What Would The World Be Like WITHOUT...........................

[All Seeing Eye]

....Alcohol?

Imagine Alcohol was never discovered and therefore was never used and therefore pubs and inns never existed how do you think the world and mankind would have developed? how would society have developed without anywhere for people to go for an alcoholic drink?

 

[Zulu Romeo]

....Alcohol?

Quite sobering.

 

[SalvorHardin]

We would all be drinking prune juice. A WARRIORS DRINK !

Anyway, a world without alcohol would be less fun in some cases.
But then we would not miss what we've never known. If not alcohol then we'd have found something else to drink and pay good money for.

I wonder what no alcohol would mean for infections and medicine though, in past centuries...

 

[Pingfah]

If a process as blindingly obvious as fermentation had never been noticed, then that would probably mean that we as a species are utterly stupid and unobservant. So i'd guess we'd all still be living in caves.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I wonder what no alcohol would mean for infections and medicine though, in past centuries...

Well, for one thing we'd have fewer cases of confused in-patients going into withdrawal and trying to drink from the alcohol-based hand rub bottles in order to calm down.

A lot of today's disinfectants are based on ethanol compounds, which do complement simple soap and water when maintaining infection control. It would certainly make surgery much risky if no such -OH compounds existed, with the increased risk of post-op infection and intra-op abscesses.

The modern world thrives on benefitting from having a "social drug" in moderation existing for our pleasure, be it the manufacturing and selling of alcohol products (which has implications for employment and thus the social and economic quality of life of the people directly, for bad as well as for good), the profits going into sponsoring our sporting and cultural events, and its taxation to fund for example our liver and transplant units, social services and addiction clinics, ironically enough.

Plus we wouldn't be having the alcohol-related pun fest develop for no discernable reason in the "Belgian Tattoo Girl" thread.

As I said before, quite sobering.

 

[JonathonWally]

There would be a lot less sex and white guys wouldn't be able to dance.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

If a process as blindingly obvious as fermentation had never been noticed, then that would probably mean that we as a species are utterly stupid and unobservant. So i'd guess we'd all still be living in caves.

Don't be a party pooper.

 

[Pingfah]

Don't be a party pooper.

Shrug. You asked a question, I answered it.

Any poop is in your head.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

Something tells me we would have a lot less people in the world.

 

[Australis]

Weeeelll, Islam is supposed to be dry. They developed whole branches of math, medicine and astronomy, so I'd say it might continue. But, I dunno, I think we're better with it. We at least can say "I love you, man!" at 3 in the morning without feeling weird about it the next day.

Oh, and this:

 

[Miss Chicken]

I don't know about the world as whole but I do know that if alcohol didn't exist my life would have been easier.

I had a mother who drunk too much, followed by a husband (now ex-husband) who drunk too much.

 

[K'Ehleyr]

Boxing Day lunch with the in-laws would be unbearable, the phones would never ring after 9pm and sales of syringe shaped pens and ridiculously high heeled shoes would slump on Ebay

 

[Shatmandu]

Without alcohol, we would not have religion.

Sign me up.

Joe, there

 

[Mistral]

I read a bit once that outlined how trade in alcohol (and the trade in cultivated ingredients) opened up some of the earliest known trade routes. It also helped develop agriculture as people looked for different things to make booze out of. So I think we'd be living in tiny, isolated communities pounding rocks for fun and profit. And I would be a lot harder to deal with, in general.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

....Alcohol?

Quite sobering.

Your joke has given me cancer. And i cant even drown it out with alcohol.

 

[sidious618]

This board would be a lot more unbearable.

 

[RandyS]

There would be less car accidents. There would be less domestic violence. And people would be less attractive to each other.

 

[judge alba]

....Alcohol?

Imagine Alcohol was never discovered and therefore was never used and therefore pubs and inns never existed how do you think the world and mankind would have developed? how would society have developed without anywhere for people to go for an alcoholic drink?

no beer! TS you should be ashamed of using language like that

i'm going to have to have a lay down to get over the shock

 

[trekkiedane]

i'm going to have to have a lay down to get over the shock

And I need a drink!

 

[Gil T.Azell]

I'd still be .... never mind