Drinking Tips

Ive just been told an interesting rhythm which seems crazy enough to investigate. Whilst discussing a works night out, the girl at the next desk to me (the one who keeps me refreshed with numberous cups of tea a day) told me:

Drink beer before wine all fine, Drink wine before beer... oh dear!

So i did a bit of ivestigating and ive found a possible explanation that can be applied to all sorts of drinking situations.

At the bottom of the stomach is the pyloric sphincter muscle which regulates the flow of food and drink into the intestine. Normally this is closed, opening at regular intervals to allow food etc through. When you drink a fizzy drink the bubbles will form on the stomach lining similar to how they form on the side and bottom of a glass. These bubbles stimulate the pyloric sphincter muscle and cause it to open allowing food and drink into the intestine. The intestine has a much higher surface area to volume ratio than the stomach which allows much increased absorption of nutrients etc including alcohol. When you have been drinking wine this will sit in the stomach and is slowly released into the intestine. If you then drink a fizzy drink, such as beer, this opens the sphincter muscle and allows beer AND wine into the intestine. This cocktail is rapidly absorbed and everything goes a bit "oh dear". If you drink the beer first then the same thing happens except that the cocktail entering the intestine is just beer and therefore "all fine". Subsequent wine consumption will be absorbed more slowly since the sphincter would then be working normally. Incidentally, this is the same mechanism by which Champagne goes "straight to your head".

Total Saddo

This is absolute Gold and must be written down!In a bid to make my working day that little bit more satisfactory, i have started a tradition in which i spend the first hour of work (Usually from 8.00am!!) looking for the most amazing facts on the planet and relaying them to my glamourous txting buddy also suffering in her boring NHS gig .Here are some of the fruits of our work!

*Flamingos get their pink colour from the shrimp they eat The more shrimp they eat the deeper pink they become.

*The number of births in India each year is greater that the entire population of Australia

*More people are killed by donkeys each year than are killed in plane crashes

*If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion

*Human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only for the first 30 minutes after they've been removed.

*If an average human scrotum were stretched until all its wrinkles were smoothed out, it could hold a basketball

*Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine

*Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers

*A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.

*The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population


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L18 Artwork!

He could have said anything!!!

Hayes-Irvine Domination

The dominance of the Hayes-Irvine brothers continues at Domingos FC as player’s player of the year award was announced. Gutted I had to give up my trophy; only conciliation is that it has only had to move next door. Handsome Champs!

Protect Ya Neck

"The game of chess, is like a sword fight. You must think first, before you move."

Wu Chess was co-founded by GZA from Wu Tang Clan, and as part of his tour in Liverpool Leaf Cafe hosted a Wu Chess knockout-style competition with the final competitor winning the chance to play GZA genius.

This is an event i probably should have taken a tad more seriously as i had been excited about this for quite some time. But when a football team night out was arranged for the night before the big tourney ..... you can see my predicament. If only i was a strong enough person. In the words of Andy Grey, Stuart Hayes-Irvine take a bow son.

After what only could be concided as a heroic amount of beer and rum consumed, i mustered up whatever cognitive activity was left in my brain to come up with a plan as to how on earth in was going to tackle a chess tournement in six hours time. Three clear options seemed viable, the first being to eject everytime out of my body that had entered, the second to drink a copious amount of water and drown the evilness out and the third option to continue partying and ride out the storm. Tempting as the final option was i felt at the time water would come to my rescue.

Fast-forward 10.00am. Surrounded by hardened chess geeks...... Oh dear destroyed in the first round! Personal well done to Studog, semi final robbery.