Let's start the Finnish tradition of telling great tales of times when you were drunk. Tell us your best/worst experiences that included alcohol.
It was the new year of 2001 and a friend of mine asked if I wanted to go to this small town bit over 100km from where we lived, and go drinking in an old school building with few of his friends. Sounded like a good plan. We jumped in to a train nd took a case of beer for each of us (24x0,33l bottles). Actually it turned out we took too little alcohol with us. We got a ride from the train station to the old school where people were already started drinking, and it was something around 14.00. So the evening goes like any other. Heavy drinking all day. Our beers ran out rather quickly, and we started to ask for drinks from other people. Ended up drinkin everything from Monty Python's Holy Ale (actually it tastes rather bad) all the way to a "local speciality" 40% pure tasteless alcohol spirit mixed with 92% pure alcohol used by doctors (not rubbing alcohol, this is not denaturated, it just is as pure alcohol as possible). At that point I was so drunk, that I actually liked it.
The few parts we regretted that night was using lots of fireworks in that condition. We were lucky there was no damage to fingers or eyes. My friend got a bit hevier hit that night. He was taking a sauna with some people. This sauna was old, no hot water pipes or anything like that. You had to boil the water in a giant pot to heat it up. My friend thought he was funny and threw some cold water on one guy. This guy then grapped a ladleful of the closest water and threw that. Unfortuantely it was the boiling water pot where that water came from. Luckily my friend only got some burns on his back. Good thing was that it was winter in Finland, means that there is lots of snow to rub on that burned back, and that he was so drunk that he didn't feel the pain.
Next morning was rather nasty. Massive hangover and both of us had gotten a cold. We got a ride back to the train station, and found out that the next train left in three hours. Three hours sitting (mostly lying) on hard wooden benches with absolutely nothing to do. Best thing to do was snake-game on my cell phone. It was one of the longest waits in my life. Every moment being agony.
My friends back healed up nicely, we got over our hangover and illness, but all in all, it was a great trip.
It was the new year of 2001 and a friend of mine asked if I wanted to go to this small town bit over 100km from where we lived, and go drinking in an old school building with few of his friends. Sounded like a good plan. We jumped in to a train nd took a case of beer for each of us (24x0,33l bottles). Actually it turned out we took too little alcohol with us. We got a ride from the train station to the old school where people were already started drinking, and it was something around 14.00. So the evening goes like any other. Heavy drinking all day. Our beers ran out rather quickly, and we started to ask for drinks from other people. Ended up drinkin everything from Monty Python's Holy Ale (actually it tastes rather bad) all the way to a "local speciality" 40% pure tasteless alcohol spirit mixed with 92% pure alcohol used by doctors (not rubbing alcohol, this is not denaturated, it just is as pure alcohol as possible). At that point I was so drunk, that I actually liked it.
The few parts we regretted that night was using lots of fireworks in that condition. We were lucky there was no damage to fingers or eyes. My friend got a bit hevier hit that night. He was taking a sauna with some people. This sauna was old, no hot water pipes or anything like that. You had to boil the water in a giant pot to heat it up. My friend thought he was funny and threw some cold water on one guy. This guy then grapped a ladleful of the closest water and threw that. Unfortuantely it was the boiling water pot where that water came from. Luckily my friend only got some burns on his back. Good thing was that it was winter in Finland, means that there is lots of snow to rub on that burned back, and that he was so drunk that he didn't feel the pain.
Next morning was rather nasty. Massive hangover and both of us had gotten a cold. We got a ride back to the train station, and found out that the next train left in three hours. Three hours sitting (mostly lying) on hard wooden benches with absolutely nothing to do. Best thing to do was snake-game on my cell phone. It was one of the longest waits in my life. Every moment being agony.
My friends back healed up nicely, we got over our hangover and illness, but all in all, it was a great trip.
