The secret to my stunning efficiency: "A new study has found that while drinking a lot of bourbon can cause a worse hangover than drinking a lot of vodka, impairment in people's next-day task performance is about the same for both beverages." No word yet on which liquor causes you to make poorer decisions, but I'm sure they'll do a follow-up. [Via]
Friday, December 18, 2009
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Depends on the quality of what your sipping, I should think. Absolut will give you a killer hangover, compared to, say, Knob Creek. Ketel One, on the other hand, is generally cleanly forgotten about the next day, even as compared to Johnny Walker Blue Label.
(based on my extensive observations of the subject)
This is a case of more money than sense - hangovers are the result of
quan not qual.
Vodka hangovers seem to make me slightly more suicidal than bourbon hangovers.
Strongly agree!
My current cognitive deficit is a result of Jack Daniels and Coca~Cola...which is about the stupidest thing anyone can drink.
The best hangovers I've ever had have been after heavy bouts of drinking absinthe in Spain. Thanks to its key ingredient of thujone being some sort of nerve-toxin, you come to the next day still feel pleasantly jittery, wired and alive.
wormwood.
Yeah but 'thujone' is the active ingredient *of* the wormwood.
I learned all about this because my mother, a botanist, mailed me photocopies from one of her textbooks describing the neurotoxic effects of absinthe, after I had told her what a great time we were having in Barcelona drinking the stuff
I remembered that two seconds after I posted, I was hoping it would go unnoticed.
C-WORD!
Yes, absinthe is nice the next day too! I did a scientific test: I wrote a poem, drank absinthe, and then wrote another poem, and had my friends judge which was better? The collective answer was "neither." During my hangover the next day, I couldn't find the poems at all. I think they must have been published somewhere else, under someone else's name. But with an absinthe hangover, you don't really mind.
I went to Neon Indian last night and drank red wine, beer, and whiskey, and GAWD I paid for this morning.
Then I had to pitch a game show to Animal Planet - it seemed a fitting punishment.
Let me guess....there are these...animals? And they each have a secret? And the contestant is supposed to figure out whether that secret is a) a deadly contagious virus, b) a tattooed map that leads to a treasure somewhere or c) the ability to poop on command?
Any of which you might wake up with, given enough bourbon and/or vodka. (See? Circles!)
You know where there is treasure!?
I didn't get that one.
Shh, the zebra is mysterious.
The Patron hangover is the giggliest. I think they filter it through magic mushrooms.
Ending the night on Jack Daniels, a cracked out hustler and gunshots can make the following day a little unmanageable.
It is my studied opinion that gin has the least ill effects.
STRONGLY DISAGREE.
STRONGLY AGREE WITH YOUR DISAGREEMENT.
CONCURS.
Hardly. Slivovitz leaves you legally dead the next morning. Have you ever known a dead man to have a hang over?
Whhhhaaaaa? Gin is poison on a slow release for days. Yuck.
All that gin has clearly pickled your brain.
Are those boobs behind a bourbon bottle? Oh, right, yes they are.
Of course gin has the least ill effects, especially when you're drinking it with tonic, which literally means "something that makes you better", and then there's the cooling, rehydrating effects of ice and the vitamin c from the slice of lemon. It's like good for you.
EXACTLY. So it's not the gin, it's the tonic. Whatever, it's fantastic. I'm like a superhuman on gin and tonic.
Gin is best for morning drunks.
Mixing the two, preferably in the same glass, warm, will cure any hangover but will not improve efficiency or lead to good decisions.
This is COMPLETELY ANECDOTAL, but in my experience the liquor that causes the worst decision-making is Purell, followed closely by Orvis Bay Rum and ANYTHING by Revlon.
Quick example. One morning, after a night of skeet hollering and drinking Purell, I backed my neighbor's car into a burning barn. Well, she was furious I left the Ding Dongs in the car! I tried to tell her it was either the Ding Dongs or the staple gun, but you can't reason with people in a cistern.
I would be lying if I said I was only drunk on the Purell. Hairspray WAS involved. But still, the hangover off that was like when you lose a finger.
You're drunk, aren't you?
I am afraid I have completely sanitized myself!
Graveyard drunk.
You're forgiven. But really--Orvis Bay Rum? Darling, switch to Dominica.
You sir or madam, win best new commenter of the last few months. I just search for 2416 now to get my laughs.
Thank you for the high praise. I will always remember this... unless we get into the Dominica Bay Rum tonight (hat tip: SemperBufo #1849). Then it's KATIE BAR THE DOOR, WE'RE GOING TO THE CISTERN FOR SKEET HOLLERIN' PRACTICE AND SHOE WELDING!!!
Not bad for a huffer.
People, please remember to drink plenty of water before you go to sleep. Sure, you'll probably wake up a couple of times to pee, so you'll be sleep-deprived the next morning, but it will curtail your hangover significantly. Thank you.
This is not good advice for those of us who date fall-down drunks. *mutter mutter wake up to pee what a concept mutter mutter*
I LOL'd all over myself.
It's best to vomit before you go to sleep/pass out. Won't have to pee all night and your liver won't have to process all the ethanol. It's a win/win.
It's a lose/win/win.
@kitten_witawip: Thanks for the tip. I'll be sure to ram my finger down my date's throat before dumping him in bed to snore loudly while I sit in the corner glaring at him, rolling a joint and huffing angrily.
Chooching madly?
yes water, but also FOOD. so much food. preferably of the breakfast variety. french toast, sausage, hash browns smothered and covered, bacon, EVERYTHING. you'll wake up ready to go.
Oh dear. I read the hidden headline (EXCITED CLAPPING!!!) as "The idea of 'placenta bourbon' makes me sad." and oh wow. If you thought the idea of 'placebo bourbon' made you sad....
Yes, but will the follow-up study consider your male breakup manifesto somehow?
Bourbon hangovers aren't so bad for me--I always have a little of that confrontational aggro thing going, and I use it on the hangover itself. Come lunchtime, I'm in line for chuletas with rice & beans, and I know that no matter what route my lunch takes, I'm going to win.
I find that the more flavor a liquor has, the more likely I am to actually sip and enjoy it. So a nice Scotch leads to much more pleasant mornings. If I'm drinking vodka, I'm trying to get drunk.
how about REGRET hangovers? combination of cheap beer and the realisation that you've just spent the last three months lusting after an emotionally unavailable boy who plays world of warcraft.
*pats on back
Stunt elves? Orcs? World of Warcraft?
Has Peter Jackson bought the North Island and stocked with nothing but outtakes of LOTR?