What Would The World Be Like WITHOUT...........................
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No major change. After all we've survived this long without bri --- oops.
Wait.
Your planet doesn't discover this basic food for two more centuries.
Forget I said anything.
--Beldar, er ... Ted
Wait.
Your planet doesn't discover this basic food for two more centuries.
Forget I said anything.
--Beldar, er ... Ted
No booze? How would you make a toast such as - "Gentlemen - to evil! And gin! Huzzah!" without it?
There would be a lot less people around.
Alcohol disinfects. Wine and beer were a lot safer to drink than any kind of water before some kind of decent treatment was developed, so a lot more disease. Civilization probably would have developed a lot slower than was the case now.
Alcohol disinfects. Wine and beer were a lot safer to drink than any kind of water before some kind of decent treatment was developed, so a lot more disease. Civilization probably would have developed a lot slower than was the case now.
No booze? How would you make a toast such as - "Gentlemen - to evil! And gin! Huzzah!" without it?
Sir, I salute your taste in spirits. Chin Chin.
Evil and Gin - a formidable combination. And coincidently the best music-hall cat-balancing act in the business (Barry Evil and Johnny Gin).
Yep! The toast that the mice were not proposing....never mind - Jynnan Tonnix all round!
I would be really mad since it would have been harder to scrub off the alcohol marker on my maps when I was in the Army.
Excellent! But should survival be required, I charge you to watch Sharpe Gets Covered In Muck And Still Manages To Shag Some Posh Tottie And Kill Lots Of Frenchies for your homework. And anyway - have Humorous Stereotypes taught us nothing?I have something of a quixotic regret that I'll never find myself at a Napoleonic battlefield, raising a toast to "today's fox, gentlemen", before dashing the glass of sherry aside and cavalry charging headlong into a violent & brutal death at some unwashed frog's bayonet....
Just run a bit more hot water into the bath, there's a good chap. Why get out now just when I'm enjoying it?
Ummm....drifted a bit off topic somewhat...I'm sure someone will be along shortly who knows what they're doing.
What a horrific idea. I need a drink to calm down.
Yeah, get me one while you're at it.
Who would want to take away one of the 3 most important inventions in the history of mankind? (The other two being the Bic lighter and the pre-rolled cigarette-or is my view of the world a bit biased?)
Without alcohol? Well, you can cross off motorists killed in drunk driving accidents, or people run over by drunk drivers, including children.
But "COPS" would have only half it's episodes, due to no drunk wife-beating shirtless rednecks.
But "COPS" would have only half it's episodes, due to no drunk wife-beating shirtless rednecks.
One out of 3 ain't bad.
If people did not drown their sorrows in alcohol, I believe more would have turned to religion as a substitute.
If people did not drown their sorrows in alcohol, I believe more would have turned to religion as a substitute.
Wouldn't have any sacramental wine either.
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