# Posts that aged poorly **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 22, 2026, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-that-aged-poorly/1029503 "2026-04-22T23:28:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2026, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-that-aged-poorly/1029503/41 "2026-04-25T00:51:01Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > But the lower part of the curve (below 2 drinks a day) was really flat. I wouldn’t take up drinking to improve my health. But unless you have a high risk of an alcohol related cancer, or a pre-existing condition that plays badly with alcohol, i don’t think there’s any compelling reason to drop below a drink or two a day, if you enjoy your booze, either. I agree. But my gastroenterologist, who is renowned in the field and who is also a hepatologist, insists that the max should be two drinks **a week**! This wasn’t advice tailored for me in respect to any particular medical condition, she stated it as a basic principle. I think she’s just very excessively conservative, as it’s hard to imagine a couple of drinks a day with a few days a week of abstinence in between could be seriously harmful. > [@puzzlegal](#): > > I think some of the appeal of cannabis is that it’s light and compact. I have heard people say they take it camping because they don’t want to lug around beer, for instance. And it’s probably easier to get high at safe doses, too. I don’t see alcohol and cannabis as any kind of substitutes for each other as their psychoactive effects are so completely different that they’re essentially opposites, although effects of cannabis vary greatly with the individual as well as the specific type and method of ingestion. Despite this, I think the decline in alcohol use among young people who just want to party and get high on **something** may indeed be due to the increased prevalence of cannabis. It’s certainly a safer high than alcohol in just about every measurable respect. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2026, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-that-aged-poorly/1029503/42 "2026-04-25T01:23:53Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I think some of the appeal of cannabis is that it’s light and compact. I have heard people say they take it camping because they don’t want to lug around beer, for instance. And it’s probably easier to get high at safe doses, too. There’s also no hangover. Once the effects wear off that’s it. I definitely would not want to feel hungover on a camping trip. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2026, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-that-aged-poorly/1029503/43 "2026-04-25T02:00:45Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > There’s also no hangover. Once the effects wear off that’s it. I definitely would not want to feel hungover on a camping trip. Eh, I used to drink rum around a campfire on our wilderness camping trips with no issue. Alcohol doesn’t automatically mean “hangover” – it’s a matter of limiting quantity. Cannabis doesn’t produce any sort of hangover in the sense of “I feel sick” the next day, but the potent stuff produced by modern cannabis farms can still leave you with a dreamy feeling that’s not conducive to maximum alertness. Safety professions in Canada where cannabis is legal, like airline pilots and police, have serious restrictions on their use of cannabis ranging from complete prohibition to abstention from a period of weeks to a month before resuming duty. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2026, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-that-aged-poorly/1029503/44 "2026-04-25T06:57:59Z")
Poking at myself only, I had a number of [posts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-this-thread-is-closed/974031/99) that mentioned a certain topic that has come back to bite me: > To have more ‘pin-point’ moderation means we would need more mods, and considering how they’re treated, who would volunteer for the shiny jackboots when all they get is grief? I mean, personally, I think several posters would be more than _able_ to do the work, but all of them have repeatedly said they wouldn’t do it even if paid a living wage, much less for free. So it’s not like I can even claim ignorance… I believe I had several more over the years and threads that were even more direct, but couldn’t find them in a quick search. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2026, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-that-aged-poorly/1029503/45 "2026-04-25T11:19:28Z")
😆 So, you knew what you were getting into, you’re saying. Maybe that’s belongs in the _other_ thread. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2026, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-that-aged-poorly/1029503/46 "2026-04-25T13:42:27Z")
Here is my doozy, sent out in Jan 2020 regarding the scary new virus showing up in China. > [@Is anyone else concerned with this new virus in China that is becoming a bigger problem every day?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-concerned-with-this-new-virus-in-china-that-is-becoming-a-bigger-problem-every-day/846841/68): > > This article seems to suggest that it is likely about as communicable as SARS, but less lethal (about 9.5% for SARS vs about 3% for the new virus.) If it follows the SARS epidemiology pattern we would expect a little over 200 deaths before it gets under control. Definitely worth taking action to get it under control, but nothing to panic about. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2026, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-that-aged-poorly/1029503/47 "2026-04-25T14:07:10Z")
Me, November 7th, 2016. > [@Clinton v Trump - The Stretch Run Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/5022): > > David Plouffe on “Keeping it 1600” said tomorrow the globe will experience the single, greatest one-day rise in happiness levels in all history. This, uh, happened to be my last post (of 126) in that thread. About 10 of them, at least, qualifies for _this_ thread. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2026, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-that-aged-poorly/1029503/48 "2026-04-25T18:33:23Z")
Maybe you were right, if you narrow it down to just bigots and lovers of fascism. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-that-aged-poorly/1029503.md?page=2)