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JacktheCat
Joined: 08 May 2004
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 Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 10:40 pm Post subject: Alcohol Capacity |
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I may have lost out in the genetic lottery regarding looks and intelligence, but one thing I did inherit from my Irish\German\Finnish ancestors was a very large capacity for alcohol. With this I have been able to win admiration and acceptance from Koreans.
Koreans may not take to having so many waegukin running around their country, but they really respect a foreigner who can keep up with them in late night boozing and admire someone who can drink them under the table. |
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buddy bradley
Joined: 24 Aug 2003
Location: The Beyond
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| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 1:42 am Post subject: Re: Alcohol Capacity |
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| JacktheCat wrote: |
Koreans may not take to having so many waegukin running around their country, but they really respect a foreigner who can keep up with them in late night boozing and admire someone who can drink them under the table. |
That, and they admire you if you're good at computer/console games. |
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meagicano
Joined: 02 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 1:43 am Post subject: |
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I have had zero problems drinking Koreans under the table here, and I am a 21-year old Canadian girl. They just can't hold their alcohol - the nice part is that they acknowledge it.
I have also had no problems drinking the French guys, and the Americans here under the table. The only problem is that those American frat boys keep coming back for more, and keep on throwing up as they leave early... and I continue to drink with the European guys.
Right now I hold drinking respect solely for my fellow Canadians, and for the German/Dutch students. |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 1:51 am Post subject: |
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The last time I drank heavily, I managed to mostly keep up with a German guy who's at least 6 inches taller than me, and around 50 lbs heavier. He suffered a lot more the next day too.
I have learned never to try to keep up with Irish men though. Nothing good can come of it. |
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thorin
Joined: 14 Apr 2003
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| Though they may be lightweights, you have to admire Koreans' "drink 'til death" mentality. Where's Real Reality with his list of countries in order of alcohol per capita consumed? I believe Korea is about 3rd. Personally, I'm second. |
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Wrench
Joined: 07 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:20 am Post subject: |
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| Hmm, I am Canadian with Polish background so I was born with a pickled liver but I got out drunk by Wisconsonite. Koreans are not made for drinking, although they sure like too. |
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ashke516
Joined: 01 Mar 2005
Location: on the beach
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| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:34 am Post subject: |
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| peppermint wrote: |
I have learned never to try to keep up with Irish men though. Nothing good can come of it. |
Made that mistake once.... |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:38 am Post subject: |
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My father was born and raised Hungarian, which means copious amounts of alcohol for teenagers is allowed and youth learn to increase their quantities slowly over the years. In the mandatory military service he drank even more. Then when he went to Canada for good in 1956 he entered what was then a prevalent drinking culture in the country.
So, by the time he was 60 he could - no word of a lie - drink FIVE 40 pounders of whiskey in less than three days and still have some vistors not know he's even drunk! Yes, five 40-ounce bottles. Science may say it's impossible but my father is living proof to the contrary.
Then he retired and began making his own home brew (much stronger than 40 % alcohol in whiskey). Now at 73 he's curbed his habits a bit. He always was a weekend drinker only (never Monday through Thursday; and I mean never, unless it was a holiday; that's probably how he managed to make his career work out so well for him). Now he's a once or twice a month four-day binge drinker.
I gave him a few bottles of soju last year when I visited and he tossed one back, said it made him him a little dizzy. He tossed another back and then said it didn't have enough "kick". He took the remaining seven bottles I'd brung and made moonshine out of them (double distilled them into stronger hooch!).
I have inherited nothing.
I stumble and slur after a bottle of soju, never drank even a single big bottle of whiskey in my life, let alone five. And I absolutely dislike drinking unless it's a special occasion back home or going out with Korean guys here.
My father thinks I'm a bit less of a man because of it.
(He doesn't exactly say it but it's obvious sometimes.)
His generation is of another time and place. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 3:52 am Post subject: |
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| I have learned never to try to keep up with Irish men though. Nothing good can come of it. |
I thought you did very well that time in Cheonan Peppermint!! Maybe just one or two too many.....
The whole thing about drinking is the speed you go at it. 3 bottles of Soju in one hour is much more impressive (or stupid!!) than 6 bottles in 6 hours.
5 bottles of whiskey in 3 days is formidable but not too scary if you mean all day and night drinking. If there's ample time for your liver to process and your bladder to piss it out you're okay. On a good night I can polish off 3/4's of a bottle of Glenfiddich in about 3 hours. Drunk but not falling over.
