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What is your preferred beverage/combination of beverages when you want to get utterly blotto?

My stable of weapons:
Lonely - bourbon
Angry/sad - Jamesons with Guinness back
Celebratory - Carbombs

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Friday, 28 October 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Lonely - Beer
Sad - Beer
Celebratory - Beer

I don't drink much of anything else, hard liquor makes me violent and i don't like wine.

― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 28 October 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

5%+ beer. But I can't say I ever really go out of my way to get blotto these days. It just seems to happen sometimes though...

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 28 October 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

I can't really drink too much any more, it makes me too ill.

If I'm drinking with friends and want to be happy giggly drunk, it's several bottles of pink wine.

But if I really want to take the short road to oblivious, no questions asked, I hit the vodka.

― Atheist of Love (kate), Friday, 28 October 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

whiskey

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 28 October 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

Vodka waterfalls. But I don't like being blotto, it makes me throw up repeatedly.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 28 October 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

Lonely - beer
Sad - beer
Celebratory - Tequila

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Friday, 28 October 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

don't do it anymore but me and a friend used to knock back the vodka red bulls and oh man how that stuff fucks your shit up. i believe he's still doing them at weekends every so often but he might have calmed down a bit since i last heard he went home with a girl and he shat the bed.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 28 October 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Lonely – Double Vodka + tonic
Sad – Vodka + tonic
Celebratory – tequila/ perry/ Pimms

― Dark Cilla's Glossy Fist (alix), Friday, 28 October 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

Red wine gets me totally shitfaced very quickly, but it generally leads to bad things happening so I avoid it. I end up breaking something expensive or piss people off.

I don't find it very difficult to get drunk these days anyway so I just stick to pints of beer.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 28 October 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

I'm a wino most of the time. Beer occasionally and margaritas. Mmmmm. But shots of tequila out at clubs because the margaritas there are always made with sickly-sweet mixer and mixed drinks in clubs are a rip-off in general. Beer in clubs is bad because it makes you have to pee and those bathrooms are to be avoided.
Every time the cocktail hour rolls around it's cause for celebration...
Oh! Scotch, too. If you've got a tummy-ache scotch goes down easier than anything else.
God, I'm a drunk.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 28 October 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

i'm so over liquor and mostly drink wine and beer, as these seem more gentle and wholesome and they certainly make the mornings more gentle.
when i do drink liquor, it's vodka tonics (because they aren't too sweet and are sometimes a better $ deal), becherovka (because i am in the czech republic), or tequila shots (because i am miserable in indiana and have been working too hard, and damn, did i ever need to seduce a room full of indianan college kids with my dance moves? yes. yes i did.)

― carly (carly), Friday, 28 October 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

Not like vodka + tonic is not my alcohol default setting anyway. I wouldn't want people who've seen me drinking vodkas to think it was because I was sad.

― Dark Cilla's Glossy Fist (alix), Friday, 28 October 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

good thread, big loud mountain ape! you are an excellent friend to have around when celebratory and blotto.

― carly (carly), Friday, 28 October 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

he went home with a girl and he shat the bed.
That was a good move. One should always shit the bed, just to weed out the noncommittal ones. The ones who won't BE THERE FOR YOU.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 28 October 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

I am not a good person when blotto. Unless you are my bartender, in which case I tip HUGE b/c you're letting me hang out.

Can I justify a whiskey at lunch via this thread? I'm getting thirsty.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Friday, 28 October 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

I've always had good results when starting on red wine and moving on to gin and tonic. I try to avoid drinking when I feel miserable.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 28 October 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

well it wasn't a great move, the girl in question has approached him on a couple of occasions since the inccident and keeps calling him 'shitty arse'. so now as word gets about the town he's pretty much stuffed for chatting up a good percentage of the other ladies.

the funniest part of the original story was that he tried to clear it up while she was asleep, but he was still trollied and it turned out he'd tried to wipe it all up with her college course work.

let that be a lesson to yer, kids.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 28 October 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

Keep a towel near the bed.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

cocktails are always marvellous. Though I very rarely drink to get drunk, I often succeed in doing so.

