hey folks,

the Ethanol (drinking alcohol?) C2H5OH has been going around the world and even moved into eastern and central Europe ....

I stopped drinking (liquor) and I hope that they'll get something done about it .....


but I am not panicing now .... what about you ?

BTW, before you brand this topic of spam, I'd like to poit out that it does have a purpose (beyond being a parody of H5N1), it deals with the issue of alcoholism, which was and is a problem (for example my grandfathers death was largely due to this condition). and I do infact not drink alcohol.

What's the problem?

Wuh??

People are drinking Ethanol straight?

no, usualy one would water it down, howerever there are people who would drink it in quite high concentrations (over 95%). the problem however doesn't become much smaller if you decrese dosage to 600 ml or even 400 ml per liter. in fact that's waht most alcoholics drink.

Ethanol is sold for medical applications, but i remember that some years ago in a party that some friends and me made to get some money, when then vodka was a mixture of water + ethanol.... :sick: a guy get an alcoholic coma in that party, but can u enligh us more about C2H5OH?

Alchohol has been proven to reduce stress in the average person when taken in small amounts. Technically, it is a good thing, so therefore you can have too much of it.

I drink alcohol here and then but definetly not in 95% percent concentration :blink:

I don't drink in Iceland, but I do when I'm abroad.

My great grandfather died from drinking spiritus.

I heard of some governments adding quite a harmful (non lethal) toxin into metholated spirits because it was being abuse as a very cheap alchohol... the problem was people didn't didn't quite know how powerful the stuff was.

So now its officially toxic and will make you very sic before you drink enough of it to kill you.

I had some ethanol on my cornflakes this morning. Sure beats the hell out off that.. er.. stuff... that comes out of.. erm... cows? :P

i like the Ethanol ..even at high concentration(palinca :D) ..why shhuld there be done something about it? :cheers:

Why whould anyone drink Ethanol?
Deathwish?

*Looks at this topic and decides that its a weird topic.

not exactly. but they proably do it to get away from their everyday lives.

Ethanol is just regular old drinking alcohol. It's the alcoholic component of beer, wine, hard liquor, etc. As for concentrations, I'm sure people are at least familiar with Everclear, which is 95% pure ethanol.

Denatured ethanol (which I think Kearnsy was referring to) is ethanol with toxic additives such as methanol which are added so that the final product is unsuitable for consumption and, in the US at least, exempt from the "sin tax" on alcohol.

I drink a fair bit at parties, but I've cut down a lot at home.

I don't drink it pure, I drink it in wine, or spirits. (I don't like much lager, but Stella is nice)

Drink in moderation, everyone!

not exactly. but they proably do it to get away from their everyday lives. [/b][/quote]
i have nothing to get away from :sneaky:

there, in your own words- you don't have a life.
QED, gentlemen. LOL

there, in your own words- you don't have a life.
QED, gentlemen. LOL [/b][/quote]
Hey...
Hey...
Shutup!

C2H5OH
Sounds like the stuff that comes out of my nose!

I cum from shermannyy and we haven't discovered this stuff here. so there is no prob for me and I only worry when people from other countries come here. I like to hug and "knuddel" them right away so maybe I get infected once......


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don'T drink and drive - you may hit a bump and spill your drink


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I drink alcohol about twice or threee times a month (meaning more alcohol than the medics would say is actually "good") - so I think I don't have a problem with it. I just hate the days after ............

Yeah they're a real bitch. So I stopped drinking so much when I do drink. I have about 6 beers a whole night. Much more fun and I don't do anything embarrassing.

I stopped drinking alchogol, because it's bad. When I see drunk peolpe, they make me sick, just as I think that I could be like them. Islam forbids alchogol - pity, that there isn't such strict in Christianity.

It makes great fuel.

Well, if the Christians would forbid alcohol, too, a lot of people would go to hell.
Or Christianity simply wouldn't be a world religion anymore ;)

the booze its a legal drug but who can tell the people what is good and what is wrong. Nodody got the right to say alcohol is bad, maybe medics can tell to people the problems related to alcohol and if we are lucky people will listen and will make no mistakes like drive drunken or something similar.

I haven't had a bad hang-over in several months now, no matter how much I drink.
Mwahahah...

Well, actually, it's pretty bad, as it doesn't limit my drinking that much. I could easily go bar hopping in the middle of the week and just feel a bit tired at work the next day. Actually have done that a couple of times in the past weeks, mostly 'cause I've been invited to these large parties with free booze, celebrities and such. I just gotta love having the right connections. :P

I doubt they'd add methanol in it. That's a bit too toxic even in small amounts. They want to make people who drink it sick, not dead or blind, as probably would happen in the case of methanol.

Don't doctors recommend a glass of wine every now and then?

Well, if the Christians would forbid alcohol, too, a lot of people would go to hell.
Or Christianity simply wouldn't be a world religion anymore ;) [/b][/quote]
Still, Islam is the world religion. Although there is a people mentality and all...

every day :D

Yep, everyone should drink 2 units of alcohol every day, but on the other hand, most people find that boring and just drink 14 on a Saturday night, wake up on Sunday saying "never again" and then do it again the following week.

Yay E85!!! :Brain:

Hmmm, I'm not allowed to consume ethanol and drive, yet they want my car to drink 170 proof and drive....

I like to consume alcohol, its tasty :drunk: Just don't over do it, and don't drink if you plan on drivin or operating heave machinery.

Yeah, or going back to school. The same thing goes for smoking weed.

well i drink at school...it's 6 feet away :D..right next to my school..i got time to drink a beer in a break :bleh:

They do, and that's the point. If it's consumable, it's taxed and just adding a few things to make someone "a bit sick" defeats the purpose. Ethanol is denatured for use in things such as rubbing alcohol, alcohol-based sanitizers, many aerosol sprays, etc. Look up "denatured ethanol" and you'll see that methanol is a pretty common additive in the process.

It's a bit harsh, and a little off-track, but if you're a Darwinism bulls-eye if you attempt to drink a denatured ethanol rubbing alcohol product in a misguided attempt to get drunk.

They do, and that's the point. If it's consumable, it's taxed and just adding a few things to make someone "a bit sick" defeats the purpose. Ethanol is denatured for use in things such as rubbing alcohol, alcohol-based sanitizers, many aerosol sprays, etc. Look up "denatured ethanol" and you'll see that methanol is a pretty common additive in the process.

It's a bit harsh, and a little off-track, but if you're a Darwinism bulls-eye if you attempt to drink a denatured ethanol rubbing alcohol product in a misguided attempt to get drunk. [/b][/quote]
I do know the point of denaturated alcohol, but I myself hadn't heard of them putting methanol in it, though. Of course it may vary from county to country, I suppose. Maybe they don't do it here in Finland, or something.

But still, if they do, anywhere, it has to be a pretty small amount, as only the methanol's vapours are extremely toxic and can make one go blind or something. That's of course the most extreme case, I don't say accidentally smelling an alcohol based cleaning product would make you lose your sight, but surely there is be some smaller damage first.

But I do believe you. I'm at work now, and I'm too busy/lazy/etc. to look it up right now.

just ask Wiki (now you will have to decide if you believe what bored people who get no compenstaion write)