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uncle retrospective

19:57 / 19.02.05

There is nothing like a shag and a shower to get you through even the darkest hangover.
Being single at the moment though, I have to settle for a shower and a walk in the park next to my house. It's just not the same, but still works.

20:32 / 19.02.05

I have recently had the "wonderful" experience of being awake for my hangover's approach. This is due to drinking volka shots all day, and not being able to do my job (I work at night, where I am also allowed to drink) since I got such a headstart on the night's drinking so early in the day.

I went from being tingly and a bit numb to feeling way too much, including a lovely (more sarcasm) head-in-vice-grips feeling. Being awake for an approaching hangover is much like being hit very slowly by an oncoming locomotive. It is no wonder most people sleep through this.

Then, I went to sleep with a hangover and I woke up drunk.
Hehe...Just kidding.

20:50 / 19.02.05

As far as I've known the best coping with hangover strategy is to stay asleep as long as possible the day after, and if you do wake up, to get water drink some, but not all and retuen to sleep with water at hand as soon as you can.

Now obviously this is not always possible and there are many reasons why you may be denied the all curing magical sleep. I have found that, although exercise is usually a killer, (Sunday morning football - lots of vomiting in the hedge), doing some kind of activity does really seem to take your mind of the shitness and eventually you forget how bad you're feeling. Thus ends my hungover advice,

I'm hoping for the former tomorrow but my lady wants to go Sunday shopping so we'll see.

water at all times is always good too

20:57 / 19.02.05

and if you can't have a shag there's always the personal touch!

then sleep, lots of sleep

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:04 / 19.02.05

Does nobody else get the major depression, like a fucking amphetamine comedown, with hangovers? I don't remember that from before. Mind you, I even get those from Red Bull these days (and I swear, I'll jack speed into my eyeball before I ever drink that shit again), and they were the reason I gave up doing speed in the first place. I only ask, cos, these being a relatively new rediscovery for me, I'm sure they never felt that miserable before. It's like the restlessness and anxiety of the hangovers I used to get have come together, like the spaceships on Star Fleet, to make a BIG ROBOT OF DOOM which tells me my life is worthless. Which, frankly, kind of sucks.

Didn't put all that in my initial post cos I was hungover at the time and trying to ignore the emotional side of things.

21:17 / 19.02.05

Fuck Yeh! The whole depressing side of hangovers is frighteningly true and also relatively new to me. I personally believe it's similar to the come down phase, with 'harder' stuff, but part of the natural balance of the high followed by the low.

Now this may sound a tad generalistic. However it's also not so bad as long as you know why you're feeling depressed. I feel everything's really shit, but I was well fucked last night, proably had a good time, and that's why todY is so Poo. So I will choose to ignore it and hope tomorrow (despite it's Monday) I will feel OK again, or I could just stay up really late until it's all OK again and sort out the sleepiness in the morning (work) when it happens.

21:22 / 19.02.05

Well, alcohol is a depressant, after all. Isn't it?

21:32 / 19.02.05

[slightly off-topic]

Beer is a warm and welcoming mistress...

The English and their warm beer. What is with that?

[/sot]

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:57 / 19.02.05

Yeah, I realised the "warm" thing when I read the abstract back, but 'twas too late. Personally, I can't stand warm beer. I mean physically. Warm beer makes me throw up almost instantly. Another difference from being younger.

Alcohol is indeed a depressant. It's just it never used to feel like one until the last couple of years.

It's a motherfucker, is what it is. Why do I love it so?

22:12 / 19.02.05

I usually call alcohol and drugs, "my anastethic". It helps me not feel anything, especially anything painful. Then, I think the hangover is there afterward, making up for all that "not feeling".

23:29 / 19.02.05

As a fellow drunk, here is the advice and excuses I advise;

1.) Stop it. If you are a woefully unhappy young man this may me quite hard..., says the 27 year old drunk....

2.) My best late maneuver: - tunes your bed clock to static - phone your boss and say you are stuck on the train, the static gives movement impression like nowt else so long as phone is beside

3.) I stopped at new years, and ive been getting worse ever since. If soomeone I valued siad stop i would, but I haven't met them yet, i doubt i will.

23:38 / 19.02.05

Mr Blue, I share your 27 years and I say good on you fella

Surely Shirly you don't need to worry about these things till you're going on 30 at least?

