Have you ever tried to be in Columbus, Ohio, and sober?
I think my wife would be more upset if I were playing videogames all day than if I were drunk but helping around the house or going to work.
Even if he really has the disorder I think he's still on the hook for the DUI. Just like you can be prosecuted for driving under the influence of legally ingested prescription drugs, the fact that you didn't intentionally drink yourself into that state doesn't give you permission to deliberately put others at risk.
3: And as with prescription medications and other chronic conditions, the people with them are in a tough spot structurally given that in most US places you need to drive in order to live and work.
I know someone with very bad, apparently uncorrectable eyesight, who had gotten used to having minor car accidents every several months on average before they wised up and realized they had to live somewhere not requiring a car.
5: But from the number of gastropubs and microbreweries in the area I guess I must be in the minority.
AIHMHB, Jammies' mom was an OB nurse, and she recalls in the 70s how pregnant women were put on an alcohol IV drip to delay labor, and were basically very drunk for days until the baby came (and had horrendous hangovers along with a new baby).
I have no idea if it was actually implemented this way, as opposed to an on-and-off again drip, or how many days they actually kept it going for, but that's the story.
They used to tell women to smoke so that delivery would be easier because the baby was smaller. Or that's what my aunt said she was told.
7: I used to know an OB nurse back in the 70's and I can confirm that they did give women alcohol intravenously to delay delivery. But I don't recall it being for days just for a short time. She said it didn't cause hangovers. I'm guessing because maybe the BAC wasn't up there in binge range and also alcoholic drinks contain congeners that contribute to the toxic effects of drinking.
10: I believe that was mentioned in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.
13: Can't be. My aunt wasn't born then.
What if these autobrewery adults were those babies of the drunken mothers??? It's a conspiracy!
Can't be. The antenatal pickling would have killed all their yeasts.
I had no idea that antenna could pickle.
Is that a pickle I see in your pocket or is my body just brewing its own alcohol?