Drinking: am I abnormal?
 

So I went to a party tonight. I get there 8ish and start off with rum and cokes. Over the course of the next 2 hours, I did a couple shots of tequila (some really good stuff, don't remember the 'model' - it was Jose Cuervo brand). Then a shot of "Red Rum", a shot of J&B followed by a "Highlander" (J&B & Ginger Ale). I had a drink in my hand the entire time.

Someone had brought a breathalizer; neat idea! About 10:30, we're trying it out just for fun. Everyone else was blowing in the range of .11 - .19 - I blow a .05. Thinking it was a fluke, we did it again - .04. @ 11:00, I did it again, although I finished the drink I had and then no more - .02. Everyone else was the same or higher, as evidenced by the fact that they were stripping their clothes off and getting in the hot tub. I ate a decent dinner (for a bachelor, anyway) and had a quad mocha before I got to the party - not sure if that had anything to do with it. I was snacking on cheese and crackers most of the night, too. I'm 6'2", 235lbs.

As an aside, there's this chick from the office I've been working on for a while not. The good - I got to see her naked; the 'bad' - I didn't get much (note I didn't say 'any'...) play. Nice abs though.

Men process alcohol more efficiently than women (faster metabolism). Other key factors are what you have eaten and your bodymass.
I have a personal theory that your mood influences how fast or slowly you get drunk but this would not be measured on a breathalyser.
If I remember rightly one metabolises one measure of alcohol an hour, so depending on the size of the shots you were drinking your reading would be about right.

A lot of this depends on how much alcohol dehydrogenase your liver makes. It varies greatly from person to person. Also, people who drink regularly (not necessarily heavily) will have rapid induction of enzymes that break down EtOH and it will clear from the bloodstream more quickly.

Young alcoholics metabolize alcohol very rapidly. Later, when the liver begins to fail the alcohol clearance time may triple.

When I was in college, I could have five or six drinks and be pretty sober in a couple hours. I don't drink heavily any more so now I'm a lightweight. I have no desire to resume "liver training" exercises!

Also, remember that breathalyser equipment (even the stuff law enforcement uses) is terrifically innaccurate.

Thom, don't get me wrong. I am interested in your alcohol consumption and absorption question but tell us more about the girl.:D

Probably the fact that you had a good dinner before and time to digest it, then some moderate drinking. Rum is only @80 proof and depends on what 'flavor of Tequila' may have only been 80 proof. Ditto on the JB.

I'm almost your height /weight and I can 'drink' !! My poison is Wild Turkey 101 (101 proof). When I want to go 'upscale' I opt for Bookers @ 127 proof bourbon. Man that stuff is very smooth but it will sneak up on you!!

Re: Drinking: am I abnormal?
 

Pics?

O.k., Thom, you've got a leg up on me. There is not a single woman in my office that I would want to see naked. Not one. Ever. No matter how much I had to drink.

Historically, my metabolism has been light lighning. I've never been able to drink others under the table, but regardless of how much I have drank, I'd be sober with a headache in two hours. Or less. Now that I'm 47, things don't work like they used to, but I still have no trouble maintaining my 165-lb weight (I'm 5'9") on a steady diet of mixed nuts (we keep tubs of the stuff at work) Big Mac's and Breyers ice cream. I eat everything I see.

She's about 6'2", slender, athletic, lightly but perkily racked, dirty blonde hair (and aparently that's her true hair color :) ), and she knows perl better than I do. However, it looks like I've been put on the 'friends' ladder

I'm kicking my own ass for not taking the digicam to the party.

Pictures?

Thom, If you really want to get off the friend ladder it can be done. It's not really fair play, but it works.

Enlighten me, oh wise one...

This doesn't involve date rape drugs or anything, does it?

Nah, just a certain amount of shameless indignity.

For several days at work keep to yourself. Act sullen, moody. Withdraw. Be terribly sad and pitiful. Make sure she notices. When you find yourself alone with her, put your head in your hands as if the emotional strain is almost too much to bear. Letting your eyes tear up a little is a great touch, but generally reserved for masters.

When she asks you what is wrong (and she will, she's a woman), tell her that the lost stray kitten you nursed back to health has disappeared and you fear the worst. You can substitute "small bird fallen from nest" or any other warm blooded animal as long as it is cute and helpless.

