Thanks iJohnHenry! Can't say this thread is bring back the best of memories.
But it's because I have these memories that I don't repeat history.
But it's because I have these memories that I don't repeat history.
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History tends to repeat *urp* itself, generally because of the intervention of 3rd-parties.
Sort of a misery-loves-company phenomenon.
But, the time between episodes does tend to lengthen.
At least in my experience.
Sort of a misery-loves-company phenomenon.
But, the time between episodes does tend to lengthen.
At least in my experience.
I heard a different version of that from a retired US Army General in a pub (where else) in Bosnia where we were both monitoring elections over a decade ago; his version was "Beer before whiskey, nothing to fear; whiskey before beer, now that's risky".
Agree, great thread; it's bringing back loadsa memories.
Cheers
Thankfully, I haven't puked from drinking since college. That was 24 years ago. I remember throwing up and then continuing drinking. Ugh. I can hold a lot of liquor for a guy my size but know my limits. For most, when you realize you've hit your limit, it's too late.
Seems like everybody's got a version,lol.Best bet..Find out your individual strengths and weaknesses when it comes to alcohol. The quality of the alcohol being consumed also plays a part in the physical/mental state of the individual as well...
If I'm in the bathroom, I'm too far gone to remember the moment sleep arrives.
On my last night before moving away from home I got very very drunk on "Green Monsters*" and JD. I woke up in the bathroom with a pillow under my head and a duvet over me. I thought how to cool I was managing to do that. I later found out my mum had put the pillow and duvet there around 9am.
*Snakebite and Blue Curaçao
Only happened once. Too much too quickly on an empty stomach after a day spent in the sun.
There was about 30 seconds of warning. I felt fine and then it hit out of nowhere.
There was about 30 seconds of warning. I felt fine and then it hit out of nowhere.
Too true. Work (rather than student life) tends to alter drinking patterns. Reeling into class happy (or hungover) is a very different matter from reeling into work in that same blissful state. Once I started teaching, drinking during the week was cut back, and somehow, as iJohn puts it, the time between episodes does lengthen. In my experience, the best ones are still the (rare) impromptu ones, though, the unplanned ones.
Waking up on the bathroom, or bedroom, floor, um, yes. Anyone else ever get the irresistible urge to listen to music while in a happy inebriated state and fall asleep, sprawled on the sofa, waking up hours later, headphones still on, sun up, and music still playing?
Or, to return to thread topic, anyone else ever have the experience of thinking that they had, er, cleaned up, (or aimed properly) only to discover in the morning that they, um, hadn't?
And, shadowing another thread (about spectacles), have any of you who wear glasses ever mislaid them while drunk? Or worse, simply couldn't even remember where you put them? (Those who wear glasses will know what I mean; those who don't, won't.) Cheers.
If you remembered to take them off, you couldn't have been that drunk.
Waking up and not being able to find your glasses sucks.
Fixed that for ya.If you remembered to take them off, you couldn't have been that drunk.
Waking up and not being able to find yourglassesunderwear sucks.
The first thing I do when ralph calls is put my glasses on the bathroom vanity.
I can honestly say I have never been that hammered that I forgot to do that task.
I can honestly say I have never been that hammered that I forgot to do that task.
If you remembered to take them off, you couldn't have been that drunk.
Waking up and not being able to find your glasses sucks.
Thanks for the sympathy (empathy?) guys; fortunately, I have never been so hammered either that said specs were left somewhere on a pub table. (Umbrellas, and mobile phones are a different matter entirely. The late, great, Douglas Adams wrote about a planet where missing biroid life forms migrated to; were he alive today, he would surely invent a planet to welcome home lost mobile phones). However, I have woken up, groped for glasses, and felt air; specs, when located, have been lurking near iPod on my desk, a nasty unsettling experience before I found them. Cheers.