That is not a sufficiently barbed remark. 
Not the sharpest hook on the line.
Trawling for brains - without a net.
It does, however, cut right to the core of the matter.
I’m really super morbid curious if it’s eventually found out what was in those bottles.
And why they were floating in the middle of the ocean.
My WAG is that their overall density was lower than that of the ocean.
I’m making the assumption that they smelled like alcohol or they wouldn’t have drank it or at least wouldn’t have said they thought it was booze. My WAG is rubbing alcohol, a lot of rubbing alcohol. The other things I thought of are acetone or antifreeze. Nether of which really smell like alcohol though.
Is it possible the bottles were full of seawater? Either instead of alcohol or mixed with the alcohol and they didn’t notice?
Yeah, blame the victims.
I doubt it. The danger of seawater is that consuming that much sodium so quickly is more than your kidneys can process, and if it was that salty they’d be able to taste it. I don’t think it’s something a person would do by accident.
The dangerous alcohol idea makes more sense. Either methanol or isopropanol would make sense as they are very poisonous but smell and taste much like the ethanol we consume recreationally.
That was a truly great comeback 
(sincerely, not mockingly).
Yeah…gotta respect a shot. Well - stroked, sir. Well-stroked.
Just, not a shot from one of those bottles.
I’m not ashamed to admit it took me a few readings to get the joke.
One more of the fishermen has died.
José Salvador Alvarenga survived at sea for over a year. He found small bottles floating, and drank them.
Turns out that islanders chewed on some berry or something, spit into bottles and threw them into the sea.
Gawd, that sounds awful. I’d rather die, thank you very much.
That’s going to make it a heck of a lot easier for any future discrimination lawsuits against them.
Sounds like betel nut (pronounced “beetle”), people chew it and spit it out like tobacco as it stains their teeth and gums red like blood. When I lived on Guam it was a very popular and IMO gross habit because the palm trees grew on were widespread. Also called areca nut.
All day long? Now ain’t that too damn bad.
Upthread I posted about how bad the speeding problem has been in my area and how, when the mayor says he’s going to do something about it, I didn’t really believe it.
Well, I was wrong. He IS doing something about it. They’re running an ‘anti-speeding’ campaign where citizens are encouraged to drive slower share stories about how speeding has affected their lives via an online portal.
Seriously, that’s the answer to this shit happening so often that people avoid areas of the city. Tell them not drive so fast?
Also, we have highest rate in the country for speed-related fatal crashes. Over half of out fatal crashes are attributed to speeding.