Failing that, wine, Pimms, TEQUILA!!!! a nice whisky, but more to sip than to get drunk with, Guinness, beer - especially the Belgian ones but I'm not really fussy. The list continues...

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

Greyhounds or red wine. Occasionally, strong beers. I generally don't drink to drunkenness anymore though.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

Mostly wine, especially at home.
At dive bars, mostly G&Ts, Greyhounds, or Gin 'n' Juice though occasionally I'll get a Gibson if the bartender is any good.
At swank bars where they have real juice I'll occasionally go for something more colorful. I have a weakness for a girlish drink consisting of vodka and pineapple juice with a splash of grenadine called a 'Pink Pussycat'. I think part of its appeal is that it allows me to order pink pussies from the cuter bartenders when I'm drunk all while trying and failing to keep a perfectly straight face.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Jim Beam with a light lager chaser.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

I have never heard of Greyhounds. Is it an American thing??

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

Grapefruit and vodka, hobart

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

beer, beer, and beer

― kingfish orange creamsicle (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

greyhound is just an archaic name for vodka + grapefruit. (xpost)

― jagged little filly (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Red wine. Beer takes too long, involves too many loo trips; spirits don't really work and it's hard to keep tabs on exactly how much you've drunk (unless you start with a full bottle and keep it next to you.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

maker's & ginger. if it's a mixed-drink kinda bar and not a beer one.

― jagged little filly (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

"greyhound is just an archaic name for vodka + grapefruit.."

This is not true; greyhound is the name of the drink. Why have the directions for the drink in the name? When you order a martini, you don't ask for "gin & vermouth."

Likewise, it's called a Cape Cod, not a "vodka & cranberry."

(ps I get annoyed when I'm asked whether I'd like my martini w/ gin or vodka. I know the latter is becoming more common, but I still consider it heresy.)

― andy --, Friday, 28 October 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

i know it's the name of the drink but most people don't call it that. and yr average young "bartender" who never took a bartending course wouldn't know wtf a greyhound was.

― jagged little filly (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 October 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

Here is the cocktail my late grandparents had... they drank ONE at 5pm every single day. When my mom was on her third, my granddad would shoot her fiery glares:

Presbyterian

Ingredients: 1 oz whiskey
1/2 fill with ginger ale
1/2 fill with soda water (seltzer)

Directions: Pour over ice.
Add lemon twist.

Serve in: Highball glass

― andy --, Friday, 28 October 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

i desperately want to get drunk now.

― jagged little filly (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 October 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

If you ask for a Cape Cod in Britain you'd get an empty look from most bartenders.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 28 October 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

I don't usually drink to get drunk. However, I've found that on the occasions when I'm drinking wine instead of beer, I usually end up getting drunker, because I drink it like beer, which I'm more used to.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 28 October 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

if you ordered a cape cod from a budding architect you might get one of these:

http://z.about.com/d/architecture/1/0/6/H/capecod-sears.gif

― jagged little filly (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 October 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

(ps I get annoyed when I'm asked whether I'd like my martini w/ gin or vodka. I know the latter is becoming more common, but I still consider it heresy.

Because it is. Plus, good chilled vodka doesn't need to be mixed.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 28 October 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

I get annoyed when I'm asked whether I'd like my martini w/ gin or vodka. I know the latter is becoming more common, but I still consider it heresy.)
Indeed.
Vodka and Grapefruit is a drink that I consider "pre-puke." You can't taste the vodka and drink too fast toooo much. Unless you're in a bar, in which case the drink is weak. I think it's better to taste the alcohol so you know what you're doing. Pick an alcohol that is DELICIOUS.
Balvenie.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 28 October 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

i'm going to get so sloshed tonight.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 28 October 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Talisker.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 28 October 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

"If you ask for a Cape Cod in Britain you'd get an empty look from most bartenders...."

