Wild Turkey Brain Death
Many years ago for reasons too pathetic to go in to, I found myself really needing a drink. I was too poor at that exact point to go out, or even buy a bottle of wine. All I had at hand was about a third of a bottle of Wild Turkey bourbon I’d been saving, the 101 proof stuff.

I decided to conduct an experiment. There wasn’t enough to get hammered, so I reasoned that if I couldn’t drown my sorrows I could try torpedoing them, for the night at least. Being a youngster, I hadn’t really ever drank a lot of spirits before and I thought it might be interesting to see what happened, which was all the justiciation I needed.

So I downed around 20-25 CCs of 50.5% ABV Austin Nichols charcoal filtered nectar in one go.

After about ten minutes, I stopped coughing, retching, blowing my nose and rubbing my eyes. Lifting my head off the table, I realised what had happened.

I had become very drunk very quickly. Fuzzy head with buzzing noises. Visual-spatial judgement fucked. Sight not working properly. Co-ordination like a fucking newborn foal. And I was still tense as hell.

Drinking it so quickly meant that I hadn’t become physically relaxed in any way, as one would when enjoying a drink responsibly. And it hadn’t had the usual distracting qualities allowing me to listen to music, watch a film etc. Felt really, utterly absolutely fucking awful. And it took me ages to get to sleep cos of the roaring in my ears.

All of the bad things about being drunk and none of the good. Bah.
( The Vomiting Hitchhiker Mephistopheles is such a mouthful in Manhattan, Tue 29 Jul 2008, 16:47, 2 replies)

I've drunk vodka with Poles and this was how they favoured doing it
Chill it til it's about -50C, then down half a pint of it. More like being on drugs than any alcohol I've experienced, excepting the dodgy ones like poteen (another story for another thread)
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Tue 29 Jul 2008, 17:38, closed)

I've drunk
Turkey...

my sympathies to you...
(Rakky (forgot her password) The muffin maverick, Wed 30 Jul 2008, 3:07, closed)