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So I have promised myself to drink more water. Somehow I forget to drink. Dunno why, but if I don't consciously grab for a bottle, I would never ever drink aside from maybe a few coffees every morning. I don't really believe in the dehydration causing headaches theory. But hey maybe I should give it a try cause I've been having mad migraine attacks lately.

But anyway this is the thread about drinking. Tell me your choice of tipple - sorry couldn't resist using this word, it reminds me of TITS - what you drink in the morning, evening and/or during lunch. Do you like to mix cocktails? Do you squeeze melons (hur hur).

― nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 30 November 2006 09:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, if I drink the *required* one liter a day, I have to go to the loo EVERY FUCKING 15 MINUTES. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!

I should use my fruit juicer again but somehow it just doesn't seem right now, in the winter. Then again fresh juice is so lovely. Yum yum.

― nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 30 November 2006 09:59 (seventeen years ago) link

You're making me thirsty.

― Sir Gregory of St.Kitts (g-kit), Thursday, 30 November 2006 10:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Well there you go. Proof of why I don't start many threads. HARUMPH!

― nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

It's 2 litres required per day, but I was reading just this morning that you shouldn't drink much more than this as it denudes your body of vital mineral salts

― Maaarghk C (Maaarghk C), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I am terribly thirsty today. But that's cause I have a hangover from the other sort of drinking.

I must have had at least a litre of vodka...

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Two liters? I'll need a portable loo stuck to my bum if I drink that much!

― nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually NOW I know why my gran was a drunk: she misread that you need two ltrs of alcohol per day. hahaha

― nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I want to drink more water but I JUST CANNOT TAKE THE NON-TASTE.

It's the middle of an Australian summer so I can't have tea (hopefully, I'll make up for it once I'm in the Northern Hemisphere) to tide me over. I try to drink a fair bit of juice but sometimes it's just not practical (and all too sticky) once the weather goes over a certain point.

I did have a few nice pints to celebrate the last day of lectures on Wednesday in a beer garden. Verrrry nice.

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link

The whole deyhydration/headaches link isn't so much a theory as a scientific fact -- something to do with histamines, I think.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Tell me your choice of tipple
depends on the occasion, how long i'll be out, etc. usually stick to beer. anchor steam or newcastle if i'm not planning on getting drunk and depending on if i want a brown ale or something a little crisper. pbr, high life, whatever watery domestic if i'm planning on engaging in some liver abuse. the high water content makes the hangovers slightly more palatable.

what you drink in the morning, evening and/or during lunch.
morning- coffee. weekends or if it's the rare occasion i wake up early enough to make breakfast, oj.
lunch- usually a coke or iced tea followed by more coffee.
evening/dinner- depends what i'm having but usually water. post meal, whatever i have in the house. tea, beer, juice, water, etc. tea is a winter time favorite though.

Do you like to mix cocktails?
there are few things that match the sublime delight of a very dry tanqueray and tonic.

Do you squeeze melons (hur hur).
rarely.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

i need to drink more water too. lately, due to stress, i've had far too much caffiene. coffee or two in the morning. several diet dr peppers during the day and often a couple of beers in the evening. insert waters in between.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

yay nukey brown

i drink LOADS of water at work, it's really good for me, i feel more awake when i drink water, whereas coffee makes me feel dehydrated and uncomfortable (i keep my eyelids open, but i feel asleep). and i get to go to the loo a lot which is a GOOD thing. 5 minutes of not working.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

as for booze i drink everything. i like whiskey the most i think. woodford reserves is nice. as is maker's mark

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm worried about going to America because I try to avoid all lagers :-(

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

perhaps you should just drink tequila while you're here then.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

It's 2 litres required per day, but I was reading just this morning that you shouldn't drink much more than this as it denudes your body of vital mineral salts

Uh oh...

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

when i was drinking, when i was with you, living it up when the rent was due...

gonna be stuck in my head the rest of the day.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought the same thing, unsurprisingly.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

2 cups of coffee in the morning, water throughout the day, a beer or two in the evening. A soft drink about once a month now, unsweetened iced tea sometimes when we go out to eat. Boring.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link

people don't drink lager in america?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought they just have "birrrr"

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

America is the Land of BUD

BUD

BUD

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

which is a birrr

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Then again, I am just making general assumptions and I'll probably end up pleasantly surprised throughout my 18 months of drinking alcoholic beverages in the US of A.

After all, I don't know anyone who drinks Fosters, XXXX, etc.

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

which is a birrr

Talk about your CAREERIST TROLLS, BUD!

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link

i love water i drink tons of it all day my house is littered with empty water glasses - also beer and bourbon.

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, coffee does deydrate you. This is why you can not count coffee in the two liters per day requirement.

― nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

they already know about my troll career, este, no need to big me up. but perhaps my amazing trolling skillz will one day rub off onto you you sweet pea :)

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Freshly bottled Bud is the nectar...well, maybe not of the gods. Of dryads and hamadryads, then.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link

actually i had brooklyn lager once, but that was less like lager than one that wasn't labelled lager! (it looked and smelled like some kind of ale but with bubbles in it)

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

they already know about my troll career, este, no need to big me up. but perhaps my amazing trolling skillz will one day rub off onto you you sweet pea :)

Heh, look at the fruity azn wannabe standing in the shadow of the KING OF TROLLS, ESTEBAN BUTTEZ.

