Bad news for Lunchtime O'Booze and friends

Especially friends. The New York Times reports that a Chinese Communist Party campaign aims to bust civil servants partaking in booze-soaked lunches. Clearly they're not planning on doing much business with Australians

And groveling apologies to the Moderators - this should have gone in the Global Forum

[Lunchtime O'Booze]

even I draw the line at lunching with civil servants. Aussies and Chinese are quite welcome though..

[travelerjim]

Here is MORE bad news for Lunchtime & friends...

as reported on MSNBC:

Last call comes even earlier for senior drinkers...

More than a drink a day puts the 65-plus set at risk, new study says.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23521949/

If youтАЩre older than 65 and enjoy sipping more than one glass of wine with dinner
or a few drinks in a single sitting, brace yourself for a sobering thought.

ThatтАЩs too much alcohol for a person your age, according to new research
that could put a crimp in senior center happy hours.

Nearly one in 10 older U.S. adults is an тАЬunhealthy drinker,тАЭ
according to a study published this week in journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Unless they curb their ways, theyтАЩll be at risk for medical problems, social trouble and falls,
all of which make the normal hazards of aging even worse, said Elizabeth Merrick,
co-author of the Brandeis University study of some 12,400 Medicare recipients in 2003.

more...

[Lunchtime O'Booze]

I'm just a social worker really..as the article says :

"The risky drinkers were only a fraction of the senior population. About two-thirds of people older than 65 said they didn't drink at all" - someone has to make up for them.

besides-it's the only time I get to give my fabulous rendition of Marlene Dietrich's Falling Down Stairs Again

even I draw the line at lunching with civil servants. ..

Apparently so!!

[jinks]

I had lunch with the only true Naked Civil Servant, Quintin Crisp.

Dicky Attenborough was there too !

You will have to wait for my Autobiography to read the full story.