It’s great to be prepared… But I don’t think you have to prepare a stash sufficient for an alcoholic.
For anybody new to this, perhaps assume 3-4 standard drinks/person, plus some factor to account for surprise extra guests, and then add a buffer of 20% or so of your good alcohol
Then it never hurts to have a 12 or 24 pack in the bottom of the fridge of something cheaper.
Lol that’s pretty much what i figured as a calculation. Not that I ever have many guests but do a guess then add a case/flat … Mean if was my beer I’d drink it time and not have less just in case… More guests would require the cheap beer as a backup for sure.
In reference to the Nasa part or the drinking beer part?
yes.
just don’t get them mixed up
It’s really absurd. I’ve known men who claim that they have drunk an entire box (i.e. about 24 bottles) of beer in a night. Others are already done after 2 bottles, or don’t drink at all, or just don’t like beer.
Conclusion, ASK.
I’ve been around men who have drank a whole crate of beer and more. Many of my friends. Cocaine was involved.
At my prime, depending on the beer, would go down like water. I could easily drink 10 coors light.
But hit me with 1-2 dark beers and I’m out (or extremely frisky)
would go down like water
See, this is one of the disconnects for me - I wouldn’t be able to drink water or anything else like that. 1l in one hour, sure, especially if it’s still water, but not 3l in 3 hours.
This depends on the person and the beer. Drinking a case of Miller light over a prolonged, maybe 8 hour period, is certainly possible. After all, 24 bottles is 8 liters of 95% water anyway, and 3 beers an hour. Light yellow beers are 100-150 calories each. Real people do this all the time. Sure, real people with a drinking problem, but still.
Drinking 24 heavy beers like porter, milk or Imperial stouts, or Belgian trappist beers would have so much sugar and higher ABV that it’s very different and sounds like a disaster. Twice as many calories or more, and maybe 20-50% more alcohol.
I was an alcoholic years ago. I drink roughly twice a month these days, and rarely more than three. Quickly drinking six will get me drunk. That’s good beer though.
In my prime, I could drink infinite light beer and never get drunk.
“real people with a drinking problem”, indeed.
Where I live, the standard beer is 5% lager and these people were usually talking about 0.5l bottles. It just sounds like anyone who is not already a hardcore alcoholic should be fall-down, barf-everywhere drunk after drinking that much alcohol, even if its over a 12 hour period. Frankly, I would have huge trouble drinking half that much even if it was just carbonated water (I’m fine with carbonated water, just not that much).
The conclusion remains: ASK
Sure, 5% is standard, but a .333L bottle is far more likely if they come in a “box” of 24. That’s a difference between 12L of beer and 8L for 24 bottles. Both are a lot, but one is A LOT a lot. Personally, I would struggle to get though 4 liters of yellow lite beer in an evening, but it’s also weird to ask “hey, do we have any functional alcoholics coming? If so I should buy 100 beers.”
Conclusion is based on bad data. Estimate 1 beer per person for 45 minutes of time and you’ll be lucky to have 2 left over afterwards.
There’s a easy rule. Allow ~ 45 min per beer and think how long the meeting will last. Most will actually not drink that much, but it’s good to have spare ones.
45 minutes??? Is this some rest-of-the-world thing I’m too Balkan to understand?
45 minutes per beer? You won’t be able to play Wizard Staff at that rate.
Do Americans really drink that slowly?
And with the light beers most of them drink they might as well be drinking water at that rate
I’d say 2-3 per hour to begin with, but probably slow down around hour 6. For a weekend? At least 24, and probably want a bit of variety of styles in there too.
It’s an average. For anyone sipping 1 beer an hour, other people will get through at least 2 or 3.
It is amazing to me that the Internet has taken a shine to that particular episode of TNG it’s just so esoteric and yet generally people get the joke.
I mean don’t get me wrong it was a good episode but in terms of the the entire series it was very mid.
It basically predicted the socio-communicative function of memes, so it tracks that it became a meme itself.
I would add that what OP stated is built into the reason as well. It’s an okay episode, the main problem being that you had to accept the ridiculous premise of talking entirely in memes. Fast forward a decade and the joke very much is that it’s not as ridiculous as it first seemed.
