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Originally Posted by ebus_dk
Real deal = not legal = will most likely drive you nuts (clinical insane - yes, really)
What people buy = fake shit = nothing but a wine cooler
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Yeah...that's ridiculous.
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Originally Posted by Libertine
Nonsense. Absolute and complete nonsense.
One of the reasons people got sick from it was that when it got popular in the 19th century, many companies started producing it. To get the characteristic green color, some of those companies used things such copper as a colorant. Getting poisoned tends to drive you rather crazy.
The other reason should be rather obvious: alcoholism can have some severe effects. Korsakoff, delirium tremens, etc.
Why are you people so fucking gullible?  |
They didn't use copper to color it. The only time that copper was used was when rednecks tried to bootleg it like moonshine. It took as much as 1/3 of all alcohol sales in some places, so they people tried to cash in and made poison because they didn't know that they were doing.