So James Caan's character doesn't approve of whisky......
....and calls it garbage and thinks it's bad for his buddy to drink........yet he chain smokes like a trooper all the time??? Er. okaaaaaaay!!
shareGettin' 'hosed' before a jump is a bad idea--either airsickness wise, or sobering up wise; now smoking...that's a time honored way to calm the nerves & take the edge off of hunger, thirst, boredom, etc;
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Gettin' 'hosed' before a jump is a bad idea--either airsickness wise, or sobering up wise; now smoking...that's a time honored way to calm the nerves & take the edge off of hunger, thirst, boredom, etc;
Well he wasn't hosed and there wasn't much left in the bottle anyway. He was never going to get blotto on that tiny bit. And it wasn't the same day as the jump. A bit of booze can give you a good nights sleep and calm the nerves, moreso than smoking. It was in the daytime before. He wasn't having a tipple the night before. Plenty of time to not be affected the next day. Not talking about getting paralytic here of course. Nothing wrong with a bit of a tipple. Wasn't even 100 ml left in the bottle.
Booze is an even more time honoured way of calming the nerves than smoking. The Russians gave vodka to their men as daily rations and it didn't do them any harm. The Royal Navy had beer and rum as their daily rations for centuries.
Caan's character called whisky 'garbage'. He didn't say anything about air sickness or sobering up. He said that 'garbage' isn't going to keep him alive..yet there he is chain smoking. That certainly isn't going to keep him alive either. The point I'm making is that cigarettes are just as much 'garbage' as a bit of whisky.
It's hilarious that he called whisky 'garbage' while smoking like a chimney. That's an oxymoron if ever there was one.
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Well if it was rum...that'd be different. But 'smokes' were, back in the day, not known to be harmful-at least not in the short run.
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I dunno, Nick there were already people back then claiming that cigarettes were bad for you, including oddly enough the Nazis, who really disapproved of them.
Aparently RN seamen were often blotto during battles. It reducedd their fear and even boosted their performance a little- ever notice that after a couple of beers you get better at pool?, probably because you feel relaxed. Of course the more pissed you get the more incompetent you get so drink drive laws exist for a reason.
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The Germans thought highly of alcohol too; I recall a quote from 'Forgotten Soldier' that a bottle of Vodka or "Terek Liquor" could really pump up a guy before battle-of course they were already in the trenches waiting to either go over the top or repel the next wave of "Popovs".
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Yeah you're both right. As I said I wasn't talking about getting paralytic but rather a tipple for 'Dutch Courage'. I see nothing wrong with that, if others are smoking like chimneys hehe.
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