Re: Beer googles explained!

> Manda wrote:
>
> > PS:  Why, after alchohol, do people look "OK"   when
> normally you would
> > think WORSE than................."ooooh,, THAT's a
> > sewer-monger"......................why???

--- Kirsten wrote:

> I actually know the answer to this! There's a scientific
> reason!
> Alcohol impairs our ability to detect facial asymmetry.
> Humans find
> symmetrical faces very attractive, and when you're drunk,
> everyone
> looks more symmetrical.

Symmetrical as in fun house mirrors? 'Cause that's a perfect description of what the world looks like after I've passed the (blood) point (alcohol level) of no return.

Thanks for the most interesting and useful science lesson I've had since dropping the geology major off my degree program!

- Kel