GOOD NEWS! - Alcohol sharpens your brain, say researchers

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/08/01/nalco01.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/08/01/ixportal.html ^

[Another-MA-Conservative]

drinking half a bottle of wine a day can make your brain work better, especially if you are a woman.

*ROTFLMAO* Where to begin with this...

Half a bottle of wine has a most pleasant effect on my wife's brain... yeah, I guess I'd consider that "working better"! *lol*

[bigjoesaddle]

I NEW IT! A drinky winkyinthe moorninnnnn issssss JUST whati need to get theol brain in TIP TOP formItellya!!l...........

[lilylangtree]

Disagree wholeheartedly. Alcohol puts me to sleep.

[VOYAGER]

Research to be published tomorrow by academics at University College London has found that those who even drink only one glass of wine a week have significantly sharper thought processes than teetotallers.

Does it follow then if you are a wino then you can expect to be another Einstein.

This is utter silliness from its inception!

[ravingnutter]

the findings should not be used as an excuse for heavier drinking.

Dang...they just **had** to ruin the good news. Oh well, I don't have to worry...I am not a heavy drinker, I only drink Light beer : )

[Ditto]

I'm a woman, but I have a low tolerance for alcohol.

Busy tonight? (((( evil grin )))))

[sandpit]

Time to restock the wine cellar!
I always knew that stuff was making me smarter.
I can keep other alcohol for months and not touch it.
But once I open a bottle of wine, I won't stop til it's empty.

[BluH2o]

I'm going to apply to Mensa immediately.

[SoFloFreeper]

Yesh, it doesch, ossifer. And I'm not as think as you drunk I am.

[dfwgator]

"To alcohol! The cause of and solution to all of life's problems!" - Homer Simpson

[GSlob]

"I have a low tolerance for alcohol."
Training, training and more training.Practice makes perfect.

[kahoutek]

This is gonna be a long thread...........

[HankReardon]

A drug is a drug, is a drug, whether you shoot it, snort, drink it or drop it on your eye. The "sharpest" people I know are not drug users.

[Protagoras]

I hope to drink myself seriously smart this weekend based on this news.

[Wiz]

Didn't alchohol destroy brain cells? Even alchohol sharpens you up in short terms, it will be nothing in long term if it kills your brain cells, your organs, and your life by a car accident.

[Fierce Allegiance]

You always seem to get pinged to these thrads, so here you go!

[KoRn]

I've done the best studying in school at some level of intoxication. I had the best grades in my class at the Cisco Academy. Other students asked "How I did it?" I told them the secret is late night studying with a beer in one hand and a mouse in the other.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

The drunker I stand here the longer I get. :)

BigMack

[Josh in PA]

Lol, I didn't drink last night!! Exactly.