I haven't seen this film but unless I'm completely blasted I'm still in pretty much complete control with just added confidence and comfortability traits. unless it's tequila
>unless it's tequila
A while back I drank a whole bottle of tequila with beer as chaser and built a workbench that came out pretty nice. I was in a tequila phase though that might have had something to do with it.
This is correct. Just because you're depressed or pissed off and srart binge drinking, it doesn't make you an alcoholic. That's just substance abuse. Alcoholics need that shit to function or else they fricking die.
Nah it never lasts. To be clear, an alcoholic is someone that constantly is at least a little drunk, not someone that drinks every night
Apparently i'm not an alcoholic.
Drinking ~100 beers a week for over a decade and getting withdrawals after 36 hours without a drink doesn't cut it because I don't day drink.
Good to know.
You're an alcoholic. You need it to function. Binge drinking and alcoholism are very different. If you drink 100+ beers a week for two weeks straight, you're going to feel withdrawal symptoms. You even feel withdrawal symptoms after going on a bender for a few days, but most people brush it off as a bad hangover. Alcohol is the most physically and mentally destructive substance, and anyone can easily experience the withdrawal symptoms after drinking heavily for a few days - especially due to how alcohol fricks up your sleep cycle and makes it difficult to get a good nights sleep so if you already struggle falling asleep then drinking heavily is like sucking on a pistol. If you can get through the "hangover" in 36 hours, you're not an alcoholic. I've seen true alcoholism and it takes over a week while under medication assisted treatment to treat the symptoms, and even when they ween off the medication, they still have moderate to mild withdrawal symptoms for weeks and some even months ‐ this is called Post Acute Withdrawal Symptoms aka PAWS.
Learn your shit, homosexuals.
>Do alcoholics feel like they're having a hangover during withdrawals?
to start with? yes. and there are studies pointing to all hangovers actually being withdrawal symptoms of a kind of varying intensity.
Yes, and no. Alcoholics experience delirium tremens and get seizures if they go cold turkey for a few days. Alcoholism is the most exaggerated disease, and only daily non-stop drinkers are textbook alcoholics. People who binge drink are just impulsive buttholes and have the will to stop if they can learn to be introspective and determine the root cause for their impulsive behavior.
Alcohol seriously fricks with your hormones and dehydrates the shit out of you. All the symptoms of "alcohol withdrawal" can easily be mistaken for symptoms of sleep deprivation, dehydration, and stress, but people like making shit black or white and just say it's alcoholism because they're fricking moronic. The agonizing body aches and sweats that feel like a fever or a bad hangover is just your body detoxing the foreign substance from your system - same goes for junkies and dope, but it isn't as dangerous as alcohol because alcohol is a psychotropic depressant of the central nervous system just like benzos which is why those two drugs will kill you if you just stop taking them when your body is so dependant to it.
10 months ago
Anonymous
God I love being psychotropically depressed its wild. staying sober is shit
Depends entirely on the person. Some people are super suceptible to withdrawals and others are practically immune. I've always had them from drinking excessively, my dad was an alcoholic until he died at 52 and never suffered withdrawals during the brief periods he quit. Alcohol withdrawal is progressive as well, each time you drink you will develop withdrawals more severely and more quickly (if you are the kind of person who gets them) such that a single binge even after months of sobriety could leave you with withdrawals.
>you're going to feel withdrawal symptoms
No this is simply not true. It's all genetic, some people's liver process things more efficiently and stuff like eating healthy and drinking water can also affect that. There are people who drank less than me but lived otherwise unhealthy lives and they came out way worse than me at much younger ages. I'm not saying this as encouragement for younger drunks, but there are ways to minimize the risks along with genetics that play a much stronger role. There is no hard and fast rule. The truth is you have to evaluate yourself and make hard decisions that you might not necessarily like.
You're Cherry picking less than 1% of the population of people who can metabolize alcohol sugars much better than most people.
10 months ago
Anonymous
Is he? I live a pretty healthy life outside of drinking constantly, diet, exercise, plenty of water, and I specifically try to eat liver healthy foods, and I've never experienced any withdrawal symptoms like people talk about in these threads.
10 months ago
Anonymous
> Live a pretty healthy life outside of drinking constantly, diet, exercise, and plenty of water, and I specifically try to eat liver healthy foods, and I've never experienced any withdrawal symptoms
You just proved my point, moron. You're taking preventative measures by being healthy - I do the same exact thing and rarely get sick after a bender. Your average person doesn't spend the time to be healthy, have poor diets, and lack daily physical activity - most likely glued to their home office working remotely.
Look up how much alcoholism has increased since covid started. If you live a sedentary lifestyle and drink a lot, then you're going to regret the consequences once you try to stop and just give up and keep being a fat lazy binge drinker thinking you're an alcoholic when in reality you're just a fat lazy butthole addicted to sugars. Drinking a lot also messes with your gut flora, which is why heavy drinkers crave sugar when sober. It's all a load of horse shit used to exploit unhealthy habits as alcoholism.
100x100 is can also be described as 3 + 3 which = 6 therefore its a 1 with 6 zeros. aka 1,000,000
10 months ago
Anonymous
He’s right
3 months sober bros, I miss the drinks. Can't drink because it fricked me up but no more withdrawal symptoms now so that's good
Good job bro. What have you replaced the alcohol shaped hole in your heart with, and will you ever try moderation? I used to think I couldn’t do moderation but I’ve mastered it now. I still rarely will have a night where I go ham but overall I’m drinking a lot less.
Granted I’m nowhere near as bad as some guys here so don’t laugh at me, but I went from finishing a handle of 50% alc captain Morgan black every weekend, to now just drinking like 20 beers once a week on the weekend. My alcoholic grandmother to great success controlled her alcoholism by only having 1 day to drink, Saturday, and only drinking beer.
10 months ago
Anonymous
Another cool thing about moderation too, is I woke up today not hungover so I’m going out to dinner and drinking again tn. Used to be hungover for 2+ days in bed dying and my whole weekend was fine,
That logic is fricking stupid. Ofc. you don't need go full hobo to be alcoholic. Since you clearly haven't been drinking that much you wouldn't know that you build tolerance to hangover and worst withdrawals don't hit until 48-72h after last dose. You can easily binge drink on evening until you pass out, wake up and go to work and repeat every day. My father has done this for 25y every day and if he can't get his fix withing day or two he starts sweating, loses his temperature from everything and looks nervous as hell.
>You can easily binge drink on evening until you pass out, wake up and go to work and repeat every day. My father has done this for 25y every day and if he can't get his fix withing day or two he starts sweating, loses his temperature from everything and looks nervous as hell.
That's textbook definition of alcoholism, moron. Binge drinkers go on benders for an indefinite amount of time then stop for an indefinite amount of time - wash, rinse, repeat. Their amhabits are sporadic and they over drink - that's why it's called "binge" drinking. Your daddy is a fricking alcoholic - alcoholics are habitual drinkers that drink at the same fricking time, ever fricking day for a long ass time.
>mfw ive been doing it for 25 years too >I've gone cold turkey for a week many times when I felt I needed to dry out. >nothing really happened, i drink more soft drinks on white weeks, thats it. >i'm in danger.
That's not true at all. The true signs of alcoholism are the lack of control you have over your drinking. If you promise yourself that you're not going to drink every night and end up doing it anyway, it's very indicative that you are an alcoholic. If you can't even make it through breakfast without a drink then you are also an alcoholic, but in either case, you simply lack personal control over your addiction.
I've built a house, more or less by myself. I'm self reliant. I've travelled a big chunk of the world. I do more on a drunk day than any of these homosexuals do in a sober week. Does it sound like I'm happy? I function alright, until you stop functioning. I'm still hoping for a home where I can cool down and have a wife who calls me a moron for all the right reasons.
Why do people make up their own definitions in these threads all the time? Alcoholism takes many forms, from binge drinkers who don't know when to stop to functional but constant drinkers to crippled wrecks. The common thread is that they all have an excessive and uncontrollable desire to drink which is what you will find under any formal or medical definition.
I have been all of the above and I didn't suddenly become an alcoholic when I started getting crippled by withdrawals. I was an alcoholic the entire time I drank to excess because I had a hard time controlling my cravings.
Strange thing is my volume doesn’t seem horrible to go cold turk but I get this feeling like my brain is inflammation. 9-10 drinks a night over the course of maybe 7p-1a
>Why do people make up their own definitions in these threads all the time?
It’s called “bargaining” and it’s one of the telltale signs of alcoholism. An alcoholic’s definition of problem drinking is always one step lower than their current status, that is until rock bottom.
>A little.
High functioning alcoholics behave normally with BAC levels above 0.3 or 0.4. I mean get up, walk around without stumbling, speak without slurring, control their emotions, do complex tasks, etc.
0.08 is the legal limit and science shows that impairment for most people begins at 0.12
This is correct. Just because you're depressed or pissed off and srart binge drinking, it doesn't make you an alcoholic. That's just substance abuse. Alcoholics need that shit to function or else they fricking die.
I've built a house, more or less by myself. I'm self reliant. I've travelled a big chunk of the world. I do more on a drunk day than any of these homosexuals do in a sober week. Does it sound like I'm happy? I function alright, until you stop functioning. I'm still hoping for a home where I can cool down and have a wife who calls me a moron for all the right reasons.
