So I went to Prof. Fontaine’s Rose Cafe about binge drinking. It was waaaaay more interesting than I thought it would be. I was ready to get lectured about binge drinking, but he had a whole historical and artistic presentation of binge drinking ready to go. The story he translated about how important it was to drink in moderation was pretty crazy. I’m not sure how the guy who wrote it thought his students would react to it. Why didn’t any of my teachers write creative stories to teach us about the dangers of binge drinking? All we got were crappy videos. It was also interesting that wine-drinking countries have lower rates of binge-drinking. The argument I’ve always heard is that countries with lower drinking ages tend to have less binge drinking because kids learn from their parents how much is appropriate to drink at a time. Here, we just smuggle in alcohol and drink as much of it in one sitting as we can because it’s hard to get more. Maybe the US should lower its drinking age to something more reasonable like 16 or 18. I’m also trying to figure out why ancient people drank wine out of saucers. There must be a reason for it. It might be easier to smell? Ah ok, I just looked it up and apparently, it made it easier to drink while lying on a couch somehow and it also helped them play whatever drinking games they had. Interesting. It seems easier to spill out of a saucer like that, but maybe they knew what they were doing?