Defend the indefensible: Shots

Seriously now.

Like many things that are stupid and self-destructive, they are basically indefensible. And yet I occasionally still do them. It's sort of difficult to turn them down when someone has come back from the bar having voluntarily spent £30 on them.

doing shots is never my fault or a thing i actively decide to do, they just...happen to you. somehow.

they tend to bookend the same sort of night though - the precursor to those nights that tend to carry over well into the next day, and then at 2pm the following afternoon they seem to be a good idea again, and then the memories tend to end.

why did i use "tend" three times in that sentence, guh

You're emphasising your own passivity.

always a bad idea. there may be an amusing anecdote after it but youre not going to remember what the fuck happened either way.

What, Shots? or overusing the word "tend"?

Pounding shot after shot is clearly daft but there's nothing wrong with shots of vodka punctuated by glasses of something softer.

What Matt DC said upthread is true. also - if you're not really feeling it after your third pint, you're guaranteed to be anyone's after a tequila slammer. it's a horrible yet sometimes necessary evil, although I find I only ever do these with, say, after-work drinks with colleagues. Never ever with good mates.

I find I only ever do these with, say, after-work drinks with colleagues. Never ever with good mates.

this is the thing! they seem to only be something you drink with people you don't really know/like - it's like the buyer is saying "i'm not going to enjoy your company unless i'm trollied, so, bottoms up, lads"

There's also the Greek thing where you're at the end of the meal and the waiter will come round with some kind of foul and complementary firewater and he has a shot with you. I've never worked out how those dudes stave off rampant alcoholism/collapsing on the job.

Because they only taste as if they alco?

oooh, ice-cold vodka shots with apple juice chaser is actually the best way to get pissed though, as I learnt on my trip to Poland. We were invited by some Polish students to join them. Instead of buying pints, they order a bottle of Bolz (or similar) which is kept on ice. You get one shot and one glass of apple juice (I think they call this Jabberwocky or something, much to my amusement). The host pours a shot, gives it to his neighbour, who downs it, chases it with a nip of jabberwocky and refills the glass. It gets passed round like a spliff/bottle of poppers. I guarantee, it's one of the most sociable ways to enjoy group drinks and much more fun than everyone nursing pints.

I only ever do them with pals iirc but I work somewhere p small without a very pronounced drinking culture

when I drink whiskey at home it's normally out of a shot glass but I sip it - is this weird

not to me; it takes me about two hours to finish a 3 cl glass of blanton's.

there's nothing wrong with shots of vodka punctuated by glasses of something softer delicious spicy foods.

Yeah, I can make a shot of whisky last forever - I more or less breathe it in.

Whisky isn't really a shot though, it's only a shot if you down it in one.

people who down shots of whisky are idiots.

or just desperate, i dunno.

if you're drinking cheap whisky there's no reason to savour it.

there are other drinks for that though... being Scottish might well be an excuse.

i'll down a jamesons or whatever if i'm in the pub getting drunk. if i could stomach drinking them i would do the same with a dram of grouse or whyte and mackay. i don't want that shit in my mouth too long. otoh if i was drinking an 18 year macallan i would definitely not do that.

I have a complex rule system worked out for when I take and when I refuse shots. In general, I don't take shots after 6pm on a weekend or holiday, unless shot is first alcoholic beverage consumed, or third if the first was a shot and the second a pint. On a weekday, I will tend not to do shots at all, but would have one (1) Jameson at the commencement of drinking, provided drinking commences less than three hours after leaving work.

Yeah, I wouldn't buy a shot of cheapy whisky without a mixer though. I'm fine with a Bells and coke, but wouldn't drink anythign like that straight.

Shots >>>>>>>> bombs

What about Sex With an Alligator? A Flaming Lamborghini? An Absolut Quaalude or Hitler's Chocolate Cake? A Broken-Down Golf Cart? A Sweet. Tight. Pussy.

So much midori...so much peach schnapps...

They are great, WTF ilx?

My recovery time for a shot has increased from a few seconds in my 20s to like, a full half-hour now so I generally pass. Plus I pretty much never want to get that drunk anymore. <-- HUH. That is a revelation I just had right now, even though it's been quietly true for a couple of years, at least.

