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Drinking too much?

Yeah, I too lived in Canada. I know what -50°C is all about.

I've seen you canucks get cold here too, usually the ones from the plains who have been here for a while and have acclimatised to the temperature but not the humidity. Our damp winters can be pretty annoying.

I'm bundled up now but that's more because I'll do anything to convince myself that it's not summer anymore.
 
Chundles said:
I'm bundled up now but that's more because I'll do anything to convince myself that it's not summer anymore.
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Opposite here, the weather is finally turning warm-
pants and a t-shirt today! :)

I will do anything to convince myself that it's not winter anymore. ;) :)
 
yoak said:
It will take years to learn for most people, and forever to others.
I´m in my thirties now and haven´t thrown up in some years, but my hangovers get worse by the month. I can´t have 3 beers and NOT get a headache the day after.
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Drinking less than 2-3 beers, or more than 10 is the best way to avoid hangover...
 
Looong story...

:shudder: Tequila. It completely defeated me my first year at UC Berkeley.

I knew I'd be in trouble the next day because while drinking, I muttered to my two roomies, "I'm only on my fourth shot!" To which they laughingly replied, "You were on your fourth shot a few shots back!"

Woke up in the middle of the night; almost puked trying to get outta bed (top bunk and no ladders means sliding on a precarious tummy) and just barely made it to the restroom-- opposite end of the dorm hallway.

In the morning, I woke up to the bile in the back of my throat-- barely made it into the restroom where the cleaning lady screeched that the place was closed for cleaning. I promptly ignored her and ran straight to the john. After I was done there she said nothing as I walked away. I'm sure she'd rather re-mop the ground then deal w/ the mess I could have left. :eek:

I then had to attend a class-- required and the last one before the mid-term. Sigh. I made it throught the class; just barely.

But as I was walking on campus...

I had no choice. I ran behind a tiny little shrub and just heaved all my insides out. It was violent. It came out through my nose! Other students stopped and stared and pointed. :(

Needless to say, I could smell vomit for another 24 hours. And I didn't cox that day for the team.

To this day-- the mere smell of tequila makes me feel sick.

I've got a story for vodka and Red Bull but it's not as poignant in my mind. :p
 
devilot said:
:shudder: ~snip~ I've got a story for vodka and Red Bull but it's not as poignant in my mind. :p
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There's you with another story, there's Blue Velvet with another story and I reckon that these 'other stories' might be the REAL ones worth hearing. Not to mix metaphors on this particular thread --- spill the beans? :)
 
Oh man, just reminded myself of my last night working in the snow down here. It was a public holiday so we only had a few staff on (combination of quiet night + double-time-and-a-half pay $38 an hour) and because it was my last night I drank for free.

So there I am, waiting tables in a 4.5 star restaurant with 8 double vodka lime and cranberries in me and I was feelin' gooooood....:D :D :D

Got home and hopped into the soda bulbs with my roommates for a laugh and I woke up feeling fantastic. Best night ever, I lived above the restaurant so I ducked in for a hot buffet brekky, said my goodbyes, packed the car and drove the 4 hours back to my folks' house (yes I was sober, those events weren't one after the other and brekky wasn't till late).

All in all it was a good night, as opposed to my next big vodka night - my ex-girlfriend's 21st in Vancouver..... baaaaad night, bad, bad night.....
 
ech...several puke stories, many years ago. I used to drink to oblivion quite often. Though people said they couldn't tell I was that drunk, I would eventually puke and have a terrible hangover the next day. I finally learned to moderate in my mid 20s. I now only have a beer or so every once in a great while. Good grief how stupid we are!!!
 
I used to have a bad habit of drinking, getting a buzz, not realizing I was buzzed, drinking even more, quicker and quicker the more buzzed I got, and the night would end with a bad case of poisoning. Then I grew into the stage of "morning-after" puking. Now I know when to say when and I properly hydrate myself to avoid all this. Of course, I don't drink like a fish like I used to, so it's a bit easier now. And yeah, we are pretty stupid if we do this to our bodies, swear we will never drink so much again, and do it all over the next night. :p
 
Now Tequila I don't understand. Salt?! I dunno. to a non-drinker it sounds crazy. lick salt, do something with something else, dance a jig, hum the theme from Minder... So many mad drinking rules and etiquette.
 