Many teachers are high functioning alcoholics.
In my short time as a HS teacher, 2 of my colleagues were fired for being drunk on job and I can't guess how many more are there undercover.
Every druk thread brings in a bunch of moralgays who want to preach how pure they are. Go frick with a troony thread we might be shitfaced but at least we know we aren't women.
Jugs bar for me. Not even a question. Because if it's a reference to breasts, hey, that's my favorite thing. If it's a reference to jugs of booze, hey, that's my second favorite thing.
Thighs could be chicken thighs or some shit, I unno.
I am an alcoholic doctor. Drink 5 times a day but still work and function. Although I drink mostly from boredom not feeling like my body needs alcohol. The result is the same, though.
drinking relieves inhibitions that would usually cause apprehension when it comes to tasks, especially tasks that produce anxiety such as from fear of failure. i find myself a lot more willing to carry out tasks that i would usually procrastinate on after i've had something to drink.
I was shitting bricks thinking I was developing fatty liver a while ago, had my doctor do blood work and turns out my liver values were excellent, so I've just kept drinking since then
Do not get a false sense of security. I was the same. >Blood test says I'm fine? After drinking all that, after drinking for so long? I'm a superhero. I have alcohol genes. I must be a chad, etc.
Then they tested again, same thing.
Then they tested again, and I was told I had to immediately stop drinking and stop drinking for a year, or develop cirrhosis and die.
The false sense of security comes from delusions. You aren't special and your liver really does get overwhelmed at some point. At which point depends on so many things. But it will happen to you if you continue.
Most people don't though. That's the point really. Most alcoholics are not special. And most die of problems related to alcohol. A life of excess leads to death, most of the time. Prople famous for their heavy drinking and alcohol tolerance usually die of alcoholism.
I agree, of course they die of their alcoholism, but yet they're remembered.
Ernest Hemingway isn't remember for being a miserable dying drunk (he was) but because he wrote such masterpieces he was remembered as a master writer.
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If you do something, drunk or not, you will be remembered, how many palm oil victims diabetes cases are remembered, none.
My point is, alcohol is one of the things associated with genius. That may be because high IQ people are prone to addiction, it may be because its always been the western mans comfort. I think the general point is I should still drink beer.
I think we should all take a step back and be reminded of what this substance has done for our culture, history and empire. We should all remember the theory that man only invented the farm so that he could ferment, and bears still huff petrol when they can, its mammal, its human, its right.
What are we drinking tonight boys? Got some vodka, whole milk and amarula to make some Wagners (get it? it's white russians but I'm using african cream because Wagner operates in Africa)
The sober life will be me for a while, I wish though.
He’s right
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Good job bro. What have you replaced the alcohol shaped hole in your heart with, and will you ever try moderation? I used to think I couldn’t do moderation but I’ve mastered it now. I still rarely will have a night where I go ham but overall I’m drinking a lot less.
Granted I’m nowhere near as bad as some guys here so don’t laugh at me, but I went from finishing a handle of 50% alc captain Morgan black every weekend, to now just drinking like 20 beers once a week on the weekend. My alcoholic grandmother to great success controlled her alcoholism by only having 1 day to drink, Saturday, and only drinking beer.
I replaced it with working out, friends and work. Making more money than I have in a long time. Once I feel like my withdrawal symptoms won't creep back up which will probably be few more months, it'll probably just be some holiday or special event thing. I was the whiskey man doing about 400ml a day, every other day for 4 years.
You sound pretty smart Anon, i don't mean this condescending. Seems like you never fully gave in to it and acted on it when you saw it went to far. Thats pretty admirable.
>28 drinks/week puts you in the top 10 percentile of alcoholics
No it doesn't moron. According to your picture it puts you in the top decile of everyone, including people who don't drink at all. Drinking more than 90% of people isn't the same as drinking more than 90% of alcoholics
I drink 375ml of whiskey every night plus 2 tallboys of beer (473 mls each)
Been doing this for almost 3 years and Last week I went 4 days sober with basically zero withdrawal - but of course I started drinking again because of that
Should I cold turkey this b***h or cut down or what?
All I do when drinking is rewatch shit I've already seen, and have pretty fantastic conversations with my weed smoking friends
Learn from my mistake, cut down. Cold turkey and you'll feel the pain of extreme anxiety, not being able to think or move around and heart pounding out of your chest
If you keep that up you will get cirrhosis and go into liver failure and die. It's very common and not talked about. The only cure is a liver transplant and those are hard to get and require six months of sobriety. People often die from liver failure because varices build up in their esophagus and pop causing them to drown in their own blood. That or sepsis.
One of my close family members has cirrhosis and it's basically doomed. She's been keeping her drinking secret this whole time.
It depends on your tolerance but right now what works for me is getting to the desired level and then slowly drinking a high ABV beer like the other anon said or sipping on wine.
I forget who it was, but someone said something to the effect of "functional alcoholic is redundant, because being functional is how you get more alcohol".
Drukbros I need your strength. I have to put on pants and go to the liquor store but I'm so lazy and I only have an hour left. Lend me your power please!
uber eats lets you deliver alcohol in some places, see if you can be lazy and get drunks
Thanks bros. Got a 1.75 of vodka and a 12 pack just in the nick of time. Uber will deliver cheap wine and beer here but not liquor. My state is funky with alcohol.
yup, that's me. basically from my junior year to a few years after years after finishing my degree(now) I've been riding a constant buzz, not getting so fricked up(usually) but waking up and taking a shot, then another around 10, then noon for a couple, then three, then once I'm off work going hard, rinse and repeat. I'm an engineer btw
I completed my masters degree after drinking almost every night almost up to the last few weeks then went cold turkey, relapsed after I graduated then went cold turkey again and haven't drank in nearly a year. So honestly idk. Probably for a while but its not sustainable long term.
saw this movie for the first time last weekend. ive rarely drank in my life and became a complete loser who wants to kill himself. i honestly am considering doing this. it cant be worse thsn my life now
Yes, but only for a time, I aced college and started as a paralegal before I exploded. If you are too hardcore it sorta melts your brain and you can't think or wake up without puking unless you take a few drinks. Worst feeling ever but it happens.
am i a basedboy for liking voodoo ranger ipa beer? i've been drinking a pint or two every morning after work and its my favorite beer so far. Until i turn 21 gas station beers are all i can drink.
I'm well aware of the stigma, but I fricking love IPAs. The piney-er the better. I know I sound like a complete jerkoff when I tell a server I'm looking for a west coast rather than a New England hazy, but I like what I like. Might as well embrace it. Right now is the greatest time of abundance in history to be an IPA enjoyer.
>people thinking 100 beers a week is bad
I go through 30 a day. I know, because I buy a 30-rack every day. That's 210 a week. Get on my level.
Sad part is, I'm a functioning alcoholic, as in I go to work every single day and actually perform pretty well. So yes, to answer OP's question: high functioning alcoholics do exist.
More like every 20 minutes, but yeah that's pretty accurate. I wake up a few times during the night to piss like some old man with prostate cancer.
WHAT A LIFE
>If your gonna lie atleast try and make it semi realistic
I don't know what's unrealistic about it. If you space it out, 30 a day over 24 hours and you're basically at the level BAC the Druk guys tried to be at but 24/7. I don't know how this is impossible to comprehend.
What's your job? Lying on the ground and vomiting?
No, it's actually the opposite in my case. When I wake up, I feel sick UNLESS I drink a few beers, not the other way around. My 'normal' is having a few in my system. Riding the line the guys in Druk tried to achieve.
Which brings up a serious topic for anyone trying this: do NOT frick around with alcohol withdrawals. If you're an alcoholic and want to quit, if you drink heavily: don't just cold turkey that shit like cigarettes or whatever else. Alcoholic withdrawals will fricking kill you, and that's no exaggeration.
Anyone here have "the shakes" the morning after heavily drinking? That's your brain unable to successfully transmit nerve signals to your hands. Now imagine that, but truly alcoholic and not just a one-time binge drink. Your brain adapts to the alcohol and sends the electrical signals understanding that it has alcohol in the system. If you cold turkey, it'll send a message to your heart or lungs and if you don't have alcohol in the system like it thinks, wires get crossed and a single heartbeat doesn't happen or a single breath doesn't happen and you just fricking die.
I know my first post sounded like some frat kid bragging how much he can drink but I'm being serious. I've had seizures and shit from withdrawals. Don't mess with this.
>work every single day = about 8h >sleep = about 6h >work trips and store = about 1h
So you have like 0 9h to drink 30 beers. So you have to drink one in average every 18min. Unless you drink while you work. 30 beers is like 10 litres / 2.6 gallons btw. Imagine drinking that amount of anything daily. Coca-Cola, apple juice, even water would be difficult.
Well since you can't do math: here's my schedule. >work 7 days a week, 6 hours a day to hit full time
That just bought me 2 more hours to drink >sleep ~6 hours
Pretty accurate. >work trips and store = about 1h
Pretty accurate. Takes me about 10 minutes to work but I do need to go to the store every once in a while, but not daily for groceries. That's once a week or so.
