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On September 29 2013 20:02 Monsen wrote:
I'll never understand drinking yourself into unconsciousness. Getting a bit drunk is fun. Puking isn't fun. Being unconscious isn't fun. Are people drinking to prevent themselves from having fun?
I think its more that when some people drink past a certain point with the wrong crowd (Ricky) they're going to keep drinking until they pass out. I'm lucky I start feeling like shit before I get to that point so I've never had to deal with it but others aren't so lucky..
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First year? I go to UCSD too btw.
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On September 30 2013 05:43 imBLIND wrote:
First year? I go to UCSD too btw.
Third year, actually. Just the first time I got this messed up. Wasn't even Sun God, either
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The only time I've ever seen a guy taken to the hospital was the one that drank like 85% alcohol straight from the bottle and had severe alcohol poisoning. Whiskey.. pffffft.
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Managed to do something similar back during the probation period of my traineeship... Went out drinking, suddenly it's noon, I'm in my bed at home and the phone's ringing. I take the call and it's the HR department asking whether I'd turn up for my shift later that day. I was confused as fuck since at that point I had no clue I actually was in a hospital the night before. Didn't even have a hangover or anything, so I was like "sure, why wouldn't I?". "well xyz has called and said you were sent to the hospital last night."
What. The. Fuck.
So I had been drinking quite heavily in a bar with some coworkers and apparently just dropped to the ground the moment I left and went outside. They called an ambulance, went to the hospital with me, I puked on the floor and they called my mother to pick me up... And called at work to let them know I probably won't make it that day.
Obviously EVERYONE at work knew about what happened when I got there by 4pm. But I did get there at least. Oh the amount of shit I got the next few days...
Couple of weeks later I got a bill for the ambulance, had to pay about 450€ for a 10minute ride I can't even remember.
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On September 29 2013 23:38 brian wrote:
yeah, I did the same thing once and had no repercussions. I got hauled away in a cop car and not an ambulance though, so it also didnt cost me any money. You'll be fine.
I think the moral shouldn't be avoid enablers. They're a great time. The moral is know your limit.
The master has spoken!
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I did the same thing a couple of weeks ago. California (like michigan) has medical amnesty so you're fine from a legal standpoint.
Just gotta be a bit more careful. Luckily it sounds that theres no lasting damage (same here) so its not like you royally fucked up.
Sidenote, I actually told my parents and they were surprisingly understanding. They weren't thrilled or anything, but even though they are hardly liberal, they seemed largely fine with the idea that I was drinking (even drinking enough to be that drunk).
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My parents are Mormon, so they're not alright with me drinking even in moderation. My siblings are well into their thirties, and they still sneak into the yard to have a bit of champagne on New Years'. But it's worse for me because I'm financially dependent on them for college and such, so they feel like they have a bit more right to tell me what to do.
If the ambulance ride is under $500 I'll just try to pay it myself, but otherwise I'll probably have to come up with a decent reason I was taken away in an ambulance on a Friday night. We'll see what happens, though, no point in worrying too much about it.
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If you do get caught or need help from your parents to pay off your ambulance/hospital bills, I'd not recommend lying about it. There is too easy a paper trail to trace for it to be sensible to try and get out of it without a scolding.
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Update: So apparently I wasn't just sitting around drinking whiskey and playing GTA V until I blacked out. Apparently Ricky convinced me to leave with him and go to some dance thing on campus, and I was actually pretty much fine when I left. But then later in the night we were headed back and we were both pretty drunk, and Ricky was having to support my weight pretty much entirely. Then when we were almost back to the building we fell over right in front of a campus security officer, and HE called the ambulance. So one lesson, I guess, is just to stay in when I'm drunk, even when someone tries to convince me to do otherwise. I'm generally inclined to do that, anyway, so it should be easy enough. I dunno why I was going to a dance, I hate dances.
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When you get that drunk you're a lot more receptive to those kinds of suggestions. Also, in Michigan the one exception to medical amnesty is if you're on campus with campus security iirc. You should make sure you're ok legally
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On September 29 2013 07:59 ChristianS wrote:
I'm not totally certain what consequences I'll still have to face from this. I left the building in an ambulance, so I can't imagine there isn't some UCSD authority aware of my misdeeds; I probably at least got written up. If my parents found out I'd be in considerably more trouble, but luckily even though they're my emergency contacts, it looks like the hospital did not get in touch with them. Law enforcement might also have been informed, but as of yet I have no reason to believe that I'm in any legal trouble. All things considered, I think I could be called lucky to have gotten off with as little punishment as I did.
Emergency contacts are for legit emergencies, like life of death situations. Hardly sounds like you were that bad, just too drunk. It happens, hospitals hate it but drunks make up a lot of A&E admissions, at least in the UK. Unless you vandalized property or were involved in some kind of serious violent altercation I fail to see why the police or your university would care either.
In fact I'm pretty sure that its illegal (at least in the UK) for authorities to contact your parents without your permission, unless its a serious incident and you're not conscious or something along those lines so that's a fairly irrational fear to have, if they contact your next of kin you've got bigger things to worry about than their ire, and so do they.
Pretty much everyone has a story of themselves or someone they know well (ie not just some acquaintance) ending up in hospital, part and parcel of growing up. Also sounds like you're starting to realize personal responsibility, people aren't going to police every minor incident you're involved in, your parents do that so you don't grow up into an asshole who takes liberties and abuses peoples trust.
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You made me look up the correct form of drinking whiskey. Can't find anything.
By the way, off topic, how is UCSD as an University? Might go there for grad.
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On October 03 2013 14:09 Spec wrote:
You made me look up the correct form of drinking whiskey. Can't find anything.
By the way, off topic, how is UCSD as an University? Might go there for grad.
It's got an incredibly talented staff, at least for anything science-related. It doesn't always show for undergrad, because you don't really need a brilliant professor to teach you general ed, but occasionally I have the chance to hear about the work my professors are doing when they're not teaching undergraduates. Like one of my general chemistry professors, Dr. Kubiak, is apparently the world's leading authority on the subject of chemically reducing CO2 to remove it from the atmosphere. I found this out a couple years after taking his class – at the time he just seemed like a pretty good guy who was pretty passionate about chemistry and knew quite a bit about it.
In terms of campus life and all that, I don't really know. I guess that's all less important as a graduate anyway. The campus itself is really nice, and compared to the couple other college campuses I've visited the food is pretty good and pretty affordable. If you want to know about night life or anything like that, I'm not really someone who knows that kind of thing. Contrary to the subject matter of this blog (or perhaps right in line with it, considering how poorly I apparently handled myself), I'm not really the type to be out and about partying, so I'd have to direct you elsewhere to find out about that.
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Damn bro good to hear you were ok.
Ugh, last night I got so piss drunk, I was stumbling around occasionally falling over. Somehow I walked the wrong way home and when I felt really cold and said to myself time to go home, I looked up and realized I was somehow 15 minutes away from my house. Somehow I cut my shin and was puking in the toilet. Woke my parents up. I felt lucky to be alive. I hate alcohol sometimes.
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