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Idiots, Drink Up!

Submitted by Alex Birch on Thu, 03/20/2008 - 20:27.

You can't go anywhere these days without bumping into a genuine idiot. Thanks to the tolerance of our society they regularly cause problems for the rest of us, regardless if it's intentional or not. Luckily these people sometimes self-destruct, like a circuit breaking in a poorly programmed robot, causing it to malfunction or overload.

A funny example of this recently took place in Norway. Biltema, a Wal-Mart-styled shop for car equipment, had sold denatured alcohol with methanol instead of ethanol, methanol being highly toxic. Several people, presumably alcoholics, drank of this alcohol and died on the spot. Now the families of these victims sue both Biltema and the Swedish manufacturer.

Drug addict

What's hilarious in this context is that people blame the company for what's happened. Producing this alcohol product with methanol was obviously a huge mistake, but actually drinking a product meant to be used only for car purposes, means you're either on drugs or substantially stupid. So stupid that you, either way, don't fit into a healthy society and are better off at the cemetery. It's called natural selection and we need to adopt it again if we don't want the planet to be populated by 84-IQ:ed apes by year 2100.

Our society needs to stop protecting idiots. If it doesn't, they'll overpower all intelligent people completely and turn this place into a wreck, which they've already partly succeeded with. Stupid people naturally self-destruct when no one's there to save them from themselves. What we've tried in the past is to distract them with bread and circuses and restrict their freedom. Now they've outbred the sane, healthy people and are slowly taking over the entire fabric of our society. It's time for a change in plan.

Call me cold hearted, but I don't feel sympathy with these alcoholics. It's terrible that we can't trust what's in our products, but if you're dumb enough to drink whatever you get your hands on, you probably deserved to die in the first place. The same individual would be a disaster at any work place that requires independent, strategic thinking. So why do we need these people around? I'll answer that for you: we don't. Let morons deal with their own havoc, far away from healthy, stable, intelligent, creative people, and dig their own grave. We'll stop by and leave a few flowers when the storm is over and then aim for a new civilization. Don't let these chimps drag you down. Our time will come.

Well, methylated spirit is

Well, methylated spirit is just another way of saying "ethanol mixed with a small amount of methanol," usually in a 95:5 ratio I think. Was the product sold as completely methanol? In that case it wouldn't really be "denatured alcohol" and would just be a bottle of methanol (and extremely poisonous). If it was just standard denatured alcohol and the family is still suing, it makes their case even more absurd.

The product was supposed to

The product was supposed to consist out of 95% denatured ethanol (5% methanol), as you say. In this case, the ratios were either reversed or the amount of methanol increased to make the product deadly to drink - the article doesn't make this clear.

Either way, it's a good example of the general direction toward which our society is heading.

I am confused by something

I am confused by something in this article. I would check the original news report but can't read Norwegian!

You state "Biltema, a Wal-Mart-styled shop for car equipment, had sold denatured alcohol with methanol instead of ethanol" and "Producing this alcohol product with methanol was obviously a huge mistake." I'm not sure what is meant with these statements. Drinking alcohol (ie. ethanol) is denatured in order to render it unsuitable for drinking (this is presumably done to avoid taxation that is applied to regular ethanol). This denatured alcohol is often used as a cleaning product (the purpose for which it was being sold in the store I would guess) or fuel for camping stoves and such. One of the most common chemicals for this process is methanol. So, it seems to me that it wasn't a mistake to produce this alcohol with methanol. In fact, it was completely intentional. Is it possible the original source is in error? Of course, this doesn't change the fact that it is self-destructive to consume a product intended to clean upholstery!

Rödsprit

This particular product is called "red alcohol" or "rödsprit" (methylated spirit) and is commonly made out of ethanol, not methanol. This is why the family's suing the company. You might be thinking of a similar product?

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