Ever drink a fith (750ml) of hard liquor is a relatively short amount of time?

[Locut0s]

I did so once or twice and was really sick after a few hours. But I've drunk 1/2 that amount of many occasions (too many probably).

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

1. No, I like living

[Shell Beau]

5. Hello alcohol poisoning!

Not something I want to die from.

[JVS]

11. WUSS!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

28. Dude, I weigh like 95lbs

[JVS]

31. It's not about how much you weigh. It's about attitude. And the whole, "No, I like living" thing..

well, it's just the wrong mentality to take toward drinking. It's all about the "Fuck it, I'm going to drink like a maniac and if I die, then God better watch his ass because I'm going to be fucking hammered and ready to kick his ass" mentality. That you haven't killed a 5th is fine, it's just the explanation of why that gets you called a wuss. :toast:

[Ikonoklast]

32. With that much booze in you, if you got near an open flame

you'd burn like a Tiki Torch.


Keeps the mosquitoes away, though.

:P

[ReliantJ]

2. Yes.

If a short amount of time is a week in mexico

[Locut0s]

3. No a short amount of time is one night or even a few hours.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

19. A week is not a short amount of time

[ReliantJ]

23. O'RLY?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

29. Shouldn't you be working on your "research" paper?

[ReliantJ]

44. No

[NYC_SKP]

4. You mean THIS week...

Just kidding.

No, not that much that soon, but I've met people who did, it's astonishing.

Alcohol is a solvent, not that far from say, kerosene.

It's a miracle that so much can be consumed without death.

[Brother Buzz]

6. Never, but I witnessed a giant down an Imperial quart in an hour...

one shot at a time. He used to be a business partner with the owner of the bar and was determined to drown his sorrows. Owner cracked the seal on the bottle and proceeded to sell it to him one drink at a time.

I learned from him that pickup trucks and woman are nothing but a mind fuck. He ended up totally smashed, but never passed out. Four five hours later he left when the cab arrived. I don't know if the driver was going to get a tip.

[JVS]

18. Imp. quart? Is that what canadians call of 40 of liquor?

[Locut0s]

25. I think he's just using Imperial to distinguish the different Quart sizes....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quart

[Brother Buzz]

36. Something like that, it was more than an American quart

It was a Canadian whiskey, 1.13652297 liters. I guess the Imperial quart thing is my hangup from back when they were 40 ounces or 5/4 a US quart.

A pints a pound the world around unless you're in Great Briton then it's 20 ounces. :shrug:

I did enjoy drinking my barley sandwiches when I was working in England. ;)

[KatyaR]

7. Yes, many years ago--

I don't recommend it. I wanted to die, even though it did take my mind off the minor drama that I was experiencing in my life at the time.

I had an incredible tolerance when I was young; now I can barely drink a small beer without feeling it the next day. That's a good thing, I think.

[murielm99]

39. I did it once, too, when I was much younger.

I'm not sure why. I passed out and was sick all over someone's car.

I was such a dumb shit at the time that I'm not even sure I realized I could have died from alcohol poisoning. It's not as though it was the first time I was ever drunk, either. I think I was lucky to have survived the incident, and a few other incredibly stupid things I did when I was younger.

[nomorenomore08]

8. I can manage half a fifth, sometimes, over the course of a night (3-4 hours or more).

I don't dare try for the whole thing, though. No reason to send myself to the emergency room.

[leftyclimber]

9. Once, at 10,000 feet.

It was a major error, to say the least.

Thank goodness I was young. I sure as hell wouldn't have survived it now.

[hvn_nbr_2]

10. Given your username, I have to ask:

10,000 feet up a mountain or 10,000 feet in an airplane?

[leftyclimber]

12. I was in Little Cottonwood Canyon, in Utah.

I don't remember most of the evening. Apparently I was quite entertaining....

[Locut0s]

14. I'd imagine he would mean up a mountain. 10k is low for a plane. Also why not a city...

There are cities and towns at that height. I believe that at high altitudes alcohol would be absorbed by your body more quickly than at lower altitudes so he'd have gotten a double punch.

[leftyclimber]

16. I'm a she.

:hi:

But from sea level and visiting friends in SLC, so it was a helluva wallop.

