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21st Birthday
MeeOk
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I was wondering if there are any actual.. "traditional" things you're supposed to do on your 21st birthday? There's no way I'm doing 21 shots of anything, but other than that, I've not found any information on anything. It should be a pretty big crowd of people that are going to come party with me.
Also, I get drunk kind of ridiculously easily, so I know I'm going to have to keep tabs on how much I drink and what I drink anyway, but.. suggestions for that would be relatively welcome also. Thankies
Also, I get drunk kind of ridiculously easily, so I know I'm going to have to keep tabs on how much I drink and what I drink anyway, but.. suggestions for that would be relatively welcome also. Thankies
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I say get some wine and some friends and celebrate classy style.
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Huge amounts of cheap alcohol is for your 17th birthday.
This. If you want to pace yourself, just get beer and mixed drinks. Your friends will be buying you shots all night, so cut loose but be careful to make sure they aren't all really harsh shots like jager or knob creek or something. Just make sure you have someone that will take care of you that night.
Um, is that before or after the "Sex and the City" marathon?
In between the Appletinis, actually :P
I should specify I was referring to this wine:
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Goddamn limed with salt and tequila. Make sure you've got friends that are willing to either keep you from going to, or willing to bail you out of, jail.
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Also, for fun, write down all the drinks you had down on your arms (You can write out each drink, or just do a tally for each shot or glass of beer). Seeing as you will most likely wake up covered in writing anyways, it will give you a good tally of the carnage. The only problem is that this may make your drunk mind competitive.
Have a good 21st and be ready for bloody marys in the morning.
That being said, alcohol poisoning is bad. Blacking out or pissing yourself is also bad. So don't be a pushover.
Fuck whomever says you have to do anything on your birthday.
And make sure it's ibuprofen; tylenol and alcohol don't mix.
EDIT: To get over your hangover, when you get home, you pound one bottle of gatorade for each shot you can remember taking before going to bed. You then take some ibuprofen or some aleve (naproxen sodium).
Make sure it's a flavor you don't like, in case you hurl.
Yeah, do a bar crawl. If you don't want to get too messed up, just have a different draft beer from each bar you go to.
I got drunk in a car with 3 guy friends and a girl I was dating. all passengers got HAMMERED and we a took a trip to Montreal (funny, we were all 21 and decided Montreal was just more fun than VT even though were weren't only 18). about 20 minutes after our trip we hit the border into Canada, went by the border patrol just fine and an hour later were in Montreal. By about 7pm after visiting with another girl we knew going to college there, we hit any bar we could find. I got some free shots all night (enough to keep me wasted all day and night long). My friend and I got so obliterated by our drinking and competition with one another that we both ran to the closest alley (or what we thought was an alley) to take a much needed piss. Turns out this "alley" was some guys driveway. I pissed on his fence and he pissed on the guys BMW (into his air intake), he came running after us and instead of going back to where we were staying we got lost in the inner city area. We lost the guy who was running after us screaming in broken-french and we hopped busses all night long going to strip clubs and other bars. Somehow we made it back to the girls house we were staying at, but we were both outside, almost completely naked on the ground sleeping under a tree.
stupid? fuck yeah. fun and completely awesome and a really good memory? emphatically yes.
I'm only 26 and while I don't do shit *quite* that stupid anymore, I do have my share of awesome moments. Turning 21 (for me) was all about celebrating being young and stupid.
As far as having a hang over goes, and potentially feeling ick for a while, I have that under control. I'm taking some vacation days following my birthday, so I can do what I like.
I don't have fun when I spend half the night throwing up. Even if it was fun right up until that point. The best memories I have that involve drinking are the ones where I have enough to be very happy and uninhibited, but not to the point where all of my mental faculties are gone. Everyone is different though. If your idea of a good time is drinking yourself into oblivion, then by all means, go for it, it's your 21st. But if you're uncomfortable with that amount of "cutting loose", you're not going to remember the night fondly.
For me, I let my friends buy me drinks, and I got a great buzz going. I had a glass of water for every third or forth drink too, so I wasn't in bad shape. When I woke up the next morning, I had wonderful memories and no headache. To me, the best night out is not one where you pay for it the next morning.
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This. This is what I hope for my birthday. I do know that a lot of friends wanted to buy me drinks, so maybe I'll split celebrations up over a couple of nights, or else have them buy me appetizers instead of purely alcohol or something. I hope to never ever black out from booze. Or anything, honestly. Bleh.
Not roll over and say OH JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WHO PUT A MANATEE IN MY BED
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I went to Chili's with my finance and 2 friends and just had dinner and some beers. By the time I was 21, getting hammered had lost its luster. I was just glad to be able to have beer or wine with dinner now.
I've had everclear, absinthe, and a handful of other things.. I primarily drink rum or vodka, just recently tried Jaeger, and I don't think I've ever had tequila. It sounds really ick to drink that with ranch, though. A friend is insisting that she's going to buy me a blow job shot, and that I have to do it from somebody's lap. And, um, not that it matters, I'm one of the 6% from the poll that was done recently.
Also, there's the "Steak and Potatoes":
1 part Jack
1 part Butterscotch Schnapps
1 part Irish Cream
1 part A-1 Steak Sauce
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151 + Goldschlager + Jagermeister
Get your friends to buy you some of these and you're 21st is going to turn into a night of legendary proportions.
I honestly don't have any memory of my 21st, but not from blacking out or whatever. It was just a day. I don't drink so that held little meaning for me, and I've never really gotten into birthdays. I probably went out to dinner or something.
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I did that, it was fantastic. Expensive though, prepare to spend $80+ per person depending on consumption.
As far as drinks. You can start with a shot or two, and after that, you can have anything you want, because you probably won't be able to taste it.
Tequila will fuck you up rapidly, and if you are a mutant like me, you will find it to be rather palatable (if you get the good stuff, I recommend Patron).
The only advice I have (and I only pass this down from my friends because I've never tried it) but do not mix dark liquor with clear liquor. Down that road madness lies.
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Nope, you're not. I just never got the point of getting drunk on the 21st birthday. It's so easy to get access to alcohol once you get to college, I was a seasoned drinker by 20, so running around to various bars seemed kinda silly just because I could get it legally. I had kinda gotten the whole "woo drinking" thing out of my system by then.
I think mostly though it's because I'm not a huge fan of bars, I'd rather throw my own party or go to someone else's party. I think I did go out and bought some beer or maybe a bottle of something hard...but it's not like I got wasted or anything.
I got really blitzed on my 30th however
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I didn't, but that's because I did the "go out and get shitfaced" thing when I turned 18. For my 21st I just went out to a quiet, smallish dinner.
Tequila with an oyster in it. Equal parts confounding and awful.
OP: Really the only reason one's 21st birthday is a big deal in our culture is because it's the first time one can drink legally. So drink up.
Ah.. I've been the female friend taken along to a strip club for a friends' birthday before.. It was honestly pretty sad, it was only me, birthday dude, and one other person.