Topic: What are you drinking? (Or should be)

[Cognoscento]

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!

[pandamonium]

Coffee. I might pop open a Bigfoot from Sierra Nevada later. But for now, coffee. Stupid chores.

[Traveler]

House red wine. I don't know what it is. It's acceptable. It's intoxicating. The airline is giving it away free. At the moment that's good enough for me.

[seamas]

Tastes like sour piss.

Its american beer, no need to be redundant

1985 called, it wants its lame joke back.

[pandamonium]

Tastes like sour piss.

Its american beer, no need to be redundant

1985 called, it wants its lame joke back.

BURN.

[Dionysus]

Tastes like sour piss.

Its american beer, no need to be redundant

1985 called, it wants its lame joke back.

BURN.

[Dionysus]

I'm drinking a shot of grey goose just to get me ready for bed. Does that make me an alcoholic?

[pandamonium]

I'm drinking a shot of grey goose just to get me ready for bed. Does that make me an alcoholic?

No--drinking the entire bottle would make you an alcoholic. And also dead.

[vespine]

I'm drinking a shot of grey goose just to get me ready for bed. Does that make me an alcoholic?

If you CAN'T go to bed without a shot of vodka, then maybe you're a bit of an alcoholic. If you can't get out of bed in the morning without a shot of vodka, then you're definitely an alcoholic

[pandamonium]

One of these days I want to start drinking in the morning just to see what all the fuss is about. On my day off, of course. I suspect I'd get bored of drinking alcohol pretty quickly, though. My limit is one or two beers, depending on their size. Last night I was at a party and only drank four or five beers over a several hour period. Enough to get happy, but not enough to give me the dizzies. And I even left the party at a reasonable time because I was getting sleepy.

[moj]

One of these days I want to start drinking in the morning just to see what all the fuss is about. On my day off, of course. I suspect I'd get bored of drinking alcohol pretty quickly, though. My limit is one or two beers, depending on their size. Last night I was at a party and only drank four or five beers over a several hour period. Enough to get happy, but not enough to give me the dizzies. And I even left the party at a reasonable time because I was getting sleepy.

It typically ends badly or passing out around noon. There's a short period of odd merriment and being drunk so early in the day. Then it devolves into a handicap, unless there are enough others drunk people around you to then become a nuisance. That's really the best you can hope for is being a nuisance. I do start drinking pretty early sometime, but never morning early. I get up at 4am and off work at 2:30 so will hit happy hour but even on my off days can’t start in the morning.

[Dionysus]

Thankfully I'm not so far gone as to get drunk in the morning. I don't actually drink enough to get drunk, I just found that vodka before bed helps me sleep. Do you think that's anymore or less unhealthy than taking zolpidem tartrate?

[pandamonium]

Seeing as alcohol disturbs the sleep cycle, I'd say you should stick with the scary chemical.

http://alcoholism.about.com/cs/alerts/l/blnaa41.htm

[cedric86]

Day drinking is FUN but as you might imagine there are lots of potential pitfalls. And doing it all the time is probably a bad idea.

And yes, alcohol disrupts normal sleep architecture, and for that reason, among others, it is not a medically-accepted sleep aid, unlike zolpidem. But at such a low dose (one shot), I don't know if it causes too big a problem.

[pandamonium]

If you're already having sleeping problems it might.

Speaking of drinking, I just finished a Bigfoot Barleywine. Twas delicious.