Let's Party

Because ethanol is ethanol in any package.
During prohibition in USSR people managed to extract it from most surprising sources: shoe wax, phenolic glue, wood finishing compounds, brake fluid. Electronic engineers and medical personnel were among the best people to be friends with, since they had access to large amounts of 95% ethanol by necessity. Perfume was considered by some to be almost a soft drink. In post-Soviet Russia to avoid paying excise taxes some people just sold "window cleaning solution" which consisted of 95% ethanol (more or less pure), 5% water with some coloring agent, various tinctures sold at pharmacies became very popular.
German V-2 rocket used potato alcohol as fuel, heavy drinking was a problem at Peenemünde, I bet that same happened when V-2 derivatives were developed in USSR. Also, drinking literal rocket fuel is so metal.
Most of those who died drinking this did so either because of liver damage or when someone would cut non-drinking alcohol with methanol. Hence the joke that ends on "one more round, guys, and I'm going home - it's getting dark too soon today".

Abusing hand sanitizer is an amateur hour.

@comrade_Comrade Prohibition in the USA was stupid enough. Given how Russians are with their alcohol, prohibition in Russia is probably one of the dumbest ideas I have ever heard of.

It would be about as stupid as prohibition of soy sauce in Japan.

'@txag70' alcohol consumption in USSR went as high as 10-14 liters per capita per year, that's x2-2.5 of US historical maximum. Measures taken during Gorbachev's term had, in fact, significant positive economic effect from improvements to productivity, life expectancy and overall health... Which was overshadowed by massive loss of budget income that depended on sales of alcohol. Rates of petty theft and assault were reduced, but organized crime and moonshining received a boost. Not as much as it happened in US, but some effect was there.

Also I think it was at that time opium became a significant but unacknowledged problem for USSR, to a point where entire "commune" of junkies could live in single apartment, regularly sending more functional members to places where poppy production (intentional or not) was concentrated.

@comrade_Comrade Hahaha Aaaaaand it's how you get a blindness pandemia. =D

I remember ~10-15 years ago there was a health crisis in Poland because guys drank vodka mixed with engine oil. Brutal.

'@MagicRooster' at least methanol in significant quantities kills. There was also a pandemia of deafness before that, when some of the higher ups in Ministry of Health ordered to treat tonsillitis (both acute and chronic) in infants with antibiotics. That prevented some harmful complications, but also destroyed auditory nerves. Growing up without hearing prevented them from learning to speak, so eventually there were entire factories that specialized in providing employment for deaf-mutes. USSR holds undisputed first place in production of unintended consequences on massive scale.

@comrade_Comrade Well... at least USSR didn't turn a deaf ear about tonsillitis, which where obviously not the case of the people treated for this illness, poor guys.

Actually this problem was a classic back in late 19th century, than mid-20th century but it's impressive.

@comrade_Comrade

"Abusing hand sanitizer is an amateur hour".
I want that quote on a t-shirt.

'@DarkMage7280' you'll have to do it now. Also should look well with sandals :)

That which does not kill you only... makes your insides cleaner?

Kopparberg kicks ass! Rekorderlig is another of my favorite brands.
As a Finn I'm not supposed to say this... but... I... I, uh... *coughlikeSwedishcidercough*...

Hi Canadian here, got a friend who works at the hospital eh and I can give you the rundown cause they have a couple of native guys who pull this stunt weekly: if you drink hand sanitizer they(hospital) have to flush your system with actual alcohol to keep it from harming your liver, you looking at a good 36 hour drunk from this. Alternatively you can drink it in small doses and suffer internal trauma but not die.

@lockend
The native near where i live used to have car wash drinking party. With them finishing blind and deaf if not dead.
There is a lot of alcoholic babies there too.

Now this was some time ago, but I remember how this was a thing at my high school and how we even had a school assembly on why not to drink hand-sanitizer.

@Mudge44 Faroese people would disagree.

FINLAND. YOU TALKED :3

@The_Groke Guess he already had a mouthful of Salmiakki-kossu...

@Suominoita Probably, because Brother Finland usually talks only in sauna or when drunk.

@The_Groke Or in Finnish

@The_Groke He's not a mute. Get him in a sauna and he'll make smalltalk.

@The_Groke GIVE HIM A TROPHY

Cracking open a clean one with the boys

@EnglishMackerel actually it's Cracking open a cold one with the boys. just saying/╲/(ツ)\╱\

@potatoe4life Hand sanitizer makes it clean.

The most shocking thing in this, Finland said something, using words, not just waving of his knife.

@SomeCanadian
Is that so?
https://satwcomic.com/small-talk

@SomeCanadian I think it would be more in character for Finland to just wave the bottle in our direction to express his taste in alcohol.

@SomeCanadian the only things that Finland will say is perkele & a name of a beer/ alcohol

@potatoe4life

Unless he's in a sauna.

@bluesamurai: No, your beer tastes like having sex in a canoe, as it's fucking close to water.

@ImportViking lol Monty python rocks!

@ImportViking hey that's only because our moonshine is so strong it could kill you in two glasses! One I found was 128 proof!

LOL THE FAREO'S WON'T GET COVID-19 NOW (LOL)

@Jonkaa0108 LOLLL