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(Discover) Interesting 20 things you didn't know about alcohol. You can stash it in your muscles, you can make it in your intestines, and you can find it in space   (discovermagazine.com) divider line 30
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DanZero
2012-01-11 07:27:22 PM
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dopeydwarf [TotalFark]
2012-01-11 07:31:46 PM
Done in one.
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2012-01-11 07:49:24 PM
11 A lean, muscular person will be less affected by drink than someone with more body fat: Water-rich muscle tissues absorb alcohol effectively, preventing it from reaching the brain.

Wow, that explains a lot. So fatty foods are cheaper than booze so I should become a fat fark and finally start a savings account.
 
SJKebab [TotalFark]
2012-01-11 09:39:46 PM
You can get it any old how.

Matter of fact, I've got it now.
 
snuff3r [TotalFark]
2012-01-11 09:49:50 PM
SJKebab: You can get it any old how.

Matter of fact, I've got it now.

Pick the Aussie in the thread.
 
SJKebab [TotalFark]
2012-01-11 10:54:18 PM
snuff3r: SJKebab: You can get it any old how.

Matter of fact, I've got it now.

Pick the Aussie in the thread.

It had to be done though...
 
Britney Spear's Speculum
2012-01-11 11:25:40 PM
Shrinks testis
Gives you biatch tits (if you're a guy)
Shrinks your cerebellum
Raises VLDL
Causes hyperglycemia due to production of Non-Esterified Fatty Acids
 
The Angry Hand of God
2012-01-11 11:28:53 PM
Britney Spear's Speculum: Shrinks testis
Gives you biatch tits (if you're a guy)
Shrinks your cerebellum
Raises VLDL
Causes hyperglycemia due to production of Non-Esterified Fatty Acids

And still gets you p*ssy. It is an amazing thing!
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2012-01-11 11:30:01 PM
My cerebellum makes me look fat anyways.
 
RoxtarRyan
2012-01-11 11:48:05 PM
Britney Spear's Speculum: Shrinks testis

I can use this. I have trouble squeezing them into my pants, and when I do find shorts that fit me, they often fall out and are prone to landing on the cluch/brake pedal in my car.
 
KidneyStone [TotalFark]
2012-01-11 11:52:33 PM
...goes off to check 5 gallons of Irish Red Ale about ready to bottle...........
 
Ooba Tooba
2012-01-12 12:01:31 AM
You can find it on the shelf, you can pour it in a glass, you can drink it down quick, and wake up on your ass.
 
StoneColdAtheist
2012-01-12 12:39:45 AM
KidneyStone: ...goes off to check 5 gallons of Irish Red Ale about ready to bottle...........

Specializing in paleobrews myself... :)
 
Make More Hinjews
2012-01-12 12:53:39 AM
and you can find it in space

cdn.timeoutnewyork.com

You DON'T say??!
 
wild9
2012-01-12 01:05:57 AM
Interesting things to be said. Always going to be a counter argument for everything as already mentioned.
 
A Terrible Human [TotalFark]
2012-01-12 01:24:54 AM
Awww why can't I have the neat intestinal disorder that causes drunkenness? Though I guess it would be sucky to have it in situations where you shouldn't be drunk.
 
UsikFark
2012-01-12 01:28:07 AM
FTA:
#5 Designated driver at the zoo: The Malaysian pen-tailed treeshrew routinely chugs the equivalent of nine glasses of wine a night in naturally fermented nectar, and yet it remains fully functional.

#6 For a treeshrew, that is.

How drunk were these authors?
 
Cyno01 [TotalFark]
2012-01-12 01:31:10 AM
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Space you say...
 
jingks
2012-01-12 01:44:04 AM
Mugato: 11 A lean, muscular person will be less affected by drink than someone with more body fat: Water-rich muscle tissues absorb alcohol effectively, preventing it from reaching the brain.

Wow, that explains a lot. So fatty foods are cheaper than booze so I should become a fat fark and finally start a savings account.

