It’s inventor’s name is Professor Nutt, but don’t hold that against him.
By harnessing benzodiazepines like diazepam, the chief ingredient in anti-anxiety med Valium, Nutt sees a future of drinking without becoming addicted, belligerent or — and here’s the kicker — intoxicated. Using one of thousands of possible benzos, researchers are working to tailor a colorless, tasteless synthetic that could eventually replace the alcohol content in beer, wine and liquor.
Drinkers could toss back as many glasses of the swill as they want but would remain only mildly drunk from first drink to last, keeping good-timers within legal limits whether they like it or not. If one did find the buzz too intense for a particular task — say, driving home after a long night at the pub — those warm feelings of inebriation could be instantly turned off with a simple antidote pill that mutes the synthetic’s effects on brain receptors.
And yes, this is just Jonah-bait.
“By harnessing benzodiazepines like diazepam…”
Just this morning I bolozoed a gorgomian. See, I can make up words too.
“Benzodiazapines” and “diazepam” are pretty entry-level words that anybody who knows anything about drugs usually know about. I suppose if you’re too dense to want people to use “big words” they could just say: “DRINK MAKES YOU FEEL GOOD. NO HANGOVER. BUT NOT REAL DRUNK.”
You swoop in to a year old post to comment on someone’s anemic (from your point of view) vocabulary? Nice job douche.
WHOOSH!
Sorry about that, Outlaw13. What’s the statute of limitations on responding to a post on the internet? Is there a formal protocol for this, or are you just imposing your own standards on anyone that you think has stepped out of line? I can’t help but notice that you throw the word “douche” around in a delightfully condescending manner, so I’m wondering: how long, exactly, have you been better than everyone else, and how did you get to be that way?
Here’s the way it REALLY is, so you don’t get confused in the future:
* benzodiazepine: REAL word* diazepam: REAL word
* bolozoed: FAKE word
* gorgomian: FAKE word
Do you understand this distinction? real words and fake words are not equivalent.
This has nothing to do with my point of view. This has everything to do with small-minded twits like you, Outlaw13, and JS Lawalin. If you, he, or anyone else is going to be thoughtless enough to vent his stupidity in public, then you can merrily take the heat for your stupidity for as long as your uninspired mental flatulence continues to publicly fester.
Yeah, Outlaw, you take that … douche.
Well there is no statute of limitations, but when you comment on something that is over a year old, you are likely speaking to hear yourself think. The only reason I saw it is I’m an administrator here, and I keep track of that stuff.
Congratulations jeremyfisher, you have a big vocabulary. JS Lawalin was being a smart-ass, as was I if you have a difficult time dealing with smart-asses you should probably look for some other method of entertainment besides the INTERNET, douche.
Or I guess I could just call everyone a “douche,” huh? In point of fact, though, I think I’ve demonstrated that I can deal with you just fine, thanks.
Way to administrate, though. Seriously, good work. I mean, who wouldn’t want a belligerent neanderthal attacking them for contributing to the discussion, right? That’s awesome, man, and I’m sure that you’ll find that in this world of countless mediocre websites, it’ll be you and your brand of flamboyant thoughtlessness that makes this particular dumping ground for drooling, barely-conscious “expression” shine. If I ever get around to creating a forum, I may just contact you to ask if you’d care to do the honor of sabotaging it for me.
As owner of the site… I think you started the snark jeremy… we at least have a reason for monitoring the site — there’s no statute of limitations but there is a natural law concept of “Why bother?” that’s around 6 months.
Not Lord Popo though who swooped in here last month as a brand new commenter.
And we are not mediocre… we’re middling. If you’re gonna insult us pick the right word. Mediocre: REAL word. Middling: More accurate word.
On the other hand, you gotta give Jeremy credit for giving a us perfect demonstration of “pathetic”. What else do you call adding a comment to a posting so old even the spammers ignore it? And not once, but twice?
Yep you really told me jeremyfisher, I’m going to have a rough time sleeping tonight…douche.
If we get together to drink synthohol, then all of the ladies have to dress like Yeoman Rand. (And yeah, yeah I’m mixing the original with Next Gen – I just really, REALLY like Yeoman Rand).
Yeoman Rand and first-season-uniformed Troi.
Great nutrasweet for booze hounds. Sorry no thankee.
Jolene Blalock. I don’t care what anybody says about “Enterprise.” I’ll go to the wall for Jolene Blalock.
Feh. Star Trek: Nothing but obvious social metaphors as a tool for tricking liberals into believing what they already know to be true. Just anti-intelectualism masquerading as intelectualism. It’s all crap. It’s barely even science fiction. In the beginning at least it was fun crap, but eventually it simply became ponderous crap. Feh.
