Never really developed a taste for it. Every time I drink something alcoholic, my brain tells me it's "gone bad". Plus I had so many experiences with friends who drank too much, and spent the night puking in my bathroom, to not really desire to develop the habit. I much preferred pot back in those days when I used mood altering substances for recreation.
Booze consumpshion
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Oh I'm just playing around, you're no more responsible for the origin of Jagermeister than you are for what your great grandfather did.AccursedTheory said:That's... bad. You're either perpetually dehydrated or something may be wrong. While I don't think it's necessary to run to the doctor right away (Just don't drink), it may be something you want to bring up with your doctor the next time you go in for whatever.Blood Brain Barrier said:
Your liver/water reserves should really be doing a better job then that.
Yeah... I probably would not have drank it if I had known that, back in the day. Especially since my last name is German, I'm White (Really White), spent most of my time in the Army with a 'Skinhead' hair cut, and my Great Grand Father was a high ranking member of the KKK...01189998819991197253 said:Ah yes, I love me some Nazi hooch. You can really taste the Aryan superiority.AccursedTheory said:
You should see your doctor and get a liver enzyme level done, and tell them about this experience. I wouldn't be concerned, but it probably is going to turn out that you can't drink alcohol and you should avoid a few foods.Blood Brain Barrier said:
I love a good whiskey or rum & I used to really knock them back. Anymore it's more about savoring it than getting hammered. I've got a pretty high tolerance for the stuff & have never been black out drunk, even after all nighters. I remember going to christmas parties & drinking until about 3 in the morning & then going to work the next day.
About half of a fifth of 80 proof will get me feeling good & I know how to pace myself so I can have a good time. Never had a real bad hangover, thankfully.
I tried 190 proof moonshine before... I should have just poured molten lead down my throat, it would have been smoother. My throat hurt for days after that.
I absolutely love trying new booze & making my own mixed drinks. And that reminds me that I need to try the new Captain Morgan.
About half of a fifth of 80 proof will get me feeling good & I know how to pace myself so I can have a good time. Never had a real bad hangover, thankfully.
I tried 190 proof moonshine before... I should have just poured molten lead down my throat, it would have been smoother. My throat hurt for days after that.
I absolutely love trying new booze & making my own mixed drinks. And that reminds me that I need to try the new Captain Morgan.
I don't drink that much these days, but I still seem to have the same limits as I always have had - I seem to be able to function pretty well on an amount of alcohol that's considered enough to anesthetize a fully-grown Rhino, but at some indeterminate level of extreme inebriation, my brain exits stage left, and my body takes over on autopilot:
A night out in of all places Hull, where I was visiting a friend that was at University there, decended into extreme alcoholism when we discovered a bar that was serving triples for the price of a single! I don't actually remember going on from there to a club, as my brain had bailed as soon as we stepped outside the bar. Apparently I just went quiet for a while after reaching the club, then I asked my friend if I could borrow his keys and head back to crash at his place. I navigated accross Hull, having never even been there before, found my friend's house, and even managed to buy a Pizza on the way back - and to this day I have no memory of doing any of that! Who needs GPS? - Just get drunk!
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A night out in of all places Hull, where I was visiting a friend that was at University there, decended into extreme alcoholism when we discovered a bar that was serving triples for the price of a single! I don't actually remember going on from there to a club, as my brain had bailed as soon as we stepped outside the bar. Apparently I just went quiet for a while after reaching the club, then I asked my friend if I could borrow his keys and head back to crash at his place. I navigated accross Hull, having never even been there before, found my friend's house, and even managed to buy a Pizza on the way back - and to this day I have no memory of doing any of that! Who needs GPS? - Just get drunk!
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I usually need at least 3 pints before I get a buzz going, and even then those need to be in fairly quick succession. I need to drink quite a lot before getting hammered, and even then I get easily dragged down from my buzz due to, for example, shitty music. I don't drink much hard boozes these days, and I've been moving more towards drinking wine.
I only drink half a glass of white wine every other year. So I don't know how much I need to get drunk.
At about 7 cans (depending on how fast each were had in secession) I can feel my motor control go. Or 4 vodka shots.
The line gets blurry on when it starts making me tumble around but I've never lost my vision over it.
My drinking has been reigned in since the end of my "broken heart" nonsense.
The line gets blurry on when it starts making me tumble around but I've never lost my vision over it.
My drinking has been reigned in since the end of my "broken heart" nonsense.