>work every single day = about 8h >sleep = about 6h >work trips and store = about 1h
So you have like 0 9h to drink 30 beers. So you have to drink one in average every 18min. Unless you drink while you work. 30 beers is like 10 litres / 2.6 gallons btw. Imagine drinking that amount of anything daily. Coca-Cola, apple juice, even water would be difficult.
im in a differnt country we dont have those sample sized american tins, its not unreasonable is what im saying
ill happily do 16 tins of an evening of 500mls and get up i wont be well but ill be functioning
The biggest mindfrick is how some people think that being an alcoholic loser is a masculine trait. To the point where they'll try to one-up other men by bragging about how much they can drink.
It's like a veteran heroin junkie sitting on his high horse trying to pretend he's manlier than some newbie who's popping oxy. It's beyond pathetic
>To the point where they'll try to one-up other men by bragging about how much they can drink.
This is most common with non-alcoholics who just drink excessively. I know what you mean and it pisses me off.
I am ashamed of how much I drink and don't like talking about it with others.
give me one reason why the frick i should ever stop drinking a bottle of wine every night its major comfy. they're 5 bucks each and it's not even a bad
If you only drink a bottle of wine there is no huge issue.
You're obviously not an alcoholic since you can keep it at that level.
However, it does seem a little unnecessary. I'd rather drink two bottles every two days if you are strict with the 1 bottle/ day rule.
Go talk to a doctor and ask him to explain, as if you were a golden retriever, how harmful alcohol is to your liver, kidneys, brain and CNS.
I would tell you to google it yourself and look up how harmful alcohol is in relatio to othet hard drugs like cocaine and heroin, but I will assume that the alcohol has already nuked your brain so it’s better if a doctor spoonfeeds you the information
Doctors are all gloom and doom, because they get money off you thinking you're sick. >blah blah you eat too much >blah blah you should exercise more >blah blah you should drink less >but no, nothing's actually wrong with you right now
If doctors ultimate goal was to milk you financially they would downplay the risks of alcohol and drugs so that they could treat you. If your brain wasn’t nuked from alcohol abuse you would be able to draw simple logical conclusions
>but no, nothing's actually wrong with you right now
That's how my cholesterol went from fine to heart attack imminent. homosexual had nothing to say when, after showing me my chart of gradually increasing cholesterol, and only cholesterol, I asked why he didn't mention the steady uptick until now.
Bottle of wine is like 6-7 beers so it's not that bad. It's like some people eat goyslob every day, it wont probably kill you but you feel much worse daily than without it.
I know people who can manage to not drink on workdays, so they hold down a job, but spend every single other second of their life either marinating in vodka or puking it up.
That's what i'd consider a functional alcoholic.
>milk thistle
Meme >ibuprofen
Will frick your stomach and liver up, also unnecessary because alcohol does the job just as well
The real answer is NAC and thiamine
You say this but everything has improved since I started taking it, perhaps it psych but I've heard such good things from even anons in these threads and its cheap so why not
>Ibuprofen
Yes NSAIDS are the main cause of ulcers, I did at one point abuse these not knowing what they did, but used sparingly (bad hangover) they can be beneficial to reduce general inflammation
I think the one I really recommend are the proton pump inhibitors such as omeprazole, they're OTC and really improve the stomach function as a drinker but then again its temporary
I will try NAC and thiamine though, what benefits have you seen? Am on the supplement what ill lose drinking train so want to know everything
>everything has improved
What, specifically? I've never actually tried it, just read that it's snake oil >NAC
Inhibits ethanol from being metabolised into acetaldehyde which is thought to be a major cause of both liver damage and hangovers (not dehydration contrary to popular belief).
You're supposed to take it about half an hour before drinking and not while you already have alcohol in your system, but I'm not sure how much that actually matters. I take 600mg every time I drink and it does seem to make hangovers less intense. >Thiamine
Essential for preventing Wernicke-Korsakoff ("wet brain") syndrome which you really don't want. Not sure you'd notice anything in the short term but you need it in the long run. I take 100mg daily.
PPIs are great but long-term use can also cause B vitamin deficiency, I forget which one. Alcohol alone will also cause zinc and magnesium deficiencies, possibly others. I'd recommend getting a good multivitamin complex in general but NAC and thiamine are the main ones.
All my bile related problems have stopped such as shitting any fluid and no weird colour, which is I suppose somewhat anecdotal but I take around 4000mg per day and its stopped me feeling like an invalid waiting for liver scarring, just by stopping all of the digestive ailments one has when they drink a lot, no more endless vomit etc
I'm ordering both NAC and thiamine off of Amazon right now - I've seen documentaries about drunks and seem them drinking red bull to prevent wet brain, which is thiamine (rain in my heart if youre interested quite a good one)
My cat woke me up at 3.35. I think. He always wakes me up during the night because I taught him not to piss and shit in the house. I walked him to the front door and there was a whole concert of birds whistling. Went back inside to check the time: 3.43. 25th of july. These birds were going bonkers with their songs. I think I heard 5-6 different species. I was like: "wtf is this?" . It was loud. So I noted the hour and the date. It lasted 10 or so minutes and then it died down. Last week we had the longest day of the year, I don't know if it's related.
We can always drink more
And celebrate life. If the young c**ts can't do it, we will do it for them.
10 months ago
Anonymous
there's a line in an obscure show (tv related see jannies dont ban me)
"men drink because they deal with the real world - ted danson before he fell off"
its called bored to death and its perfect hangover watching
10 months ago
Anonymous
Weak men drink because they cant handle the real world
10 months ago
Anonymous
No sober man achieved anything of note, deal with it you homosexual
10 months ago
Anonymous
when it comes to creative endeavors like art, books, music? sure. serious work like building shit and doing experiments and whatnot? not a chance. stop with the cope alchie.
10 months ago
Anonymous
Do you reallt want to live in a world where the largest thoughts you have are
>what foundation >what kind of brick
I thought not, kneel you utilitarian slave
10 months ago
Anonymous
the frick are you talking about lmao. put down the bottle before you post
10 months ago
Anonymous
What I think is that you were saying big sober men built the physical world, I'll give you maybe just maybe the engineers and architects were like that (they weren't until the late 90s)
But even if you believe that, you would not want to live in a world without poetry, music, film, eccentricity
So stop being an idiot and adtmit we all have a place in a grand society and your big forklift licence is just one part of that
10 months ago
Anonymous
As someone who has been sober myself, for over two years, I agree wholeheartedly with this statement. Alcoholics are a plague and a menace.
10 months ago
Anonymous
men who go sober are desperately trying to gain control over their own lives, because they have failed previously, men who accept chance, drink.
They often do better
10 months ago
Anonymous
>Alcoholics are a plague and a menace.
reminder that you are still an alcoholic, just a sober, self-righteous one.
why dont you make the world a better place and have a nice day you wretched fricking wino?
after a while my tolerance gets too high and it stops being fun and also my stomach can't handle it anymore, so I'm in a perpetual cycle of abstinence -> moderation -> alcoholism and then back again
I have drank very little in my life, but when I did it was liquors that fricked me up fast. I really enjoyed it, and while reflecting on the kitchen floor, I wondered - how the frick do people get drunk and decide they can drive? I could barely walk and was acutely aware of it, does this mean drunk drivers are just fricking moronic sober too?
So what's the point of beer? I bought some budweisers and drank one after work but it just tasted like shit and didn't make me feel any different. I've only had whiskey and tequila before.
Most people aren’t losers who drink to get fricked up, but rather have a little bit as a social lubricant. That’s why wine and beer are the most popular alcoholic drinks
I've drank every night for about 7 years, I live in Asia and work from home so it's cheap and everything is open 24 hours. I might quit though, I've started to notice the anxiety is going through the frickin roof most mornings. Heart beating fast, pins and needles in arms, sweating. I know it'll go away after 3 or 4 cans but I also know I'll just keep drinking till 1 or 2am then fall asleep and do it all over again
I've had this, and eventually you go mad and just stop going to work.
The trick is when you have a full week of work is to have one or two beers when you get home because you earned it, but also eat, calories help a lot which is why beers are a good choice.
Then if you want to go on a big bender when you have time off you can, you get function but you get disfunction which we all like in equal measure.
Don't let it ruin your source of income which allows all of this.
Honestly, you're being talked to by doctors who still espouse the food pyramid (whatever country you're in its wrong) - half of the western world is obese, were being told to eat sugar free snack cakes and people thikg alcohol and cigarettes are the problem yet they grew the western service economy from nothing to the best.
Even if you're the biggest straight edge man alive you have to see something is a little suspicious tbh.
Jesus its the same man who made the argument of "wahh i hate u u are babies" - fricking grow up mate, men drink, you cant escape it, your meek words at the bar will get you bullied.
>your meek words at the bar will get you bullied.
Yeah, by insecure drunks with poor control of their emotions... because they're drunk.
booze is one of our earliest inventions
make of that what you will
>drinking fermented fruit juice and going funny in the head is one of man's most important achievements
MY SIDES
I understand how important alcohol is to the history of humanity but it being so engrained in our culture does not make regular drinking a healthy activity. Drunks are worse people, that is a fact.
I agree, of course they die of their alcoholism, but yet they're remembered.
