Posted: 4/13/2015 1:06:00 AM EDT
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... the final drink went down "as smooth as sand paper."
What is your favorite saying when it comes to drinking? Bonus points if you have a clever saying that says it's time to sober up. Any drinking wisdom is fair game for this thread. Drink recipies are a major bonus. One of my favorites: "Drink doubles until you see triple, and think you're single" -some blues musician |
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Gramps has two good ones. "acqua marcisce il pali" - Directly translated - Water rots the poles (Like the pier supports) - Basically water rots wood, so drink wine/liquor instead. "Acqua ruggine gli ponti" - Directly translated - Water rusts the bridges - Same as above Edit : My favorite one : "Butti la bottiglia giù, e troverai Gesu" - Its a rhyme and it means, throw the bottle down and you'll find jesus. |
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I know when to stop drinking, when the bartender says, "Get the fuck out or I'll call the fucking police!" I know a guy and that happened to him. I was at church choir practice. Lol. I like neghiborhood bars, but It's trouble when everyone knows your name. |
Three games in a row were I underperform, I quit gaming then three or four drinks after that I pass out for the night. Hanging out in team speak and drinking with my friends at home has saved me a lot of cash versus going out to a bar for the same social experience.
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Quoted: I've had to relearn that lesson a few times...  Quoted: Quoted: Liquor before beer and you're in the clear, beer before liquor and you'll never beer sicker. I've had to relearn that lesson a few times... By the time bar close comes around I have switched back and forth so many times, along with countless shots that it really doesn't matter. It's going to be a 2 day recovery period. I had a stretch where I did not know when to cut myself off (on weekdays nonetheless) so I just quit heavily drinking for a while. A beer with supper or such, but no more bars for a while. I used to quit when I felt like puking but that doesn't come soon enough anymore.  I got one. When you start mixing with sprite because it looks more like water - it's time to quit.  |
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That is the exact reason I haven't touched a drop of alcohol in two years.
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Lol. I like neghiborhood bars, but It's trouble when everyone knows your name... Quoted:
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I know when to stop drinking, when the bartender says, "Get the fuck out or I'll call the fucking police!" I know a guy and that happened to him. I was at church choir practice. Lol. I like neghiborhood bars, but It's trouble when everyone knows your name... ...and you've never been in that bar before. |
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Beer, liquor, order or quantity doesn't matter. However, forgetting this has caused me to bow to the porcelain gods several times: The biggest mistake you'll ever make, is to mix grain and grape.. (Wine and liquor do not mix...) Brandy proves that isn't true.
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Stop drinking before this describes the mother of your child. |
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my fav drinks are mixed drinks, jack and coke, jaeger bombs, rum and coke etc etc...
As the night goes on the mixer:alcohol ratio starts to curve exponentially towards the alcohol... when I take a sip of my drink and wince from the alcohol.. its probably time to stop... because Im already pretty banged up... That or my brother says "Are you still making drinks?!?!?... Im cutting you off" Me: "uh... yeah you're right "
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Back in my younger and stupider days a few of us used to go on benders. We'd take a week and just stay totally bombed William Holden style. It was an intense balancing act because if you went too far you would crash and burn. Not far enough and you'd get tired and bored. You just had to hit that peak of intoxication that made the world your oyster while not getting you into such a shape the police had to do something about you for your own safety. We got really good at it. We took our bad act to the beach one time and the local PD actually came out to meet us on our last day, and they were keeping that close of an eye on us. One officer complimented us on our ability to push it right to the edge and never step over into the area where they had to get involved. He said it was some of the most impressive feats of drunkeness he'd ever witnessed. The hotel maids stood on the balcony and waved goodbye when we left, as did many of the other hotel guests who were either living vicariously through our exploits or hiding their daughters. My most memorable quotes from those days? "Coffee, honey, leave the pot." "Argh! It ain't easy being a Pirate King." "Hunker down boys." "Yes, officer, he's with us. Unless of course you want to keep him then that's cool too." "We're old men, we need our medicine." One time we wound up in Jacksonville Florida talking to some guy who had somehow managed to get completely blown out of his mind and had made his way from somewhere in Arizona over the course of several days but wasn't quite sure of the details. He was commenting on how upset his wife was going to be when he finally got home. "My old lady, if she ain't sleeping she's bitching..." |
