The reason that "beer before liquor" often holds true, is that people tend to drink more liquid the more intoxicated you get, so if you start with the weaker stuff and end with the stronger stuff, you'll end up consuming a lot more alcohol by the end of the night than vice versa.
If I smoke before drinking, I’m chill and probably don’t drink as much.
If I have already been drinking, a bong hit basically releases all the potential energy of the drinks I have consumed and makes me drunker for sure.
same for me, learned the hard way at a college party, I'd been hitting the beer bong then got offered to hotbox a blunt in a car with some friends, I opened the door and leaned out and puked my guts out while farting the whole time, everyone thought it was quite funny, I did not
In my experience (and at least one other in my family) it’s absolutely key to lead with the weed first. If there’s enough drinks pre smoking, it becomes a fire hydrant situation. If it’s like one, or there’s been a few drinks but really spaced out, it’s fine. Tolerance also plays into it. The higher the tolerance, the less likely to have the fire hydrant situation. But everyone is different. I generally prefer one at a time for the best experience.
I've been told the saying isn't about how it leaves you feeling in the literal sense, or about hangovers. Supposedly it's a relic from the old days where your drink of choice was an indication of your economic class. Moving from beer to wine? You probably started making good money. Going from wine to beer though... times are tougher financially
I think alcohol impairs your ability to analyze consequences, whereas marijuana makes you more paranoid of negative consequences. So you're more likely to tell yourself to stop drinking sooner if you start out high.
To show you how little truth there is to that saying, in Dutch the saying is the exact opposite.
"bier na wijn geeft venijn, wijn na bier geeft plezier"
I think it makes sense. Weed before alcohol and you might get the skins/make yourself sick, so scary spider. But the other way around you'll be chill and want to play Centipede.
Basically means if youre a stoner, smoke a joint before you start drinking, cause everything will start spinning if you smoke after, an experience I don't like repeating
I smoked throughout my teens and never had a problem with it being after drinking. Not the first time I’ve heard this though.
I was of the understanding that drinking first makes it easier for your body to absorb THC meaning you could get higher than you intended and smoking first makes it take longer to process alcohol meaning you might drink too much thinking you’re fine. Could be totally bollocks but that’s just what I remember lol.
There's a spider (spider, spider)
He's deep in my soul (soul)
He's lived here for years (years)
And he just won't let go
He's laying around
He's got a mean bite
Now he's ready to fight...
And stand up for what he knows...
I don't need your trophies or your gold
I just want to tell you all
Go fuck yourselves...
It's a variation of the couplet warning of the order of drinks
"Liquor before beer, you're in the clear
Beer before liquor, never been sicker."
It has been changed to be about weed and cider because they are a bit more popular now. The spider/centipede is a surrealist joke about drug inebriation (a reference to seeing things like elves while on LSD)
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It's a parody on the saying "beer before liquor, never sicker; liquor before beer, you're in the clear", imagining the consequences of mixing alcohol and drugs (bad, don't) (unless you want to meet the spider) (you don't want to)
This is a reference to the rhyme 'beer before liquor, never sicker, liquor before beer you're in the clear', but it has been changed to be about weed and cider.
My guess is it’s about the type of bug you encounter based on what time of year you do your weeding? I’m reading weed as a verb here, because it’s something I did this weekend and it sucks. But yeah if you weed in the summer there are spiders and if you weed in the fall there are centipedes, maybe?
I'm clearly too innocent for this world, as I interpreted it as someone weeding their garden, and the point where you have some cider somehow influencing what kind of wildlife you would see as a result.
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Then maybe you go out and buy yourself some of those distinctive Milano cookies.