Whenever hearing the name Martin Luther King Jr. four other words will immediately pop into one’s head: “I have a dream”. Possibly the most famous phrase from any speech ever held. The Christian minister King (1929-1968) is a worldwide icon in the fight for equal rights for coloured people. Shot dead at the age of…
It has been a tough few months for us social drinkers. Because unless you enjoy downing bottles of booze by yourself, basically all the fun has been sucked out of our lives by the COVID-19 virus. No music festivals, sport events, holidays or even a simple pub crawl or a glass of wine in your…
Although there’s nothing wrong with drinking in your local pub, it’s wonderful to broaden your horizon from time to time. Find new places to get hammered and new people to join you while doing so. The best stories simply don’t start with the words: “This one time I was drinking at home when…” And if…
Christmas is a time of the year that usually provides us with the better stories. Some beautiful, some sad and some just plain crazy. This one from the suburban city Lyndhurst near Cleveland (USA) is a good example of a tale from the last category. A drunk man who was held by the police managed to steal…
We already gave you some tips and tricks to get rid of your hangover. But every country has its own traditional dishes to make the process go faster. We like to give you a taste of the international anti-hangover cuisine. And in this episode we return to the Balkans, a peninsula in Europe that is known…
Weddings getting crashed by drunken idiots is nothing new, but when the official wedding photographer outshines the bride that’s rare. Still that’s exactly what 26-year old Katherine Leigh Mehta from Texas (USA) did last Saturday. The marriage photographer, who also works as a swimsuit model under the name Max McIntyre was asked to leave after…
Here’s a joke for the angry drunks. You know, the types who turn to violence when they had a few too many. Now we don’t want to sound too moralistic, but you might want to think twice before you start your next drunken fight. When intoxicated things are not always what they appear to be…
The Dutch language is full of funny proverbs. Many of them sound quite ridiculous when translated literally into English. For example when somebody gets a nasty surprise in Holland “the monkey is coming out of the sleeve”. Or when somebody is trying to hide being upset he is “laughing like a farmer with a toothache”.…
A Japanese pilot was arrested at Heathrow airport (London, UK) for being quite drunk just 50 minutes before he was supposed to fly a Boeing 777 to his home country. The 42-year old Katsutoshi Jitsukawa raised the suspicion of a crew bus driver because his breath smelled heavily of alcohol. After the driver had alerted…
It’s often said that when someone is feeling troubled alcohol is not the answer. But now there’s a study that shows the opposite is true. Alcohol directly affects the gene that encodes if a memory is pleasant or not. Sure booze won’t make your ex doubt the break up or fix your financial debts, but it…
Lords of the Drinks 