You think your hangovers are bad?
My success with booze is variable. Sometimes I can drink and drink and not be significantly the worse for wear in the morning. Sometimes, though - and even without having drunk all that much - I get the most catastrophic hangovers known to humanity.

So it was that, on one memorable occasion a couple of years ago, 1 pint + 1 pint = 48 hours of vomiting blood.

I'm sure that that's not entirely healthy...
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 14:46, 27 replies)

Good grief, what were you drinking?
Was it 2 pints of bleach?
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 14:48, closed)

It's what's commonly known as having a bad pint.
You can attribute this to a plethora of wierd and brutish hangovers.
( girlinthehole, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 14:49, closed)

@BGB
The older I get the more 'bad pints' I seem to have... at least, that would explain why my hangovers seem to be getting worse.
( Moey, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 14:51, closed)

Colonel D
If I remember correctly, it was only Stella. On other occasions, I've been made horiffically ill by a single pint of Grolsch.

BGB - I don't think it's bad pints. I've learned to detect what's coming: there've been occasions when, before I've finished my first G&T, I've known that the following day would be a write-off - I get clobbered that quickly. The next time I drink from the same bottle, though, I'm likely to be fine. 'Tis very odd.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 14:51, closed)

It may also be an age thing (i'm 31)
I sometimes wake up feeling shit, wishing I had abstained, only to realise that I hadnt drunk a drop the previous night. At which point I normally perk up.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 14:52, closed)

@Colonel
Possibly age, possibly not. I got my first ever hangover on the morning of my 18th birthday. I think it has something to do with my propensity to migraine - whereas other people feel groggy, my hangovers tend to go thermonuclear in a way that's indistinguishable from migraine.

Still doesn't explain the blood-vomit, though.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 14:55, closed)

liver
Isn't that something to do with your liver? I'd go get that looked at my love :oO
(weekirst23 Is broken! Silly ice. Silly High heels!, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 15:00, closed)

blood vomit
My friend had that while we were at school. It was before we started drinking, so nothing to do with that, but he would spew blood for days on end.

I think it was a burst blood vessel leaking into his stomach. IIRC he had to chew his food thoroughly and not eat anything too hot. It could also be a stomach ulcer if yours is aggrivated by booze. I don't know how that makes you get hammered super-fast though?!
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 15:03, closed)

Ouch
I read that and thought "I hope he'd simply been abusing the snakebite and black".

What the heck was it?
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Mon 11 Aug 2008, 15:03, closed)

it's called "being a freak"
and for once, it sounds like it could be fatal.

I can't mock, though. I'm usually still vomiting at 7pm the next evening. But not vomiting blood. Just bile.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 15:08, closed)

I've just read up the page
Stella.

It really is Satan's Urine.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Mon 11 Aug 2008, 15:10, closed)

...
Yeah. In fairness, it was probably just a matter of having burst a blood vessel through retching.

48 hours of retching, though, isn't much fun.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 15:10, closed)

Enzyme
I can imagine you're a bit of a delicate little flower.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 15:12, closed)

I like Stella
but then I'm blessed with a fairly cast iron stomach. I'm only human though and after a few days of heavy drinking I have to quit or I'm creased. It's all a matter of finding what works for you and what doesnt. The ride is fun! I have mates who can lower pint after pint of Guinness and buckle under a brace of lagers and vice versa. For low-chemical content in your beers, stick to the Germans. We all have much to thank them for :)
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 15:14, closed)

@baz
As a rule of thumb, the more expensive the lager, the better I am. Things like Carling or Fosters kill me. Things like Stella and Grolsch, notwithstanding what I said above, are usually OK.

Usually.


*touches wood*
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 15:19, closed)

@Enzyme
a lot of places stock Becks Vier nowadays. It's pretty pure. Mate of mine with the most volatile skin and delicate constitution imaginable swears by it.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 15:23, closed)

definately
Bad pint.

Although it is more difficult to spot a bad pint of fizzy piss than a bad pint of ale
(Halfy By light alone, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 15:24, closed)

Stella FTW
the problem I tend to have is that after 4 or so pints of lager I insist that we drink silly things like sumbuca and jagermeister. a good idea at the time, but considering each of them has to be washed down with a pint I'm normally feeling a bit the worse for wear the next morning after 8 pints and 4 jaegers.....
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 15:25, closed)

Beer
Rolling Rock lager is reputedly made from very pure ingredients too.

I've never gotten on with Stella though. It's evil stuff and despite being "reassuringly expensive" guff. In my experience there is a direct correlation between anything remotely wrong that has ever happened to me on a night out and Stella Artois having been consumed.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Mon 11 Aug 2008, 15:29, closed)

Stella
is fucking cooking lager and no mistake.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 15:32, closed)

@PJM
The problem with that is that Rolling Rock is awful, weak piss.


Breakfast beer.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 15:33, closed)

@Enzyme
How do you get on with real ale?
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Mon 11 Aug 2008, 15:34, closed)

Staropramen
All the way.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 15:38, closed)

Real ale
Same as.

The cheap lager rule of thumb is only that. Closer to the truth is that there seems to be no rhyme or reason to what sets me off. Beer's sometimes fine, sometimes not. Ditto lager, wine, spirits...
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 15:38, closed)

do what i do
stick to vodka, you pussy!
:D
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 20:04, closed)

^Agrees
Can't go wrong with Vodka!
( girlinthehole, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 20:35, closed)

The best way to get a hangover...
Is to mix it up :)

Generally, I start with a quartet of cans of Stella (I don't actually like it draught), then move onto a few vodkas (to wash down the goodness that is e) - then onto the pub. Few Pints of Carlsberg, couple of Sambuccas and/or Absinthe. Top up with more Calrsberg (adding whatever illegal substances are to be found) et voila - next day the perfect hangover...

Never vomited blood though (yet)
( snee held his breath since, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:08, closed)