You are now off the "friends ladder" and find yourself in the exalted and rare category of "sensitive man who is not gay". There is no higher station in the heterosexual marketplace. None.

In a short time she will be posing with your car parts on e-Bay. Guaranteed.

1. there is no such thing as normal

2. drinking isn't really the problem for an alcoholic, the alcoholic is the alcoholic's problem...the drinking justs helps him to get away from himself for a while

3. for God's sake, don't you dare even try to bang a girl at work, unless the following apply to you:

a. you don't care about losing your job

b. you don't mind getting sued

c. you don't mind feeling uncomfortable at work, to the point of having to hide and scout corners while there

d. possibly all of the above

4. if you think you can't fit exhibits 3a-3d into your life, then don't do it...there's a reason for the expression "don't fish off the company pier"


And for the rest of you guys, don't encourage this kind of behavior...

The Ladder Theory. That's a friggin' classic! :cool:

I'm thinking that since they're all nekkid in the hot tub together that the normal rules may not apply. Just a guess. ;)

Sheesh! I wasn't going to bang here at work; maybe my place, hers, in the back of my VW bus...

This is a large company, with probably 4k people at our site, and while we work in the same building, we're not in the same department.

Classic! :D :D :D :D :D

Umm, a female, educated, athletic, and possibly willing to "bang" in the back of a guy's VW bus. So what details are you leaving out? Hell you might be a real Casanova Thom (with tin foil hat :) ) but any girl willing to bang a guy in a VW bus who's still not in Jr. High, well, there's more there than meets the eye. Oh wait, she can program w/Perl, that explains alot. Good luck on that. ;) I'm with Jeff, the only attractive girls I've seen on the job were the sales/marketing temps hired at Java One.

fishing off the company pier is a recipe for disaster!

Best Line of 2005..So Far...
 

Gawd I wish I said that....thats brilliant....

Oh Wide sounds like you are bragging.....about your drinking ability....

I find that if you drink A LOT of water enough to slosh before you go to bed after Boozing....you really mitigate the hangover the next mornining...The Booze Dehydrates you....and thats what causes the hangover....

Here in the desert sometimes I wake up with a headache...it's usually because of dehydration...it's so dry up here that you don't even realize your losing water....after a bottle or 2 of water it usually goes away...and if it doesn't well a couple of shots of JD helps make the day go around......

Bookers 127....barrel proof...hmmmm, do like the stuff...McCalums has a barrel proof Scotch I'd like to try.....but instead of Wild Turkey 101, I prefer Old Weller 107......

And speaking of Old Uncle Jack Daniels...I seem to be able to swill down alot more of the stuff than I used to, before the buzz sets in...I must be getting more tolerant to the stuff...do I have a problem....hehehehehe.......carefull boyz I know the answer to this one....lets see if all you lush lifers know?

6-2? Geeze thats Amazon country

You only have a problem if the liquor store is closed!

You're either saying she's a bowser, or that I'm such a loser I can't even hook up with a nerd chick?

She's actually attractive, and very outdoorsy - she grep up in Humboldt, so that should help explain a lot. She drives a Subaru Outback, but she swears she's not a lesbian; however, if she turned me down, she has to be a lesbian.

The trick to interoffice dating is to stay friends with the victim. This takes some trickery on your part. I find that having opposite interests will usually make for a clean break. If she is the outdoorsy type, stay inside and watch movies. If she a house queen, go sky diving. This gives the woman something to think about. She knows that she will never be truly content with you but she can't resent you for it either. In a few weeks you can just tell her that you are 2 different people. Or if your lucky she'll break it off. Either way your in the clear.

Or if it turns out that your are her boss, just fire her when things git sloppy

So what base did you get with her?

No reach around?

How does one sex talk with Perl?

"Yea baby, I'm gonna do you like a nestled for loop with a case select in G-spot, I got your return function right down here. I hacked your box and rewrote permissions to your pussy giving me admin rights down there. Now take this cookie."

I got the modules downloaded and compiled, but I didn't have permissions to mount the drive and install. I tried installing in an alternate path, but that resulted in a sigsegv (invalid pointer, I guess)

I'm surprised as hell nobody has made a 'perl necklace' joke yet.

report back when you've knocked the bottom out of her.

Just her your Porsche, that should instantly elevate you to OB status....;)