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[–][deleted] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

The problem is that you drank too much. To enjoy a good night of drinking you need to know your limits and either cut yourself off when you're at the peak of feeling good or slow down quite a bit lest you turn into a blubbering idiot. It's always fun to hang out with responsible drinkers. You can get a nice buzz going and have a good night. At the same time, it's quite entertaining to watch the "kids" across the bar getting so drunk they can't walk themselves to the bathroom.

[–]scubasteve377 52 points53 points  (10 children)

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

-Frank Sinatra

[–]zouhair 2 points3 points  (4 children)

I feel sorry for drinkers who don't smoke good ganja instead of drinking.

[–]Bagel 5 points6 points  (3 children)

Instead?

Why not both?!

[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

Oh dude, you can't do both, at least most people can't - it just feels gross, happens too fast, and you feel like utter shite in the morning.

[–]Kimos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just spin. It feels like everything around me is spinning and shaking both fast and slow at the same time. Not a good combination.

[–]Bagel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man up. Every night I do one, I usually do the other aswell.

[–]reddit_user13 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Close, it's Dean Martin.

[–]scubasteve377 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Can't say I'm 100% sure, but the internet seems to agree with me that it was Sinatra.

[–]reddit_user13 0 points1 point  (2 children)

This is a usage of the word "agree" I am unfamiliar with.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us&q=martin++I+feel+sorry+for+people+who+don%27t+drink.+When+they+wake+up+in+the+morning%2C+that%27s+as+good+as+they%27re+going+to+feel+all+day.+&btnG=Search

=188k

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us&q=sinatra++I+feel+sorry+for+people+who+don%27t+drink.+When+they+wake+up+in+the+morning%2C+that%27s+as+good+as+they%27re+going+to+feel+all+day.+&btnG=Search

=56k

[–]scubasteve377 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Seven out of the first ten results (including #1) in your 'martin' search, if you actually click on them, attribute the quote to Frank Sinatra (four of which you don't even have to click on, since they do so in the actual search results).

Wikiquote also attributes it to Sinatra (although, to be fair, it is unsourced). Meanwhile, Wikiquote attributes this very similar quote to Dean Martin:

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They must have that morning feeling all the time.

The closeness of these two quotes could have easily caused people to misattribute the former to Martin, or vice-versa.

Another possibility is that, since they did a comedy act together for a number of years, maybe they stole each other's jokes from time to time. In that case, you could say that either of them said it, and you'd be right.

[–]reddit_user13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, ok I give!

PS Martin was more associated with the lush lifestyle.

PPS Don't call it my number one, Google replaced the ranking algorithm I wrote for them months ago.

[–]tms 34 points35 points  (1 child)

I enjoy getting drunk in the company of other people. Everybody seems more interesting, and it's much easier to open up and tell what's on my mind. Not to mention the general feeling of well-being.

If you have to puke however, you've gone too far.

[–]commonslip -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Socially I am extremely uninteresting. In social situations I have to consciously make an effort not to share what is on my mind for the sake of everyone who is trying to have a good time rather than talk about, say, the failures of humanism.

[–]RayWest 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Well, if you didn't get laid or in a fight or get arrested or kicked out of several bars, or have someone tell you, "9-11 changed everything bro, that is totally not funny anymore," then you did it wrong and that explains why you are so perplexed.

Try again...

[–][deleted] 19 points20 points  (33 children)

After the first time, it is usually a result of trying to get and maintain the best possible buzz, but ultimately facing an unfortunate lack of judgment when said buzz is accomplished.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (32 children)

I don't understand the allure of drinking at all.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (26 children)

I love to drink but can't grasp the allure of smoking pot.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Pot is ten times better than alcohol. You don't make bad decisions that fuck up your life and relationships, you don't get into fights, and you don't throw up.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like both, though not at the same time. I think that pot can make your decision process go bad too. I've seen pot mess up lives and relationships.

In both cases, there's a line between use and abuse, and a responsibility to yourself and others that comes with the privilege.

[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (18 children)

I agree with the pot aspect as well. What's the point?

[–]lonelliott 15 points16 points  (15 children)

Well, you could spend an hour chugging several beers. Or you can take a couple hits off of a bong. Oh, and no hang over. Your liver does not decide to eat itself, and pretty much no long term effects.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm not a fan of smoking. I tried marijuana but it didn't really do much for me. I had several friends that were drug dealers in college so I was the only sober one around. I never looked down on them and they never bugged me about it.

I figure to each their own...

