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> I wonder what happened though, and how kids managed to study constantly drunk. They learned early how to be functional alcoholics. Drunk kids these days just
by throwup238 3y ago
> I wonder what happened though, and how kids managed to study constantly drunk.
They learned early how to be functional alcoholics. Drunk kids these days just don't know how to handle their liquor and society has been going down the drain because of it.
- giantg2 3y agoUpto half a liter isn't much, especially considering that most traditional brews were lower alcohol content than the typical stuff today. So they probably weren't drunk, but who knows how that might have affected them in the future.
- abid786 3y agoHalf a liter is ⅔ of a standard bottle of wine. Even if it is only 11% ABV, this still equates to 55 ml of ethanol. An average 14 year old male weighs 112 lbs, about 70% of an adult’s size. So if we extrapolate linearly, 55 ml of ethanol would be equivalent to 78 ml of ethanol for an adult, which is 6.5 shots, assuming a 1 oz shot
- giantg2 3y agoYeah, but the wine was supposedly watered down for the children too. And that would be the maximum limit too.
- maximinus_thrax 3y agoEverything you're saying is true, but the wine was watered down. I grew up in (Eastern) Europe and I used to have a glass of wine with my parents at dinner time when I reached my teens pretty much every time they did (we had a small vineyard, like most people, and wine was plentiful). However, I was mixing it with mineral water (50-50) and with a heavy meal, I never got drunk from that.
- fasterik 3y agoI wouldn't consider functional alcoholism to be a good thing for anyone. It's especially bad for brain development under age ~25, before the prefrontal cortex is fully developed. https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/alcohol-and-adolescent-brain https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/alcohol-and-adolescen...
- bsder 3y agoDrinking contaminated water could kill you for most of the first half of the 20th century. So, it's probably an unclear tradeoff, historically.
- oa335 3y agoI’ve recently read that the idea that pre moderns drank alcohol as an alternative to contaminated water is a myth. See https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ol1h45/comment/h5bjn7s/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ol1h45/comme...
- singedproxy 3y agoThis gotta be the most alarmist, out-of-touch with reality comment I've read this year.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoYeah, but it's only mid January...
- throwup238 3y agoHow out of touch with reality do you need to be to take an absurd "kids these days" joke seriously? You should be alarmed!