Comments on: Seriously, who hasn't done this?

Seriously, who hasn't done this?

empath — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:20:32 -0800

That's Life -- The aftermath of a night out. (VERY NOT SAFE FOR WORK!!! or lunch)

By: Samizdata

Samizdata — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:30:10 -0800

I'm thinking he needs an exorcist more than some Alka Seltzer. Quite amusing. Cheers!

By: BitterOldPunk

BitterOldPunk — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:40:15 -0800

Amateur.

By: BitterOldPunk

BitterOldPunk — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:41:00 -0800

The protagonist, I mean. The film itself was funny and well-made.

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:59:10 -0800

I told you men pee in sinks!

By: artof.mulata

artof.mulata — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 01:42:30 -0800

Everything I could possible say here would require a SPOILER! tag. It's disgusting and totally not safe for mixed company, either. Thanks! What a gigglefest!

By: Catfry

Catfry — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 01:56:55 -0800

Ah yes, the old 'wrong apartment' gag. A fine example of the traditional craft, mixed in with scenes of quaint danish traditions this is a hearty tale indeed.

By: zippy

zippy — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 02:58:38 -0800

Can we have a house rule that any Metafilter thread involving hygiene, peeing, seats up/down and handwashing must link to this video? No? Good.

By: Decani

Decani — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 04:30:31 -0800

When I was a lad we used to pride ourselves on being able to drink like a beast without behaving like one as a result. I still do, all these years later. Kids today, Red Bull and Bud generation, buncha pussies, lawn, etc.

By: The White Hat

The White Hat — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 06:00:03 -0800

I vaguely remember a similar drunk point of view music video posted to the blue years ago. It was less comedic. I think it was techno.

By: ZaneJ.

ZaneJ. — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 06:28:38 -0800

Jesus. Nothing like amateur night.

By: angeline

angeline — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 06:29:13 -0800

The White Hat, you may be referring to "Smack My Bitch Up" by Prodigy.

By: bonobothegreat

bonobothegreat — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 06:53:49 -0800

I can vouch for the plausibility of this film's central premise.

By: Potomac Avenue

Potomac Avenue — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 06:57:02 -0800

all this 'amateur' talk seems to forget that this is a tale from the life of frank sinatra, a class A pro drinker. The amateur would have been in his own house. Great video and an important message to the youth.

By: The White Hat

The White Hat — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 06:58:48 -0800

The White Hat, you may be referring to "Smack My Bitch Up" by Prodigy. Yep, that'd be it.

By: orme

orme — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 06:59:22 -0800

The lack of a mirror in the bathroom just made it too unbelievable.

By: Loto

Loto — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 07:13:28 -0800

Agreed. I feel like it should have taken place in a kitchen if they didn't want to show the actor's face. Plus, who hasn't gotten a little tipsy and decided to take care of business in the dishwasher?

By: thirteenkiller

thirteenkiller — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 07:20:14 -0800

Oh, a similar situation lead to an old man being beat to death here a couple years ago.

By: shen1138

shen1138 — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:35:00 -0800

By: thirteenkiller

thirteenkiller — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:49:17 -0800

It's fun, that's why.

By: farishta

farishta — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:51:17 -0800

That was one ugly fake penis.

By: MrBobaFett

MrBobaFett — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:59:15 -0800

shen1138 as a long time non-drinker who now drinks socially I have to say while I enjoy getting buzzed sometimes I do not like being so drunk that I feel I have no control. However I know others do actively seek that. YMMV

By: bquarters

bquarters — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:10:16 -0800

Hey, I really need to go to a meetup and make some metafilter friends- my 'real-life' friends are starting to get disturbed by the videos I've been sending lately...can't wait for the reaction to this one! And Shen1138...it's like a curve, the drinks make things more fun after one, two, three, but sometimes there's the point where it levels off and stops getting more fun and you should stop...but you don't. Then, as the video indicates, things may go rapidly downhill from there.

By: Krazor

Krazor — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:45:13 -0800

So that's where John went last night! Last I saw him, he was drunkenly sprinting uptown, shouting something about "the bananalegs".