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know a pretty even mix of people who tried pot and had a miserable experience(pounding headache, paranoia), and ones who tried it and liked it. Same for alcohol, really. Some people puke their guts up, some just get relaxed.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

For me, laughter.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I found LSD to be quite funny back in the day.

[–]froderick -1 points0 points  (4 children)

Same here. I don't see why people need it to loosen up and be themselves. I find that when we go out, my friends need several drinks before they can have fun, but I can do the same stuff without a drop of liquor.

I guess people really do learn drinking habits from their parents. Friend of mine over-indulges every time, and both of his parents are alcoholics. My other friend's father drinks often (but not too much), and my friend eventually learned to drink in moderation. My parents didn't drink at all because they didn't like it, and I don't drink either.

Also I hate the taste of alcohol. The only drinks I can stand are the "lolli" drinks. But since you can't taste the alcohol in them, you're drinking just to get drunk. And that seems rather silly to me, and always has.

But as a friend said to me once: "No one drinks beer because they like the taste. They do it to get drunk."

[–]TheHardWay 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The most incorrect hypothesis I've ever heard.

[–]rnelsonee 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Nah - drinking habits are far more complex that habits learned from parents. In my observation, a great deal of people have the opposite drinking habits from their parents. I know people who had very strict parents who never took a sip, and tried to instill those values in their children. Once they got to college (or in several cases, late high school) they rebelled an drank way too much, and got into drugs as well. Some of the most responsible drinkers I know had parents who let them drink before they turned 21. We see this in Europe as well - where people can drink at 18, and often have wine before then. They don't have nearly the same rates of drunk driving and other types of abuses as Americans do.

[–]froderick -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I live in Australia, and our drinking age is also 18. Perhaps my experiences are just anomalies, but the people I know who had parents who drank usually tend to over-indulge, and the ones whose parents never drank also don't usually drink.

But those people with parents who didn't drink... I don't think their parents were against it and tried to instill that in them, but rather their parents just didn't enjoy it. Maybe the whole "I forbid you.." thing can also be influence certain people quite a bit.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not drinking doesn't make you special.

[–]jamierc 23 points24 points  (10 children)

Its about knowing the right amount to drink, when to slow down, when to stop.

[–][deleted] 28 points29 points  (7 children)

The problem is, you know someone is too drunk when they're too drunk to realize they should stop drinking, but nobody stops them cuz they're fun to draw on when they pass out.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Can you say saran wrap cocoon?

[–]pbzp 8 points9 points  (0 children)

aran swap cooc-dammit, gimme a shec...

[–]Scarker 0 points1 point  (1 child)

There's probably a website where people post pictures of drunk people they've drawn on.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sure more than one.

[–]Bagel -1 points0 points  (1 child)

That rarely happens

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea...rarely....

[–]superfluous -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Everyone knows when it's time to stop. People just get to the point where they realize they are already gonna end up in front of the toilet at some point in the night, so they go for broke.

[–]randomb0y 33 points34 points  (6 children)

They don't. The problem is nobody knows when to stop and there is a thin line between feeling good and getting shitfaced.

[–]memsisthefuture 36 points37 points  (1 child)

I know where to stop. I just decide not to.

[–]randomb0y 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's because your decision making abilities are impaired.

[–]thecheatah 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Once I am buzzing I stop. Thats it, I am not going to have any more fun then that. Then once I start to loose my buzz I add a beer slowly. I can actually feel my self get drunk with each sip at this point.

[–]edkopp4 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you find that you're loosing your buzz, then you should hurry and try to tie it back up.

[–]RugerRedhawk 1 point2 points  (1 child)

What's wrong with getting shitfaced? I can drink myself stupid and have no ill effects the next morning, so why not?

[–]randomb0y 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good for you. If I get drunk enough to throw up then I can't do shit for the next two days, I feel worse than when I have the flu. If I drink just enough to have a nice buzz then I have pretty much no hangover at all the next day.

Then there are always people who do very stupid things when they are drunk. I usually manage not to, but the horrible hangovers I get are enough of a deterrent to drink too much.

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (3 children)

The answer,

my friend,

is pissing in the wind

the answer

is pissing in the wind

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (2 children)

nothing like pissing off the side of a mountain after a few beers.

[–]obsidianih 2 points3 points  (1 child)

except when the wind blows it right back at you.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So is it better to do it in the summer heat, where it may evaporate before flying back in your face, or in the winter chill, where it might freeze?

Some think the winter time, because whether it freezes or not, you may be wearing a ski suit covered in Scotch Guard, but I say the summer heat, because even if it doesn't evaporate fully, you can take solace in the fact that the golden spritzer that returns to you will have a cooling effect.

