Makes so much sense it hurts.

IrishPidge · 10 months

If there was ever a time to link to the good ol' Wikipedia List of common misconceptions, it'd be now.

strayclown · 10 months

While this may have been true for natural predation, hunting went quite differently. Buffalo are actually matriarchal herds. The method of hunting by which they nearly went extinct was to observe a herd long enough to see which was the "leader" and then shoot her from afar, causing most of the rest of the herd to basically mill about in confusion without stampeding or even attempting to escape while the hunting party slaughtered them all, which often took days. Also, buffalo is quite delicious.

Trucideau · 10 months

After reading this, I pulled a wheel off my car to make the other three faster.

Squishy_squid · 10 months

Cheers.

RaymondLawrence · 10 months

FWD:fwd:RE:Fwd:re:FWD:FWD:RE:I CAN DRINK TO THIS!!!!!!!!

tgrimm17atwork · 10 months

Now I'm reading everything in the voice of good ol' Cliff Clavin.

It's crazy that a lot of people just know him as a fantastic voice actor, but Cheers is still my favorite.

ChillbroChad · 10 months

Too bad alcohol doesn't kill brain cells.

EDIT: Fixed link

Sharrakor · 10 months

So much text-as-image it hurts.

ban_radi0 · 10 months

Norm!

deejmac · 10 months

Seeing as we're in the business of refuting the joke: Alcohol doesn't kill brain cells

vito_corleone · 10 months

Cliff never said this on the show. This gets reposted about once a month at least.

[deleted] · 10 months

Cheers to that.

DeTyfus · 10 months

Well hello there, 2001.

fairyxxx · 10 months

alcohol doesnt kill braincells... it slows the production of themmm :P x

anon__poster · 10 months

*herd is hunted

/OCD

Grizmeer · 10 months

Did you kill the brain cells that can tell "heard" from "herd"?

scratchfury · 10 months

Norm!

zarraha · 10 months

Makes such a horrible analogy it hurts.

Piouaille · 10 months

Alcohol doesn't kill brain cells AND the slowest brain cells are not necessarily the weakest.

BilliardKing · 10 months

I can't count the amount of times I've gotten this as a forwarded e-mail from my middle aged parents and aunt...

elasticbingbong · 10 months

Seeing this always reminds me that every day millions of people are turning 17 for the very first time.

alot_to_say · 10 months

Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got

MisterSquirrel · 10 months

This would make more sense if not for the fact that alcohol makes you stupider.

feralle · 10 months

His logic is irrefutable.

OopsLostPassword · 10 months

If it doesn't make sense for you, take another beer and read it again.

Abscurat · 10 months

AskScience?

glasnostic · 10 months

slightly less than two drinks

Cavenaut · 10 months

i just read this after a six pack

Sodomy_Clown · 10 months

It only hurts cause you haven't had enough beers.

BenTG · 10 months

I miss this show a lot.

I am old.

baileyburritt · 10 months

Wha!!!

Nunbarshegunu · 10 months

Ever notice how DS9's Morn mirrors Norm?

GoldXP · 10 months

Their logic is flawless!

briang1339 · 10 months

This should definitely be on /r science

cridgey · 10 months

I hate to burst any bubbles... but alcohol doesn't technically kill brain cells.

xX_Justin_Xx · 10 months

The logic is flawless.

suicidedream · 10 months

It's a shame, it's a fun analogy, but alcohol doesn't kill brain cells, that's a myth.

ara_p · 10 months

I could point out what's wrong with this argument, but then I'd hate myself even more for being such a humourless fact nazi.

Harodan · 10 months

Even if alcohol did kill brain cells, I doubt that it'd go for the slowest(?)/weakest ones. It'd kill the ones most susceptible to alcohol, meaning your brain would grow gradually more resilient to alcohol, as it'd take more to kill the remaining cells. The statement that this improves intelligence, however, is similar to saying that a meal grows better as you remove the worst parts. Sure, rice without the uncooked and crunchy grains is good, but keep removing the worst parts and you're left with a single, unsatisfying bite.

