ralfy review 865 Extras - What to do when you get drunk !
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"One of the greatest skills of getting drunk successfully is to remain sober"
- Ralfy Mitchell
Ralfy is a genius!
I'm on the wagon Ralphie, I love whiskey and it went from being my best friend to my worst enemy. I didn't recognize the transition. I still live your enthusiasm!
. . . Look after yourself, stay sober.
"One of the great skills of being a successful whisky drinker..." - Ralfy, 2021. One of the best lines...ever!
Watching your reviews from the very beginning, Ralfy, you never failed to be broadly informative, entertaining, philosophical at times, always been giving us, whisk(e)y-&-quality-spirits-drinkers, useful tips and good piece of advice. Big thank you for that, Ralfy!👍 You're a good man.
lovely advice and wisdom! i can add a few tips i've learned over time as well.
1: sometimes throwing up (particularly if you've had way way to much, or combo'ed alcohol with unsettling food) is a good idea. don't try to fight it all night and lose the battle when you try and lay down for bed. just throw up before you sleep. it gets ride of that food and any extra alcohol left in the stomach.
(and i fully agree with ralfy about keeping a bucket or trash can or large bowl with you incase you throw up in the middle of the night).
2: when you start drinking water don't drink it icy cold. for a start its harder on your stomach when its cold so its harder to get down, secondly the body absorbs water better at room temperature then when its very cold.
3: if you know you will be drinking a lot make sure you clear away anything before hand that you might possibly trip over when you become heavily inebriated! tripping over things on your floor is NEVER fun. but its even less fun when you are very drunk and can't easily stand back up.
4: finally, if you live alone make sure you can easily reach your phone incase you need to call for medical help. people die from alcohol overdose all the time sadly. and also its possible to have other medical emergencies when under the extra stress of booze. and when you are not fully in control and in need of help as fast as possible having a phone to hand instead of lost might just save your life.
Well said. Simple and straightforward...because we all need reminding now and then.
That's real life.
Marian 🇨🇦
Another great video ralfy.
Love the hard truth and wisdom from your channel.
A subject everyone should be aware of.
Excellent topic of discussion. This is why I keep coming back week after week.
Here's another one: "The best way to recognize a friend, is someone who will tell you who you need to hear and not who you want to know."
Whisky takes skill to enjoy properly. Thank you for making this video! 🥃
Important topic, especially when people start drinking to escape their problems, start drinking to feel normal, or drink because of mental illness. Many people do dry weeks / months to prove to themselves they are not addicted to alcohol. Very important if you feel you can't control the habit. Keep it quality. Cheers Ralfy.
I've had to get honest with myself and put a hard limit of two drinks when I do drink. I've been making sure I'm being the most honest person I can to friends and family but I've also needed to be honest with myself. Which I wasn't. C'est le Vie.
@@robinsharkey6658 good on ya man
I love this video! Never heard more sense spoken.
@@johnshaw8013 whether you feel drunk or not, the effects of consistent binge-drinking will destroy your liver quicker than you think. Livers are important and don't come in pairs.
Truely friendly insights and advice. All the best to you Ralfy
Great video Ralfy. We all need to hear this at some point in our life!
“Beware, be warned, be forearmed” - words to live by. Just discovered you and took your advice and bought a bottle of Arran 10 yr old-loving it.Brilliant, Thank you!
My brother was an alcoholic. Over the course of his life it consumed him. Even after he lost everything and his health deteriorated there was nothing that would stop him from destroying himself. He died in November at the ripe old age of 54, a shell of his former self. I grieve his loss but truth be told we lost him many years ago. I enjoy a dram of whisky but never more than 2 and never more than 3 nights out of any given week. I follow this rule rigidly because I know how easily one can get lost in it.
I feel your pain and understand.
Great video. This is one many of us need.
Happy to see your still willing to touch on the hard unpopular but necessary topics. I have strict whiskey rules I set for myself, it is amazing how often people try to make me break those rules for their amusement. Great truthful video.
These are very important topics and I'm happy that you are covering them! Thank you, Ralfy.
Yes Ralfy this is advanced stuff you are talking about here. How to avoid making yourself sick/vulnerable through drinking one too many. True words. I'm 100% with you on that bro. Especially not finishing that last drink if it's too much already.
This video is so spot on. I'd also add a warning regarding hot climate, drink you can handle in winter can be a killer in the hot summer sun.
What to do when you get drunk...