[Locut0s]

26. Oh sorry, I tend to post in other forums more where I just assume most of the populous are men....

One nice thing about DU is there more women ;)

[leftyclimber]

47. That's OK.

I'm used to the assumption that because my username contains "climber" I must be a guy.

:hi:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

13. Yup.

Fifth of wild turkey. From around 8 PM, until about I can't remember.

Apparently it was a hell of party though.

[Danger Mouse]

15. Yeah, back when I was president.

[JVS]

17. I once had a 5th of whiskey between lunch and dinner.

Mom and dad were impressed with my scintillating dinner conversation and my sudden difficulty using utensils. But my razor sharp intellect came to the rescue when I realized my fingers were capable of handling the meal.

[Xipe Totec]

20. Once...

I call it the lost semester.

Partied before finals.

Woke up after finals.

Straight F across the board.

My nadir.

Never again.

[MrSlayer]

21. Yeah, it did not go well.

I won't be doing that again.

[seemunkee]

22. Yeah, a couple of times

Couldn't drink Scotch for a year after one bout.

[Jamastiene]

24. Yes, and I felt like I was dying afterward too.

I won't ever do that again. Note to self: Stop before drinking entire fifth.

[madinmaryland]

27. I think there are a lot of DU'ers in GD:P and GD that do that while posting!

[DarkTirade]

30. Nah, but I don't drink to get drunk.

[kentauros]

33. I can't stand the taste of hard liquor straight.

So, no, I never have.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

34. I may have...

but I don't remember.

[Lucian]

35. Yep.

[enigmatic]

37. Yes

You bet. But not for a long time.

[Reverend_Smitty]

38. I once split a Liter of SoCo with my college roommate

then downed a few shots of tequila and finished the night off with beer cause y'know I needed something like water to keep me from getting dehydrated...lol...I was told I actually said that.

Needless to say it wasn't a fun morning

[Lil Missy]

40. No. I'd puke. Then probably pass out first.

[HopeHoops]

41. Ah, yes, the great tequilla tragedy of 1983 - not my favorite memory

[lukasahero]

43. LOL - I had one of those!

Close to a 5th of the Gold stuff in about 3 hours. It was of 1993 and I was about 100 pounds. I almost didn't survive (especially after I puked in my sister's car. :blush: )

[HopeHoops]

50. I spent two days floating in a bathtub with my heel covering the drain - right by train tracks !!

[surrealAmerican]

42. I don't recall ever having done so, but ...

... had I done so, I would not be able to remember doing it. It's a paradox.

[AngryAmish]

45. I saw a guy chug a quart of Johnny Walker Black once

He then passed out and slept for 20 hours.

I am surprised he didn't die.

[Epiales]

46. When I was in the Marine Corps, this was called "Friday Evening".

I'm only exaggerating a little.

Having to hide the horribly inebriated jarhead from public displays of ridiculousness, followed shortly by cleaning up puke apparently builds esprit de corps.

[montanto]

48. yep.

I used to have 10-12 oz of 100 proof vodka before 7 am every day for years. Finish the bottle around lunch, get another on the way home from work, finish half of that before bed, wake up, repeat. Sound like fun? Yeah, I didn't think so.

[Locut0s]

51. wow.

[TrogL]

49. Yes. A med student declared me dead

[jeff30997]

52. Once,I drank 2/3 of a 40 ounce bottle of Vodka.

Plus a couple of beers for desert.Gee! The next morning I was a Zombie!

[Maestro]

53. JD in high school

on several occasions back in the day. I had suffered from blackouts afterward and remorse for absolutely stupid behavior. I haven't had any where near that amount since those heady mid 80s.

[TK421]

54. Yes...tequila, and I will never do it again n/t

[wartrace]

55. Four ounces is enough, six ounces is the max. (100 proof)

I know when to stop.

[Turbineguy]

56. College

Rum

Ugly.

Sweated rum for two weeks.

Actually it was at Obama's Alma Mater. Oxy.

[Zomby Woof]

57. Yes

College, in the early 90's. In one night of partying.

Jack Daniel's. A complete 750.

I made it to the precipice, but did not get sick. I managed to survive with great thirst the next day, which isn't bad as far as hangovers go. JD had never made me sick, and I wasn't going to start then.

My friend saved the bottle as a souvenir. Despite getting through it with little difficulty, it's not something I had done before or have since.

