The what's your drink thread.

Psychoactive or not, cultural perceptions associate Absinthe so strongly with decadence and moral depravity that any self-respecting individual simply must give it a go in their lifetime.

Also, I believe bottles of the Green Muse can be found in Arcanum, yet another reason to imbibe it.

 

He's actually spot on, even though methanol should of course be avoided regardless of the amounts of ethanol one has within comfortable reach.

Just to add some useless trivia, methanol in and by itself is relatively harmless, it's the substances the body creates to deal with it that kills you. I suppose that with regards to methanol, we are all our own worst enemy.

 

Methanol is harmless yes, but it's not what the body produces to deal with it that's bad for you. It's what the body (liver to be specific) makes from it.

Just like with ethanol the liver oxidises the methanol. The difference lies in that methanol's oxidation product is formaldehyde, which again is oxidised to formic acid (This reaction partly happens in your eyes, which is why you go blind). Both very very bad for you.

Ethanol however is oxidised to acetaldehyde and further to acetic acid, which are also bad for you, though not nearly as bad as formaldehyde and formic acid.

So if you load up the system with ethanol, after you've ingested methanol you will slow down your livers production of formaldehyde, and you might just keep your self alive long enough for enough methanol to be passed out through the kidneys.

Hell if you're lucky you might even keep the formaldehyde redox reaction to formic acid from happening and thereby keeping your retinas from being reduced, and be able to keep your vision. Though, unless you're God Himself, you will suffer some damage to your eyes.

 

All that knowledge of Chemistry, yet Law is what you waste your time with.

If I were you, I'd try to join those areas. Don't you have chemical companies destroying the environment around them? I'm sure they'd pay you handsomely to be their lawyer!

 

I'm sure they would. And I am considering taking a bachelors degree in chemistry, though I want to finish my masters degree in law first and I doubt I'll be willing to spend another three years with practically no money.

 

I hear you. A diet that pretty much consists of oatmeal, pea soup and black pudding is the plight of the student.

 

I never doubted you were Philes.

I however, after seeing DF's post, thought it necessary to explain further. Also to correct the small error in DE's post.

Now, seeing as you've completed a doctorrate in this, and I merely have high school chemistry, and I haven't even had that since a year, I would appreciate it if you were to correct any errors I may have made in my previous post.

 

If everyone around here didn't give a rat's ass about minor concerns and petty squabbles, we'd quickly find ourselves without members, and Taluntain would have to shut us down. Which would be a shame, considering that we're apparently worth almost 5000 dollars.

 

Let's go crazy with the ad-clicking and see what insane revenues we can reach!