I drink, I get a buzz right away. I drink a few more, buzz goes away.
Sober as a judge, I drink a few more…buzz is nowhere to be found.
" I’m not crazy! I’m not crazy! I’m NOT CRAZY!!" -
Kellibelli upon hearing her furnace was indeed broken, the smell WAS NOT her imagination.
Wow, 00, I made it! 
::: Tigger’s Voice and spelling :::
'00 - Yeah for us!
How far have you taken this test? Do you throw up or pass out eventually, feeling sober as a judge (often no recommendation, by the way) until unconsciousness hits?
Alcohol affects different people differently. I’m willing to bet that the more you drink, the worse your reaction times, balance, and judgement will be. I would thus opine that you are, in fact, getting drunk.
What you’re not getting is perhaps the only pleasant side-effect of pickling your brain cells: the buzz. And since you don’t get buzzed, this would seem a good reason not to drink to excess!
Disclaimer: while not a heavy drinker at all, I am no teetotaller, and I enjoy my collection of single-malt scotches, although not to excess (at least as I see it). So perhaps I’m not the best authority on pickling.
Cheers,
Rick
Drinking also causes one to leave out apostrophe’s, as in the word can’t.
Actually, I just wanted to try this; 
Peace,
mangeorge
I would say that the feeling of
is definitely a sign of alcoholism. Alcoholism is one of the leading causes of replacing Ns with Ms. So there, Mr. Apostrophe man.
“C’mon, it’s not even tomorrow yet…” - Rupert
If you need a graphic solution, http:\ alk.to\Piglet
OK, ONE beer/glass of wine= buzz.
two=buzz
three=loss of buzz
4 through 8 - nothing.
I am sure my reaction time is no good, and I know my blood alchohol wouldnt pass, and I DONT drive…[whine] but where is my buzz[/whine]??
I only consume more than one or two drinks at a sitting about once a year. I have concluded its not a tolerance thing.
The last staggering puking episode was about 3 years ago…birthday…chasing tequila shots with beer…very wasted.
I dont want to get all pukey, but New Years Eve, I couldnt even get tipsy.
Well, Kellibelli, it seems you just don’t have what it takes to get buzzed on alcohol.
This is not a bad thing, in most circumstances. I suspect a more experienced amateur pharmacologist could suggest all manner of substances, controlled and otherwise, that would fix this… but as I have little experience in this arena, I must demur.
In short - why worry about it? You’ll save beaucoup bucks on beer, your dates will see the futility of getting you trashed and stop trying, and you’ll never again have to hug cold white porcelain at 2 AM. No expert I, but this seems like a fair trade-off.
Cheers,
Rick
Arrrgh. Ya got me there, Big. I guess the old synapses never grow back.
Mr. Smarty-pants bows out.
Peace,
mangeorge
This could also mean that you’re allergic to alcohol. My mom (who I swear is allergic to nearly everything) doesn’t get drunk on alcohol, in fact it will keep her awake if she drinks it. When she discussed this with her doctor, he told her she was having a negative reaction to the alcohol and to never drink alcohol again. Which was no loss for her, but could be a bummer for you. You might want to talk to your MD.
Sorry, Kelli, I know sometimes ya just want to get sloshed.
…in a state so nonintuitive it can only be called weird…
Then again, maybe she’s such a habitual boozer that she has developed a robust tolerance; the brief buzz described might being nothing more than an ordinary placebo effect “expected” from curling the ol’ armbone.
You’re not going to like this, but as one who has MUCH, MUCH experience with the fermented ‘food of the gods’, I think I can venture a reason.
For one thing, according to a recent post, you’ve experienced some emotional upset. In some people, when they are depressed, they drink and get a quick buzz – the faster that first drink goes down, the better the buzz – but then it fades because the emotional depression squashes it.
Probably, if you continue on, you might suddenly get all weepy and upset and cry all over the place or get angary and generally pissed off. Now, somewhat of a bad idea here, but if you’re drinking wine, switch to beer or whisky. (By the way, wine leaves a NASTY hangover in the morning if you down a whole bottle.) Wine also comes in various strengths, from sippin’ to elephant killer - 7% to 14% alcohol. IF you’re drinking a sangria, it probably has only 7%, which means you can drink it almost all night with little results. A port, now, is usually 14% and a couple of glasses will give you a jolt. So is sherry.
