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How to play with drunk people

Lower your inhibitions and join Holly Gramazio for fast-paced games made even more fun by alcohol.

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Booze and bad behaviour

Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.

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Confusion, guilt, and the battle to breastfeed

Most new mums are told that breast is best. But breastfeeding doesn’t always come as easily or naturally as you might imagine.

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Shakespeare and the four humours

Blood. Phlegm. Black bile. Yellow bile. The theory of the four humours informed many of Shakespeare's best-known characters, including the phlegmatic Falstaff.

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  • Forms of misbehaviour, drunkeness, debauchery, and violence among Sikhs. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • The bottle, by George Cruikshank; 'He is discharged from his employment for drunkeness'
  • The bottle, by George Cruikshank; 'The husbands in a state of furious drunkeness, kills his wife'
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  • Women eject a drunk and publican from a bar in a crusade against drunkenness. Wood-engraving by A. Joliet, c. 1875, after Castelli.
  • Drunkness in wine-cellar.
  • Noah in his drunkenness being exposed by Ham. Woodcut by H. Brosamer, 1550.
  • Men drinking, smoking, and drunk. Gouache painting.
  • A drunk man in Russia likened to a pig: his silhouette is swinish and he is licked by a pig when he lies dead drunk with vodka. Watercolour, 195-.
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