Not so random question
I was feeling sad and sorry for myself and then drank like a fifth of Jameson’s whiskey and now I feel awesome. Is this one of those “bad lessons to learn”?
I was feeling sad and sorry for myself and then drank like a fifth of Jameson’s whiskey and now I feel awesome. Is this one of those “bad lessons to learn”?
September 9th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Yes.
September 9th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
You have nothing to worry about until you start thinking “Leaving Los Vegas” is a feel-good story.
September 9th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
Haha “Leaving Los Vegas”? Is that like the bootleg version starring Telemundo actors?
September 9th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
Oh no. It’s not that you’re learning a bad lesson. It’s just that the lesson doesn’t start for a few hours.
September 10th, 2009 at 6:17 am
How have you not discovered this earlier!??!
September 10th, 2009 at 7:15 am
I think you are just in training for our drinking contest.
September 10th, 2009 at 8:34 am
Ok, about our bet…how would we determine “drunkenness,” because as I’ve explained me not being drunk is most often characterized by me telling others that I’m not drunk, I’m just always like this. So while I may appear drunk, I’m really not. We should have like a pre drunk test and then the same test post drunk…
September 10th, 2009 at 8:35 am
Also, we should do it my house, and u guys can sleep over! We can play mahjong!
September 10th, 2009 at 8:52 am
Yay! Mahjong! Totally.
September 10th, 2009 at 9:28 am
That sounds kind of awesome, except at your house you would have homecourt advantage. Still, I’ll give you that. And still, I’ll drink you under the table.
I would say that the easiest way to see who wins (or loses really) would be who passes out first, but I’m a sleepy girl by nature so even with no alcohol I might be the first out.
We’ll come up with some way to judge. Do they make home breathalyzers?
September 10th, 2009 at 9:55 am
I don’t think the breathalyzer will help here, since “drunkness” in this context is about altered behavior. We need parameters here!
September 10th, 2009 at 10:16 am
Right! I would definitely not drive my car even after like two drinks, just because anything could happen and I dont want there to be any question that I’m just a bad driver, not a drunk one.
September 10th, 2009 at 10:26 am
I act ridiculous while completely sober, so we have to clear to judge by “altered” behaviour.
#damnstraightIstucktheuinthere.
September 10th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Hahaha! I was about to be what’s with all the “u”? Are we suddenly British?
I would suggest walking a straight line, but I can’t do it when I’m sober.
September 10th, 2009 at 11:12 am
I love the British “u”! It puts colour in our otherwise dreary American lives.
September 10th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Oh, and recite the alphabet backward is a good drunk test.
September 10th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Pearatty, I probably couldn’t recite the alphabet forward, sober, without making a dumb mistake due to the immense pressure.
Thinking up the right test is going to be difficult…remember the target audience of who will be taking the test.
September 10th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Yeah I can’t recite the alphabet backwards either. #drunkfail
September 10th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Count backwards from 100?
September 10th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
I’m not good with the maths.
September 10th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
A triathlon of fun!
Nine step walk and turn. The test consists of walking heal to toe for nine steps, a turn, and nine steps back. The officer is looking for:
Wobbling
Falling
How much you use your arms for balance
Starting before he finishes the instructions.
The one leg stand: This test has you balance on one leg and count, or say the alphabet. The test reports to measure your ability to divide your attention between two tasks. They look for:
Swaying.
Hopping.
Using you arms for balance.
Putting your foot down.
The horizontal gaze nystagmus test, also known as the pen test. Nystagmus is the bouncing of the eyes when they are all the way to the left or the right. If you fail this, there is a 77% chance that you are above .10 BAC.
September 10th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
So Alceste will be judging!
September 10th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
yeah I was gonna say, this is getting complicated…I think we need impartial judges.
September 10th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
I am only judging if you do it after the next IHO tournament (or perhaps we could have a drunky break instead of a cupcake break)
September 10th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Never have a drinking contest in your home, unless you do not mind cleaning up after the “winners.”
Didn’t you learn this lesson in college or law school?
September 10th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Bahahahah I didnt think of that, chsw. But I’m fairly certain Angela will be down after two beers and I’ll take pdov out after…um…four beers. #hippiesdrinkalot
September 10th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Sounds like someone thinks that Obama’s speech worked. Free rehab for everyone!
September 11th, 2009 at 7:48 am
Beer makes me sleepy, so yes, two and I’m out.
September 11th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Why beer? I prefer hard liquor please. #imnotahippieiamrussian #kindaofalush
September 11th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
hahahaha
September 11th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
My vote is for wine, or for vodka drinks. Whatever it is, we all have to be drinking the same thing. And if it’s mixed drinks, we have to be all official-like an use a measuring device.
September 11th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Keeping in mind post-contest cleanup, on your behalf, I’m voting for vodka shots. Beer will be the most likely to induce vomiting, because it fills up your belly so much more than the equivalent amount of alcohol in a hard liquor shot. Same with wine, plus, red wine is the only wine worth drinking, and you DEFINITELY do not want to be on the wrong end of a red-wine sick. Almost all mixed drinks are out for the same reasons. Good whiskey/scotch is the best of the hard liquors, but you won’t appreciate it after the first couple of shots, so it would be a waste of money. Meanwhile, a mid-range priced Vodka is really as good as a more expensive one. Plus, the colour (or absence thereof) of Vodka means it is the clear (heh, get it? clear?) winner on post-contest cleanup.
God I miss drinking.
September 11th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Pearatty you gave up drinking?! *bows head* I agree Vodka is the way too go.
Isn’t the point to see Dawn drunk, Angela and me getting drunk is just bonus.
September 11th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
“Pearatty you gave up drinking?!”
Well only for another 21 and 1/2 weeks.
“Isn’t the point to see Dawn drunk”
Of course; that’s why I say take strawberry daquiris off the table. You KNOW Dawn will cheat if you do mixed drinks. Also, make sure Alceste checks the ph of her Vodka shots — I wouldn’t put it past her to water them down.
September 11th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
HOLD UP! I just figured out why Dawn can’t get drunk. Y’know how Jesus turned water into wine?
Do the math, people.
September 11th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
You may be on to something there, Angela.