Hey, as long as you didn’t wake up naked next to him naked, I don’t think it’s a big deal. Unless, as Hostile Dialect says, one of you is taken or you’re related or something. Or you groped him below the waist, or left a hickey on his neck . . .
Mind you, I hang out with a bunch of guys who get drunk and hit on me on a regular basis, so perhaps my standards a bit different that what would be considered, er, proper.
That is genius. Though I suppose the American equivalent is brunch. Trading stories really does lessen the blow.
I don’t ever have that problem. I don’t drink or do drugs. Makes life a helluva lot easier in the long run.
Hee hee hee!
No offense, but – huh?
And, msmith537 – what is an “ice beer”?
The creepy thing about alcohol (I say this as one who serves it for a living and as one who drinks it when I’m not working for a living) is that I’ve never–not once–seen anybody do anything when they’re wasted that didn’t come from a seed planted when they were sober.
Alcohol IME is an amplifier. No more, no less. I’ve had regulars say “That’s so not me!” after starting a fight at my bar–or doing something else they wish they hadn’t–but the fact remains that it IS them. It’s a side of them they wouldn’t indulge unless they were drunk, but nobody acts completely out of character when they’re drunk. They just act on impulses they would normally ignore.
With that in mind…I’ve had cringe-worthy hangovers wherein I think, “Oh God! What did I do last night?”
Usually you weren’t nearly as bad as you think you were…and even if you were, most people write it off. For your friends it’s just silly comedy, and for anybody else who was there…a.) who cares, and b.) it’s even more comedy!
It’s a crappy feeling and if it happens often, as has been noted, you may have a problem with alcohol…but honestly, with all the people I’ve had apologizing to me about “what happened last night…” They are being a bit paranoid. It usually isn’t as bad as you think, and even if it was, nobody takes it as seriously as you do.
I’ve won our club’s Atrocity Belt for three years running. This year, key points to the evening, as told in the banquet in front of a gal I’ve been seeing at our first formal date, for lack of a better term:
-Started drinking margaritas at Del Charro (that was my first mistake)
-Repeatedly hit on my buddy’s mother in law :o
-Punched another buddy in the balls, hard, in the restaurant, in front of his new girl
-Swinging a stool around in El Paseo, eventually getting us kicked out
-Peed in the hallway, because walking all the way to the bathroom would have been too much work
-Woke up to a text message that was sent at a reasonable hour, from one of the hottest gals I know, asking me for a booty call
To quote the emcee of the banquet, "Now, you might think that it’d be pretty hard for one person to ‘accomplish’ all these things in one night? Well, you’d be right! Santo did all these things by 10PM! :o
In other words, it happens to the best of us. Just call up the host and say, “Excuse me, Host… yeah, I was calling because I think I left my dignity at your place. Think I can swing by and pick it up later?” If nothing else, it tends to break the ice a bit if they’re actually upset with you. However, in your case, it seems like all you really did was hit on some dude you liked, and are kind of embarrassed from it. No harm, no foul.
Much easier to apologise for drunkenly hitting on a guy than to apologise for telling all his mates (in front of said guy) that he was a lousy lay and you faked orgasm both times!
Man, that was some party!!! 
I never get invited to parties. :mad: 
Not even if you, purely hypothetically, were drunkenly sexually forward at someone else’s wedding reception?
Not that I have ever done that, oh no.
As for the OP, I’m afraid I don’t have any advice, although you have gotten some that is good already. I make enough of a fool of myself when sober that I generally don’t bother drinking.
Isn’t the point of wedding receptions to get the single guests laid?
I never really got into trouble by getting drunk. I’ve popped off with some inappropriate jokes a time or two, but nothing that would hurt anybody’s feelings. And I haven’t even done that since I grew up, somewhere between 20 and 30 years ago.
The thing is, if you’re the only one who drank enough that the mind filters failed, then you have bigger problems than what other people think. If everybody was slurping the sauce, you’re no bigger fool than they were.
In that case, that didn’t even work. I was a goofy drunk and didn’t even get laid, although I did get a short-term and really messed-up relationship out of it.
If so, then every wedding reception I’ve ever been to has been a total failure.
In vino veritas.
From Wikipedia:
**Ice beer ** – A beer that has been partially freeze-distilled to concentrate flavor and alcohol. The technique is based on that used to make Eisbock, but the two styles share no stylistic similarities (apart from both being lagers) otherwise.
Ice beer gained popularity in the United States during the 1990s. Miller introduced Icehouse under the Plank Road Brewery brand name at that time, which is still sold nationwide; Molson introduced “Molson Ice”; Budweiser introduced “Bud Ice” (5.5% ABV) in 1994 and it remains one of the country’s top-selling ice beers, Bud Ice has a slightly lower alcohol content than Natural Ice and other competitors and it claims it retains more of the character/flavor.
Many lower-end beers such as Busch Ice (5.9% ABV) and Natural Ice (5.9% ABV) also use the freezing process.
The process of icing beer is done by bringing the temperature of a batch of beer down to at or below the freezing point of water (32°F or 0°C), the greatest constituent of beer. Because water freezes at a higher temperature than does alcohol, the water becomes frozen and the alcohol stays a liquid. Because of this, a layer of ice can be skimmed from the surface of beer (hence the name “ice” beer). This creates a concoction with a higher volume ratio of alcohol to water and therefore creating a beer with a higher alcohol content by volume.
You’ve never been to a wedding reception where two people ended up getting drunk and having sex? Maybe they just didn’t tell you about it afterwards? 
With the groom? Yes. With the bride? Yes, and a doubly awful experience for everyone involved (unless they’re both into that 
). With the bride’s cousin’s cute friend? No.
Not that I’m the expert at wedding-reception etiquette (as anyone who’s seen me dance at a wedding reception can tell you), but that’s how I see it.
**msmith537 **: Thanks for the info. At the risk of hijacking my own thread, Bud Ice was okay (I never see it anymore), but Bud Dry I really liked. I wish I could find it around here.
Well, Telperien, you’re one-up on me then.
You know Bud’s latest marketing gimmick in Spanish-speaking America? Budweiser mixed with fucking Clamato. It’s called a “chelada” or something. Apparently Mexicans drink that particular combination (else why market it exclusively to Spanish-speakers?), but I’ve never heard of it.
:dubious: :eek:
Seriously. Who the hell has drank a Bud and thought, “You know what would make this drinkable? Clams.”