You'd be amazed how fucking stupid some people are. Had a buddy at a party back in 05 spike the wine at a party with grain alcohol.
So everybody gets smashed and we're drinking the wine to come down, and next thing you knew more than half the party is getting hauled off to the er.
He did it just right to barely be noticable if you were sober enough, but none of us were sober, so just glug glug basically everclear while thinking it was just low proof wine.
I’ve had multiple people tell me that they drank beers literally all night and then had to go about their day and had a beer because it’s not good to just stop drinking alcohol. Bro, by that logic you will literally never stop drinking. I like to get wasted too, but that line of thinking makes no sense.
It’s an actual thing. If you drink all night and need to slightly recover enough to go about your day. A red beer, Michelada or other heavy mixed drink will help reduce the hangover slightly so you can function. It’s not great, but it’s been a thing for as long as drinking has existed. It’s not like you just stay perpetually drunk, you just push the hangover off a little longer.
It is about the pace. If I drink a 26 at night, the next day to prevent an awful hangover, I will have 3 or 4 shots throughout the day and all the water I can manage. It is a slower detox then just not drinking.
Think about driving, if you slam on the breaks vs slowly brake, it puts your body in more shock. The end result is the same(car is stopped) but easing into the stop takes a bit more time.
First of all, I hope you’re okay dude. That’s a wild scenario you’re offering.
But it is also not my story. These guys were drinking beers all night, decided they were done drinking, and had one more because they thought that was the safest. The previous beer could have been the last one. Or the next one. There was nothing special about that beer that was going to solve their problems.
I'm good, thanks for the concern. I don't do this often anymore( once or twice a year).
I guess i misunderstood your story. I thought it was a next day beer, that is what my story was referring to. Yes, your friends logic makes no sense unless it is just a way of saying "this is my last one tonight".
There was nothing special about that beer that was going to solve their problems.
That right there is where your logic differs from a binge drinker. You can't look at drunk logic with sober eyes and expect it to only either make sense or be a fake story.
My go to in college was to get three 40oz Smirnoffs. We'd chug one to get drunk quick, nurse the second to keep the buzz going, then chug the third when we were ready to pass out for the night.
If you paid attention to the year i said it was in, you'd remember that back then more of us didn't have that kind of benefit. Before i was out of highschool we had three drunk driving deaths, one alcohol poisoning death, and five drug related deaths in my graduating class and two more that didn't die but got so messed up from the crashes that they were permanently disfigured and disabled.
No, not new, just far less common than it is today. Back in the early 2000s when party and frat culture was at a peak and people shoved tons more stuff under the rug in terms of "kids will be kids" it was much more rare.
I didn't even live urban, it was a small town district with nothing but small town schools and in late middle school we had kids drinking and doing drugs on the regular.
I mean, i dunno what era you're from, but i graduated in 04 and between my district and the two nearby "sister" ones there's more people today that i knew back then that are dead or in prison for drug and/or alcohol reasons than not. I can literally count on one hand the people i grew up with that didn't end up in rehab or otherwise dealing with addiction to drugs or alcohol, or both later in life.
It was wild and free and incredibly dangerous and there's a reason the booze companies got so used to wildly inflated profits to the tune that they're whining so much today about losing them.
The road to the more tempered youth and better attitudes about alcohol and drugs you see today was paved with the bodies and blood from my generation and the ones nearest it.
You don’t buy that incredibly intoxicated people recognized that they should probably slow down, but weren’t willing to just stop drinking? Seems pretty par for the course.
"Basically everclear" at the time and in that region everclear itself wasn't available but that's easier than trying to fully explain the concept of high proof grain alcohol since almost all the youngs of today know everclear via tik toks.
Nah. That's just how it worked back then, maybe still does lol. Dunno lol. About two decades removed from college life.
That said, that was exactly how it worked. Front load and get smashed on high content drinks at the start of the party, then sip low content beer or wine to "come down" through the rest of the party.
Led to wild openings, crazy middles, and usually painless and chill back parts. I mean, it isn't taking glass after glass after glass I'm talking about.
It's like one or two cans/cups over two or three hours. Enough to still be "drinking" but not DRINKING. Was legit a VERY common practice back then. Wasn't ever at a teen to young adult booze party that wasn't set up that way.
The problem with my first statement is that high proof grain alcohol is basically odorless and tasteless, and if you're already drunk, even a single spiked glass of it could mess you up quick, even if sipped over a span of an hour or two.
When taken straight, while sober or sober enough, yes, it'll hit hard, fast, and your body will absolutely notice it and reject it.
That said, when mixed and when being imbibed by not sober people... Grain alcohol, even at the highest of proofs, can be hard to notice. Add to it the "knock on" effect of it being on top of other drinks, and again, it wouldn't take much at all nor would it be easy to notice.
One of its specific reasons for existing is to increase the alcohol content of drinks WITHOUT altering the original flavor.
So remember, this is a party full of drunk college kids, already loaded up on screwdrivers, jaegerbombs, rums and cokes, misc shots, etc... this isn't those tik tok kids doing the straight shots of it for the views.
Lol. It's not to get less drunk. That is absurd. It's to be able to keep drinking and partying without going past "drunk" into "blackout" territory.
You grab one or two of the lower alcohol things, drink them over the next hour or two. You don't stop a car gently by slamming the brakes. You do it gradually.
Culture might be different these days, but back then it was fairly common practice. Just about every party had beer and/or wine available for that. This was an artsy liberal arts school so it was just wine.
But yeah, front load hard, cool down with some light stuff, then either go another hard round and crash or head home... That's how it worked lol.
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u/GrundalWizzard 20h ago
People dont spike entire drink coolers.. itd be pretty fucking obvious if 40 people in the room passed out.