"Techniques To Get Sober Real Quick" and/or "Hangovers: The Silent Killer"

[Seil]

So I'm wakin' up early to open the store on weekends, and I want to see some suggestions - what does a drunkie do? (Aside from slap hisself) I know everyone has their own drinking elixirs and hangover cures, but let's see what's going on in NPFtown.

What's going on: Prickley Pear Juice (http://www.spike.com/video-clips/n8dtp8/manswers-guaranteed-hangover-cure). but 'm betting that one of your old wives have a tale or two.

(I'm hoping to be banned ASAP. Ask Shiney.)

EDIT P.S. - Of course people will have their own hangover stories. Of course.

[Nikose Tyris]

Drink water like a motherfucker.

Also eat something. Water will help you keep from feeling like absolute death in the morning.

You'll still feel shitty but dilute the poison.

[Seil]

Poison?

[Krylo]

Alcohol is poison.

Also, it dehydrates you (water) and causes a bunch of other nasty effects from the enzyme that breaks it down being active (dilated blood vessels, for instance).

Long story short: There's no cure. Water/Sport's Drinks (like Gatorade) can help make you feel a little less shitty, but you'll still have a headache and slowed reactions and shit.

Edit: Fructose helps as well, as it's necessary for breaking the enzyme itself down, so something naturally sugary (honey, for instance, but not candy bars or sodas which have HFC and aren't really as helpful as HFC is kinda hard to break down), and potassium and salt are good to have too, so some bananas and/or something salted.

[Nikose Tyris]

Best option is to not get hammered in the first place- nothing is wrong with drinking, but temper it with a good amount of water and eat something while you're at it.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Takky Yakky.
Cures everything. My friend slashed hi achilles, couldn't walk for months, but didn't notice till we saw his shoe was a different colour. And cooked me breakfst before going to hospital. All becuse of regular takky yakkies.

[Eltargrim]

Don't ever stop being drunk.

[Melfice]

Best option is to not get hammered in the first place[snip]

Don't ever stop being drunk.

Combine these into being in a perpetual state of buzzed.

[Fifthfiend]

Mix a bunch of really unpleasant ingredients into a big glass, make a quip related to the size of your headache, and chug it down, THEN, engage in over-the-top theatrics and - if at all possible - acrobatics to indicate the unpleasantness of the thing you just drank.

[Meister]

That sounds a lot like the way hangovers usually start.

[Fifthfiend]

As well!

[BitVyper]

Don't forget the Wowow sauce.

[Specterbane]

Probably late to the party, but I guess you can tuck this away under future reference.

A friend of mine who drinks pretty heavy swears by taking a large glass of water before bed with a Vitamin C tablet. I've done it a few times and it seemed to help, but for all I know it's just a placebo.

[Kerensky287]

The best cure for a hangover is more alcohol.

Or food and water, which will help your body replenish lost nutrients. But mostly alcohol.

(Some people actually DO hold the belief that hangovers are a form of withdrawal, which would mean drinking a little makes it better. And I mean, it'd certainly make you care less about the hangover itself.)

Apparently smoking weed is a good hangover cure too because it gets your metabolism going.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Probably late to the party, but I guess you can tuck this away under future reference.

A friend of mine who drinks pretty heavy swears by taking a large glass of water before bed with a Vitamin C tablet. I've done it a few times and it seemed to help, but for all I know it's just a placebo.

If youre coordinated enoguh to put that shit together/remember to do it no way are you drunk enough to get a hangover.

[Bells]

2 pages and nobody mentions that a wet sponge or towel on your head/forehead will reduce Headaches and hangover? And Freaking Gatorade?

Also: Gatorade SPonge? Works!

[Ryong]

If youre coordinated enoguh to put that shit together/remember to do it no way are you drunk enough to get a hangover.

Shit man, I remember my brother would get home completely drunk then proceed to drink half a liter of water and go to bed. He'd wake up fine.

But then again, he'd sleep for 14 hours.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

He was completely fine because he was sober enough to drink allt hat water before bed. It's a self-proving system. Ridiculous.

[Marc v4.0]

I contest that.

I've been too drunk to remember what I did the night before, but I was informed that I still drank water to cut off the possible hangover. No matter how hard it is for me to think or focus, I always remember to drink water before I pass out or go to bed on the floor somewhere.

On reflection, that could be due to my habit of fixating on something until I can't get it out of my head so I'm still thinking about it even when I'm in that stage of "can't remember shit" intoxicated

[Specterbane]

Pretty sure Smarty's just got a different working definition of "drunk" than most of the world.

[DarkDrgon]

3 of the largest glasses of water you can find, and bananas. 2 bananas are even better

[phil_]

But then again, he'd sleep for 14 hours.This is my hangover cure.

[Aldurin]

Taser yourself until you lose feeling in your pain nerves, thus bypassing the headache completely.

[TopHatAssassin]

I've heard that eating watermelon works. This came to me by way of an anecdote a buddy of mine related to me after I'd brought half a watermelon to a party. He and his friend had arisen from a night of excessive drinking and shortly after eating some watermelon, they felt fine. I haven't had the chance to prove this.

[Amake]

I hear staying awake until you're sobering up helps. Seems to make sense. Being awake at least gives you a shot at damage control that sleeping doesn't. Such as drinking water when you feel the effects of dehydration.

(And if you say you always drink until you fall asleep you clearly have too much money and I don't care about your problems.)

[Mondt]

Apparently smoking weed is a good hangover cure too because it gets your metabolism going.It's also good for hangover headaches and general discomfort (since that's the sort of stuff its often prescribed for). I'm way too young and have Superman level metabolism, so my hangovers aren't that bad yet, but I have heard a coffee and some weed is pretty much gonna jumpstart your day.I hear staying awake until you're sobering up helps. Seems to make sense. Being awake at least gives you a shot at damage control that sleeping doesn't. Such as drinking water when you feel the effects of dehydration.

(And if you say you always drink until you fall asleep you clearly have too much money and I don't care about your problems.)You know, I tried this once.

Given, it was the most I ever drank in a single situation. I had puked.... plenty of times the night before.

But staying awake mostly made me feel groggy and and generally unhappy to be slipping into hangover status from drunk. Would have much rather just made a big glass of water, pounded it, made another and slept next to it.

[shiney]

Yep, water is the best way; the majority of symptoms seem to occur from the dehydration. Just drink it before you go to sleep. If you're going to forget to get it, then pour it before you get drunk and put it next to your bed.

Also, what's with all the drinking lately, drinky mcdrinkerson?

[Marc v4.0]

I find staggering a certain number of drinks with a glass of water helps if you are unsure if you will remember later on. My parents swear by it now since I turned them on to it, which is good because My mother has hangovers have put her out for a whole day in bed.

[Aldurin]

Also, what's with all the drinking lately, drinky mcdrinkerson?

He's just trying to make the Steam nights more interesting.