What do you drink to celebrate?

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Newsflash: People. Are. Different.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

If the drink is to blame, why is that some people who drink and get drunk will not drive (for example) no matter who suggests it? Are they super human?

They are just the exceptions that prove the rule. Evidently, not everybody that drinks is Irish.

[Marilyn. 340]

If the drink is to blame, why is that some people who drink and get drunk will not drive (for example) no matter who suggests it? Are they super human?

they probably weren't that drunk then

I knew this guy who got super drunk.. he was trying to kick-box people etc.. we had to take his keys away because he wanted to drive home and then he started to chase people around trying to get his keys back... this is not something this person would normally do.. and the next day he didn't remember doing any of it...

Edited August 12, 2010 by Marilyn.

[Captain Oates 911]

Hahahaha, no.

One minute, I'm dancin with my peeps 'apple bottom jeans, boots with the furrrrrrrrrrrrrr', next minute, I look at my friend Deb and say 'I'm not feeling so well.' It was the last thing I said that night. She brought me to a chair, my head hit the table. My friend Caesar had to carry me out.

They all thought it was funny that I was so drunk, but I heard every single word they said. I was alert, just couldn't move.

One evening last October

When I was one third sober

and carrying home a load with manly pride

My poor feet began to stutter, and so I laid down in the gutter

and a pig came up and laid down by my side

So we Sang 'It's all fair weather when good fellows get together'

Until a lady passing by was heard to say

You can tell a man who boozes by the company he choses

.... and the pig got up and slowly walked away

[thongd4me 69]

We can't forget the fava beans and a "nice" chianti

[Darnell 8,478]

Paper umbrellas, FTW!

Recycle yer paper umbrellas into hair accessories - tis tres ultra chic, not uber-douchey at all !

[Peikko 1,575]

they probably weren't that drunk then

I knew this guy who got super drunk.. he was trying to kick-box people etc.. we had to take his keys away because he wanted to drive home and then he started to chase people around trying to get his keys back... this is not something this person would normally do.. and the next day he didn't remember doing any of it...

Oh, so you are only properly drunk when you start acting like an idiot? Up until then you are still sober? I see, good to know. I guess I have never been drunk then, yay!

[Marilyn. 340]

Oh, so you are only properly drunk when you start acting like an idiot? Up until then you are still sober? I see, good to know. I guess I have never been drunk then, yay!

that isn't what I said.. there are varying degrees of drunkenness...

[Captain Oates 911]

The true test of female insobriety is when they know in their hearts they are real plain Janes (America - 'homely')and whiff like a Cairo bazaar, but they still think everyone is trying to slip em a rape drug.

The best route to rumpy pumpy is the Mercedes key ring and sincerity

Sincerity is a wonderful thing - once you have managed to fake that, the world is your whelk

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I have a serious problem, but I think I'm in good company.

If you have really great self-control when you are drunk, then that's great. But I don't think that's true for many people.

I guess it all depends what we're talking about. The crimes associated with excess alcohol consumption do suggest that to be the case. That doesn't mean individuals are not responsible for the things they do when drunk.

[Peikko 1,575]

that isn't what I said.. there are varying degrees of drunkenness...

You did, but to assert that if someone refused to drive when drunk they can't have been 'drunk enough' is pretty silly. My point is that people do not act out of character when they are drunk or at least not to the degree that if they know that driving and drinking is wrong (which most people do) they will suddenly decide that it's not wrong when they cross some line in the inebriation process. If you know it's wrong, you know it's wrong and being drunk will not change that. Someone who tries to drive when drunk is someone who sober doesn't really believe that driving drunk is wrong.

Edited August 12, 2010 by Madame Cleo

[Peikko 1,575]

I guess it all depends what we're talking about. The crimes associated with excess alcohol consumption do suggest that to be the case. That doesn't mean individuals are not responsible for the things they do when drunk.

What are the most frequent crimes associated with excess alcohol consumption? I would imagine fighting is high on the list but not all drunks become aggressive and want to start fights but some do - my contention is that these people are more than normally aggressive when sober as well. I don't think that drinking makes people aggressive, I think drinking prevents them from exerting the control they exert when sober that stops them from fighting.

[Jenn! 918]

I don't think that drinking makes people aggressive, I think drinking prevents them from exerting the control they exert when sober that stops them from fighting.

And I don't think anyone disagrees with that. In fact, that's exactly what SMR's post was pages back.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Drink driving, fights. Even rapes.

You did, but to assert that if someone refused to drive when drunk they can't have been 'drunk enough' is pretty silly. My point is that people do not act out of character when they are drunk or at least not to the degree that if they know that driving and drinking is wrong (which most people do) they will suddenly decide that it's not wrong when they cross some line in the inebriation process. If you know it's wrong, you know it's wrong and being drunk will not change that. Someone who tries to drive when drunk is someone who sober doesn't really believe that driving drunk is wrong.

I think that when people get drunk enough they simply don't care about the moral dimension of things.

[Captain Oates 911]

Drink driving, fights. Even rapes.

I think that when people get drunk enough they simply don't care about the moral dimension of things.

that happens sober when Monica goes for your zip

especially if you are a repressed <religious person >

like Bill

Edited August 12, 2010 by saywhat