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[baltassoc]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I have had five bourbon and cokes more times than I can count. Result is a vicious hangover. I learned a few years back that if I eliminated the coke part of the equation and had five straight bourbons, I had no hangover... or at least much less of a hangover.

I big component to hangovers is dehydration. Both alcohol and caffeine are diuretics, so bourbon and cokes hit you double in that regard (the diuretic effect of the coke more than outweighs the additional fluid you intake). I have no idea whether sugar compounds a hangover, but one way to test would be to do the same thing with Diet Cokes.

Salt, on the other hand, contracts the diuretic effect, and food slows down absorbtion into the blood stream, which is why both can lesson a hangover (as long as your reaction to being thirsty from the salt is to drink water and not more alcohol).

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Why would someone store a toothpick behind his ear? Because he might suddenly be struck with the need to pick his teeth? And would want to do it with something that has been sitting behind his ear?

Do you take as a paramour the sort man who does not wash behind his ears? I think you need to raise your standards.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I have had five bourbon and cokes more times than I can count. Result is a vicious hangover. I learned a few years back that if I eliminated the coke part of the equation and had five straight bourbons, I had no hangover... or at least much less of a hangover.

You are correct about the eating thing. Eating something will take care of the nausea you'd otherwise feel the following morning.

BTW, why would you want more sugar in your drink? Thats just useless extra liquid you're ingesting. I love beer, but I gave up drinking it to get drunk years ago. You wind up getting bloated and lethargic. If you drink booze as straight as you can, you can drink more, feel better and get a really solid drunk on...

I am in this camp as well, but if you do need a mixer, make it a diet drink (i.e., no sugar). I think the reason is that sugar is dehydrating.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by sgtclub
I am in this camp as well, but if you do need a mixer, make it a diet drink (i.e., no sugar). I think the reason is that sugar is dehydrating.

I drink grain. Out of the bottle. Occassionally I dissolve some sugar free tic tacs in it to take the edge off the bitterness.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
I drink grain. Out of the bottle. Occassionally I dissolve some sugar free tic tacs in it to take the edge off the bitterness.

God, man. Stay away from the grain punch. You'll get raped by an ultimate frisbee team.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Kittens help to tenderize the meat - but I still prefer the time honored technique of using a claw hammer.

Best veal you'll ever have.

Sushi place I'm going to later tonight does this interesting nigiri variation using Foie Gras. It's phenomenal.

Odd. I would havce guessed liver would fall aprt if you tried to beat a fish to death with it. I guess the extra fat from the force-feeding helps glue it together through repeated whacks at the fish.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
God, man. Stay away from the grain punch. You'll get raped by an ultimate frisbee team.

I believe that's how he gets the salty "food" to fight the hangover.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Shifter

Can you please give me a ring?

First on-board proposal?

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
God, man. Stay away from the grain punch. You'll get raped by an ultimate frisbee team.

This explains a lot. NTTAWWT.

[Spanky]

Originally posted by sgtclub
I am in this camp as well, but if you do need a mixer, make it a diet drink (i.e., no sugar). I think the reason is that sugar is dehydrating.

Here is my solution for avoiding hangovers.

Before going to sleep take:

1) A B Complex multivitamin. Somehow these help the liver process the alcohol and become depleted when you drink. Doctors give B-Vitamin shots to really hungover people.

2) Aspirin - that is before going to bed. I think it thins the blood which helps for some reason. It has to be Aspirin and not some other pain killer. If you take Excedrin the caffein helps speed up the processing of the Alcohol, but may also prevent you from getting to sleep.

3) Water - for dehydration

4) Salty food. - combats diaretic effects and dilutes the alcohol.

5) Sob'r-K Detoxifier. Recommended by Consumer Reports. Absorbs impurities from the Alcohol that cause hangovers (the impurities cause much of the hangover and that is why higher end alcohol causes less of a hangover).

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Spanky
Here is my solution for avoiding hangovers.

Before going to sleep take:

1) A B Complex multivitamin. Somehow these help the liver process the alcohol and become depleted when you drink. Doctors give B-Vitamin shots to really hungover people.

2) Aspirin - that is before going to bed. I think it thins the blood which helps for some reason. It has to be Aspirin and not some other pain killer. If you take Excedrin the caffein helps speed up the processing of the Alcohol, but may also prevent you from getting to sleep.

3) Water - for dehydration

4) Salty food. - combats diaretic effects and dilutes the alcohol.

5) Sob'r-K Detoxifier. Recommended by Consumer Reports. Absorbs impurities from the Alcohol that cause hangovers (the impurities cause much of the hangover and that is why higher end alcohol causes less of a hangover).

Or just keep drinking.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Spanky
Here is my solution for avoiding hangovers.

Before going to sleep take:

1) A B Complex multivitamin. Somehow these help the liver process the alcohol and become depleted when you drink. Doctors give B-Vitamin shots to really hungover people.

2) Aspirin - that is before going to bed. I think it thins the blood which helps for some reason. It has to be Aspirin and not some other pain killer. If you take Excedrin the caffein helps speed up the processing of the Alcohol, but may also prevent you from getting to sleep.

3) Water - for dehydration

4) Salty food. - combats diaretic effects and dilutes the alcohol.

5) Sob'r-K Detoxifier. Recommended by Consumer Reports. Absorbs impurities from the Alcohol that cause hangovers (the impurities cause much of the hangover and that is why higher end alcohol causes less of a hangover).

Good advice, but those are a lot of steps to remember when you're wasted. You'd have to set up a hangover kit in your bedroom before going out.

And remember -- NO TYLENOL.

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Good advice, but those are a lot of steps to remember when you're wasted.

Too true. Keys, wallet, and the third verse to "The Broad Black Brimmer" are about the only things I consistently remember.

And remember -- NO TYLENOL.

All you big fancy lawyers and your precious livers.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by ironweed
Too true. Keys, wallet, and the third verse to "The Broad Black Brimmer" are about the only things I consistently remember.

Imagine what you'd have to remember if you woke up in a different bed every time you got trashed.

How could one fit B vitamins, aspirin, water, fritos & slim jims, the detoxifier, condoms, a toothbrush, a small tube of moisturizer, lip balm, her cell phone, ID, cash card, and keys in her little going-out purse?

[Spanky]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Good advice, but those are a lot of steps to remember when you're wasted. You'd have to set up a hangover kit in your bedroom before going out.

And remember -- NO TYLENOL.

I have the excedrin, the B Vitamins and the Sob'r-k all in one bottle. I have water and frozen burritos (for the microwave) in my freezer.

This combination really does the trick.