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* it's dangerous to mix your drinks - FALSE

* you shouldn't drink on an empty stomach - FALSE

* you get beer belly from beer - FALSE

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 17 May 2004 01:35 (nineteen years ago) link

* Midori is sophisticated - FALSE

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 17 May 2004 01:39 (nineteen years ago) link

*vodka shots drunk between a stripper's tits taste better - FALSE

*JACK DANIELS shots drunk between a your girlfriend's tits taste better - DAMN RIGHT

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Monday, 17 May 2004 02:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Drinking a glass of water for every drink you have prevents a hangover - FALSE. As Kingsley Amis says, it's the fact that you're sober enough to be thinking about the glasses of water that prevents the hangover.

― antexit (antexit), Monday, 17 May 2004 02:36 (nineteen years ago) link

you shouldn't drink on an empty stomach - FALSE

Plz elaborate on this one. If I drink say, at dinnertime w'out dinner I get a bad tummyache and a mega bad hangover next day.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 17 May 2004 02:37 (nineteen years ago) link

actually, unless you can back it up with proof, i'm going to heavily dispute that last one (though I agree with the first point)

and the second point: you SHOULD if you want to get drunk really cheap. An empty stomach aids in the drunkening process, if you will.

My mind and ears are open if you have links that state otherwise, but frankly, I'm something of a friggin' expert dude and i'm callin' bullshit

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 17 May 2004 02:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Water between drinks is magic. For me, time and time again, it's proven to be the Golden Hangover Prevention.

― Always Winter Never Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 17 May 2004 02:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I always drink two glasses of water before bed and take a couple of aspirin if I've been drinking. This is, of course, provided I don't just pass out on the couch or on someone's floor. Drinking water while drinking alcohol is always a strategy, if only because alcohol makes me peeeeee and water keeps me hydrated.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 17 May 2004 02:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Alternate drinking one 8 oz. glass of water between drinks with one 8 oz. glass of lukewarm extra virgin olive oil. Into the glass of oil, dissolve three rolls of wintergreen certs. Every third glass of water, add three tablespoons sugar. If you follow this regimen, you'll be able to drink all night with no hangover.

― Skottie, Monday, 17 May 2004 03:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Every third glass of water, add three tablespoons sugar.

Drawback: Ring of Fire the next morning.

― Always Winter Never Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 17 May 2004 03:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Um, if I drank olive oil, I wouldnt get a hangover because I'd hurl everywhere before I got that far! :/

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 17 May 2004 03:16 (nineteen years ago) link

wine before beer - never fear
beer before wine - feeling fine

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 17 May 2004 03:20 (nineteen years ago) link

all those myths are not myths at all and not false,

*are you drunk - TRUE

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 17 May 2004 03:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I never got a hangover drinking Crown and water. The water keeps you from getting dehydrated or something (and no need for the end-of-night glasses).

(bonus: it tasted like heaven)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 17 May 2004 03:22 (nineteen years ago) link

* It's prudent to regulate drinking to 1-2 times per week - BLOODY FALSE

― Always Winter Never Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 17 May 2004 03:26 (nineteen years ago) link

A shark on wisky is mighty risky,
but a shark on beer is a beer engineer.

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 17 May 2004 03:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Pilsner Urquell never gives me a hangover even if I drink a million of them. It must be that cheqk - check - chehk - chek - shit, i don't know how to spell it, I'm a little drunk. The chech water.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 17 May 2004 03:27 (nineteen years ago) link

czech

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 17 May 2004 03:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Beer if yer queer - you love Norman Lear
Wine before lunch - you are pleased as punch

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 17 May 2004 03:29 (nineteen years ago) link

If you drink a puree of warm milk, lima beans, and Dr. Pepper between drinks, it's scientifically proven you can't get a hangover.

― Skottie, Monday, 17 May 2004 03:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Only because you can't keep the mixture down.

― Always Winter Never Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 17 May 2004 03:31 (nineteen years ago) link

That's the science part.

― Skottie, Monday, 17 May 2004 03:32 (nineteen years ago) link

And brilliant it is too.

Amazing how quickly hangovers disappear the very second your guts come up.

― Always Winter Never Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 17 May 2004 03:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Beer before dinner, a sure fire winner.
Wine all the time, you'll turn into a mime.

― Skottie, Monday, 17 May 2004 03:40 (nineteen years ago) link

If it's beer bottles you're kissin'

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 17 May 2004 03:42 (nineteen years ago) link

it's amber goo you're pissin'

― Always Winter Never Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 17 May 2004 03:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry, that got fucked up.

If it's beer bottles you're kissin,
then it's love you'll be missin.

That still sucks.

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 17 May 2004 03:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Wine All The Time - I'm Painting All This Horrible Shit But I Think I'm Jim Dine

Beer To Combat Fear - Yet You Still Can't Shake The Memory Of Your Grandfather's Leer

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 17 May 2004 03:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Beer on whisky, pretty risky.
Whisky on sale, drink like a whale.

