Polish Rectified Spirits.
Muthafukka!
My good friend Little Geek had got hold of about half bottle of the above mentioned liquor from his older brother, Big Geek.
With a warning. "This shit will fuck you up. It dries out your mouth instantly, it will burn like meths if you put a match to it so don't smoke around it and I'd suggest you sip a full measure with a couple of beer chasers."

Which we duly ignored and immediately knocked back a couple of fingers. As we had just eaten we found that the magical instant drunk was not happening.
Quick! Time for another snort. Nah fuck measuring just swig it from the bottle this time. Measuring alcohol doses is for pusshhhhhhhiieezzzzzz.....

You mouth actually does dry out as soon as the ethanol hits it. When you hit "drunk" it is pretty much instant. You have no gentle lead up like with a beer barometer or even having a buzz when you have nips of spirits. One minute your relatively sober, the next you are full-tilt, Oliver Reed roaring drunk.

I remember having a sword fight with Little Geek using swordfish jaws! There were a couple pinned to the wall in the games room. I still carry a scar on my hand from that. I remember Big Geek and Little Geek's dad forcibly ejecting us from the house to said games/rumpus room - where we did indeed "rumpus".
That night we discovered that something 190 proof liquid is indeed flammable and it really is not a good idea to soak your pot in it and try to roll a joint. We also discovered that alcohol is indeed a diuretic - effectively turning our teen-aged bladders into those of wizened old mens.
When they finally managed to wrestle the bottle off us we'd made a further 3rd of the entire bottle dent in it. Probably about 100ml each. A couple of doubles each. Think for a moment about how drunk you may have got on 2 doubles (even maybe on an empty stomache). Now try to cast your mind back to the most, obnoxious, ramblingly drunk you've ever been. Now combine the two.

Yeah.
tl;dr? - There's a very good reason they put that stuff in meths to try to make it so unpalatable.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Tue 19 Feb 2013, 23:44, Reply)