Ernest Hemingway isn't remember for being a miserable dying drunk (he was) but because he wrote such masterpieces he was remembered as a master writer.
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If you do something, drunk or not, you will be remembered, how many palm oil victims diabetes cases are remembered, none.
My point is, alcohol is one of the things associated with genius. That may be because high IQ people are prone to addiction, it may be because its always been the western mans comfort. I think the general point is I should still drink beer.
I think we should all take a step back and be reminded of what this substance has done for our culture, history and empire. We should all remember the theory that man only invented the farm so that he could ferment, and bears still huff petrol when they can, its mammal, its human, its right.
>My point is, alcohol is one of the things associated with genius. That may be because high IQ people are prone to addiction, it may be because its always been the western mans comfort. I think the general point is I should still drink beer. > >I think we should all take a step back and be reminded of what this substance has done for our culture, history and empire. We should all remember the theory that man only invented the farm so that he could ferment, and bears still huff petrol when they can, its mammal, its human, its right.
What the actual frick? This literal teenager thinks getting drunk gives him superpowers LMAO
10 months ago
Anonymous
I'll agree that was a little cringe, my point was it is universal
I was a daily drinker for well over a decade, 2 years lame now.
I lost a shit ton of weight, that was the biggest impact. I went from size 44 pants now down to about 31...
The thing with drinking is that it made me okay with doing nothing. Always planning on shit to do but always saying frickin it. I'll do it tomorrow.
I feel like I woke up from a dream and I'm trying to catch up.
>The thing with drinking is that it made me okay with doing nothing. Always planning on shit to do but always saying frickin it. I'll do it tomorrow.
I know that feel bro
>Until they aren't anymore
Basically this. You wouldn’t believe the number of self described “functioning heroin addicts” I’ve encountered in counseling. Every addict thinks they’re the exception to the rule.
I went to groups to ween off of benzos once, off them obviously, but the amount of guys who showed up working at a garden centre off their heads on smack claiming the garden centre girl was well into them and that was their way out, left so fast actual vampire addicts are life ruining demons
Yeah it's part of the thinking, most of them want to believe it so hard, they actually do at some point.
Until they either die or it gets so bad they come to the conclusion that they are really fricked.
I've been sober for 6 years and I remember the last time I had a relapse I realized my thinking was fricked for almost a whole month after that.
People who only use drugs/alcohol sometimes and have other stuff that makes them happy don't have their brain wired like shit, that's the main difference in my opinion.
Thing is, I could never use drugs or alcohol every day it just isnt possible for me due to me getting so manic and not stopping but when I can I really can.
I understand that people keep a baseline, but how? What did you do?
Disregard the last post just realized i did valium for years and seized to get off it
Yeah it doesn't really matter if it's every day or not. We had multiple guys in therapy that were binge drinking every few weeks but got more fricked up every time.
One had started to steal cars for some reason and crashed multiple times, he couldn't control himself at all when drunk.
Like I said, it's about why you consume drugs, not necessarily how often, this just raises the risk of getting addicted but it's not the sole reason for it.
I never drank daily but the moment I started smoking weed it took me just 1-2 to smoke from morning to night, couldn't sleep without the crap and become increasingly aggressive without it and paranoid with it.
Sure that doesn't apply for everyone but I realized I had a problem with addiction in general, alcohol was just the start.
I started drinking because I was always socially akward and that "fixed" it, nothing really has changed that much because I didn't do enough but I still believe it's extremely important for me to stay sober. Otherwise all my problems are just getting worse as they did before I stopped.
Yes I do.
I haven't seen this film but unless I'm completely blasted I'm still in pretty much complete control with just added confidence and comfortability traits. unless it's tequila
>unless it's tequila
A while back I drank a whole bottle of tequila with beer as chaser and built a workbench that came out pretty nice. I was in a tequila phase though that might have had something to do with it.
good taste in bourbon and nice bench
I never realized Depp was so short. I don't think Thompson was even that big of a guy and he looks giant compared to him.
Nah it's a myth
Ever since my meth addiction I get sleepy when I drink alcohol.
Nah it never lasts. To be clear, an alcoholic is someone that constantly is at least a little drunk, not someone that drinks every night
This is correct. Just because you're depressed or pissed off and srart binge drinking, it doesn't make you an alcoholic. That's just substance abuse. Alcoholics need that shit to function or else they fricking die.
Alcoholism cope
Apparently i'm not an alcoholic.
Drinking ~100 beers a week for over a decade and getting withdrawals after 36 hours without a drink doesn't cut it because I don't day drink.
Good to know.
This post is in alignment with the estrogen levels in beer.
Careful, or your chin will be in alignment with my fist.
I'm a certified ITG.
You're an alcoholic. You need it to function. Binge drinking and alcoholism are very different. If you drink 100+ beers a week for two weeks straight, you're going to feel withdrawal symptoms. You even feel withdrawal symptoms after going on a bender for a few days, but most people brush it off as a bad hangover. Alcohol is the most physically and mentally destructive substance, and anyone can easily experience the withdrawal symptoms after drinking heavily for a few days - especially due to how alcohol fricks up your sleep cycle and makes it difficult to get a good nights sleep so if you already struggle falling asleep then drinking heavily is like sucking on a pistol. If you can get through the "hangover" in 36 hours, you're not an alcoholic. I've seen true alcoholism and it takes over a week while under medication assisted treatment to treat the symptoms, and even when they ween off the medication, they still have moderate to mild withdrawal symptoms for weeks and some even months ‐ this is called Post Acute Withdrawal Symptoms aka PAWS.
Learn your shit, homosexuals.
Got about 2 lines in
Do alcoholics feel like they're having a hangover during withdrawals? If so that's very interesting
>Do alcoholics feel like they're having a hangover during withdrawals?
to start with? yes. and there are studies pointing to all hangovers actually being withdrawal symptoms of a kind of varying intensity.
Yes, and no. Alcoholics experience delirium tremens and get seizures if they go cold turkey for a few days. Alcoholism is the most exaggerated disease, and only daily non-stop drinkers are textbook alcoholics. People who binge drink are just impulsive buttholes and have the will to stop if they can learn to be introspective and determine the root cause for their impulsive behavior.
Alcohol seriously fricks with your hormones and dehydrates the shit out of you. All the symptoms of "alcohol withdrawal" can easily be mistaken for symptoms of sleep deprivation, dehydration, and stress, but people like making shit black or white and just say it's alcoholism because they're fricking moronic. The agonizing body aches and sweats that feel like a fever or a bad hangover is just your body detoxing the foreign substance from your system - same goes for junkies and dope, but it isn't as dangerous as alcohol because alcohol is a psychotropic depressant of the central nervous system just like benzos which is why those two drugs will kill you if you just stop taking them when your body is so dependant to it.
God I love being psychotropically depressed its wild. staying sober is shit
Depends entirely on the person. Some people are super suceptible to withdrawals and others are practically immune. I've always had them from drinking excessively, my dad was an alcoholic until he died at 52 and never suffered withdrawals during the brief periods he quit. Alcohol withdrawal is progressive as well, each time you drink you will develop withdrawals more severely and more quickly (if you are the kind of person who gets them) such that a single binge even after months of sobriety could leave you with withdrawals.
>you're going to feel withdrawal symptoms
No this is simply not true. It's all genetic, some people's liver process things more efficiently and stuff like eating healthy and drinking water can also affect that. There are people who drank less than me but lived otherwise unhealthy lives and they came out way worse than me at much younger ages. I'm not saying this as encouragement for younger drunks, but there are ways to minimize the risks along with genetics that play a much stronger role. There is no hard and fast rule. The truth is you have to evaluate yourself and make hard decisions that you might not necessarily like.
You're Cherry picking less than 1% of the population of people who can metabolize alcohol sugars much better than most people.
Is he? I live a pretty healthy life outside of drinking constantly, diet, exercise, plenty of water, and I specifically try to eat liver healthy foods, and I've never experienced any withdrawal symptoms like people talk about in these threads.
> Live a pretty healthy life outside of drinking constantly, diet, exercise, and plenty of water, and I specifically try to eat liver healthy foods, and I've never experienced any withdrawal symptoms
You just proved my point, moron. You're taking preventative measures by being healthy - I do the same exact thing and rarely get sick after a bender. Your average person doesn't spend the time to be healthy, have poor diets, and lack daily physical activity - most likely glued to their home office working remotely.
Look up how much alcoholism has increased since covid started. If you live a sedentary lifestyle and drink a lot, then you're going to regret the consequences once you try to stop and just give up and keep being a fat lazy binge drinker thinking you're an alcoholic when in reality you're just a fat lazy butthole addicted to sugars. Drinking a lot also messes with your gut flora, which is why heavy drinkers crave sugar when sober. It's all a load of horse shit used to exploit unhealthy habits as alcoholism.
>Over 100,000 calories a week
How fat are you?
>He doesnt cycle 50 miles a day
There isn't 1000 calories in a beer you fool.
