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This is a thread in which people who don't have hangovers describe how it's making them feel.

 
  

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Less searchable M0rd4nt
12:27 / 07.04.07
Oh wow, this is quite nice actually. I should try it more often.
 
 
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12:29 / 07.04.07
You are a mean woman.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
12:30 / 07.04.07
Teh eval.
 
 
Spaniel
12:34 / 07.04.07
Yes, I've been discovering the joys of no-hangovers over the last year thanks to the Bosun. Makes the occasional hangover that I do fall prey to that much harder to deal with.

Just the other day I was listening to my brother and his SO discuss whether they would be able to do some strenuous activity or other on x day as they would likely be hungover. I felt superior.
 
 
Mysterious Transfer Student
13:00 / 07.04.07
Boboss, the way you tell that story makes me visualise you hiding in the airing cupboard, eagerly eavesdropping on your unsuspecting loved ones' future alcohol-related plans.

I gave up drinking some time ago and always enjoy the light, crisp air that permeates my consciousness on the Saturday at work after pay day, in direct contrast to the murky purplish-black fuzz that my colleagues can feel gripping them by the lobes.

Feel the smug.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
14:05 / 07.04.07
I haven't quit drinking. I just got in a load of really fancy juice and I was enjoying it enough to alternate drinks because it was too nice to put vodka in.
 
 
Mysterious Transfer Student
14:23 / 07.04.07
That's how it starts....
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
14:28 / 07.04.07
I can quit any time I like!
 
 
Spaniel
14:42 / 07.04.07
I can't! Yay!
 
 
Shiny: Well Over Thirty
19:08 / 15.04.07
I don't have a hangover and I've felt inexplicably great all day. As the days gone on I've felt happier, and more more chilled out, and more confident, for no reason at all. I've now entered a state of mind I might normally associate with mild, yet extremely pleasant intoxication, and I have absolutely no idea why. It's really quite a strange state of mind. Now it's bedtime, but I don't really want to go to bed, on the grounds that this inexplicable pleasantness will probably have departed by tomorrow.
 
 
Glenn Close But No Cigar
20:11 / 15.04.07
Went out last night in Amsterdam, and switched to soft drinks around midnight. Danced for a few hours. Bed, slept 'til 11, no hangover.

Think this is the way forward. Stop boozing a few hours before bed. Sweat out the booze on the dancefloor. Sleep the sleep of the good. Spend a headache free sunday in park. Huzzah!
 
 
lord nuneaton savage
08:45 / 16.04.07
This is ridiculous. I know that hangovers are a prone to mutation as one gets older, but, really, they make your neck hurt? That's just silly.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
08:50 / 16.04.07
You want the hangover thread. This is the non-hangover thread. Lalala, my bits don't hurt! Coz I was drinking mandarine juice last night! Lalala, I flaunt my not-achey head! I taunt you with my non-queasy stomach! Woooo!
 
 
Mistoffelees
09:04 / 16.04.07
It´s probably been a year since my last hangover (which started on my way home!). I don´t like the taste of alcohol, and since that last time I´ve drunk maybe half a dozen beers. After a night out I´ve already got a hangover from all the cigarette smoke I was exposed to, so I can really do without that added hurt.
 
 
astrojax69
09:24 / 16.04.07
a great way to avoid a hangover is, of course, to remain intoxicated.

hic.

actually, i can't really recall the last time i was hungover - no, not for that reason! i hav just developed, as one matures in years, a habit of drinking enough to enjoy the sensation of inebriation and to enjoy the subtle flavours of the beverages, but never to lose the faculty of understanding when its a good time to cease ingestion of the drug and drink water/juice instead. being a little fit (cycling to work each day, etc) doesn't hurt. but stopping before hangover-inducing drunkedness is a sure-fire method.

or staying drunk...
 
 
Spaniel
12:03 / 16.04.07
Pfah.

"As one matures"

I am destined to be forever young, like a fairy prince.
 
 
Princess
13:51 / 16.04.07
Did someone call my name?
 
 
Mysterious Transfer Student
13:39 / 23.04.07
I'd like to apologise to everyone whom I may have inadvertantly insulted in this thread, by implying in my capacity as a non-drinker that I enjoyed some kind of higher, less sullied existence, unclouded by alcoholic murk. Quite plainly I had missed the entire point of the thread.

I have to do this because I started drinking again this weekend past, and had an exceptionally pleasant time courtesy of the prince-like Seth and several other people from this forum, with only a slight physical cost emerging the next day (my, the sun is bright on the south coast of England).

So, my new position: both drinking and hangovers are good, because they are both expressions of the wonder of being alive. Long live drinking and hangovers!
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
13:57 / 23.04.07
So last Thursday I went to the local Oontz and had a wonderful time.

I learned a lesson though.

$3 Vodka+Redbull is a great deal, though 7 of them is a bad idea. The reason I am posting here is because I did not have a hangover on the morning after. Instead I had some kind of horrible Redbull crash, leaving my arms limp and my head the size of two normal heads.
 
 
This Sunday
14:42 / 23.04.07
Y'know, I've often - for about three seconds a go - felt sorry for people who're prone to hangovers. Because I've never got one. Not the world's biggest drinker, no, but I mean, even matching drink for drink, either I'm picking particularly safe alcohol's or my kidneys love me undue. Because someone else always wakes up or starts to sober up and they're miserable and headachy and stomachswirly, and what not. And I'm ready for coffee, eggs, and the one-o'clock skyline. Which, makes me feel like an ass, in some weird suffering should be shared way.

