Booze sucks

[SlowwHand]

As with everything the key word is moderation no ?

Yes.

[Dinner]

Reg, **** booze. I'm Russian and I don't drink.

Some Russian you are.

[SlowwHand]

I don't think he's truly Russian, which begs a question. WHO and from WHERE would rather claim to be Russian? A question for the ages.

[onodera]

Do you think I am another one of Kuci's brothers, the only one who's not a far-rightist?

[Dinner]

I'm just teasing you, Onodera.

[The Mad Monk]

How do you even get to 21 without having been blind drunk a few times anyway? Isn't that pretty much an essential element in growing up?

No.

[SlowwHand]

Consider the source.

[MOBIUS]

Staged scenes in nature documentaries

Learn to google better, otherwise I'll have to start calling you Ben after all...

http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/drunk-animals-inebriation-in-the-wild.htm

Animals simply love to get high too: http://www.australiangeographic.com....-their-fix.htm

[MOBIUS]

Vervet monkeys on the Caribbean island of St Kitts have a long history with alcohol. They once devoured fermented sugar cane grown by the rum industry, but now they're known for cheekily scavenging cocktails from tourists along the beaches. Studies of their behaviour have found the monkeys' drinking habits are similar to those of people. Most drink in moderation, but around 12 per cent drink heavily, five per cent drink excessively, and a small group reject alcohol altogether. Juvenile monkeys also tend to drink more than adults.

See, there's even RegMonkeys...

[MOBIUS]

Best one yet:

4. Reindeer and magic mushrooms

Reindeer in eastern Europe deliberately forage for, and have been known to fight over, the hallucinogenic and highly toxic Amanita muscaria mushroom. "[The reindeer] have a desire to experience altered states of consciousness," wrote scientist Andrew Haynes in the Pharmaceutical Journal. The bright red mushrooms are considered poisonous and can cause dizziness in humans, so to avoid any nasty side effects, Siberian natives would get high by feeding the fungi to the reindeer, then drinking the animal's urine.

I'm imagining a Siberian Felch running around and getting high on reindeer piss...

[dannubis]

You wonder who the first man was who thought up this idea...

[MOBIUS]

Clearly Siberian Felch!

[Alexander's Horse]

if you can get by without booze - good for you - although many people I know who didn't like the taste end up real soaks.

[Nikolai]

I drink something like five drinks each week, if that even.

Much more than me, that's for sure.

[MOBIUS]

if you can get by without booze - good for you - although many people I know who didn't like the taste end up real soaks.

I think it's a case of experimentation and the fact that he hasn't come across something he's liked yet.

Maybe his tastebuds are still immature, for example?

When I was young I didn't like beer and the like. I think I start on sweet things and distinctly remember a Malibu and Coke phase... After that I gravitated onto the 'hard stuff' like Southern Comfort, mainly because my mum's boyfriend drank it.

Also it's a definite case of quality: I refused to drink whiskey for the longest time because the first time I tried it I had Johnny Walker Red

Good drink is like good food - next Reg will be saying he's a boring meat and 2 veg kind of guy - or some kind of bollocks like 'food is fuel'...