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Originally posted by Lews Hangovers are caused by too much drinking, Eddie And the perfect cure is to drink one cup of water (before you go to sleep) for every drink you've had. In the morning, take two ibuprofen, a B12 pill, wash those down with a morning cocktail, and you'll be perfect

I've always found that a couple of painkillers (aspirin, tylenol, ibuprofen... whatever's available) and a cup of coffee works wonders after the nights where I forget the water. But I've always been boring like that

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Captain Planet is gey.
Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Heart???
These forces are supposed to combine to create Captain Planet?
Bullshit.
Those forces combine to create a soaking, boiling mudstorm on Valentine's Day.

it would be better to not take tylenol (acetaminophen) after a night of drinking.
acetaminophen is hard on the liver, and so is alcohol, but worse is the fact that alcohol inhibits the enzyme that the liver uses to metabolize the acetaminophen and excrete it from the body.

COR version- acetaminophen gives your liver a double-whammie when drinking.

ibuprofen with some food (even toast), is much better.
gatorade, powerade, or V8 juice and a multivitamin later works wonders.

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Originally posted by VAR it would be better to not take tylenol (acetaminophen) after a night of drinking. acetaminophen is hard on the liver, and so is alcohol, but worse is the fact that alcohol inhibits the enzyme that the liver uses to metabolize the acetaminophen and excrete it from the body. COR version- acetaminophen gives your liver a double-whammie when drinking. ibuprofen with some food (even toast), is much better. gatorade, powerade, or V8 juice and a multivitamin later works wonders.

That's actually a very good point that I knew, but hadn't consciously thought of in combination with the load on the liver combined with alcohol. I won't be doing that again.

I don't actually take acetaminophen all that often. Ibuprofen is my preferred painkiller. But I use painkillers so infrequently that if I run out, I don't buy a new bottle right away. So sometimes I don't have the Advil kickin around, and Tylenol is the only other thing I have in the house.

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Captain Planet is gey.
Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Heart???
These forces are supposed to combine to create Captain Planet?
Bullshit.
Those forces combine to create a soaking, boiling mudstorm on Valentine's Day.

Some are funny drunks, others aren't.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J 2. "This variation cannot be attributed to different levels of consumption - most integrated drinking cultures have significantly higher per-capita alcohol consumption than the ambivalent drinking cultures." I'd say that drinking is more spread across the average person's day in these cultures. The article compares alcohol to coffee in these countries - who ever drinks 12 cups of coffee in one go?

Not only that, but there are likely very many more non-drinkers in "ambivalent drinking cultures," which means that those who actually do drink may consume substantially more while still keeping the "per-capita" consumption at a lower level. The idea that per-capita consumption is somehow the proper measure suggests a frighteningly shallow understanding of the topic.

It's a shame, because I think there's probably a significant amount of truth to what the author is arguing, but lazy reasoning like that really torpedoes the article's credibility.