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[eamo]

Nothing wrong with Soju. It's just 23% alcolhol. That's not too strong. I'm on my 3rd bottle as we speak.

On a scale. medium.

Remember, Koreans think their food is the most spicy too.

[thorin]

[Zyzyfer]

Sweet, another weekend where soju forced me to spill my guts out. At least someone now believes me when I say that I fucking hate soju and have good reason.

Hangover was actually pretty weak sauce, though. Ramyun, Coke, and some time in the sauna did me right. The magic touch is a Double Cheeseburger value meal.

[kermo]

I think my strongest objection to soju is that burning feeling it leaves all the way through my digestive system. I could live without that, but you can't beat the price!

[Thunndarr]

The worst hangovers I've ever had all involved soju. Here's a normal night on the soju (back when I still drank it kinda regularly.)

9:00 p.m: Have a few warm up beers at the apartment.

10:30-12:00: Head down to Pimokgol for a couple hours of cheap beer.

12:00-6:00 a.m: Head out wherever, usually Itaewon with my coworkers. Start in on beer/soju/soj kettles. Sometime during this period things get very weird, most likely about five minutes after my first taste of soju. Wackiness ensues.

6:00 to whenever: Somehow make it home, via taxi, subway, kindness of strangers, or just drunken stumbling.

1 to 2 pm: Wake up, swear off drinking forever, try and fail to get out of bed, try and fail to watch tv, try and fail to read a book. Am physically unable to do any of the above.

After 2, I can usually, just barely, summon the energy for a quick trip to the pharmacy for some Tylenol.

2-5: Bedridden. Generally staring at the ceiling. Can't eat, can't sleep, can't sit up. Generally, a good time to try to recall the wonderful embarrassing things I may have done the night before. (Example: I once did 'The Worm' in front of my boss on the floor of a korean nightclub during a Christmas part. By all accounts, a rousing success. And I didn't even get fired Monday.)

After 5, I'm feeling sort-of ok, I am now officially mobile, and I can manage to do complex things like watch tv.

After 7-9, it's time to think about what's going on tonight and possibly a warm-up beer or two. Wash, rinse, repeat.


Fortunately, I'm basically finished with those kinds of shenanigans these days, I prefer a mellow beer night to a manic soju night now.

[Harkkonenlad]

[Sooke]

Soju is instant stupid.

The pro's refer to bad/funny/wrong things which happen while drinking as an S.R.I. (Soju Related Incident). It can be further broken down to S.I.S. (Soju Induced Stupidity). Incidents related to SRIs or SIS in my experience include, but are not limited to: broken heels from jumping off the second floor of a house during a squirtgun battle, vomiting profusely, pegging off ajosshis with hard candy, being woken up by students while passed out in a grass field at Chosun Dae in Gwangju, stealing Korean flags on state holidays, vomiting profusely, towing bicycles with motorcycles and a rope, smashing mirrors of bongos with pieces of wood and getting busted by the polce, getting kicked out of McDick's after lighting a cigarette, and vomiting profusely. It should be noted that I personally did not inflict any property damage myself, but i have been a party to such incidents.

And that was just last weekend.

[chronicpride]

I was so hammered on soju 2 nights ago, that I was semi-conscious on the massage table at an expensive anma in Gangnam and can hardly remember anything. Then, I mustered up the ability in the AM to text message my HR manager to explain that I am sick and cannot make it into class, while I lay passed out next to my toilet. I loathe my love/hate relationship with that rotten drink.

[itaewonguy]

friday night 10 bottles of soju.. and 3 3000cc beers..
from 11:30 - 5:30 the four of us..

got to sleep at 7 and got up at 12 for work..
wasnt feeling the greastest.. its the cigarettes that kill me..
Im not a smoker.. well I guess you could call me a DRUNK smoker..
when I get drunk I smoke.. hangovers.. naaa.. I dont suffer from those

and then saturday went out from 8pm - 6am.. stayed off the soju..
and went and partied with jose and jack and a few times senor heinken came over for a few...


you know what they say..

go hard or go home!!

[W.T.Carl]

People! Leave that stuff alone. It will kill you quick. Stick to OB. I know it is a VERY cheap drunk, but holy cow! Think of what that stuff is doing to your insides! And if you don't know, look at all the "road pizza" you see on Korean streets. However, IT DOES make a good punch!

[jaganath69]