<p>"""i left high school with a 4.5 gpa(on 4 pt scale) and with more ap's and ec's than i would care to list but to say a bit i was a 3 sport, 4 year-letterman and captain of every team and all-district in two. I'm now at an ivy league school and proud to say i have have only recieved one B+ and the rest of my grades are A's so don't assume just caues i drink alot and have fun that i'm stupid or a liar"""</p>
<p>STMICHAEL - just a bit curious here - on another posting you are a senior in high school - with stats posted and all - going back to New Orleans to finish your senior year and graduate - so which is it?? high school or college??</p>
<p>So, Mr. Ivy Leaguer (with almost a perfect GPA, no less), how about those posts just two weeks ago asking for responses to your question "Chances at UVA, UNC, Wake Forest, Duke"? I don't suppose you're trying to transfer from your "ivy league school" either, seeing as you posted the question as a current high school senior. </p>
<p>You lie, and you're not good at it, and you're not amusing, and you're very easy to see through.</p>
<p>Despite your glorification of alcohol, you're quite the good example of why NOT to burn too many of those precious brain cells by downing as much of it as you wish to brag about later.... on an internet messageboard, for <em>beep</em> sake.</p>
<p>Although it is hard to believe you, what you "did" was EXTREMELY dangerous and stupid. What you did is exactly why there are sad parents across the nation mourning for the loss of their son or daughter because they had too much fun one night. You are not a child anymore and you should realize that alcohol is not a toy. As an adult you are to make responsible decisions and drinking 12 shots in 8 minutes is in no way a responsible decision (and then finishing 1.5 liters after that). 12 shots in an hour is a risky thing and what you "did" could have landed you brain dead or dead dead. It is not in any way funny what you did and you should not glorify such an idiotic thing.</p>
<p>First off, there is comparitively little modern and credible evidence that alcohol kills brain cells. The only dangers from alcohol are heart/liver damage or death via asphyxiation or through anastesia to the point that one stops breathing.</p>
<p>Secondly, if someone downs a huge amount of alcohol and then pukes most of it up very quickly (as the unquestionably brilliant STMICHAEL did), then there is significantly less risk of alcohol related death - it takes time for alcohol to be absorbed.</p>
<p>Third, who the hell cares how much you can drink if you're just going to puke? A drinking record cannot be set on a night when one pukes/pees themselves or otherwise loses control of basic bodily functions.</p>
<p>Oh, and by the way hopkinslax - many experienced drinkers who have a reasonable tolerance and a strong stomach can down 12 shots in a short period of time. That isn't really even that dangerous of an amount, unless you are an unexperienced drinker or very small person.</p>
That is true, you get insanely drunk quickly though. I killed a bottle of firewater in about 25 minutes once and was sauced instantly. I then told my then girlfriends kids that I would buy them things if they called me dad. I think that was the last time I had firewater.</p>
<p>This thread is stupid and immature. Is there anything wrong or immoral about drinking? No. Do I drink? Yes. Do I tend to drink to excess? No. I like to drink at parties to loosen up and enjoy myself. I tend to focus on the social aspect of the party - girls, talking, dancing, girls, etc - not drinking as much as I can. There's nothing trashier than drinking until you nearly die and then bragging about it. Seriously, stmichael, there's nothing cool about being a competitive drinker. Kick back the ethanol intake and try to enjoy the social side of things. If you can't do that, you might have a problem.</p>
<p>HEYz,
I'm new to this site and may be butting in on ur conversation(sorry). BUt i agree with cavalier302! There is nothing wrong with drinking,as long as it isnt to the x-treme where someone gets hurt! JeepMom needs to "kill the Motor" ur not out drinking with any of them so as you said before "drinking is a personal choice" so kool it and stop replying to the thread if all your goning to do is lecture and tell people what to do with their lives. Am i a drinker-somewhat. I believe that watever u do with urself is ur buisiness. If you don't agree with what someone else is doing... so what!!!!! its their life!(OMG now i've become JEEPMOM) NEWay! go back to the real purpose of this thread! I want to see more dinking records!WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!PARTY!!!</p>
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<p>In high school, we called that ownage. In college... well, I guess it's still ownage, isn't it.</p>
<p>In college, stmichael's "alcoholic feats" are probably false and if true, just "feats" -- bad ones, at that. Also in college and in the rest of your life, that's also considered morbid alcoholism.</p>
<p>First off, there is comparitively little modern and credible evidence that alcohol kills brain cells.</p>
<p>Actually, there is NO evidence alcohol kills brain cells. In fact, I can tell you right now that it doesn't, people! The whole killing brain cells thing I'm sure came about as a scare tactic with no basis in fact. Alcohol damages the dendrites of the neurons in the brain (which it can do relatively easily since it passes through the blood-brain barrier with little trouble at all). This damage is only TEMPORARY and is completely repaired when the alcohol leaves the system.
