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Heavy drinkers have the lowest IQs, study claims
Telegraph ^ | 24 Feb 2015 | Saffron Alexander

Posted on 02/25/2015 7:20:16 AM PST by shove_it

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To: shove_it
This brings to mind an exchange between Peter Marshall and George Gobel on the classic game show "Hollywood Squares":

PETER MARSHALL: "True or false, George. Studies have shown that excessive consumption of alcohol kills brain cells."

GEORGE GOBEL: "Well Peter, I'll go with the obvious and say.....the Civil War."

41 posted on 02/25/2015 8:11:24 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: shove_it
This brings to mind an exchange between Peter Marshall and George Gobel on the classic game show "Hollywood Squares":

PETER MARSHALL: "True or false, George. Studies have shown that excessive consumption of alcohol kills brain cells."

GEORGE GOBEL: "Well Peter, I'll go with the obvious and say.....the Civil War."

42 posted on 02/25/2015 8:11:25 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: shove_it

Did they study pot smokers?


43 posted on 02/25/2015 8:11:31 AM PST by DiogenesLamp
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To: shove_it

“Heavy drinkers have the lowest IQs, study claims”

Well, this makes complete sense when you think about it, after all everyone knows that you feel WAY smarter after drinking a lot.


44 posted on 02/25/2015 8:14:32 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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WAAAAH! They criticized alcohol so I want them to criticize WEEEEEED!
45 posted on 02/25/2015 8:14:59 AM PST by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: shove_it

My adopted brother is considered a vulnerable adult. His IQ as a child was right at the level of mental retardation. All of his friends are probably at that level, give or take some points. Trust me, alcohol is a HUGE part of their lives. He is limited because my parents live about 15 miles away and call him daily. If he is at a bar, mom goes to pick him up before he goes too far. They also talk him out of spending too much money at the liquor store, gently reminding him about the consequences of too much drink and too little money for bills and groceries. They have to do this every single week.

She and her friend (whose son is lower functioning than my brother) compare stories about how embarrassing it is to pick them up from seedy bars. Her friend has even had to pay his stripper tab. A different world for two conservative women in their sixties!

Excessive alcohol use from a fairly young age would probably lower IQ as well, but in my experience, low functioning people are drawn to alcohol like a moth to a flame.


46 posted on 02/25/2015 8:17:54 AM PST by NorthstarMom
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Heavy drinkers have the lowest IQs, study claims

Killing off those brain cells.

I think Boehner and McConnell are among the heaviest drinkers in congress, a coincidence?

47 posted on 02/25/2015 8:20:16 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Some say I hate 0bama; "HATE" is a strong word, but in this case NOT STRONG ENOUGH!!)
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WAAAAH! They criticized alcohol so I want them to criticize WEEEEEED!

Oh, I don't deny their premise, I just point out that Weed makes people stupid too, and probably more so. Certainly in my own experience with weed smokers.

48 posted on 02/25/2015 8:27:44 AM PST by DiogenesLamp
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Heavy drinkers have the lowest IQs, study claims

And it took a RESEARCH STUDY to determine this?

49 posted on 02/25/2015 8:35:38 AM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: AppyPappy

As Paul Newman said in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof..”I drink so I can stand myself..I drink until I hear that CLICK”!...CLASSIC..


50 posted on 02/25/2015 8:39:57 AM PST by AFret.
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To: shove_it

And most fat people east more than normal people, and....


51 posted on 02/25/2015 8:40:08 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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I guess Bertrand Russell and all those drunken “genius” artists we hear about are the exceptions.


52 posted on 02/25/2015 8:51:08 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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Maybe they became drunks after they did their best work.


53 posted on 02/25/2015 8:52:07 AM PST by samtheman
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Everything in that picture makes me queasy ...


54 posted on 02/25/2015 9:12:07 AM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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Rounds for everybody!! Hic


55 posted on 02/25/2015 9:16:20 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: shove_it

Them sounds like fighten words...Hol my beer.


56 posted on 02/25/2015 10:28:34 AM PST by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: The Sons of Liberty
Killing off those brain cells.

Alcohol kills off the weak brain cells, thus making the brain stronger.

57 posted on 02/25/2015 1:22:29 PM PST by Ken H (DILLIGAF)
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Killing off those brain cells.

Alcohol kills off the weak brain cells, thus making the brain stronger.

58 posted on 02/25/2015 1:22:29 PM PST by Ken H (DILLIGAF)
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Boehner and McConnell don’t have any to spare - they’re all “weak” brain cells with them.


59 posted on 02/25/2015 6:51:03 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Some say I hate 0bama; "HATE" is a strong word, but in this case NOT STRONG ENOUGH!!)
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