It's raining.

[Jim]

Is rain an excuse to crack a beer and annoy people in the forum all afternoon?

[azuby]

You need an excuse to open a beer? Where do you live

azuby

[boofredlay]

He lives in Ohio, I think it is a state law that you actually need an excuse to open a beer. That is why he is asking.

[Gaieus]

Here I opened it before even thinking of asking...

[Jim]

@gaieus said:

Here I opened it before even thinking of asking...

I remember a myth from school that if you were intoxicated while studying, you should be equally intoxicated at the time you take the test in order to achieve your best performance. Is that true?

[Gaieus]

Must be - I finished a lot of schools but ever since I was 14... Well, let's not talk about it (I still have an exam...)

[Alex Jenyon]

@unknownuser said:

I remember a myth from school that if you were intoxicated while studying, you should be equally intoxicated at the time you take the test in order to achieve your best performance. Is that true?

Yes, it's an accepted learning technique - it's called recall by association. You can only recall the fact you are trying to remember if you are in the same state / environment as you were when you learned it. Hence revising to music is bad, because you can only recall the facts by listening to exactly the same playlist in your exam.

And if you learn drunk...

There's a bunch of tunes I can only play inebriated, because I learnt them at various folk festivals under the influence of lots of nice real ale.

AJ