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How to Recreate a Sloppy Ancient Greek Drinking Game

32 points by diodorus 12y ago

GotAnyMegadeth 12y ago
> "It would be fun to actually experiment with wine drinking," Sharpe said. "Of course, this was a university event, so we couldn't exactly do it on campus." Having been a student in the UK, this sounds really strange.
- tom-lord 12y ago
  It's funny how, even without any other context, you know this article must be written about an American college.
  - br0ke 12y ago
    The article says "West Chester University of Pennsylvania"...
- CalRobert 12y ago
  The drinking age in the states is 21, which excludes a lot of students, and the US as a whole has an oddly neurotic relationship with alcohol. Partying at a kegger is awesome, but having a beer at lunch is unprofessional, and driving after a few drinks, while not encouraged, is far more accepted.
  - GotAnyMegadeth 12y ago
    > having a beer at lunch is unprofessional, and driving after a few drinks, while not encouraged, is far more accepted. I once got told by a former employer (At a pub) that if I didn't have a few drinks whilst on shift with him that I was being rude. His only exception to this was if you drove to work.
tempodox 12y ago
Does anyone else feel the irony of an experiment's realism deliberately turned down because it was a university event? Is this anecdotal evidence that education in the U.S. is pretty much useless? You're not even allowed to do real experiments for fear of being indecent?
- dfxm12 12y ago
  Why are you lumping all US universities together and why are you assuming there is a fear of being indecent? WCU is pretty unique that it has policies against having alcohol on campus even for students over the legal drinking age of 21.
  - tempodox 12y ago
    Why do you assume that my questions are assertions? With what you say about WCU it seems especially ironic that this (curtailed) experiment was done there, of all places. Maybe it's just me, but I feel that a place that wants to call itself a university should maybe have a little more confidence in its students than to leash them with such a strict all-imbibing-prohibited-under-all-circumstances policy. It feels like wanting to force an a-priori truth upon people instead of having them discover it.
    - scrumper 12y ago
      Or, perhaps students choose to attend WCU because it's a dry college.
      - tempodox 12y ago
        Good for them, if they arrived at that conclusion by themselves :) But then, those wouldn't be the people interested in exploring ancient drinking games, I presume.
      - jimkri 12y ago
        I don't think that it is a dry college, I have family and friends who go there and I have been there to drink before. They have a lot of bars around the campus. I think a lot of students attend because the tuition is low for in-state students.

32 points by diodorus 12y ago

> "It would be fun to actually experiment with wine drinking," Sharpe said. "Of course, this was a university event, so we couldn't exactly do it on campus." Having been a student in the UK, this sounds really strange.

tom-lord 12y ago
It's funny how, even without any other context, you know this article must be written about an American college.
- br0ke 12y ago
  The article says "West Chester University of Pennsylvania"...
CalRobert 12y ago
The drinking age in the states is 21, which excludes a lot of students, and the US as a whole has an oddly neurotic relationship with alcohol. Partying at a kegger is awesome, but having a beer at lunch is unprofessional, and driving after a few drinks, while not encouraged, is far more accepted.
- GotAnyMegadeth 12y ago
  > having a beer at lunch is unprofessional, and driving after a few drinks, while not encouraged, is far more accepted. I once got told by a former employer (At a pub) that if I didn't have a few drinks whilst on shift with him that I was being rude. His only exception to this was if you drove to work.

tempodox 12y ago

Does anyone else feel the irony of an experiment's realism deliberately turned down because it was a university event? Is this anecdotal evidence that education in the U.S. is pretty much useless? You're not even allowed to do real experiments for fear of being indecent?

dfxm12 12y ago
Why are you lumping all US universities together and why are you assuming there is a fear of being indecent? WCU is pretty unique that it has policies against having alcohol on campus even for students over the legal drinking age of 21.
- tempodox 12y ago
  Why do you assume that my questions are assertions? With what you say about WCU it seems especially ironic that this (curtailed) experiment was done there, of all places. Maybe it's just me, but I feel that a place that wants to call itself a university should maybe have a little more confidence in its students than to leash them with such a strict all-imbibing-prohibited-under-all-circumstances policy. It feels like wanting to force an a-priori truth upon people instead of having them discover it.
  - scrumper 12y ago
    Or, perhaps students choose to attend WCU because it's a dry college.
    - tempodox 12y ago
      Good for them, if they arrived at that conclusion by themselves :) But then, those wouldn't be the people interested in exploring ancient drinking games, I presume.
    - jimkri 12y ago
      I don't think that it is a dry college, I have family and friends who go there and I have been there to drink before. They have a lot of bars around the campus. I think a lot of students attend because the tuition is low for in-state students.