Curious About Drunk Behavior? Here Are Some Questions!

[icvotria]

Now the most I'll go for is 14-16 beer over a 6 hour period.

Luckily I met an angel that night. She told me her name was "moderation"

Ummm...

 

[Huckleberry]

The first time I drank alcohol I had a very bad experience. I was 17 and staying at a friend's house for the weekend. We went out for chinese food and came back and started drinking beers. I had never drank before and didn't know what to expect. We were shooting beers and I had like 5 of them in about an hour or two. I was surprised that I wasn't feeling any different. They subjected me to tests like laying down and standing up quickly and reciting simple tongue twisters. One of my friends seemed upset because he was already halfway to drunk and I appeared to have no effects from the alcohol yet.

Then they broke out the moonshine that the father of one of my friends made in the basement. We were playing Dungeons and Dragons in the basement and drinking the moonshine and chasing it with sips from a 2liter of Sprite soda. They later told me that they were spitting out most of the moonshine into the Sprite bottle. I drank at least half a pint of moonshine in addition to the 5 beers I had already drank.

I could feel myself becoming dispondent. It was hard to focus on anything. The last thing I remember is opening a door and running into a group of ravenous zombies. Next thing I know I'm waking up on the couch vomiting. They moved a bucket underneath me. One of my friends says "What is that, chicken?"

I did several things that I have no memory of. I guess this is what is called an alcoholic blackout. They said they took me for a walk in the middle of the night and I was singing and yelling and stumbling down the road setting off car alarms.

The next day it felt like my brain had shrunk to the size of a walnut and was rattling around loose in my skull. I had vomitted on my pants so I borrowed a pair of my friend's pants so that my parents wouldn't know that I had been drinking. He drove me home in my car because I was still drunk. As I was walking to the house I vomitted again behind a telephone pole. It was pink.

I went upstairs and threw my clothes in the hamper and went to sleep for almost a full day. At some point my mother had come into the room and taken my hamper to do the laundry. She found my friend's pants and knew they weren't mine. So I had to tell her what happened. She never told my father. I never got in trouble for it.

 

[Andy]

One of my best nights for drinking was when i went on holiday with a group of friends to newquay. It started off with a shot drinking game, where a board senses how fast u can drink a shot. I was loosing miserably and decided to switch from the vodka to a bottle of sambuca that i had bought. Within about an hour i had managed to drink a litre of sambuca. That was a very rough night after that, i was throwing up within 45mins of stopping drinking. Could'nt see straight and my speech was incomprehensible.

But i did beat the record that a mate set.

 

[matthyaouw]

I remember sambuca...

...though its quite blurry

 

[Andy]

Fantastic stuff. Almost as good as absynthe.

 

[Danger]

You're really lucky, a girl I went to high school with got really drunk and choked to death on her own vomit.

There are definitely tragic aspects to it. A few months ago a very nice young girl here in town got dropped off at home by a friend after a night of drinking. Her parents came home from vacation 3 days later and found her frozen to death in the back yard. She apparently hadn't been able to find her keys.
A similar thing happened to me about 12 years ago, the only time I was dumb enough to mix beer and grass. I couldn't get into the house, so I finally busted out a basement window. Wearing my very heavy winter coveralls, I managed to wriggle through the 11" x 15" opening and curled up beside the furnace for the night. My basement has a separate entrance, not accessible from the house. That door is padlocked from the outside, so I couldn't get out the next day. Luckily, there was someone else in the house, so I made enough noise the next day for her to come and let me out. Then we found my keys already in the lock.

Now the most I'll go for is 14-16 beer over a 6 hour period.

You liquor pig! That's my limit too, but I drink light beer.

Fantastic stuff. Almost as good as absynthe.

I've heard of absynthe, but it's illegal in North America. (Also poisonous, if I recall correctly.)

 

[matthyaouw]

I've heard things about absynthe. I think what you can get here is a watered down version. I think the real stuff is over the legal alcohol content for the UK, and contains a dangerous amount of wormwood.

 

[Andy]

Well i tried it out in spain, and the stuff was lethal. I was told that if makes people hallucinate and just generally go all funny. I thought it was quite nice though.

 

[brewnog]

I brought some (proper stuff) back from the Czech Republic a few times. It tastes pretty nice but unless you boil off some of the alcohol, (the proper way to drink it), you get really, really drunk before the wormwood effects kick in.