1. text your ex about how you really feel
2. challenge the meanest s.o.b. in the bar to a fight
3. run for prime minister
Words of wisdom and experience. This should be shown in schools!
YES! Thanks ralfy for the fine advice.
A dram or two is great but over indulgence can kill you!
All good advice! And it was with a lot of luck and a bit of my own caution that I got through never acutally needing any of it. So, this video was pure entertainment for me - and it was nice ;)
Seriously: It is possible to now this and live accordingly without having to experience stuff … The only times I really was out were the two occasions (over 20 years ago) when alcohol was not the only drug I had taken. Learned from it. Always stayed “sober” after that.
Thank you for this video Raffy...
Well Said Ralfy ! Thank you for sharing! It’s good for us all to hear from a Professional like yourself about respecting alcohol!
Great points. And all have validity. We have mostly all been there. Best analogy ever.
I watched this clicked thumbs up and left ! But I feel This is a very important message That Ralfy has taken his time to talk about . The Message is clear for all of us ,so thank you Ralfy . Important for your Channel too a balance of Advice about control .
For a short time after my father committed suicide I let myself go with the whisky, purposefully getting smashed to drown it all out. Somehow I made it through the other side. I think you get to a point where you say ‘that’s enough’ or you don’t. I can tell you from personal experience that you can pull yourself out. Don’t give up on yourself. Listen to that little voice inside which is telling you “no more.”
. . . we all need to listen to the little voice inside.
@@ralfydotcom ...as long as that little voice inside tells us to do good things.
@@ralfydotcom Or you end up listening to the Dr's voice when they tell you you've got type 2 diabetes and alcoholic fatty liver.
I'm all to familiar with that path. my brother died and I was downing bottles as quick as I could buy them. it was a bad place. glad you got through it
@@ralfydotcom perhaps not such good advice. I'd have off'd myself years ago if I listened to my inner voice.
Wise word indeed! Thanks Ralfy!
Great video! Important message
I'm not an alcoholic, but I definitely have the potential to be one. There have been parts of my life when I have drunk far too much. If you find yourself spending most of your leisure time in the company of heavy drinkers your life is going wrong. The problem is we tend to see alcoholism as a cliff edge you can fall off and if you haven't fallen off the cliff you are not an alcoholic, but it's not like that. It's more like a gentle grassy slope on a summer's day. The top of the slope is quite a pleasant place to be and we visit it more often because we like it there and sometimes we wonder a bit further down the slope in our alcohol consumption, but what we may not recognise until too late is the slope gets steeper and steeper, until it does become a cliff edge and people are hanging on by their fingernails and struggling to climb back up, but some of them never make it and fall to their deaths. It may just be my nature, but I know I have it in me to wonder further down that slope than is good for me. It requires a small act of will for me to not do that. I will buy a bottle of malt every couple of weeks and enjoy that over 3 or 4 evenings, but there's always a bit of me that says you enjoyed that where's the harm in buying another one and enjoying that too. I have to exercise some self-discipline not to do that, because I know it would become an every night habit for me and then the amount I drink every night would increase and I would end up much further down the slope than I intended. I think we all have to recognise that alcohol has an addictive quality to it and if you are not careful you can become psychologically and then physically addicted to it. Almost all the pleasures of life come with attendant risks. The problem with alcohol is those risks aren't always immediately apparent. Whether it is over consumption on a single evening, or over consumption on a regular daily basis it's very easy to get a long way down the slope before realising you are in trouble. You need to do your best to keep in mind that it is an ever increasingly steep slope and where you are on that slope. These are just my experiences and opinions, for what they are worth, and others may see the world differently.
Great advice, Ralfy
Outstanding information! This is exactly what many younger and older need to be aware of. Enjoy yourself, but stay yourself and do not become the drink. Would love to hear which drinking cocoa you like. Most around here is overly sweet.
I've only been blackout drunk once in my life, no memory of most of the night or how I got home, at a party of people I didn't know, six towns away from my house. Only a good while afterwards did I realize how dangerous a situation I'd put myself in, I was lucky enough to have two good friends who made sure I got home.
You’re clearly very intelligent. Took me several such experiences to learn the same lesson!
@@honkytonkinson9787 Tbh it was the hangover that put me off doing it again
@@DualFrodo yeah, I needed a few of those before I learned my lesson.
I once blacked out and woke up in a different city, missing my shoes & shirt, covered in dirt, bleeding from the forehead and nose, and missing my wallet. I'd also damaged my right knee and couldn't put much weight on it. Still had my phone, but it was completely dead and smashed.
