Used to be about weaseling free stuff from Pizza Hut, now about more trifling matters
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You might be allergic. I knew a guy who's allergic to malt alcohols. He gets nasty side-effects before he gets to a pleasant buzz.
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I used to be able to drink like retard until I hit about 35. Now if I drink anywhere from 2 to 6 beers (with no reason or indication of how many) I get an appaling day-long hangover, and also my wife shouts at me, which is too much to bear in my weakened state. Nowadays I might have a whiskey or a sake every couple of months.
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Lucky bastard
Compared to you, yes it sounds like it. Compared to the rest of my family I'm definitely a lightweight.
I'd assume you all meant lethal poisoning
Ah, I see. In that case, LD50 in rats is about 7g/kg. Assuming similar for adult human because laboratory tests don't get past the ethics committee and 80kg body mass, that's 1400mL of 40% ABV spirits. Most spirits are sold in 750mL bottles. Two bottles. Or 11L of 5% ABV beer, which is 15 longnecks (750mL) or 18 pints or 26 schooners. Or 3.7L of 15% ABV wine, less than six bottles.
I would be very ill and unable to continue at about a quarter of that amount, and I'd really regret it in the morning, but some people find themselves having drunk that much, especially when playing drinking games.
And of course there are associated risks (eg. choking on your own vomit) at lower amounts but I don't think that's what was meant.
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Unfortunately I can't bear the taste of alcohol and entirely dislike the sensation of being poisoned.
Once again, you've lost your goddamned mind...
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Assuming similar for adult human because laboratory tests don't get past the ethics committee
It's not like that didn't make it a well studied problem. It seems standard potentially lethal (or at least causing a disability) dose for humans is somewhat smaller - 0,4% BAC, which according to Wikipedia amounts to 200mg of ethanol over the course of an hour, or just about half a litre of vodka.
It's not entirely inconceivable to drink yourself to death this way - the reason not many people do is that you don't normally drink that fast, which not only helps metabolism, but also causes you to, well, not be able to drink further once you black out.
Filed under: lethal dose 0,4% BAC; does not apply to Poles and Russians
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>sherry trifle.
Silly Pom, none of the Yanks here know what that is.
It's trifle, with sherry in it.Okay, so before the dizziness is supposed to be a pleasant state of mild happiness (a "buzz") which persists through the dizzy stage and into loss of coordination.
Never noticed that. First thing is my head spinning. Which is after two small drinks, as best I can remember. That's unpleasant and it only gets more unpleasant from then. If there's any 'buzz' I've never noticed it, though I suppose it could just be that the good feeling isn't enough to cancel out the ill feeling.
I have no idea how much I had that one time I got completely smashed, because a) I don't really remember how many drinks I had and b) most of the drinks were out of a bucket and heaven only knows what exactly was in it and how much. Don't drink out of buckets.
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I have no idea how much I had that one time I got completely smashed, because a) I don't really remember how many drinks I had and b) most of the drinks were out of a bucket and heaven only knows what exactly was in it and how much. Don't drink out of buckets.
Hmm… now it's sounding at least a bit psychological. But I'm no doctor, just a curious hedgehog who writes code
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Hmm… now it's sounding at least a bit psychological.
I was 18, and newly away from home, and trying to act like everyone else, and my corridor in halls was the hardest-partying set in the whole place, and they were partying extra hard because it was someone's birthday, and I was just drunk enough to believe everyone who kept saying that if I kept drinking I'd feel better.
I learned a lot from the experience.
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I've been meaning to try this place which is in the same general area:
But it's hard to justify driving half an hour when this place is 10 minutes away from me:
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Damn. I don't often go out for bbq. It's more fun to make my own. But those look promising. I might have to make some pilgrimages this weekend.
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It's trifle, with sherry in it.
Silly Pom, none of the Yanks here know what either of those things are either!
What kind of trifle doesn't have sherry in it? Without sherry it's not a trifle, it's just cake and fruit. Boo!
Don't drink out of buckets.
Ah, I see you have learned one of the most important lessons.
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What kind of trifle doesn't have sherry in it? Without sherry it's not a trifle, it's just cake and fruit. Boo!
You'd have liked my grandmother's trifle. There was only enough cake and fruit in it to make it so that it wasn't exactly like swigging sherry straight from the bottle…
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Silly Pom, none of the Yanks here know what either of those things are either!
Really? They don't have trifle in the US?
What kind of trifle doesn't have sherry in it? Without sherry it's not a trifle, it's just cake and fruit. Boo!
Well the Yanks have a habit of making non-alcoholic versions of things that should have alcohol in and calling them by the same name.
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Really? They don't have trifle in the US?
I'm pretty sure they do. Maybe they just don't put sherry in it.
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I'm pretty sure they do. Maybe they just don't put sherry in it.
I'm willing to bet at least one of them has put beer in it.Well, I say 'beer': most Americans' idea of beer is weak lager that's yellower than piss and about as appetising.
I'm a bit of a beer snob
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*steals as possible future avatar*
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Needs a hatting and monocling.
Huge walrus-looking mustache optional.
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Needs a hatting and monocling.
Oh, obviously. But @abarker's services won't be required just yet; I still have other avatars to use first. And the one from @accalia I'll be changing to later today is something… specialI just wish I could find her an avatar that's even half as good as the one she found for me…
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Really? They don't have trifle in the US?
I could be wrong, but I think it's a very English thing. Especially the sherry.
Well the Yanks have a habit of making non-alcoholic versions of things that should have alcohol in and calling them by the same name.
Like beer?
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You'd have liked my grandmother's trifle. There was only enough cake and fruit in it to make it so that it wasn't exactly like swigging sherry straight from the bottle…
That's the best way to do it. The cake should be well and truly soggy.
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Especially the sherry.
You need to be wearing a monocle just to say the word "sherry"...
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You need to be wearing a monocle just to say the word "sherry"...
I'm not sure that a monocle would go with my hat.
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A man is lost in the desert. He's about to die of thirst when he finds three market stalls. Thinking he's saved, he cralws to the closest stall and croaks "Water. Water"
"Sorry", says the stallholder, "All I have is sherry"
The man crawls to the next stall and croaks out "Water. Water"
"I wish I could help you", says the second stallholder, "but all I have in my stall is sponge fingers"
Pretty desperate, the man makes it to the third stall and croaks "Water. Water"
"Lets see", says the third stallholder. "No, sorry. All I have is fruit and whipped cream"
"What is happening here? You have three market stalls in the middle of the desert with no water, but sherry, sponge fingers, fruit and cream galore?"
"Yes", says the stallholder. "I agree, it is a trifle bazaar"
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My mother made what she called English Trifle as a birthday cake when we were kids. But she didn't use Sherry. She used Southern Comfort (it's a sweet, whiskey-flavored liqueur), and she absolutely loaded it up with the stuff.
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I could be wrong, but I think it's a very English thing. Especially the sherry.
We have trifle in the colonies. It is not terribly common, and a lot of people probably have no idea WTF it is, but I have had it and made it.
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My mother made what she called English Trifle
Have you tried Polish Trifle? Main ingredients: