How much drink can you handle

Shamo · 26-04-2003 05:28AM

I have a tendency of blacking out if I get really wasted, but i'd say after about 3-4 i'd be feeling merry and after 6 and a few shots thrown in i'd be pretty well drunk!
At that stage i'd be either sitting down talking bull**** or making a fool of myself on the dance floor!

DriftingRain · 26-04-2003 05:57AM

Is this the most you have drank? Or what it usually takes you to get fuzzy?

The most I have drank was 3 beers and an entire 5th of tequilla. I passed out and threw up all night and all the next day and you can say my toilet was me bestfriend. But at the clubs, with my designated driver or course, I usually drink 6-7 beers to have a very nice buzz with no headach the next morning.

Tusky · 26-04-2003 10:26AM

Originally posted by Amz

I wasn't hungover the next morning though which was nice, till i realised I couldn't feel my legs....

Ill feel them for you ?

hehehhe

anywho i can handle alot of booze but i usually dont drink more than about 6 pints, why ? if i drink any mroe i get seriously bad hangovers...and i mean seriously bad

Pimp Ninja · 26-04-2003 10:57AM

Like has already been said, it's entirely relative, to whatever has been going on. Hours worked, food eaten, amount of exercise that week...

Sometimes I'm 2 beers and I'm giggling like a schoolchild.. Most I've ever had was a pint of mixed spirits (mostly involving this strange swedish homebrew that tasted of liquorish and of an unknown alcohol content), 6 beers, 3 southern comforts, and more that I cant remember. I was still able to walk.

Lately I find myself really tired after a couple of beers, and I'm driving a lot more so my tolerance that I had spent my late teenage years building up, has now been crushed. My younger cousins can drink me under the table now..

Doodee · 26-04-2003 11:17AM

Originally posted by Pimp Ninja
Like has already been said, it's entirely relative, to whatever has been going on. Hours worked, food eaten, amount of exercise that week...

Sometimes I'm 2 beers and I'm giggling like a schoolchild.. Most I've ever had was a pint of mixed spirits (mostly involving this strange swedish homebrew that tasted of liquorish and of an unknown alcohol content), 6 beers, 3 southern comforts, and more that I cant remember. I was still able to walk.

Lately I find myself really tired after a couple of beers, and I'm driving a lot more so my tolerance that I had spent my late teenage years building up, has now been crushed. My younger cousins can drink me under the table now..

yea, im the exact same.
It also depends on length of time u take to consume the alcohol, it takes 45mins for alcohol to have its full effect or sometimes to even start having an effect, I know that if i drink my pints at teh rate i normally do, i can have less and still be merry, then if i knock back shots and cocktails in between pints it tends to have no effect.

Also depends on my mood, if im happy and excited i can knock back a tonne, but if im depressed then I'll get drunker sooner.

Lump · 26-04-2003 01:24PM

Hmmmmmmm where to start.....

It depends.... If I'm going out to drink (which is quite a lot of the time) Now I'm generalising because I'm not really that sad to count what I'm drinking.

Anyway, 4 Pints of Kronenberg, and a large helping of Irish meadow (a triple), before I go out. Get to the pub I normally have about 2 pints then I get all gassed up and start into the cocktails..... I have about 8 cocktails (Milky and fruity, all have a shot of alcohol in them) then I go on to double vodka and coke have four of them before I leave the pub..... also through the night I have some cheap 50p shots, 10 or so. Then I head to a night club, have another few double vodka's and coke (£1.40 each) normally have 6 or so of them...... then its home to who-evers bed. I'm always up for college at eight the next morning. I tend not to get hangovers, no one in college knows how I do it. I'm brill.....

John

KdjaCL · 26-04-2003 01:26PM

Normal night out is 7 pints but spaced.
1 before match
1 half time
5 into the night and im poopy drunk.

If its an away game i can drink from 8am till nightclub closes with match and food breaks.

So 5 pints and i know i have enough, dont matter how much you cna drink its knowing when you have had enough that matters.

kdjac

daveg · 26-04-2003 01:39PM

In my youth (FFS I'm only 28) and when I used to drink a lot we used to down about 20 Jack Daniels between the pub/night club. I had to give it up... unsuprisingly. Now 7-8 pints and I'd be pissed. The first 2/3 seem to have the most effect though.