By: ghharr

ghharr — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:47:08 -0800

As a non-drinker, I am curious: do people actually seek out this state, or is it always an accident "I drank too much and didn't realize it?" One of the things about booze is that the drunker you are the worse your decision making gets. You can go from "I'm kinda drunk but just one more drink" to "Oh my head, what happened last night and where am I?"

By: Solon and Thanks

Solon and Thanks — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:01:32 -0800

As a non-drinker, I am curious: do people actually seek out this state, or is it always an accident "I drank too much and didn't realize it?" I have a cousin who routinely gets black out drunk and actively seeks that level of inebriation, and putting the safety issues aside, I'm mystified as to why you would want to do that to yourself. It's like procrastination, or not-working-out, or eating junk food, or any number of things the average person does thoughtlessly and then regrets later.

By: dr_dank

dr_dank — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:19:01 -0800

The vomiting of diarrhea was a creative touch.

By: ~Sushma~

~Sushma~ — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:35:09 -0800

The film quality was good, music good. I wonder what the creator of this piece would do with other subject matter such as world hunger or cancer research? (or perhaps the digestibility of a hamburger?) .

By: Seekerofsplendor

Seekerofsplendor — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:39:38 -0800

A guy pisses all over the place, vomits all over the place and then sees he's not in the right apartment. Best of the web indeed. Real talent, real creative. Think, people.

By: empath

empath — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:54:53 -0800

Why would you watch it. I thought it was pretty clear with the 'not safe for work or lunch' and the 'tags' that it was going to be gross.

By: zippy

zippy — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:10:57 -0800

A guy pisses all over the place, vomits all over the place and then sees he's not in the right apartment. The Aristocrats!

By: Hargrimm

Hargrimm — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:46:28 -0800

This... this is really not what I come to MetaFilter for.

By: XMLicious

XMLicious — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 12:07:24 -0800

Another non-drinker here, just to mention that it also seems like in addition to any intrinsic enjoyment from actually getting drunk some people seem to really revel in telling stories about how drunk they got on particular occasions. (Which makes sense to me if it's something that you're really into, it's kind of like a car guy telling stories about his car or a computer guy telling stories about his computer.)

By: dry white toast

dry white toast — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 12:38:05 -0800

Clicked link. Saw preview screen grab. Ran away.

By: Samizdata

Samizdata — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 12:45:08 -0800

Well, as a sometime drinker who used to be a much more serious drinker, just let me say alcohol doses are hard to meter. You get up to a good point, then you determine to stay there. It can be difficult to reach just that spot over and over again. More often that not, you end up overshooting the mark. Or, if you are like me, and the now ex-wife is asking you to dance, you have another G&T so the knees don't remind you of their arthritic presence.

By: LordSludge

LordSludge — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:10:08 -0800

Oh, those Danes and their alcoholism...

By: localroger

localroger — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:44:53 -0800

People drink modestly because it reduces stress and anxiety and might even be good for you. Sure you could meditate or cuddle a puppy or something but alcohol is a drug, and it works reliably. I also have a personal theory that some of us are self-medicating for diabetes. Alcohol reduces your blood sugar significantly, and at levels which are not addressed by the usual diabetes medications. Being pre-diabetic I have noticed that if I completely stop drinking it becomes much more difficult to control my blood sugar via diet alone, and once my fasting glucose hits 160 or so the gout and hemorrhoids show up and I start gaining weight. People drink heavily because the more buzzed you get the more your judgement is impaired, and it makes you feel good and we instinctively want more of things that are making us feel good. Even when we know what will happen the next day the drug itself makes its siren song harder to resist the more of it you have had. And people drink heavily even when they know better than to get started because, even when it ends badly it's still fun getting to the bad part. (FWIW I drink what most people would consider pretty heavily, but I've only hurled because of it three or four times in the 20 years I've been drinking, and in all of those situations it was because I was unaware of the potency of what I was drinking. Also when I get very drunk I get sleepy instead of belligerent, which is probably a blessing.)

