Argh!
I've been well and truly beaten up by the wine monkey. The bastard ambushed me last night and subsequently my head hurts like a motherfucker.

Any other casualties out there and what's your tale of woe?
(SpunkyMcSpunkbubble Diddled your nubbin on, Sun 30 May 2010, 12:07, 40 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

your post suggests to me that you are expecting sympathy. or at least something approaching it.
shame on you.
*smugs due to utter lack of hangover*
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 30 May 2010, 12:15, Reply)

None whatsoever
I brewed it, I drank it, I reap the fallout. How goes it Sir?
(SpunkyMcSpunkbubble Diddled your nubbin on, Sun 30 May 2010, 12:26, Reply)

very well thankyou. glad we got that cleared up.
aspirin and irn bru.

been planting sweetcorn, rocket and various herbs.
and baking bread.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 30 May 2010, 12:41, Reply)

Most industrious
Sweetcorn ftw.
(SpunkyMcSpunkbubble Diddled your nubbin on, Sun 30 May 2010, 14:29, Reply)

introducing babyblaireau to the joys of gardening.
my personal philosophy is that if it ain't edible then i wanna know wtf it thinks it's doing in my garden!
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 30 May 2010, 15:25, Reply)

drinking? Too much? I'd never do a thing like that.
of course not.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 30 May 2010, 13:13, Reply)

Weeeellll
4 days at the beer festival from Tuesday to Friday, then Saturday at twickenham watching the rugby, i'm surprisingly alive and ok feeling seeing as I have hardly slept and eaten crap food all week
(Halfy By light alone, Sun 30 May 2010, 13:29, Reply)

I'm in the midst of the worst hangover for many a day
Half a litre of Morgan's Spiced, numberous beers, four mojitos and a few ciders. I have very little recollection of anything. Even my brother's rough and he doesn't do hangovers.
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Sun 30 May 2010, 14:13, Reply)

No hangover
but a) didn't really drink that much- just a bottle of wine or so, and b) have never had a hangover in my life
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Sun 30 May 2010, 14:25, Reply)

You so jammy!
I have to go some these days to be really rough, can drink a bottle of red or so without any ill effects but I get horrid ones when I do.
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Sun 30 May 2010, 14:39, Reply)

my brother and mother
get hangovers, but me and my dad have never had them. Might be something to do with metabolism I guess, but doesn't matter how much or what I drink I'm fine, though I do sleep a lot heavier
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Sun 30 May 2010, 14:57, Reply)

don't worry...
it'll most likely catch up with you.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 30 May 2010, 15:26, Reply)

if it hasn't for my dad
I don't see why it should for me :)
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Sun 30 May 2010, 15:52, Reply)

because you're not your dad?
i guess.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 30 May 2010, 15:55, Reply)

true
but I share half my genetic makeup with him. So it's quite likely that some of his characteristics will be passed onto me.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Sun 30 May 2010, 15:57, Reply)

i understand exactly what you're saying but (and it's a really big but)...
and a genetecist would explain it more scientifically than me...
it's only 50% and it's not actually shared it's donated from him.
they are only general characteristics, not absolutes.
it's not like red hair or blue eyes.
a propensity to get a hangover or not is dependant on many factors, most of which we are unable to record accurately, especially in ourselves.
one person's heavy session is another person's warm-up. the rates at which we drink vary. the make-up of what we drink varies, not only in abv but sugars, congeners, tannins etc.
some folks tend not to get hangovers, that is true. just like some folks tend not to get headaches or cramp or whatever.
i used to drink a ridiculous amount. seriously ridiculous. probably in the order of 15-20 units/day. did i get hangovers? well sometimes i did and sometimes i didn't. more often than not i didn't really feel it.
a hangover is made up of a great many things but they include dehydradion, blood-sugar fuckup, mineral and vitamin defficiency to name but a few.
best thing i learned (apart from stopping LOL) was a banana and a pint of water before boboes.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 30 May 2010, 16:19, Reply)

Again I suspect that's all true
but many of the factors that govern whether you get hangovers must be inherited from your parents I'd assume. So rather than me asserting that I inherited a 'no hangover gene', what I meant was that I'd inherited certain characteristics that mean I don't get hangovers.

