random as fuck for me to mention here but i actually used to consider woodford reserve my favorite liquor until i bought one of the bigass bottles and a coworker at the time i thought was cool kept threatening to deck me if we didn’t keep taking shots until we went through the entire bottle. i’ve never genuinely thought i was going to die the way i did being collapse on the ground after. seriously thought that was it and i was gonna choke out on vomit or something in a drunken stupor. i did the math once to figure out my BAC that night and i should’ve probably died lmao.

anyway long story short i have a food aversion to the taste and smell of woodford reserve now. any of those cheap honey whiskeys too but that’s a different story for a different time.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's a different time now, chop chop! Tell us another tale!

[–] jwmgregory@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

That one is much more recent but much less engaging of an anecdote imo. These are kind of lame but I'm always willing to chatter lol.

Honestly just had a different, actual friend come over the day the news broke about the election in Trump's favor here in the US and he was super into the honey jack daniels at the time. We just pounded an entire big bottle of that and I ended up way drunker than felt reasonably possible. Ended up shirtless sitting in the shower throwing up my guts. Also accidentally stepped on my cat which was sad (but I think she was okay). Oh and ig the Dictator-In-Chief shit happening but overall bad experience and while I didn't really feel like I was gonna die but it made me retch a bit every time I smell cheap liquor mixed with honey from then on.

I honestly had problems with alcohol from like, 17-18 all the way until I was 21, almost 22. I don't really drink much anymore. It's a bad drug anyway. Basically toxic. Nicotine is also up there. What's it matter that nicotine itself doesn't really much cause cancer if every single fucking way you can ingest it is carcinogenic itself somehow? Not to mention the addiction both of those can cause. The social acceptance of both is insane. I've ingested my fair share of both and more tho so maybe that's why I'm so cognizant of everyone huffing and drinking what is paramount to a poison. I'm still hooked on both every once in awhile and want to quit but I don't really think that's the topic at hand here, bc I get these vibes when people bring that up in this vein.

[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Has something similar with Bacardi 151 back when I was in college. Me and two friends were playing cards and drinking, losers take a shot. We went through a huge bottle in like 30 mins. I was just utterly blasted, I’d never drink so much in my life. Thought I might die of alcohol poisoning.

I stayed completely sober for like 5 years after that, and some 20 years later I still rarely drink.