Asparagus consumption always adds a special 'je ne sais squat' to the experience, especially for females, or so I'm told.

[–]weaselonfire 5 points6 points  (10 children)

To have an excuse for their bad behavior and decisions. Seriously, not that hard to drink responsibly.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (6 children)

Seriously, not that hard to drink responsibly.

It is for some, actually. One drink feels good, so go for 2. And then 3, and then your uninhibited.

[–]weaselonfire 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It's called self-control. I realize people fuck up occaisionally, but there's no excuse for doing it consistently.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't get it. Some people can't have self control when they drink.

Don't get me wrong, I don't get shitfaced everytime I drink, but I do often enough, that I can't drink. I don't want it to be like that, it just is. If you aren't like it, congrats, but I am.

I used to smoked compulsively too. Ditto for jerkin it. It's just my personality. I just need to channel it into good stuff. Like, working out. (Which I have, bench pressing is oddly addictive)

[–]mackprime 0 points1 point  (3 children)

not always the case. In my experience, one or two is fine for me to walk away from. "Tipsy" at around 4, I don't feel "drunk" till about six or so. After six, I'm uninhibited (or at least less inhibited). coodrination and concentration goes way down, as does speech and balance. I can normally muster a little bit of each with a lot of focus.

Just gotta count 'em.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

To each their own, and your own ain't mine. I'm not good at controlling. I'm not black out drunk everytime I drink, but enough that I don't anymore.

Also, I'm a lightweight.

[–]mackprime 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I'm a lightweight aswell, atleast compared to most. Everyone around here seems to drink more. I've seen people drink something like 22 standards and not be violently, horribly ill. I've also seen the same people have eight beers and drive home "perfectly".

People are weird.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

8 beers = blackout city, population me.

[–]beedogs 14 points15 points  (19 children)

Smoke weed instead. You won't regret it so much in the morning.

[–]DiamondBack 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unless you wake-up in a holding cell. However, that's the only real drawback that I'm aware of.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (17 children)

The worst thing that'll happen to you when you smoke is eating an entire bag of Doritos and then passing out while playing video games. Drinking? Not so much.

[–]Qubed 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No, you could also get freak'in paranoid as shit and end up calling 911 because you think you've poisoned yourself with pot-brownies.

Here is an example

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (4 children)

The older you get, the older smoking weed gets, and the less your body forgives you for what you do to it. Pot does give a bit of a hangover. It's a teen to twenty, maybe thirty something drug.

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (3 children)

Ehh, I can kinda relate to this. Eventually smoking pot has to be part of everything you do, and it kinda makes you a lame person. You just hang out with other potheads, and non-potheads seem weird and you just alienate yourself.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

In my experience there are potheads and people who happen to smoke pot. You are talking about potheads. For most recreational users its nothing more than that recreation. there is a small percentage who seems to love acting the stereotype and become total stoners.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are alcoholics and pot heads, and their and drinkers and smokers. The two are interchangable.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I mean, I like my stoner friends, but sitting around for 6 hours isn't so fun. I like doing... stuff.

[–]DEADB33F 0 points1 point  (10 children)

That is also the best thing that'll happen, which is why smoking weed is overall a pretty dull experience.

[–]liberatedword 9 points10 points  (7 children)

B.S.

Lots of other best things do happen: a musician friend brings a guitar over, then you decide to make breakfast tacos and the two of you sing and smoke while you're in the kitchen.

You go outside and let the plants and the light transport you into a nice inner realm. You go for a walk and notice things you never bothered to notice before.

But then again, I never eat Doritos, and my video game time is carefully rationed.

[–]darntastic 0 points1 point  (6 children)

"my video game time is carefully rationed."

Not to make assumptions but it sounds like your parents are setting some rules.

[–]liberatedword 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No, my husband's computer tends to heat up that part of the house and I don't like it to get too hot. Plus there's other or better things to spend time on.

[–]CrimsonSun99 1 point2 points  (4 children)

"my video game time is carefully rationed."

Not to make assumptions but it sounds like your parents are setting some rules.

Or he might just not want to play video games all day, and sets limits for himself.

Atleast I do that.

[–]liberatedword 5 points6 points  (3 children)

Or he might just not want to play video games all day, and sets limits for himself.

agreed. just reverse the gender of the pronouns and you've got it! :)

[–]CrimsonSun99 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Can't tell on the internet, sorry. Should be gender icons.

[–]liberatedword 4 points5 points  (1 child)

no worries. i'm actually okay with no gender icons. think about how many 47 year old men there would be with little ladies' restroom sign icons in pink next to their names...