I’m cracking up at this, Whoops I’m drunk and moronic. 100 x 100 is not 100,000
Its 1,000,000 calories
100x100 is can also be described as 3 + 3 which = 6 therefore its a 1 with 6 zeros. aka 1,000,000
He’s right
Good job bro. What have you replaced the alcohol shaped hole in your heart with, and will you ever try moderation? I used to think I couldn’t do moderation but I’ve mastered it now. I still rarely will have a night where I go ham but overall I’m drinking a lot less.
Granted I’m nowhere near as bad as some guys here so don’t laugh at me, but I went from finishing a handle of 50% alc captain Morgan black every weekend, to now just drinking like 20 beers once a week on the weekend. My alcoholic grandmother to great success controlled her alcoholism by only having 1 day to drink, Saturday, and only drinking beer.
Another cool thing about moderation too, is I woke up today not hungover so I’m going out to dinner and drinking again tn. Used to be hungover for 2+ days in bed dying and my whole weekend was fine,
Meant to give this to
You didn't understand jackshit you fat slob
>~100 beers a week
frick me, your liver must be on the verge of failure
Definitely not good for you, but he’s probably better off than those 100 lb girl bosses who are slamming a liter of expensive vodka every day.
>am I that drunk and out of touch?
>No! It's the heroin users who are addicted
I was getting druk in ought 2 sonny jim
That logic is fricking stupid. Ofc. you don't need go full hobo to be alcoholic. Since you clearly haven't been drinking that much you wouldn't know that you build tolerance to hangover and worst withdrawals don't hit until 48-72h after last dose. You can easily binge drink on evening until you pass out, wake up and go to work and repeat every day. My father has done this for 25y every day and if he can't get his fix withing day or two he starts sweating, loses his temperature from everything and looks nervous as hell.
>You can easily binge drink on evening until you pass out, wake up and go to work and repeat every day. My father has done this for 25y every day and if he can't get his fix withing day or two he starts sweating, loses his temperature from everything and looks nervous as hell.
That's textbook definition of alcoholism, moron. Binge drinkers go on benders for an indefinite amount of time then stop for an indefinite amount of time - wash, rinse, repeat. Their amhabits are sporadic and they over drink - that's why it's called "binge" drinking. Your daddy is a fricking alcoholic - alcoholics are habitual drinkers that drink at the same fricking time, ever fricking day for a long ass time.
>mfw ive been doing it for 25 years too
>I've gone cold turkey for a week many times when I felt I needed to dry out.
>nothing really happened, i drink more soft drinks on white weeks, thats it.
>i'm in danger.
That's not true at all. The true signs of alcoholism are the lack of control you have over your drinking. If you promise yourself that you're not going to drink every night and end up doing it anyway, it's very indicative that you are an alcoholic. If you can't even make it through breakfast without a drink then you are also an alcoholic, but in either case, you simply lack personal control over your addiction.
yeah. i was one. now i just drink every night and just beer.
was so bad before. always vodka in me. would wake up in my sleep after a few hours and have to smash a shot real quick
eventually got 5150'd from pyschosis. tripped nuts for some days and gave me ativan. now just beer at night and been much better
Why do people make up their own definitions in these threads all the time? Alcoholism takes many forms, from binge drinkers who don't know when to stop to functional but constant drinkers to crippled wrecks. The common thread is that they all have an excessive and uncontrollable desire to drink which is what you will find under any formal or medical definition.
I have been all of the above and I didn't suddenly become an alcoholic when I started getting crippled by withdrawals. I was an alcoholic the entire time I drank to excess because I had a hard time controlling my cravings.
How did you stop?
I’ve been getting what seems to be psychosis from stopping. Very scary stuff but it’s a vicious cycle
AA + tapering, doesnt necessarily have to be AA though
Strange thing is my volume doesn’t seem horrible to go cold turk but I get this feeling like my brain is inflammation. 9-10 drinks a night over the course of maybe 7p-1a
Drink earlier that shit is fricking up your sleep big time
>Why do people make up their own definitions in these threads all the time?
It’s called “bargaining” and it’s one of the telltale signs of alcoholism. An alcoholic’s definition of problem drinking is always one step lower than their current status, that is until rock bottom.
Not true
Source: am drunk
C9ol I'm notbalcoholic then. My dumb ex wife is just.a b***h like I thought.
>A little.
High functioning alcoholics behave normally with BAC levels above 0.3 or 0.4. I mean get up, walk around without stumbling, speak without slurring, control their emotions, do complex tasks, etc.
0.08 is the legal limit and science shows that impairment for most people begins at 0.12
Can't do this simply because I lean into it too much
I've relied on alcohol so much to be charming and outgoing that its become abit too much because now its just evolved into a drunk
>gatekeeping alcoholism
I've built a house, more or less by myself. I'm self reliant. I've travelled a big chunk of the world. I do more on a drunk day than any of these homosexuals do in a sober week. Does it sound like I'm happy? I function alright, until you stop functioning. I'm still hoping for a home where I can cool down and have a wife who calls me a moron for all the right reasons.
i dont believe you and your aggressive tone means you'e not happy either
It doesn’t sound like you’re happy.
WHAT A LIFE
Many teachers are high functioning alcoholics.
In my short time as a HS teacher, 2 of my colleagues were fired for being drunk on job and I can't guess how many more are there undercover.
this is pretty sober for a druk thread.
im druk btw .
need kinos to watch but nothing struck my fancy. so I goofing around on the youtubes
Every druk thread brings in a bunch of moralgays who want to preach how pure they are. Go frick with a troony thread we might be shitfaced but at least we know we aren't women.
Alcohol if used correctly is actually a tool to enhance your life
very true. you have to be wise though. if you are stupid it will be problematic.
t. druk right now
>Thigh Bar
>jugs bar
>thigh bar
Which one, Cinemaphile?
Jugs bar for me. Not even a question. Because if it's a reference to breasts, hey, that's my favorite thing. If it's a reference to jugs of booze, hey, that's my second favorite thing.
Thighs could be chicken thighs or some shit, I unno.
Yes it can be performance enhancing but eventually you become dependant on it and that's a terrifying thing
It works until it doesn't
Soccer is gay
based and germanpilled. they just love their beer. simple as. who cares if hes drunk if he does his job
I don't like shitting on Americans but these were probably expats which are the worst type of Americans.
>Prost
Basiert
Proud to be german.
If the parents who had complained had been Muslims, this would have had a very different outcome and every one of your fricks know it.
nice try, american
>Implying German soccer teams don't already start every match by praying to Mecca
You're behind the times.
Kelsey Grammer
I am an alcoholic doctor. Drink 5 times a day but still work and function. Although I drink mostly from boredom not feeling like my body needs alcohol. The result is the same, though.
>bought a shitty 30% vodka at Lidl today
>downed half by now
We DRUK'in right now, boys.
drinking relieves inhibitions that would usually cause apprehension when it comes to tasks, especially tasks that produce anxiety such as from fear of failure. i find myself a lot more willing to carry out tasks that i would usually procrastinate on after i've had something to drink.
Threadly reminder: Alcoholic fatty liver disease and liver cirrhosis can have no symptoms.
I was shitting bricks thinking I was developing fatty liver a while ago, had my doctor do blood work and turns out my liver values were excellent, so I've just kept drinking since then
Do not get a false sense of security. I was the same.
>Blood test says I'm fine? After drinking all that, after drinking for so long? I'm a superhero. I have alcohol genes. I must be a chad, etc.
Then they tested again, same thing.
Then they tested again, and I was told I had to immediately stop drinking and stop drinking for a year, or develop cirrhosis and die.
The false sense of security comes from delusions. You aren't special and your liver really does get overwhelmed at some point. At which point depends on so many things. But it will happen to you if you continue.
This raises a bigger question
Looking at history and even your own family tree there are certainly people who have the genetics to handle a life of excess
So at what point do you decide you're one of them?
Most people don't though. That's the point really. Most alcoholics are not special. And most die of problems related to alcohol. A life of excess leads to death, most of the time. Prople famous for their heavy drinking and alcohol tolerance usually die of alcoholism.
I agree, of course they die of their alcoholism, but yet they're remembered.
Ernest Hemingway isn't remember for being a miserable dying drunk (he was) but because he wrote such masterpieces he was remembered as a master writer.
.
If you do something, drunk or not, you will be remembered, how many palm oil victims diabetes cases are remembered, none.
My point is, alcohol is one of the things associated with genius. That may be because high IQ people are prone to addiction, it may be because its always been the western mans comfort. I think the general point is I should still drink beer.
I think we should all take a step back and be reminded of what this substance has done for our culture, history and empire. We should all remember the theory that man only invented the farm so that he could ferment, and bears still huff petrol when they can, its mammal, its human, its right.
A life of life leads to death
>A life of excess leads to death
everything leads to death, anon.
LETS FRICKING GO
>generally never drank that much
>watch /druk/
>start drinking more to participate in /druk/ threads
>accidentally became a high-functioning alcoholic
WHOOPS!
it's more likely than you think
Yeah, but you're gonna end up with some sort of cancer by the time you turn 50. Colon cancer is the most common followed by liver cirrhosis.
What are we drinking tonight boys? Got some vodka, whole milk and amarula to make some Wagners (get it? it's white russians but I'm using african cream because Wagner operates in Africa)
as many beers as i can before i shit myself and fall asleep
what a life!
