The Pre-Lash!

Want a good night out without spending too much?

Good. So does everyone and it's called the 'Pre-lash.'

At university, it’s essential that you have a 'pre-lash' before you head on out.
It's like having a party before you actually go out and party. I bet you do it already when you're getting ready – having a couple of beers/ vodka and cokes just to put you in the mood – but, you might be missing out on how good pre-drinking can actually be...

Go buy some Sainsburys vodka (joking! – don’t buy it unless you are that cheap…)
Snake bites! It’s a must in our house, it consists of beer, any type of cider (the stronger the better though) and blackcurrant juice/cordial. It gets you drunk quicker and once you had two the horrible after taste goes and leaves you with a weird tasting blackcurrant juice.

The best way to use Snakebites is to have a certain ‘surprise’ thought up by our own Snakebite expert, Bradley,* the only housemate who can make a proper Snakebite and ends up making them for all seven of us. The surprise can be any shot of anything alcoholic you have in your house.

Another favourite is the music drinking game, for the fact that there are so many you can choose from, here’s a few:

Roxanne – The Police - Girls drink for every ‘red light’ that is said, boys for ‘Roxanne’ and if you want to take it a step further, listen to the live version of 6 minutes.

Rollin’ – Limp Bizkit - Drink for every ‘Rollin’’ and swear word.

Boom Boom Boom – Vega Boys - An oldie but it has to be done, drink on every ‘Boom’.

Jammin’ – Bob Marley - For every ‘Jammin’’ drink.

Build me up Buttercup – The Foundations - For every ‘you,’ ‘buttercup,’ ‘build’ drink.

Bird is the word – Family Guy - Drink for every ‘Bird’. This gets very hard.

Now, put this in a play-list and try and do it all in one night for a brilliant drunk night in - My house-mates have tried to do it and it's ended in a certain someone (myself) putting one of them to bed. 

The said house-mates did six songs and apparently are not going to attempt it for a while because of said livers needing time to heal and actually get said alcohol out of their system.

I did try to conquer the play-list myself but only succeeded in doing three... Shame on me really.

There’s always the odd card game or four; ‘Ring of fire’ gets you horribly drunk and the ‘Jenga card game’, where you have to place a card with two corners hanging off the edge of a ‘dirty’ pint glass. The person who fails has to down three fingers of the ‘dirty’ pint and whoever makes the pile collapse has to drink the contents.

‘I Have Never’ is great way to get to know new people if you’re at a house party or if you want to learn some secrets about your housemates.

‘Fuzzy Duck’ is brilliant, it sounds really silly but don’t knock it until you’ve tried it! Someone starts off by saying “Fuzzy Duck” round a circle until someone says “Ducky Fuzz” and reverses the circle. It gets harder if you introduce ‘does he’ into the game and you’ll all end up saying “F**k he does,” or “does he F**k” a lot!

So plug in your iPod, turn the music up and get those snakebite surprises going but just remember this is just a pre-drinking session, and you still have to go out after.

Take a look at this website for more drinking games:

http://www.thesite.org/travelandfreetime/goingout/drinking/fiveclassicdrinkinggames

*I told Bradley that if he helped me with the Snakebite section I would put his name in this post... Charming, ain’t he?!

P.S. My house-mates who were mentioned in this post were jealous that Bradley got a special mention so Ethan & Henry - You've now been mentioned as the very drunk house-mates that had to put to bed.

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