The 8 Stages Of Alcohol Consumption

April 21st, 2009 | 11:48 am
During the course of a night out on the town, a person likes to have a drink, or twenty.  And on that voyage, there are some very clear stages you pass through.  We decided to outline them for you, so that you could monitor where you're at during the night.
 
Stage 1: “I Could Go For A Few Beers”
 
 
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You’ve decided to start the night off right by kicking back a few brews with your friends and relaxing a little.  You take the opportunity to catch up on the events of the day, and kill the time until the alcohol kicks in.  A hilarious discussion about a topical viral video that everyone watched at work today will kill most of that time, and you also brought up “this crazy episode of House” that you watched earlier in the week, which all of your friends agree was “really crazy.”  You and your buddies will waste time with sighs, awkward silences, and funny stories about your youthful days until the booze goes to work.
 
 
Stage 2: “This Beer Tastes Awesome”
 
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By now, the alcohol has started to soak into your blood stream.  You’re feeling relaxed, loose, and comfortable.  Most importantly, that beer you’re drinking has changed.  Twenty minutes ago, you almost had to choke it down, but now it tastes absolutely delicious.  In fact, you’re pretty sure the bartender did something different to it to make it so delicious. So how do you get more beer?  Well, since one of your buddies is already up at the bar, you can just yell at him to get you another!  It’ll save you the walk over there, and the other people in the crowded bar won’t mind you yelling your friend’s name over and over. In fact, you don’t even have to use words, once you get his attention.  Just point at your glass, then point at him, and raise your eyebrows.  If he doesn’t understand, just do the same thing again, but really accentuate the gestures more.  If he still doesn’t get it, just start yelling really loudly at him.  Whatever you do, don’t just walk across the bar and get it yourself.  That would be a waste of time! 
 
 
Stage 3: “We’re All Doing Shots!”
 
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The only people who willingly swallow a disgusting liquid and then say “oh yeah!” afterwards are drunk people and porn stars.  And both usually have a high percentage of ending their night with something stuck in their asshole.   During this stage, you usually put your arms around people and say things like “This guy right here…this fuggin guy…this is the guy, right here…” but never actually say anything about that guy.  And since no one ever wants to do shots alone, what usually happens is you try and rally your friends to do it by giving them a speech like it’s half time of the Super Bowl and you’re down 27 points.  “Come on you guys.  Let’s f&*king do this!  I’m tired of you guys sitting around being f&^king pussies!  You need to step this shit up!”  

 

 
Stage 4: “A Grizzly Bear Would Kick A Gorilla’s Ass In A Fight.”
 
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Drunk people are like Bill O’Reilly, they have a ton of opinions, and they think if they yell them loud enough, it makes them right.  At this point in the night, you’re feeling pretty confident in yourself, and pretty much anything anyone says or does will cause you to start an argument.  You basically become a woman on her period, except less bloated.  Then you force everyone to take a side in some made up argument like, “Would you rather get a blowjob from a dude, or get boned in the ass by a girl wearing a strap-on?”

 

 
Stage 5: “I Am Going To Drink All The Time Every Day Forever.”
 
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Right now you have no idea why you haven't spent your entire life drinking because DRINKING IS TOTALLY AWESOME. Everything rules. All those stupid little problems you had earlier in the day don't matter. In fact, you can't even remember what they were because THIS SONG ON THE JUKEBOX IS THE GREATEST SONG YOU'VE EVER HEARD IN YOUR LIFE! Holy shit this is an epic night. You realize how much you really, truly love your friends and, starting tomorrow, you're totally going to start on all those plans you were talking about the last time you went out drinking. Like applying to Grad school, and writing that screenplay and going to the gym five days a week. You're life is going to be different from now on. You're a new man who's going to get shit done. But first, let's get another round and PUT THAT SONG ON THE JUKEBOX AGAIN. In fact, this song is so good, you're going to play this song five times in a row, just so everyone in this bar understands how AWESOMELY EPIC THIS SONG IS. Drinking rules.
 
 
Stage 6: “Your Face Is A Stupid Face.”
 
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At this point, you’re “totally fun night out with your friends” turns a corner to become a “dark journey into the recesses of your mind.” You feel the need to voice (loudly) all the problems you have with your friends. You feel it is your duty to bring up anything from an old pal’s tendency to always be late, to a friend’s inability to deal with a childhood molestation. So you climb up on your high horse and find fault with everyone at the table except yourself. Then come the horrible impressions of your friends that just consist of "Hey check me out, I'm mike and I think of other chicks when I'm doing my girlfriend!" meanwhile Mike is standing next to his girlfriend. And when someone tells you to A) Chill out or B) Shut up, you can only respond with petty, verbal attacks that make fun of your friend’s hair/clothes/face. You will spend many hours of the next day saying things like, “Uhh, hey man, I think I said a few things that…ya know, maybe I shouldn’t have. I was pretty bombed. We’re cool, right?”
 
