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Dwarf Fortress => DF General Discussion => Topic started by: Frogman on October 19, 2006, 02:31:00 am

Title: Alcohol and Minors
Post by: Frogman on October 19, 2006, 02:31:00 am
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Addicted at such a low age? The poor little baby!

Title: Re: Alcohol and Minors
Post by: Toady One on October 19, 2006, 02:36:00 am
It's the "working day"...  so...  the baby doesn't have a job yet...  so...  he's not actually addicted.  That's my latest excuse.
Title: Re: Alcohol and Minors
Post by: Silleh Boy on October 19, 2006, 04:41:00 am
so, as soon as they become a 'child', who can run around and destroy bridges in tantrums, they're going to become addicted to it, as they'll be working the fields as a source of cheap labour?
Title: Re: Alcohol and Minors
Post by: w on October 19, 2006, 01:23:00 pm
Dwarves are not humans.
Title: Re: Alcohol and Minors
Post by: Gibby on October 19, 2006, 01:47:00 pm
Even in the past human children drank (often diluted)alcohol. It's a hell of a lot safer than well water with god knows what in it.
Title: Re: Alcohol and Minors
Post by: Wahnsinniger on October 19, 2006, 02:31:00 pm
Children drinking alcohol instead of unsafe water, and working in the fields is not just historically accurate, its also the most intelligent thing to do in a historical context. Only now, when water is entirely safe to drink (at least in the civilized world), and most city folk have never even seen a farm, is it an objectionable idea. Plus using alcohol on a finger to sooth a teething baby is one of them good ol' fashioned remedies.

So if anyone has a problem with any of this, they can go screw themselves.

Title: Re: Alcohol and Minors
Post by: Gakidou on October 19, 2006, 06:52:00 pm
quote:
Originally posted by Gibby:
<STRONG>Even in the past human children drank (often diluted)alcohol. It's a hell of a lot safer than well water with god knows what in it.</STRONG>

Lizardmen and frogmen, mostly.

Title: Re: Alcohol and Minors
Post by: Angela Christine on October 19, 2006, 10:51:00 pm
Since mom drank all through her pregnancy, it makes sense that the babies are born alcoholics.    :D

But it is ok, because dwarves don't use booze to get drunk.  Human drunks move slowly and work inefficiently, if they work at all.  Dwarven metabolisms seem to burn booze like rocket fuel, zooming around working tirelessly for hours.

Title: Re: Alcohol and Minors
Post by: DimmurWyrd on October 20, 2006, 03:59:00 am
quote:
Originally posted by Wahnsinniger:
<STRONG>Children drinking alcohol instead of unsafe water, and working in the fields is not just historically accurate, its also the most intelligent thing to do in a historical context. Only now, when water is entirely safe to drink (at least in the civilized world), and most city folk have never even seen a farm, is it an objectionable idea. Plus using alcohol on a finger to sooth a teething baby is one of them good ol' fashioned remedies.

So if anyone has a problem with any of this, they can go screw themselves.</STRONG>


you obviously haven't tried the tap water in my city :P that stuff can kill ya.

Title: Re: Alcohol and Minors
Post by: 20,000leeks on October 20, 2006, 05:29:00 am
...I'm kind of surprised nobody's made a pun about the topic title yet.