Drink-o-meter

October 12, 2003 5:21 AM

Drink-o-meter: Have you ever wondered how much you've managed to drink in your lifetime? Or how much it might have cost you? You have? (via B3ta)
posted by Ljubljana (18 comments total)

you are rated: ozzy ozbourne

with those results you could:
-fill this many bath tubs: 165.77
-buy this many ferraris: 1.41
posted by poopy at 5:50 AM on October 12, 2003

it cost me a liver.
posted by billybobtoo at 6:06 AM on October 12, 2003

I am Homer Simpson? And I've consumed 9123.4 drinks in my lifetime? Yay me! (Or something.)

This reminds me of a song by the Silver Jews:
In 27 years
I've drunk fifty thousand beers
and they just wash against me like the sea into a pier...

Great link!
posted by soundofsuburbia at 6:15 AM on October 12, 2003

So...according to this test, it is impossible to go out drinking less than once a week? Okay....
posted by rushmc at 6:22 AM on October 12, 2003

It's possible to go out drinking less than once a week?

Ozzy! Ozzy! Ozzy! *passes out*
posted by squealy at 6:32 AM on October 12, 2003

it is impossible to go out drinking less than once a week?

Not at all, you can count the nights you stay in drinking.

10491 drinks
posted by backOfYourMind at 6:37 AM on October 12, 2003

I counted the nights I stayed in. Hips. I can almost buy a ferrari.
posted by ginz at 8:13 AM on October 12, 2003

Crap, I'm Mother Theresa. Doesn't it count for anything that I started drinking at 16 (in the US)?
posted by hilatron at 9:20 AM on October 12, 2003

It doesn't really work for me. I started drinking at 17 and drank about 3 nights a week all through college and for a couple of years after. I was more like Bluto Blutarski then. Now I hardly drink at all. It's been 6 months since I've had alcohol and almost a year since I went out to drink.
posted by nyxxxx at 10:06 AM on October 12, 2003

hilatron, I'm with you -- this drink-o-meter isn't too accurate since it doesn't allow for underage.

It also doesn't take into account holidays, weddings and funerals, and football season. So, I figure it's about 25% low for me, even at 7834 drinks. (yes, I've already put myself on the liver transplant list, thank you for asking.)
posted by pineapple at 11:38 AM on October 12, 2003

I'm Boris Yeltsin!! *hick*
posted by elwoodwiles at 1:41 PM on October 12, 2003

Like nyxxxx, my consumption has varied a fair bit over the years, so it's not really even vaguely accurate. It also doesn't take account of the healthy and sensible practice of drink-mixing. Oh well, for the record, I've had 10044.32 pints, and I'd also like to mention that last Friday I was home before midnight and didn't lose any wallets or mobile phones.
posted by nomis at 4:34 PM on October 12, 2003

Hahaha! Alcoholism!
posted by Hildago at 5:38 PM on October 12, 2003

What the hell would I do with 4 Ferraris?
posted by MiguelCardoso at 6:45 PM on October 12, 2003

In the same light-heartedheaded er, spirit, here's what your astrological sun sign says about your drinking habits. (Via Gawker)

And I forgot to say thanks, Ljubljana, for the amusing test!
posted by MiguelCardoso at 7:20 PM on October 12, 2003

What the hell would I do with .04 of a Ferrari?

I'm barely a Chelsea Clinton (which I consider being way superior to a Jenna Bush), and strangely, I share another trait with her, being mortifyingly ashamed of my parents...
posted by wendell at 10:43 PM on October 12, 2003

I could at least have been the Chelsea *Hotel*. Then Leonard Cohen could've written a song about me. But no...
posted by arto at 12:37 AM on October 13, 2003

What the hell would I do with .04 of a Ferrari?

Get Drunk and crash it in .96 of a tree.
posted by jonmc at 6:59 AM on October 13, 2003