BTW. Heavy drinking is stupid and not a sign of a real man. Seriously. It's such a teenage attitude to respect heavy drinking. I got really turned off by the Irish drinking culture when I noticed how many of the 'lads' who partied like hell in their teens and twenties became sad alcoholics in their 30's. You just know they're thinking, "No one told me it would be like this 10 years ago!". |
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skinhead
Joined: 11 Jun 2004
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BTW. Heavy drinking is stupid and not a sign of a real man. Seriously. It's such a teenage attitude to respect heavy drinking. I got really turned off by the Irish drinking culture when I noticed how many of the 'lads' who partied like hell in their teens and twenties became sad alcoholics in their 30's. You just know they're thinking, "No one told me it would be like this 10 years ago!". |
I remember about ten years ago, a few of my mates were concerned about the amount we were drinking. One of them said "How long we gunna keep doing this to ourselves?" and one drunk bloke answered "yeaaah FOREVAAAHHH!!!" and we all laughed and toasted him. And so far, he's proved himself correct. He's still riding the stool at the pub nightly with 3 kids at home. Keeping up traditions. Our families teach us to drink piss at the bar from a very young age. The romantic image of the 'grog hero' looks very different from inside the experience. I probly advocate drinking a bit, and I probly seem hypocritical. Friday nights are a regular overindulgence, but don't call me on it: "I've got a handle on it these days".
Know your limits. Just so you can know how far beyond them to go without damaging yourself too much. Cheers.
The Year That He Was Cool (Don Walker)
I can see him by the poolroom door
In 1965
Answering only to his sweet law
Deadpan and alive
He could surf the curl on a barmaid's lip
He could surf a yard of beer
He surfed the break down the Queensland coast
For six moths of that year
Back in a time of innocence
He did not suffer fools
He put aside all childish things
In the year that he was cool
They said he'd screwed a meter maid
The girls said it wasn't true
He knew a guy who knew Pete Zuber
From "The Shades of Blue"
Many of the same girls claimed to have spent
The night in his panel van
He'd shake his head and we'd admire
The politeness of the man
They said he'd smoked raw opium
The line was hard to rule
Between the facts and legend in
The year that he was cool
Now its hard to believe how twenty five years
Has underlined that face
Undermined that special time
That ties him to his place
To see his eyes it's hard to say
Just when the lights were drowned
There ain't much else to do besides decay
In this six-pack town
Now he's seen all the pricks who stayed at school
Come home with law degrees
The girls who once were his to choose
Have travelled overseas
And he harbours such a hatred
He drinks in such a rage
But the target's hard to focus on
Approaching middle age
Now he stands outside the bowling club
Barfing like a mule
No-one recalls or wants to know
About the year that he was cool |
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Emu Bitter
Joined: 27 May 2004
Location: Bundang
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Mate, given the sub standard beer you have in South Australia, surprised you drink at all.  |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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| I find Korean alcohol just awful. I still drink the crap beer though. But drinking someone under the table is nothing good considering the damage this crap can do. |
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dbee
Joined: 29 Dec 2004
Location: korea
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| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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Heavy drinking is stupid and not a sign of a real man. Seriously. It's such a teenage attitude to respect heavy drinking. I got really turned off by the Irish drinking culture when I noticed how many of the 'lads' who partied like hell in their teens and twenties became sad alcoholics in their 30's.
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... exactly, the thing of it is this ... real men drink moderately (me wishing I could heed my own advice  )
the streets of dublin, cork, galway (and probably belfast too) are dangerous places to be at night for precisely that reason. Binge drinking is a huge problem in ireland, and there is a massive campaign in schools that been going on for years now to tackle that exact problem. A pint in the republic is almost 9,000 won, and you'd better think again if you want to light a cigarette too.
I stopped mesuring my manhood by how much I can drink when I was 19. Rarely has a country been so devastated by alcholism as ireland. To put it bluntly .. for every real man, who's still drinking uncontrollably in to his mid to late twenties in Ireland, there's going to be some real women and children growing up with an abusive, alco parent. |
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white_shadow
Joined: 28 Mar 2005
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I'm Korean and I've got great tolerance. I guess you can say that tolerance is two parts. One is holding the alcohol down and the other is how much it affects you.
Culture/race may have something to do with this, but drinking a lot is whats responsible. For those that can drink more than others, simply do, that is drink more.
I've had my fraternity days, kegger days, etc. I've had my practice. I'm much more toned down now, but i still love to get obliterated, skunk drunk every now and then.
I've been studying hardcore lately and haven't had anything to drink since the Super Bowl.
When I go to Korea (Incheon) this summer, a few of us will have to go out and get some drinks. |
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redbird
Joined: 07 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:56 am Post subject: |
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| I find Korean alcohol just awful. I still drink the crap beer though. But drinking someone under the table is nothing good considering the damage this crap can do. |
Ah, c'mon. Soju is pretty good. Smoother than vodka at about half the alcohol content. Excellent mixed with orange juice-- or really just about anything you'd mix with vodka. |
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