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.

You’re making me thirsty.

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

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

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...

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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...

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.

I thought the same thing, unsurprisingly.

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.

people don’t drink lager in america?

i thought they just have “birrrr”

America is the Land of BUD

BUD

BUD

BUD

which is a birrr

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.

which is a birrr

Talk about your CAREERIST TROLLS, BUD!

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

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.

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

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 :)

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

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)

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.

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

*ruffles your hair*

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

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...

xpost there’s a pervy joke in there.

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?

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.

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

xxx

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

so cuet xx

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.

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.

Bud has no flavour.

i like miller lite. you commence the fun making.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

xxp

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...

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.

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

You mean Labatt’s?

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.

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

yeah wtf stfu australia

(you too austria ffs)

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.

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

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.

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

Berocca?

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

nath, perhaps you have a medical condition.

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

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

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?

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.

ew, that is weird carey.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

You could get into the phosphorus biz.

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

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.

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”.

yes there was a thread about that.

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

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.

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

SWISH SWISH.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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).

New screenname: Allyzay lost the straw.

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

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.

(“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)

The power of Internet drunks.

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.

my Morrissey-esque quiff!

You mean Labatt’s?

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

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

hmm...

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.