As a guy I would bring my own beer because even if it was enough it wouldn’t be the right kind unless the host and I shared tastes.
And a bottle of liquor because I couldn’t bring a lot of beer without intimating my mistrust of the host by bringing my own beer in the first place.
Edit: Also, if I was going somewhere I’d offer to bring all of the beer, and include a wide range and enough of what I like for everyone to leave satisfied.
And some liquor.
Bacchus is lord.
Heh. 27, the very age I decided there was one drink I would never drink any more… the next one. (Went t-total.)
Ive been sober 6.5 years now and have never looked back. Good on you, im proud of you.
Life’s better. It’s not hard. There’s only that one drink I don’t have any more. Easy. Easier, cheaper, feels better, better health… it’s no great accomplishment. Never really liked the stuff in the first place. No more social calamities, is a nice bonus.
100 to be safe
In case he brings his “best buds” entourage with him?
Or just brings some determination
A gallon of mead is always an option. I will have 2 soon. Hoping the second will be ready for Christmas but I don’t think it will clear up in time. Might just have it hazy.
Wow, you forgot to mention you use Arch, btw
Implied. Do you like MTG?
No she’s a nasty bitch!
She is, but I meant the other MTG
MagicTG
I made mead ages ago and it was incredible. It didn’t last very long though. The demijohns the mead was ageing in came with me across 4 house moves in 2 years.
I’d love to do it again if I ever have the space, but also, I only made that first batch of mead because I tutored a beekeepers son
I started making mead when I was renting a single bedroom, doesn’t require that much space really.
You’re right — I think it’s more the frequent moving home that’s holding me back. I just want stability
You don’t have to age it, mine are usually ready to drink a month or two from when I start making it.
That’s super interesting, because with mine, it definitely made a huge difference. It honestly tasted pretty bad before it had aged at all, and it didn’t taste much better after 3 months. It was drinkable after a year, but still not great. After 2 years though, it was one of the nicest alcoholic beverages I’ve ever tasted.
I wonder what caused such significant differences between our experiences. Do you have a particular recipe you use? Not because I want to compare methods — I wouldn’t be able to find whatever guide I followed. Rather, it sounds like whatever strategy you used gets drinkable mead far quicker than whatever I did
Perhaps we have different standards, after all I will happily drink a pint of scrumpy
Seven to twelve
Per sitting.
Well, I guess we now have some uncomfortable insight into your home life…
Carton a day on holidays
I know you mean like a six-pack of beer cans but for a moment I had the mental image of beer sold in tetra-paks and I really don’t want to know what kind of unholy concoction would warrant that kind of packaging.
They’re Australian so I’m pretty sure they mean a 20- or 24- pack, something like this:
That’s exactly what I mean down to the beer and all hahaha
Can’t say no to a tinnie of VB!
Good point. I never think of those because we use bulky reusable plastic crates where I live.
Yeah, in NZ we often use reusable wooden 12 pack crates of 745mL (a bit over 26 Oz) reusable bottles, but we also have the corrugated cardboard boxes of 20-24 330mL or 440mL cans.
Or they are just able to tolerate more and are bigger than you.
I’ve drank a 6 pack of 10% and blown a .06 in 2 hours.
Besides size, that looks of tolerance is exactly the insight. It doesn’t come from birth.
You don’t think people have different metabolic tolerance and processing rates?
🤯
They do, but nobody’s sinking 210ml of pure ethanol and blowing that low without either being the size of a house or putting in some serious practice. That’s the same as drinking 2 entire bottles of wine in 2 hours.
It’s the practice they were talking about with “insight”.
Okay, I guess I’m a super hero and so is the rest of my family 🤷♂️
It does come from birth though? Genetics play a huge part role in alcohol processing
Practice doesn’t make you metabolize the alcohol much faster, it makes you better at functioning at a higher BAC, it increases tolerance not metabolism
I don’t know how much faster it gets, but consuming alcohol increases the expression of alcohol dehydrogenase, so you metabolise it faster.
Yeah, obviously. Do you think your body is at maximum alcohol detox levels at all times? Of course not, that’s one part of the detox pathway that fires up when you start drinking
How long do you think enzymes stick around? Do you think they pile up?
Their expression is generally linked to presence of a trigger and limited by their byproducts. So you’ll produce more of them when exposed to alcohol, then max out based on how quickly the byproducts can be moved
Again, how quickly you process alcohol is mostly genetics
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It is amazing to me that the Internet has taken a shine to that particular episode of TNG it’s just so esoteric and yet generally people get the joke.
