I've drank before, am an overweight male, and twelve shots would have me spending most of my time in the bathroom.

Yeah, the dozen shots does not read well. Of course, it may have been three shots (which would have still been substantial for a non-drinker), and they were so drunk they overestimated?

I took 11 shots in one night in college. Once. Then I blacked out and did crazy stuff. I spend most of the next morning in the bathroom. Her story sounds about right.

Depends. In my college days "a night" on weekends would run from about nine to maybe five am or six, maybe later. So 12 shots spaced out over that long really isn't a lot.

I'm a little iffy about this post, because we don't want to become the AskMe debunk team, but I understand that it's not good to put a question like this in the post, and not great for MeTa, since it's already been approved, blah, blah.

So go ahead and talk about it... Mostly because it's an anon, so not exactly accusing a specific person of lying. But for our purposes, it's better to focus on the content and not the poster. Like, "How many people could actually drink 12 shots?" instead of "No way this is real"?

I believe this. It's really easy to drink 12 shots before the alcohol really hits you, if you don't know enough to moderate your intake a bit. And when I was 23, I could drink a lot of men under the table and feel fine the next day. Nowadays, not so much.

But, amro, it's hard to drink 12 shots that quickly and not be soon sick, sick, sick as a dog, passed out, or both. Unless the drinker weighs, I don't know, several hundred pounds. And a first-time drinker will not metabolize the alcohol quickly.

I remember a friend in college chugging an entire fifth of Jack Daniels which would be something like 17 shots. Surprisingly he didn't throw up and was fine the next day. At the time we all thought that he was a jerk for bogarting all the Jack not for almost killing himself.

I'm unfortunately one of those people who are able to remain standing/teetering for an extended period instead of just throwing up and passing out as one decently should... and I think, yeah - it could happen to me. Easily. For a first-timer, though, it is maybe odd.

We always ended up being friendsies with the barkeeps, owners, staff, whatever... so our mixed drinks in the U.S. were usually auto-doubles, and six drinks over the night? Sure.

Here, everyone's drink is a double, but they're so expensive, one can't afford more than three. :) And, anyway, I rarely drink hard drinks anymore (except for Raki... oops!), which mostly (but not always) spares me from my too-awesome tolerance.

And there are shots and then there are 'shots,' y'know?

I was one of those nerds who never drank anything but a glass of wine with my mom until I hit college. Freshman year, maybe two weeks into the semester, I drank seven shots of Jack Daniels in about 30 minutes, and then was good to go for the next several hours. Didn't even get sick. (At the time I weighed like 110 pounds, too.)

Then again, I'd had two weeks of hardcore Tulane-style training. Things I learned, from which I believe you will also benefit:

1. When you feel you've had too much, put hair into pony tail, puke, wash face, continue drinking.
2. Always let men buy you booze, even if they're unattractive.
3. It's SUPER COOL to have a Bud Light in each hand and a shot of Jagermeister to boot.
4. When celebrating someone's 21st birthday, make a spreadsheet in Excel to record who has purchased each of 21 drinks to make that person's night fantastic.
5. The above four behaviors are idiotic, but you won't realize that until you've flashed an entire bar full of people, hooked up with a random hobo, and spent an entire evening chugging from the vat at a frat party.

pshaw - When I was 20, 28 shots was my limit. Mind, I passed out in the middle of the city and nearly died when I hit that limit.

I went to Tulane, brina! I'll add:

6. Always drink while studying.
7. When you wake up and swear never to drink again, surround yourself with people who will make you drink the very next night.

Someone who has never had alcohol and does 12 shots, the next morning the biggest thing on her mind is the hangover, not how to control her next drink. If she drank 12 shots she would not be dead but she'd want to be right now.

Hmm. 12 shots turns Mormon girl into Girl Gone Wild.

*favorites for future reference*

Who knows if she could count accurately after the alcohol actually hit her stomach.

12 shots and more can be done. I know this personally.

However, I didn't make a friggin AskMe afterwards asking people how to not do that again. The fact that I spent the entire next day in bed sick to my stomach was a big kick in the ass from my body saying "DO ::SMACK:: NOT ::SMACK:: DO ::SMACK:: THAT ::SMACK:: EVER ::SMACK:: FUCKING ::SMACK:: AGAIN!"

So yeah. Physically possible? You bet.
Is the AskMe real? I have my doubts.

Wimps. I'm so not a drinker* BUT I've had 10 shots of tequila in about an hour and you'd never would have guessed. I did not feel drunk at the time nor did I have a hangover the next day (I've never had a hangover). There's a lot of alcoholism (and other addictions) in my family and that, as well as being an overweight female, probably explains it.

*I think the last drink I had was one glass of champagne two years ago.