I have one after the baby goes to bed but maybe because I don’t have it until 9pm or so I feel exhausted the next day…

Edit It’s bourbon but I’m counting standard US drinks.

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    Hot (literally temperature wise) and red. I have the asian flush, so just one drink if drank too fast makes me red quickly. There’s not much of a difference anymore by the second drink, other than my hearing getting a little worse (due to said reaction to alcohol).

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        It’s manageable. As long as I nurse my drink and drink the same amount of water alongside it, I can usually get through 2 drinks with just looking red but not drunk.

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    One or two beers? Absolutely nothing

    One or two shots? I barely get a buzz

    People always think I’m bragging when I say this, but guys, having a high tolerance is truly a curse. More money spent and more time in the bathroom. I drink 2 nights a week btw, so high tolerance is baseline for me

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    One drink shouldn’t have any effect on a person. Unless by one drink you mean something like half a litre of something above 10% alcohol.

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    I haven’t consumed any alcohol for years, there’s no point. I’ve never been an alcoholic or problem drinker. I did some of the typical young adult binge drinking which I had a normal tolerance level, did feel buzzed etc, otherwise I was a sporadic social drinker until about 10 years ago.

    I can’t get drunk now. I can drink alcohol until I puke (I do get a terrible hangover from drinking a lot) but I don’t feel drunk, don’t stagger, slur my words, feel or act buzzed in any way. I think it’s because I have a chronic illness, but it’s a very strange side effect.

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    Two, I’m fine. But I’m a giant. Four, especially if they’re beers, and my sleep quality tanks. Either unable to fall asleep altogether or terrible quality sleep. So I usually stay below that amount.

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    One or two within an hour doesn’t do much for me, three might give me a buzz, but I’m also a few pounds overweight so I guess I’d need a little more alcohol to get that buzz.

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    It used to be fine but now things are different. If I don’t get a buzz then it’s just for taste. If I get a buzz then I get an unrestful sleep.

    I still do it but I need to be ready to have a bad night.

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    Drunk and tired AF. I hardly drink anymore because it leaves me feeling absolutely exhausted for a long time.

  • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world
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    Based on standard US drinks, 1-2 drinks does absolutely nothing. 6-7 is enough for a decent buzz with no noticeable effects the following morning. At around 10 it starts to get uncomfortable and by 12 the room starts spinning. At basically any of those levels I’ll have no real hangover beyond a dry mouth at the extreme end, unless the drinks were overly sugary, like a sweet wine or sugary mixed drink. In which case I’ll have a mild headache as well.

    The only real exception to that is tequila (in any amount), or anything with agave in it. I am allergic to agave and it leaves me with a sore throat and a headache that makes suicide seem like a perfectly reasonable thing to do. Though in terms of intoxication it acts like any other alcohol of comparable strength.

    I also don’t drink often, 3-4 times a month at most. I have a fairly high baseline tolerance. That also extends to a lot of meds, particularly anesthetics and anxiety meds, which has been a problem in medical environments.

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    I think the last time I had two drinks was about six years ago when a friend brought home some fancy elderflower mead after visiting England.

    Those two drinks had me giggling and silly. My head was spinning, I was sweating slightly, and I was perfectly okay with all of the above. I can’t remember the time before that.

    Obviously, I’m not a drinker of alcohol on any regular basis

    When I have a single drink, it’s rare for me to feel much of anything because I’ll be sipping it over an hour or two, and I’ll have picked the drink for the taste, so I don’t want to get tipsy and enjoy it less.

    As such, I don’t have any lingering effects either. My body can handle the amounts I’m taking in without any issues.

    Even those two glasses of mead, all I felt the next day was a little extra grogginess for that first hour awake. After that, I was good to go.

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        Yeah, the thread title made me laugh. I can’t answer it because that’s never come up. For me, having 2 drinks is like doing half a poo. It just doesn’t make sense. When drinking, I would drink until I run out or pass out.

        Thankfully I’m well over 2 years without a drink today, that life was hell for me.

  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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    Good for a while, and then less good for a longer while. I also get to observe all of my health metrics going sharply in the wrong direction after - resting heart rate shoots up, heart rate variability plummets, etc. This can last for multiple days as well.

    It’s gotten to the point where I no longer really feel like it’s worth it to drink many times. I still do on occasion, but I take up the offer far less times than I used to as a younger man.

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      Yep last time I got drunk was a couple of years ago, I was only mildly drunk. Had heart rate go up and felt rough the next day. Not worth it