True. My experience in the UK (and Australia) is that cocktails are still primarily an American thing. I asked a British bartender once why they still used those booze-measure things... where the bottle is mounted and only gives out a jigger. I thought it might be some tax or legal reason... he just said, "Because that's the way it's always been done." Well, there you go.

― andy --, Friday, 28 October 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

Maybe mixed drinks came about here because the colonists had such horrid bathtub gin.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 28 October 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

San Francisco boozing firsts:

1860 * The Martini is invented in either San Francisco or Martinez; the debate continues.

1944 * "Trader Vic" Bergeron invents the Mai Tai.

1952 * Irish Coffee, a mixture of whipped cream, coffee and whiskey, is developed at Buena Vista Cafe.

1970 * First fern bar, Henry Africa, opens in San Francisco.

Fern bars! My boss was just talking about these. Apparently Harry Denton (of the Starlight Room fame) had one of these in the 70's.

― andy --, Friday, 28 October 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

what is a fern bar

― jdubz (ex machina), Friday, 28 October 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

"Once upon a time, the upper Polk Street area was home to the two paragons of the American fern bar: Henry Africa’s and Lord Jim’s. Combining excessive indoor shrubbery with furnishings that appeared to be lifted from an eccentric Victorian whorehouse, these were the watering holes of choice for the young and moneyed circa 1976. Harvey Wallbangers, tequila sunrises, and the prospect of casual condomless couplings made them into icons of the swingin’ ’70s..."

― andy --, Friday, 28 October 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

My experience in the UK (and Australia) is that cocktails are still primarily an American thing. I asked a British bartender once why they still used those booze-measure things... where the bottle is mounted and only gives out a jigger. I thought it might be some tax or legal reason... he just said, "Because that's the way it's always been done." Well, there you go.

There are standard legal pub measure of drinks (the booze-measure thing is called an optic, by the way).

Also we went to a cocktail bar a few weeks ago which had a variety of wonderful concoctions on it, which the guys behind the bar had obviously been taught to make correctly. My companion decided he didn't fancy any of the set cocktails and asked if he could just have a martini. "Er, what's that, how do I do that, hold on, I'll have to get the manager" said the lackey. The manager didn't know either. My mate ended up having to tell them how to do it and prompt them for an olive as well. Then explain that the olive should be on a cocktail stick and not just planked in his glass. And that the glass they'd used for my Cosmopolitan was a proper martini glass and that was what they should be making his martini in, not a brandy glass.

The reason for this is that in the UK, bar staff, by and large, are not trained to know what they are doing to any great degree - it's quite a menial job unless you are in a top-quality restaurant, hotel or bar.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 28 October 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

if that happened to me i'd just climb behind the bar and make one myself.

― jagged little filly (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

"gentlemen, please. allow me."

― jagged little filly (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://chewbacca.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/~plmlp/2005/20050409.jpg

― andy --, Friday, 28 October 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

Egads! I actually vaguely remember Henry Africa's, I think. It was on Van Ness, right?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

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The correct respone is, "To who?"

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

or "of what"

― emilys. (emilys.), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

the thread where we post hot linked pictures of clothes we have owned

― emilys. (emilys.), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

http://www.boardtactics.com/s/img/prod/m/18710.jpg

― emilys. (emilys.), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/aa/7b/Pampers_Baby_Dry_with_Quick_Grip_Diapers_Diapers-resized200.gif

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

to my credit it was free

― emilys. (emilys.), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

Paunchy you are on roll

― emilys. (emilys.), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

i don't own any clothing about drinking

― jagged little filly (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

you better acquire some so you can post pictures

― emilys. (emilys.), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

don't die, lovable drinking thread

― emilys. (emilys.), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

aww

― jagged little filly (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

Tonight I drunk (drank? fuck knows, I'm drunk) a gallon of cider, which really isn't my drink of choice, but it worked.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

Tonight I have a cold, so I will limit myself to a medicinal glass of port. Or two.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

Last weekend I tried to make mai-tais for the first time and I finally got it right and they tasted gooood. So, hopefully more mai-tais this weekend! I've also become addicted to Brazilian cachaca rum. I don't usually drink all of this fancy stuff though. During the week I'm a strict wino.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

is there anything on tv?

