Gin and tonic drinkers are more likely to be psychopaths

[rangerrebew]

Gin and tonic drinkers are more likely to be psychopaths
Posted 2 days ago by Greg Evans in news

At least that's what a group of researchers in Austria have discovered. A study conducted at Innsbruck University discovered that enjoying bitter flavours can be linked to a number of less than desirable traits.

These include sadism, narcissism, psychoticism and Machiavellianism.

The study, which assessed 953 people, asked individuals to rank a variety of different types of food and drink on a six-point scale. Food featured in the study had bitter, sour, salty and sweet tastes.

https://www.indy100.com/article/gin-and-tonic-psychopaths-emotion-study-bitter-taste-antisocial-coffee-dark-chocolate-8134841

[WingNot]

It the quinine I tell you.  That shit will make you go mad.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

It the quinine I tell you.  That shit will make you go mad.

Scotch may be an acquired taste, but you gotta be nutz, or have dead taste buds, to become a gin hound.

[Suppressed]

enjoying bitter flavours

Like all of those awful bitter IPAs that are so popular now, with each trying to outdo the other on bitterness.

[driftdiver]

Scotch may be an acquired taste, but you gotta be nutz, or have dead taste buds, to become a gin hound.

@To-Whose-Benefit?
When I was young I drank them because they glowed blue in the black lights of the clubs I frequented.

At least I hope it was the gin.

[dfwgator]

Doctor Jimmy and Mister Jim
When I'm pilled you don't notice him
He only comes out when I drink my gin

! No longer available

[Sanguine]

Gin glows?  Who knew?

[the_doc]

Wow.  I knew there was something wrong with me.

[driftdiver]

Gin glows?  Who knew?

Dunno, they were crappy bars overseas.  I was in the military. 

[driftdiver]

Apparently its the  tonic water and not the gin that causes it to glow.

[andy58-in-nh]

Scotch may be an acquired taste, but you gotta be nutz, or have dead taste buds, to become a gin hound.

You might need to find better quality gin. And it works even better when paired with a good dry vermouthsuch as Noilly Prat, stirred with ice, decanted into a martini glass, and served with a few tasty (not Spanish pimento) olives.

[WingNot]

You might need to find better quality gin. And it works even better when paired with a good dry vermouthsuch as Noilly Prat, stirred with ice, decanted into a martini glass, and served with a few tasty (not Spanish pimento) olives.

I do enjoy an occasional Boodles Gin Toonie.

[thackney]

Scotch may be an acquired taste, but you gotta be nutz, or have dead taste buds, to become a gin hound.

I drank Scotch in college because I learned my bottles tended to leak less in a shared college apartment.

[Cyber Liberty]

I drank Scotch in college because I learned my bottles tended to leak less in a shared college apartment.

I smoked "More" cigarettes for a similar reason.

[WingNot]

I drank Scotch in college because I learned my bottles tended to leak less in a shared college apartment.

I smoked "More" cigarettes for a similar reason.

I wore lace panties. For no particular reason.  Didn't help.  All my Frat Bro's used them.

[Cyber Liberty]

I wore lace panties. For no particular reason.  Didn't help.  All my Frat Bro's used them.

Used them for what (he says while teeing the ball and handing @Wingnut a 2-Wood)?

[WingNot]

Used them for what (he says while teeing the ball and handing @Wingnut a 2-Wood)?

Sold them to the Japanese exchange students! .

[Cyber Liberty]

Sold them to the Japanese exchange students! .

 

Just making them feel at home, they were pretty confused we didn't have any vending machines here.

[driftdiver]

You might need to find better quality gin. And it works even better when paired with a good dry vermouthsuch as Noilly Prat, stirred with ice, decanted into a martini glass, and served with a few tasty (not Spanish pimento) olives.

@andy58-in-nh

I was in the American bars overseas.   Im pretty sure i was the cheapest stuff available.

[WingNot]

Just making them feel at home, they were pretty confused we didn't have any vending machines here.

Ours would have been these:

[The_Reader_David]

Scotch may be an acquired taste, but you gotta be nutz, or have dead taste buds, to become a gin hound.

You obviously are not familiar with the delightful variety of craft gins now available in England.  For instance Brockman's, which brings out the elderflower flavor when paired with eldeflower tonic, or Sir Robin of Locksley, which has delightful overtones of grapefruit (much welcomed by those of us who loved grapefruit before we got put on statins).

[The_Reader_David]

Like all of those awful bitter IPAs that are so popular now, with each trying to outdo the other on bitterness.

Yeah, back in the 1990's what were called IPAs were good, now... I guess there must be a lot of psychopaths among the millennial hipsters (or the fad is a form of masochistic machismo -- no one really likes them, they just pretend to like the most bitter one as a proof of manhood).

[Gefn]

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