Of course I'm not responsible. All the same, it can make you feel a bit nervous when you start checking a few too many things off on the 'Stereotypes that can be said of white supremacist' list. I remember one black coworker jokingly asking me when the rally was after getting a haircut, and I couldn't help but feel like maybe I should just scream 'Nope' and run away, waving my arms about in a comical fashion.01189998819991197253 said:
I drink far to much, while I will be feeling it after a few beers, I can drink a lot afterwards. And when I hit a certain drunkness, I feel that I can drink forever. That usually does not end well. I have cut down a lot, I mainly only drink at the weekends because working with a hangover (not to mention that booze fucks with your sleep) doesn't feel so good at my age.
I do like whisky though. I like whisky too much. I have to limit myself as to when I can drink it (as in once in a blue moon) and how much otherwise things get messy.
I do like whisky though. I like whisky too much. I have to limit myself as to when I can drink it (as in once in a blue moon) and how much otherwise things get messy.
I don't drink that often anymore, maybe one or two beer every so often at home. Though I will still drink plenty at parties with friends which don't happen that often. I am relatively tolerant, I think, to beer. Half a crate (that's 12 bottles of 0,30l) will get me pretty tipsy, the whole crate will get me pretty drunk. But even drunk out of my mind I still don't tend to get hangovers anymore, and haven't for many many years.
When I'm drunk I become pretty a energetic, hyperactive and happy drunk. Which is pretty much the opposite of how I am sober xD.
When I'm drunk I become pretty a energetic, hyperactive and happy drunk. Which is pretty much the opposite of how I am sober xD.
I don't drink often and it takes about half of this over the course of 2 hours for me to feel it. I'm far gone by the 3/4 mark.
I only very occasionally drink (I was diagnosed with gout, so it's become something of a no-no.) At three or four drinks I start to feel it to a noticable degree; past about six I would consider myself drunk. I've only been seriously drunk once (bachelor party); I threw up in the sink and felt like my head was packed in cotton the next day.
I usually don't feel good when I drink alcohol; often it makes me feel kind of emotionally numb. So I've never really been a regular drinker. My grandfather was an alcoholic, so there's just that much more reason not to regularly plumb my limits. A glass of wine or cider with friends once in a while is plenty for me.
I usually don't feel good when I drink alcohol; often it makes me feel kind of emotionally numb. So I've never really been a regular drinker. My grandfather was an alcoholic, so there's just that much more reason not to regularly plumb my limits. A glass of wine or cider with friends once in a while is plenty for me.
Unfortunately it is a bit of an old coping mechanism and does wonders for easing some social anxieties for me. I used to be much worse, with other stuff added too. Mixture of bad group of friends with bad memories, genetic and nurtured depression with little knowledge of how else to make it go away, sort of lead to a self-destructive lifestyle. The remaining high tolerance and stains of a previous life still linger, but i'm wiser and stronger to abstain through the pain longer before breaking down again. Wine is a happy medium for those moments.
I understand USA is different towards alcohol than common UK, the drearily forlorn here can make matters seem less hopeful. But we can learn hope if not taught to us properly. Did i make sense?
I understand USA is different towards alcohol than common UK, the drearily forlorn here can make matters seem less hopeful. But we can learn hope if not taught to us properly. Did i make sense?
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Sounds to me like your sense of humor is what it takes to get by in a world that judges on looks first.
yeah America has a more conservative attitude towards drinking, such as not being able to drink outside.Xsjadoblayde said:
Which is kinda funny because when I see beer adverts on the telly here, they depict stereotypical people in their mid twenties partying it up on a beach, something you can get in trouble for.
People drink more moderately here too I feel, although saying that I have made a friend that is an absolute machine when it comes to drinking. He would fit in rather well in Britons drinking culture I reckon.
As for me, my tolerance is pretty good. I don't get the spinning room or vomit anymore if I have too much, I tend to just go to sleep/passout nowadays. Not something I'm terribly proud of when it happens mind you.
Don't think anyone has mentioned hangovers yet?
as I have gotten older my tolerance has gone up, which means I can drink more but then I have a raging hangover to deal with the next day. unlike when I was 18, when I could bounce back from a nights excess easily, they have become much harder to recover from and lately a night of drinking with friends means the day after is spent in bed, fighting waves of nausea whilst downing pints of water.
I managed to get through almost all of a bottle of Vat 69 whiskey by myself before I face planted hard. THat was a few years ago now so I could probably handle a bit more xD. I am a big chap so I generally can drink more before some of my more lightweight friends go down.