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

The fact that the only time I've had Fosters was in London still amuses me to no end.

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

*ruffles your hair*

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

You're too short to reach my hair, son.

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I once wanted to show how great i was at drinking american beer cause "well, it was so inferior and weak compared to belgian beer." bloody hell...

― nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost there's a pervy joke in there.

― nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

In order of consumption volume: water, coffee, beer. Occasionally unsweetened iced tea, seltzer, or diet soda, but mostly watercoffeebeer.

There is more than Bud in the US, thank goodness. Mr. Buttez, where in the US are you going?

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

The one good thing about having a workday routine is it helps me remember to drink enough water - on the weekends though I fuck it all up, drinking beer, dancing myself sweaty, getting high and mistaking my dehydration for hunger and eating seventeen handfuls of cashews, etc.

― drunk Friendster massage (nklshs), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

aw este you're so tall these days they've fed you well! <3
xxx

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

It's not just my 6'3" frame, it's also my Morrissey-esque quiff! (Yes, I need a haircut!)

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

so cuet xx

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

A friend of mine who was studying Chinese medicine claimed that Westerners drank way too much water, that they stressed their kidneys. Sort of the opposite of what one usually hears. Just saying—there's another school of thought.

I drink MASSIVE amounts of dark roast coffee. Bowls of it. And strongly brewed Lapsang Souchong (loose Hu-Kwa, the only kind to drink) some afternoons to top it off. And a healthy amount of wine—about 2/3 of a bottle per night. The occasional small neat single malt. Water by my bedside. That's all. No juice. Juice is for babies.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I managed to get Heineken in all the bars I went to when I was in the US. And, oddly, Newcastle Brown Ale. So you don't have to drink Bud lite or anything like that. You'll probably want to though, as I found it was typically $3 for a crappy bud, or $5 for a Heineken. I just drank the Heineken every third beer or so, as a treat.

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig G), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Bud has no flavour.

― Sir Gregory of St.Kitts (g-kit), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

i like miller lite. you commence the fun making.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

PBR is still union made that's the reason i drink it. there's very little difference in taste in the low-end beer market. plus the fact that it's usually only $2 or so in chicago makes it an easy choice.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Fresh Bud tastes like savory butter. Oh so good. I hate bitterness and yeastiness and hoppiness in beers, though.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

funny how austrians are always oh no one ever drinks fosters but then their most popular beer is brewed by... fosters!!!!!

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I have a Brookly Brewery beermat over my desk. Souvenir from NYC a long long time ago...

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

brooklyn is not so good but occasionally appealingly cheap - best one is the pils.

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

australians (not austrians of course - lame sp check, so lame)

xxp

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

The only time I bought bottles I got some Canadian Blue stuff. Probably Pabst or similar. I remember thinking: "oooh I've heard of this stuff" of course I was very drunk at the time...

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

The thing about Americans is we don't distinguish between lager and ale. It's all just beer, and some is light and some is dark, and some is more watery and some is more hoppy. I mean, there are still names like Sam Adams Boston Lager and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, but I don't really ever think about what that means.

Last night I had an Anchor Steam Christmas Ale, which was awesomely intense. It tasted like coffee.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

The only time I bought bottles I got some Canadian Blue stuff. Probably Pabst or similar.

You mean Labatt's?

http://web.syr.edu/~tyblanch/images/labatts.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, there are still names like Sam Adams Boston Lager and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, but I don't really ever think about what that means.

some of us do john, i know the difference between a lager and an ale and a pale ale and depending on what i'm drinking it with or how i'm feeling i'll order appropriately.

unless, like i said, i'm just out to get 'faced in which case the cheapest beer usually prevails.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

it's weird that victoria bitter from australia isn't actually a bitter but instead is a lager!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah wtf stfu australia

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

(you too austria ffs)

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

some of us do john, i know the difference between a lager and an ale and a pale ale and depending on what i'm drinking it with or how i'm feeling i'll order appropriately.

No, I know, but you know what I mean, right? British people talk about "lager" all the time.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 November 2006 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Urgh, still gotta pee every 15 minutes. Not good.

― nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 1 December 2006 09:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah but Australians don't drink the Fosters BRAND. Some Australians drink VB or something brewed by CUB, mostly bogans/outback types/people from Melbourne.

In Adelaide, we all be drinking Coopers which is like the best ales ever. AND FAMILY OWNED.

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Friday, 1 December 2006 09:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Berocca every morning. Occasional green tea. No alcohol anymore, ever.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 1 December 2006 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Berocca?

I had a few coffees today. Already pissed four times. I think they insterted a bladder in petite size.

― nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link

nath, perhaps you have a medical condition.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Seriously? :-( It's better when I don't drink. hahaha

― nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish I could earn money for my prodigious pee output.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

For the life of me, I cannot drink Bud beer without getting this weird need-to-burp-but-can't+heartburn thing, I cannot stand it. Meanwhile I can drink shit like Old Style by the gallon. Am I a genetic anomaly?

― drunk Friendster massage (nklshs), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link

i drink 3 liters of water a day + 1 coffee but i think i have a big bladder. i am kind of a water nazi though, i can smell if someone is not drinking enough water and I get weirded out and ask if they are thirsty and try to push water on them.

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

ew, that is weird carey.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link

carey can you do this when touchinf the screen?? if so, did i drink enough?

― nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't tell if people are hydrated by smelling them. But I can tell if their skin is going to burn in the sun by smelling them.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

ha, i would think it is kind of a common thing though. when people are dehydrated, even before they are thirsty, their breath smells really stale when they talk. it's completely different from when they just have bad breath. like when you can tell when people have a cold from their smell. maybe i am having a prolonged heart attack and i am just sensitive to smells. but i do know i am totally annoying (but always right) when out of the blue i ask bfs if they have drank any water that day because they have that weird dehydrated smell and they always haven't drank anything. my face starts to get weird dry patches and my mouth just starts to feel really weird, especially when I talk, if i don't drink tons of water.

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

oh, i also flavor water with lemon and that way I can usually drink a pint all at once. but maybe this goes back to that thing where women never finish their drinks.

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish I could earn money for my prodigious pee output.

You could get into the phosphorus biz.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Carey, what is this madness about women not finishing drinks?

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

wasn't there a thread about that? I have never had that problem but i guess a lot of girls admitted to leaving water glasses all over the place.

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

the only reason I have never finished a drink is if i spill it all over myself and one time at Daddys I put a shot of tequila in my bag "for later".

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

yes there was a thread about that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

You put a...CAREY!! Like, just DUMPED IT IN THERE?? LOLz all around.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

i know i've walked out with shots of jameson in my pockets. you just have to walk reeeeaaaaalllllly carefully and try to avoid going up or down steps.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

why not hold them in your mouth for later? like a chipmunk?

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

SWISH SWISH.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

no, i put the glass upright in my bag. i was so hungover the next day and everytime I opened my "workbag" it was like vomit city. this was a year ago and i remember having to go to one police plaza for work and just reaking of tequila.

i should take back the glass.

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

this was over a decade ago when walking out with shot glasses in my pants pockets seemed like a good idea. why do it at all i have no idea. something about drinking on the car ride home i think was appealing to me at the time.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

yo Ronan have you ever tried maté? my old roommate got an idea once that he was going to sell bags of it over the phone. the next time you're in new york let me know, he's probably still got like 5 kilos of that stuff. he swore by it for awhile.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never tried it, but the traditional silver straw/strainers you drink it with are awesome. I love accoutrements.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I have a box of mate de coca. I accidentally forgot about not drinking it before a drug test. yes you will test positive for cocaine.

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Couldn't you at least put the shot glass in a ziplock baggie or something?

― drunk Friendster massage (nklshs), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

i didn't go to the bar with a ziplock baggie and asking the bartender for one so that i may break a law that could result in the bar losing their liquor lisence didn't seem like a good idea.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

There's got to be a way to sneak shots out of bars without them spilling. Maybe a quarter + rubber band?

― drunk Friendster massage (nklshs), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

ok I remember both the shot incident being recounted to me VIVIDLY by franztastic AND I remember the ex-roommate mate obsession. I still have that weird gourd they gave me to drink that stuff out of but I don't think I ever actually drank the tea (I lost the special straw).

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Friday, 1 December 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

New screenname: Allyzay lost the straw.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

HOW COULD YOU?? The straw's the best part!

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Dude, I was tipsy and randomly saddled with a pound of tea, a gourd, and a straw along with the items I had brought on my person to begin with, taking subway all the way from Atlantic Ave to 66th St. It fell out of the gourd and probably some homeless person has it now.

― Allyzay lost the straw (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

("Homeless person has it now" is also what I assumed happened to a bunch of thongs I lost in a rainstorm leaving the subway one time)

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Friday, 1 December 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

The power of Internet drunks.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 1 December 2006 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I want to drink more water but I JUST CANNOT TAKE THE NON-TASTE.

You silly. Water (from diff. sources) tastes different!

Fave bottled water: SPA.

― nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

my Morrissey-esque quiff!

http://images.quizilla.com/X/xmyonlyhopex/1093575716_esdsc_9144.jpg

― nuneb (nuneb), Friday, 1 December 2006 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

You mean Labatt's?

I do indeed! Can't remember if I liked it or not.

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Monday, 4 December 2006 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link

And a healthy amount of wine—about 2/3 of a bottle per night

hmm...

― Bob Six (Bob Six), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link

My desk is right by the watercooler so I drink a healthy amount of water per day. Beer - less than I used to but still quite a lot, maybe a 60/40 split between lager and ale. I have a weird psychological dependency on coffee and orange juice, like I have to have both of them at breakfast or it throws my day off. Wine about once a week, spirits I tend to avoid.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 4 December 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

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