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, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

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)