Random Thoughts

[Trev]

If someone doesn't start drinking until their 30s, can they get away with easy enough hangovers, or would they automatically start much worse

[John Kimble]

Nah, drink is mainly an age thing and tolerance less so. I switched from shitty beers years ago and became a dyed-in-the-wool IPA only person. I'd consider myself to have a relatively high threshold for alcohol and I generally don't make a complete tit of myself on the rare occasion I go all out on a session. But fuck me I pay for it the next day. And sometimes the day after. I can definitely remember in the old college years going on an all night sesh and still functioning relatively ok the next morning. These days, if there's a work night out planned, I normally take annual leave the following day.
It's just horrible. The fear...the headaches...the nausea.

[ochoill]

I used to be ruthless and invincible too but last year sometimes I realised the drink mixing was the real killer.  That and stout.  And IPAs.  Shame because I love all these of those things.  Now I just drink Tuborg, Harp, and Carlsberg - can easily put away 10-12 and stay awake until all hours but get up the next day and get on with it grand, usually 7-8am.  I'm nearly 40.  You just have to figure out what works I suppose

[astfgyl]

I used to be ruthless and invincible too but last year sometimes I realised the drink mixing was the real killer.  That and stout.  And IPAs.  Shame because I love all these of those things.  Now I just drink Tuborg, Harp, and Carlsberg - can easily put away 10-12 and stay awake until all hours but get up the next day and get on with it grand, usually 7-8am.  I'm nearly 40.  You just have to figure out what works I suppose

The lies the lies     

Ah jaysus when I think about how fucking poisoned you've always been    

[astfgyl]

Actually he's fair enough about some of it as well. If I'm sitting at home I can't possibly get locked like I'll always just fall asleep before anything that could be even slightly misconstrued as being wankered, but if I go out and especially if I come into contact with any other humans at all, I am consumed by an instant ossification that no amount of drink or combinations of drink at home can ever get me to.

So I've learned to only go out of the house sometimes

Edit: as a prime example of this, I've just found a half mug of jagermeister on a shelf that can only be there since last Sunday and knocked it back but all that will happen is it will make me more tired.

Do that in a pub though, and there's a strong chance nobody will ever talk to me again. Mad really

[Ducky]

If someone doesn't start drinking until their 30s, can they get away with easy enough hangovers, or would they automatically start much worse

I actually didn't start drinking regularly until my 30s. Got drunk all of twice in my 20s - once at a friend's wedding, and once sitting up with Barry (Bane from the old forum) while watching Death's "Live in LA" on repeat until the pair of us passed out on the couch

Bizarrely, the catalyst for me finally having a sup was - counterintuitive as it may sound - diabetes. As in, I was diagnosed at 28 (recently vindicated with the fact I was rediagnosed with LADA, AKA "type 1.5", which is an autoimmune disease, not like the usually largely self-inflicted type2 - my original diagnosis). I'd usually have a fizzy pop in the pub, but with diabetes being handed a "full fat" sugared beverage instead of a diet was very bad news indeed. So I found it a lot easier to order a beer instead as there's no ambiguity in terms of glucose content.

I lived down in Cork in 2018 for a year when I was 36. Worked in an office with almost entiely married (with kids) women, so the options for meeting people through work weren't great. So I found myself heading to a lot of social events and having a sup. Work was also hellish, living situation wasn't great either (live in landlord - absolutely do not recommend), so after work I'd just head for a beer and food (I worked in the city center) by myself just to unwind. Usually brought a book too.

I remember heading home on holidays and meeting one of the boys for beers. He was genuinely shocked at how I could put the booze away. I'd stay with my brother when I was back home, and he had a "WTF" moment when I sat putting the nine bottles I got from the offie away with zero issue.

Hangovers? No bothers.

Nowadays (at 42)? Banjaxed and hungover with a few. Was out for a thing last night and had three pints of Smithwicks (3.8%) and the hangover this morning was murder. Boozing has scaled back massively, so my own anecdotal experience is taking up drinking in the 30s and the resultant hangovers felt bound to how much you were used to putting away.

[Hellyeah]

48 years of age here and the hangovers are near non existent, just tired the next day. Defo drink more now than in my 20s. I think the trick is not mixing drinks even beers, and if I'm going on a big one hydration before going out and before bed. And definitely eat something mid session.
As astfgyl said find it hard getting pissed at home, just fall asleep but if I'm out especially at a gig I'm an absolute fiend for alcohol.
Example at kerbdog few weeks ago, mates falling asleep in hotel room at 3am (hardened drinkers)and I wanted to go back to bar for more.
Awake at 9am still half cut but functional, maybe genetics play a part in it.

[ldj]

I'm in my late 20's and have probably had 5 hangovers in my life. I think the choice of drink comes down to it, if I was properly on a session and stuck with beer all night I'd probably be fucked the next morning, but I've found if I have 3-4 beers then move on to a spirit/mixer, I'll be grand, think the mixer keeps me hydrated or something.

[astfgyl]

To be fair, sticking to the one thing certainly helps a lot

[Hellyeah]

To be fair, sticking to the one thing certainly helps a lot

Agreed, I remember a few years back going to an Opeth gig. For what ever reason pre gig was drinking hop House 13, drinking Heineken at gig and maybe carlsberg at hotel. Woke up next day and felt like a spike had been driven through my skull.
To this day have no memory of the gig. Absolutely zero.

[astfgyl]

Had one like that waiting up for the UFC and drank 6 cans of lager before moving on to 6 cans of Orchard Thieves (forgive me, it was new out at the time) but yeah can't remember any of the fights and the hangover was fucking excruciating. The blinding headache was almost unparalleled.

[Eoin McLove]

I was driving home just now and turning down onto our road which is a proper country road, unsealed, rough as a bear's arse and out of the way. A dude turns in front of me from an adjoining road... on a fucking unicycle! I didn't have so much as a stone to launch at the cunt

[astfgyl]

Wtf   

[astfgyl]

Was watching a thing about some soundproof room that nobody can put down an hour in because it's so ridiculously quiet in there. Lads saying it was making them panic and whatnot.

Got to thinking then about how deaf people manage it. Like fully deaf ones.

It must be the lack of feeling the sound rather than the lack of noise that does it then. Even at seemingly no volume. Cool

[Mithrandir]

I'm in my late 20's and have probably had 5 hangovers in my life. I think the choice of drink comes down to it, if I was properly on a session and stuck with beer all night I'd probably be fucked the next morning, but I've found if I have 3-4 beers then move on to a spirit/mixer, I'll be grand, think the mixer keeps me hydrated or something.

I used to be the same until I turned 30, now I'm on suicide watch for about 2 weeks after a big sesh.