So Jimmy Johnstone (he used to play for Celtic) was also a ****. We know he struggled with alcoholism.
Alcoholism can be classed as a disease. Addiction can be linked to genetics. In no way do I class it as being similar to cancer, even though that is also genetic. I wouldn't feel sympathy towards alcoholics, but that's because I have been in hospital seeing them. Its brought on by themselves in a way, and in gazzas case I think he has been a victim of his own success (had the money to drink himself to the brink).
No, I said it makes YOU look like a ****. If it wasn't for your autism you would have understood that. Ironic.
You said "Aye, it's debilitating and makes you look like a ****" You are therefore suggesting that Jimmy Johnstone was a **** or at least looked like a ****. Which is it.
That Wayne's World (1991) "joke" gets funnier each time. So Julian the Surreal Nonce has a dig at the Celtic fans for applauding Petrov and now he's calling Jimmy Johnstone a ****. And the buoys thought Pud was the infiltrator.
Ketchup is considered to be one of your 5 a day in the US Alcoholism isn't a disease, it's a ****ty life choice. Depression isn't a disease, it's a by-product of having a ****ing up mind. Anyways, all this disease talk is harsh on Medro <Mono-Teste>
I thought you didn't visit the Gers board? As noted before plenty of medical professionals classify alcoholism as a disease. Medical professional > depressed loner working in call centre
In America? Where ****loads of people believe god put dino bones in the ground to trick us? <MedroFail> You keeping up with the call-centre bullshit? Not everyone has a ****ty job like yours
This is where the addiction-as-disease lobby runs into real trouble. There is no medical test for addiction: no brain scan or blood screening that enables a doctor to detect its presence. And the disease model doesnât just fail to meet scientific criteria: it doesnât pass the common sense test, either. Suppose an alcoholic kills a child while driving drunk. He can wave a certificate signed by every addiction specialist in the country testifying that his actions were involuntary because he has the disease of addiction. Quite rightly, it wonât make a blind bit of difference to the verdict. But imagine that someone suffering from coronary disease has a heart attack at the wheel and kills a child. It would be outrageous to jail him. Or, to choose a less clear-cut example, what about an axe killer suffering from schizophrenia? We may feel uncomfortable that heâs sent to a secure hospital rather than to prison, but we understand why itâs appropriate: the killerâs volition was affected by a mental illness over which he had no control. Ah, say the disease-model advocates, but addiction does change the brain by making it crave rewards. True, but all sorts of behaviour rewires our brains. Iâm happy to accept that, when I was a young drunk, my unwillingness to say no to that third bottle of wine at lunch had a neurological component. But, in the end, itâs just another excuse for the fact that I felt like getting smashed. (Incidentally, I wish Iâd been able to bluff about dopamine and neural circuits at the time: my supply of excuses was always running dry.)Thereâs no doubt that addiction is a scourge â and spreading fast, as the makers of fast food, computer games and online porn learn how to manipulate our neurotransmitters. Technology makes us like things too much. But it doesnât turn us into robots. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/d...isease-careful-youll-be-branded-as-a-heretic/
But Dev, some people think it's a disease and Medro agrees with them because it suits his argument so it has to be true
He might as well. He's paid to use Paint and make pretty pictures. He was considered too repulsive to work behind the counter at Burger King
Incorrect, I do not use paint. And my job is not all about making pretty pictures. It's no Isme catalogue call operator work but it pays good. I'm still waiting for you to better my photoshop work Mr Happy.