Sweet shots with stupid names are for ninnies.

strange pick for defend the indefensible imo, because most people only do them once already in a questionable state of mind

is drinking shots more intrinsic in american bar culture than ireland/u.k? i remember drinking more shots all the time in the u.s. than back home. maybe i was in 'holiday mode' for the brief period i lived there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNtTEibFvlQ

drinking shots was a 'it's not morning, let's do this'/lol college/lol twenties thing tbh

there's no culture of shot + chaser in the UK at all, is there? (tho i don't know if ppl in the US really do this)

Bombs are pretty much shot + chaser, just all at once.

jaegerbombs the memories

well i say memories....

i judge anyone who buys jaegerbombs.

hand grenades are even f'ing worse man. jaegerbombs with an added zambuca in there. eugh.

last shot i had was a shot of patrón. shit was nice but i really do not get paid enough to justify paying a fiver for a shot.

They are great, WTF ilx?

― When a German communicates, you listen (LocalGarda), Friday, 30 September 2011 13:20 (34 minutes ago) Bookmark

italian guy i knew used to have a zambuca shot with an espresso chaser

yeah i like those

I had a shot of Maker's Mark on Tuesday, but I didn't buy it. A very, very drunk friend did.

Tequila shots I will generally defend, though, but only if we're talking about really good stuff at a restaurant/bar with a wide variety. Tequila should generally be consumed in shot form. But if you're sitting anywhere but a dorm room doing shots of Two Fingers or some other grocery store bullshit, then you are a disgusting savage.

I find I only ever do these with, say, after-work drinks with colleagues. Never ever with good mates.

this is the thing! they seem to only be something you drink with people you don't really know/like - it's like the buyer is saying "i'm not going to enjoy your company unless i'm trollied, so, bottoms up, lads"

― civilisation and its discotheques (c sharp major), Friday, 30 September 2011 11:15 (2 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah totes, and what's wrong with that? be grateful for this simple solution to awkwardness imo.

In Wisconsin we do the "bear fight", that's a Jaegerbomb and an Irish Car Bomb, and once you finish you clank the glasses together like a bear (that's the important part!). Also there is the "lunchbox" which is OJ, beer, and a shot of Amaretto, and whoever finishes it last pays. IMO those are way more fun than shots

tbh if we do shots here it's only to inflict pain on your buddies - either by getting something nasty (like Wild Turkey) or giving them the dreaded "Upside Down" (in which you have to snort a few drops of vodka)

urrr that "lunchbox" sounds rank

why do you guys hate russians

I read frogbs posts in this man's voice:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b5/TheOffice_Andy.png

rocky iv

when you do a shot you get a lil headrush

can someone please edit that last sentence to point here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jorts.jpg

tequila & beer is unfuckwithable, I don't get why this what there is to defend

I don't get what there is I mean

my dear bar owner friend always shoves JAGERMEISTER at me, and yet we are still friends.

anyone tried a power hour of a beer shot every minute? Cruel & unusual imo

i have never done this . . . but, perhaps worryingly, i don't think it would be too hard.

― mookieproof, Friday, September 30, 2011 4:17 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

used 2 do power hr as pre-game

i could prob still get thru it now but yeah id be fuucked up

Buca til i die you clowns

theres an application on the internet somewhere that will switch songs in itunes every minute to provide a cue to drink, we did an 80-minutes-of-80s-music power-80-minutes thing once and it was a blast

never played edward 40hands

someone bought shots the other week and i cant remember who it was or where we were but i remember the act of the shots being bought and and the feeling of "man i probably shouldnt" and then especially the next morning tracing my hangover back to those shots specifically

csi: myohmy

oh i was in san francisco and my friend jamie brought them

and then later i ate a dried chili pepper and it was really hot

o ya power hour is definitely pre-game, except it's the type of pre-game where it starts off with ten of you, five of you fall asleep at the initial flat, three disappear on the way to the club, then the remaining two of you are left wondering what to do with yourselves at the atrocious electro house night you somehow ended up at.

or maybe that's just personal experience.

I have a complex rule system worked out for when I take and when I refuse shots. In general, I don't take shots after 6pm on a weekend or holiday, unless shot is first alcoholic beverage consumed, or third if the first was a shot and the second a pint. On a weekday, I will tend not to do shots at all, but would have one (1) Jameson at the commencement of drinking, provided drinking commences less than three hours after leaving work.

