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Friday Fun Thread for December 9, 2022

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Is getting wasted still worth it to you?

I feel I’ve come to a point where, though I used to love drinking heavily and partying, the trade off is just no longer worth it. The hangovers are now exponentially worse than what I had to deal with in the past. Luckily I don’t deal with three day hangovers though, as I’ve heard others report.

Part of this is probably socially mediated, as I grow older and my peer group binge drinks less and less. That makes getting wasted less fun, and means you bear the risk of acting the fool if you go too far. Also, you can’t commiserate about your hangover with your compatriots.

At this point I don’t really know why I get extremely drunk, ever. I still do it occasionally, but it seems for the past year or two I always regret it. As I said above, the trade off just doesn’t make the cut.

I do still enjoy having a couple beers most nights, and I don’t have a problem with that. But I think my days of heavy drinking, chasing some fuzzily and probably inaccurately remembered fun times from college, are over.

I only drink socially. This weekend I (middle age past 30) did a bar crawl with coworkers and I certainly got to the point where I shouldn't drive, but I ended up not having any significant hangover as 1) I ended early and b) I started adding water between drinks to prevent cell dehydration.

Getting completely wasted was something I stopped doing in college because I hate having my weekends stolen from me as they're too useful to be squandered on alcohol recovery. Working a full workweek makes the weekends more precious since it's the most time you can dedicate to self health, hobbies, persona development, etc. Also, being able to remember the night with a group of friends is just so much better than getting plastered.

Is getting wasted still worth it to you?

I feel I’ve come to a point where, though I used to love drinking heavily and partying, the trade off is just no longer worth it. The hangovers are now exponentially worse than what I had to deal with in the past. Luckily I don’t deal with three day hangovers though, as I’ve heard others report.

I used to party pretty hard and one reason was because I didn't get hungover at all. Then I started getting small hang-overs in my mid 20s that progressively got worse and graduated to the 3-day kind in my 30s.

It becomes kind of hard justifying drinking hard one evening when you have to spend multiple days being miserable afterwards, especially when moderate drinking doesn't have this problem and is fun as well. Now I try to stick to not drinking more than 5-7 pints (or equivalent) an evening when drinking and it works out well for me.

I do still enjoy having a couple beers most nights, and I don’t have a problem with that. But I think my days of heavy drinking, chasing some fuzzily and probably inaccurately remembered fun times from college, are over.

I feel like there is sometimes some conflation of chasing the buzz of alcohol/partying and chasing youth.

Those times in college probably aren't as misremembered as you think and drinking probably helped make them fun. Partying with your friends when you're young is just hard to beat though, regardless of whether you're drunk or sober.

Chasing the dragon isn't a mistake because "the dragon never existed", it did, it's a mistake because you're not going to catch it again.

It's not the hangovers that bother me, it's the hours after drinking. But maybe that's because I tend to drink early in the day if I drink at all. After a few hours I just get a headache and feel tired and sometimes a bit sick. That's with like 4-7 drinks over the course of a few hours. It's hard to thread the needle between feeling the nicest phase of intoxication and drinking too much such that you feel shitty later in the day.

I've followed the same rhythm since about my junior year of undergrad: I don't like drinking, I don't drink for a while, my memories of prior parties fade the negative and accentuate the positive, I think "gee, I haven't partied in a while", I go out with friends and get absolutely hammered, I think "thank God that's out of my system, don't ever need to do that again." So I'm good for a hangover every two to six months.

On the other hand, my wife and I get absolutely couchlocked vaping weed once a week or so. So, idk it might all be transmuting itself, I'm still getting fucked up somewhere. But if I avoid eating an entire jar of queso or a rack of ribs or something, no hangover or aftereffects the next morning.

Don't know. Haven't been drunk once.

I get something like throbbing pressure in my frontal lobes after more than 200-300 ml of hard liquor or beer equivalent.

Sorry to hear that, but it may be for the best.

I'm content with having a low tolerance for alcohol, it makes getting a nice buzz going cheaper.

I typically drink about 40 ml of pure alcohol daily in some form.

Interesting! That does sound very useful. Now I'm jealous...

I'm wondering what causes the effect. Perhaps it's purely psychological.

I'm on the wrong side of my 20s, which is what I've heard a lot of people claim is the time when you can't really handle your liquor like you used to.

Can't say I feel that yet, I rarely have hangovers even after heroic amounts of liquor because I make it a point to stay hydrated throughout. And ideally sleep through the hangover if I suspect it's due.

In fact, I feel like my partying has barely started, didn't have any time for it in med school, now that I'm in the UK it's time to embrace day drinking and functional alcoholism ;)

Hah more power to you bud! I wonder if it’s less about age and more about novelty/repetitiveness. I could imagine the reality being that hangovers feel about the same, I’ve just had so many I’ve gotten tired of them. Also commiserating with friends really does make hangovers more bearable.

What’s your favorite drink? I had a Long Island iced tea last night for the first time in a while and it was a damn good way to start the night.

Tough question, I usually drink to get smashed rather than for taste, and while I've had some rather expensive drinks, I find myself rather underwhelmed most of the time.

I happen to be found of LIITs myself, but in terms of favorites it would a toss up between a non-bitter pinà colada and Smirnoff Pink.

But at the end of the day, if it's got ethanol in it I'll drink it haha

Same here.

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