From our Kiwi Friends:
Beware beer goggles (especially if you’re a woman)
ExpandBeer goggles are more likely to fool women than men, according to a new study. Photo / Thinkstock
It is a phenomenon most often associated with the more than mildly inebriated male.
But it seems that it is in fact women who are more likely to be fooled by their ‘beer goggles’.
Scientists have worked out why members of the opposite sex can seem more attractive after a few drinks – and they found that women’s judgement was more greatly clouded by alcohol.
Researchers at London’s Roehampton University asked more than 100 men and women to rate pairs of faces.
Some did the tests while drinking a strong vodka and tonic. Others were given a similar-tasting non-alcoholic drink or orange squash.
One of the tests involved looking at faces and stating whether they thought each one was symmetrical or non-symmetrical.
Scientists have long known symmetry to be tied to attraction, with a face in which one half mirrors the other seen as a sign of good genes and good health.
The men and women given the vodka and tonic found it more difficult to work out if a face was symmetrical than those on soft drinks.
Researcher Lewis Halsey said: ‘People that had drink tended to be less good at noticing if a face was asymmetrical, they often saw it as being symmetrical when it was asymmetrical.’
And the women drinkers were particularly bad at the task, the journal Addiction reports.
Dr Halsey said: ‘What we have shown is that people’s ability to detect symmetry is part of the explanation for the beer goggle effect.
‘The consequences could be considerable. A lot of people say they met their partner when they were drunk. Are their marriages shorter or longer lasting? Does it change the nature of the relationship?’ The study is not the first to probe the beer goggles phenomenon.
A Bristol University study found people do appear more attractive to both sexes after they’ve had a drink – and it takes as little as a pint and a half of beer.
In some cases, the mere anticipation of alcohol may be enough to alter judgement.
A U.S. study showed that men rated pictures of women more highly after looking at alcohol-related words than phrases about coffee and soft drinks.
Researcher Professor Ronald Friedman said: ‘We propose to have found a case of automatic “beer goggling”.’
But other research has disputed the phenomenon, with a British study concluding that men find women no prettier after drinking.
The Leicester University researchers said: ‘There was no difference – the men were just as undiscerning as ever.’
First!
I’m much more attractive when everyone else around me is hammered.
teh beer goggle musta been how i landed mrs coldwarrior.
yah think this guy may have a drinkin problem///
Ohio man found guilty of 19th drunken driving charge
yeah man!
YOU BLOG
RELAX!!!
first time I drank Red Stripe was in 1984.
bought some at a little market in Negril
Hubby had a Blue Moon (I think) when we were in Key West last November.
Don’t drink much beer any more. Still like the pony coronas with limes at times though.
what just happened with the DOJ’s response to Judge Smith’s order. Or have I missed something during the day (I’ve been busy in the yard)
Dolphin wrote:
Did he put an orange in it? That’s really good stuff…for me anyway
eaglesoars wrote:
3 pages single spaced signed by holder,
coldwarrior wrote:
Greta is saying it’s 2 and a half pages -- but not important. I can’t find what it says.
eaglesoars wrote:
Something along the lines of courts are to presume that laws passed are Constitutional.
@ Philip_Daniel:
Oh my gracious. Thank you. Where on EARTH do you find this stuff?
eaglesoars wrote:
Try here
http://www.foxnews.com/interactive/politics/2012/04/05/justice-department-letter-to-5th-circuit-court-appeals/
/lurk
@ eaglesoars:
It did, now that you bring that up. It was from the tap and the glass did have a slice of orange on it.
This was here http://www.sloppyjoes.com/
I had a margarita for Jimmy!
@ CynicalConservative:
thanks..reading
Dolphin wrote:
one of the few things that cqn make me drink beer -- that is good stuff!
eaglesoars wrote:
Erick Holder doubled down on insulting the Judicial System.
@ eaglesoars:
Score “F” incomplete paper.
I read the same from another website earlier today. Don’t remember where -- maybe drudge.
@ CynicalConservative:
done reading thank you. Here it is:
1. The power of the courts to review the constitutionality of legislation is beyond dispute.
Holder caves.
doriangrey wrote:
How do you read that? I think he just caved completely. But I’m not a lawyer…
eaglesoars wrote:
Yes, but he managed to insult the judicial system while doing it.
I think I can hear al-chuki crying.
No Islamophobic hate crime
Documents Suggest Iraqi Woman’s Death Not A Hate Crime
SAN DIEGO — Details in search warrants obtained by 10News’ media partner U-T San Diego show an Iraqi-American woman viciously beaten to death in her El Cajon home was apparently planning to divorce her husband and move to Texas, casting doubt on whether the slaying was a hate crime, as first suggested.
…Records obtained at El Cajon Superior Court on Wednesday showed the victim’s plans to leave her husband and also revealed the teen was distraught over her pending arranged marriage to a cousin, U-T San Diego reported….
we just cooked a pound of bacon from the farm over a cherry wood fire…the wine pairing is killer.
the less than over-hoped-vine-chewing brit ale is great as well
eaglesoars wrote:
@ doriangrey:
So basically he conceded the Courts Authority, then turned right around and insulted the Court by telling the Court that while he admits that the Court has the authority to Rule on the Constitutionality of any Law, they never the less do not have the Authority to rule on the Constitutionality of Obamacare.
