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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

Doobs before beer, yer a bit of a queer
Beer before doobs, LOOK AT MY BOOBS

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 17 May 2004 05:52 (nineteen years ago) link

beeer and bboze and doobs and boobs is ofur out of five of my favoite things

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 17 May 2004 06:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Now THAT I'd love to see Julie Andrews singin'

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 17 May 2004 06:10 (nineteen years ago) link

drinking at night, get in a fight
drinking all day, u r all gay.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 17 May 2004 06:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I LIKE TO DRINK BOOZE BUT LORTAB IS KIICKING IN NOW GNIGHT

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 17 May 2004 06:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I did see an advert or programme or something in which the police said that eating before you drink will have no effect. Don't remember why though, something to do with where liquid goes compared to solids I think....

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 17 May 2004 07:11 (nineteen years ago) link

One goes in the pee pee and the other in da poo poo.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 17 May 2004 09:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Fruit-based beers are for girls

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 17 May 2004 09:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Sloshy Joshy to thread (I wish).

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 17 May 2004 09:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Mr C from the Shamen should have had a club night called "I before E". Did he do this?

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 17 May 2004 10:22 (nineteen years ago) link

* Absinthe causes madness - FALSE

No scientific evidence at all for this common claim.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 17 May 2004 10:27 (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". I'm not saying they're making it up, or even that it's psychosomatic, but I have just never been able to understand why such things might happen.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 17 May 2004 10:35 (nineteen years ago) link

We're agreed then?

Different drinks have different emotional effects - FALSE

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 17 May 2004 10:40 (nineteen years ago) link

drink half a bottle of absinthe
in rotherhithe
get yourself lost in a labyrinth
ingesting platyelminthes

― The Streets (ken c), Monday, 17 May 2004 10:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I heard an 'alcohol boffin' on the radio state quite baldly that its inhibition-lowering effects were entirely socially learned, which was interesting.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 17 May 2004 10:43 (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.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 17 May 2004 10:44 (nineteen years ago) link

That was a great little poem from The Streets, incidentally. Isn't there a name for that kind of 4-line, AABB rhyme poem?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 17 May 2004 10:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Original Pirate Material

― 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

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

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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...

http://health.usnews.com/wellness/articles/2016-10-25/why-you-should-stop-drinking-hand-sanitizer

― 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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