Had some beers at the theatre and then a 14oz hot sake at dinner. Picked up a bottle of red and will kill that later along with some leftover Modelos.
5 white claws, I'm sticking to 5 tonite
just 5
Even if you think he was a shit general and president, you don't just fall into either position by fricking around.
He won, who thinks he’s a shit general? Had to at least be ok.
I spend every weekend sat alone drinking myself into a semi coma, i wish i had friends
I used to have friends I drank with, it was good times.
I just discovered smirnoff ice and I really like it bros
3 months sober bros, I miss the drinks. Can't drink because it fricked me up but no more withdrawal symptoms now so that's good
Sounds like you need a nice ice cold beer anon
The sober life will be me for a while, I wish though.
I replaced it with working out, friends and work. Making more money than I have in a long time. Once I feel like my withdrawal symptoms won't creep back up which will probably be few more months, it'll probably just be some holiday or special event thing. I was the whiskey man doing about 400ml a day, every other day for 4 years.
8 drinks every other night isn't much
you never got your tolerance up or something?
>you never got your tolerance up or something?
I did, 400ml was the average. I could have easily doubled that but I always held myself back
You sound pretty smart Anon, i don't mean this condescending. Seems like you never fully gave in to it and acted on it when you saw it went to far. Thats pretty admirable.
>8 drinks every other night isn't much
28 drinks/week puts you in the top 10 percentile of alcoholics.
A lot of alcoholics mostly hang around other alcoholics so they think their excessive alcohol consumption is normal when it definitely isn't
Being top percentile for a month was a fever dream
>28 drinks/week puts you in the top 10 percentile of alcoholics
No it doesn't moron. According to your picture it puts you in the top decile of everyone, including people who don't drink at all. Drinking more than 90% of people isn't the same as drinking more than 90% of alcoholics
here comes mr. semantics
>a handle is 40 shots
>I've only hit the 90th percentile on my absolute worst weeks
good now at last you can afford to smoke
DUDE
Once a month man myself. It's the only thing that doesn't frick up my sleep or mood.
Other than not drinking obviously.
I'm reaching the Steeler lvls right now, lads.
I CANT FRICKING STOP HELP
I sharted the water
I drink 375ml of whiskey every night plus 2 tallboys of beer (473 mls each)
Been doing this for almost 3 years and Last week I went 4 days sober with basically zero withdrawal - but of course I started drinking again because of that
Should I cold turkey this b***h or cut down or what?
All I do when drinking is rewatch shit I've already seen, and have pretty fantastic conversations with my weed smoking friends
Learn from my mistake, cut down. Cold turkey and you'll feel the pain of extreme anxiety, not being able to think or move around and heart pounding out of your chest
If you keep that up you will get cirrhosis and go into liver failure and die. It's very common and not talked about. The only cure is a liver transplant and those are hard to get and require six months of sobriety. People often die from liver failure because varices build up in their esophagus and pop causing them to drown in their own blood. That or sepsis.
One of my close family members has cirrhosis and it's basically doomed. She's been keeping her drinking secret this whole time.
I still get druk though
how do i get a woman like that to love me?
How can I stay drunk at the same level throughout the day?
I got drunk today (alone at home) for the first time in years and this is what I observed
once I stopped drinking I quickly started to sober up again
but then drinking didn't just maintain my level of drunkness but made me more drunk
You dont, you druk untill you pass out and then start again
I am at that level sadly. I'm feeling sober again but if I drink any more I will just feel sick. Wish I could shitpost some more. Drukposting is fun.
IV mainline wine
Nurse a high abv beer
It depends on your tolerance but right now what works for me is getting to the desired level and then slowly drinking a high ABV beer like the other anon said or sipping on wine.
I forget who it was, but someone said something to the effect of "functional alcoholic is redundant, because being functional is how you get more alcohol".
>out of alcohol
>don't want to smoke until nightfall
>smoking isn't as good as drinking anyway
Next time, I'm buying two handles.
Drukbros I need your strength. I have to put on pants and go to the liquor store but I'm so lazy and I only have an hour left. Lend me your power please!
Godspeed
If you fail you can always settle for cheap beer from the convenience store
Thanks bros. Got a 1.75 of vodka and a 12 pack just in the nick of time. Uber will deliver cheap wine and beer here but not liquor. My state is funky with alcohol.
uber eats lets you deliver alcohol in some places, see if you can be lazy and get drunks
If it wasn't for high functioning alcoholics our entire economy would collapse
T. Florida
yup, that's me. basically from my junior year to a few years after years after finishing my degree(now) I've been riding a constant buzz, not getting so fricked up(usually) but waking up and taking a shot, then another around 10, then noon for a couple, then three, then once I'm off work going hard, rinse and repeat. I'm an engineer btw
I fricking hate myself
Off to bed yet druk anons ? Enjoy the hangovers
>work tomorrow
>druk thread pops up
frick me
I completed my masters degree after drinking almost every night almost up to the last few weeks then went cold turkey, relapsed after I graduated then went cold turkey again and haven't drank in nearly a year. So honestly idk. Probably for a while but its not sustainable long term.
yes it's called anyone with irish genetics
saw this movie for the first time last weekend. ive rarely drank in my life and became a complete loser who wants to kill himself. i honestly am considering doing this. it cant be worse thsn my life now
Why is there not a fricking dub of this movie?
Yes, but only for a time, I aced college and started as a paralegal before I exploded. If you are too hardcore it sorta melts your brain and you can't think or wake up without puking unless you take a few drinks. Worst feeling ever but it happens.
am i a basedboy for liking voodoo ranger ipa beer? i've been drinking a pint or two every morning after work and its my favorite beer so far. Until i turn 21 gas station beers are all i can drink.
I used to drink 6 packs of imperials and I got fatter. So yes.
I'm well aware of the stigma, but I fricking love IPAs. The piney-er the better. I know I sound like a complete jerkoff when I tell a server I'm looking for a west coast rather than a New England hazy, but I like what I like. Might as well embrace it. Right now is the greatest time of abundance in history to be an IPA enjoyer.
About 2 gallons of beer a night. What are my odds?
Possibly.
i made it through uni (software eng.) dawn-to-dusk wasted. ballmer's peak is very real. i only stopped because i turned into a huge fat pig
>people thinking 100 beers a week is bad
I go through 30 a day. I know, because I buy a 30-rack every day. That's 210 a week. Get on my level.
Sad part is, I'm a functioning alcoholic, as in I go to work every single day and actually perform pretty well. So yes, to answer OP's question: high functioning alcoholics do exist.
>30 beers a day
Yeah that's not physically possible you would piss every 20 seconds
More like every 20 minutes, but yeah that's pretty accurate. I wake up a few times during the night to piss like some old man with prostate cancer.
WHAT A LIFE
>30 a day
If your gonna lie atleast try and make it semi realistic
>If your gonna lie atleast try and make it semi realistic
I don't know what's unrealistic about it. If you space it out, 30 a day over 24 hours and you're basically at the level BAC the Druk guys tried to be at but 24/7. I don't know how this is impossible to comprehend.
No, it's actually the opposite in my case. When I wake up, I feel sick UNLESS I drink a few beers, not the other way around. My 'normal' is having a few in my system. Riding the line the guys in Druk tried to achieve.
Which brings up a serious topic for anyone trying this: do NOT frick around with alcohol withdrawals. If you're an alcoholic and want to quit, if you drink heavily: don't just cold turkey that shit like cigarettes or whatever else. Alcoholic withdrawals will fricking kill you, and that's no exaggeration.
Anyone here have "the shakes" the morning after heavily drinking? That's your brain unable to successfully transmit nerve signals to your hands. Now imagine that, but truly alcoholic and not just a one-time binge drink. Your brain adapts to the alcohol and sends the electrical signals understanding that it has alcohol in the system. If you cold turkey, it'll send a message to your heart or lungs and if you don't have alcohol in the system like it thinks, wires get crossed and a single heartbeat doesn't happen or a single breath doesn't happen and you just fricking die.
I know my first post sounded like some frat kid bragging how much he can drink but I'm being serious. I've had seizures and shit from withdrawals. Don't mess with this.
Well since you can't do math: here's my schedule.
>work 7 days a week, 6 hours a day to hit full time
That just bought me 2 more hours to drink
>sleep ~6 hours
Pretty accurate.
>work trips and store = about 1h
Pretty accurate. Takes me about 10 minutes to work but I do need to go to the store every once in a while, but not daily for groceries. That's once a week or so.
>30 a day over 24 hours and you're basically at the level BAC
Could you be more underaged lmao
What's your job? Lying on the ground and vomiting?
>work every single day = about 8h
>sleep = about 6h
>work trips and store = about 1h
So you have like 0 9h to drink 30 beers. So you have to drink one in average every 18min. Unless you drink while you work. 30 beers is like 10 litres / 2.6 gallons btw. Imagine drinking that amount of anything daily. Coca-Cola, apple juice, even water would be difficult.
believe it or not about 20 mins per pint is about normal any longer youre nursing it, a pint being 568ml
its not far fetched but would be hard going, where it gets weird is when you start talking about wine and spirits
Wait so now its 30 pints a day? hHAHAHAHAAHAHAH
im in a differnt country we dont have those sample sized american tins, its not unreasonable is what im saying
ill happily do 16 tins of an evening of 500mls and get up i wont be well but ill be functioning
True, but my time with a pint doubles by about the 8th.
