Is it wrong to get drunk?.......

[Fyldewhite]

Yep, guilty as charged, and I don't think it's wrong within reason. Probably a few times a year I'll end up quite inebriated and lose a day to recovery. It's all about decision making........ poor decision making! After a few beers a bottle of wine or so, good food and some good company it somehow seems a good idea to bring out the malt whisky.....never a good move.

 

[Birchy]

Its wrong, very wrong.

If I ever touch another drop after Saturday it will be too soon

 

[GreiginFife]

I always find some responses to questions around drinking interesting where it is purported that drinking makes you more sociable (pint after a round to be sociable etc) and wonder if my non-drinking or consumption only of a soft drink or coffee somehow makes my less or unsociable.
What magical property does alcohol contain to produce such social development?

 

[Hacker Khan]

Britain is a drinking society, always has been and probably always will. It is very debatable if this is a good thing and it does have financial consequences. But having a pint (or whatever alcoholic alternative people prefer) is ingrained in our culture, so expecting people to stop that and drink a coffee or something else instead is not going to happen for a very long time, if indeed it ever will.

 

[Slab]

I always find some responses to questions around drinking interesting where it is purported that drinking makes you more sociable (pint after a round to be sociable etc) and wonder if my non-drinking or consumption only of a soft drink or coffee somehow makes my less or unsociable.
What magical property does alcohol contain to produce such social development?

Well it makes me the funniest guy in the bar and irresistible to the opposite sex for a start

Honestly though I too often only have soft drinks after a round and still feel perfectly sociable
(partly because I had several on the course and there's no cider behind the bar anyway but still its generally soft drinks after a round)

 

[GreiginFife]

Britain is a drinking society, always has been and probably always will. It is very debatable if this is a good thing and it does have financial consequences. But having a pint (or whatever alcoholic alternative people prefer) is ingrained in our culture, so expecting people to stop that and drink a coffee or something else instead is not going to happen for a very long time, if indeed it ever will.

Surely the thing about ingrained culture is that it's driven by tradition and we are told that the world it is a changing therefore dearly held traditions are no longer relevant....?
Or at least that's what some on here would have you believe.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Having been a heavy drinker and had the health consequences as a result, and then going totally dry for five years I still don't think it makes a difference providing it's a rarity and not the norm. These days I have a couple after golf and once in a while if I go out after work but never enough to get as drunk as I use to. I wouldn't swap the great nights out and the hangovers for a moment though even if the pancreatitis and diabetes weren't on the agenda

 

[Khamelion]

Been there got the t-shirt.

Worst state I've been in was on my leaving do from an old job, started half 5 by 7 I'd drank a couple of pints which bloated me out, so changed to bottles, then to shots, as everyone that came out was buying me a drink.

By 7 I'd decided that if I was t stay out for the night I'd better start drinking water, but on my way to the bar I got hijacked by the works resident big drinker, who bought me and him 10 shots. I remember his words, but not much afterwards, he said to the bar maid, 10 Jack Daniels and 10 Southern Comfort, just keep pouring till they are done, we they proceeded to knock 10 shots back one after another until all 10 were gone.

Well the rest is gone, I remember getting out of the taxi, a little bit of walking home, and that's pretty much it, I was still well sozzled the next morning, feeling the worst I have ever felt after a drink.

On the plus side, the lad who got the 10 shots in, went home well drunk, got out of his taxi, fell over his garden fence into his missuses flower bed, covered in mud his stripped off in his porch, then walked into the living room naked and proceed to shake his privates in his lasses face before going to bed.

The next morning, after destroying the bathroom, his missus said to him, "I'm not impressed with the state of the bathroom, you can clean it up", and "Oh aye last night my mates didn't think much of your strip tease"

His missus had half a dozen of her friends round when he walked into the living room naked.

 

[RW1986]

get as drunk as you want, just don't be a knob when you are by doing a number of things:

being a general knob
driving
fighting
getting so drunk you need hospitalization

apart from that, crack on!

^^^^

My thoughts are the same as the gentleman above

 

[Slab]

Is the drunk you the real you?

Is your sober self just a tamed down/suppressed version of who you are & how you really want to behave?

 

[ManinBlack]

Is the drunk you the real you?

Is your sober self just a tamed down/suppressed version of who you are & how you really want to behave?

Great point. I think you do see the real person when they were drunk. On the rare occasions when I get drunk I'm everybody's friend. I once had a boss who appeared really nice when sober, although he always seemed to be putting on a act. When drunk he was most unpleasant to his colleagues and you got the impression that this was the real him, the act he put on disappeared. He's retired now, with a fairly bad drink problem, I hear. I think some people drink to escape from reality. Much more dangerous than going on the odd bender with your mates.