The "Grinds My Gears" thread...

gimmesometruth27

the all day new year's day hangover severely grinds my gears...

SPEEDY MCCREADY

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

the all day new year's day hangover severely grinds my gears...

WTF were you drinking yesterday?

gimmesometruth27

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

the all day new year's day hangover severely grinds my gears...

WTF were you drinking yesterday?

started with 3 glasses of jameson and ginger ale, then went to a couple of glasses of wine, then went to beer. had a tequila shot or two in between all that. i failed to eat dinner beforehand and did not eat when i got home. all of that is probably a terrible combination. i need to be more responsible... :fp: :fp:

mca47

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

the all day new year's day hangover severely grinds my gears...

WTF were you drinking yesterday?

started with 3 glasses of jameson and ginger ale, then went to a couple of glasses of wine, then went to beer. had a tequila shot or two in between all that. i failed to eat dinner beforehand and did not eat when i got home. all of that is probably a terrible combination. i need to be more responsible... :fp: :fp:

Food is key.

gimmesometruth27

mca47 wrote:

Food is key.

absolutely... but since i have lost all of this weight i don't really eat much anymore, and also my tolerance for booze is all screwed up... ahh the downside of weight loss.. live longer, lose your ability to drink...

SPEEDY MCCREADY

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

the all day new year's day hangover severely grinds my gears...

WTF were you drinking yesterday?

started with 3 glasses of jameson and ginger ale, then went to a couple of glasses of wine, then went to beer. had a tequila shot or two in between all that. i failed to eat dinner beforehand and did not eat when i got home. all of that is probably a terrible combination. i need to be more responsible... :fp: :fp:

Too much mixing of booze.
Stick with just one, throw in a shot or 2 here and there. (Or have a shot every 10 minutes)
But 4-5 different types of drinks? You are asking for misery.

As you are well aware.

gimmesometruth27

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

Too much mixing of booze.
Stick with just one, throw in a shot or 2 here and there. (Or have a shot every 10 minutes)
But 4-5 different types of drinks? You are asking for misery.

As you are well aware.

definitely too much mixing of booze. i like variety though. i get very bored drinking the same thing when out on a bender.

you know i can hang, speedy. i mixed all kinds of different booze that night in chicago and i did not even go to sleep until 9 pm the next night.

SPEEDY MCCREADY

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

Too much mixing of booze.
Stick with just one, throw in a shot or 2 here and there. (Or have a shot every 10 minutes)
But 4-5 different types of drinks? You are asking for misery.

As you are well aware.

definitely too much mixing of booze. i like variety though. i get very bored drinking the same thing when out on a bender.

you know i can hang, speedy. i mixed all kinds of different booze that night in chicago and i did not even go to sleep until 9 pm the next night.

I here ya. But even a trained professional like myself gets sicker than all hell when I mix 5-6 different beverages.

For me its easy.
12-20 beers and a half a bottle of jaeger.

Im good.

mca47

Mixing is only a problem with newbs or freshman in college.
Having a solid food base before the drink will save you every time.
Alcohol decreases your blood sugar level. If you have low free glucose in your system prior to partaking...you are in a world of hurt. Not only are you fighting the aldehyde resulting from the metabolism of booze (which causes that awful feeling), but low blood sugars will make you feel like death!
Late night pizza places profit off this simple biochemical phenomenon.

gimmesometruth27

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

I here ya. But even a trained professional like myself gets sicker than all hell when I mix 5-6 different beverages.

For me its easy.
12-20 beers and a half a bottle of jaeger.

Im good.

yeah that was just asking for trouble last night... :fp:

i am the same way, i normally just drink 6-20 beers depending on what i am doing. if at a bar closer to 6 or 7, all day concert or float trip, easily 20. i will normally supplement with some shots of something and i am all good, and no hangover or very very small one. add wine to the mix and i am gonna be fucked for sure.

gimmesometruth27

mca47 wrote:

Mixing is only a problem with newbs or freshman in college.
Having a solid food base before the drink will save you every time.
Alcohol decreases your blood sugar level. If you have low free glucose in your system prior to partaking...you are in a world of hurt. Not only are you fighting the aldehyde resulting from the metabolism of booze (which causes that awful feeling), but low blood sugars will make you feel like death!
Late night pizza places profit off this simple biochemical phenomenon.

plus alcohol is a diuretic, so you get dehydrated as well. which also makes you piss sludge and feel like death.

late night pizza is great, but i stopped eating late when i was cutting this weight and have never really been able to eat before bed since then. in grad school there was this place called la bamba that served "burritos as big as your head". it was right next to the bars we used to frequent and everyone would go to la bamba when the bars closed and eat a big ass burrito. that certainly lessened some hangovers for me. that place made a killing. i should open one and put it on washington ave in st louis.... :think: :think:

mca47

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

I here ya. But even a trained professional like myself gets sicker than all hell when I mix 5-6 different beverages.

For me its easy.
12-20 beers and a half a bottle of jaeger.

Im good.

yeah that was just asking for trouble last night... :fp:

i am the same way, i normally just drink 6-20 beers depending on what i am doing. if at a bar closer to 6 or 7, all day concert or float trip, easily 20. i will normally supplement with some shots of something and i am all good, and no hangover or very very small one. add wine to the mix and i am gonna be fucked for sure.

Yeah, in college I could drink beer like nobody's business. My roommate and I would knock off a 30 pack some nights when it was cold out and we didn't want to go to the bars. Other nights it was beer all afternoon, beer at the bars, beer at after hours, then maybe go home when the sun came up.

