Have You Ever Gotten Drunk On Mouthwash

In light of the question posed in the other thread... have you ever gotten drunk off mouthwash? To me, it boggles the mind at how much you would have to drink in order to achieve this (I don't drink, so perhaps I have no clue to begin with), but the bigger question is, why? Are you that hard up for liquor that you'd resort to mouthwash to get your buzz on?

Also, when getting drunk on mouthwash, do you actually drink it, or just swish/gargle with it?

I have no desire to drink mouthwash but I can answer your other questions:

The Listerine mouthwash brand contains between 21.6 percent and 26.9 percent alcohol, so it wouldn't take long to get drunk. Yes, you drink it. It is much cheaper than liquors with comparable alcohol content and can be obtained in any supermarket or convenient store without a valid ID.

ive met tramps getting pissed of mouthwash, certain types are upto 35 percent, and a half litre bottle can be like 2 to 3 quid. so yeah, if you are poor as fuck and you want to get smashed, you just put up with it.

  On 7/9/2009 at 5:25 PM, patternoverlap said:

I have no desire to drink mouthwash but I can answer your other questions:

 

The Listerine mouthwash brand contains between 21.6 percent and 26.9 percent alcohol, so it wouldn't take long to get drunk. Yes, you drink it. It is much cheaper than liquors with comparable alcohol content.

correct and the only upside is that your breath doesn't smell like liquor.

edit: lol who voted "Yes"?

  On 7/9/2009 at 5:25 PM, patternoverlap said:

I have no desire to drink mouthwash but I can answer your other questions:

 

The Listerine mouthwash brand contains between 21.6 percent and 26.9 percent alcohol, so it wouldn't take long to get drunk. Yes, you drink it. It is much cheaper than liquors with comparable alcohol content.

Fucking hell - I knew they contained alcohol, but I never knew it was that much - and with mouthwash being around 5-7 bucks for a huge bottle, I guess I can see the 'savings' there...

but drinking it...?

*shudders*

There was a guy at work who was a known alcoholic that I always remember smelling of mouthwash, but I always thought it was to cover up his drinking... perhaps he was cutting out the middle man...

does mouthwash contain ethanol, or is it isopropyl alcohol or something?? this is an important distinction for like, not dying.

  On 7/9/2009 at 5:31 PM, hahathhat said:

does mouthwash contain ethanol, or is it isopropyl alcohol or something?? this is an important distinction for like, not dying.

The alcohol in mouthwash is "denatured" which means they mix it with other stuff to make it undrinkable or at least less favorable to drink. Some of the denatured alcohol in mouthwashes are mixed with kerosene, methyl (wood) alcohol, and other such things and can cause (if ingested copiously) blindness, organ damage, and death.

Once. The person I did it with has done it more than once. Bad idea - it was only a little bit anyway. Plays havoc with your guts the next day.

Why? Drunken bravado

joyrex doesn't drink? interesting. straight edge zelah style maybe or alcoholic maybe.

mouthwash is pretty expensive. 5$ for a medium bottle. cheap liquor seems comparable no? maybe not, probably double.

personally i try and get the alcohol free version because after a night of drinking and a morning of puking - my breathe stinks but i can't take any alcohol even in my mouth. *gag*

it's probably no worse for you than scrumpy or gunpowder bumbo. i'd drink it for a laugh.

Never have, but people will try and get fucked up off anything. photocopier fluid, anti-freeze, or mouthwash if it's got alcohol in it, people will drink it.

I had to look up what 'scrumpy' and 'gunpowder bumbo' were...

  On 7/9/2009 at 6:41 PM, Joyrex said:

I had to look up what 'scrumpy' and 'gunpowder bumbo' were...

haha yes, the New World is far too civilised to drink such filthy European beverages...

scrumpy's a particularly dirty cider

bumbo's supposedly an old pirate drink made from diluted rum with sugar and nutmeg. a friend of mine cut open some fireworks and added the gunpowder (?) from them and drank it, for added pirate effect. indeed i did drink this concoction, and it wasn't all that bad. but never again...

explosive shits

Yes!

Why? It tastes better than Turpentine.

It's pretty cheap and doesn't taste too bad, with a bit of imagination you're drinking a strong mint julip.

I've seen much much worse.

It boggles the mind seeing so many discarded non-toxic cleanser bottles underneath a turnpike. Lemon, pine fresh, odorless. Do people really use this stuff to clean under the bridge? Our homeless people naturally inclined to keep their cardboard abode smelling fresh? Nope, they just buy/steal pallets of the stuff because its about as cheap as it gets.

my sister ain't as hot as she used to be.

Tastes of Scope.

didn't this happen in an episode of House?

and for some reason i keep trying to think of this happening in Curb Your Enthusiasm, but i know Larry accidentally got Jeff's daughter on actual alcohol

kind of

me and my friends were drunk one night and discovered a bottle of mouthwash in the bathroom and dared each other to drink it, so between three of us we downed about a half litre of mouthwash each and it made me feel all weird and dizzy for a bit and then we drank more beer and vodka and were really drunk and woke up with a nasty hangover and fresh breath.

one of my proudest moments.

  On 7/9/2009 at 6:56 PM, ezkerraldean said:

  On 7/9/2009 at 6:41 PM, Joyrex said:

I had to look up what 'scrumpy' and 'gunpowder bumbo' were...

haha yes, the New World is far too civilised to drink such filthy European beverages...

 

scrumpy's a particularly dirty cider

 

bumbo's supposedly an old pirate drink made from diluted rum with sugar and nutmeg. a friend of mine cut open some fireworks and added the gunpowder (?) from them and drank it, for added pirate effect. indeed i did drink this concoction, and it wasn't all that bad. but never again...

scrumpy goes for like 5 or 6 dollars a bottle here and my friend says it's great.i ahd some and it wasn't all that.

they should make alcoholic mouthwash that's safe to drink

passing out drunk without brushing wouldn't be so bad for your teeth anymore

to be honest if you drink enough hard alcohol your mouth is pretty fuckin sterile anyway.

  On 7/10/2009 at 12:55 AM, essines said:

to be honest if you drink enough hard alcohol your mouth is pretty fuckin sterile anyway.

I know this all too well.

Even though I am an alcoholic I must say I never got to this stage, mainly because I've always been adequately funded, but if I had had to, as there have been times where I've woken up very desperate, and if i hadn't had the money i would have "needed" to get something cheap and strong i.e. mouthwash. Anyone who understands addiction will know what i mean by the "needed" bit, and by that, I mean that those tramps did not drink that shit out of choice, and they drink that rather than not drinking at all, because they needed it.

it's not even necessary for mouth wash to have alcohol in it, i prefer the kinds without it personally

surprised not more people have voted 'yes' but think it's mainly due to the wording. i'm not saying you have to black out on mouthwash, just the fact people have drank it either when they ran out of alcohol or wanted to prolong the effects or something. i see people buying it all the time at 7-11

if you are in a situation where you're completely out of alcohol, you actually do turn to Listerine far quicker than you would ever imagine hahah