how much does it take for you to get drunk?

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DT4K

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ATOT are alcohol tolerance champions. Everyone can handle at least 20 shots bro. Everybody knows this.

Yeah, no shit. Some of these guys are serious alcoholics.
I drink on a fairly regular basis and I weigh 230 and 6 shots in an hour would definitely have me drunk. On most Friday nights, I drink a 6 pack of 6 or 7% beer over about 4 hours and get a mild buzz.

Last time I drank too much, I had half of a 750ml bottle of scotch(equivalent to about a dozen 1oz shots) over a 4 hour period and I could barely walk home and ended up puking my guts out before sleeping the rest of the night on the bathroom floor.
 

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The Irish is strong in me. I could drink a lot and still be in the buzzy/happy/functional side of impaired.

Only 2 times in my life have I ever had enough alcohol to get to the side of drunk that you wake up with vomit caked to face, your pants are on the front porch, and there are people in your house you don't even recognize. Both of those nights it was something to the effect of over a dozen shots of Jim Beam spread out over several hours.

But that was 10 years ago. Now I just go from kinda buzzy to hung over without even remotely reaching that stage of drunkeness. Three or four beers now and I shut it down because I can already feel my head starting to hurt.
 

Kirby

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7 or 8 for a decent buzz, 10 to 12 for full drunk, ~15 for blasted out of my mind waking up in the grass covered in vomit and piss.

I have terrible all-day hangovers if do 10 or more though.
 

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3 beers over a couple hours gets me buzzed. Last weekend I had 6 or 7 beers over 4.5 hours and I was slightly drunk, but still coherent and able to walk home.

Had a solid long run the next day though, so I guess it wasn't too bad. I'm a major lightweight lol.
 

xanis

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Only 2 times in my life have I ever had enough alcohol to get to the side of drunk that you wake up with vomit caked to face, your pants are on the front porch, and there are people in your house you don't even recognize. Both of those nights it was something to the effect of over a dozen shots of Jim Beam spread out over several hours.

:D I nnow exactly what you mean. I've had three of nights. Two were with normal liquor and beer, but the one was with 151. I put down about half the bottle myself and without doubt was the drunkest I've ever been (or care to be ever again). I woke up around 5am, shoes covered in vomit, with my right hand in the toilet and about 20 text messages that looked like, "dfgh".
 

SlitheryDee

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I'd be buzzing pretty hard after 6 shots too. Straight up drunk would be in the 10-12 shot range, though.
 

MAKENITO

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7 shots of Sambuca had tipsy - but not drunk.
I could drink a 12 pack of beer and be fine - the most I have ever drank beer wise was 32 cans. Spent hours throwing up - but I was ugly drunk at the end of that.

Now, I can drink 7 Smirnoff Double Blacks and be tipsy, but not completely drunk.
I drank 6 beers - was totally ok, and spent 8 hours throwing up.

I dont mix alcohol at all - I get drunker, faster and end up either worshipping a toilet, or using it as a pillow.
 

Arkaign

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Depends on how often you've been drinking. If I've not been drinking for a few weeks, I can get a buzz off of a 750 of Rum/Vokda or a 375 of Tequila (TQ gets to me quick for some reason). If I'm drinking every night, then it takes more, I usually get a handle of Cruzan, Captain or something similar.
 

Pantlegz

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I drank a liter of rum and then some on new years eve, over 3 hours, and was fully functional all night, woke up without a hang over. I can probably get drunk off a pint of 100 proof liquor an hour not sure how many 'drinks' that is.
 

MAKENITO

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3 beers over a couple hours gets me buzzed. Last weekend I had 6 or 7 beers over 4.5 hours and I was slightly drunk, but still coherent and able to walk home.

Had a solid long run the next day though, so I guess it wasn't too bad. I'm a major lightweight lol.

Running after drinking??? I swear youre crazy.

After a night of drinking, I eat popsicles. Nothing like munching on ice to get over a hangover.
 
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too many factors. what have i eaten? when did i eat it? how hydrated am i? what am i doing while drinking? what am i drinking? how fast am i drinking?
 

Fayd

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well, FWIW:

i ate a large dinner. taco salad. LARGE taco salad. made myself a 6 shot margarita. (6 oz tequila, 6 oz curacao, 6 oz lemon juice.

end of dinner and for an hour afterwards, i was feeling rather good. (like...gooooooooddddd....)

2 hours after that, i was completely sober :/
 

Alone

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Water, coffee, and 25km does wonders to sweat out the beer ;)

The military made me good at this. Drunk runs are sweet. You wake up hammered after a couple hours of sleep, run and sweat it all out, then feel great because you skipped a hangover.
 

Lithium381

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i'm starting to feel pretty good after 4 drinks over an hour.... anything over that and i'm going downhill and fast
 

TallBill

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ATOT are alcohol tolerance champions. Everyone can handle at least 20 shots bro. Everybody knows this.

Eh, I can't speak for anyone but I can do about 20 shots and function. Granted, I don't drink shots. Double vodka + sprite when I'm at a bar.
 
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Eh, I can't speak for anyone but I can do about 20 shots and function. Granted, I don't drink shots. Double vodka + sprite when I'm at a bar.

Well you're even taller than me and that does seem to matter.

I am so unused to it by now that a 6'th of Laphroaig really affects me, had that on new years and after one glass of champagne after that it was bed time for Jake.