I distinctly remember how terrified and vulnerable I felt. At the time, not thinking straight, I resigned to the fact I wasn't going to be able to afford to get home or even eat. I was just stuck there. I sat on the floor and sobbed, 20 years old and a complete mess. Embarrassing to say the least.
Some kind guy found me and escorted me to the train station where somehow I managed to sneak shirtless on to a train without a ticket and got off at my hometown where I just about hobbled home. Took me a good few days to recover from most of it, and months before my knee fully healed. Had the lovely surprise of finding out I'd also spent all my savings and inheritance on champagne that night too. I don't even enjoy champagne...
Safe to say that was my turning point!
Very informative thank you. Looking forward to the video on alcoholism. Always better to be informed and safe 👍🏻
Great video sir.
Great advice
“Have a bucket handy.” Sage advice!
Great advice
I understand 👍
My favorite Ralfy vid
Hello all you Malty Mash Tun Monitors ! Really enjoyed seeing you on Rob and Jeremy's Whisky Rant show. Cheers
Me too!
One thing I touched upon today was that I took a good whiff of the whisky glass after having tried the classic laddie from bruichladdich and the glass had a aroma of honey and mollasas with a very prominent dried oak aroma. This was not as present when TASTING the whisky but after allowing the glass to air out after finishing the glass to revealed a character to the whisky that would have otherwise gone unnoticed.
The gold old bucket is definitely the way to go!
I’m finding as I get further into my whisky journey I’m actually drinking less. You can’t enjoy serious whisky pished. I particularly enjoy having a dram with my old Dad, who is 80 and not in the best of health. One dram with him and a chin wag is really quality time.
The bars is closed right now here in Denmark so we dont risk geting to drunk there 😉.
Personaly I have kept record of my alcohol intake for severel years now. My trick is to keep count during every day and before bedtime write the sum of the units down in the top of my calender. This way the intake does not creep up without im avare. My rule is keep the weekly intake belov 20 units of alcohol and never never drink more than 10 in one single day. This simple method has keept me ahead of "mistakes and denial" for years now 😊.
Cheers my friend
Excellent news from deanston ty
Thank you Ralfy
I'm fortunate enough to have friends who tend to look out for each other if any of us has had a few to many.
A lesson i learned many years ago
"In vīnō vēritās, in aquā sānitās"
Translation: "In wine there is truth, in water there is good health"
Wise words
That thumbnail and title is hilarious.
You are a good man sir.
Thanks, Ralfy
I really wish I had a chance to be drunk outside of my room right now. I miss those late night Kebabs with friends.
A wee dram for you Mate!!
The question on everyone's mind Ralfy - do you wear the flat cap at the gym?
It's a bunnet
. . . no.
Your question has just made me realise I have no idea what Ralfy looks like sans hat.
@@lordprefab5534 "bonnet"
@@olafpeu3221 come fill up your cup, come fill up your can... That kind of "bonnet"?
Why does it take so long for so many of us to learn that too much is not fun!?
Great message Ralfy but most of us had to, or will have to, learn the hard way. Fools despise wisdom and the wise let us know that they love us by sharing wisdom anyway
Drinking water before bed indeed works. When I was in college 30 years ago, the rule of thumb that helped me avoid many a bad hangover headache the next day was to drink 8oz of water before bed plus take 2 aspirin, acetaminophen or etc. You might still be foggy-brained the following day but you didn't have a throbbing headache at least.
How does one submit a malt mention?
A drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts.
This has major "I'm 14 and this is deep" vibes to it... Might seem profound at first as it's worded like a philosophical proverb of some sort, but actually think about it for longer than 12 seconds and you realise there's hardly any truth to the statement whatsoever.
Needed this advice on Monday Ralfy before I got pashed
I hate to get drunk... I love Whisky... that is sometimes, not often a problem :-)
We’ve all been there a time or two. Learn from your experiences and be mindful of your surroundings. I’ve learnt the hard way and it’s not the best way for certain.
I am fortunate that I have a high tolerance but I have freinds who don't know when to stop and create negative interactions. I often make the excuse that I have drunk too much and need to go home. Often this also encourages them to go home which can stop a good night turning into a nightmare.
That deanston was good huh.
Would truly enjoy to sit and chat with you. Not even with a dram. Tea is fine. Cheers from Canada
Love thanks a lot
"Drink its a good servant butits a bad master" Believe the statement on the cans/bottles etc Be drink aware!