Do you have a macro for that, R3, or do you have to re-type it whenever Star Trek is mentioned?
Mike… Star Trek is R3′s “Frau Blucher!“
Trust me, if you knew what he knows about Roddenberry, you’d get the urge to spit vitriol at the merest mention of Star Trek too.
I don’t get it, what exactly is it that “he knows about Roddenberry”?
Oh, no.
Thank you, Jake! I appreciate the assist.
@ Mike: I re-type it every time.
Thing is: Trek is a fine introduction to the basic concepts of SF in much the same way that Hopalong Cassidy is a fine introduction to the basic tropes of westerns. But if you obsess over the introduction, if you never move on to more solid food, if you’re begging the studio to crank out “Hopalong Cassidy: TNG” and “Hopalong Cassidy: Deep Shaft Mine” and “Hopalong Cassidy: Voyages” then the introduction tends to become an end in and of itself, it tends to stifle exploration of the genuinely fine stuff that other authors and franchises have to offer. Trek not only crossed that line long ago, but it threw up on it.
Sorry, R3. But I wasn’t saying anything about Star Trek beyond “they had this thing called synthohol.” (That and, “pretty women in miniskirts is a good thing,” but you can blame Rich for that digression.)
I wasn’t saying that you were saying anything aside from what you were saying, I’m just saying that Trek kinda’ sucks.
Pretty women in miniskirts *are* a good thing, undoubtedly, but Trek lost its nerve for such things in 1988.
I know its more than a year over due, but I felt that someone should argue on Star Trek’s behalf. Since I’m here now I might as well; Star Trek:TOS was an okay introduction to the space voyage and sci-fi battles genre. TNG brought a whole new approach to Trek with newer technology and a greatly improved concept. DS9 did a good job at exploring interpersonal interaction and personal development. Voyager took the stage with a brand new class starship, a completely unexplored area of the galaxy, and an interesting blend of characters. Enterprise brought us back to the beginning, we barely have warp 5, our Diplomatic translators are basic and a Chief Linguistics officer is something new to many of us, and the whole show is a struggle for humanity to spread into the early alpha quadrant.
While this hasn’t touched on synthohol at all, it has relevance to the subtopic so bear with me if you would. We draw lines at ST and SW, we say that one is better than the other, this Captain was more awesome than this Jedi and so on. What we have failed to look at is the basic concepts presented in all this technobabble we call sci-fi. Even in space we will face problems and unknowns that are outside the bounds of our sciences. While we joke about “Imagizers” and “Phasers” and “Lightsabers”, we should take a look at bringing these fantasies into our reality. Synthohol is a great step forward, and if it proves to be viable it could pave the way for more warp nacelles and dilithium matrices.
That was both cogent and awesome. Better late than never… and welcome to Threedonia!
Synthohol should be pursued further.
A couple of mentally challenged sheep get called out on an old post. Lol. What part of the internet do you not understand? Stuff you post is there forever unless someone removes it. I made this post to yet again call out your ignorance and remind you just how unintelligent you both really are.
Who called whom out? I monitor the blog… a good host engages those who choose to engage. I’ve been doing this for over 3 years — hardly ignorant.
Thanks for commenting and welcome to Threedonia!
And the serfs of the blog got your back, Floyd. Ohrreally, let me tell you about 3D. This isn’t a major thoroughfare of the internet, it’s a small little corner. But it’s ours and we share it, gladly, with all who come. There are some unwritten rules, however, 1.) we don’t let our women folk get savaged and 2.)although we will tolerate snarky buttheads, we expect that when someone arrives as our guest, they will behave as a guest. Guests are not demanding of our graciousness. They will have to be nice for a while and contribute positively to the atmosphere or camaraderie of the site. Then if they have a bone to pick, well, we are an extended family, and families do fight amongst themselves. So have at it, then. There are thousands of sites where one may go be an ass free of charge and no one cares. But at 3D, we care about the tone of discourse, we are civilized. So join the family, or go back elsewhere.
LOL… Sometimes in the annals of web search old stuff comes to the top one would suppose if they don’t want new comments on an old thread… Delete it? Or has all the current Sheet slinging created a new thread.
Fully understandable that if you were doing a Google search for something that you might find a post on a website that is several years old.
Personally I don’t care if someone wants to comment…in fact it is the source of some amusement to me and others. But if someone in fact stumbled up this and thought, “yes, here’s my chance to tell these know nothing’s off”…that person might get a bit a razzing about surfing the net to find year’s old posts to bitch about…I’m sure if they tried hard enough they could find stuff from yesterday that we screwed up as well.
That being said, if yer still around…welcome some guy!