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Authors after Herodotus have added that if the Persians made a decision while sober, they made a rule to reconsider it when they were drunk (Histories, book 1, section 133). [5] The Roman historian Tacitus described how the Germanic peoples kept counsel at feasts, where they believed that drunkenness prevented the participants from dissembling .
It is said that "drunk words are sober thoughts" and often, intoxicated people will blurt out something they'd not usually say while sober. It could be an insult, a flirtatious comment, a ...
Kaleigh Theriault, an associate director of beverage-alcohol thought leadership at NIQ, said that while nonalcoholic options appeal to people of many ages in many locations, higher-income people ...
A 2014 survey of more than 6,000 Alcoholics Anonymous members, found that over 27 percent reported being sober for up to a year, 24 percent were sober one to five years, 27 percent made it five to ...
The Sunday Times wrote that "George Brown drunk is a better man than Harold Wilson sober", and The Independent said "Brown became a bit of a figure of fun, and, thanks to Private Eye 's favourite euphemism for his regular condition, he bequeathed the English language the expression 'tired and emotional'."
A stressful time for drinking. The Covid-19 pandemic has upended normal life for countless people across the United States. Many have lost friends and family to the virus, and many others have ...
"Andy and his prime minister": Lantern slide of U.S. president Andrew Johnson drinking with the devil, painted by abolitionist and folk artist Samuel J. Reader (Liljenquist Collection, LOC) "Andy Drunk and Andy Sober": The use of "Argus I'd" here is a play on words, referring to the Ancient Greek Argus, a monster who was covered with countless eyes, replacing eye with I to suggest Johnson's ...
The thought of relaxing at the firepit in an Adirondack chair with an ice-cold glass of rosé made me salivate, the way my dog does when I pull the lid off the treat jar.