Stage 7: “This Sidewalk Is Having Some Problems”
 
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For obvious reasons, the night usually comes to a close after Stage 6. So, on your way home, fully blacked out, you realize that pouring buckets of alcohol into your face for seven straight hours actually does have an affect on your ability to stand, walk, and move your limbs. Staggering home to your bed becomes your main focus, but for some reason you find yourself stopping to tell random passersby your thoughts, which consist mainly of, “Whoooooo! The (Insert Favorite Sports Team) are totally gonna WHOOOOO!” Then you usually fall down into someone’s yard and offer a policeman a beer.
 
 
Stage 8: “Your…Pudgerdugffffgjjjj…Tell You Some…Farderschmard?”
 
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During this final stage, everything that comes out of your mouth sounds like a cross between Fat Albert’s Mushmouth and Kurt Cobain (after he blew his head off.) You will have no recollection of what you do at this point, but you will stumble around your house eating whatever stale snack foods you have in your cupboard and then fall asleep on your couch while trying to masturbate to late-night infomercials. The next day you will wake up with a dry mouth, a splitting headache and an extremely flaccid penis in your hand (thankfully it’s your own.)

 

Comments

143 Responses to "The 8 Stages Of Alcohol Consumption"

  1. Anonymous Says:

    Ha ha ha! This is too funny!

  2. Anonymous Says:

    I don't mean to bite off your post. You inspired me:

    I wrote the "8 stages of drunk" for bar chicks:

    Stage 1) "I don't feel like drinking, but I'll hang out"

    This is the stage that most girls start out if they are hanging out
    with mostly guys. This quickly changes to "I will drink as much as my
    friend is" because girls can't make decisions for themselves.

    Stage 2) "Let's take some shots"

    This happens a stage earlier than with guys because guys know that
    taking shots is a horrible idea. This is also the last time that a
    girl pays for her own drink...assuming that she paid for one in the
    first place.

    Stage 3) "I am cheap, let's get guys at the bar to buy us more shots"

    Pretty self explanatory. Girls take off their half jackets or
    whatever and adjust their sweater puppets to adequately attract some
    tool ass guy at the bar into buying all of their friends shots.

    Stage 4) "I'm going dancing!"

    Stage 4 is very similar to 3 in that girls go out on the dance floor
    at first forming an exclusive middle school dance circle until some
    unsuspecting tool breaks the circle offering to buy more shots. The
    girls all agree as they are cheap and see this as possibly their last
    opportunity to drink without paying.

    Stage 5) "lame girl in the group that isn't being hit on starts pouting"

    Getting to stage 5 can often separate the group. Lame girl is going
    to want to go home, drown herself in chardonnay and watch syndicated
    episodes of Sex in the City on TBS. Not surprisingly this is how she
    ends most of her Friday nights. Hence lame.

    Stage 6) "Sluts"

    For the girls that stay out, having finally gotten rid of their ugly
    judgmental friend, these girls start making out on the dance floor,
    letting the guy they are dancing with grab their boobs, start talking
    about how there is now way that they can drive home, and probably
    giving oral in the bathroom...ok I don't know anyone that's actually
    been blown in a bar bathroom by some chick they just met, but...ok
    strike that last part.

    Stage 7) "Going home with random dude"

    This is generally a bad decision because due to the effects of
    alcohol, girls probably don't want to bang this guy and he probably
    isn't as good looking as you remember. He is also probably telling
    you he likes you a lot more than he does. But with the options of
    driving home blackout drunk, sleeping on the sidewalk, and going home
    with a dude, for some reason option 3 makes a lot of sense.

    Stage 8) "sleeping on the bathroom floor"

    This is when the guy regrets his decision...whether he hooked up or
    not, it isn't worth dealing with this blacked out puking bitch on the
    floor. Guys starting thinking, 'god I wish I would have just gone to
    her house so I could leave right now. If I were at this girls house
    right now, I would upper deck her for leaving me with blue balls and
    then pee in her kitchen sink before leaving.'

  3. Anonymous Says:

    A perfect attachment to an awesome read.....

  4. Anonymous Says:

    this is the Bay Area

    LOVE IT!

  5. Better Than Dat Gut Boy Says:

    Point out the faggot in the comments, I'll wait...get it yet? I'll give you a hint...it's Dat Gut Boy!!! FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG!!!!!!

  6. Anonymous Says:

    youre a moron.

  7. Anonymous Says:

    So true....Morons R' Us

  8. Dat Gut Boy Says:

    Takes one to know one. You know you want me.

