It depends HUGELY on how often you drink.
I went through a period of barely touching it for a year or two; I was heavily on the pills by then so beers didn’t factor in. Two pints and I’d be feeling it.
Then I went through a really bad time and started nailing the beer like a true alky – I was having it for breakfast for a few months.
By that time, I could easily drink 4 pints and still concentrate better than sober people around me. I even went driving to pick up more a few times, something I’m not at all proud of but it was usually when no one else was around and because I felt so sober anyway. But there’s no excuse for that, and yes, I was being a complete prick.
I ended up being able to go through a 4 pack of 9% Tennants Super at 10am and still barely feel drunk. Whatever effect it did produce would wear off in hours and I’d just be left feeling sick. I actually stopped drinking largely because it was doing nothing to me. I’d have to upgrade (or more correctly, downgrade) to the 3l white lightning binges which is when you know you’re in serious trouble – the blood coming out your ass and in your sick isn’t far off.
I’m not a massive guy either, I’m about 5’8 and weighed about 9 stone at that point, but by then I could drink more than a thirsty farmer.
There’s a very simple explanation for the tolerance, your liver produces a ton more of the enzyme it needs to break it down. Short of cutting your liver out, you can’t do anything to stop that. Beyond drinking more sensibly, which I’ve been told is possible.
If you ever go into that state of going over 4 cans of normal beer to get drunk, on a regular basis, you genuinely need to stop and evaluate things. You’ll probably do something similar with weed, and build up the same tolerance. That kind of mind is much more prone to then consider things like crack and smack to get some effect back, and that’s a bad, bad road.
Funny stories to end!
You can get drunk by spraying alcohol up your ass. I think the idea is that it may bypass the digestive / liver process better if it goes into your bloodstream this way; I’m not entirely sure, just trying to think up excuses beyond kinkyness for doing it. I was watching 1001 ways to kill yourself and apparently some guy had done this, only to then pass out and die from alcohol poisoning.
Dying is never funny, but putting things up your ass is, and it’s funnyness is directly proportional to it’s weirdness.