I spent half the time pissing, do you have a catheter or something?
>2.6 gallons of beer
>3500 kcal
>within 10 hours
>every day
yeah kys tranime homosexual
fricking kek tranimegays are moronic
>alcoholics in this thread so fricked up they can’t even count anymore
Yes
Porbably the majority of europeans and americans before the mid-XXc and prohibition used to be.
enjoy wet brain and liver failure you fricking losers
If you can’t go more than a few days without heroin, you’re a junkie. If you can’t go more than a few days without alcohol, you’re an alcoholic.
Simple as
>claims he's an alcoholic
>drinks beer
AA meeting in 2 hours, then I'll go home and drink
The biggest mindfrick is how some people think that being an alcoholic loser is a masculine trait. To the point where they'll try to one-up other men by bragging about how much they can drink.
It's like a veteran heroin junkie sitting on his high horse trying to pretend he's manlier than some newbie who's popping oxy. It's beyond pathetic
>To the point where they'll try to one-up other men by bragging about how much they can drink.
This is most common with non-alcoholics who just drink excessively. I know what you mean and it pisses me off.
I am ashamed of how much I drink and don't like talking about it with others.
I shat myself today for the first time in months.
>I shat myself to day, to see if i still feel
And you could haaaave it all
My empire of poo
thanks for making me laugh hard enough to wake up my dumb prostitute of a girlfriend
Greetings from Kazakhstan, I hate women
Congrats dude
>tfw breatho'd everyday for work
I'll never live the DRUK life
grim
I get tested on occasion but I "figured out" the pattern
>just finished my last shift
>week off
>2 weissbiers deep
/drukbros/ were living large for five days
we need a druk omegle tag
oh yes. Sweden is full of them. So is my family.
give me one reason why the frick i should ever stop drinking a bottle of wine every night its major comfy. they're 5 bucks each and it's not even a bad
>drop
you shouldn't i agree with you
If you only drink a bottle of wine there is no huge issue.
You're obviously not an alcoholic since you can keep it at that level.
However, it does seem a little unnecessary. I'd rather drink two bottles every two days if you are strict with the 1 bottle/ day rule.
Go talk to a doctor and ask him to explain, as if you were a golden retriever, how harmful alcohol is to your liver, kidneys, brain and CNS.
I would tell you to google it yourself and look up how harmful alcohol is in relatio to othet hard drugs like cocaine and heroin, but I will assume that the alcohol has already nuked your brain so it’s better if a doctor spoonfeeds you the information
Doctors are all gloom and doom, because they get money off you thinking you're sick.
>blah blah you eat too much
>blah blah you should exercise more
>blah blah you should drink less
>but no, nothing's actually wrong with you right now
answered a webmd questionnaire tier paper once and was diagnosed with depression and given mind altering drugs you can stop or you get SSRI syndrome
theyre all quacks these days
If doctors ultimate goal was to milk you financially they would downplay the risks of alcohol and drugs so that they could treat you. If your brain wasn’t nuked from alcohol abuse you would be able to draw simple logical conclusions
>he's seriously pretending they don't profit from eternal sickness
look at the mental illness rates rise you embarrassment
>but no, nothing's actually wrong with you right now
That's how my cholesterol went from fine to heart attack imminent. homosexual had nothing to say when, after showing me my chart of gradually increasing cholesterol, and only cholesterol, I asked why he didn't mention the steady uptick until now.
When you realize LDL cholesterol isn't the bad one this homosexual just got sold pills
eggs have it jesus
It was the bad one and I didn't take the pills. I just started walking a few miles
Good lad
Never took their pills just did what you did, always worked.
Bottle of wine is like 6-7 beers so it's not that bad. It's like some people eat goyslob every day, it wont probably kill you but you feel much worse daily than without it.
I know people who can manage to not drink on workdays, so they hold down a job, but spend every single other second of their life either marinating in vodka or puking it up.
That's what i'd consider a functional alcoholic.
I've known a few.
i love it
WE NEED a druk omegle tag or at least somewhere we can congregate when the jannies work for free
a room to see all the druk posters would be kino
i've not used tinychat in years but thats the only room place i can think
think most drukkers would wanna stay anon aswell so we'd need somewhere that caters to that
IM DRUNK RIGHT NOW
just woke up at 4PM
time to drink and shitpost
feel a bit of a hangover but eating while drinking and staying hydrated helped
if you have it or can afford it here's the hair of the dog checklist
milk thistle
omeprazole
ibuprofen
another damn beer
godspeed anon
>milk thistle
Meme
>ibuprofen
Will frick your stomach and liver up, also unnecessary because alcohol does the job just as well
The real answer is NAC and thiamine
>milk thistle
You say this but everything has improved since I started taking it, perhaps it psych but I've heard such good things from even anons in these threads and its cheap so why not
>Ibuprofen
Yes NSAIDS are the main cause of ulcers, I did at one point abuse these not knowing what they did, but used sparingly (bad hangover) they can be beneficial to reduce general inflammation
I think the one I really recommend are the proton pump inhibitors such as omeprazole, they're OTC and really improve the stomach function as a drinker but then again its temporary
I will try NAC and thiamine though, what benefits have you seen? Am on the supplement what ill lose drinking train so want to know everything
>everything has improved
What, specifically? I've never actually tried it, just read that it's snake oil
>NAC
Inhibits ethanol from being metabolised into acetaldehyde which is thought to be a major cause of both liver damage and hangovers (not dehydration contrary to popular belief).
You're supposed to take it about half an hour before drinking and not while you already have alcohol in your system, but I'm not sure how much that actually matters. I take 600mg every time I drink and it does seem to make hangovers less intense.
>Thiamine
Essential for preventing Wernicke-Korsakoff ("wet brain") syndrome which you really don't want. Not sure you'd notice anything in the short term but you need it in the long run. I take 100mg daily.
PPIs are great but long-term use can also cause B vitamin deficiency, I forget which one. Alcohol alone will also cause zinc and magnesium deficiencies, possibly others. I'd recommend getting a good multivitamin complex in general but NAC and thiamine are the main ones.
So for >milk thistle
All my bile related problems have stopped such as shitting any fluid and no weird colour, which is I suppose somewhat anecdotal but I take around 4000mg per day and its stopped me feeling like an invalid waiting for liver scarring, just by stopping all of the digestive ailments one has when they drink a lot, no more endless vomit etc
I'm ordering both NAC and thiamine off of Amazon right now - I've seen documentaries about drunks and seem them drinking red bull to prevent wet brain, which is thiamine (rain in my heart if youre interested quite a good one)
Thanks for the info
My cat woke me up at 3.35. I think. He always wakes me up during the night because I taught him not to piss and shit in the house. I walked him to the front door and there was a whole concert of birds whistling. Went back inside to check the time: 3.43. 25th of july. These birds were going bonkers with their songs. I think I heard 5-6 different species. I was like: "wtf is this?" . It was loud. So I noted the hour and the date. It lasted 10 or so minutes and then it died down. Last week we had the longest day of the year, I don't know if it's related.
Are you schizophrenic bro?
It's a coherent and understandable post. You're probably one of those ones with the vermicelli hairdo.
what are we going to do about the fact that this latest generation drink less than any other
I think this is causing problems
We can always drink more
And celebrate life. If the young c**ts can't do it, we will do it for them.
there's a line in an obscure show (tv related see jannies dont ban me)
"men drink because they deal with the real world - ted danson before he fell off"
its called bored to death and its perfect hangover watching
Weak men drink because they cant handle the real world
No sober man achieved anything of note, deal with it you homosexual
when it comes to creative endeavors like art, books, music? sure. serious work like building shit and doing experiments and whatnot? not a chance. stop with the cope alchie.
Do you reallt want to live in a world where the largest thoughts you have are
>what foundation
>what kind of brick
I thought not, kneel you utilitarian slave
the frick are you talking about lmao. put down the bottle before you post
What I think is that you were saying big sober men built the physical world, I'll give you maybe just maybe the engineers and architects were like that (they weren't until the late 90s)
But even if you believe that, you would not want to live in a world without poetry, music, film, eccentricity
So stop being an idiot and adtmit we all have a place in a grand society and your big forklift licence is just one part of that
As someone who has been sober myself, for over two years, I agree wholeheartedly with this statement. Alcoholics are a plague and a menace.
men who go sober are desperately trying to gain control over their own lives, because they have failed previously, men who accept chance, drink.
They often do better
>Alcoholics are a plague and a menace.
reminder that you are still an alcoholic, just a sober, self-righteous one.
why dont you make the world a better place and have a nice day you wretched fricking wino?
after a while my tolerance gets too high and it stops being fun and also my stomach can't handle it anymore, so I'm in a perpetual cycle of abstinence -> moderation -> alcoholism and then back again
I ate the takeaway, im going to drink the vodka
good lad
what takeaway? fellow britdruk i assume
Chinese lad, now i will drink untill i forget who i am
monarch
I think ill do the same exact thing on vocation 6.5 and terrible stuff i have in a packet
god save the king
I have drank very little in my life, but when I did it was liquors that fricked me up fast. I really enjoyed it, and while reflecting on the kitchen floor, I wondered - how the frick do people get drunk and decide they can drive? I could barely walk and was acutely aware of it, does this mean drunk drivers are just fricking moronic sober too?
