Posted on 05/12/2006 11:17:49 AM PDT by pissant
Do "beer goggles" really exist?
Tipsy
Dear Tipsy: For those of you unfamiliar with the party scene, "beer goggles" refers to how people often appear more attractive to you after you've had a few drinks. For a long time, it was just a convenient excuse a person used to explain "regrettable amorous encounters." However, according to a study at the Universities of Glasgow and St. Andrews, beer goggles (or "brew gogs" as they're known in certain fraternal circles) are very real.
It's no secret that excessive drinking leads to poor judgment behind the wheel. Well, it can also lead to poor judgment at your local pub. According to the aforementioned study, what constitutes "attractive" changes drastically after a few drinks. In other words, while you may think you're hitting on a 10, there's a chance you're actually picking up someone in the lower-single digits.
The reasons behind this phenomenon have to do with alcohol stimulating the nucleus accumbens, aka "the part of the brain which is used to determine facial attractiveness." In the 2002 study, male and female students were shown pictures of members of the opposite sex and asked to rate them on a scale of 1-7 (sounds cruel, we know). The more students drank, the higher they rated the photographs.
We hope this sobering study helps encourage more responsible drinking. Remember -- if you're looking for love and don't want to wake up disappointed, you're better off at an ice-cream social than a keg-stand contest.
A 2 at 10 is a 10 at 2.
if prothetics were as good back when as they are now, I would definately have two new arms
Great minds think alike. What happened to us?
"DJ's invented alcohol to help white people dance."
Didn't work. ;)
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
Do "beer goggles" really exist?
LOL! Is that why my knuckles are dragging on the floor?
Me too, brother! LOL!
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, that sounds good, R. I've tried the other squash varieties, but always come back to butternut. I'm roasting some large ones tonite for Mom's Special Day on Sunday, along with 5 other courses and vino.
Now wait just a minute. Lotsa beauties have a brood. It wasn't that long ago when the average family had 5 or 6 kids.
There is no known way to improve those things. Even blindness won't work.
Wow, maybe 89 years ago. LOL
I thought you meant concubine.
Just don't mix the apes with humans...
Maybe that's how hefeweizen was invented.
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