Linguistically, idioms can take on a meaning separate from its constituent parts, in a way that people can forget about the constituent parts but still understand the word or phrase.
The word “goodbye” derives from “God be with ye” and eventually morphed into the word we know now. The definition of the word “odyssey” derives from a Green myth but has a standalone definition that is understood by people who aren’t familiar with the myth. A ton of other words come from horse racing (“from scratch,” “across the board,” “hands down,” “frontrunner”) and maritime stuff (“groggy,” “show someone the ropes,” “even keeled,”). We draw on shared stories (ancient myths, folklore, the Bible, even classic and modern literature) for much of our vocabulary.
We shouldn’t be surprised by language arising out of modern movies and television shows, or even shared internet memes enter the common lexicon.
¿REVA QUE?
Can’t they just…wear a diaper?
Finns be like “one of us!” (internally, of course).
Though IDK, they might prefer spirits.
Heh. 27, the very age I decided there was one drink I would never drink any more… the next one. (Went t-total.)
Ive been sober 6.5 years now and have never looked back. Good on you, im proud of you.
Life’s better. It’s not hard. There’s only that one drink I don’t have any more. Easy. Easier, cheaper, feels better, better health… it’s no great accomplishment. Never really liked the stuff in the first place. No more social calamities, is a nice bonus.
Are we talking 12 oz Bud Light bottles or half-liter Doppelbock?
If it’s the latter, 4 are enough for a weekend.
If it’s the former, that number is 0.I love bud light!
It’s great for watering plants.
I used to down 6 every night, but each beer was 12% ABV, so I was essentially drinking a 12 pack. I still can’t fucking believe that my traumatic brain injury got rid of all my alcohol cravings. The scientists need to study me
“I have an alcohol problem”
“Have you tried turning it off and on again?”
I swear to god, in the future, brain injury will be a science. Like people will spend a whole extra year in med school just to learn how to whack the patient’s head in just the right way to cure disease
They did use electro shock therapy and even lobotomy for a while. Didn’t quite have the desired effect.
I got electroshock therapy in 2018 because I’d never been more depressed. I convinced myself that it took away my ability to feel emotions, but I wasn’t able to feel emotions for other reasons. Mostly alcoholism and being on the wrong meds
I think this was a discworld joke. Retro phrenology or something.
maybe this is why we hit devices when they stop working. it’s an instinct from the future
As someone who has utterly useless prophetic dreams I like to call it information backflow. Also for context to what I mean by useless I mean shit like watching a car get dragged out of a ditch, novel situations that are utterly mundane. It’s either that or like me hitting my nuts while playing EUV.
i think i once had a dream(?) about my friend telling me about the plot of Madagascar 3, no details but the overall theme and general events. i later asked that friend if she remembered that happening, and she told me she never did that. so i’m guessing it was a dream?
truly extraordinarily useful information, not “hey kid invest in bitcoin” (it was in like 2008, right after the release of Madagascar 2) not “did you know, all those feeling you’re feeling is gender dysphoria? you’re trans” not even a “when you grow up you’ll be lactose intolerant, it’ll take you years to connect the fatigue to the fact you had too much diary that day” but the plot of Madagascar 3. my brain looked into the future, and the only thing worth knowing was that
Turns out the gift of prophecy is utterly mundane and largely useless. I do have some things that I think are amongst said dreams but given the general vibe of that type of shit I’m gonna keep quiet lest I undo their truths. Though I actually fucking hate the implications of them because it means I have some level of positive fame and I do not want that.
Thats sort of what’s being done with ayauasca and other psychedelic drugs. Like a medication hammer that knocks you silly and resets your brain.
i’ve tried shrooms and lsd several times. never done ayahuasca or dmt. i’m actually a little reluctant to try it because i have a feeling that a bad dmt trip would be way worse than a bad acid trip. then again i might be totally wrong about that.
DMT is short, like 20 minutes tops, and won’t make you physically sick. I actually like it during shrooms the best. If you try it, make sure you’re lying down.
From what I understand of ayahuasca they throw all kinds of shit in there from psychoactives to others. I’ve never tried it. So be careful. It will make you physically sick and it lasts a long time.
