>Party-poopers will tell you that drinking booze shortens your life in freezing waters. It's odd that anecdotal evidence suggests the opposite.
Well...that's because the one time in ten thousand that a drunk falls into a river and does not quickly succumb to hypothermia makes the news. The other 9999 times, when he or she dies quickly, is not newsworthy. So, the anecdotal evidence favors the miraculous few and not the overwhelming majority.
My former neighbor, a raging drunk, toppled over in her driveway and got snowed under. Her husband found her...presumably after thinking "what was that bump?" as he pulled down the snowy driveway... and she DID recover. However, no one knew how long she was napping in the snowdrift so 'miracle' cant really be applied. Our...beloved..."Town Character" DID freeze to death, when he sat down in the doorway to the liquor store, fell asleep, and got snowed under.
....gotta love small town living ca 1980.....
>I'll handcuff myself to Bod G and Jim K. At least then I'll have some entertaining argument to listen to as I go down.
Sounds good to me.
Well...that's because the one time in ten thousand that a drunk falls into a river and does not quickly succumb to hypothermia makes the news. The other 9999 times, when he or she dies quickly, is not newsworthy. So, the anecdotal evidence favors the miraculous few and not the overwhelming majority.
My former neighbor, a raging drunk, toppled over in her driveway and got snowed under. Her husband found her...presumably after thinking "what was that bump?" as he pulled down the snowy driveway... and she DID recover. However, no one knew how long she was napping in the snowdrift so 'miracle' cant really be applied. Our...beloved..."Town Character" DID freeze to death, when he sat down in the doorway to the liquor store, fell asleep, and got snowed under.
....gotta love small town living ca 1980.....
>I'll handcuff myself to Bod G and Jim K. At least then I'll have some entertaining argument to listen to as I go down.
Sounds good to me.