Booze consumpshion

[visiblenoise]

2-3 to feel it. 6-7 is my danger zone.

I tend to throw up before I black out or become dangerously impaired, and so luckily I've never blacked out or become dangerously impaired. I think I like it because it's a good signal to stop. Actually, it's not even a signal. Alcohol makes me retch around that point so I wouldn't let my mother convince me to have more.

 

[Ten Foot Bunny]

I tend to drink once every month or two, and I buy enough for two nights of good times (which are usually subsequent). My poison of choice is Mike's Harder Strawberry Lemonade or, if that's not in stock, the Black Cherry flavor.

If money is no object, then it's vodka. Always, always, always vodka. Stoli in particular. It gives me the smoothest buzz while allowing me to maintain my usual hyperactivity and chattiness. Yes, I'm a social drinker, and yes, I giggle A LOT when I get some drinks in me.

Despite how infrequently I drink, it takes three or four pint-size double vodka concoctions in one hour to get me tipsy. My liver was once described by a doctor as a "rock star," and coincidentally, another doctor told me this morning that it's a "superhero." She was checking blood work that I had done a few months ago, and is stumped trying to figure out why a certain medication doesn't work on me when it works on every other patient for whom she prescribes it (in doses that are 1/4 the size of mine, no less). It wasn't simply a case of "minimal effects," it was more along the lines of the medication working with 2% efficiency when compared to typical outcomes.

Well, since livers metabolize medications AND alcohol, it should come as no surprise that I can drink those four double vodkas and the effects of them wear off in about an hour. No headaches, no hangovers, nothing of the sort. People are usually shocked that a really skinny (but very tall) girl like myself can drink extremely large men under the table, but I can do it with ease. Some people simply quip that the alcohol must be going to my long legs. lol

At this point though, I haven't had a drop of alcohol since the beginning of August. Truth is, I shouldn't be drinking with the medications I'm on, but I'm only human, and I have a passionate desire to let my feathers fly every once in a while.

 

[Tiger King]

One is not likely to get arrested for public drunkeness unless one is being an asshole... Or the cop is racist.

Its sorta law we have so cops can arrest people being jerks.

I agree, although i'm pretty sure this law does get abused a little bit.
What state do you live in? the definition of public drunkenness is different from state to state I believe.
In California it is not a crime to be drunk in public, even if you are wavering a bit or slurring your speech.
It is only a crime if you are putting yourself in danger whilst intoxicated, or someone else, or are obstructing the right of way.

As you said though, most of these instances occur when people are being jerks.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

One is not likely to get arrested for public drunkeness unless one is being an asshole... Or the cop is racist.

Its sorta law we have so cops can arrest people being jerks.

I agree, although i'm pretty sure this law does get abused a little bit.
What state do you live in? the definition of public drunkenness is different from state to state I believe.
In California it is not a crime to be drunk in public, even if you are wavering a bit or slurring your speech.
It is only a crime if you are putting yourself in danger whilst intoxicated, or someone else, or are obstructing the right of way.

As you said though, most of these instances occur when people are being jerks.

New York. The only person I ever know that got busted for it was a black guy, actually a professor believe it or not. He was having a beer in a park with a friend (the beer brown bagged, BTW) and the cops gave him shit about it.

I've always thought it was kinda fucked up rule. How do we claim to live in a free country where you can't be drunk on the beach?

 

[KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime]

New York. The only person I ever know that got busted for it was a black guy, actually a professor believe it or not. He was having a beer in a park with a friend (the beer brown bagged, BTW) and the cops gave him shit about it.

I've always thought it was kinda fucked up rule. How do we claim to live in a free country where you can't be drunk on the beach?

Most places only have intoxicated in public laws for people who are being a danger to themselves and others, or being a public nuisance because of their level of intoxication.

Drinking in public is a different animal here in the US. I live in Nevada and open containers in public places are pretty much universally illegal state wide, though I think you can get away with in more secluded areas. Still open container laws are pretty common place in the United States, then again we have a lot of puritan hangups still, which is why there are so many dry counties kicking about still. Generally where I live if you get caught with an open alcohol container the police just tell you to pour it out. I had a friend who downed a 200 ML vodka when the police did it to him, his response to their unamused looks: "Well you didn't tell me where to pour it." Made the cops laugh, he only got an unofficial warning.

 

[01189998819991197253]

New York. The only person I ever know that got busted for it was a black guy, actually a professor believe it or not. He was having a beer in a park with a friend (the beer brown bagged, BTW) and the cops gave him shit about it.

I've always thought it was kinda fucked up rule. How do we claim to live in a free country where you can't be drunk on the beach?

Most places only have intoxicated in public laws for people who are being a danger to themselves and others, or being a public nuisance because of their level of intoxication.

Drinking in public is a different animal here in the US. I live in Nevada and open containers in public places are pretty much universally illegal state wide, though I think you can get away with in more secluded areas. Still open container laws are pretty common place in the United States, then again we have a lot of puritan hangups still, which is why there are so many dry counties kicking about still. Generally where I live if you get caught with an open alcohol container the police just tell you to pour it out. I had a friend who downed a 200 ML vodka when the police did it to him, his response to their unamused looks: "Well you didn't tell me where to pour it." Made the cops laugh, he only got an unofficial warning.

Drunk in public is broad enough to get you arrested by a cop who wants to give you a hard time, simply if you're drunk. The reality though, is that a cop who wants to give you a hard time already has many nastier and easier options. You won't be convicted, but they might "lose" you in the system for a weekend. Better to assume the law as written and stay out of the system in the first place. No record is your best defense against LEO's giving you shit. They tend to pick on targets who won't be believed, and upstanding citizens with no record don't fit that bill.