― Skottie, Monday, 17 May 2004 03:50 (nineteen years ago) link

And your mother's Ophelia.

― Skottie, Monday, 17 May 2004 03:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Or Cordelia. Or whathefuckever

― Skottie, Monday, 17 May 2004 03:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Drink a little vermouth for a pain in the tooth
Drink lots of Bass for a pain in the ass.

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 17 May 2004 04:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Beer before blowjobs - Makes for sleepy nabobs

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 17 May 2004 04:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Perverts.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 May 2004 04:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Death by whiskey - Makes your emaciated cat very frisky

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 17 May 2004 04:17 (nineteen years ago) link

But I'm drunk, Ned. And I'm on a drinking thread. And it's time for bed.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 17 May 2004 04:18 (nineteen years ago) link

beer before blowjobs
tooth marks on the knob???

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 17 May 2004 04:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm gonna eat three pickles, a pint of pistachio ice cream, and inject saline solution into my neck so that i don't get a hangover. 'night all!

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 17 May 2004 04:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Wine before sea except after c.

Wait, I'm confused.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 17 May 2004 04:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I before E except in Budweiser.

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 17 May 2004 04:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Don't put no wine in my lunch pail
Or I'll likely go to jail
My face don't look so pale
but I can't blaze no one else's trail

For me the best cure for a hangover is drinking the stuff that's a little more expensive, but my favorite beverage nonetheless.

Before New Order decided on "Get Ready" as a title for their last album, the working title was "Fear of A Hangover".

― Bimble The Thimble (bimble), Monday, 17 May 2004 04:25 (nineteen years ago) link

JAGGERMASTER HAS BLUT INIT
TOOTEE

― TOOTEE, Monday, 17 May 2004 05:05 (nineteen years ago) link

LIQUOUR BEFORE BEEEER NEVER SICKER - WROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG

― JEAGAR 4 EVAR (nickalicious), Monday, 17 May 2004 05:28 (nineteen years ago) link

A beer in the hand is worth two birds on my lap.

― C-Mangle (trayce), Monday, 17 May 2004 05:31 (nineteen years ago) link

dAY TELZ MUH UASTRALIELAIENNS CANNAE HOLD DAY LICKER IS IT TRUE MY SISTAH OF TEH BAWNG?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 17 May 2004 05:33 (nineteen years ago) link

DAYUM man, ah can drink yew wussy merkuhns under the TABLE!

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 17 May 2004 05:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I fear I have just set myself up for a challenge. Oh, my stomach.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 17 May 2004 05:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I LUV U TRACE

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 17 May 2004 05:39 (nineteen years ago) link

JOO DA MAN, MAH DOOBIE BRAH!

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 17 May 2004 05:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Throwing up will make you feel better.

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 17 May 2004 05:43 (nineteen years ago) link

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― The Streets (ken c), Monday, 17 May 2004 10:53 (nineteen years ago) link

The body's uptake of alcohol is different for different drinks, depending on the strength and sugar content. So someones differing reactions to eg lager and gin could be explained in those terms.

But could this translate into a different quality of drunkenness, rather than just variation in the speed of the hit?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 17 May 2004 10:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes. Booze is a very blunt drug, affecting many different bits of the brain. The rate of uptake can affect the extent to which parts get hit first, and by how much.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 17 May 2004 10:58 (nineteen years ago) link

the important thing to remember is that nothing you do when drunk is your fault. NOTHING.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 May 2004 11:00 (nineteen years ago) link

that's such great news!

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 17 May 2004 11:01 (nineteen years ago) link

It's like a magic irresponsibility pill!

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 17 May 2004 11:02 (nineteen years ago) link

The alcohol boffin is entirely OTM: as long as most of you alcoholics are getting drunk, I get drunk in a nice way (happier, more energetic, more open). Which is why I save actual drinking for when I want to head down the path to oblivion on rocket-skates.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 17 May 2004 11:03 (nineteen years ago) link

alcohol comes in pills form now??

xpost

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 17 May 2004 11:05 (nineteen years ago) link

pils

― the surface noise made by people (electricsound), Monday, 17 May 2004 11:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I read somewhere that they (=boffins) gave a group untastable booze, and another group wwater which was said to be booze, and the water drinkers all professed to be more drunk than they could be, and the booze drinkers underestimated the effect on them - ie, booze has chemical effect at cellular level, and macro effect on body, and usually the two are co-terminous, but that ain't necessarily so.

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 17 May 2004 11:09 (nineteen years ago) link

But could this translate into a different quality of drunkenness, rather than just variation in the speed of the hit?

jagermeister and southern comfort make me really manic. i'm assuming it's because of the high sugar content.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:14 (nineteen years ago) link

There is a myth that Snakebite is way stronger than its constituent parts.

And thats why its barred in some pubs.

― Bidfurd, Monday, 17 May 2004 14:23 (nineteen years ago) link

it's just an excuse to keep out goths, isn't it?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Gin before vermouth, means you're uncouth,
Vermouth before gin, you're guaranteed to win!

