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Complaining about things over a two hour lunch break *with a glass of wine
Sorted that for you
Works without wine too.
But works with wine and without lunch as well.
A lot of people reckon the small glass of wine is necessary to help digest the ridiculously fatty food without absorbing the fat
See the French Paradox
As far as I know there isn’t any scenario where drinking wine is healthy and I say that as a french guy. Alcool being healthy or good overall for your health is a myth no matter the amount. You might gain some on some aspect but overall it will never be better than good food and a glass of water.
Yes, this is boring but science is pretty clear about it and we obviously had this debate many times here.
Just because we make a lot of quality wine and good food doesn’t make everything healthy.
I think a long time ago kids were getting a bit of wine at school lunch so we are not an example here. We have a wine lobby that tried very hard to reinforce the idea that a “little glass” of wine is good and that without excess it’s fine. Truthfully no amount of alcool is healthy. I still drink a beer here and there but alcool will never be healthy and I know it.
I’d say that, in reference to small amounts, there’s a difference between “bad for you” and “won’t actually harm you” but I’m not going to argue with your point
I’d put it as “you won’t actually perceive the damage”
Exactly. Even drinking a ml of alcool will hurt you it’s just that the damage is so small you can’t measure it.
Nah, alcohol is literally poison.
The drunkenness you feel is just your body reacting to being poisoned.
Being a Group 1 carcinogen, let’s analyze it with other carcinogens in the same group: is there such a thing as “won’t actually harm you” amounts of asbestos? What about “won’t actually harm you” exposure to ionizing radiation?
We don’t know which DNA damage will turn into cancer, but each exposure to a group 1 carcinogen is another lotto ticket bought to see if you won cancer. You will never buy a lotto ticket that doesn’t have a chance of winning.
ETA and then there’s the non-cancer effects that just increase cardiac problems and stroke risk.
It was not before 1956 that schools stopped giving wine to kids under 14.
1956 : Interdiction de l’alcool dans les cantines scolaires | L’oeil de l’INA
Alcohol is bad for your body, but you don’t care about it when you are drunk.
There are better places than Paris for hiking…
Paris is a lovely walk-able city, though.
Too bad there are so many French people
Too bad there are so many French people
There are a bunch of right-wingers out there that would tell you (((they))) are working on that. That’s basically the heart of the whole “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory and I’ve seen a few specifically point to Paris as an example of it in action.
That’s not hiking, that just happens in a day
Paris really is beautiful, I have seen many places as nice in Europe, but Paris stands out
Does that 2 hours come out of your work day or do you have still stay 2 hours later? I don’t even use my 1 hour lunch break because not using it let’s me get off earlier.
Depends on your job, and what it’s being offset against. Some workplaces care more about your work that your office hours. OTOH some workplaces are run by psychotic control freaks who’ve forgotten what the point is 🤷
Sometimes the point of a job is to be in a certain place at a certain time, so job places requiring you to follow the clock makes sense in a lot of cases.
If your job is to make at least 25 “thingies”, and you make 25, you should be able to go home.
Back when I worked a job with a target (25 work items in this case) it would have been reasonably cheap for them to massively increase productivity by doing that
Finish the day’s work and go home
Instead they demanded 25 work items, gave us enough work to deliver around 15 each and wanted us on site regardless of whether work was done
Yeah that’s a good point actually, although in those cases you usually can’t pull a 2 hour lunch
Doesn’t come out of your hours so yes in practice you finish later and/or start earlier.
F that. I guess it’s nice if you need to go to a doctor or something but no way as a standard thing.
Yeah it’s pretty shit tbh, but also total weekly is 35h max, tons of vacations, etc etc etc. Also very dependant by workplace, depends if the boss is modern or old school, etc. Some people definitely enjoy the long mid-day break, also realistically if the bossman takes you out and orders a bunch of wine, expectations for the afternoon are gonna be low…
Also shit gets weird when you start going south, shops will close from 12:00 to 16:00, morning open at 10/11, it’s maniana maniana. Overall I would rate France not the best country to work in but it’s mostly because you then have to deal with not only French people but also French administration, and F that. Overall work conditions and benefits are good (salaries not so much). I personally GTFO of there and much enjoyed the faster pace where I live now but I’m kinda getting over it and the slower rhythm sounds more tempting now.
Moving out of Paris actually did wonders to my mental health. Worst city to live in in my opinion.
