MrMcCall 2 days ago

And methanol is not good for anyone, in any measure.

I'm pretty sure that's why, 100 years ago, there were so many blues folks with names like "Blind Lemon Jefferson" -- they had drunk bad hooch that got too much methanol instead of ethanol. Blindness is direct side effect of methanol poisoning.

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  • InitialLastName 2 days ago

    > I'm pretty sure that's why, 100 years ago, there were so many blues folks with names like "Blind Lemon Jefferson"

    Also because in a predominantly agricultural society, music was one of very few self-sustaining pursuits for a blind (or otherwise unsuited to farm work) person. Looking through the 'blind' names in [0] most were either born blind or had an alternate explanation (usually accidents) for their blindness.

    [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nicknames_of_blues_mus...

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