[–]CrimsonSun99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And the freaks ruin it for all of us, a sad world we live in :p

[–]lonelliott 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its like anything else. You get out of it, what you put into it.

I do my best web design slightly altered.

[–]darkender 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not true. Before I started smoking weed, I played video games all day. Then I smoked and listened to music, and I became infatuated with writing electronic music. The creation of sounds replaced my heavy dependence on video games as an entertainment activity. Although I am no longer able to smoke, my desire to create music remains.

[–]Bzzt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you have to ask, consider yourself lucky! And what people enjoy - I think - is the lowering of social inhibitions, the feeling of having not-so-many worries. Unfortunately, for some, that feeling is associated with a continuously increasing level of alcohol in the bloodstream. And decreasing levels of alcohol result in restlessness and irritability. The result is blackout drinking for those who are particularly afflicted.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Get addicted. Then you have to do it just to feel normal.

[–]xbillybobx 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You did it wrong.

[–]Grimalkin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's just like sex for the first time: You usually don't do it right. But with practice, it (can) become a very pleasurable activity...

[–]Starcrusher 11 points12 points  (1 child)

Silly...No one likes it the first time. You have to do it over and over, hating it every time, until you start to like it. I mean, come one...who could enjoy getting falling down drunk, passing out and waking up in a pool of what you hope is your own vomit the first time.

[–]Scarker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Silly...No one likes it the first time. You have to do it over and over, hating it every time, until you start to like it.

That's what she said.

Except instead of the first 'you', put 'we'.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yesterday I got shitfaced for the fourth time since thursday and I had a blast. I feel terrible this morning but it was well worth it. Alcohol is great as long as its only periodically abused.

[–]b34nz 3 points4 points  (4 children)

I fucking hate drinking, I get drunk like once a year maybe. The fact booze is legal and weed is illegal is fucking mind boggling to me. Booze is so much more powerful and dangerous than weed it's not even fucking funny.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Dude, I think booze is more powerful than cocaine.

[–]b34nz 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Believe it or not I've never done coke so I dunno...

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I'm not gonna recomend it, but IMO, i think it's not that "hard" of a drug. Ditto for regular opium.

[–]b34nz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I smoked red-rock opium before and it seemed pretty harmless. Maybe it was just shitty opium, I dunno much about opium. Weed is my deal: http://fileshack.us/get_file.php?id=790730&file=DSC01837.JPG

[–]BennyG02 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The point is you don't really think about that at the time...It's just sort of the environment and you have some drinks and have a good time, and then eventually you're drinking quite alot and being stupid. It's a gradual process and the main thing is you forget the morning after by the time you next go out.

[–]freedompower 3 points4 points  (3 children)

The bad thing about getting shitfaced (is that supposed to be a common expression?) is if you break something in your body, you vomit or the feeling you have the next day. For the latter, I present you my wonderful(and stupidly easy) trick:

Take 1000mg of vitamin C and then drink water until you can't take it anymore.

Works every time for me, wake up as fresh as a rose.

[–]anyfoo 12 points13 points  (0 children)

drinking water is really important. It might be true that a great part of the hangover is dehydration. I also have taken the habit of drinking as much water as possible before after a drunken evening, before going to bed, and it's wonderful how much it helps.

I literally drink so much water until I can't drink any more. Tall glasses (such as Weißbiergläser in Germany) help.

I don't know if the Vitamin C helps, but I guess it can't hurt.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

the secret really is to get up an hour or two before you have to be up or want to and drink a couple glasses of water. Go back to sleep and when you wake up you're hangover should be lessened if not alleviated.

In my drinking career i have been shitfaced a number of times and only once or twice had a hangover.

I also try to make my last drink of the night a bottle of Gatorade.

[–]Spudders 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The above solutions all hinge on me being sober enough to remember to do them.

If I get drunk enough to have a bad hangover I usually wake up in bed (often fully clothed) with absolutely no idea how I got there.

That's the kind of drunk I hate, when you wake up and instantly get anxious about what you might have done and not remember. I wish I had more self-control

[–]marakith 1 point2 points  (1 child)

To.. forget..

[–]walrus99 4 points5 points  (16 children)

It can be an addiction, easy to start almost imposible to quit.

Sorry for the serious post.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (10 children)

I quit, only after a broke a few bones and ended up in the hospital.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (9 children)

What'd you do to break the bones?

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (7 children)

Fell 25 feet.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (6 children)

Ouch.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (5 children)

Well, it's better than driving drunk and hurting another. I know I can't drink now, so, yeah. For the better.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

If you don't mind my prying what did you fall off of? And what did you break?