 

[KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime]

Drunk in public is broad enough to get you arrested by a cop who wants to give you a hard time, simply if you're drunk. The reality though, is that a cop who wants to give you a hard time already has many nastier and easier options. You won't be convicted, but they might "lose" you in the system for a weekend. Better to assume the law as written and stay out of the system in the first place. No record is your best defense against LEO's giving you shit. They tend to pick on targets who won't be believed, and upstanding citizens with no record don't fit that bill.

Generally the most they can do is stick you in the drunk tank, though generally they release people on recognizance after the morning shift change, provided they're under the legal limit on that point. The people they "lose" in the system are generally repeat offenders, generally with lots of misdemeanors, the sort of thing that gets short sentences, making the officer in question feel like justice was never done. Either that, or people who directly disobey orders, resist arrest, and are generally belligerent. Well those and if the cop has an unpleasant history with the offender. Still most cops really don't want to have to deal with the paper work of an arrest, unless they absolutely have to. I see so many domestics where arrests should happen and the cops do nothing.

 

[Lufia Erim]

When I was young, I used to binge drink myself into a stupor. Part of it was being in the Army, part of it I was stupid, and another part was that I can't stand the taste of alcohol, and I can taste a drop of it in a 55 gallon drum. The only time I could stomach the stuff was when I wanted to get completely shit faced.

When I turned 21, me and some friends went out bar hopping. I got drunk beyond reason, became friends with a dead armadillo, and passed out standing up. I fell and hit my head on a bambo floor, and got what a neurologist described to me four days later as a 'massive concussion.' Split my brain in two places, and was told I was lucky I could breath without drooling all over myself. They told me never to drink again, simply because if I ever got drunk and fell down again I'd probably end up brain dead.

The only booze I've had since then was one glass of wine, when an associate of mine died during the first Fort Hood shootings.

Alcohol aficionados, how much can you drink before you start feeling the effects of your terrible mistake in earnest? How many drinks do you normally consume before you walk in squiggly lines and become a pub quiz liability?

Hmmm... I have a fairly impressive resistance to drugs in general, and alcohol in particular. So... This is for tipsy.

And these are for drunk.

Quick question. Do you mix it with something or take it straight?

OT: I'm a sambuca drinker myself. 1 glass, a couple of ice cube and I'm good to go.

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

I'm seriously lapsed as a drinker. It's part disinterest and part wanting to feel like I can jump up and drive somewhere at any point.

My drinking is basically gin or whisky in the wee-small-hours of the morning when I couldn't possibly have anywhere to be.

So, yeh... I get drunk pretty easily when I get called to social events and end up drinking beer.

 

[Artina89]

I have spent the past couple of months recovering from an extremely bad kidney infection (my doctor came extremely close to taking out my kidney). On top of that I have recently been diagnosed with gluten intolerance so a mixture of those factors mean that I don't drink, and I find that I don't really miss it.

 

[MysticSlayer]

I realized how little tolerance I have to alcohol the night I decided to drink two beers that were only at 5.6% ABV back-to-back. It didn't affect me much. I rarely drink more than one beer in a sitting. That was just an unusual night when I had to empty my fridge in order to defrost it the next morning. Also, most of the beers that I occasionally do drink two of in a sitting are much lower in alcohol.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

A whole lot less now on a steady course of pills, tablets, and the monthly injections. I still manage to polish a bottle or two of red wine each day, it's not good but a glass of red every few hours seems okay. Helps me focus... dulls the sharp edges at the corners of my headspace. It's not like I'm working anymore. So it's not like it's a moral failure... if I was still working I'd go dry, but I figure I should get a chance to relax and enjoy life.

I've earned an easy retreat from public life. Well... I can afford it.

 

[Loonyyy]

My relationship with alcohol is abusive. It messes me up, and I drink it all up before doing horrible things to whatever container it came in.

I've got the utmost respect for anyone who chooses not to drink. It's a superior life choice, and I wish I could do that, but it makes it a hell of a lot easier to get to sleep.

My tolerance for it has become disturbingly high.

 

[Flames66]

I drink now and then, always socially, never alone. I don't think too much about it.

Interesting. Is there a reason for never drinking alone?

I personally prefer to have a few beers or a glass of wine or whiskey while relaxing alone at home. It is very rare I go drinking with anyone else.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I drink now and then, always socially, never alone. I don't think too much about it.

Interesting. Is there a reason for never drinking alone?

It's just not something I do unless I'm going out with a friend and we want to liven it up. I'm more of a 3 AM chamomille guy myself.

 

[Xeros]

If money is no object, then it's vodka. Always, always, always vodka. Stoli in particular. It gives me the smoothest buzz while allowing me to maintain my usual hyperactivity and chattiness. Yes, I'm a social drinker, and yes, I giggle A LOT when I get some drinks in me.

This. Vodka is smooth as eggs, tastes like nothing, and can be mixed with just about everything. With how giddy I become under the effects of alcohol, vodka is perfect. Ciroc is a personal preference if money isn't tight, but it usually doesn't matter. A little Sprite, and even Vlad/BC go down just as easy.

Mike's Harder Strawberry Lemonade

Would've also said these, but after last New Year's, I can't even look at the stuff.

OT: It takes quite a bit for it to start hitting me, and that's before I've eaten. I don't really keep count though, so it's hard to say exactly how much. A normal night of drinking for us can last upwards of 6-10 hours. Granted, my friends and I have grown fond of some pretty ludicrous shots, so once a few "snake bites" and "liquid heroins" enter the fray, all bets are off.