Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
When pressed, they are forced to admit the limits are wholly arbitrary and largely meaningless. Different countries have different limits, ffs! Are we really supposed to believe that a Spaniard can resist the negative medical effects of alcohol nearly three times as well as a Briton? Because that's what their recommendations would appear to suggest.

It's total balls. 14 units wouldn't fill a hollow tooth, ffs.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/dat...-of-the-worlds
I asked my GP about it once and he admitted that the entire thing was nonsense. Note only does it not consider the person's size or general health and fitness, but the limit is the point at which they believe you can begin to detect any impact at all. If that impact is tiny, you could extrapolate out to 60 to 70 units a week and find that the impact is still miniscule.

Admittedly, I say this on the back of a week where I achieved an historic level of sobriety only to discover that I totaled 36 units.