How much drink can you handle?

[frostycreep]

Im a 17 year old lad who has only recently discovered the joys of drink. I have mostly been sticking to cheap lager such as carling mainly because its well, cheap. Last night i drunk 5 pints in quick succession and ending up kissing a really ugly girl in the local club. I also kept falling over and i think i was kinda agressive as well. And this was only after 5 pints! I wanted to drink more but i physically couldnt manage. So i was wondering, how much drink does it take everybody else to get really drunk? Im assuming its more than 5 pints! Ive even got a hangover now! Next week i mght try 6 pints, but that would probably kill me.

[Skanky Burns]

Make every second drink a glass of water = no hangoover.

I normally make 5 bourbons plus several shots of sambuca a night and can still walk straight.

[Hydey]

Slow down a little and pace yourself and you will find you can drink more.

[frostycreep]

Thanks for the advice! Being an Austrailian Hydey im sure you know a lot about drink!

[Jaakko]

Doin' the DL dance, it's a first for me!

du-di-da-du-ba-bummm-bah!

[lightblue]

I used to have sessions where I'd drink 20 pints in a 12hr sessions, but now I am older (23 not 18) I find I can't handle the quantities. Most I've had in recent past is at a Boat Club Dinner here, and that was 4 glasses of champagne, bottle of wine, quarter of a bottle of port, 4 pints and about 10 shots of various spirits, in about 6 hours. You gotta love drinking fines

I somehow managed to keep it all down as well, though my head the next morning wasn't feeling to great

[Jac de Molay]

Takes two liters to get me goin' but I can drink 4. I'm going out in a little to play some basketball and atone for my sins of yesterday. I figure if I dont drop dead, my hangover should be cured.

Dave

[frostycreep]

Hopefully, in time, i will be able to drink the quantities that someone such as lightblue can manage. Im sure it will just take time and a lot of nights out to build up my resistance to the alcohol. Untill then though, ill just keep having cheap nights out because i dont exactly have to spend very much.

[General Ludd]

A professional drunk in the making.

[RGBVideo]

Doin' the DL dance, it's a first for me!

du-di-da-du-ba-bummm-bah!

Why nobody never made a DL -dance for me?

[lightblue]

It also depends on your body size I find. At 6'5" and 210lbs I find i can drink a lot more than someone 8 inches shorter and 50lbs lighter I get tipsy on about 6 pints and a few shots, and then 2 units an hour to maintain that feeling. You don't want to get too smashed, cause you end up doing stupid things.

[KrazyHorse]

Doing stupid things is half the fun.

[lightblue]

Depends how stupid

[Bosh]

I'm got pretty low tolerance, six gets me fairly drunk and at eight I fall asleep pretty quickly

[Pekka]

Depends.. if you're having a marathon drinking and preparing for it like a day or so, then lots of booze can be consumed. Lots.
The trick is not to get a little drunk and say stupid things and do stupid stunts, it's to get so wasted that everybody won't hold it against you anymore . If you drink too fast, you might want to throw up, so you can drink more and have a nice evening.
And this was my cue for going over friends house to do some bbq