Posted on 10/11/2016 12:52:16 PM PDT by C19fan
A growing number of college are banning hard liquor on campus in a move to curb extreme drinking — but students are still getting their party on, and some are adding an extra element of risk to their binges.
A group of young people from the Chicago area spoke to NBC News, for TODAY's Campus Undercovered series, about the phenomenon dubbed "drunkorexia."
"If I knew that I was going to be drinking at night, then I would not eat beforehand because of the calories," one student named Alyson said.
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IF it were just a few cold ones no one would care
I guess I was drunkorexic in college. But for me it was more a question of whether I wanted to spend my $3 on a couple slices of pizza or a pitcher of beer...luckily I was cute enough I didn’t always need to buy my own beer.
Hey, get hammered, suffer an epic hangover, etc. Been there, done that. Life goes on.
I didn’t eat before drinking because I would get drunk faster. It saved beer money.
Like my friend likes to quip: There’s a sandwich in every beer.
It’s one reason I tend to drink more hard liquor than beer. But I actually drink very little of either.
With 300+ million people in the US, it’s not difficult to find some statistical anomaly to portray in the media as the norm. While this young person was fasting for another drinking binge, a group of nondescript asian young people chatting in mandarin, took a cigarette break behind a physics building to relieve the monotony of working on their various graduate level projects to earn their PhD’s. They don’t generate web-clicks, but the alcoholic loser does.
Sadly alcohol poising is real
When I was a kid (3rd to 6th grade in the 60’s), I’d get a 25 cent allowance every week. When I went to the grocery store to spend it, I really wanted to get a hostess pie, but they were 13 cents, giving me 12 cents left over and ultimately an extra 2 cents burning a hole in my pocket with nothing to spend it on.
Meanwhile I could get two ten cent candy bars and a 5 cent candy bar with nothing left over.
I never did buy a hostess pie. EVER.
It’s a real risk with college kids and everclear. You can drink yourself to death and still be sober when you stop drinking.
I always like to move decimals around to give it perspective.
e.g. imagine today going from $1,500 to $2,500. It WOULD be a windfall. :-)
“I never did buy a hostess pie. EVER”—SAD.
I remember those days....although, sometimes I would
buy the Hostess Pie for .13 , and 2 pack - Twinkies for .12 ,
.......Voila! Yes, -that was a good deal. Even the
Gold Brand Pretzels were a penny ....right out of the jar!
HA! I think the twinkies were 13 cents too. Unfortunately nobody ever taught me about avoiding instant gratification. I’m 62 and it’s an issue to this day.
Eating before drinking is a buzzkill. Most alcoholics know about that already.
The Drunkard--The Thrillers (1953)
Beer = Liquid bread.
I’ve managed to get just as drunk on beer as I ever did on hard liquor. Of course, I was never stupid enough to chug a quart of liquor (or even a “pint” bottle). Not sure where I learned that that would be a sure way to alcohol poisoning, I guess it seemed pretty obvious to me.
Drinking on an empty stomach is just a bad idea. Although, you’ll probably end up getting hungry and scarfing half a pizza at 2 am, anyway.
Even when I was in college, I had enough sense to not drink on an empty stomach. Always made sure I had something, even a glass of milk. No way boys were going to see men stumbling around and too drunk to sit like a lady. Of course, today, we have far too many skanky girls with no self respect and little self control.
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