• Bad potatoes kills sight, whisky restores it.
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[quote]Denis Duthie, 65, suddenly went blind when vodka he had been drinking reacted with his diabetes medication. Mr Duthie, a catering tutor at New Plymouth's Western Institute of Technology, had been celebrating his parents' 50th wedding anniversary in June by having a few vodkas from a bottle his students had given him as a present, The New Zealand Herald reports. When he walked into a bedroom in his home everything suddenly went black. "I thought it had got dark and I'd missed out on a bit of time but it was only about half-past-three in the afternoon. I was fumbling around the bedroom for the light switch but ... I'd just gone completely blind," he told the paper. Mr Duthie was rushed to Taranaki Base Hospital, where doctors thought he might have formaldehyde poisoning, which is associated with ingesting methanol and can be treated by administering ethanol - the type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages. There wasn't enough medical ethanol available in the hospital, so the registrar nipped down to the local bottle shop and picked up a bottle of whisky. "Johnnie Walker Black Label. It was good whisky, yeah," Mr Duthie said. They dripped the whisky into his stomach through a tube, and hoped for the best. "I woke up five days later and I could see as soon as I could open my eyes," Mr Duthie said. [b]Source:[/b] [url=http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health-fitness/man-blinded-by-vodka-has-sight-saved-by-bottle-of-whisky/story-fneuzlbd-1226528260814]news.com.au[/url][/quote] Scotch: The god tier liquor.
Oh god imagine going blind just like that. I would freak the fuck out. One second you can see, then blackness. Good thing he got his vision back. It must've been a huge relief.
[QUOTE=hl2poo;38699111]Oh god imagine going blind just like that. I would freak the fuck out. One second you can see, then blackness. Good thing he got his vision back. It must've been a huge relief.[/QUOTE] I went blind due to a head injury for a few minutes once, it's worse than black, it doesn't look like black, it looks like nothing. It's really hard to explain. Anyway, another reason why whiskey is bloody awesome.
actually makes sense. I think you need to use something like 5:1 ethanol to methanol to counteract it.
so it actually could have been vodka instead of whiskey and it would have worked
Got a source?
White Lightning. Bringing the darkness to light.
Whisky for breakfast it is then!
A.K.A The Irish Economy - potatoes and alcohol
New Zealand, Where you get vodka as a present for your parents anniversary.
Alcohol The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems!
I kinda want to go blind for just half an hour just to know what it's like
Whiskey is the greatest drink. If anyone manages to find Hyde Park 100 proof, buy it. Regardless of cost.
I don't like Johnny Walker. Also the source of the Vodka needs to be questioned. His students basically poisoned him.
[QUOTE=Crimor;38699121]I went blind due to a head injury for a few minutes once, it's worse than black, it doesn't look like black, it looks like nothing. It's really hard to explain.[/QUOTE] It's easy to explain, you don't see anything, at all. The hard part is for someone with vision to attempt to imagine it, which you really can't. I can imagine being without smell, feel, taste, even hearing. I cannot imagine what it 'looks' like to have no vision, it's just not there. It's one of those things that unless it's taken from you, it's impossible to know what being without it is like.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;38700141]It's easy to explain, you don't see anything, at all. The hard part is for someone with vision to attempt to imagine it, which you really can't. I can imagine being without smell, feel, taste, even hearing. I cannot imagine what it 'looks' like to have no vision, it's just not there. It's one of those things that unless it's taken from you, it's impossible to know what being without it is like.[/QUOTE] I've always wanted to completely lose my vision for a small duration of time to know what it's like. I once heard about a man who had lost his vision after living his life with it describe being blind as, "without turning around, what does it look like directly behind you?" or something to that effect. It's a bizarre concept. There's just... no sense of vision from that direction. It's not black. It's just... not there.
this sounds like a great video game concept "The battle of the Potato's and the whiskey'
[QUOTE=sltungle;38700280]I've always wanted to completely lose my vision for a small duration of time to know what it's like. I once heard about a man who had lost his vision after living his life with it describe being blind as, "without turning around, what does it look like directly behind you?" or something to that effect. It's a bizarre concept. There's just... no sense of vision from that direction. It's not black. It's just... not there.[/QUOTE] I guess, it depends on the case. If you lose/burn your eyes or your pupils are grayed, it's different than the blindness caused by a disrupted visual cortex. In the report's case the visual cortex was temporary not functioning, so the "it's not there"-Blindness applies right there.
[QUOTE=Grocel;38701033]I guess, it depends on the case. If you lose/burn your eyes or your pupils are grayed, it's different than the blindness caused by a disrupted visual cortex. In the report's case the visual cortex was temporary not functioning, so the "it's not there"-Blindness applies right there.[/QUOTE] That's the blindness I'm on about. Obviously if the parts of the brain dedicated to sight still work, but the eyes are simply supplying no visual information, you'll 'see black'. But if the part of the brain dedicated to handling visual information is itself damaged you'll have the, "can't see shit, cap'n!" type of blindness.
[QUOTE=Killuah;38699651]I don't like Johnny Walker. Also the source of the Vodka needs to be questioned. His students basically poisoned him.[/QUOTE] It reacted with the medication he was taking. Lots of drugs get dangerous side effects when combined with alcohol.
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