Author Topic: Alcohol makes you cleverer! (Read 711 times)

Furball · « **on:** September 18, 2003, 05:22:28 AM »

Just stumbled across this.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1058526.stm

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Men who drank less than 540 millilitres of sake or wine a day had an IQ 3.3 points higher than men who did not drink at all

beet1e · « **Reply #1 on:** September 18, 2003, 05:27:10 AM »

...and Lazs doesn't drink.

ra · « **Reply #2 on:** September 18, 2003, 06:30:25 AM »

whot if u drnk way mor than 540 ml ?

straffo · « **Reply #3 on:** September 18, 2003, 06:50:53 AM »

Did you notice that 540 millilitres is more than half a litter ?

0.9502659 pint

Nilsen · « **Reply #4 on:** September 18, 2003, 07:49:23 AM »

beeing clever is overrated....beeing drunk is not...

*burp*

lazs2 · « **Reply #5 on:** September 18, 2003, 08:03:15 AM »

beetle... i guess it all depends on what you started out with and how you use what you got. Still... I allways thought that you were 3 points smarter than the other idiot in your village. Now we know why. that's why you are allways the keynote speaker at the village idiot conventions.
lazs

Drunky · « **Reply #6 on:** September 18, 2003, 09:14:19 AM »

Perhaps drinking doesn't make you smarter...

Perhaps it's smart people drink.

If drinking made you smarter I'd be a freaking big-headed-neck-too-small-to-hold-up-my-big-head-smart-person-type. Yeah.

BEVO · « **Reply #7 on:** September 18, 2003, 09:42:52 AM »

it's the "Slowest Buffalo" theory:
A herd fo buffalo is only as fast as it's slowest buffalo.
the wolfs hunt them from behind, killing the one in the back..... the slowest. the slowest one is dead, thus making the herd faster.
the same is true with brain cells........ alcohol kills off the weakest brain cells, making you more clever!

ra · « **Reply #8 on:** September 18, 2003, 09:45:51 AM »

Uhhh, buffaloes don't drink, Einstein.

Frogm4n · « **Reply #9 on:** September 18, 2003, 09:48:11 AM »

another reason not to trust people that dont drink at all.

beet1e · « **Reply #10 on:** September 18, 2003, 11:55:13 AM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
beetle... i guess it all depends on what you started out with and how you use what you got. Still... I allways thought that you were 3 points smarter than the other idiot in your village. Now we know why. that's why you are allways the keynote speaker at the village idiot conventions.
lazs

Think positive. I don't believe this story. Focus on the fact that you've probably got 3 times as many live brain cells by being a tee-totaller. Still, 3 times nothing is still nothing - muhahahaha

Lazs!

Hey, only 27 more days to go. We'd better start practising to be nice to eachother.

lazs2 · « **Reply #11 on:** September 18, 2003, 02:37:22 PM »

before drugs and alchohol.... I was told that we only use 10% of our brain and that alchohol destroys brain cells... I figured I could drink and drug till I killed 90% of my brain off.

What they didn't tell ya was that the stuff kills the brain cells ya use and leaves the useless ones intact.

and who says I'm gonna be nice to you at the con?
lazs

beet1e · « **Reply #12 on:** September 18, 2003, 02:46:38 PM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
before drugs and alchohol.... I was told that we only use 10% of our brain and that alchohol destroys brain cells... I figured I could drink and drug till I killed 90% of my brain off.

What they didn't tell ya was that the stuff kills the brain cells ya use and leaves the useless ones intact.

and who says I'm gonna be nice to you at the con?
lazs

waaah-hah-hah-hah! Bah, come on, Lazs! Don't take life (aka this BBS - LOL) so seriously! We'll get along fine. Yeah, we've had a few dingdongs along the way, but a turning point was when I found you were a cat lover - well, a cat owner!

Eagler · « **Reply #13 on:** September 18, 2003, 03:08:05 PM »

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Originally posted by Furball
Re: Alcohol makes you cleverer!

yep, every drunk at every party I ever ran across thought so ...

bigUC · « **Reply #14 on:** September 18, 2003, 03:50:30 PM »

Bottles are difficult to operate