The Alcohol Problem

[DumbPenguin]

Okay I'm not going to write a novel here, but I was perusing through some DC threads and was thinking about alcohol and wanted to see if anyone agrees with me about alcohol.

To me the issue with alcohol is other people. When I drink, I go slow and hydrate along the way. I drink 1 drink every 15 minutes or so at the beginning of my night then about 1 drink every hour or so until the night's over, all the while hydrating. This way I get the good physical sensations of alcohol -- giddiness (sp), warmth, slight loss of motor coordination, you get the picture -- while avoiding the bad ones. Now, a lot of people do what I do when they drink, but it seems more often than not when people get a couple drinks in their system, they go wild and start chugging the stuff. Then as we all know, they start puking, stumbling around, shouting, etc. And that level of intoxication is what bugs the hell out of me and kills my drunk. They just act so damn annoying. But, when I drink with a few people who don't overdo it, I always have a great time, sometimes even better than I'd have on opiates.

Just wondering if this is what ruins alcohol for some people (the people who drink v. the drug itself) like it does for me?

 

[Tommyboy]

Generally, I can't be around drunks unless I am drunk too. When I used to smoke weed all the time, I would look at my drunk friends like they were acting ridiculous.

Now more recently I had become the responsible drinker, like you describe in your post. I would just maintain a buzz throughout the night, sometimes switching over to a non-alcoholic beverage, and I would usually end up having to keep my rowdy friends out of trouble at the end of the night.

To me, the real problem with alcohol is how acceptable blacking out is. My family is traditional, and my parents don't drink, save a glass of wine here and there, yet they don't seem to mind hearing about me or my siblings not remembering parts of the previous night. I have seen this in several families, where you could openly have a phone conversation with your friend you were with the previous night, and openly say "really, that happened?!?!?! I don't remember anything after that game of flip-cup..."

I'm sure the parents just think "well, at least they aren't using drugs." 8)

 

[DumbPenguin]

Generally, I can't be around drunks unless I am drunk too. When I used to smoke weed all the time, I would look at my drunk friends like they were acting ridiculous.

Now more recently I had become the responsible drinker, like you describe in your post. I would just maintain a buzz throughout the night, sometimes switching over to a non-alcoholic beverage, and I would usually end up having to keep my rowdy friends out of trouble at the end of the night.

To me, the real problem with alcohol is how acceptable blacking out is. My family is traditional, and my parents don't drink, save a glass of wine here and there, yet they don't seem to mind hearing about me or my siblings not remembering parts of the previous night. I have seen this in several families, where you could openly have a phone conversation with your friend you were with the previous night, and openly say "really, that happened?!?!?! I don't remember anything after that game of flip-cup..."

I'm sure the parents just think "well, at least they aren't using drugs." 8)

I agree. A lot of people see no distinction between a couple drinks and a couple dozen drinks. And yeah I used to be a daily smoker and when I was around drunk people I'd think they were acting moronic, but now that I don't smoke I usually join in until it gets to the point where people use alcohol as their copout for really stupid shit.

 

[K-Dazed]

Similar thing happened to me Tommy, in regard to smoking weed and looking at my drunk friends. I'd always look at them like they were bugging (which they were, drunk people are retarded).Eventually I couldn't drink anymore. I'd feel like shit automatically past the 3rd beer (whilst being barely intoxicated as I was a 5 times/week drinker) so I had to stop. The fact that I also had no money helped. Now, I feel better than I ever have (physically and mentally) and always have more fun than when I did whilst drinking. I normally drive now too.

One thing that bugs me with alcohol is that people who drink it *really* don't know how loud they're being. It eventually gets to the point where everyone is shouting over one another to speak, all because that's what all the other drunken idiots were doing. I don't mind drunk people at all, unless they're braking shit or being loud.

Good point about blacking out. It's retarded how people find damaging one of your organs to be funny or apart of a good night.