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Bset drink for "Dutch Courage"??

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In 2 weeks I am going to a conference where I will have to give quite a few speeches (don't know how many yet), and the audience will all be poeple my age - so around 18-20. I feel like I have been thrown in at the deep end, I mean the last time I spoke in front of an audience was my English GCSE Oral! lol

My whole life I have been scared stiff at the prospect of speaking in front of an audience, so obviously I have avoided it all costs. But speaking in front of an audience is something that everyone has to do at one time or another, and as I have no previous experience of doing it its even worse.

So I was wondering which alcoholic tipple was the best for just that extra confidence boost before something big like this. Obviously just a tipple of course, don't want to be making a fool of myself drunk on the podium lol

EDIT: I heard whisky was good, but initially I was leaning towards vodka.

EDIT 2: I realised I misspelt best* on the thread title dammit, I WAS NOT drunk while writing this btw lol

Reply 1

thegreatstupendo

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I wouldn't have thought it would make much difference really. They all have the same alcohol in them anyway, just more or less of it.

Reply 2

Mellanie

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thegreatstupendo

I wouldn't have thought it would make much difference really. They all have the same alcohol in them anyway, just more or less of it.

The higher the alcohol content the better then? Which liquor has the highest content of alcohol?

Reply 3

thegreatstupendo

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We've got this Austrian brandy stuff at home which is 80% proof, I doubt you'll fine much stronger than that. I've never seen it for sale in England; in fact, I can't remember ever seeing anything more than about 45%. Why not just drink the drink that you like best?

Reply 4

supertramp

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It's probably illegal around here, like absynthe. Absynthe burns...

Reply 5

Mellanie

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thegreatstupendo

We've got this Austrian brandy stuff at home which is 80% proof, I doubt you'll fine much stronger than that. I've never seen it for sale in England; in fact, I can't remember ever seeing anything more than about 45%. Why not just drink the drink that you like best?

The only alcoholic drink I actually enjoy drinking is wine. Other than that, the rest just taste like total sh*t. Thing is, if anyone at the conference actually catch a bottle of wine in my bag it would look kind adodgy, like if I was an alky or something. I dunno I keep on getting that impression, whereas with something like a bottle of vodka it's much more less alky looking?

Anyway, so I'm looking for the drink with the highest alcohol content in it! I think its eithger brandy or whisky........ :smile:

Reply 6

supertramp

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Different brands have different strengths. I've got some Smirnoff vodka which is 50%. I am sad, though, because it is nearly all gone. I shall miss it so.

Reply 7

Clarence

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Just down some JD. Does the trick for me.

Edit: Or sambuca.

Reply 8

burningwings

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I think itd look alky like with any bottle of alcohol in your bag! Lol!!
Choose something thatll make your breath smell less.. And if spirits, invest in a hip flask :biggrin:

Jim Beam

Reply 9

loggins

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Pure alcohol - injected directly into the bloodstream

Reply 10

ATESalisbury

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Clarence

Just down some JD. Does the trick for me.

Edit: Or sambuca.

Ahhhh yehhhh, already on my second bottle of JD already for the day :wink:

lol ermmm - in other words, i highly recommend this drink, and I feel that it is the greatest "tipple" known to man in the last era and at the present stage in this era! :p:

Reply 11

Mog

Its pretty irrellevant which type of booze you choose to drink, if your not used to spirits the level of content isnt really important, you could drink something pretty weak and convince yourself that it did the trick, anything really heavy and your not used to it would probably inhibit your ability to speak anyway lol, not exactly useful for public speaking.

Go to your local pub and ask which 50 mil booze they do seeing as that would be the weaker stuff, (less than 40%) 35 mili being the stronger (more than 40%), would be pretty descriptive of what sort of inebriation you could expect.

P.S don't go for whisky if you dont drink spirits, i'd go with Vodka personally, altho whisky before a public speach could have amusing results.

Reply 12

Mad Vlad

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Turpentine.

Reply 13

thegreatstupendo

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Not strictly relevant, but it has been proven that the lighter the colour of the spirit you drink (assuming it doesn't contain lots of artificial colours) the better the hangover will be.

Reply 14

foxo

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I recommend drinking copious amounts of rum. I was so confident I managed to get myself barred from my favourite pub last Friday after shouting out at a middle aged woman and her husband, telling them that they were a pair of "*facking cants".

*replace with "a" [in]appropriate letter

Reply 15

34253

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I find champagne quite relaxing and at a conference you probably wouldnt look out of place with it?

Reply 16

nikk

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Something Dutch surely? :wink:

Reply 17

L i b

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chloeprice

The higher the alcohol content the better then? Which liquor has the highest content of alcohol?

Surgical spirit?

supertramp

It's probably illegal around here, like absynthe. Absynthe burns...

Absinthe is illegal in Peterborough? You learn something new every day... :wink:

nikk

Something Dutch surely? :wink:

Gin, I suppose... where the phrase originated.

Personally I'd go for vodka - quick, easy and doesn't make your breath smell like an alky's.

Alternatively you could do what the local neds/chavs do to get wasted up here - a delightful cocktail of vodka (the cheap stuff that rips the skin off of the inside of your mouth), Buckfast tonic wine and finally cheap Red Bull substitute. All together in a two litre plastic bottle.

Bset drink for "Dutch Courage"??

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