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Unfortunately, hangovers are nothing new. After a weekend out (or in bed with a bottle of wine and Netflix queue in my case), it’s all too common to wake up Sunday morning with a terrible headache that you try to combat with some aspirin and a cold shower before you head out to make the pounding subside by consuming even more alcohol in the form of a bottomless Bloody Mary bar. If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone – a study of 2,000 individuals in the U.K. found that, on average, we have about one hangover a month. The bad news? Mathematically, this data means that we spend an entire two years of our lives hungover.
If you thought you’d left all of life’s negativity behind in 2016, this study shows that unfortunately, you couldn’t possibly be more wrong. On top of this data, if you spend more than one Sunday a month hungover (which, hey, who doesn’t?), you’re doomed to spend more years of your life in bed with a brutal headache and ordering the greasiest food you can possibly find on Uber Eats.
Of course, new developments are always happening, and with the promise of hangover remedies like McDonald’s home delivery and this magical wand that removes hangover-inducing sulfites from your wine, there’s hope that the amount of time we spend hungover can dramatically decrease over the years.
Let’s just hope our next batch of scientists like to drink as much as we do and keep coming up with hangover cures for us, because as much as I like to indulge in an entire bottle of Alamos Malbec from bed every Friday, I’d really like those two years of my life back, okay? .
[via Tasting Table]
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Steph W.
Steph W. is a new Master's degree graduate with an intern's salary and six-figure taste. She realizes her expectations far exceed reality, so she spends her days pinning away Loubs she pretends are in her physical closet instead of her virtual one. Her hobbies include attempting to trapping her boyfriend into marriage before he finds out how insane she is and pretending that Black Box wine tastes as good as the kind she could afford when she was gainfully employed. Send her tips for getting out of student debt at recruitchairtsm@gmail.com
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Only being hungover one day a month sounds splendid.
You Spend Way More Time Being Hungover Than You Probably Think.
A rebuttal: I am fully aware and self conscious about it.
You can’t be hungover if you’re just drunk all the time.
The cumulative hangover will literally kill me if I stop drinking.
Words to live by
Drink because I’m unhappy, unhappy because I drink.
with an 80 year lifespan, 2 years hungover is only 2.5% of my life. Considering I’m gonna spend roughly 25-30% of it slaving away at a job, I find that to be totally worth it.
Not to mention you’d watch those movies/TV shows anyways.
Sample size of 2,000? Fuck outta here with that weak sauce.
Also the colonies probably rebelled because the Brits had soft livers.
Assuming the population of the UK is 65 million, a sample size of 2000 can give a 99% confidence level pretty easily.
I welcome your down votes on this post.
isn’t 1200-1400 the only sample size you need? 2000 even better
A sample size of 2000 is pretty damn large, as long as they did it right.
I don’t even get hangovers any more; I get withdrawals.
Name checks out.
They really do suck… I should probably drink less.
You spelled four wrong.
I’m 10 days sober, and I actually enjoyed not feeling like shit this weekend. Not gonna stop me from coming back with a vengeance after the booze sabbatical is over.
Hangovers are for quitters