Allow me to present five of my favourite drinking games. But I can definitely remember each brilliantly stupid, laughing-until-your-sides-hurt game that we played. Happy memories you’ll carry around like a bag of jewels. When we’re feeling sentimental on Shut Up & Sit Down we sometimes say that board games are just about creating memories with your friends. Brendan’s essay on the Irish concept of craic might help you out here. And then because you’re all drinking during this, you’re chasing that moment of joy down deeper, drunker chasms that are even sillier and even funnier. They’re about taking the best reasons TO drink – the silliness, the laughter, the easy, happy socialising – and concentrating it, folding it double, and then quadruple, until all the room’s honest attention and comic befuddlement is located in a single person, a single act. Maybe our two archetypes of us have been dueling across culture, across time.ĭrinking games, of course, aren’t about getting drunk. Why don’t we just drink?” Thinking about it now, maybe this is a kind of cosmic role handed out as well, just as mine was. Now, before we get in to the best games I remember playing I want to take a little jab at a kind of person who’s been bothering me for my entire drinking life, and that’s the one person in a group who says “I don’t need a game to drink. “OK,” I’d say, a grin creeping across my face. Whenever conversation stalled at the kitchen or patio or tree we were drinking at, someone would ask me for a game. Where I was unusual is how much I loved drinking games, which I studied with a kind of nerdy fervour. I’d always do a couple of laps of these shop like, I imagined, an adult might, appearing to browse an issue of FHM and consider a bag of lentils before finally deciding on, yes, the litre of Smirnoff please. Which means, as soon as I was old enough to put on a baggy coat, enter a shop and do a kind of detached impression of an 18 year old. Quinns: Like many Europeans I began drinking as soon as I could.
Take your pick ladies, gentlemen, and teenagers who definitely shouldn’t be reading this. You’ll find a written transcript right after the jump.
Too nervous for a private performance? It’s understandable, of course. In fact, he’s waiting for you in our podcast section right now. Continuing what we started with Brendan’s Correct Way to Scratch and Leigh’s Month as an Assassin, we’ve got our third ever spoken article! Quinns wants to tell you why drinking games are important.
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