I mean don’t get me wrong it was a good episode but in terms of the the entire series it was very mid.
It basically predicted the socio-communicative function of memes, so it tracks that it became a meme itself.
I would add that what OP stated is built into the reason as well. It’s an okay episode, the main problem being that you had to accept the ridiculous premise of talking entirely in memes. Fast forward a decade and the joke very much is that it’s not as ridiculous as it first seemed.
Linguistically, idioms can take on a meaning separate from its constituent parts, in a way that people can forget about the constituent parts but still understand the word or phrase.
The word “goodbye” derives from “God be with ye” and eventually morphed into the word we know now. The definition of the word “odyssey” derives from a Green myth but has a standalone definition that is understood by people who aren’t familiar with the myth. A ton of other words come from horse racing (“from scratch,” “across the board,” “hands down,” “frontrunner”) and maritime stuff (“groggy,” “show someone the ropes,” “even keeled,”). We draw on shared stories (ancient myths, folklore, the Bible, even classic and modern literature) for much of our vocabulary.
We shouldn’t be surprised by language arising out of modern movies and television shows, or even shared internet memes enter the common lexicon.
Six pack
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Why do you want to be drinking more than 6 beers in a session anyway :(
Is fun
The thing about drinking is drink rarely but when u do drink to get completely hammered
Might depend on how long the session is. Now that I’m older a session might be a full day of hanging out, 6+ hours. When I was in college there was a time or two of a more literal full day, 24+ hours
Find out what (or if they drink) first!
Can someone explain NASA and the tampons
To be fair to NASA, sometimes shit goes sideways and astronauts have to stay in space way longer than expected.
100% this, it’s not even weird.
7 days, let’s say it’s really, really heavy, and you could be looking at using 3 in a day (21).
Double that, because you’re in fucking space, you can’t just pop out for another pack (42).
Now, you’re the first woman in space - does anyone know how periods work without gravity? Double it again (84).
And just round it off to because you can’t buy packs that size (90-100)
Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space, Sally Ride was just the first American woman in space, but she didn’t really share her menstrual experience.
This is such a good point. Now I’m wondering if the menstrual cup works in space, since it can be reused essentially forever, but it needs gravity to work I think…
Redundancy is one of their policies, and this is a big reason why.
Besides that though, even between women there’s a wide variety of menstrual products. What size? Maybe she uses pads or cups instead? How frequently each individual needs them varies too. Even if you’re a guy who is familiar with purchasing these for your girlfriend/wife/daughter you would still want to ask if you were in this sort of situation.
Then they asked the wrong question.
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Literally 1984.
There’s a easy rule. Allow ~ 45 min per beer and think how long the meeting will last. Most will actually not drink that much, but it’s good to have spare ones.
45 minutes??? Is this some rest-of-the-world thing I’m too Balkan to understand?
Well, I don’t know about Balkans, but at least for me, a half-liter beer of any kind takes 30–45 minutes. Stouts and porters are too thick to drink faster, ales too bitter etc. A light lager may be, but why bother?
Do Americans really drink that slowly?
I’d say 2-3 per hour to begin with, but probably slow down around hour 6. For a weekend? At least 24, and probably want a bit of variety of styles in there too.
And with the light beers most of them drink they might as well be drinking water at that rate
We really got the range here, so a “beer drinker” and a “beer drinker” are the same when it’s a 3.5%abv vs 14%abv. Not to mention non-alchohalic that’s becoming more common
It’s an average. For anyone sipping 1 beer an hour, other people will get through at least 2 or 3.
45 minutes per beer? You won’t be able to play Wizard Staff at that rate.
Can’t they just…wear a diaper?
In reference to the Nasa part or the drinking beer part?
yes.
just don’t get them mixed up
It’s great to be prepared… But I don’t think you have to prepare a stash sufficient for an alcoholic.
For anybody new to this, perhaps assume 3-4 standard drinks/person, plus some factor to account for surprise extra guests, and then add a buffer of 20% or so of your good alcohol
Then it never hurts to have a 12 or 24 pack in the bottom of the fridge of something cheaper.
Lol that’s pretty much what i figured as a calculation. Not that I ever have many guests but do a guess then add a case/flat … Mean if was my beer I’d drink it time and not have less just in case… More guests would require the cheap beer as a backup for sure.
