>>12194753No, I'm Australian.
For about a hundred years the only way to get to Australia was drunk, there was no refrigeration or water filtration so the only way to make fetid water potable was by mixing in one part rum to nine parts water, giving it roughly the same alcohol content as a mid strength beer.
Sailing through the tropics is thirsty work, so you either die of dehydration or get good and fucking drunk. Low tolerance, predilection to alcoholism, any other negative reactions to alcohol and you wouldn't make it through the three month bender that was passage to Australia.
About 50% of anglo-saxons produce a unique enzyme in their stomach that pre-processes ethanol before it hits the liver, about 90% of anglo-Australians produce that same enzyme.
Which is why I can go through two slabs in a day single handedly while cooking dinner. And that is something to be proud of.