So what's the point of beer? I bought some budweisers and drank one after work but it just tasted like shit and didn't make me feel any different. I've only had whiskey and tequila before.
>budweiser
drink real german
Beer is comfy. There are a lot of shitty brands out there but nothing beats a good, cold beer on a war summer evening.
Also, beer is something men who go a little mad on spirits drink tbh
Most people aren’t losers who drink to get fricked up, but rather have a little bit as a social lubricant. That’s why wine and beer are the most popular alcoholic drinks
Define high functioning.
They exist for a while but it all comes crashing down eventually.
I've drank every night for about 7 years, I live in Asia and work from home so it's cheap and everything is open 24 hours. I might quit though, I've started to notice the anxiety is going through the frickin roof most mornings. Heart beating fast, pins and needles in arms, sweating. I know it'll go away after 3 or 4 cans but I also know I'll just keep drinking till 1 or 2am then fall asleep and do it all over again
I've had this, and eventually you go mad and just stop going to work.
The trick is when you have a full week of work is to have one or two beers when you get home because you earned it, but also eat, calories help a lot which is why beers are a good choice.
Then if you want to go on a big bender when you have time off you can, you get function but you get disfunction which we all like in equal measure.
Don't let it ruin your source of income which allows all of this.
morning fellas
tune
we posting songs now, here's my most guilty pleasure song when I'm 10 deep
I'm a rageaholic I'm addicted to rage-a-hol
Honestly, you're being talked to by doctors who still espouse the food pyramid (whatever country you're in its wrong) - half of the western world is obese, were being told to eat sugar free snack cakes and people thikg alcohol and cigarettes are the problem yet they grew the western service economy from nothing to the best.
Even if you're the biggest straight edge man alive you have to see something is a little suspicious tbh.
You mean most like military officers? Or the whole City of London finance culture?
No, you're all moronic losers and a blight on society.
gay
Go have another suck on your binky bottle baby.
Jesus its the same man who made the argument of "wahh i hate u u are babies" - fricking grow up mate, men drink, you cant escape it, your meek words at the bar will get you bullied.
Used to that though huh?
>your meek words at the bar will get you bullied.
Yeah, by insecure drunks with poor control of their emotions... because they're drunk.
>drinking fermented fruit juice and going funny in the head is one of man's most important achievements
MY SIDES
I understand how important alcohol is to the history of humanity but it being so engrained in our culture does not make regular drinking a healthy activity. Drunks are worse people, that is a fact.
You're as bad as a reddit atheist, you boil things down to their most basic form and then criticise them
everything is silly if we make it its most basic
You make your bran most basic every night when you drown it in booze, drunky.
booze is one of our earliest inventions
make of that what you will
I'll repost one of mine
I agree, of course they die of their alcoholism, but yet they're remembered.
Ernest Hemingway isn't remember for being a miserable dying drunk (he was) but because he wrote such masterpieces he was remembered as a master writer.
.
If you do something, drunk or not, you will be remembered, how many palm oil victims diabetes cases are remembered, none.
My point is, alcohol is one of the things associated with genius. That may be because high IQ people are prone to addiction, it may be because its always been the western mans comfort. I think the general point is I should still drink beer.
I think we should all take a step back and be reminded of what this substance has done for our culture, history and empire. We should all remember the theory that man only invented the farm so that he could ferment, and bears still huff petrol when they can, its mammal, its human, its right.
dont know a thread full of drunks didn't respond
>My point is, alcohol is one of the things associated with genius. That may be because high IQ people are prone to addiction, it may be because its always been the western mans comfort. I think the general point is I should still drink beer.
>
>I think we should all take a step back and be reminded of what this substance has done for our culture, history and empire. We should all remember the theory that man only invented the farm so that he could ferment, and bears still huff petrol when they can, its mammal, its human, its right.
What the actual frick? This literal teenager thinks getting drunk gives him superpowers LMAO
I'll agree that was a little cringe, my point was it is universal
Checked and based.
Don't take any crap from these fricking swine.
>LE ATLAS STONE, I'M STRONG IF I DRINK STRONG BEER
How about you start lifting weights you fricking pussy?
>he cant do both
how many pull ups can you do anon
King
You cant spell brain sober get out of the druk thread idiot
A simple reply from a simple mind.
You've made no argument, what do I respond to?
me i'd frickj kick your ass if you sad that irl gaygitm=dfont eveb try me
All you can manage is a parody of a man drunk, as if you only knew it as a teenager, you have no idea.
You're innocent and have no idea because you've never had a good time with people drunk, I'm not mad, I'd like to help you see what its like.
Imagine being this far up your own arse lmao
I'm not claiming superiority, far from it, but every fricker in this thread who thinks sobriety is and I'm not having it for me or any of my drukbros
That's interesting but it will all seem meaningless when you're told you've permanently damaged your liver and have only a few years left to live.
Love you, /druk/.
Nah. Low functioning alcoholic here, on my second bottle of rum and life is still a lot of fun.
https://voca.ro/1hai5soS6JsD
That was hilarious, fellow brit - give me one to do pls
my response
https://voca.ro/150XcQkxhDhZ
I feel the fact I am obviously drunk in my response makes me look bad against the sober candidate
But i will lower taxes
Hemmingway didnt die drunk he died a weird degen "bisexual" gaybro who wasted the time of the women he seduced,
tbf it was probably the endless alcohol that did that
Yes.
t. high functioning alcoholic
I was a daily drinker for well over a decade, 2 years lame now.
I lost a shit ton of weight, that was the biggest impact. I went from size 44 pants now down to about 31...
The thing with drinking is that it made me okay with doing nothing. Always planning on shit to do but always saying frickin it. I'll do it tomorrow.
I feel like I woke up from a dream and I'm trying to catch up.
>The thing with drinking is that it made me okay with doing nothing. Always planning on shit to do but always saying frickin it. I'll do it tomorrow.
I know that feel bro
>I feel like I woke up from a dream and I'm trying to catch up.
sounds bad, tbh
i dont think I want to wake up
This thread convinced me to buy a bottle of wine even though it’s Sunday. Carpe Diem!
No. Anyone who says otherwise is just a delusional alcoholic with no self awareness of how much of a dysfunctional mess they are.
What have you guys been drinking lately? Dallas Blonde here
This beer, its nice id not done IPA before so it tastes better tho i know its hustle and bustle tier
>off-topic blog thread still up 21 hours later
This board is a joke.
I hope you all get awful DTs you fricking losers.
oh come on go away were having loads of fun
like we could go to /b/ and discuss this over terrible porn threads
go back to /film/ you pseud
have a nice day faster
Rude, i'm trying my best
have a nice day.
You're one of the biggest gays on the site. I can only hope you're a bot.
Imagine living through current events sober
I'm amazed my problem didn't explode during covid. Also kind of hard to give a frick when money just becomes more and more worthless.
They definitely do. Until they aren't anymore, one way or another.
If you think you're fine, just wait, it's only going to get worse, day by day.
>Until they aren't anymore
Basically this. You wouldn’t believe the number of self described “functioning heroin addicts” I’ve encountered in counseling. Every addict thinks they’re the exception to the rule.
I went to groups to ween off of benzos once, off them obviously, but the amount of guys who showed up working at a garden centre off their heads on smack claiming the garden centre girl was well into them and that was their way out, left so fast actual vampire addicts are life ruining demons
Yeah it's part of the thinking, most of them want to believe it so hard, they actually do at some point.
Until they either die or it gets so bad they come to the conclusion that they are really fricked.
I've been sober for 6 years and I remember the last time I had a relapse I realized my thinking was fricked for almost a whole month after that.
People who only use drugs/alcohol sometimes and have other stuff that makes them happy don't have their brain wired like shit, that's the main difference in my opinion.
Thing is, I could never use drugs or alcohol every day it just isnt possible for me due to me getting so manic and not stopping but when I can I really can.
I understand that people keep a baseline, but how? What did you do?
Yeah it doesn't really matter if it's every day or not. We had multiple guys in therapy that were binge drinking every few weeks but got more fricked up every time.
One had started to steal cars for some reason and crashed multiple times, he couldn't control himself at all when drunk.
Like I said, it's about why you consume drugs, not necessarily how often, this just raises the risk of getting addicted but it's not the sole reason for it.
I never drank daily but the moment I started smoking weed it took me just 1-2 to smoke from morning to night, couldn't sleep without the crap and become increasingly aggressive without it and paranoid with it.
Sure that doesn't apply for everyone but I realized I had a problem with addiction in general, alcohol was just the start.
I started drinking because I was always socially akward and that "fixed" it, nothing really has changed that much because I didn't do enough but I still believe it's extremely important for me to stay sober. Otherwise all my problems are just getting worse as they did before I stopped.
Disregard the last post just realized i did valium for years and seized to get off it
I'm new to drinking:
Yesterday after just 1 big glass of wine I was already pretty tipsy
but today I drank 1 big glass again and I feel nothing
do you develop tolerance that fast?