― fields of salmon, Friday, 30 September 2011 11:47 (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oystein

oystein?

can you get an excel formula for this

thks

fuck it let's do a shot of Jag

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Dad said they used to do this same thing with a box of Redhot candies put into the fifth.

i did a shot of fernet with a bartender in milwaukee a couple years ago. that was probably the last shot i did.

Fireball put me in the hospital once

Right after Fireball came out my girlfriend got shitfaced on it, vomited profusely down her cleavage, pulled off her shirt and jumped on me in a bear hug. Cinammon booze puke is a hell of a smell.

I was covered in it the next morning. doctors didn't clean me up or nothin

but you know what? shots anyway! *buys everyone shots*

^that's how it usually goes when i drink shots^

It is very strange who started this thread, because I very much recall Tracer buying a round of tequila shots at the end of a night. I was done drinking so put the shot in my bag and jolilly ran home. My bag completely smelled like tequila the next day at work.

lol, putting a shot in a bag! if that can be done in a casual way, that is amazing

per the marie kondo thread, I am very conscientious of not being wasteful. I have actually done it three times in my life. One time I took a whiskey and soda from one bar to another bar blocks away and my friend was shocked that I suddenly pulled out a drink at the new bar.

haha

but how did you do it without spilling??

yerac walking from bar to bar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht2g4fnwX6A

tangent but oh my god you can see the camera guy in the mirror, this is amazing

Oh, it usually totally spills. Especially since two of the times I started running home with it in my messenger bag. The other time my partner was with me and he chased me down and made me take it out of my bag because he knew of the other two times. He finished the drink a block from our house.

I do not endorse any of these ^^^ activities.

I made it three blocks in Chicago at 2:30am once before realizing I had a full open beer bottle in my pocket

my shots rule is that first drink being a shot and a beer is good, then if you’re sipping drinks slowly perhaps a shot with the bartender as their shift changes, or accepting a shot from a bar regular who has ordered one for the group. no bar hopping with a shot at every bar, no accepting shots when you just got a fresh drink

As my friends have gotten older, at parties we've started doing baby shots (like a half ounce each) so we can take more.

have we mentioned sake bombs on the thread because a waitress at the young person sushi bar provided two rounds of those for my friend and I gratis and those are cheesy but fine

Oh that's weird that the sake is hot ( I just watched two videos).

the only time I did a sake bomb I spilled a quarter of it on myself.

when I was a kid, I could shoot tequila fairly easily. now I'm like "eww this tastes like doodoo water" and I swallow it like a kid swallowing Delsym

my preferred move is to try to act like it's no big deal and then throw up a bunch at my friend's house an hour and a half later

I am kind of interested to do an angostura bitters shot which i heard was a thing in some places.

really? i have some angostura bitters. maybe i should do a shot rather then spreading them out across so many whiskies!

sometimes I take my shot but let it dribble down my neck, then immediately punch someone in the face so nobody will notice

that sounds bad

it was just the... well sake? is that a thing? not hot, just normal sake temperature dropped into cold beer

It's a wisconsin thing. I think they tried to make it happen in nyc too.

xpost yeah, I don't know why they say to use hot sake in these videos. That seems counterproductive. Plus sake is usually served hot when it's just very average sake.

the sushi place I used to go to in my early 20s had a couple chill owners and if you were there on a slow weeknight, one of them would switch it up and just start handing people at the sushi bar shots of hennessy

I'm surprised the pee wee herman snl clip wasn't in this thread.

I guess I like shooting whiskey now?

is that a 40-something go to or just a palette change?

only shoot irish otherwise its for sippin

Yeah I kinda like whiskey too much to shoot it but otoh

It is 8.23 in the morning and now I crave shots

In Wisconsin we do the "bear fight", that's a Jaegerbomb and an Irish Car Bomb, and once you finish you clank the glasses together like a bear (that's the important part!). Also there is the "lunchbox" which is OJ, beer, and a shot of Amaretto, and whoever finishes it last pays. IMO those are way more fun than shots

― frogbs, Friday, September 30, 2011 9:11 AM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

frogs - how do bears clank glasses together?

I've been known to take a shot of (ugh) Jäger.