Quote Originally Posted by redgunamo View Post
"Le Defi de Janvier". Damn silly idea.

It doesn't really work in Europe as people binge more, on a seasonal cycle. For example, when asparagus is in season, you eat it every day until you're sick of it and then the season ends and you don't touch it anymore until the following year and everyone does it all again. During Karneval, you'll see middle-aged men and women, responsible folk with important jobs in stolid companies, dressed as clowns or Jedi or Pokemon or whatever, with full face-paint, sleeping on street corners in pools of vomit and piss and other things. But it's alright because it's carnival and they will be back at their desks, all prim and proper on Monday morning as though nothing happened. Ready to do it all again the next year.

It's only Anglos who insist on the right to eat everything, all the time, all year round and whenever we want. It's probably the main reason we don't like them very much or get along; these people even have rules and practices and procedures governing hedonism and getting ****faced.
You cannot regulate hedonism. It ceases to be hedonistic.

This is why Britain produces genuinely great rock and roll bands. And the Americans, to a far lesser extent.

Europe gave us The Scorpions