drinking stupidity......

[Kirstie]

University is the place for these kinds of drinking binges> all of mine were in my first year: 2/3 bottle of southern comfort made me feel a bit ill; and then, my record 11 pints of guinness and blackcurrant, and 5 tequila slammers. Shocking.

Nowadays it's 2 pints or 2 glasses of wine and thats my lot!

 

[swee'pea99]

Started a tequila and hot knives party in our flat at two in the afternoon. By three, no-one was moving. Literally. The entire 'party' must have lasted about 35 minutes.

 

[Fnaar]

[quote name='swee'pea99']Started a tequila and hot knives party in our flat at two in the afternoon. By three, no-one was moving. Literally. The entire 'party' must have lasted about 35 minutes.[/QUOTE]
[reminiscing mode] ah.... hot knives

 

[Aperitif]

Drank everything and anything.

We used to do the "Funnel" though with lager

For those funnel virgins.

You'd get a funnel and a length of hosepipe about a metre long.
You'd then put your thumb over the hose end
Your mate would hold the funnel and pour a can of lager into it slowly so not to get a head on it.
You'd then get ready and then put the hose in your mouth and crouch down while your mate held the funnel as high as he could in one sweeping motion.

The result was despite your ability to down a can or not you could do this in 5 seconds due to gravity. The result after 8 cans in an hour was great.

Got a bit mental when we started using bottles of 'K' cider instead of lager. Many a drunken night with 8 bottles of strong strong cider using the funnel

That's a bit like shotgunning cans of beer - a 'favourite' on tours to Paris by Eurostar.
Key a little hole in a can at the point where the bottom meets the side and place finger over hole.
Get some pathetic question 'wrong' and be forced to put mouth over hole and pull on the ring-pull.
Bad.

 

[TheDoctor]

'Abbot and Eddy'

Like light and bitter, only made with Abbot and St Edmunds Pale Ale (which was about 6%, and isn't made any more)
A rather younger Timelord spent many an evening wrecked on this...

And a Friday night a few years back involving at least 3 bottles of spectacularly good wine and some brandy. I still wanted to die the following Tuesday.

 

[Gromit]

I used to be able to drink lots when I was younger, remember drinking Newcastle brown and diamond white every Friday at a rock club in Wigan. Sparrows in Bolton on a Saturday night for the rock night there.

I spent my 19 Birthday comatose after drinking half a bottle of JD and half a bottle of thunderbirds. Spent most of my teens thinking I had an electric door, (found out later my mum used to open it.).

Don't know what happened really I'm 34 now and get drunk on a pint.

 

[Piemaster]

An epiphany moment for me.
Waking up and finding the other side of the room, to the toilet an awful long way off and making the decision to go for that rather than the phone which was much closer for help. I seriously felt I'd done some major damage to myself. I soaked a t-shirt in the 10' crawled journey in sweat.
The only time I've ever been frightened of what I'd come to, even typing this having just got back from the pub. Perhaps my alcohol consumption matured at that moment, and though still enjoying 'a good drink' never come anywhere close since.

And my tipple at the time? Champagne and strawberries.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

When I first started going to our local rock club I made the mistake of taking advantage of their BOGOF policy...






...by purchasing 2 bottles of Mad Dog 20/20

I remember one of the blokes who used to come on the Citroen 2CV club camps with us used to drink that stuff. No one liked him - he was a petty thief, used to nick stuff from people's tents - and one night he was drinking the weird blue 20/20 stuff. Me and a friend waited untill he'd gone to the loo, then poured half of it away and replaced it with screenwash. Probably potentially dangerous, but he drank the lot while we sniggered drunkenly and seemed fine the next morning.
I seem to remember the same friend pissing in his windscreen washer bottle at another camp. He really wasn't popular.

 

[papercorn2000]

After i posted the 'loss of youth' thread i started thinking about the dumb things we used to drink in the name of entertainment on nights out.


My top 3 were....

Tequila slammers ......but instead of licking, we snorted the salt up our noses

ABC's - Absinth, Bacardi, Curacoa all in the same glass

magnum of champagne each and a staw....very expensive, very drunk.


Anyone have any similar drink related suicide attempts

In that vein, we used to do a tour of the alphabet - predictably, you had to drink something starting with each letter of the alphabet...If you were feeling generous, you could substitute soft drinks at certain points. If you were feeling nasty, you inserted things like certain class b drugs!

 

[Shaun]

Not a very nice one, but Suicide Tequila's:

• Snort salt
• Drink Tequila
• Squirt lemon in eye!

Like I said, not very nice ... but great fun for stag nights when you're well shedded and have that drink induced indestructible feeling.

 

[PaulB]

... myself and a friend tried to finish the bottle of tequila to get the worm for the magical qualities. The only magical quality i remember was the lush carpet on the bathroom floor.

Then it wasn't Tequila.

The use of the worm is exclusive to mezcal, since the Mexican standards authority, Norma Oficial Mexicana (NOM), prohibits adding insects or larvae to tequila.

 

[Night Train]

When I was a teen I did once drink half a crate of Carlsberg (small cans) and half a bottle of vodka in one evening.

Knowing capacity decreases with age I found one day that I could no longer handle 10 pints of cider in an evening out and stopped drinking altogether for a few years. I now only drink maybe a bottle of wine once in a couple of months.

 

[Melvil]

As a student...I had a moment of clarity in an evening of otherwise total amnesia, to find myself drinking vodka and orange juice out of a frying pan....followed by sauteeing a doner kebab in white wine.

 

[grhm]

University is the place for these kinds of drinking binges> all of mine were in my first year: 2/3 bottle of southern comfort made me feel a bit ill; and then, my record 11 pints of guinness and blackcurrant, and 5 tequila slammers. Shocking.

Nowadays it's 2 pints or 2 glasses of wine and thats my lot!

All of my shocking drinking was at uni too.

My "record" was drinking 4-5 newcastle brown ales, then going to the all-night party outside the halls full of final year students (it was a traditional after final binge) holding 3/4ltr of Smirnoff Blue - which (apparently) I drank on my own. I came too in the bedroom of the lass in fancied, in her house at the other side of town - but was shoved in the spare room.

In my final year, we hit upon finishing up the cocktail cabinet by laying on our back, funnel in mouth, pouring spirits into the funnel and pratically inhaling it.

My final year flat mate had a 3litre bottle of vodka that he refused to open unless we drank it in one session, so after finals 4-5 of us drank it in an afternoon.

Can't drink much now at all without major handovers - more than 3 pints is not worth the pain.

 

[Kirstie]

I remember trying to run underneath the goalposts on the university football pitch on one of those nights. Unfortunately the net was still there. I kept on going until it reached its elastic limit and catapulted me backwards and I hit the deck. the next day I woke up wondering why I was covered in squares.