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fifiluraabout 21 hours ago
There is a danish movie related to maintaining the optimal drunkedness.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10288566/

rozababout 12 hours ago
And a Mitchell and Webb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zj50DmBFp0
pgsandstromabout 20 hours ago
The most danish movie ever made. It gets an extra layer if you are at least somewhat familiar with the hedonistic aspect of danish culture (at least in contrast to swedish culture).
pseudohadamard6 minutes ago
"Come to Copenhagen and help carry a drunk Swede to the ferry". This was before the Øresund bridge.
PorciiVorbescabout 20 hours ago
I felt like there's a seed of truth to that plot, even if it's probably not scientifically proven. I could always get more complex problems solved when I had a slight buzz than without, at least in college. I don't know now.
CalRobertabout 8 hours ago
things don't go so great in the end...
adfghiono9iabout 14 hours ago
That is not actually what the movie's about.
dcrazyabout 12 hours ago
Starring Mads Mikkelsen, no less?
bronlundabout 21 hours ago
I have reference this more times than I'm willing to admit. Usually together with that old rumor; that back in the days, if you went to a computer show, it was pretty obvious that the Apple guys were smoking and the Microsoft guys were drinking :)
bitwizeabout 12 hours ago
The high-level Apple guys were tripping balls, especially—in all seriousness—Jobs.
nraynaudabout 20 hours ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balmer_jump I learned just a few days ago of what probably originated the joke.
epsabout 20 hours ago
It's a different Balmer.
nraynaudabout 20 hours ago
Jokes are inspired by taking off from the exact subject at hand, that’s what imagination is about, not staying in the box.
jibaltabout 18 hours ago
> probably originated the joke

A completely baseless claim ... "probably" means > .5 probability, but there is no evidence to support that; it's sheer speculation.

Angosturaabout 20 hours ago
See also the Mitchell and Webb ‘inebriati’ sketch - https://youtu.be/-Zj50DmBFp0

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