High IQ & Booze
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- BannedKappa
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol…
Smart kids are more likely to be heavy drinkers
There's a link between a high IQ and developing alcohol problems.
- ukit0
Makes sense, once you are smart you figure out how badly fucked things really are.
- ukit0
Ignorance is bliss. EVer see a dog? They are always smiling.
- Peter0
Perhaps I should start showering the homeless with respect, instead of urine.
- WTF?!?!?!BannedKappa
- obviously you don't have a high IQJosev
- Are you calling me a non-drinker?Peter
- tOki0
- airey0
well a few of the alcoholics i know are hiding their intelligence fucking well.
i love the 'there has been a link found' shit. 1 study in bumfuck nowhere can publish a report that is actually then booted to the ground by the scientific community but the rest of the non-scientific arseholes (ie: us) then pass the 3rd-hand information around for the next 40 years.
- drgz0
It is true for artists and people of creative fields, not sure about the rest
- eieio0
i've always found drinkers drink with other drinkers, doesn't mean the smart ones are all drinkers just smart drinkers tend to drink together.
- airey0
"It is true for artists and people of creative fields, not sure about the rest"
i call bollocks on this also.
i know more hardcore alcoholics in both the financial markets and the air traffic controller work fields.
i realise the creative types like to bang on about the pain, the experience, the this the that and like to imagine themselves in the mould of famous creatives who also had drug/alcohol issues (warhol / burroughs / the entire rolling stones / hunter s thompson, bukowski etc etc) but in reality, these are the fields where self promotors like to brag about their issues. bankers etc generally keep schtum.
- airey0
i've always found, in both the creative fields and others that that hardcore drinkers are the ones with which i prefer to hangout. some are smart, some are thick but mostly they're the best fun.
unfortunately at some stage this changes as we get older. the hardcore drinkers become bores and mopey and downright sad. not sure where the tipping point is but i do know that i won't realise i past it until about a decade after.
- georgesIII0
I'll print this up and show it to a cop next time I get pulled over...
... on my bycicle :(
- ukit0
- Projectile0
not true!
I have a massive hangover right now and I'm feeling dumb as a box of rocks!!