alcohol

Or X, or Xweet, or what the hell ever it's called today. Current example: David Brooks, NYT columnist. As noted in the Biden thread. "OMG, it's all Biden's fault that a burger and fries costs $78!!!" Reality: Burger and fries cost $18, the rest was booze. Don't post while drunk. Or stoned...

I have tried to find something on this online but came up empty, so I ask here if there is any basis to a very old belief I have known a few hard drinkers to share. Drinking alcohol is already considered to put the drinker at risk of stroke, but is it true that the risk is elevated if there are...

When I was younger, so much younger than today, I learned that drinking milk before consuming large amounts of alcohol (now, who would do *that*) the milk would help by blocking the alcohol getting into your blood. Apparently the fat in the milk blocked the alcohol or some such. Is there...

Threads exist about this, but no recent poll: What should be the age limit for drinking alcohol?

Bad news for our Eurasian friends. The Russian president has now signed a bill recognising beer as an alcoholic beverage. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14232970

Gary Bradley, an adjunct professor at the Seventh Day Adventist operated La Sierra University, has been on the radar of the adminstration because he doesn't accept young Earth creationism and this provoked problems with the church and school. Now, Bradley has been asked to resign for consuming...

It's nearly four in the morning, and I'm absolutely hammered. I've just run a wine-tasting evening, and was hoping someone could help me with the probabilities. Basically, in a single-blinded test, contestants were given six whites and six reds, in numbered glasses, along with a list of all...

Looks like the earth might not be the center of the universe. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11660210

Some college kids got alcohol poisoning from a drink called Four Loko. Because of that people think that this alcoholic caffeinated drink should be banned because it tastes fruity so kids will think it's safe. -.- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39835017/ns/us_news-life/?GT1=43001 Why is an...

Disease or not, we can all agree that alcoholism is a serious problem. The idea that alcoholism is a disease was largely popularized by Alcoholics Anonymous, to my understanding. Many doctors and alcohol/drug addiction specialists agree that alcoholism is a disease. However, not everyone agrees...

Pregnant Women May Have 1 or 2 Drinks Weekly Without Harm, Study Finds Except, it's even better than the headline suggests:

I have two questions for anyone who can shed light on this topic: First, is there any evidence that shows the effects of alcohol on sleep? Second, I've heard that you are warmed up by consuming alcohol because your heart has to pump out more blood due to the level of alcohol in the blood...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599201433200;_ylt=AvD8AXFcmqI31pbmrgLLks5v24cA;_ylu=X3oDMTM1czYwYWVjBGFzc2V0A3RpbWUvMjAxMDA4MzAvMDg1OTkyMDE0MzMyMDAEY2NvZGUDbW9zdHBvcHVsYXIEY3BvcwM0BHBvcwM0BHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcmllcwRzbGsDaGVhdnlkcmlua2Vy From the article: "The most shocking part? Abstainers'...

I can't post the raw data because I am trying to get my crap published, but I'm finding interesting, moderate relationships with alcohol consumption and a host of good things. Examples include lower incidence of heart disease; high blood pressure; obesity; smoking; arthritis, stroke, etc...

So the torries have said they are not going to increase the tax on cider. Aside from the problem of how they are going to pay for this the continueing low tax on cider only continues to encourage the production of low quality "ciders" in order to get the best alcohol to price ratio.

I had a discussion with someone about the old theory that different types of alcoholic beverages cause different behaviours in the same individual. He said the he believed that it was plausible that getting drunk on whisky could make someone become a mean drunk, while that same person, had they...

In the thread about making drugs illegal we have started talking about alcohol prohibition, especially in the early 20th century in the US. It seems to me that most people would agree that we are better off now than we were during that period in terms of things like gang wars and people dying...

Recently I have begun making my own beer, and wine. I like doing this because it really gives me an outlet for my culinary skills that I never really made use of after vocational school. Recently I was thinking about making my own whiskey, specifically a bourbon clone. Of course to my...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/dec/17/donaldson-alcohol-guidance-children Is he talking nonsense? Would minimum pricing have the desired effect?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200604/s1607840.htm I always thought that alcohol was a by product of biological processes. Is this interstellar alcohol a by product of living things in space? Could this be proof of extraterrestrial organisms? This is a legitimate question although I...

I just saw this CNN story about a Muslim woman who is going to be caned for drinking beer in public. A dual track legal system. That strikes me as so strange. The idea that all are equal before the law seems so fundamental to me, that I am having a hard time accepting this model.

I read a short article in the Leader Post today regarding what's called "safe grad parties". The situation is this: the parents of high school students purchase alcohol for their children and their friends, tickets are sold to the party, which is held at a supervised location. It's called "safe"...

The Chief Medical Officer in England, following similar plans in Scotland, has put forward a proposal to set a minimum price on a unit of alcohol to curb peoples' consumption. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/02/scotland-drinking-proposals http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7944334.stm...

I have been thinking about psychoactive plant substances like marijuana (from the cannabis plant), opium and its derivatives morphine, heroine and codeine (from the opium poppy). We know what these substances do to the human system, but how did they evolve? What advantage, if any, do these...

I attended a special event two weeks ago, and drank enough to pass out. The next morning I drank plenty of water, and thought I felt fine, except for a general deficit in my sense of balance and some trembling (though I can account for the trembling due to being nervous because I had a speaking...

I think this falls under the "Medicine" category. In my 22 years on Earth, I have never had beer, wine, or alcohol of any type, with the only possible exception being cough medicine (and I am not certain about that). My parents do not drink, nor do my grandparents on either side. I am told...

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22924256-12377,00.html A FRUIT-picking trip to southern New South Wales ended in the death of a Scottish backpacker who became embroiled in a bizarre row about creationism and evolution. English backpacker Alexander Christian York, 33, was...

I used to be a Christian, and now I lean towards the non-existence of my eternal big-brother. However, I still don't drink alcohol, due to a variety of reasons that go well beyond religion. (It's not that I have a problem with other people drinking, I'm just not going to partake of it myself.)...

When I was last in Europe there was a show on television about how little alcohol people, especially women, could safely consume. I always thought if you weren't an alcoholic, and didn't drive drunk, it didn't matter how much you drank. Perhaps a worry about caloric content, but a few beers...

Yes, there is a Religious connection: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070814/ap_on_el_st_lo/prohibition_vote_3