Geez. In my younger, dumber days, I drank a half pint of Bacardi's 151 in a night of partying. Put me in lala land. The hangover was enough to put me off rum forever.
On another occasion, I tried one swallow of Everclear, which immediately came back up. It never even made it to my stomach. My drinking nowadays consists of an occasional cold beer!
“Geez. In my younger, dumber days, I drank a half pint of Bacardi's 151 in a night of partying. Put me in lala land. The hangover was enough to put me off rum forever.”
I recall that the rum actually served a useful military purpose in days of yore. The British sailors were so well trained that they could perform their duties whilst way more than three sheets to the wind. So before a battle the sailors would get roaring drunk and come the battle itself they paid less attention to the limbs flying about and carried on firing.
Also, regarding the hard-sounding names of British ships. The Navy went through a phase of naming ships after counties and cities, but the sailors got fed up and wanted their manly ship names back! HMS Liverpool or HMS Warspite – what would you rather have?!