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looking for the snarky link between "blind googling" and blindness caused by drinking improperly distilled alcohol.

• margalabargala 1y ago
  > blindness caused by drinking improperly distilled alcohol. This isn't actually a thing. You will die of normal ethanol poisoning well before consuming enough methanol to cause blindness when drinking alcohol you made from distilling something you fermented. The blindness thing is some nicely placed Prohibition-era propaganda combined with the addition of methanol to alcohol-containing products that managed to make its way into the public psyche.
  • jakubmazanec 1y ago
    Related: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Czech_Republic_methanol_poisonings https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Czech_Republic_methanol...
    • 01100011 1y ago
      These sorts if incidents are caused by adding methanol by choice, not by methanol resulting from the brewing process.