What is the "Denaturat" joke?

[Never Snows]

Trying to translate to Portuguese, but i can't adapt a joke i can't understand, LOL.

[RedSage]

It's short for "denaturated alcohol." If you were to drink it IRL, you would die. Yaga's page in the art book/gallery explains the joke.

[._.]

In Poland drinking denaturat is associated with lowest of the low of bums. It have very long history in Poland among poorest, lowest class alcoholics. It is super cheap, but not for consumption. Its toxic, its poisonous, and it will f you up. Blindness, brain damage, death. But some bums will still take a risk. They believe they can filter it through slice of bread. Usually its purple-dyed so you know to stay away.

[Sky]

Fica de boa Denaturat mesmo, se quiser adaptar um pouco, Desnaturat.

[ThreeFingerG]

Denatured alchohol is drinkable alcohol that has had poisonous stuff purposefully added to it because it's needed industrially but they don't want alcoholics abusing it en masse.
Denaturing it means in can be stored en masse with little security because alcoholics that aren't desperate/suicidal won't steal and drink it.

[ThreeFingerG]

To drink some kind of denatured alchohol on the regular you would probably have to be some kind of undead or immortal.

[Silver l>>>]

Originally posted by ._.:

In Poland drinking denaturat is associated with lowest of the low of bums. It have very long history in Poland among poorest, lowest class alcoholics. It is super cheap, but not for consumption. Its toxic, its poisonous, and it will f you up. Blindness, brain damage, death. But some bums will still take a risk. They believe they can filter it through slice of bread. Usually its purple-dyed so you know to stay away.

wait, its a real thing?
I thought the joke was "De-Natural" (anit-natural) and "alcohol is bad for health"

[ing]

Originally posted by Silver l>>>:

wait, its a real thing?

"Denaturat" is a polish name for denaturated alcohol. Pretty sure you can find it where you live as well, it's basically ethanol sold for the purpose of being used as disinfectant, cleaning agent, solvent, fuel, etc. Producers make it unsuitable for consumption by treating it with additives to avoid paying beverage taxes.

Then, because it's cheap, it does end up being consumed by hobos. As the other dude mentioned above, some bums believe you can 'filter' it through a slice of bread, while in practice that only removes the warning dye leaving all the other toxic ♥♥♥♥ still inside. Pretty sure that's a thing in other eastern european countries as well, just slavs doing slav things.

To answer OP's question though: looking at Wikipedia, it seems to be called "desnaturante" in Portuguese.

[blargcoster]

Originally posted by ing:

Originally posted by Silver l>>>:

wait, its a real thing?

beverage taxes.

and this is why this crap exists. The biggest expense with drinking alcohol for the consumer is TAXES. So just making the ethyl alcohol unfit for consumption makes it super cheap. Another thing, with the whole "blindness" part, that usually happens if the alcohol is adulterated with methanol. I think ethylene glycol as well, but that does other nasty things. Both'll kill you dead.

If you want the good stuff (technically drinkable because no denaturation but still says on the bottle to not drink it neat. Really, it is awful. Mix it first.), get Everclear in the 95%. It works better in cases you need it for solvents or something because it has no adulterants.