[OmahaBlueDog]

58. To echo what many have said: 1) Yes 2) College

I thought it'd be a great idea to mix 7 & 7s in those plastic cups you get slurpees in. I woke up on my back, having thrown up. I'm lucky I didn't choke and die.

[vixengrl]

59. As I once told a friend who asked, in that devasted hang-over

known as "drinking out of practice", "How do you do that?" (We split a bottle of sake, and then killed the good part of a bottle of Jim Beam.):

"That's just *Saturday night*."

My capacity is ridiculous. I recall one rather fuzzy occasion at the bar at TGI Friday's, that I put down four vodka martinis, two tequila shots, a Rob Roy, something with a name like "brown heroin" but that wasn't it, which contained Rumpleminze and Godschlager and some brown stuff, and was actually bought for me by an amused fellow patron who did not believe I could throw it down on top of the uneasy things I already had in my guts. Did it. Then I had an "Long Island Iced Tea." And then...something else. I think it was....blue.(They should not serve "visibly intoxicated persons"--I wasn't. I was probably damn intoxicated. It just wasn't "visible.")It was the first time I blew $100 at a bar (there was some appetizers involved, but really--$100 at a TGIFridays'--insanity. Also some beers for my companion--but whev.)

I've had stands where I drank tequila shots so long as other people were buying; usually I need a few beers to get that cocky. I've killed a liter+ of sake at a go. A Growler of mead over an evening (which had me up playing music and having a "sing-along" until the wee hours.) Two bottles of wine a night was my habit for a couple weeks when I was recovering from a back injury. (But, like, we're talking two bottle of Amber Mist.)

I think going drink for drink with a 250-lb former baseball player/punk guitarist where he puked first (a pubcrawl so varied, I can no longer recall the courses, except to note I leaned towards the simple--g&t--rum & coke, maybe three drinks each at about four clubs, or so), and my beer stand at the Great American Brew festival at Baltimore about a decade ago, where, in a five-six hour period I literally went from Anheuser-Busch to Yards and sucked down two-three oz at every stall (literally so drunk when I got back to the hotel that I had to grip the couch I lay on to keep the room from spinning--paradoxically, it gave me miserable insomnia!) go down as personal records of drunken excess.

I've certainly scraped by the equivalent of a fifth of hard liquor on occasion, but because I vary my drinks, it's hard to say how often I've done it. More than once, certainly. The most sick I've ever been was a White Russian binge followed by Vampires (cranberry, vodka, and Chambourd). That combo really looks like a bleeding ulcer coming back up. I've definitely been sick enough to genuinely think I should not ever, ever do it again.

But I still drink. Just not....er....competitively, anymore.

[nomorenomore08]

60. Rumpleminze, Goldschlager, and "something brown"?

The brown stuff wouldn't have been Jagermeister, would it? Because I believe that's known as a Screaming Nazi.

:hi:

And on another note, my hat is off to you, whoever you are. Screw the Puritans - an amazing drinking capacity is something to be proud of, goddamnit!

[vixengrl]

61. Jagermeister--that sounds vaguely familiar.

I'm afraid a corporate bar is a bit PC a place for a beverage called screaming Nazi. Why a heroin reference is better, I'm unsure. I'm fairly sure it was shot of each in the glass, and I was burping "minty" regardless of the other things I had.

It's my plan in life to stay in "hard drinking training" so that, at a moment's notice, I could do a hard stand again. I've seen people my age and a bit older who left of staying in their drunken prime, and they fare miserably, at, say, open bar weddings, long weekends in Las Vegas, and dinners with unreformed boozer like myself. Weekend warriors, with martini migraines and fuzzy tongues their equivalent of "runners' toe" or splints.

Sad.

[B3Nut]

62. You, ma'am, are an inspiration

I raise my glass of Evan Williams and Coke to you. :toast:

(Been trying Evan as my mixer bourbon...I have Knob Creek but I drink that neat. Had some Makers Mark neat with dinner at our fave Italian joint earlier today...that was gooooooooooood, both the booze and the food. Little local joint near my house.)

Fie on the finger-wagging ninnies...drink life to the full!!!

Todd in Cheesecurdistan, who scrupulously avoids anything remotely resembling a motorized vehicle when indulging....