not going to ask how much education you have, but when you do get into higher levels it becomes too simplistic to study things in the terms you’re using. This is why several of the courses I’m taking are ‘Biopsychology’ courses–or, Biological Psychology–which looks into how biological process, specifically in the brain, influence our behaviour. As you can imagine, drugs and drug dependency is a big part of this.
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and stop trying to use your Psychology mumbo-jumbo all the time and use some common sense. [/quote]
I didn’t really use any mumbo-jumbo–I used pretty simple terms. But anyways, common sense would suggest that to become an alcoholic, one need drink alcohol–correct?
To get back to what I actually was trying to get across when I hurt someone’s feelings using the term “wino”…
People were suggesting that this new establishment would be yet another place for people with alcohol problems to quench their thirst. Since I had heard that this new place would be selling more expensive drinks, I don’t think that the local alcoholics will make it their new haunt.
All this talk about Beer and Wine stores is making me very thirsty.
I cannot believe that Astro made a point to criticize someone’s spelling! I don’t think I’ve ever read a post by Astro that didn’t contain several typos and/or grammatical errors!
Astro needs to “loose” the arrogance. 
LMAO 
c’mon guys lighten up, let’s head to the closest beer & whine! 