Abstract said:
Did you ever drink too much, say to the point of throwing up? Isn't it crazy that this is considered minor alcohol poisoning, and yet we do this to ourselves??
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Yup. But you'll have to pony up $25 to read the story. ;)

I don't really get hung over when I drink to a certain point, I tend to get slutty instead. Whenever I go out I have to have a friend or two with me to make sure I don't umm...do stuff since I have a tendency to be a bit less reserved when alchohol's involved. :eek:
 
I'm a pretty big drinker - I drink myself to obivion from time to time, but I get some drinks in me every weekend it seems. I was so drunk last Thursday that I literally passed out and no one could wake me up.

There's many other drunken stories I could tell you.

But the interesting thing is, none of those involved puke. The closest I've ever came to puking is the hacking you get just before you puke, and that was last semester when I drank 14 buds in a hour.

There is one alcohol that I hate though, and it's been mentioned many times in this thread - Tequila. I once got drunk off it, and walked off a concrete cliff about six feet high, knowing it's there, but for some reason thinking I can step down it like a stair or something. My left arm and knee hurt for a week after that.
 
Chundles said:
All in all it was a good night, as opposed to my next big vodka night - my ex-girlfriend's 21st in Vancouver..... baaaaad night, bad, bad night.....
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You even dated Canadians? Score.

devilot said:
I've got a story for vodka and Red Bull but it's not as poignant in my mind.
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How? That stuff is amazing!
 
I've made a promise to myself I will never drink to the point of being drunk b/c I think it's so stupid.
I like the way beer and wine tastes though (when I've only had one sip from my parents, I mean, I'm 13)... sooo.....I'll try to totally avoid alcohol all together until I am 100% sure I can handle it.
 
Abstract said:
Did you ever drink too much, say to the point of throwing up? Isn't it crazy that this is considered minor alcohol poisoning, and yet we do this to ourselves??

I recently went to a conference and there was free alcohol --- beer and wine (red and white) --- before and during our free dinner. :D That's sort of typical for many conferences. Little did they know that the students from my group would go a little far with the drinking. Being the students that we are, we took full advantage and just drank and enjoyed ourselves, but free alcohol + young people usually isn't a good combo. Anyway, there was some vomiting (one person did that 4 times, and he's usually doesn't go overboard like that...), and there were some hangovers the next day.

Then I thought about how stupid it is, and yet I know I'm gonna do it again during the next conference. :p Do we just love self-destruction or something?
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I can't say drinking too much is a problem for me
 
Maybe we should be thinking at the reason ANYONE drinks or does pot, or does any other drug whenever they DO do it.

1> notice how I seperated POT from other drugs?;) yes I an occasion blaze, not nearly as much as I did when I was 7-16. I smoked more between those ages than most teenagers do ... I did because it was commonly considered a daily tradition from the older men on my dads side of the family. Furthermore, I found it very fun how nobody at school new I was stoned, but also did it because I was afraid that NOBODY liked me for me being me. funny way to put it but I was a silly kid; very imaginative, and never acted different being stoned then being sober (sober after 5pm on the way home from afterschool electives).

2> why do ppl drink? when most drink the most is when they're at a party or a gathering, or a club. If they drink because they're sad it most likely they drink because of what has happened that day or prolonged for many days since THEN. If they drink after coming home from work, or blazing because they " want to relax " then that is a habit. This last part if it doesnt affect a good relation with those intheir family or daily life, or their judgement in running a company or working with others then more power to them. BUT its a habit that can easily lead to a situation they most likely will regret.

