Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: How brand-new words are spreading across America

Posted by Steve Smith on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/How-brand-new-words-are-spreading-across-America-tp7586515p7586538.html

Glen -

>> "Useless anecdote:  I opened the fridge one day and noticed the CO2
>> regulator on the keg was broken.  I asked my office mate about it.  
>> He said: "Yeah, the regulator broke."  I asked: "It just
>> spontaneously broke all by itself?" He didn't respond."
>>
>> And the keg _in the office_?  It just got there all by itself?
>
> What are you implying?  Are you saying that the alcohol (materially)
> caused the broken regulator?  And hence the efficient blame lies on
> the agent who placed the alcohol there?  Pfft!  If anything, alcohol
> is a depressant and would stabilize the motor control system of the
> consumer so as to make regulator breakage _less_ likely.  Something
> like carbonated kombucha is way more dangerous, in my not so humble
> opinion.
>

I have not yet seen you staggeringly drunk, but beyond stabilization of
the motor control system, there is a mode where one is likely to lose
one's balance and in trying to catch themselves, can tear the tap or
regulator from the keg, or the keg from the fridge or heck, the fridge
from it's upright position if you are as big and clumsy as I am...

And besides, who said that the keg in the fridge in the office had
alcohol in it, it *could have been* Kambucha, maybe even with Chia Seeds
in it!

- Sieve

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