"No, you take care of him!"
I didn’t read article, but what are the negative physical symptoms? More heart attacks?
"No, you take care of him!"
“ Save it for the bar in the castle! You’ve paid so much for the beat on the river that the castle will be comping your drinking anyway!”
Boy that alone makes me want to go to Scotland. Drinks at the castle bar! Cool!
This is crazy talk.
Who drinks negronis on planes anyway?
When we flew commercial for the military the saying was “Never fly sober”. Never had a medical incident with any of us using that philosophy.
But the catering on MAC flights made that mindset difficult to achieve.
probably one of the biggest contributing factors is the fact that U.S. air flights are pressurized to only 8,000 feet, so everyone is breathing MUCH less oxygen than normal ... those from coastal areas are going to be affected the most ... rocky mountain state residents not affected as much because we have more red blood cells built up from living in a lower oxygen environment ...
I thought this might have included an explanation for why some drunks go psycho on flights.
But no. Figures.
I’ve always suspected that there was a biochemical reason for why some people can’t hold their liquor on a plane, but take my word for it:
Don’t fly into Las Vegas with a drunk.
We were headed to a convention and he lipped off to a LV Transit cop after being hauled off the plane when we landed (this was 15 years before tsa). I was just lucky to have not had alcohol on my breath (I didn’t get beaten and go to jail).
It was the last time I went on a business trip with that a-hole (he could hold his liquor on the ground but was one of those we’ve all read about who lost his shit on the plane at altitude, except I saw it first hand).
If you drink plus the lack of enough air then this may happen to you.
Nightmare At 20,000 Feet
https://youtu.be/fXHKDb0CNjA?t=30
Funny.
I put up with a 6 hour flight to and from Arizona several times a year.
To avoid clambering out of the window seat to take a leak, I just avoid drinking anything for several hours before flying. The window seat gives me a small touch of privacy and a view.
Made it every time so far, head straight for the p!sser after getting off the plane. No way i would have a drink, knowing it would trigger my bladder.
I always drank heavily on my flights home from Europe. I was working the oilfield drilling rigs and would go over for 28 days and then 28 days off. My ex=wife would be there whene I returned home. I needed the alcohol. Oddly she did also because I would be there.
Happily divorced now and with my wonderful new lady and wife for 30 years now.
Years ago I would fly from London the Stavanger Norway each 14 days back and forth as I was working on the Drilling Rigs in the North Sea.
As I was a frequent flyer I knew some of the stewardess. The flights were on a DC9, now known as the MD-80. The noise of the turbines were very loud at the back of the aircraft as it had rear mounted engines. Unfortunately the drink cart started from the back of the aircraft forward.
I had a system. I would sit up front and as soon as the seat belt light went off I would go to the back of the aircraft and buy two small bottles of scotch and return to my seat with the Scotch and water. About 30 minutes later the drink and food cart would be there and I would select a cognac with my meal and some wine. Once when I went to the back of the plane the stewardess handing me two little bottles of Scotch. She knew my routine.
Sad that this all history today and no more. Today Airlines are like cattle cars. Albeit I will not critise the airlines as they are reacting to economic reality.
Beer...not hard stuff.
Why would I travel to the land of the ultra woke where they hate Americans and surrendered their country to Islamos and Africans without a fight? Hard pass.