Survey Says 21st-Birthday Binge Drinking Rampant

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happy birthday

god give long & sweet life

kamyabhi aapke kadam chume

http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Profile.aspx?uid=3968129743998283558kajal jain of AK 5:04AM April 05, 2009

happy birthday

god give long & sweet life

kamyabhi aapke kadam chume

http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Profile.aspx?uid=3968129743998283558kajal jain of AK 5:04AM April 05, 2009

happy birthday

god give long & sweet life

kamyabhi aapke kadam chume

http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Profile.aspx?uid=3968129743998283558kajal jain of AK 5:04AM April 05, 2009

happy birthday

god give long & sweet life

kamyabhi aapke kadam chume

http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Profile.aspx?uid=3968129743998283558kajal jain of AK 5:04AM April 05, 2009

I don't find the study hard to believe. When I was a young NavCad (Naval Aviation Cadet) Friday evening was (unofficially) compulsory Happy Hour at the Officers' Club. A practice bomb shell without the projectile was filled with beer and passed around the table.

Each in turn had to drink as much as he could in one draught without taking it down from his lips. Then the next and so on around the table to five other guys. If the last one didn't empty the shell, it was refilled and passed around again.

So the binge drinking stories from Big Mo neither shock me nor awaken any disbelief.

Carl Phillips of TX 12:55PM September 10, 2008

I don't find the study hard to believe. When I was a young NavCad (Naval Aviation Cadet) Friday evening was (unofficially) compulsory Happy Hour at the Officers' Club. A practice bomb shell without the projectile was filled with beer and passed around the table.

Each in turn had to drink as much as he could in one draught without taking it down from his lips. Then the next and so on around the table to five other guys. If the last one didn't empty the shell, it was refilled and passed around again.

So the binge drinking stories from Big Mo neither shock me nor awaken any disbelief.

Carl Phillips of 12:51PM September 10, 2008

Gee, I don't know- at Missouri there's a tradition of scrap-booking your drinks that night. Some people also post their "adventures" on Youtube & faceook. If the person had a written record of the name of the drink they had, a few notes from friends as to how wasted they were, and had it all tied up in a neat little scrap book would you believe it then?

I guess another reason I think I believe it is that the other numbers from the survey seem to match well with bar-observation studies and diary studies. Just a thought as to why this study isn't a "gee let's fill out a survey" type bit of research.

Phil of MO 3:48PM June 12, 2008

One could drink 21 drinks if they were strung out over a long period of time. Start drinking in the morning, pass out late at night.

Duke Duchaine of WV 11:49PM June 01, 2008

Once you've had say 10 drinks, especially if you are a lady, your counting skills become impaired while your lying skills are strongly empowered.

Elizabeth of NY 2:20PM May 23, 2008

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