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shots are fine when you want to get drunk fairly quickly

The performative hooting/fist pumping / glass slamming etc that goes along with shooting liquor in America is totally dud

that reminds me of before I knew anything about beer, being at a friend's house and knowing a new friend of mine who I was crushing on was coming over, so I was drinking faster than usual to calm my nerves. I was drinking Dogfish head and didn't realize you aren't meant to drink 4-5 of them in an hour.

wound up throwing up in the host's sink.

if you hoot at any point while doing a shot, you are either a gigantic poser or an owl

glass-slamming is mandatory, tho

xp: oh no

Performative hooting and fist pumping is what the rest of us expect from Americans though.

has ilx ever polled hard liquors?

i don't like doing shots cos I no longer can tell how they're going to affect me like I used to. some nights it doesn't even matter how much I ate

back in my 20s I was all about the Tanqueray 10 or Bombay Sapphire and tonic.

Fig Arak looks v nice but possibly hard to come by in Hull

I mean, I don't do that many shots anymore but Jaeger = yes plz, I'll take one

best way to drink is to say cheers or l'chaim or whatever the preferred nomenclature feels most mature + appropriate to you. i feel like the hooting is a consequence of a) general feeling of juvenility around drinking, and b) not being sure what else to say that isn't just an awkward toast or whatever. simple one word affirmations are best.

Jaegermeister is delicious and a top-tier shot

ilu

i only do shots at sabbath/festive meals pretty much. i barely drink beer anymore during the week :(

Havana 7 is probably the short i drink most atm

in the last few years Jagermeister shooting has mostly been "I am about to go in the mosh pit and I do not want to feel any pain".

in that regard it usually works

possibly controversial opinion: big photos are fine as long as they don't break the board no need to apologize

U MONSTER

I'm gonna need a shot to recover from that

anybody ever had a Satan's Revenge shot?

1/3 shot tequila
1/3 shot Jack Daniel's® Tennessee whiskey
1/3 shot Goldschlager® cinnamon schnapps
5 - 7 drops Tabasco® sauce

Captain obvious opinion - doing two of these back to back might just rank in top 5 bad decisions in my lifetime

that is Satan's revenge on your esophagus and colon, right

p much

also wtf why am I tempted to buy some Goldschlager so I can make one

I swear that 85% of shot creation is a bartender's competition to get inexperienced drinkers to consume the grossest concoctions they can imagine

(the other 15% is visual pousse-cafe style showing off, which I endorse)

"I call this a Staten Island Enema

1/3 shot Everclear
1/3 shot aftershock
1/3 shot watered down Jack Daniels with a cigarette in it
handful of trail mix from bar room floor
a sprinkle of Scrubbin' Bubbles toilet bowl cleaner"

"serve garnished with a fig leaf"

Fireball shots are hipster lameness = my contribution

― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Thursday, March 16, 2017 5:49 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I haven't had any hipster cred in a while, but I'm pretty sure Fireball shots are somewhere on the hillbilly spectrum.

well it is true that the one bar I go to that pushes them is kinda rednecky

Only idiots drink alcohol. Or do drugs. If you must do these things, keep it to yourself.

lots of brilliant ppl have done both

thread back on-topic

xxxpost one of my close friends actually did 32 shots of them for his last birthday in a night. sounds unbelievable but I witnessed the grand majority of them....he was going for the record. most of us were trying to convince him not to uhh pursue it but other than puking he was fine ....fortunately he says he's retired from that now

yeah the typical thing I think when I'm getting lit = "man what would really make this night better is to be alone"

(though I am not a huge fan of public displays of drunkenness myself, typically cos that person almost always finds me and wants to talk)

lol yes. i have never drank alone - certainly not hard liquor (maybe a beer during a football game) and it would feel very weird to do so. only makes sense to me in a social context.

Trump should drink.

Heeere Trumpy Trumpy...

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When I said "keep it to yourself" I didn't mean "drink alone," I meant "if you must drink, at least have the decency to be ashamed and don't go around admitting it to people."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5AOmx_ed78

st patrick's day is a garbage holiday
― marcos, Thursday, 16 March 2017 20:12 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

weather should be abolished
― contenderizer, Thursday, 16 March 2017 20:17 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

st patrick's day is a garbage holiday

uncontroversial
― mookieproof, Thursday, 16 March 2017 20:22 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Here's a controversial opinion

When yanks post about how yanks do things they should explicitly call themselves out on it so their embarrassment at being yanks isn't mistaken for idk ignorance of the culture of the rest of history of a/ev

Cos lemme tell ye

Not even the dubs do Paddy's right

So whatever ye do, it's not paddys

Why would one be ashamed of a social activity? Ashamed in front of whom? The people you just drank with?

why am i being lumped in with the patrick people?

but if you insist, then fine; american weather should be abolished.

Cos in march in Ireland we have all the weather too

The performative hooting/fist pumping / glass slamming etc that goes along with shooting liquor in America is totally dud

― a but (brimstead), Thursday, March 16, 2017 9:58 PM (forty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Please tell me people don't actually do this

it's a nepalese thing

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Don Van Gorp's opinion isn't controversial, it's just stupid. Judging people for what they do, assuming they can control it and not be a total tool - is dud territory

performative hooting/fist pumping / glass slamming

tbh this is all America has left at this point

PS. No hard feelings, just take issue with being called an "idiot"

In general or ILM specific? If the latter, "Bernie would've won"

St. Patrick's is a good holiday for low-celebrating with a good meal at home or at someone else's home, terrible in every other setting.