Re:Were Early Modern People Perpetually Drunk? (2016)
by aaron695 on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @09:57PM
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> it's pretty hard to drink it fast enough to get tipsy
Exactly.
> was one gallon per man per day.
It'd be interesting to see how it was consumed. I'd imagine most sailors rarely took their entire ration and it'd be after shift as a binge.
I like this quote -
"You mustn't imagine that naval ships were sailed by crews of drunken sailors," says Dr van der Merwe, general editor at the National Maritime Museum.
"Everybody drowns if sailors are drunk all the time."
Exactly.
> was one gallon per man per day.
It'd be interesting to see how it was consumed. I'd imagine most sailors rarely took their entire ration and it'd be after shift as a binge.
I like this quote -
"You mustn't imagine that naval ships were sailed by crews of drunken sailors," says Dr van der Merwe, general editor at the National Maritime Museum. "Everybody drowns if sailors are drunk all the time."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8859000/8859506....
This is like the myth of split sleep, I don't know why people think these things are possible.
We know how we live, we know how really poor people live and these things just don't fit, they are illogical but people still believe them.