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| Intelligent People Get Drunk More |
| 2011-02-15 |
| More intelligent children are more likely to grow up to engage in binge drinking (consuming five or more units of alcohol in one sitting) and getting drunk. Mankind must have an optimal intelligence level and needs to kill off excess brain cells in over-intelligent individuals. Or maybe smarter people have more money for booze. Or religion promotes temperence and also preferentially attracts the less intelligent. Pour me another tequila for breakfast, please. |
| Posted by:Glenmore |
| #17 Bad FrankG, BAD! [laughs out loud] |
| Posted by: Secret Asian Man 2011-02-15 21:16 |
| #16 Chris, you genius! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-02-15 19:00 |
| #15 Alcohol kills weak brain cells thereby leaving more resources and space for the strong ones....! |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2011-02-15 17:53 |
| #14 It's the Ballmer Peak! |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2011-02-15 17:37 |
| #13 Hey BigJiim Hows that new job. I've been looking to see a post from you off and on. North Dakota can you believe they have an unemployment rate of around three percent. I guess that's where the intelligent people are. I hear qualified welders are in big demand. I know of a pipe fitter that has a take home of $1500.00 dollars a week. His wife is a nurse also. Can you imagine the taxes. I should have that problem. |
| Posted by: Dale 2011-02-15 17:01 |
| #12 This actually explains a lot. |
| Posted by: Bigjim-CA 2011-02-15 16:34 |
| #11 Bright Pebbles has the correct explanation, I am sure of it. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2011-02-15 12:52 |
| #10 "If only there were a magical liquid that made bad memories go away. Oh wait, there is!" -Charlie Harper |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2011-02-15 12:13 |
| #9 We drinkers just have to occasionally escape from our brilliance. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2011-02-15 12:12 |
| #8 No, they've got it the wrong way around! Drink makes you more intelligent (even when you sober up, as a little bit of beery genius sticks). How many of us have solved ALL the worlds problems when drunk? All of us, it's just that we naively thought we'd remember them in the morning when were super-intelligent (drunk as a skunk). It could be the reason that Arab countries are such poor innovators? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-02-15 11:38 |
| #7 Its simple. If you are smart enough, you realize just how screwed up things are. Then culture takes over. Smart Brits get hopeless, so they get drunk. Americans believe we can fix anything so we get to working on fixing it. Ozzies believe in the end it hopeless but that they can fix anything, so they get drunk THEN they get busy. Scots need no excuse, they get angry and drunk no matter. Kiwis have no need to get drunk, they just look out the window and think "lookit all the sheep". |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2011-02-15 11:05 |
| #6 I hate to complain, but the Americans are letting the side down badly. They are just above the Muslims and they are not supposed to drink alcohol. |
| Posted by: tipper 2011-02-15 10:45 |
| #5 .....#3 Obvious effects of long-standing Pommie rejection, imprisonment, guilt, longings for perfidious Albion, etc. [snicker, snicker] |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-02-15 10:09 |
| #4 If intelligent people get really, really $hit face falling down or crawling drunk I guess they must become geniuses--if they don't die from alcohol poisoning or from running their car into somebody or something. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-02-15 10:04 |
| #3 In addition, Australia must be the land of geniuses. We have the worst drinking culture here. People think it's just great to go out and get sh*tfaced week after week. Men pride themselves on beating their tolerance levels down so they can drink 5 bottles of wine, still look sober then go out to a cocktail bar and drink more. Our former Prime Minister (a rhodes scholar) was also a raging alcoholic who once held the Guinness World Record for skolling a Yard Glass of beer in the quickest time. his name? Bob Hawke |
| Posted by: anon1 2011-02-15 08:48 |
| #2 Getting drunk makes other people so much more attractive and fun LOL |
| Posted by: anon1 2011-02-15 08:46 |
| #1 This would more accurately be titled "Intelligent Brits Get Drunk More". How much of this is due to a culture that promotes drinking until nearly comatose does not seem to have been questioned. It would be interesting to see a similar study done in the U.S., to see if the results are different. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-02-15 08:35 |