Now, 8 or so years later...I'll have a beer or two and have a couple gin and tonics....with a shot of whiskey here and there. I have no idea how I was able to consume so much beer!!! :shock: Just can't drink that volume anymore....

mca47

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

mca47 wrote:

Mixing is only a problem with newbs or freshman in college.
Having a solid food base before the drink will save you every time.
Alcohol decreases your blood sugar level. If you have low free glucose in your system prior to partaking...you are in a world of hurt. Not only are you fighting the aldehyde resulting from the metabolism of booze (which causes that awful feeling), but low blood sugars will make you feel like death!
Late night pizza places profit off this simple biochemical phenomenon.

plus alcohol is a diuretic, so you get dehydrated as well. which also makes you piss sludge and feel like death.

late night pizza is great, but i stopped eating late when i was cutting this weight and have never really been able to eat before bed since then. in grad school there was this place called la bamba that served "burritos as big as your head". it was right next to the bars we used to frequent and everyone would go to la bamba when the bars closed and eat a big ass burrito. that certainly lessened some hangovers for me. that place made a killing. i should open one and put it on washington ave in st louis.... :think: :think:

Drunken food was fantastic in college. The most disgusting, awful pizza....or burritos or whatever....oh man!
At 2 AM...after a night of drunken craziness.....it's all good!

gimmesometruth27

mca47 wrote:

Yeah, in college I could drink beer like nobody's business. My roommate and I would knock off a 30 pack some nights when it was cold out and we didn't want to go to the bars. Other nights it was beer all afternoon, beer at the bars, beer at after hours, then maybe go home when the sun came up.

Now, 8 or so years later...I'll have a beer or two and have a couple gin and tonics....with a shot of whiskey here and there. I have no idea how I was able to consume so much beer!!! :shock: Just can't drink that volume anymore....

well back then in college you were conditioned to be able to drink that much. when i was in college we would go out at least 4 of the 7 nights a week and just pound beers like they were going out of style. now that i am in the real world, i hardly drink. maybe one night ever 2 weeks or so, or i will drink at my shows, so when i tie one on like last night and this past saturday i can't deal with the hangovers like i used to.

i remember killing 30 packs with my room mate ha ha...

gimmesometruth27

mca47 wrote:

Drunken food was fantastic in college. The most disgusting, awful pizza....or burritos or whatever....oh man!
At 2 AM...after a night of drunken craziness.....it's all good!

oh yeah, i ate stuff that i would never eat sober. like white castles. plus it was always cheep in the college towns. we lived for the 2 for $2 at hardees, or if someone was sober enough to drive we would hit up taco bell or something. we rarely ordered pizza because we did not want to have to wait for it. people have passed out waiting for late night pizza :fp: which also, coincidently, always ground my gears...

Thirty Bills Unpaid

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

mca47 wrote:

Drunken food was fantastic in college. The most disgusting, awful pizza....or burritos or whatever....oh man!
At 2 AM...after a night of drunken craziness.....it's all good!

oh yeah, i ate stuff that i would never eat sober. like white castles. plus it was always cheep in the college towns. we lived for the 2 for $2 at hardees, or if someone was sober enough to drive we would hit up taco bell or something. we rarely ordered pizza because we did not want to have to wait for it. people have passed out waiting for late night pizza :fp: which also, coincidently, always ground my gears...

I can remember one really late night eating a foul burrito from 7-11. We normally got better food, but this particular night was a late one... we were forced to settle.

I had gotten half way through the burrito and wasn't really digging it. I turned it over and... yup... my last bight was right through a big, burrito length, patch of blue mold.

Thirty Bills Unpaid

Cold showers.

They grind my gears. Getting into the shower, finding out it's luke warm, realizing you only got a minute or two before it's ice cold.

Who can shower in a minute or two? Freezing your nuts off in a cold shower is not fun. At all.

gimmesometruth27

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

Cold showers.

They grind my gears. Getting into the shower, finding out it's luke warm, realizing you only got a minute or two before it's ice cold.

Who can shower in a minute or two? Freezing your nuts off in a cold shower is not fun. At all.

i will add to this, weak showers. i need a shower that is powerful enough to knock me on my ass in the morning. nothing worse than a cold, weak shower.

gimmesometruth27

weather people grind my gears. we were supposed to be in the throes of a terrible winter storm last night before 9:00 pm. my band had a show. a lot of bars and restaurants closed on the threat of snow. those that stayed open canceled their bands. and the bars that stayed open were dead. we ended up playing our show to a 3/4 empty venue. at 9:00, our show time, it was still 42 degrees. i got home at 2:30 am and it was just getting to the freezing point and light rain started about then. as a result, our news media scared the shit out of the entire metro area. small businesses and bars were hurt by this threat. service people like bartenders and servers lost their biggest pay night of the week. bands lost their gigs and their paycheck, all on the threat of snow. the snow did not start until about 7 am, which is about 12 hours after it was predicted to begin. as a result, a lot of people got fucked out of a lot of money last night. if you are going to predict a megasnowstorm, at least be in the ballpark about when it is supposed to hit. 12 hours is not the same ballpark, its not the same league, and it is barely even the same sport. one thing is certain, our local weather people are very good at scaring the shit out of the entire metro area, and they are right about 65% of the time. local weather people not only grind my gears, but they severely piss me off. it is like they tried to scare everyone and manipulate them into staying home when the threat was not due to hit until sunday morning...assholes...

gimmesometruth27

peope who never show up to their appointments on time really piss me off.