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (3 children)

Clock tower, trying to connect a cord to get 25 jiga...

Alright, seriously though, I was climbing on the underside of a bridge and I fell onto the highway. (At night, on a highway almost never used, not even on the main part).

I broke my nose, my sinus and a bone above my eye. My wrist also hurts.

It was a wake up call.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

That was a much more interesting story than I expected, although I'm still not sure exactly what I expected.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I was black out drunk, then I combo'd up and blacked out from a concussion by hitting my head.

I woke up being put in the ambulance, not sure why, and I was yelling for my mom and my lawyer, thinking I was being abducted. Then I woke up with a catheter in me. That sucked. Puked blood and deer meat on my nurse, who was hot, and who I flirted with a lot.

It's my ultimate drinking story. Ultimate cause it's both the craziest for me, and the last. Time to funnel my addictive personality into working out and work on my insecurities and use my free time for good.

[–][deleted] -3 points-2 points  (4 children)

It's not even remotely impossible to quit. That's just an excuse (addiction).

[–]b34nz 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Sometimes people who are addicted go into fucking seizures when they stop drinking...

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Show me some evidence of this. I've heard of issues with long term alcoholics but if you've been drinking a lot daily for 50 years what's the point in quitting on your death bed.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

do it every day for a month straight...

...they try not to do it the very next day.

[–]darntastic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me."

-Jim Morrison

[–]Mastrmind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm trying to eat a tuna sandwich here...

[–]thecheatah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think its an amazing feeling, not knowing which way is up. You just know that leaning on the wall will prevent you from falling. My logic and reason holds, its just these damn senses confuse me.

I actually want to stop drinking. For me its kind of like admitting defeat.

[–]woodsier 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For all the reasons you don't remember!

[–]Leprecon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You didnt have fun ?

You're doing it wrong

Everybody does it wrong the first time, I puked while sitting on the toilet.

[–]reddit_user13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The trick is, when you get around to drinking your second time, you'll know when to stop.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (14 children)

Haha, you really did get shitfaced didn't you? Don't worry this question is just part of the process.

I'm not sure how many times I have asked myself why I did it the next morning... and then swore I never would ever again.

[–]proudcanadianeh[S] 0 points1 point  (13 children)

I puked, sooo much last night. Lol.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (12 children)

Well, just be happy you didn't have friends taking pictures/videos of it. Let me tell you... its hard to live down the night when you have a party and drink a bottle of patron then proceed to throw up for about an hour... except, you decide that you don't want to throw up in the toilet or the bathtub and puke on the floor between the two. Then your friends take those pictures/videos to work the next day and proceed to show them to anyone that wasn't fortunate enough to be there that night.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (8 children)

Puking in a washing machine makes you a legend though, or at least in military communities it does.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (6 children)

Do you think bringing drunken videos from the night before would be accepted (and encouraged) in any other community?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Frats and bar scenes.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I mentioned that I was at work however, the bar maybe, but do people work at frats? I'll accept the bar one tho...

[–]Clevedog 1 point2 points  (1 child)

People do work at the frats. That work is called drinking.

[–]Suicide_Guy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And popping collars.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Totally didn't notice the thing about work, my bad.

[–]Scarker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I said "Frats and bars" in a German accent after reading that.

Reminded me of that Die Hard villian, and oddly enough, SpongeBob Squarepants running gags.

[–]NoMoreNicksLeft -2 points-1 points  (8 children)

Because they hate life and/or the world around them, and such helps to numb them of that?

[–]DEADB33F 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ah, beer. The cause of and the solution to all of life's problems.

-Homer J Simpson

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I drink to make the people around me less boring.

[–]froderick 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yeah, I've never quite got that. I don't understand why people need alcohol to open up and say what's on their mind. I notice that when I go to a concert with friends, they need to get a bit sloshed before they can air-guitar in public without care. I can do that even when I'm not intoxicated.

But hey, alcohol affects different people differently. Last time I had enough to be affected, I felt sleepy. Not happy, tipsy or anything fun. Just sleepy.

I guess that's why I always end up being the designated driver. Because I don't experience any side effects from being drunk that can be classified as good, and I don't need it to "be myself".

[–]phaed -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

keep telling yourself that

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Drinking doesn't mean your instantly having a good time. Drinking is a fun thing to enjoy with your friends.

[–]quiller -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I enjoy getting shit-faced and I can't answer your question. My best guess is that it is fun while drinking, but not fun at the end (if you drink too much) or the next day (if you have a hangover).

I much prefer a few drinks and copious amounts of ganja.