Been talking with someone tonight about how she can normally handle her drink, but came to Cyprus and drank a fair bit, no more than normal, but ended the night going from normal to completely wild to totally projectile vomiting continuously and hitting (& remaining for a long time) near unconscious on the deck like a dead weight. As if they’d drank twice as much in half the time, then smoking a spliff and having a total Green Out.

Reminded me of 5 years ago I was out with Soph in Menorca and the same thing happened, we were only drinking normally, to the point where I was convinced she was definitely spiked - ’she doesn’t go on like this, something’s obviously happened’ ’we’ve only been out 5 hours’ etc etc.

On that occasion we were with someone who ran security from time to time in bars and he said the thing is he sees brits do this all the time because if you buy bottles of beer etc in Menorca (Ibiza, Tenerife etc) you know what’s in them, but when you get served mixer ‘vodka and coke’ or ‘rum and coke’ and other spirits, and repeatedly have them they’re cheaper dodgy knock offs where they are altered in the way the main brands wouldn’t.

Has anyone else either had this experience, or heard a better explained version of what the actual problem is?

Fake bottles of spirits have always been a well-known thing in shit bars outside the UK, where these dodgy continentals and orientals aren’t properly regulated.

Massive per unit profit to be made by bars pouring bootleg alcohol.

zackster sometimes, I wish I was called Dave.

“Nasser”
“natter?”
“no Nasser”
"like the space station?'

Triggered.

  • erik replied to this.

      bosstrabs

      Good find.

      The first thing to be aware of is that are two major ways in which counterfeiters infiltrate the market. The first involves filling up empty bottles from genuine distributors with cheaper alternatives. The second involves making their own knock-off concoctions to put inside. Ethylene glycol, isopropyl alcohol, and methanol, are the chemicals most commonly substituted for “certified alcohol” ethanol, due to the similar inebriating effects, but unlike real alcohol, the debilitating side effects take hold abruptly and are much more severe.

      These can include nausea, headaches, dizziness, and in some rare cases, permanent blindness, kidney and heart failure, and even death. A good rule of thumb is that if you encounter symptoms that you would normally associate with being hungover before you’ve even left the bar then it’s more than likely that you’ve been ingesting fake booze.

      For this reason it’s good to know what to look for before sinking a potentially poisonous drink, a task easier said than done.

          Let’s also not forget that birds can’t handle their scoops. My missus has been convinced and her and her mates have all been spiked on a night out when in fact, it was drinking vast quantities of piss-poor Prosecco til 3am that made you fall over, get refused a cab, get in at five am and have the world’s worst headache. “We must’ve been spiked the same thing happened to everyone”. No. Everyone did the same thing - did anyone get abducted? No? Right, I’ll see you later love, I’m off out

            bosstrabs
            I Know few bar restaurant owners in Goa. They would only buy their alcohol from proper licenced wholesalers. They do get offered loads is cheap alcohol from people in vans just turning up. They always say no as if they did and they ended poisoning there customers they’d lose license and business. No doubt it definitely goes on in some backstreet bars.

              Along_the_Wire True about Prosecco and its not just the girls - I was having a lovely night until the group switched to prosecco and then the whole thing went to shit. All of us. More than one occasion.

              Since you’ve brought it up I’ve realised Prosecco is actually the fucking devil unless you’re just starting with it / having a cheers.

                  NasserAlazzawi The most destructive night I’ve had is on the Absolute Chambulls pitchers at Revs

                  Vodka, Red Bull and Prosecco

                  What could go wrong? Rocket fuel 😆😆

                      Along_the_Wire lol. ‘i think I was raped’. Nope, I just slyly thumbed it in while you were passed out…..

                      Actually, I think that might be rape. Googling it now.

                        Along_the_Wire I mean adding it in at the end after a night having a decent night. It changes shit really quickly!

                        And I was with my lass and other couples so back off mofo.