Hello Rob!

** On Monday 08.12.25 - 08:25, Rob Mccart wrote to SEAN DENNIS:

I'd not know. I don't like beer. I much prefer the harder stuff.

There is some variation but usually US Beer runs about 5% alcohol
and Canadian beer is more like 7%..

It's not just the alcohol content. Generally, USA beer seems
watery. Although, I recently revisited some Molson Canadian,
and that seemed watery to me too.

I had some beer and some (more) hard stuff when I was young and
foolish but I quickly decided I either had to give up drinking or
give up fast cars and motorcycles or I was going to die young...

Was that *after* the motorcycle accident? :D

I actually quit drinking before I was old enough to do it legally. B)

That's pretty funny.

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Hey August!

There is some variation but usually US Beer runs about 5% alcohol
and Canadian beer is more like 7%..

It's not just the alcohol content. Generally, USA beer seems

>watery. Although, I recently revisited some Molson Canadian,
>and that seemed watery to me too.

I'm not a good source for info on that. The first 2 times I drank
probably before I turned 17, the first time I drank 8 beer but
didn't like the hangover much.. and the second time I had 14 draft
beer, which tasted weaker and were smaller glasses than a bottle
holds.. and again I wasn't too impressed later..
That time I went home at 1 AM and had to work early the next
morning. I was still drunk when I got there and spent the day
transitioning from drunk to hangover without sleeping between..

After that I drank rye or vodka. I learned early on that the
mixer (coke) bothered me more than the alcohol, so I started
drinking it straight.

I quickly decided I either had to give up drinking or give
up fast cars and motorcycles or I was going to die young...

Was that *after* the motorcycle accident? :D

I remember one time I went to a party and drank about 22 oz of
vodka over a 2 hour period and then drove my motorcycle 16 miles
home. On the way there was a cut off from one highway to another
that was maybe safe to take at 60 mph (speed limit 50) and I
took it at 85 mph. I wasn't totally out of it, knew I was going
too fast, so I took it near the shoulder of the oncoming lane
so I'd have lots of room to 'recover'. I slid all the way across
the two lanes of pavement, getting back under control just inches
before I would have hit the gravel shoulder on my side of the road
(and a deep ditch)..

And the really scary part was, remembering it the next day, it
was just FUN!.. It didn't scare me at all while I was doing it..

That was actually after my worst motorcycle accident, although
I was sober when that one happened. Someone cut off a car in
front of me and I was following a bit too close and wound up
wedged under their back bumper with most of the palm of my right
hand missing and a shattered kneecap....

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Hello Rob!

** On Wednesday 10.12.25 - 08:15, you wrote..

I'm not a good source for info on that. The first 2 times
I drank probably before I turned 17, the first time I
drank 8 beer but didn't like the hangover much.. and the
second time I had 14 draft beer, which tasted weaker and
were smaller glasses than a bottle holds.. and again I
wasn't too impressed later..

Well.. the beer is not to blame, but the qty intake. Yes.. it's
easy to have too much which leads to undesirable hangovers and
sickness. I had an episode like that too: I won a 40oz bottle
of Baccardi rum at university, and that means "floor party!" at
residence. The girls mixed and served the drinks. I ended up
having way too much that night - and threw up at some point -
first time ever. It was very embarassing. I couldn't walk
without help.

[...]

That was actually after my worst motorcycle accident,
although I was sober when that one happened. Someone cut
off a car in front of me and I was following a bit too
close and wound up wedged under their back bumper with
most of the palm of my right hand missing and a shattered
kneecap....

That's quite a tale. I suppose you have the missing part of
yoru palm as a constant reminder?

I may only drink in social settings now. I would nurse a beer
as long as possible. 3 is my max before I begin to get light-
headed. That's the signal to stop, and not amplify that
floating feeling.
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I'm not a good source for info on that. The first 2 times
I drank probably before I turned 17, the first time I
drank 8 beer but didn't like the hangover much..

Well.. the beer is not to blame, but the qty intake. Yes.. it's

>easy to have too much which leads to undesirable hangovers and
>sickness.

Beer didn't like me, and when I turned to hard stuff I eventually
figured out it was the mixer (sugar content?) that gave me a
hangover. Once I started drinking it straight I didn't have near
the problems the next morning. For some reason I've always had
a very high tolerance for alcohol intake. Considering I could
count the times I got drunk in my life on my fingers, with a few
fingers left over, it just always took a lot to really get drunk.
Plus I've always been 'light' so it wasn't body mass soaking it up.
At my heaviest I weighed about 70 kg (155 lbs). Less these days.

I had an episode like that too: I won a 40oz bottle

>of Baccardi rum at university, and that means "floor party!" at
>residence. The girls mixed and served the drinks. I ended up
>having way too much that night - and threw up at some point -
>first time ever. It was very embarassing. I couldn't walk
>without help.

Ha.. I remember one night driving home about 28km (16 miles)
and actually driving under the speed limit because I knew I
was way too drunk to be driving, but it was late at night with
almost no traffic in an area with few police.
I was still living in may parents home at the time and ended
up crawling down the hall to my bedroom so I wouldn't wake
them up bouncing off the walls..

It reminds me of an old joke where a cop stops a drunk driver
and asks why he was driving in that condition, and he replies,
'Well, I couldn't walk!".. B)

and wound up wedged under their back bumper with most of
the palm of my right hand missing and a shattered kneecap....

That's quite a tale. I suppose you have the missing part of

>your palm as a constant reminder?

Actually, the damage was so extensive that the whole area grew
back without a scar. It was wide and painful, but not super deep.
But it got pretty infected shortly after and I ended up going to
a doctor 3 or 4 days later who couldn't believe I hadn't gone to
the hospital when it happened. At that point, I had the fun of
having it debrided and he gave me a 50/50 chance of keeping my hand.

I may only drink in social settings now. I would nurse a beer

>as long as possible. 3 is my max before I begin to get light-
>headed. That's the signal to stop, and not amplify that
>floating feeling.

But that light headedness is the whole point of drinking... B)

No, as I said I gave up drinking before I was even old enough
to drink legally and I don't drink socially at all. Every now
and then you get forced to have a toast at a wedding or something
but I think I've only gotten good and drunk once since I was 17.

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