A good mood adjuster for me was a beer with a shot poured in it and then downed quickly. Quick buzz and it could be maintained by straight beer afterwards plus, to me anyhow, it tasted quite good.
Now, WARNING! WARNING! You can buy wheat grain alcohol at something like 120% at the liquor store. It will burn with a blue flame if you light it. Added to coke it makes a kick ass drink, or mix it with OJ for a nice change. IT WILL GET YOU BLASTED QUICKLY!! If you over do it, it will make you REAL DAMN SICK! IF you are not a big drinker, then avoid it.
If you MUST try it, try to locate it in a 1/4 pint size, so you don’t over do it. I used to mix it with bourbon to give the bourbon a better KICK!! (I also woke up on the floor a few times and not real sure how I got there or when.)
A good rule here: DON’T DRINK ALONE if you want to get blasted to feel better. Get a friend. Drinking alone can get you into trouble, I know. By the way – just in case, buy some antacids because again if you are not a big drinker, the booze may upset your stomach and antacids help.
A QUICK FIX here. IF you get too blasted and want to sober up, STOP DRINKING, go and get a BIG glass of ice water and pound it down. Then, if you can, pound another one down. The water dilutes the concentration of alcohol, hydrates you – alcohol DE-hydrates one – helps flush the system and usually within 10 minutes one starts feeling more sober. (Your blood alcohol will still be quite high, but you’ll feel better.)
What? Me worry?’
Well, looks like Rainbow (hey, do you go to Cornell?) goes to college. I don’t have anything to add other than my condolences.
Well, I don’t think he goes to Cornell. I went to Cornell, and I know students there can get very drunk, but most people who attend Cornell know, even when very drunk, that it’s very difficult to get ahold of anything that is 120% anything. Like how high a mathematics do you have to take to figure that out? You wouldn’t want to settle for 120-proof, would you?
Ray (The proof is in the pudding – 120% rum.)
Ray
Maybe you need another cold one…
:::cow god slips KelliBelli another beer:::
“People must think it must be fun to be a super genuis,
But they don’t realize how hard it is
to put up with all the idiots in the world.”
– Calvin and Hobbes
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Nice change, my ass. Not unless you wanted to end up butchered on your own freakin’ sidewalk!! My God, the woman’s depressed, not SUICIDAL! You must be a –
Wait. What’s that? You meant ORANGE JUICE? Oh. Never mind.
Being allergic to alcohol would be, IMHO, fairly difficult as it is a poison. A remarkable enjoyable poison, but a poison nonetheless.
Actually, what you experience has everything to do with tolerance. Not the tolerance that you are thinking of (which I think is simply called metabolic tolerance) in which your body breaks down alcohol more quickly, but a tolerance called behavioral tolerance. This particular type of behavioral tolerance (buzz, then not feeling drunk) is a warning sign for genetic alcoholism. The rumor is that certain relatives of mine would finish half a keg of beer between them every week without ever appearing drunk.
That being said, I wouldn’t worry too much. Enjoy the buzz while you can.
TheDude
How a person reacts to alcohol depends on their liver.
You may not feel drunk at certain points but that does NOT mean your blood alcohol level isn’t up.
Well, I AM allergic to alcohol—I get food poisoning symptoms if I have even what’s in cough syrup or food (yes, even if it’s been “cooked off”). Nausea, headache, etc. Even the aroma makes me a little queasy, just from remembering how sick it makes me.
It’s not psychosomatic, as friends have tried to trick me by sneaking me food cooked in wine or something similar, and I always feel ill the next morning.
I’ve gotten used to it, but I have to be real careful in French restaurants.
Eve,
Are you sure it’s just the alcohol and not something else in alcoholic beverages? Some people are allergic to the other components, most commonly in wines. But the fact that you mention that it happens even after the alcohol has been cooked off seems unusual.
Also, some people have stronger interactions with alcohol for biological reasons that are not necessarily allergies (i.e. immune response). Not that this is necessarily what happens with you.
TheDude