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in northern culture, the CDC's recommendation is laughable. Excessive drinking is a regular thing where its cold
by whoomp12341 3y ago
in northern culture, the CDC's recommendation is laughable. Excessive drinking is a regular thing where its cold
- eropple 3y agoSure, and during COVID we kept the liquor stores open--so alcoholics in withdrawal weren't a problem when we had bigger fish to fry. Do you think that's a good thing?
- syntheticnature 3y agoLess about mere "dry drunks" -- which refers to someone who is sober but still stuck in the behavioral traps that led to drinking -- and more about the medical support required for abrupt detoxing from alcohol.
- eropple 3y agoPoint taken, edited.
- hiAndrewQuinn 3y agoMaybe for you. Moving to Finland and seeing that a six pack cost as much as a month's worth of breakfast was all the motivation I needed to kick the stuff.
- vfclists 3y agoShame about the war. If not for that you could just cross the border over into Russia and obtain it much cheaper.
- Scoundreller 3y agoEstonia is still accessible (and they drink more than Russians, on average).
- hiAndrewQuinn 3y agoIt is too late my friend. I only wish to cross the itäraja to buy even cheaper breakfasts
- askonomm 3y agoPretty sure Finnish people jump on a ferry to get cheap booze from Estonia instead. Just like Estonians jump on a bus and get cheap booze from Latvia. Where Latvia goes however, I do not know.
- _3u10 3y agoSome of us live in free and warm countries with no matriarchical nanny state. Gov't doesn't take half my income, and doesn't charge me an arm and a leg to have a beer.
- hiAndrewQuinn 3y agoI moved from the US of A my man lol
- _3u10 3y agoAn excellent choice, I would have picked eastern europe, south america, or asia instead of finland tho.
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- rpmisms 3y agoIt's probably some deep DNA-induced craving. In the summer I barely want to drink. When it's cold... I want to drink. Maybe it's the Slavic chunk of my DNA.
- giardini 3y agoKnew a fellow from Texas sent to manage a business in Russia for 6 months. He was in excellent cardiovascular health when he left. 6 months later he returned with 15 extra pounds of weight. His story: arriving in Moscow he found it brutally cold and began to drink under friends' advice. He later reported back that "you need to drink vodka and eat like crazy to keep warm and keep you body weight up" in that cold climate. Anyone else heard this? Does alcohol perhaps keep all the bad stuff(lipids et al) in your blood in solution better in cold weather?
- nkozyra 3y ago> Anyone else heard this? Does alcohol perhaps keep all the bad stuff(lipids et al) in your blood in solution better in cold weather? No, but it sounds like a great excuse for alcoholism.
- neaden 3y agoAlcohol makes you feel warm, but crucially it doesn't make you any warmer and by bringing blood closer to the skin makes you get colder faster.
- magicpin 3y agoAlcohol is very caloric. A single shot of vodka can have 100 calories. Also it can increase blood flow to the skin, making you seem warmer than you actually are, at the expense of your internal body temperature.
- koolba 3y ago> A single shot of vodka can have 100 calories. Using the standard 7 calories per gram of alcohol, the alcohol content of a 12 oz 5% beer (equivalent of a 1.5 oz 40% shot) is 117 calories (12oz x 28g/oz x 5% x 7 Kc/g). That’s just the alcohol and an average beer would have been more from the additional carbs. If your vodka shot has only 100 calories, that’s either a weak pour or some weak vodka!
- OkayPhysicist 3y ago
- u32480932048 3y agoSee also: the recommended 2000 calorie diet