Getting Drunk and hangovers

[Du1point8]

BrabusMog said:

Du1point8 said:

BrabusMog said:

Dracoro said:

BrabusMog said:

A Desmond... Or the 2nd worst grade you can achieve for your degree.

Actually, 3rd worst (or 3rd best depending.... )

I wouldn't say a fail is a grade

strange i thought it was:

First class honours (1st)
Second class honours, upper division (2:1)
Second class honours, lower division (2:2)
Third class honours (3rd)
Ordinary degree (Pass)
Fail

It's been a while since I've been to uni, I always thought anything lower than 3rd was a fail but I could be well be wrong about this (and many, many other things).

I would generally say that people who get below 2:2 are classed as fail as employers want 2:2 and higher.

Not nice but unfortunately true.

[Johnnytheboy]

Back on topic, if I know I have a big night out coming, drinking not quite enough to give me a hangover the night before makes me much less likely to suffer ill effects afterwards.

[V8mate]

Du1point8 said:

I would generally say that people who get below 2:2 are classed as fail as employers want 2:2 and higher.

Not nice but unfortunately true.

Hardly surprising. Would you trust someone to impart the benefit of the knowledge gained at university if they effectively got less than half the questions to check that knowledge right?

[sday12]

Du1point8 said:

BrabusMog said:

Du1point8 said:

BrabusMog said:

Dracoro said:

BrabusMog said:

A Desmond... Or the 2nd worst grade you can achieve for your degree.

Actually, 3rd worst (or 3rd best depending.... )

I wouldn't say a fail is a grade

strange i thought it was:

First class honours (1st)
Second class honours, upper division (2:1)
Second class honours, lower division (2:2)
Third class honours (3rd)
Ordinary degree (Pass)
Fail

It's been a while since I've been to uni, I always thought anything lower than 3rd was a fail but I could be well be wrong about this (and many, many other things).

I would generally say that people who get below 2:2 are classed as fail as employers want 2:2 and higher.

Not nice but unfortunately true.

Not nice but forgotten about after a few years in the job.

[doodlebug]

sday12 said:

BrabusMog said:

I would generally say that people who get below 2:2 are classed as fail as employers want 2:2 and higher.

Not nice but unfortunately true.

Not nice but forgotten about after a few years in the job.

Where I work, which is nice, Desmonds are a fail and are never forgotten.

[TonyTony]

I go out one night a week, on some occasions 2 but not often.

Unless I stop drinking after about 4-5 pints I always get a nasty hangover the day after, I try to stick with just beer when I go out as well.

Suppose I could start drinking soft drinks after a while, but when you hit the certain stage of the night you just carry on!

[silvagod]

Rumour has it that it's the colour of the drink (or the chemicals/ingredients that make the colour) that give the hangover. You were drinking Gin, no colour, ergo, no hangover.

There again I could be talking bks, I'm 53 never really had a hangover and only once chundered after drinking and that was when I was about 25 (I had a stomach virus).

I appear to have a gift for pissing people off the morning after a heavy session as well, probably by being cheerful and noisy!!

[DukeDickson]

silvagod said:

Rumour has it that it's the colour of the drink (or the chemicals/ingredients that make the colour) that give the hangover. You were drinking Gin, no colour, ergo, no hangover.

There again I could be talking bks, I'm 53 never really had a hangover and only once chundered after drinking and that was when I was about 25 (I had a stomach virus).

I appear to have a gift for pissing people off the morning after a heavy session as well, probably by being cheerful and noisy!!

One grain of sand in a desert. It isn't even all directly alcohol related - a few too many tabs, not much sleep the night before, staring at a screen for a long time etc. All (or a combination of) have at some point contributed to some of my belting hangovers.
There's even leftfield stuff - sometimes a rough day and a more than normal dosage of painkillers can see me drinking through a sweaty sock with little prospect of truly drunken silly stuff and also nothing more than a perfectly acceptable lower-middle hangover

[JohnnyJones]

It's a funny one this.

I never have a hangover, ever.

I had one last in November 1992 after a dozen or so pints of Guinness/Cider & blackcurrent. I remember it well.

Even after an Absinthe bender in Spain I was just a bit vague the next day.

I'm 42.

I spent my 20's on a Greek island, working hard on the beach all day and partying harder in the bars and clubs every night. I wonder if that trained my body somehow.

[ascayman]

silvagod said:

Rumour has it that it's the colour of the drink (or the chemicals/ingredients that make the colour) that give the hangover. You were drinking Gin, no colour, ergo, no hangover.

Gin gives me the mother of all hangovers.

[james_gt3rs]

ascayman said:

Gin gives me the mother of all hangovers.

I think it's more to do with the amount you drink... Because spirits can be drunk faster it means more chance of drinking more.

Having said that, mixing gives me the worst, especially when wine is involved.

[BorkFactor]

Trick for me is 2 Ibroproufen and 3 pints of water before bed. Works brilliantly, and I get terribly hangovers. Had quite a few hangover free heavy nights out using this method, but I did have a few last night and didn't do this, not feeling all that great today