Scientists want more money to research hangover cures

[hunter]

5. I've never had a hangover, but not for lack of trying.

The alcoholic genes are strong in my family.

I'm also the most boring drunk in the world. I've never talked much to begin with, and when I'm drunk, I don't talk at all. I think "not talking" is what happens when my inhibitions are loosened. All my life people have been telling me I need to talk more. Give me a bottle of wine and I'll fall into my quiet-watching-people-mode or my thinking-about-the nature-of-life-the universe-and-everything mode.

Sadly, my current psych meds make alcohol boring. I like beer, but it's less interesting now. I experimented a bit trying to drink more to get the same "pleasant buzz" but that didn't work so I might as well spend my money on other vices like potato chips.

It's just weird. Our grocery store has a huge selection of very good alcoholic beverages of every sort, including an entire aisle devoted to beer, the mass market beer on one side, the craft beers on the other. I was looking at them yesterday and nothing struck my fancy. I bought a bag of pistachios instead.



So far as this study goes, fuck productivity. All us busy little busy beavers and our "productivity" are destroying the planet. Almost as bad, the profits of all this increased productivity don't flow back to the workers, the money simply make the plutocrats more powerful.

In our current economic system absenteeism and poor job performance are good for the environment. It would make more sense to have longer vacations, higher wages, and shorter work weeks, but in the absence of those benefits, other brakes on productivity are a good thing. If we don't slow ourselves down, Mother Nature will, and we will not like Her methods. What's a little hangover compared to starvation, plagues, and war?