What? A big enough guy could certainly drink 5 drinks (12 oz of beer) in one hour and stay below .08. However, there’s no way he could keep up that pace and stay under that level. The body metabolizes about 1/2 oz of ethanol an hour, which equals one drink, so after two hours of drink at 5 beers an hour, you’ve got the equivalent of 8 drinks in your system.
Man, those beer drinkers sure are great cooks. I want some of that homemade wild game jerky or honey-ginger marinated salmon. I think I’m hanging around with the wrong alcoholics.
I would like to congratulate the pot smokers who actually planned ahead for their weekend. Think about it: The beer drinkers had plenty of options to reload (party stores to pick up more suds, bars where one could get drinks, etc.) but the pot smokers had to PLAN and make sure they didn’t have to go foraging through the Blair Witch woods and pray to happen upon a patch of Mowie Wowie on their travels. It’s not like they had a 420 style 7-11 they could go to in order to reload, eh?
They brought enough for everybody, and planned to share.
What’s *wrong * with the commune theory, now, eh? 
Yeah, well I’ve sailed with drinkers and I’m here to ask where is the part where they start to fall about on the rocking boat, usually at least one lands in the drink ?
Secondly, where’s the part where they get into a loud alcohol fueled argument/fistfight ?
What kind of drinkers are you hanging with ?
What the hell? If alcohol leads to doing advanced calculus I am definitely going to quit drinking. That’s some crazy shit there.
I think it makes a heck of a lot of sense and is quite realistic. That is, after reading it with the appropriate casting choices:
Beer drinkers
Douglas C. Neidermeyer
Alex P. Keaton
Archie Bunker
Colonel Nicholson
Jessica Fletcher
Pot smokers
Spicoli
Grace Trevethyn
Cheech & Chong
Kumar (Harold’s a bit uptight and would probably end up hanging with the beer drinkers. NPH may do a cameo.)
Jay & Silent Bob
Smokey
The Dude
IME, advanced calculus leads to drinking. YMMV.
It’s possible, he just didn’t make the distinction between people who indulge and people who over-indulge. Perhaps the groups should have been entitled “pothead wake-and-bakers” and “only borderline alcoholics.” Had the groups been “alcoholics” and “stoners,” the smokers may well have gotten everything set up and been enjoying joints and food (and probably beer) on the boat while the alcoholics were still puking and nursing last night’s hangovers.
Figure of speech… I was just trying to find separate accommodations for the arguing spouses, violent in-laws, and loaded guns, hopefully without drawing any interest to the guns as a topic of conversation. I ended up having to discreetly toss them in the back yard (the guns, not the people), likely saving a life that night.
I forget - which was declared the Root of All Evil in the eponymous Comedy Central mock-trial show?
Both groups in the OP really, really need professional help, and sound about as fun as a kick in the nuts.
I’ll take potheads over drunks any day. The OP’s experience with the culinary abilities of pot smokers is not typical. Pot smokers are experts at making cretaive munchies.
Also, the OP’s alkie friends were not only drinking and driving but drinking and sailing? Not good.
Oh, and there’s no comparison between hanging out with stoned people and hanging out with drunks. Give me the stoners every day of the week. There’s nohing worse than being sober in a roomful of drunks. Potheads are mellow and courteous and don’t puke or say “woohoo.”
You can check the Police Blotter over here every Sunday in the newspaper and see one “operating a watercraft while intoxicated” after another. It goes on for ever and ever. You’ll more than likely see people that you know in there. A typical weekend down at Lake Monroe and everyone here is smashed. Every few years it seems like some kid drowns and there’s always alcohol involved.
Ok, lets not be silly here. There always has been and always will be functional alcoholics and pot smokers.
Drinkers conform to the more accepted norms of society in general and tend to be…more focused. Not always in a good way.
Smokers tend to be less concerned about social norms and may be less motivated to achieve traditional or predetermined goals. Not always in a bad way.
These are huge generalizations.
Lets play out another scenario;
You need someone to pick you up at the airport.
You are a drinker and you ask your drinker friend to assist. He says yes…you know he will be there or he knows he will feel your wrath. He will be there even if that means beating his kids and getting a divorce.
You are a stoner and you asked your stoner friend…you are pleasantly surprised that he found his car keys, went to the correct airport on the correct day and he knows that you know that if he did not show “cause he was mellowing out”, you would forgive and forget…as soon as he got you stoned.
Bottom line;
Drinkers achieve (with bullhead conviction) to justify their drinking, smokers will get around to achievement, if and when they can, because it just doesn’t matter that much.
IMOP
How many times do the police on Cops respond to a domestic dispute among pot smokers? Pretty much every episode is about the police responding to some drunk who got liquored up and is beating his wife, his kids, his dog, his wife and kids with his dog, etc. Ever heard anyone say, ever, that someone is a “mean stoner?” I don’t think I could have handled either of the groups in the OP, but I would say that he was unusually fortunate to have only happy drunks on his boat.
That’s a part of the OP I had a problem with;
IRL, the pot heads bought half the grocery store because it looked good. They had three kinds of cheese for their burgers, plus brauts, hot dogs and even veggie burgers in case someone wanted one, plus a couple of steaks and chicken breasts. They cooked twice as much food as they needed for dinner, munched on the rest all night and had the leftovers with breakfast.
At least, that was my experience from my pot head days of yore. Our outings were less like camping trips and more like organized mobile feasts with tents.
I’ve seen exactly the same thing, probably on this board years ago. I thought it was a zombie thread.
Edit - I see the point has been made. So, what he said.
The drunk won’t care if he feels your wrath because he’s MACHO MAN!
Drug addicts are unreliable. Take a cab.
This is exactly why U.S. Coast Guard regulations strictly prohibit sparking up a J until you are out of the marina.
I don’t drink alcohol or do pot - I can look down on everyone.
/Smug