nibot ([personal profile] nibot) wrote2005-03-01 09:11 pm
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the best thing until vat grown steaks!

Russian scientists have developed a product that can keep a person drunk, Britain’s Daily Telegraph wrote. The tablet called RU-21 Red was developed in Spirit Sciences, a laboratory based in California but with research facilities in Russia. The same scientists had earlier worked on secret programs for the Kremlin and had made the famous RU-21 product that cures hangovers. If you take a tablet you need less alcohol to stay drunk, the scientists were quoted by the paper as saying. “RU-21 Red prolongs drunkenness and enhances intoxication,” the company co-founder, Emil Chiabery, born in the ex-Soviet republic of Georgia said. http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/02/21/drunkremedy.shtml via Aimee.

I WANT TO WORK FOR THIS COMPANY.

P.s. I am hereby the first on Google record to use the phrase "intoxication enhancement"!
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[identity profile] bom.livejournal.com 2005-03-02 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Now all they need to do is invent a pill made of 5000 proof ethanol. Then you could just pop two pills and be in good (er, bad) shape for the night.

[identity profile] nibot.livejournal.com 2005-03-02 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
The article is confusingly written, but the point is that they've developed a new pill that enhances intoxication. The pill that reduces hangovers is old news.

[identity profile] bom.livejournal.com 2005-03-02 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I got that. Maybe those Vodka-guzzling Russians need something to make up for their tolerance to the stuff.

And pretty much everyone I've talked to who has been in that country for a while has said that people there do drink a whole lot of vodka.

[identity profile] maddst.livejournal.com 2005-03-02 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
Gooooo California.

Am so glad I'm going home over break...can't take much more snow...Damn you, Rochester!

[identity profile] easwaran.livejournal.com 2005-03-02 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
How long until that's approved here?

Doesn't need approval

[identity profile] ucbfumbler.livejournal.com 2005-03-02 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Because it's a dietary supplement. It's one of those few times where I think we need just a bit more gov't regulation..."supplement industry"

I like the name.

[identity profile] ucbfumbler.livejournal.com 2005-03-02 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
RU-21 = "are you 21?"



[identity profile] nanomonkey.livejournal.com 2005-03-03 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
What exactly is "enhanced intoxication"? Is it just prolonged or do you start to see stuff, play pool better or perhaps fail to piss yourself?

This also opens up a whole new group of mixed drinks:

Bartender: What'll you have?
Guy: Two Red-eyes
Guy2: Red Rum for me.
Girl: Sex on the Beach with a 21 year old please!
Girl2: RU-Tom Colins.
Girl3: A Bombay Saphire...
Bartender: RU-21 Red?
Girl3: They checked my id at the door, and I'm a blonde actually!
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