Thank you Ralfy for this video and talking about the forbidden the booze people just want you to drink your life away, and yes it has happened to me get drunk and find next morning my cash is gone and one time I had over three hundred pound so no way I drank it
Dammit Ralphy, I was hoping you were going say pop 5-10 activated charcoal pills and party on! 😂
I would add this advice, never drink alcohol in a bad mood. I find that alcohol intensifies whatever mood you are in. If you are in a happy mood it can be great, but if you are mad or sad, leave the drink alone for the night.
Try this Ralfy of an evening. Have very little carbs at dinner then at say 8.30pm have 3 egg yokes boiled or fried then have 2 to 3 drams and see how you feel. Then another night having the same meal then have 3 slices of toast with jam then have the same 2 to 3 drams. I have noticed that I feel the drink far more while having carbs. Apparently sugar and bread cause more liver damage than spirits.
I had the opposite when I was on a keto diet, I read that it's because when your liver doesn't have any carbs to deal with it absorbs alcohol twice as fast, also carbs make you retain water and sodium so you could get dehydrated more easily when drinking on low carb. Not being contradictory, everybody is different. It's true about carbs and liver damage though, I think I read somewhere that non alcoholic fatty liver disease kills more people than smoking.
@@jamesbrown8503 ah very interesting. I perceived a difference in drinking my old usual JD n coke Vs straight whisky and the hangover was much worse with coke. There is the blood group thing as well on keto.
@@Paul7mac do you mean your usual diet is low carb and you feel worse if you have extra carbs on a drinking day? That could be carb and alcohol hangover combined. Haven't read much about the blood type thing. I found on low carb I could only have 1-2 drinks then I'd have to sleep.
@@jamesbrown8503 Yep but also before keto
Pure gold
Greetings Ralf, I watch your brothers channel a lot but I also like whiskey. Question, what is with Glenlivet 12? did they scrap it? I don't drink much lately but I do have a small collection and quite enjoy Glenlivet 12.
I think I got the right bottle of deanstone 12. £35.80 on certain online?
i love a drink or two but i hate being drunk and most of all I hate hangovers. mine last for 2-3 days and feel horrible.
When I get thirsty after a drink or maybe two, I get a syrup and water and be done with drinking.
Why not just water?
good advise people need to hear. the truth hurts some times but a real friend will tell you the truth so you avoid the really painful things that will happen if you continue to live a lie
I hate the feeling of being drunk. That's why I never have more than two or three drams per evening, and those evenings are few and far between. Being 6'4 and 300+ lbs, that amount of whisky doesn't really affect me.
Ralfy always speaks the truth. This time it is the ugly truth of what does happen when you imbibe too much. The truth must get out. Thanks Ralfy. Unfortunately knowing and doing are two separate things.
I thought the answer would be 'Have fun'.
Good advices from master drinker, kkk, not for kids, have a dram but remains safe. Greatest from Brazil.
Probably worst for you Ralfy, I’m sure everyone wants to have a round or a dram with you. I agree with the video, it takes some experience to know your own personal limit. Some bumps in the road to get there but that’s life I suppose.
Excuse me, I didn't see all your videos, but how can I find your top 5 or 10 whisky? Probably some video has this information..
Sorry for my English!)
. . . ralfywhisky.webnode.be/ralfy/whisky/. all the marks list at my fan-site.
For extra malt moments
I drink like once a month if that. And when I do it's like one dram.
Hope you don’t mind asking but how is Big Clive, sorry for asking don’t follow the social media, but hope he is well during these times.
Watch some of the older Ralfy videos featuring Clive. Very entertaining
humiliation.. been there, done that, got the T-shirt
We’ll get you home tonight, cause we are young
Thank you for telling me what I don't want to hear.
I recently bought a set of nice Culver glasses made in the 1960s to help me enjoy my scotch. I don't like being drunk on scotch. I don't enjoy the drink, I don't savor the experience.
Great topic for a whiskey channel. However, some of the social pitfalls mentioned are strangely specific.
Tomatoes. That’s right. Tomatoes help to lessen the effects of heavy alcohol consumption on your organs. So eat some cherry tomatoes instead of those peanuts and popcorn at the pub.
Tomato juice is great for the hangover on the next day.
Especially with Tabasco and vodka!
Hey Ralfy, love your vids! Do you think you'll ever do another AMA on reddit?
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It took me several whisky festival to learn that there's actually no added value to swallowing the whisky when you're trying to rate it. Now I'm spitting most of them out and it's still a balance act when you're tasting 40-50 of them in few hours.