Drinking Thread & Poll

[Nihilo]

If you ever have a hangover or headache, you played poorly. This is from dehydration. Drink up . . . water, that is.

Also, start drinking as early in the day as possible in order to give your body enough time to fully metabolize the ethanol, so that you can get a restful sleep later that night. Alcohol does not make for a restful sleep, so you want to get it out of your system before you bed down.

And drink lots of water. Drink more than you feel like drinking, you have to drink it like it's medicine.

Any other tips and tricks?

Oh, eyedrops for red-eye. Drinking is a vasodilator so eyedrops can keep you looking sharp even while drinking. It does nothing for the flush, but at least your eyes will look normal.

 

[chrysostom]

Any other tips and tricks?

don't get too much sleep
and
drink fruit juice in the morning

 

[chrysostom]

who are the known drinkers at tol?
besides me of course

 

[Nihilo]

don't get too much sleep
and
drink fruit juice in the morning

I find that sometimes I crave cranberry juice or orange juice the next morning, yes. I also find that if I take enough B vitamins and drink enough water, that I don't awake with that craving.

 

[chrysostom]

I find that sometimes I crave cranberry juice or orange juice the next morning, yes. I also find that if I take enough B vitamins and drink enough water, that I don't awake with that craving.

okay
I will put you down as a known drinker at tol
anyone else?
now is the time to come forward

 

[genuineoriginal]

okay
I will put you down as a known drinker at tol
anyone else?
now is the time to come forward

I had a nice Tequila Sunrise this past weekend.

 

[chrysostom]

I had a nice Tequila Sunrise this past weekend.

is that because you don't know how to make a margarita?

 

[genuineoriginal]

is that because you don't know how to make a margarita?

No, I have margarita mix and salt, but wanted to use the orange juice and grenadine instead.

One of the better margaritas I have had included cactus juice from a prickly pear.
The worst one had a light beer upside down in it.

 

[chrysostom]

No, I have margarita mix and salt, but wanted to use the orange juice and grenadine instead.

One of the better margaritas I have had included cactus juice from a prickly pear.

that was the worst I ever had
and
can't understand how they can call it a margarita

 

[Nihilo]

okay
I will put you down as a known drinker at tol

Okay. And while you're up, could you grab me another?

 

[genuineoriginal]

okay
I will put you down

do you like
to
put people down?

 

[Nihilo]

To be clear: Drinking, on anything other than a relatively full belly, is doing it wrong and playing the game badly. You're going to get drunk, and that's a grave moral offense.

Also, there's a heroin problem---don't drink and shoot smack. That's the primary cause of inadvertent heroin overdose; combining it with drinking. They're both central nervous system depressants, and they both depress you so much that you fall asleep and never wake up. Please avoid.

 

[RCLady]

Only drunkenness is sinful. Drinking in moderation is fine.

People should not go to bars. Bars are always an occasion of sin.*

 

[john w]

Only 4 more hours......

 

[Nihilo]

Remember that alcohol is an unthinking brute that will trounce you if you jump into the ring with it. Not a human being alive nor one who has ever lived has ever drunk alcohol under the table---not gonna happen. Alcohol will destroy you, which is why it is so important, if you imbibe, to treat it with the care that it deserves.

Fill your belly beforehand with food. Drink lots of water before and afterward. Take B vitamins. These are all ways to manage the beast of alcohol, but understand, you'll never defeat it. It is infinitely strong. You can give it your best shot, and it will continually kick your butt.

Also on a finer point of detail: it tempts you to ignore these tips and tricks. It makes you not care so much about slipping up or messing up. It has something to do with it being a central nervous system depressant. You'll be tempted to not drink that extra pint of water; resist. Drink the water. Especially when you don't feel like it. You're trying to not get smashed by the beast, and the beast is, literally, blood-alcohol-content. Water not only dilutes what you've absorbed, but it also helps with the dehydrating effect of the beast. It also will give you a much better night's sleep, even if you do have to awaken to use the facilities a little more frequently than normally. It's better than tossing and turning with a dry mouth and snoring so loudly you wake up the neighbors.

 

[Nihilo]

Also, just in case you didn't know or weren't aware: Blackouts are not necessarily syncope. Blackouts are when you do not remember. You can blackout and remain conscious. It's another sign that you're playing the game poorly, and ethanol is kicking your butt.

 

[Nihilo]

Fill your belly with food before drinking. But with what kind of food? They say that fats and starches are best; but the point is to give this unthinking brute ethanol an obstacle course to go through before it can get to your small intestine, which is where it really absorbs quickly into your blood, raising your blood-alcohol-content, all other things being equal.

They aren't equal because your liver gets right to work metabolizing ethanol as soon as it finds it. So when you've got a blood alcohol content of 0.5, your liver is destroying ethanol at some rate. Soon, you'll be 0.4, 0.3, etc., until it's gone. This is the part of you that can't drink drink under the table. Drink will always drink your liver under the table, and your blood alcohol content will rise too high, and you'll be drunk, and that's grave matter, according to the Church. You don't want to mess with grave matter.

So give the booze an obstacle course, a near-full belly of starches and fatty food is ideal---pizza comes immediately to mind.

Drink plenty of water to artificially lower your blood alcohol content, simply through dilution. Also, to counteract its dehydrating effect.

And take B vitamins, which gives your liver some extra oomph, which it's going to need.

 

[ok doser]

if people didn't get drunk
who
would ever vote for trump?

 

[Krsto]

I went to a Pentecostal church that forbid drinking and made a case scripturally for abstinence but I thought them a bit legalistic and wrong about their exegesis, though I abstained for a few years.

 

[6days]

Drinking is sinful..... for me. However drinking is not necessarily a sin.