Though the "lean" part of their comment makes no sense. The reasoning they use would only depend on total muscle mass, regardless of body fat.
 
dickfreckle
2012-01-12 03:03:46 AM
Sure enough, astronomers found vast quantities of ethanol-as much as that in 400 trillion trillion beers-in G34.3, an interstellar cloud some 10,000 light-years from Earth.

THIS IS WHY I KEEP SCREAMING FOR MORE NASA FUNDING. I bet you're listening now, b*tches.
 
dickfreckle
2012-01-12 03:05:48 AM
A Terrible Human: Awww why can't I have the neat intestinal disorder that causes drunkenness? Though I guess it would be sucky to have it in situations where you shouldn't be drunk.

What are these "situations where you shouldn't be drunk" that you speak of?
 
brantgoose [TotalFark]
2012-01-12 03:09:27 AM
I knew about the alcohol in space thing. I had a calendar, produced by a Canadian astronomer, which had a fun fact every day and a new set of dots every month. There's a nebula in the direction of the Scutum constellation (the Shield) which has eleven times the mass of the Earth in alcohol. I call it the Galactic Kegger. That's a LOT of alcohol.

Many other organic molecules have been found in space, including a simple plastic (like celluloid). When I read that on the front page of the Globe and Mail many years ago now, I laughed because it means that Richard Adams was right--manufactured products do grow somewhere in the Universe. In this case, it is plastics, which sort of makes a mockery of "natural fibres" beloved of the hippies and the well-to-do. Nature's own--polyester? Ha! Ha! Sucks to be you.

One of my many Brantgoose(TM) theories is that the dark matter of the Universe consists of discarded disposable foam coffee cups.
 
jingks
2012-01-12 03:15:45 AM
6 For a treeshrew, that is.

I don't think any of us knew this fact about alcohol.

They couldn't have come up with one more random fact to fill this fluff piece?
 
A Terrible Human [TotalFark]
2012-01-12 04:08:49 AM
dickfreckle: What are these "situations where you shouldn't be drunk" that you speak of?

Driving?
 
jingks
2012-01-12 04:16:07 AM
A Terrible Human: dickfreckle: What are these "situations where you shouldn't be drunk" that you speak of?

Driving?

Victimless crime!
 
Fluorescent Testicle
2012-01-12 06:55:37 AM
Cyno01: Space you say...

He's a happy drunk, at least.
 
Stabone33
2012-01-12 08:49:47 AM
A Terrible Human: Awww why can't I have the neat intestinal disorder that causes drunkenness? Though I guess it would be sucky to have it in situations where you shouldn't be drunk.

Just do down on Subby's mom. And swallow.

/just threw up in my mouth a little.
 
baronbloodbath
2012-01-12 10:18:48 AM
ALLLCOHOLLLLLLLLLL IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEEEEEEEE.....!!!!!
 
kroonermanblack
2012-01-12 11:09:36 AM
brantgoose: I knew about the alcohol in space thing. I had a calendar, produced by a Canadian astronomer, which had a fun fact every day and a new set of dots every month. There's a nebula in the direction of the Scutum constellation (the Shield) which has eleven times the mass of the Earth in alcohol. I call it the Galactic Kegger. That's a LOT of alcohol.

Many other organic molecules have been found in space, including a simple plastic (like celluloid). When I read that on the front page of the Globe and Mail many years ago now, I laughed because it means that Richard Adams was right--manufactured products do grow somewhere in the Universe. In this case, it is plastics, which sort of makes a mockery of "natural fibres" beloved of the hippies and the well-to-do. Nature's own--polyester? Ha! Ha! Sucks to be you.

One of my many Brantgoose(TM) theories is that the dark matter of the Universe consists of discarded disposable foam coffee cups.

Do you mean Douglas Adams, of hitchhikers guide to the galaxy fame? Or is dick Adams an astro-something?

Because Douglas wrote of everything growing somewhere. The planet of the sentient mattresses for example.
 
pute kisses like a man [TotalFark]
2012-01-12 11:22:06 AM
There are more injuries every new years from errant champagne corks than from shucking oysters drunk.

/ fact. even when you limit the study to people who have both champagne and oysters for new years.
 
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