How easily do you get drunk?
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BlackMetalWhiteGuy
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A friend of mine told me that it's recently become available in the US, though I really have no interest in trying it. The effects are based on the fact that it's fermented from wood, rather than from soft vegetation, such as fruits, leaves, or tubers. This produces methyl alcohol, which your body metabolizes into formaldehyde, as opposed to the ethyl alchol common in other drinks, which aromatizes into the much less potent chemical analogue, acetaldehyde.
No. Some countries banned it, most didn't.
That is a myth. It has no such thing.
seedofvengeance
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MasterOLightning
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The absinthe you can get in the US now surely doesn't do anything besides get you drunk. Any perceived effects are just due to the high abv, which most idiots are too dumb to understand anyway.
Yeah. Any hallucinogenic effects that people claim to experience while drinking it are just a combination of the alcohol content combined with the placebo effect. If you give someone some ouzo with green food coloring and tell them it's absinthe they'd probably experience the same thing.
seedofvengeance
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Well some people still claim that it gets you a different kind of drunk. But again I wonder whether that isn't just because they know (or think) it is supposed to have some other effect besides get you drunk.
I've still never tried it myself because it is pretty expensive (and not widely sold here, plus you need a bunch of other stuff to even drink it properly) and I really cannot stand aniseed flavoured liquor so I certainly wouldn't be doing it for the taste. I was initially kind of interested in it because of its reputation, but after reading up on it I figured out that was basically mostly nonsense. I'd still like to try a glass sometime, but really don't feel like wasting my money on a whole bottle of that stuff.
I've still never tried it myself because it is pretty expensive (and not widely sold here, plus you need a bunch of other stuff to even drink it properly) and I really cannot stand aniseed flavoured liquor so I certainly wouldn't be doing it for the taste. I was initially kind of interested in it because of its reputation, but after reading up on it I figured out that was basically mostly nonsense. I'd still like to try a glass sometime, but really don't feel like wasting my money on a whole bottle of that stuff.
MasterOLightning
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I'm guessing the different kind of drunk is a result of drinking a 120 (or more) proof drink at the same pace used for an 80 proof drink.
I believe you're supposed to pour absinthe over a sugar cube on a special spoon, or something like that, after heating the spoon over an open flame.
The idea of different kinds of drunkenness based on beverage strikes me as bullshit. There are a variety of other factors that determine what you feel, i.e. how tired/awake you are, how much you ate, general mood before going into drinking, etc. I never notice any real difference in beer vs. liquor. I don't really drink wine, so maybe I'm wrong about wine being the same.
I believe you're supposed to pour absinthe over a sugar cube on a special spoon, or something like that, after heating the spoon over an open flame.
The idea of different kinds of drunkenness based on beverage strikes me as bullshit. There are a variety of other factors that determine what you feel, i.e. how tired/awake you are, how much you ate, general mood before going into drinking, etc. I never notice any real difference in beer vs. liquor. I don't really drink wine, so maybe I'm wrong about wine being the same.
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MasterOLightning
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I put food colourings in the last load of cider I made and one of the bottles looked pretty much like absinthe so I told some girl that it was and she was pretending to be really drunk and said she kept seeing things outa the corner of her eye. It was cute. Maybe not as bad as the guy who we told that there was alcohol in Red Bull but still.
BlackMetalWhiteGuy
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It very well could be a different kind of drunkenness, because it's a completely different type of alcohol. The methyl alcohol in Absinthe is more toxic than the ethyl alcohol that is in other beverages. It's still not nearly as bad as drinking isopropyl, but it will still fuck you up.
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A lot of being drunk is the placebo effect. Depending on the culture and expectations of drunkards, people act differently when drunk.
JontRevolting
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Lol thats like the first time i ever smoked weed(or thought i was smoking it).When to mates place when i was about 14 or so and his older brother had this plant in the backyard,so we conned him into giving us some and he rolled this joint and we smoked it then he asked us one by one if we felt anything from it and me and the dude who's older brother it was said we did'nt feel anything but then the third and last guy Ben(do) siad the room was spinning at which point the older guy said 'good on ya,ya fuckwit it's only parsley" i thought i was gonna die or something before he told us it was parsley
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Because smoking anything for the first time couldn't possibly make some people feel sick or nauseous (ergo distort perception).
Yeah it's possible. Like I said I'd still like to try it at some point just to see what it is like. However I doubt the effect will be worth the money you pay for it. The Wiki article says this about it:
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