@ refugee000:
Of course not. Either her husband or her son or both together killed her. That’s been obvious from the beginning.
@ coldwarrior:
I hate you.
@ doriangrey:
I’m not in the business of deciphering that. But I went back to the letter and I think you’re right. Here is the arrogance:
If I don’t tell you to do it…..
bed time. nite everyone
eaglesoars wrote:
This is the same asshole who wasn’t aware that his own Justice Department was supplying Guns to Mexican Drug Cartels and was responsible for killing two American Law Enforcement Officers and hundreds, perhaps even thousands of innocent Mexican Citizens.
The justices and their staff are going to spend more time reviewing this law than the reps from Holder and Obama’s own party.
What a load.
@ doriangrey:
Now don’t go changing the subject.
The question is not Holder’s competence but the fact that he channels the demigod’s wisdom so faithfully.
I hope these fascist get the bitch-slapping of the millennium.
unclassifiable wrote:
Oh, I suspect it is indeed coming. Not just with the ruling that Obamacare in Unconstitutional, but also with, if the rumors prove to be correct that Kagen informed the Whitehouse of the informal vote results, but also Kagens impeachment from the SCOTUS.
@ doriangrey:
Your interpretation is exactly what I took from Holder’s ‘homework’ excusing the President’s disrespect of the Supreme Court. I think the Judge who assigned the letter will see it clearly as the eff you that\
it is.
MY DAD IS A DANCER
One day a fourth-grade teacher asked the children what their fathers did for a living.
All the typical answers came up: fireman,mechanic, businessman, salesman… and so forth. However, lttle Justin was being uncharacteristically quiet, so when the teacher prodded him about his father, he replied, “My father’s an exotic dancer in a gay cabaret and takes off all his clothes to music in front of other men and they put money in his underwear. Sometimes, if the offer is really good, he will go home with some guy and stay with him all night for money.”
The teacher, obviously shaken by this statement, hurriedly set the other children to work on some exercises and took little Justin aside to ask him, “Is that really true about your father?” “No,” the boy said, “He works for the Democratic National Committee and is helping to get Obama re-elected, but it is just too embarrassing to say that in front of the other kids.”
Don Cheadle rips NBC for Zimmerman 911 tape
One of the few actors who can think for themselves
eaglesoars wrote:
cheers!
coldwarrior wrote:
Oh… there’s the wimpy beer drinker himself…
WE DON’T NEED NO STINKING COKE!
@ unclassifiable:
OR BETTER YET!
doriangrey wrote:
if i want to drink something that tastes all bitter i’ll go back to SA and have more ayawaska
then i would go back to burning man
doriangrey wrote:
and as a true hunky i will not drink a beer unless i have a shot with it.
it was imperial and iron here traditionally in the steel city.
i am happy with a shot of titos and a guinness
i’m makin orderves outta some steak strips, sea weed salad, kalamata olives, and old I tie cheese. with some garlic olive oil and a nice red.
SLICE!!!
mawskrat wrote:
Knew a guy some years back who had 15 arrests, 5 convictions over his life. No collisions, knew the cops by name, had a lawyer on retainer. Finally lost his drivers license permanently. Flew 727s for 6 more years until he retired.
I thought that Mythbusters did this a few years ago. Don’t remember what the result was.
AZfederalist wrote:
drunks in bars make bad decisions?
yenta-fada wrote:
… and the hits keep coming. Seems someone started looking up the cases cited in the Holder letter. Something apparently isn’t working, the person at this site thinks these may be briefs and not court decisions, which might be consistent with the demand to show the government’s position on the assumption of constitutionality.
Cite
Comments
AZfederalist wrote:
Higher incidence of profit for local motels.
coldwarrior wrote:
Well, yeah, but they were trying to evaluate the beer goggles thing and compare men and women. Heineman and Savage drank with Carrie. At various times, they went through a group of pictures of the opposite sex and rated attractiveness. For a while, Carrie (the female) did exhibit beer goggles more than the guys because she was “feeling sorry” for some of the men in the pictures. IIRC, when she got more inebriated however, she became somewhat more vicious. However, it’s been several years since I saw the episode, so my memory might be faulty
This is news? I guess it would be news to those who are arrogant enough to think that only one gender has beer goggles. Heh — Think again !!
@ Bumr50:
I ate at an Arby’s…once. Their so-called “roast beef” is some kind of pressed squeegee meat, steamed and sliced thinly. It simply does not have anything approaching the texture or flavor of even a mediocre roast of beef.
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
Yeah, but at least the slices have an iridescent sheen…
What’s up with that?
@ coldwarrior:
drunks in bars make bad decisions?
LOL,,,,went home with a ten and woke up with a two
and Good Mornin All…..make it a great day!
so the convent where my wife works is cutting back on
holiday pay. today is a paid holiday and she gets double
time and a half for sunday but they cut out monday as
a paid holiday…..times are tuff>LOL
coldwarrior wrote:
I don’t know what you look like, but somehow I doubt that this is the case. There’s a saying that “men love with their eyes, women love with their ears”. Looks are less important to women than communication skills.
Mike C. wrote:
I don’t know what they actually are, but I find the sandwiches quite edible with Arby’s “horsey sauce”. I consider them a source of not-too-expensive protein and iron.
coldwarrior wrote:
Drunks anywhere make bad decisions.