drinking meme
Because john_h_holliday posted it:
1. What's the most embarrassing thing you've done while drunk?
# Burying your head in your hands and falling asleep
# Puking all over the bar
# Passing out - and refusing to get up for hours
# Getting a little too frisky while dancing
# Talking shit about someone you were friends with
# Hitting on your friend's sweetheart
# Waking up next to someone you didn't recognize
Answer: Talking shit about someone you were friends with.
Burying her head in her hands and falling asleep would be a harmless thing, not embarrassing at all. What's embarrassing is to know what she's said to Charles about Francis in moments when drink let her speak just a little too freely. Making fun of his pince-nez, his mannerisms, the way he pretends he isn't what he is. Poor François, he doesn't deserve such talk, even if everything she has said is true. She loves him dearly, and besides, he has enough to contend with.
2. Pick the taste that most appeals to you:
# Complex
# Strong
# Exotic
# Comforting
# Slightly sweet
# Sweet
# Sharp
Answer: Sharp.
Sharp and dry, even astringent. Other tastes appeal to her too; sweet drinks, or comforting drinks, have their time; but what most appeals is sharpness. (Vade retro, comments on liking one's drinks the way one likes one's men.)
3. What best describes your partying style?
# Wild
# Scattered
# Hardcore
# Selective
# Fun
# Solitary
# Laid back
Answer: Selective.
That goes without saying, though, doesn't it?
4. What's your favorite drinking snack?
# Nachos
# Magic mushrooms
# Olives
# Candy
# Peanuts
# Shrimp cocktail
# Chips and salsa
Answer: Olives.
Kalamata olives, brine-soaked, whetting thirst. Or something more ordinary, out of a jar in someone's refrigerator, whatever. As long as they're not those awful little green olives with the red pimento in the middle. She doesn't care for pimento.
5. Have you ever had "beer goggles"?
# Sure! *giggles*
# Every time you drink
# Yup, but you were too drunk to do anything about it.
# Nah, you take what you can get - drunk or not
# Sometimes, who doesn't?
# A little, but you usually don't get that drunk.
# Unfortunately. How embarrassing.
Answer: Unfortunately. How embarrassing.
How else to account for that time with Francis on the bridge outside the Chinese restaurant in Bennington? Just harmless kisses, really, and extraordinarily unlikely to go farther than that even if Charles hadn't rushed in and spoiled the scene. What was really extraordinary is that it happened at all, given Francis's predilections, and given Camilla's obligations. 'Beer goggles' is really a misnomer, though. Mai tai goggles, perhaps.
Your favorite drinking pastime is:
# Quarters
# Grinding on the dance floor
# Gossiping
# Drowning your sorrows
# Teling jokes
# Body shots
# Laying back and watching the room spin
Answer: Gossiping.
Listening to other people gossip, more accurately, and the gossip might not have anything to do with anyone they know, or even anyone who has been alive within the last thousand years. Or it might be gossip about Julian, his storied past, his flittering gilt-edged years living in Europe on a trust fund: which poets he knew, and which critics, and whether their writing was any good.
And finally, which of the following cocktails do you like the best?
# Absinthe Frappe
# Pina colada
# Whiskey Sour
# Rum and coke
# Vodka martini
# Margarita
# Red eye (beer and tomato juice)
Answer: Vodka martini.
Drink them by the pitcher. Or the thermosful, as the case may be, if it's a picnic.
Quiz result:
You Are A Martini
You are the kind of drinker who appreciates a nice hard drink.
And for you, only quality alcohol. You don't waste your time on the cheap stuff.
Obviously, you're usually found with a martini in your hand. But sometimes you mix it up with a gin and tonic.
And you'd never, ever consider one of those flavored martinis. They're hardly a drink!
What Alcoholic Drink Are You?
Well, that could have been more entertaining. To be deemed the drink she's just marked down as her favorite -- what was the point of the other questions, then?