I think this is more like percussive maintenance
Percussive maintenance is really just short, fast, and localized instances of turning it off and on again.
Making Fonzie an early IT guy.
Wish it worked on my ADHD, I want to try deep brain electrical stimulation thing see if it helps
My brain was still processing the NASA story from the previous comment thread, while reading your comment. Processing the brand and sizes while relating to tampon was a surprising train of toughts.
As a guy I would bring my own beer because even if it was enough it wouldn’t be the right kind unless the host and I shared tastes.
And a bottle of liquor because I couldn’t bring a lot of beer without intimating my mistrust of the host by bringing my own beer in the first place.
Edit: Also, if I was going somewhere I’d offer to bring all of the beer, and include a wide range and enough of what I like for everyone to leave satisfied.
And some liquor.
Bacchus is lord.
I’ve taken to bringing pre-mixed cocktails. Turns out, there are people who don’t always have ice at home …
I never have ice at home. My fridge can do that, but I don’t ever use ice*, and my drinking water is already RO so no need to muck up a very expensive fridge filter every few months for no reason.
* I use ice for making beer, but it’s an entire 5-gallon bucket frozen solid, usually just thrown outside overnight in winter.
Where I live, ice cubes are made by filling an ice cube tray with water and putting it into the freezer.
I mean I have that option as well, but I don’t use ice, so I don’t waste the freezer space, especially when that freezer space is already consumed by the built-in ice maker that isn’t hooked up to a water line, even tho I could easily feed the RO tank to it.
I do use ice trays for freezing milk before it goes bad, or leftover coffee for making iced coffee, but that’s about it. I have some really nice silicone honeycomb trays that have silicone lids, so perfect for milk and coffee, which typically don’t get used right away.
100 to be safe
In case he brings his “best buds” entourage with him?
Or just brings some determination
A gallon of mead is always an option. I will have 2 soon. Hoping the second will be ready for Christmas but I don’t think it will clear up in time. Might just have it hazy.
Wow, you forgot to mention you use Arch, btw
Implied. Do you like MTG?
No she’s a nasty removed!
She is, but I meant the other MTG
MagicTG
I made mead ages ago and it was incredible. It didn’t last very long though. The demijohns the mead was ageing in came with me across 4 house moves in 2 years.
I’d love to do it again if I ever have the space, but also, I only made that first batch of mead because I tutored a beekeepers son
I started making mead when I was renting a single bedroom, doesn’t require that much space really.
You’re right — I think it’s more the frequent moving home that’s holding me back. I just want stability
You don’t have to age it, mine are usually ready to drink a month or two from when I start making it.
That’s super interesting, because with mine, it definitely made a huge difference. It honestly tasted pretty bad before it had aged at all, and it didn’t taste much better after 3 months. It was drinkable after a year, but still not great. After 2 years though, it was one of the nicest alcoholic beverages I’ve ever tasted.
I wonder what caused such significant differences between our experiences. Do you have a particular recipe you use? Not because I want to compare methods — I wouldn’t be able to find whatever guide I followed. Rather, it sounds like whatever strategy you used gets drinkable mead far quicker than whatever I did
Find out what (or if they drink) first!
Can someone explain NASA and the tampons
To be fair to NASA, sometimes shit goes sideways and astronauts have to stay in space way longer than expected.
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100% this, it’s not even weird.
7 days, let’s say it’s really, really heavy, and you could be looking at using 3 in a day (21).
Double that, because you’re in fucking space, you can’t just pop out for another pack (42).
Now, you’re the first woman in space - does anyone know how periods work without gravity? Double it again (84).
And just round it off to because you can’t buy packs that size (90-100)
Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space, Sally Ride was just the first American woman in space, but she didn’t really share her menstrual experience.
Redundancy is one of their policies, and this is a big reason why.
Besides that though, even between women there’s a wide variety of menstrual products. What size? Maybe she uses pads or cups instead? How frequently each individual needs them varies too. Even if you’re a guy who is familiar with purchasing these for your girlfriend/wife/daughter you would still want to ask if you were in this sort of situation.
This is such a good point. Now I’m wondering if the menstrual cup works in space, since it can be reused essentially forever, but it needs gravity to work I think…
Then they asked the wrong question.
Literally 1984.
