Most of the time alcohol related topics are not all over the newspapers. In this section you will find all those funny or weird little articles your mainstream media won’t offer you.
It’s no secret that the consumption of alcoholic beverages has many health benefits. Various scientific studies have already proven that. But now American scientists say that the most consumed alcoholic drink in the world, beer, could be the answer to the most feared disease of modern times; cancer. Researchers of the University of Idaho presented their findings…
A man in the Russian town Khakassia must have been extremely thirsty after he had surgery on Saturday in the local hospital. Wearing nothing but his bed sheets and several bandages and tubes he faced the temperature of -16 Celsius to buy a beer at a nearby store. However since it was pretty obvious that he…
A group of heavily intoxicated guys foiled an ungoing robbery of a restaurant in Australia this weekend. Leader of the pack James Ross-Munroe was walking topless and barefoot, as he bravely went into the getaway car and grabbed the keys, before trying to take on the robbers, who made a run for it. And the…
You ever have problems finding good drinking company? You could of course turn to social media and find some buddies online, but what if you get a real kick out banging those glasses together with someone? Well, the answer comes from Asia, where a Korean named Eunchan Park invented a drinking robot. Like some of you friends might, ‘Drinky’…
A man by the name Ram Swaroop has been arrested in India for murdering his wife Pramila, after he beated her to death with a laundry bat. The reason he turned to such drastic measures was that she wouldn’t give him money to continue the drinking spree he was on. The incident occured last Thursday, the…
Little by little planet Earth is going to hell; animal species are killed off, the rain forests cut down, the air and oceans polluted, while the overall temperature and the sea level are going up. And since lots of people make a lot of money doing so, a change in this patron seems unlikely. It…
The historical visit of Iranian president Hassan Rouhani to France will be without an official state dinner, which is normally an important part of every meeting between statesmen. The reason: both parties couldn’t agree on the question if alcohol should be served or not. Rouhani demanded a meal without booze, in the tradition of his…
A Sun Express flight between the Irish capital Dublin and Izmir in Turkey had to make an extra stop in Belgrade (Serbia) because of a drunken passenger. This Irishman stripped down to the flesh and while waving his penis at a stewardess, he asked if she wanted to have sex with him. The airplane hostess…
Scenes that remind of the American prohibition in Canada, as a pizza place in the city Edmonton was raided by the police. Employees started their own lucrative business as they were selling beer and hard liquor after hours, concealed in pizza boxes. In Canada it’s illegal to sell any alcoholic drink between 2 and 11…
An interesting archaeological find in Bulgaria this week gave new life to the discussion when the art of distilling became a thing in Europe. This part of an 11th century distillation vessel is the third piece of hard evidence from Bulgaria that it’s national drink rakia was around a few hundred years before the Western Europeans started distilling, which is believed…
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