― Skottie, Monday, 17 May 2004 14:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Can anyone offer any scientific explanation at all for people's claims that certain drinks have certain emotional effects on them, unrelated to the alcohol content? So many people seem to claim things like "Oh, I can't drink whisky because it makes me aggressive" or "Gin makes me maudlin".

1) That old Psychology 101 formula, "[mind]set and setting."
2) Expectations and associations (as discussed above) becoming self-fulfilling prophecies.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:29 (nineteen years ago) link

moonshine before beer
yer gonna get fucked up!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:29 (nineteen years ago) link

j.lu OTM plus the fact that gin just makes you maudlin.

― Skottie, Monday, 17 May 2004 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link

thinking it over, the people i know who claim that various hard liquors make them belligerent or otherwise more unruly than usual tend to be terrible drunks who shouldn't be at the bar in the first place.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link

You're talking about my ex-girlfriend!

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link

*shrug* Different types of alcohol contain different flavorings and congeners; it is possible that gin contains something (besides alcohol) that triggers depression in the susceptible.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:34 (nineteen years ago) link

j.lu, I fear you've been drinking gin, you've gone all maudlin. I wasn't serious!

― Skottie, Monday, 17 May 2004 14:35 (nineteen years ago) link

But if there is, you'd think someone would have identified this psychoactive ingredient by now.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I get randy on the gin.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link

amazing!

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link

There is a myth that Snakebite is way stronger than its constituent parts.
And thats why its barred in some pubs.

snakebite is, of course, banned because legally draft beer, cider and perry can only be served in pints, half pints and third of a pints, and, with the addition of the blackcurrant, you have less than half a pint of one or the other.

lager top is also illegal, but that much should be apparent...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:38 (nineteen years ago) link

it cracks me up: "i'm really sorry about that, but they only had stella and you know how i get." it's like blaming the last drink for your hangover. drink enough of anything and chances are you'll start behaving a bit funny.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:40 (nineteen years ago) link

As should lager and lime, cider and black, and guiness and black

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:43 (nineteen years ago) link

whereas a cider armadillo is perfectly legal, because one is served a full pint of cider that one then takes a couple of sips out of.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Eggzacerlee.

All this talk of pints and beer added to a hot day (wearing shorts innit) makes me want booze now. Any impromptu FAPs organised offline?

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link

PROVEN BY SCIENCE: you can get whiskey dick whilst drinking boozes that aren't whiskey.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Because alcohol doesn't really induce aggression etc. It's been proven that we are conditioned into behaving a certain way when drinking alcohol.

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link

What about pubs that have those glasses that are bigger than a pint, with the pint line marked. Eh? Eh?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:49 (nineteen years ago) link

j.lu, I fear you've been drinking gin, you've gone all maudlin. I wasn't serious!

Maudlin? I thought I was being flip?! And for what it's worth, I don't like gin.

But the more that I think about it...Some people have problems with beer because they are allergic to hops. I suppose it's possible that some people, when they drink something that contains something they're allergic to, are putting an emotional attribute on their physiological reaction. And then of course if something you drank triggered an allergic reaction, the following hangover will probably be all the more worse (hint: if your hangover appears to involve clogged sinuses, try taking an antihistamine as part of your recovery).

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:49 (nineteen years ago) link

My girlfriend came over to my house and she was drunk. Drunk on love? No! Drunk on GIN!

― The Kids in the Hall (Jordan), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Pubs would therefore be serving more than one pint = bad economics = capitalism keeps it under a pint = ban all goths.

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link

N. that is for HEAD and nothing else. also, you don't get head glasses very often anymore do you?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Nathalie, so does a punch in the face only hurt because you're socially conditioned that it should hurt?

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Barry takes a very hard line on socio-psychological research.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Are you offering yourself as a volunteer, Nick?

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 17 May 2004 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Don't try it (unless it's part of a controlled study)

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 17 May 2004 15:03 (nineteen years ago) link

have you been at the whiskey, m.? careful... you know how you get.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 17 May 2004 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Tea on whiskey, makes one frisky.
Whiskey on tea, ain't nuttin' but twee.

― Skottie, Monday, 17 May 2004 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link

thirteen years pass...

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― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Thursday, 22 June 2017 13:07 (six years ago) link

you don't get a beer belly from beer?

― piscesx, Thursday, 22 June 2017 13:29 (six years ago) link

from too much sex

― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Thursday, 22 June 2017 14:09 (six years ago) link

Self righting mechanism

― quet inn tarnation (darraghmac), Thursday, 22 June 2017 14:31 (six years ago) link

I have an AriZona drink. :-)

― the ghost of markers, Friday, 23 June 2017 00:40 (six years ago) link

congratulations on your beer baby

― calstars, Friday, 23 June 2017 00:47 (six years ago) link

* Drinking is bad for you
* You shouldn't drink alone

― Karl Malone, Friday, 23 June 2017 01:00 (six years ago) link

my bottle of campari and I differ

― mh, Friday, 23 June 2017 03:33 (six years ago) link

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