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Why, are we out of nails?

And alcohol is a children's drink that an adult left out because life was too hectic and I'm really thirsty so I'll just finish this apple juice that's been in my car since Saturday-heyheyhey hello ethanol.

Like kombucha was probably an accident, as was mead, incredibly lucky that yeast and lactobactre can outcompete nearly every other pathogen in the exact temperature ranges humans live under

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I uh, you’re so edgy?

If you were thrown off by the 'nails' comment, it's a reference:

https://www.math.ttu.edu/~pearce/jokes1/joke-270.html

The way I've heard the joke always involves a duck going to a lemonade stand and asking for grapes, but this was the best Google result I found, so...

Appreciate that. No, I glossed over the nails comment. I indeed did not get it, but like the rest of said response, most of it didn’t make sense.

Thank you for the context.

It didn't make sense? Are you sure? or are you just being uncharitable on HN? How do you think alcohol was discovered? How about any fermented food? Do you think someone drank 3 day old juice because they wanted to? Or leftover cabbage from the party this weekend?

Do you know what Kombucha is? What lactobactre, and yeast are? You've never accidentally fermented anything? You don't have kids or your life isn't hectic, you've never imbibed ethanol?

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