The caption reads:
"Drunkenness was a social problem in many countries at the beginning of the 19th century. Irish shebeens were notorious drinking dens."
Faith!
From Brian Glover's "The World Encylopedia of Beer," a big glossy coffee table book that I bought for $4 at the Goodwill.
The left-handed piper seems to have an unusually large prasicín - actually that's the cap of the fellow below him.
It's the number of young people hitting drinking age. Wasn't 50% of Ireland's population under 21 at one time? 'Prime' drinking years have to be from when you start until 30.
Jim McGuire wrote:It's the number of young people hitting drinking age. Wasn't 50% of Ireland's population under 21 at one time? 'Prime' drinking years have to be from when you start until 30.
I don't think you have to even be 21 in Ireland do you?
I read a Euro stat last year that Ireland had the largest rate of soft drink consumption in the Eoro zone! Also, Ireland was behing Germany, France and I think Italy in per capita consumption of alcohol. I think that the scale is tipped to those countries by their large consumptions of wines at every meal and at younger ages (as young as 13 in the home).
Kevin L. Rietmann wrote:http://www.nationmaster.com has heaps o' stats. Ireland is also #6 in the world for cannabis use.
Rastafari use
It is not known when the Rastafari first made cannabis into something sacred, though it is clear that by the late 1940s Rastafari was associated with cannabis smoking at the Pinnacle community of Leonard Howell. Rastafari claim to know that cannabis is the Tree of Life mentioned in the Bible. Bob Marley, amongst many others, said, "the herb [ganja] is the healing of the nations". The use of cannabis, and particularly of large pipes called "chalices", is an integral part of what Rastafari call Reasoning sessions. They see cannabis as having the capacity to allow the user to penetrate the truth of how things are much more clearly, as if the wool had been pulled from one's eyes. Thus the Rastafari come together to smoke cannabis in order to discuss the truth with each other, reasoning it all out little by little through many sessions. In this way Rastafari believe that cannabis brings the user closer to Jah. -Wiki
I didn't know that. Well, the Irish did save civilization.
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Lorenzo wrote:They see cannabis as having the capacity to allow the user to penetrate the truth of how things are much more clearly, as if the wool had been pulled from one's eyes.
Are Cheech and Chong popular in Jamaica? Or maybe banned from stores...
Well without it they'd be like Bukowski sans booze or Burroughs without heroin.
Bukowski, Burroughs, Chong. The triumvirate.
I saw Tommy on Celebrity Jeopardy once - sharp dude.