Anybody else experience this? Is it choosing whisky over vodka and rum over beer? Is it my avoidance, you unauthorized to give medical advice but I'll treat y'all as doctors anyhow, of mixed drinks a probable cause? And is it really so terribly rude to counter 'I feel like a pig shit in my skull, poured broken glass and busted batteries in my stomach and then someone shook me like a saltshaker' with 'I feel great, where's the coffee'?
 
 
Spaniel
14:51 / 23.04.07
I am of the opinion that you weirdos who never get hangovers just don't drink enough.

Go now and drink 6 pints of beer (any variety) over four hours then come back an tell me that you never get hangovers. Go!
 
 
Shiny: Well Over Thirty
15:17 / 23.04.07
I reckon part of the damage is cumulative. Back in the days when I used to get drunk a few times a week I'd get hangovers pretty easily. Now that getting drunk is a rarity I do seem to find that I really don't feel a good deal worse than I'd feel if I stayed up equaly late and didn't drink. I'm guessing this is because these days my body has time to make a full recovery between sessions.
 
 
The Ghost of Tom Winter
15:20 / 23.04.07
I don't have a hangover.but I haven't slept in 24hours. WEEEEEEEEE. It makes me feel like this: Q(-_-Q) LIKE FIGHTING.
 
 
Spaniel
17:05 / 23.04.07
I hate to break it you, God, but in my experience and the experience of pretty much everyone I've talked to about it the hangovers get worse not better as you get older. Are you sure you're just not drinking less over the course of a session? Bodies over thirty are crap, basically.

I really am very sceptical about some of these claims. I am a bitter and jealous man, but I AM ALSO A MAN WHO KNOWS HOW TO GET PROPERLY, SOME MIGHT SAY DISGUSTINGLY, DRUNK.
 
 
Shiny: Well Over Thirty
18:22 / 23.04.07
Well my body's only a mere 9 months under thirty, and sure I still get worse hangovers than when I was eighteen, but usually they still aren't as bad as the real killers I used to get in my early twenties. I think when I do have a session I drink at least much in a session - I drink so rarely now that I usually want a drink to be a proper drink. Might help that these days I can afford to get pissed on Vodka based drinks, usually laced with absurd amounts of caffeine, and maybe those aren't as brutal as the cheap brown drinks.
 
 
Spaniel
19:09 / 23.04.07
I think cheap brown does equal danger, but the nastiest drink I ever did drunk was a bottle of cheap asda vodka. We all had abcesses in our gums after that little jaunt, and my eyes watered uncontrollably for days.
 
 
Shiny: Well Over Thirty
03:58 / 24.04.07
Ah, dirty Asda Vodka. Enough to kill a mule for a tenner. Those were the days. That was another staple of my student days. Never fucked up my mouth though.
 
 
Spaniel
08:16 / 24.04.07
Thinking about it it might not have been Asda vodka. It was uncommonly cheap though
 
 
Whisky Priestess
11:28 / 24.04.07
Boboss ... I hate to ask, and you may not remember - but does the bottle below look familiar?

 
 
Spaniel
13:07 / 24.04.07
DISGUSTINGLY DRUNK

PUKING ON MYSELF
 
 
Whisky Priestess
13:08 / 24.04.07
What, already?!
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
15:33 / 24.04.07
It was coming to my attention that most of my time recently was being spent socialising with friends (something I LOVE to do) and not sitting in front of the computer, making the pretty words form themselves into stories, and thus saying writing was my passion can I please have another drink?, so that wasn't any good.

As a result of immense and horrible guilt from not having written a single damned thing of interest to myself, I have put myself on the wagon for a couple of weeks, thereby ensuring no slight hangovers, middling hangovers, Ninth Circle hangovers, and death. As a result, the shiny new story I am working is 2372 words strong.

Still...it's really nice outside today. I would like to go sit on a patio somewhere and have a beer.

Must not think of it...must not think of it...
 
 
This Sunday
14:03 / 07.06.07
This is a thread I think should keep floating somewhere near the top of the forum. More than the hangover one, anyway. It's happier. And it validates my theory that cheap vodka is the problem, nine out of ten. The other ten percent is putting ice in the drinks.

Blew a handful of hours last night asking for a new and different kind of whisky every round, scotch, bourbon, brands X, L, and Y from places I'll never go but whose labels are very proud of their locality. Comic adventures like Road to Fear and Loathing. Learned very moral lessons, like Applebees hates me, and that I can't take everything to be about me even when it's posed that way. Babbled praise of all kinds on all kinds, and finally got to tell a completely racist, misogynistic ass I had to be polite to for various social reasons to fuck off (and he did, too, right straight out the front door). Came home, had a bit of my roommate's Dewar's, got good and sentimental and fell fast asleep.

Four hours later, I'm up and feel marvelous, and the only bad thing in life is a mild sadness that I can't call anybody and pick right back up on last night, because I know they're each rolling around hating the insides of their skull (and possibly the contents of other people's), if they're even awake yet.

I'm beginning to suspect I sold somebody's soul in exchange for the barbelithic kidneys that keep on loving and going out of the way for me.
 
 
Gendudehashadenough
16:44 / 07.06.07
I feel like I should have at least an over, maybe it wouldn't be hanging, but definately half way to crash pad littered with undrunken bottles of water.
 
 
Shiny: Well Over Thirty
05:52 / 03.12.07
A friend of mine once insisted that hangovers have an unreasonably bad rep. This he explained was because once one recovers from a bad hangover, just not having a hangover feels heavenly, and so they've justified their existence.

At the time I thought he was speaking bollocks. Now, having recovered from two days of nausea, dizziness and weakness I'm beginning to see his point. Yay to not being hungover!
 
  

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