I'm pointing out that it is odd that although my parents are no longer heavy drinkers at all, that when they do/did drink a lot, my father had never got a hangover (dating right back to student days) while a couple of glasses of wine would make my mum have a headache. And that my brother who is a good deal taller/more muscled than me shares that trait with my mum, whereas when I properly drink- (generally 20-24 units in an evening, but not very often) I don't get one.

Can't drink water when I'm drinking alcohol though. Makes me want to vomit
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Sun 30 May 2010, 16:30, Reply)

20-24? O_O
Anything over around 10 units and I'm edging into "dangerously drunk". 18 units almost killed me.

I once drank JD, Bacardi, vodka, coke, lemonade and energy drink all in the same cup. About a pint and a half. At about 4 in the afternoon. I vommed in his orchard, then passed out in the field by the barbecue. Woke up, my ex fed me bacon.
I should not drink.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 30 May 2010, 18:05, Reply)

That's only on a big drinking night
on most drinking nights I hover at about 18 units maybe. Being a student means it's all a bit imprecise. Sloshing amounts into a pint glass etc.

I'm impressed you could eat bacon after that! Though I guess being sick must've helped.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Sun 30 May 2010, 18:26, Reply)

It was about two hours later, I slept a lot of it off
It was my first time with bacon too :D
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 30 May 2010, 18:44, Reply)

did you enjoy it?

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Sun 30 May 2010, 19:01, Reply)

Yeah, actually.
Not the first time I'd had a taste of his meat though
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 30 May 2010, 19:03, Reply)

sad to relate
that made me laugh
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Sun 30 May 2010, 19:16, Reply)

We then exploded a kiln
(he's an artist. He's the one where our dates involved guns and Molotov cocktails)
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 30 May 2010, 19:31, Reply)

I was a bad boy
I was supposed to stay in, save the cash and keep healthy. Alas no, I feel slightly worse for wear, not too bad really.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Sun 30 May 2010, 17:58, Reply)

I broke my ankle yesterday afternoon
I wasn't even drunk :(((. On the up side I'm double hard 'cos I didn't go to A&E until this morning. RARR!
( Neddy shucking chit funt, Sun 30 May 2010, 18:04, Reply)

Ouch!
Are you doing ok?
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 30 May 2010, 18:05, Reply)

yeah, it's a bit painful and I'm still getting the hang of using crutches
fracture clinic on Tuesday, when they'll probably replace the cast I've got on
( Neddy shucking chit funt, Sun 30 May 2010, 18:07, Reply)

Ah best of luck, hope it gets better soon
make 'Zuki wait on you hand and foot.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 30 May 2010, 18:18, Reply)

He is!
Gonz has been an absolute sweetie too. I'm being spoiled rotten but I'm sure it'll wear off
( Neddy shucking chit funt, Sun 30 May 2010, 18:28, Reply)

Hit SexFace with your crutch
For me, for not helping you, and for the whole of the internet.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 30 May 2010, 18:45, Reply)

Ohhhh
I didn't think of that!
( Neddy shucking chit funt, Sun 30 May 2010, 19:09, Reply)

I will....Oh trust me, I will......
hang on...oooh.. crutch... sorry, misheard you... :P
( Godzuki needs more sleep., Sun 30 May 2010, 19:23, Reply)

You pervert.
Plus I'm feeling kind of disturbed now.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 30 May 2010, 19:30, Reply)

Sorry :)
y'alright otherwise though, miss?
( Godzuki needs more sleep., Sun 30 May 2010, 19:41, Reply)

Not too bad kind sir
I finish exams this week. Can't wait. How are you apart from the missus' busted ankle?
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 30 May 2010, 19:42, Reply)

I'm groovy as ever.
Good luck with the last coupla assams. Are you a surgeon of the arts when you pass?
( Godzuki needs more sleep., Sun 30 May 2010, 20:32, Reply)

I have no clue at all. Or if I will pass.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 30 May 2010, 20:35, Reply)

Unlucky
What did you do to it?
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Sun 30 May 2010, 18:47, Reply)

I slipped and fell
pub toilet and a poster that had fallen out of the frame.
( Neddy shucking chit funt, Sun 30 May 2010, 19:09, Reply)