  9. Anonymous Says:

    it's written from a tools perspective... thats why some people don't "agree" with all of it.

  10. Anonymous Says:

    Anyone who drinks heavey knows every bit of this is true...Except we should switch it into genders. The girl one would end with sleeping with someone they hardly know and going home to shower and cry about how big of whores they are.

  11. Anonymous Says:

    Haha right on

  12. Anonymous Says:

    If you do not agree with this article, or feel it is wrong. You are probably the faggot who orders up 1-2 drinks and stops right there while everyone else continues. AKA a "buzzkill".

  13. Cody Says:

    right? cause we know what a BUZZKILL it is to not act like a total DIPSHIT in public!

    not that i disagree with this article, i just have some fucking self control, and stop after a couple drinks!

    i bet your one of the morons that tends to take a piss in awkward places, like someone's coffee table, or the bar-stool.

    or perhaps you like to pick fights with the people you practically fall into as you stumble around stupidly, because you dont have enough sense to stop when your vision blurs up?

    oh, wait.

    i bet your the guy that likes to thorw his arm around random people,and ask them "soyahabingagoodtimebuddy?""imahaveabout3morebeersandcallitanightidontwannagetdrunkand actlikeanasshole"

    yup, us "stop before we're retarded" dudes, we're total assholes!

  14. Amy Says:

    ... :) I agree with you cody.

  15. Anonymous Says:

    fuck you sir

  16. Anonymous Says:

    Whatever, Buzz Killington...

  17. Anonymous Says:

    let's look at some etchings!

  18. Anonymous Says:

    FUCKIN PUSSY!!!!

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  20. Anonymous Says:

    holy taco forgot the part where you want to fight everyone. fuck making fun of your friends, lets fight some assholes!

  21. Anonymous Says:

    No, its you who forgot that only you and your friends are meatheads.

  22. Anonymous Says:

    yeah what a massive douche

  23. nina Says:

    niste normalni...

  24. Anonymous Says:

    the stage 4 part was awesome

  25. Anonymous Says:

    ok, for the people that think this is bad writing or dumb, apparently you don't party hard enough...I don't necessarily follow the stages everytime I have drank, but I have been at every stage at least once. Go out and try it sometime!

  26. Anonymous Says:

    hahahaa 6 and 7 made me laught out loud.

    also...I KNOW SOME OF THOSE GUYS IN STAGE 3!!! how embarassing.

  27. Sexy Biatch Says:

    Watch the Free Sex Videos of the girls in step 7...

  28. Crunch Now Says:

    I like the one where it says i wanna stay drunk all the time haha

    http://www.crunchnow.com

  29. Anonymous Says:

    Funny, that was pretty much my night last night to the tee.

  30. Da Fish Says:

    Oh yeah! i'll see some of ya's in the program!

  31. luda9400 Says:

    Look at the bright side, you where to drunk to carry the fat chick standing in the corner drinking whine coolers home.

  32. Anonymous Says:

    What.

  33. Anonymous Says:

    way to spell

  34. Anonymous Says:

    Translation: Look at the bright side, you were too drunk to carry the fat chick, standing in the corner drinking wine coolers, home.

  35. subhuman Says:

    good times

  36. Anonymous Says:

    Waw! such a smart guy u are)) so many cool facts about alcohol! i really liked it and had funny time reading your post!))) and this is my addition to your post! http://video.bogatovcompany.com/musicvideo.php?vid=5ddc53a92 )))

  37. todders Says:

    I think this DRUNK BASTARD made it to STAGE 9:

    http://www.digitalfuntown.com/videos/168

  38. Anonymous Says:

    I don't necessarily follow the stages everytime I have drank, but I have been at every stage at least once. Go out and try it sometime!
    online psychology masters degree

  39. Horny Chick Says:

    If only all women looked like these Sexy Girls when you were sober...

  40. Anonymous Says:

    hahaha that pic of the girl knocked out is hilarious!!

    that girls tang actually looks like one of the models i've worked with and she does a internet series in chicago.

    but the sidewalk chick seems classier

    http://tinyurl.com/588taz

  41. Ada w. Says:

    I am trying my best not to cross the 3ed level. I wouldn't like to get in an alcohol treatment clinic :P So for me and my friends it's only "We're all doing shots". We like getting dizzy sometimes because it's fun, but when you get drunk nothing is funny anymore, especially the next morning...

  42. Jeff Says:

    HAHAHA that kid in Stage 6 on the left is my buddy from college. i have no idea how he got on this website but its fucken hysterical! Kid looks like he has the Downs when he's blacked out.

  43. Sexual Chocolate Says:

    Hell no, getting your dick sucked ain't gay! Your the faggot for sucking my dick. Matter of fact it creeps me out being around you fags

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