As intelligence is not in any way linked to a brain's resilience to alcohol, this whole thing that 'Makes so much sense it hurts' is senseless.

But it's a joke, and I need to remove this pole from my butt. Funny reasoning, but it's more a thing for Troll Biology than making sense.

shitterplug · 10 months

Only if the brain actually worked that way...

PippyLongSausage · 10 months

It's so old it hurts

Velitatio · 10 months

flawed logic is flawed

Roarsack · 10 months

I love cheers, still on late night every night!

Lampmonster1 · 10 months

To anyone that has never watched Cheers or maybe hasn't seen it in a while. Cheers is one of the best written sitcoms ever. It still holds up after all these years. It's also all on Netflix instant.

A_Moist_Towelette · 10 months

My high-school Calculus teacher had this quote laminated to the wall, above his desk. Needless to say, he is a pretty awesome guy.

Durpadoo · 10 months

He left out one little part about how the better buffalo mate to keep making good ones and brain cells don't do anything like that at all.

mahurtama · 10 months

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gary0ak · 10 months

Except alcohol doesn't actually kill any brain cells.

KMFDM781 · 10 months

That would be cool if alcohol actually killed brain cells, but it doesn't.

deskclerk · 10 months

THE BRAIN DOES NOT WORK THIS WAY, THANKS

Jonneke · 10 months

Oh my, better go to the pub then...

SicilianEsq · 10 months

I'm too stupid to contemplate this now in my sobriety. Perhaps after I've imbibed a few, I'll be able to meditate on the truth of the matter asserted...

nonorelurking · 10 months

...or as Homer puts it: "Expand my brain, learning juice!"

Nubicus_Maximus · 10 months

Makes so much sense it makes me drink more - FTFY

2confused4now · 10 months

Mind=blown right now.

roberto32 · 10 months

you spelled herd wrong

soundslikebees · 10 months

fuck yes. my alcohol intake just doubled. ;)

HobThePoster · 10 months

bookmarked

Servious · 10 months

Except your brain doesn't work like a herd of buffalo.

[deleted] · 10 months

I have never been given a greater justification for my excessive drinking. jaywillythe1st, I'd like to buy you something. Reddit Gold? A book? Do you even read? Maybe you want one of those stretchy, sticky hands? PM me.

Edit: not sure why I'm being downvoted. I'm serious as a heart attack.

Harold_Grundelson · 10 months

There is a weeding out process (intercellular competition) when it comes to memory circuits. However, it is not aided/facilitated by alcohol consumption. Also, Cliff never actually said this to Norm on the show.

thecoshman · 10 months

Why can I only up-vote once?!

RGT42 · 10 months

Is there truth to this?

ChurchofMilo · 10 months

I'll drink to that

Ajdiv · 10 months

Too bad natural selection doesn't work like that. Yes, predators kill off slower buffalos first, but that's not good to the "herd as a whole", it's good to the faster buffalos that don't get killed. That's why individual buffalos are selected towards being faster and this in turn happen to mean that the herd becomes faster.

In other words, the "pressure to evolve" is on the individuals, not on the herd. The difference between the two is that in the second case you could imagine the slower individuals sacrificing themselves because after they die the herd is faster, and in real life you never see that happening.

nubhub · 10 months

I can't upvote this enough

btinc · 10 months

Can't even spell herd consistently/correctly?

not_a_wolf · 10 months

This has been posted many times. The first few times I saw it I was like "ha funny, that's not how things work."

Now I'm starting to think Reddit actually believes this.

Bourdain179 · 10 months

I want to murder you for posting an image with nothing but text.

god_this_shit_again · 10 months

Servious · 10 months

The only problem with this is that your brain isn't a herd of buffalo. Each cell is equally "smart" and they work together to form ideas and such. The more you have, the better. In this case, it's quantity, not quality.

yeebok · 10 months

I don't think I've ever seen any picture from a pretty average sitcom retelling a not particularly funny idiom so many times.

Fattypatty · 10 months

Pretty sure brain cells don't work like that :I

[deleted] · 10 months

life lesson learned

funny

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