Also bosses are usually very understanding if your any good when you're actually there and if not they appreciate the effort of you coming in to work when slightly off colour or the like anway

Although in relation to the topic at hand, going to work is not one of the best hangover solutions available

00:20 / 20.02.05

So who does anyone else captaining the English rugby team this year ?

unheimlich manoeuvre

00:39 / 20.02.05

Alex you're losing you edge. do you mean, who else will be captaining the english rugby team this year? or who is captaining the rugby team? or something else entirely?

hangovers ... alcohol is bad! umm-kayy
i was chatting to my brother about this in the restaurant this evening. I reckon we don't have the alcohol tolerance thing/gene/liver/experience. i get pished so easily it's silly.
started my droogs in the wrong order anyhow weed/shrooms/acid/beer/pills/liquor. those hangovers where you wake up early in the morning feeling like a malnourished raisin shaking gasping but wide awake, always felt like an acid comedown. blurred vision, dodgy stomach, crazy thoughts and all.

00:55 / 20.02.05

The worst is being awake when the hangover starts which puts an iron wall between you and the sweet, sleep of the dead. I say the dead, because you begin to envy them about 10 minutes into it. The plunge from your bedroom window looking far too tempting.

My worst was six months ago when after a night of average sin I stayed up watching TV bleary eyed, having no commitments later in the day. 4am, it starts. All movement in my head felt like two hammers fighting inside a barrel full of shouting nails. And lying down made it even worse. Ugh.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

07:22 / 20.02.05

Surely Shirly you don't need to worry about these things till you're going on 30 at least?

I'm 33. And attempting to stop drinking (I have to go to counselling once a week, which helps a bit) and it's FUCKING difficult.

09:24 / 20.02.05

Mmm warm beer. Went to a great pub last night that I hadn't been to before and it had 8 (or was it 6?) real ales on hand pump to choose from. Yum.

Have medium strength hangover today but a cup of tea and homous on toast are helping.

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

10:55 / 20.02.05

Does nobody else get the major depression

Yes. I get the major depression a lot. And guilt, if I can't remember how I got home.

11:07 / 20.02.05

Ah, the anxiety. That's the bit I hate the most. Couple it wit memory loss and you have an evening about which you can't recall why you're ashamed and depressed.

Stoats, have you tried Berocca? Fantastic stuff. It sounds like it shouldn't work but it does. Something to do with biotin, which your liver needs to process alcohol.

I wouldn't recommend Alka-Seltzer long-term as it can lead to all sorts of blood-thinning problems (nosebleeds, rashes etc), but it is useful occasionally.

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

13:18 / 20.02.05

It's probably best to keep hold of that anxiety just for the safety and assurance it offers you of being a decent person, really.

The best way to lose it is to just drink so much you no longer care. As in "Hmm, how did I get home? Oh, I don't really fucking care. My jeans smell of wee. Again."

I find these things don't bother me so much now. But at one point I was used to waking up covered in bruises and not knowing where'd I'd been or who I'd seen... so, uh... yeah. Keep the anxiety, it's good for you!

Alcohol is fun!

20:53 / 20.02.05

Alcohol is a beautiful journey, ...I just love the rollercoasting antics of moxious (hehe finally able to use that word) intoxity, followed, after sleep/unconsciousness, by the flat fields of the sorrow, the loneliness and Sandmanesque despair.
It's all part of the plan i think.
The depression stage can really collapse any inkling of personal worth, screwing up any ego-structure which, I think, is an immensely valuable emotional position. Being thrown into that state most mornings, I realised I am now a more delicate and caring person. A lot more sensitive anyway.
It is hard to explain but if you think your drinking is getting out of control, reel in monster in, but have a good look at the process and try to reel that in first. Could be just the situation you're using the drinking in, define it and play with it. If it is a routine situation use that fuel and just flip it.
Anyway after spending most of my money and time over the last 16 years with this habit, the best ways i have found to stop a hangover environment is to:-
-regularly eat less, I personally find after eating less and still drinking the same, the fuel gets processed straight and you can feel when a morning of hell might be beginning, thus the whole skulling of water, many panadol, and if really dry nasty sort of head is occuring you then eat everything and anything you can find, soak up the badness.
-stay warm, keep body on the warm side
-tis better to stay up an extra hour the night before, drinking water/chatting/slowing the smoking down, than having an extra hour of sleep.
-don't take that much money out with you, an epic walk home is always good

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