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Via the NYTimes: Late Tuesday afternoon, Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky suggested that the only way to bridge the party’s divisions was to get everyone drunk.
“I think they’re going to have to bring alcohol in there to solve this,” he said. “There’s some angry drunks that can fight it out. There’s some friendly drunks like me. But I don’t see this happening without alcohol.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/us/politics/house-speaker-election.html
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True Kentuckian, that one.
Man, I remember debating existentialism at the local pub after quite a few vodkas. It's not limited to politics.
Time to put that one to the test.
I had a lovely lunch once with my very elderly mum and dad, and my oldest sister in a very nice restaurant in Dublin.
My dad was host, and ordered what he considered to be the obligatory two bottles of wine.
My mum had a touch of dementia and needed a little minding for if/when she wandered off. Half a glass of wine.
My sister was designated driver and mummy-watcher/finder. Half a glass of wine.
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My job, my sister informed me, was to, "keep dad company".
Say 5 glasses to a bottle; ten glasses total, minus 1 divided between Mum and sis.
After sis returned from retrieving mum from the parking lot, I nudged her to say, " I can't feel my face, it's gone numb!".
The conversation was excellent, I remember none of it. We left at least (thank the gods) half of the second bottle. In vino veritas, if we could only remember what said. They should bring transcribers.
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