― jagged little filly (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:40 (twenty years ago)

um, supernanny, tom brokaw, ghost whispers, malcolm in the middle, friday night smackdown...

― emilys. (emilys.), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

i love the 80s 1987!

― jagged little filly (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-107/images/low/KSC-02PD-1987.gif

― emilys. (emilys.), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

I got drunk in 1987.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

http://www.thirdav.com/hd_posters/p19870617.jpg

― emilys. (emilys.), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

...and I've been drunk ever since

― emilys. (emilys.), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

i'm gittin too ol' for this shit

― jagged little danny glover (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

i love 1988!

― jagged little filly (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

t/s: 1987 vs. 1988

― emilys. (emilys.), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

they just talked about cher's tempestuous fling with the italian bagel boy! clearly 1988 is classic.

― jagged little filly (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)

When Clinton came to the Vineyard he went shopping in the general store in our town. The secret service decided who they would let in the store—they were vetting people at the door—but my son got in, wearing his "one tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor" t-shirt. We have a photo, but Bill's in the foreground and you can't really make out my son's shirt.

I have just power-slurped my first glass of wine of the evening. Ravenswood cab. I know it's after nine. I run late in all things. But it's doing the job. I just had to go back and fix a gazillion typos in this post.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

wait, do you mean moonstruck?

― emilys. (emilys.), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

xpost to JBR

― emilys. (emilys.), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

no, in real life. rob camilletti!

http://web.wireimage.com/images/thumbnail/1180596.jpg

― jagged little filly (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/mgm/moonstruck/nicolas_cage/moonstruck1.jpg

I'd hump that

― emilys. (emilys.), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

I was 5, so I never heard of this...

― emilys. (emilys.), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

i'll take some rob, and a couple of cinnamon raisins while you're at it.

― jagged little filly (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

http://members.aol.com/cnova1969/moon25.jpg

― emilys. (emilys.), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

the moonstruck bakery was actually the similarly named cammareri bros. bakery. it was on henry street in carroll gardens! no longer there though.

― jagged little filly (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

why is it that when I did a google image search for rob camilletti, all I got was pie charts?

― emilys. (emilys.), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

mmm pie

― jagged little filly (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

Moonstruck is awesome as is the phrase power-slurp.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

geez, so originally this thread made me want booze. Now I want pastries and swarthy Italian men too!

― emilys. (emilys.), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

Slurp-struck

― emilys. (emilys.), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

G&Ts are OK, but I am barred by my wife from ever having more than one martini. There are good reasons for this.

"I like a good martini,
One or two at the most.
After one I'm under the table,
After two, I'm under the host."

Dorothy Parker

― M. White (Miguelito), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

The next verse is even better.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

"hi, i'm elvira, with the biggest boobs of 1988... no, not THESE, i'm talking about DAN QUAYLE."

― jagged little filly (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

wow, elvira's hosting?

― emilys. (emilys.), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

my wishlist
1. booze
2.sweets
3.swarthy men
4.television

― emilys. (emilys.), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

no, she just did a thing.

― jagged little filly (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)

goodnight, Paunchy, Walter, Jody, Elvira, gypsy, Cher and all the rest!

― emilys. (emilys.), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

Happy drinking!

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

Lonely - beer; preferably from the Deschutes Brewery
Sad - Jim Beam and root beer
Angry - beer; preferably really cheap
Celebratory - wine, lately

― w1llp1e (willpie), Saturday, 29 October 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

I have had one sake, a half a shot of evan williams and I think one beer....I am at somewhat of an after party consisting of a bunch of people "seeking warmth" on the futon....meanwhile I have eaten at least 6 or 7 honey and oat granola bars and played a keyboard unexpertly (I normally abstain from such behavior.....)

― emilys. (emilys.), Saturday, 29 October 2005 07:05 (twenty years ago)

It is 4 am my time (how the fuck did that happen)

― emilys. (emilys.), Saturday, 29 October 2005 07:05 (twenty years ago)

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