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Saskatoon man found guilty of manslaughter after fatal drunken fistfight
Timothy Smith was found guilty of causing Landon Waddell's injuries in a fistfight that contributed to a fatal compression of his central nervous system.
#crime #manslaughter #drunkenness #Saskatoon #Canada #MurderTrial
https://globalnews.ca/news/11639176/saskatoon-timothy-smith-guilty-manslaughter-landon-waddell-fistfight/

Global News Jan 27

Saskatoon man found guilty of manslaughter after fatal drunken fistfight
Timothy Smith was found guilty of causing Landon Waddell's injuries in a fistfight that contributed to a fatal compression of his central nervous system.
#crime #manslaughter #drunkenness #Saskatoon #Canada #MurderTrial
https://globalnews.ca/news/11639176/saskatoon-timothy-smith-guilty-manslaughter-landon-waddell-fistfight/

Global News Canada Jan 27

Saskatoon man found guilty of manslaughter after fatal drunken fistfight
Timothy Smith was found guilty of causing Landon Waddell's injuries in a fistfight that contributed to a fatal compression of his central nervous system.
#crime #manslaughter #drunkenness #Saskatoon #Canada #MurderTrial
https://globalnews.ca/news/11639176/saskatoon-timothy-smith-guilty-manslaughter-landon-waddell-fistfight/

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Oct 23

A quotation from Terry Pratchett

A flash of inspiration struck him with all the force and brilliance that ideas have when they’re travelling through beer.

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 22, The Last Continent (1998)

More info about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/7995…

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Discworld No. 22, The Last Continent (1998) - Pratchett, Terry | WIST Quotations

A flash of inspiration struck him with all the force and brilliance that ideas have when they’re travelling through beer.

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Enjoy Aug 29, 2025

"The truth is that drinking always and inevitably leads to one state: drunkenness. It admittedly provides considerable pleasure, sometimes almost sexual, but it remains a relatively immediate sensation which does not elevate the spirit. It is in no way an art. Nor is it a philosophy. It does not open other doors to understanding the world. It just makes you drunk. Full stop."

~ Claire Touzard in ‘Sans alcool’ (Without Alcohol)

#drunkenness #alcohol #alcoholism #book #quotes #safety

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Aug 22, 2025

A quotation from Horace

The Rash, the Lazy, Lover, none’s so wild,
But may be tame, and may be wisely mild,
If they consult true Vertue’s Rules with care,
And lend to good advice a patient ear.

[Invidus, iracundus, iners, vinosus, amator,
nemo adeo ferus est, ut non mitescere possit,
si modo culturae patientem commodet aurem.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 1, l. 38ff (1.1.38-40) (20 BC) [tr. Creech (1684)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/horace/78567/

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ResearchBuzz: Firehose Jun 30, 2025

Tokyo Weekender: Drunk American Tourist Damages Kyoto Temple Tied to Samurai Legend. “At around 6:20 a.m. on June 24, an intoxicated American tourist entered a centuries-old Zen temple in Kyoto and broke part of it. The man, whose name has not been released, wandered into Shoden Eigen-in, a subtemple of Kenninji in Higashiyama ward. Rather than using the main entrance, he entered through a […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/30/tokyo-weekender-drunk-american-tourist-damages-kyoto-temple-tied-to-samurai-legend/

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Apr 2, 2025

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

A man may feel so completely thwarted that he seeks no form of satisfaction, but only distraction and oblivion. He then becomes a devotee of “pleasure.” That is to say, he seeks to make life bearable by becoming less alive. Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 1 “What Makes People Unhappy?” (1930)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/760…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #alcohol #analgesic #distraction #drinking #drunkenness #frustration #hedonism #living #oblivion #palliative #pleasure #unawareness #unhappiness

Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 1 "What Makes People Unhappy?" (1930) - Russell, Bertrand | WIST Quotations

A man may feel so completely thwarted that he seeks no form of satisfaction, but only distraction and oblivion. He then becomes a devotee of "pleasure." That is to say, he seeks to make life bearable by becoming less alive. Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide: the happiness that it…

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WIST Quotations moves again!Jan 23, 2025

A quotation from Omar Khayyam:

«
Last night I smote the winecup on a stone;
For such mad folly how may I atone?
The shatter’d cup, in mystic language, said,
“I was like thee, my fate shall be thine own.”
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/omar-khayyam/74205/

#quote #quotes #quotation #clay #death #destruction #drunkenness #dust #fate