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[The Hammer]

[Morton]

I'm not a major fan of soju or Korean draft beer. I'm a bit older now and prefer to drink whisky. I've currently got bottles of Bowmore, Glenlivet, and Laphroaig in my apartment.
If your going to be teaching the next day please go easy of the drink. A hungover teacher is not cool. no matter how many barmaids you've shagged/bottles of soju you downed.

However there was the one time i necked a bottle of Tequila which had been left unattended at a bar. I passed out, hit my head on a step, and ended up with a scar above my eye and a hefty hospital bill. That was a rough weekend.

[The Hammer]

[billybrobby]

I've never found soju to be any different than other alcohol and I've always regarded people who did as a little hysterical, the sort of people who are prone to placebo effects. Maybe I'm wrong. I think people get sh*tfaced on it because it's a bit confusing to drink. First you have the 20% alcohol, which is beyond beer and wine but much weaker than vodka. So unless you drink a lot of something weird like schnapps, it's hard to pace yourself at first. Then you have the constant social shot taking, which just doesn't normally occur in America outside of college. So people get themselves entirely out of sorts downing these deceptively easy shots. And thirdly you can't rely on Koreans or long-timers to tell you to take it easy, because a blind drunk is everybody's friend in Korea. So maybe you have a lot of people who tried it once and got rocked and will never try it again, giving it this dangerous image. But in my high scientfic opinion, the real danger more mundane: the alcohol.

[maddog]

Is this for real?

I'm not one to brag, hence I've never posted on the matter before, but for me (a Scot) and a few of my friends (Canadian), slamming a bottle of soju in one is how we typically warm up on a Friday evening.

We finish work at 11pm, you see, so this is how we get drunk as quickly as possible before hitting the bars.

Try doing it with a bendy straw. It's called a 'strawpedo'. The straw allows air to get into the bottle quickly, hence allowing the soju to escape more quickly. With good technique, you can do a bottle in 3 seconds.

MD

[JMO]

It's wierd how alcahol affects people. I have a friend who is just such a sloppy drunk that I can't get over it. He doesn't drink more than anyone else, but he is falling and staggering in no time. This isn't as bad as the angry drunk of course. I personally am a boring drunk. I can feel hammered, black out on most of the night and have people say I acted completely normally. Kind of defeats the point. Recently I have been drinking more 151 which has the ability to bring out the sloppy in us all..yikes. I suggest the op chug a bottle of that and stop being such a big girl...joking!

[esetters21]

[Rumple]

[yakey]

The one time I got plastered and prayed to the porcelin gods was when I maxed out on soju and I was bad off, but then one of my co-workers didn't like my prowess, and so he busted out what I can only call "The Chinese Death Drink." If soju is a punch in the gut, the Chinese version is a kick in the face, a punch in the gut, followed by an upper cut to the jaw. ... Down goes Frazier, Down goes Frazier, Down goes Frazier. ... The worst thing was being in dizzyland and trying to find my shoes in a pile of about 50 pairs of shoes. ... I got out of there and somehow made it to the subway trip from hell, changing lines once, and just hanging on for dear life. At the station, a really cool taxi driver sensing my condition took me to the front door of my apartment. It was a loooooooonnngggg night. But lesson learned.

Then it hit me. Maybe my empty stomach put me down harder.

Recently, I had to do another one of those types of get-togethers, which I think are very important and I never miss them. I ate some haejonguk, the hangover remedy, at about 2 p.m. before going for the festivities. And I drank like a middleweight this time, not a heavyweight, as I didn't mix my poisons. I came out feeling fine. It was the pork haejonguk that I had, by the way.

I think the water idea sounds really good, too.

Another friend when you're down and out with a headache and a sour stomach has got to be the old Alka Seltzer.

Just be careful folks.

Live to smile another day.

[beast]

Soju is good for you. The more I drink, the healthier I become. All the people at work who never drink soju always seem to be the ones who come down sick the most. I never miss a day of work and I never go a day without drinking soju.

[kangnam mafioso]

[kangnam mafioso]