The damage to the dendrites makes neurological messages in the brain less effective, hence all the effects of alcohol as a nervous system depressant. But like I said, it is totally reversable - so stop with the whole "you're killing brain cells" bit.</p>
<p>That being said, you're an idiot if you drink 13 shots in 10 minutes (and then 1.5 litres of whatever and blah blah) - and very lucky you didn't end up seriously hurting yourself. I've seen many people stop breathing for periods of time when they're that drunk, or fall off of third floor balconies and break their backs in multiple places, among other things. Just makes my job that much more fun, though, trust me. I'll have little sympathy as I stick an artificial airway down their throat and other such fun stuff.</p>
<p>sorry for the dumb question, but I'm not quite familiar with US measuring system. so how much is one shot? 50 or 25ml? if it's 50, than 12 shots for less tah an hour is helluva lot...
in (eastern) europe where people ussually start drinking much earlier drinking records and other stupid alcohol experiments are done up until your 10th grade, getting drunk out of your mind when you're considered a grown person at college age just seems incredibly immature and pathetic, it shows you have no drinking habits whatsoever. that said I haven't tried to set records in a long time, my most impressive being half a litre in an hour. but I'm definitely not repeating that heroic feat in college, it looks a bit silly when someone poisons himslef to death and spends the night over the toilet bowl, don't you think?</p>
<p>Oh, I use 1 oz shots (technically "pony" shots, but whatever). Not that it matters - most people are REALLY bad at telling how big shot glasses are. Take a highball shotglass (the tall kind) and a regular one, and the vast majority of people will say that the highball holds more - even if they have identical volumes.</p>
<p>Seriously this is ridiculous. People post stuff for fun and you high school kids and my fellow college students (yall obviously have no life) criticize the OP and tell them how bad the activity they talk about is. If they wanted your advice they would ask. Have fun and post or stay off the thread.</p>
<p>I'm 5'4" and a girl who is 120 something pounds...my records might appaul you people and you might verbally **** on me/chastize me. So, I'll just state that I never vomit and that drinking is a marvelous thing.</p>
<p>You know, as a Canadian in my freshman year at an American university, I am constantly surprised by the ridiculous attitudes towards drinking people in your country seem to have. People around me seem to be either complete teetotallers who believe that drinking is some sort of disgusting sin or they're binge-drinkers like the OP. It's really strange.</p>
<p>I mean, I've been too drunk my fair share of times too, but that's mostly because I'm small, female, and love the taste of alcohol--so I sometimes drink a bit more than I mean to (I've only thrown up once though; it's sort of its own lesson). But amongst my circle of Toronto friends--almost all of whom enjoy drinking quite a bit--behaviour like the OP's is basically the epitome of immaturity. It's so 15 years old to think you're cooler just because you can drink a large volume of alcohol. I mean, when everyone around you drinks at least on occasion, it's no longer such a big deal or newsworthy or particularly exciting and risque. </p>
<p>And really, if you're drinking a case of Bud Light (shudder), you can't tell me that you like alcohol. You can barely taste the alcohol in that crap--or for that matter, anything else. (Seriously, find yourself a good microbrewery and drink real beer.) And surely you can't enjoy being so drunk that you throw up; that's not particularly fun. So really, you only enjoy drinking because you think it's "cool"--like one of those 13-year-olds who starts smoking because his older friends do. And that's really kind of sad. I hate to be condescending, but grow up and get over yourself.</p>