> I had a friend that his father would come home and say high to his two kids, ask if they already started doing their homework - help them if needed - before sitting down at his small dining table, opening a beer, reading the newspaper and smoking a cigarette. He had most likely done this so often it became a habit that even after he started dating again it was his 'thing'. I remember within the 1st few weeks his new girlfriend was over & my buddy & I watching music videos heard him freak out when she suggested he quit or do one or the other. It wasnt harsh but it was stark/quick and just enough to let her know that it wasnt her place to suggest such a thing ... not because it was his life to live ... but in that instant I saw that it was about something more, deeper. When I asked my friend, he mentioned that he had done this ever since he was young, shortly after his mother died.
 
amateurmacfreak said:
I've made a promise to myself I will never drink to the point of being drunk b/c I think it's so stupid.
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Everyone says that when they're young, but drinkers do get carried away sometimes, and if you're drinking something that doesn't taste like alcohol (eg: Smirnoffs), it's harder to judge. The fact that the effects of drinking don't kick in for awhile also makes it harder to judge. You might drink heaps, feel perfectly alert and happy, and 1 hour later you're praying to your toilet, and vomiting.

Nobody ever plans on throwing up. It just happens when we pass a certain point and don't realize it.
 
this is reminding me of the mary-j thread... never drank alcohol either.
never been interested, besides, costs money that could be go to Apple.com
 
Abstract said:
Everyone says that when they're young, but drinkers do get carried away sometimes, and if you're drinking something that doesn't taste like alcohol (eg: Smirnoffs), it's harder to judge. The fact that the effects of drinking don't kick in for awhile also makes it harder to judge. You might drink heaps, feel perfectly alert and happy, and 1 hour later you're praying to your toilet, and vomiting.

Nobody ever plans on throwing up. It just happens when we pass a certain point and don't realize it.
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Then there's the people I knew my freshman year in the dorms that would get good and wasted in the dorm. Then, they wanted to go out and party but they were too drunk. So they made themselves puke so they could go out and drink some more...
 
Abstract said:
Everyone says that when they're young, but drinkers do get carried away sometimes, and if you're drinking something that doesn't taste like alcohol (eg: Smirnoffs), it's harder to judge. The fact that the effects of drinking don't kick in for awhile also makes it harder to judge. You might drink heaps, feel perfectly alert and happy, and 1 hour later you're praying to your toilet, and vomiting.

Nobody ever plans on throwing up. It just happens when we pass a certain point and don't realize it.
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Yeah. That's why I'm going to try to not drink at all until I'm 21.
If so many smart people get sick and drunk.... I'm realize I susceptible too.
 
amateurmacfreak said:
Yeah. That's why I'm going to try to not drink at all until I'm 21.
If so many smart people get sick and drunk.... I'm realize I susceptible too.
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That makes sense... but... my advice would be to not get drunk in public. Period. :p
 
devilot said:
That makes sense... but... my advice would be to not get drunk in public. Period. :p
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Yup, I SECOND that, man. I made this mistake last week. And now I'm less $100 (a fine), and a hour (a boring workshop), and plus a blot on my university records.

:( Stupid RA's...
 
Abstract said:
Everyone says that when they're young, but drinkers do get carried away sometimes, and if you're drinking something that doesn't taste like alcohol (eg: Smirnoffs), it's harder to judge. The fact that the effects of drinking don't kick in for awhile also makes it harder to judge. You might drink heaps, feel perfectly alert and happy, and 1 hour later you're praying to your toilet, and vomiting.

Nobody ever plans on throwing up. It just happens when we pass a certain point and don't realize it.
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Heh, this is how I wound up getting pissed to the point of sick once. I'd been drinking tasty cocktails all night (who knew they were absolutely alcohol laden? sure didn't taste like it!) and then went on to have like an entire bottle of wine. Not pretty. I've found it's just not worth the experience of illness, so that's yet to happen again. It's much more fun to get other ppl really drunk and watch how silly they act. Unfortunately, then you get the caretaker role...:rolleyes:

Has anyone else found that too much red wine just blanks out their brain? I had way too much one night and can barely remember getting home :eek: I wasn't sick or anything, but I think I would've rather been sick. Never had that happen before and I never want it to happen again.

Now, as my uni graduation is coming up really soon...we'll see if this remains the case!
 
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