No, hangovers are due to the byproduct alcohol dehydrogenase. It essentially poisons you.

Alcohol may be alcohol but what you are drinking, unless you’re drinking everclear, is not absolute anhydrous ethanol. Unless you’re drinking vodka it’s not just an ethanol solution either.

Never thought this ever had anything to do with hangovers, just whether you would drink to0 much and puke in a given night, and that makes sense. Alcohol is alcohol, but saying that ignores the volume aspect. If you stick to beer all night, you are slowly building up the buzz to drunk while also filling your stomach…

I don’t agree with this and the reason is simple as at least one other references here. A 1.5-oz shot of whiskey, say Jack Daniels at 80proof or 40% ABV, mean you are consuming 0.6-oz of pure alcohol in one swallow. For a 12-oz bottle of typical American lager beer with 5% ABV, you are consuming that same 0.6-oz of…

In Dutch the ‘myth’ refers to beer and wine. It also has the order reversed: wine after beer is good, beer after wine is bad.

liquor has a much quicker delivery mechanism.  a shot is done in a second, but most people drink beer over time

After a night filled with beers, you’re drunk enough that you think shots are a good idea. You don’t factor in the effects of late night shots because you’re having fun. You also forget that your metabolism slows to a crawl once you’re asleep.

My thought was always how the beverage is consumed. You drink beer faster by volume than liquor/cocktails. So when you switch to cocktails, already a little buzzed, you begin to drink the cocktails at the same as the beer.  Do that for too long you will be sicker!  Now the flip of that is you switch to beer and will…

I don’t think it refers to the next day hangover but rather if you will puke that same night, y'all.

From what I’ve read thus far (not a huge amount, but a solid amount): Each instance of covid increases the chance of having what are called ‘long covid’ symptoms (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/long-term-effects/index.html) as well as possible increased risk (the studies are less clear here) of Alzheimer’s…

I mostly agree, although, there are elderly folks and those with other comorbidities, such as diabetes, that may not fair well, either. That being stated, I would venture to guess that most people have been exposed to some flavor of Covid by now, whether they presented symptoms or not.

Do people in Asia where most people wear masks, do they take them off to eat in restaurants indoors?  Just curious.  I would think that’s where a lot of transmission happens, but what do they do in Japan indoors in restaurants?  Thanks

The people who aren’t vaxxed and don’t mask probably are also less likely to be testing themselves each and every time they get a sore throat or the sniffles.

I just want to take this time to let everyone know that I still wear my mask everywhere. It’s important that I tell you this so you know I’m superior.

How are you less likely to pass it on, if you are vaxxed?  It doesn’t work that way.  If you aren’t showing symptoms, then, sure, you aren’t passing it along as effectively as if you were.  Same is true of unvaxxed that aren’t showing symptoms.

Feel free to keep washing your hands though. No clue why so many people have abandoned that habit in restrooms. 

That’s probably what they think of you.

Over 50, helathy and unvaxxed for COVID. Got COVID at Christmas. I was tired and muscle achy for a week and slept 10 -12 hours a day. 3 of the 8 (all fully unvaxxed) in our household got COVID. The others’ symptoms were a little different but overall, mild. We self-isolated for the recommended days and seem none the…

I just stayed in a hotel two weeks ago and didn’t think the fridge was working at all when I first checked in — the inside felt like room temperature. Hoping I was just imagining it, I put the unfinished half of a bottle of soda in there that night. The next morning it was nice and cool.

Now I know it was a “fridge.”…

On a related note, I used to work at a resort with full size refrigerators in all the units and we constantly received complaints that the fridges were not working. Almost always it was because the guests had filled half the fridge with cases of hot water or hot beer from the trunk of their car, or bed of their pickup…