BTW for the JD drinkers here I drink it with blackcurrent mmm lovely.

QBall · 26-04-2003 02:22PM

Originally posted by Amz
I wasn't hungover the next morning though which was nice, till i realised I couldn't feel my legs....

I thought I was the only one who got hungover from the legs up.

Some drink: Legs don't work properly (I feel like I've been running).
Lots of drink: Legs don't work properly and stomach makes lots of rumbling (needs greasy fry)
Too much drink: Oh sweet Jebus. Leave me alone.

Anyway, back on topic:

Depends on what you mean by "handle".

After little or no food, a sixpack of Carlsberg and half a bottle of JD I redecorated DeadBankClerk's garden. :-)
OTOH on Wednesday night I had 5 cans of Dutch Gold and some Stolichnaya and I was reasonably sober. Clear head in the morning depsite only 3 hours sleep.

phoenix2181 · 26-04-2003 02:34PM

On a usual night out I'd have bout 5 pints of larger & then I'd usually have about 10-12 vodka & 7up's..I'd be drunk but still well in control (not falling over or making a fool of myself) I'm 5'5 bit I'm slightly overweight

BabyEater · 26-04-2003 03:06PM

It depends what you mean by handle. If it is how much you can drink without falling over then i drank 13 pints of guiness and a litre bottle of bulmers between 13:00 and 22:30 So im told . I drank more at another session i was at it was from 12:00 to 2:00. The thing is its a bit of a waste going over 10 as i'm locked on 10 . I hardly ever take shorts just pints.

Space Coyote · 26-04-2003 03:59PM

For me it also depends on how long a session we're talking about. If it's an all-dayer/nighter like a wedding or sommit then I'd drink at least 10 pints of Bulmers and a truckload of all kinds of shorts. And I'd be still able to walk and do stuff after that. If it's a night out on the town then I'd drink about the same, but it would be in a much shorter amount of time so I'd get pister.

bug · 26-04-2003 04:24PM

Give me a bottle of Smirnoff and I'll be uncannily sober by the end of the bottle. Give me six pints and I'd be on my ear.
Strange really but I seem to have an immunity to shorts.
In my entire drinking life I have only collapsed drunk once and puked twice. For the moment I have cut down considerably.

ballooba · 26-04-2003 04:37PM

Pints::

4 Slightly slurring my words
5 Slightly slurring my words
6 Slightly slurring my words
7 Slightly slurring my words, completely rat arsed on the inside but seeming sober to the outside world.
8 Slightly slurring my words, completely rat arsed on the inside but seeming sober to the outside world.
9 Slightly slurring my words, completely rat arsed on the inside but seeming sober to the outside world.
10 Climbing the walls with my trousers on my head while doing a native american war chant.
11 lying in the gutter outside drinking drain water, having lost all major functions.

BLITZ_Molloy · 26-04-2003 04:51PM

I'd say about 15 pints is my limit. I usually drink 8 pints very quickly to get reasonably drunk on my limited 40euro night out budget.

Spirits don't get me that drunk really. I had 16 vodkas one night and I was pretty OK. My system was really poisoned the next day though. Sick as a dog.

dendenz · 26-04-2003 05:49PM

Molloys in Tallaght was done for refusing a 19 year old a bottle of Vodka

aliesneo · 26-04-2003 06:10PM

on an average nite out id have around 8 pints.
wudnt really be drunk. just merry.

Seaneh · 26-04-2003 11:49PM

I never drink to get drunk, normally i'll have like 4, and I'm still sobar.
But 2001, around christmass, people kept handing me drink at my local, and I kept taking them, to be polite and I had.

8 pint bottles.
4 Blue wkd.
5 blue AterShock.
3 Soddy and Red.
and then on to the night club.
Very stupid, I didnt drink for like 4 months after that.

seamus · 27-04-2003 12:04AM

Mine varies wildly depending on how long it's been since I last had a drink, how tired I am, etc etc. A normal night out will usually consist of 4/5 pints and two double vodkas. Or three triple vodkas (depending on how much money I have). Any more than that and I'm hungover till 8pm the next day.