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:50:12 -0800

The lack of a mirror in the bathroom just made it too unbelievable. For me, it was the fact that he was sporting a semi when he was supposed be rat-arsed drunk. Clearly it had been carefully fluffed for the camera's benefit.

By: zippy

zippy — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:37:09 -0800

The continuity error with the toothpaste ruined the artistic moment for me.

By: Loto

Loto — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:00:44 -0800

Imagine all that could happen if Sushma applied her commenting prowess to world peace. The short made me giggle but then again I have done some mildly embarrassing things while drunk (drinking PBR off the floor at a DC MeFi meet-up and then vomiting on the Metro ride home, for instance).

By: jeffburdges

jeffburdges — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:42:04 -0800

Oh wow! Just in time for Valentine's Day!

By: DU

DU — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:22:03 -0800

Seriously, who hasn't done this? *raises hand tentatively*

By: nonmerci

nonmerci — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:49:13 -0800

With regard to the drinking question, and for further fun in the personal anecdote domain, I drink pretty regularly but never get black-out drunk, mostly because I think it's really stupid and I'd probably have to throw up to get there (another thing I generally avoid like the plague). Naturally I know some people who do drink to reach levels of brown-out or full-on black-out quite regularly (and many of them brag about it, as mentioned upthread), and I know people who think that it's not normal to go out drinking without vomiting the night before or the morning after. I'm not sure what it's about, because I like to drink but terrible decision-making (which is bound to happen if you lose your cognitive abilities) and general physical pain aren't things I find enjoyable.

By: zippy

zippy — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:52:27 -0800

ROFVnP?

By: honey-barbara

honey-barbara — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:55:16 -0800

Here is where we learn about the benefits of sitting down to pee...

By: neuromodulator

neuromodulator — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:48:50 -0800

One reason people tend to get too drunk, which is kind of hard to see from sobriety's vantage point, is the thirst that alcohol induces intersecting with reduced inhibitions. I was out one time and thinking to myself, "I do not want to be any drunker than I am now. I do not want to have any more to drink," and actually catching myself raising the bottle to my lips at the exact same moment because I'm super thirsty and there's a drink in my hand. It's a feedback loop. One of my other difficulties, which I expect also applies to many, is that I'm a much lighter drinker than most of my friends, but it's hard not to follow their pacing. This is especially true a) when you're sharing something like a pitcher or b) when someone goes to buy a round and checks to see if you need something or heads to the fridge. And as much as I understand that I should not pace myself on what they're doing, the same reduced judgment makes this progressively harder to remember. Many times, also, I can want to stop but have company that strongly tries to persuade me not to do so. "Oh, come on, one more drink." Again, reduced inhibitions lowers my resistance. Lastly, the threshold of poor judgment is always closer than you think. I've learned that when I go out with friends, two pitches shared is good. The problem is that a third pitcher wouldn't be too drunk - a third pitcher in and of itself would be fine. But the third pitcher always makes me say yes to the fourth. So you actually have to look not at how drunk you are when the third pitcher is offered, but anticipate how drunk you will be when it's done. Which took a few days of work of "God I wish we hadn't had that fourth one" to figure out.

By: 1000monkeys

1000monkeys — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:37:00 -0800

Meh. Definitely not the best of the web IMO (flagged as such). Not because it's gross or offensive, just stupid and not worthy of a FPP. Plus, that fake penis was stupid. :)

By: andywolf

andywolf — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:44:49 -0800

generally someone who drinks to the point of black out is an alcoholic. it's a huge red flag of problem drinking and isn't something people just fall into accidentally by having that one extra drink too many. alcoholism isn't the frequency someone drinks, you can drink once every few months and still be one. it's that they can't have a few and call it a night, hence drinking to the level that they physically can't anymore.

By: empath

empath — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 06:17:33 -0800

Definitely not the best of the web IMO (flagged as such). There's no such flag.

By: notionoriety

notionoriety — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:07:38 -0800

Just for a change in the narrative, I've been in this video's shoes a few times. I laughed until I cried (both at the video, and possibly at the time).

By: 1000monkeys

1000monkeys — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:15:55 -0800

There's no such flag. That's what OTHER is for :)