Virtual Alchoholh

[jack]

We operate under various social conventions. If you see someone in an opera mask, you must pretend you don't know them, even if you owe them a duel. If you catch someone at an embarassing moment, you didn't see it. We cloak present-receptence and name-remembering and so forth in polite conventions that soften possibly awkward problems under layers of indirection.

I like drinking, and getting drunk, but not all the time, nor do I want to rely on it. I propose the social convention:

Synthahol.

Of which the prime instantiations shall be:

100% Vodkha (ingredients: H2O)
Finest Ghin (ingredients: N2, O2, CO2, Ar, H2O)

People drinking synthohol shall be considered to be drunk :)

(Terminology comes from Startrek, Chess With a Dragon, and some vague conception of optional roleplaying rules :))

Comments

[mair_in_grenderich]

Can you buy it on E-bay? Is it expensive? :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

A1. Yes. No. Not in money, anyway.
A2. Yes. Yes, order direct from me at...

[ewx.livejournal.com]

The names make me think it ought to be called hyperbolic alcohol.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

As long as when somebody gropes me because they're drunk at 10am, I can break their nose because I'm drunk at 10am, I think it's a great idea.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Well, they shouldn't be drunk at 10am. If they are, then they deserve it if you happen to be. That's exactly the point :)

[sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com]

Aha! a name for what I get drunk on :)

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