I've got a useful little rhyme that can help prevent you from blacking out. You can also use it to your advantage if you want to get blackout drunk.
"Beer before whiskey, gettin' risky... Whiskey before beer, never fear"
It works for me. I remember a few years back drinking a couple of 40s while watching True Lies. When the beer was gone, I found a bottle of Evan Williams (lol) so I could keep drinking and watch a little more of the movie. Well, I got tired after a few drinks and went to sleep.
The next day after work I was all excited to get some pizza and finish what was left of the movie (which is pretty funny, considering how crappy that movie is). So I started up the movie again and fast forwarded to the part where I had left off. Every time I'd fast forward a bit and start watching, I'd remember that I'd already seen that part. I kept fast forwarding and watching until the movie was totally over. I had blacked out watching like the last hour of the movie and had no memory of it until I saw it on the TV.
The rhyme seems to work because once you've had several beers, you can easily drink enough whiskey to get to the blackout stage. But drinking a large enough volume of beer to get to blackout drunk is harder since beer take 8 times more volume that a shot of liquor. The size of your stomach prevents you from getting there with beer.
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