Although my 21st at the start of the month was quite bizarre. 15 cans, a vodka and coke and half a bottle of Moet over 12 hours, and I was only mildly drunk. I assume it's because I was only drinking about one can an hour for the last 5 hours, and so, drinking myself sober.

I've had a half bottle of vodka before and done the whole slur your words, fall over and puke thing, so as I say, my tolerance varies wildly.

I'm quite good at gauging when to stop though. I'll usually stop when I'm singing in Bruxelles, or when my stomach begins to gurgle.

NeVeR · 27-04-2003 12:26AM

I'm 5"10 and about 14 stone and that has nothing to do with what i can drink

It's what i have to Eat before i drink, if i have a BIG meal, like the ones you get at a wedding or at christmas then i could drink about 8 pints and 12 vodka's and redbull maybe more i just said that amount,

But if i had nothing to Eat and went out on a empty... dame i could be pissed on 3-4 pints.

Size does matter aswell. But it's the food that gets me.

CuLT · 27-04-2003 02:16AM

The object of the game is:

To get merry as cheaply as possible, without drinking so little that there was no point in you going out at all :P .

I'd hate to go out and need to drink the amount Lump or Balooba there do. It would cost a ****ing fortune.

aliesneo · 27-04-2003 02:28AM

oh yeah i forgot about that
i agree, eating before you go out can make such a difference!!!
i think u can handle twice the amount of drink if u have a good meal before you go out.

Silverfish · 27-04-2003 02:33AM

Earlier I posted 3 - 4 pints of Guinness.

Well, tonight, I drank:

Two thirds of a bottle of red wine

Two pints of Guinness.

Two double Baileys (no ice) and one Triple Baileys.

And I'm not as drunk as you thinkle peep I am.

Rnger · 27-04-2003 02:47AM

Just got back, I had:

A nagan of vodka(150/250mls? cant remember which) before heading out at about 8pm, and few ends.

Then at "the club", shot of bacardi, 1pint of heineken and a double aftershock.

And im drunk. Stumbled my way home with a friend. Lets see how I am in da morning! Predictions?

I'm gunna change my signuture to: It's all relivtive: Cuz it is!

edit - Also dont ever ever ever smoke. I scabed a smoke on the way home and coughing like hell. My screens coverd wit those little colouredy things when u sneeze/cough on the screen (saliva). I smok enough to feel the craving. DONT! EVER! stupidist thing my entire life ive ever done is put that stupid thing in my mouth over and over. JUst dont! plz. for yourself and your children. DONT SMOKE!

Funky · 27-04-2003 04:56AM

im slightly drunk after 3 or 4 but stay the same drunk till about 8 or 9 when my mind goes completely

cournioni · 27-04-2003 05:14AM

10 pints of Bulmers tonight... I think I'm durnk.

cartman · 27-04-2003 06:43AM

just finsihed my 9th can/pint.had 5 in da pub and 4 when i came home from 2 to 6.42...
im terribly drunk and i know ill have a very very baf hangover tommoeow

cartman

ferdi · 27-04-2003 12:19PM

5 pints and i'm drunk, but thats mainly because i drink em fast...through a straw. yes its true, most of the time i ask for a straw with my pint, i just got into the habbit of it.

so whats peoples opinion on a pint of smithicks with a guinness head? i think its rather good:)

Qualm · 27-04-2003 12:37PM

/me puffs out chest. I can drink a million vodkas, and still be ok, and Im a girl......

Looks like a pissing contest to me, captain.

echomadman · 27-04-2003 01:03PM

hrm..
I find it varies wildly,some nights 2 pints and i'm light headed, other nights 3-4 pints an hour for 4 hours and walk home unaided
also you can build up a tolerance
A few years age (when you could get 5 pints for a tenner) we used to go out every night and drink 5-8 pints, then go to some nightclub and drink 1-3 cans, then go home and polish off the cupbord under the sink

and still get up and go to work/college

Did that every day for quite a while, these days thanks to the multitude of perforations in my stomach, the pain usually stops me from drinking more than 6 pints of cider. (depending on how masochistic i'm feeling on the night)

but i've been known to blow €100 on booze in a 24 hour period... not thats much at todays prices

[note] Drinking excessively is not big or clever:p

How much drink can you handle

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