What Is The Point Of Drinking

[Laro]

Okay you go out on a Friday night. Have a party in a pub. Have some glasses of booze. Go to your friend's house. Drink even more. Mess up the room. Talk about random non-sense things. Dance, sing.
The next moring you wake up, all hung over. Send you buddies home. Clean up the house. Throiw up a few times. Go back to sleep again. Spend the rest of your day watching TV.

The next Friday it's the same thing again.

Ask yourself.

Am I having real good fun?

Do I feel sick?

Am I tired?

AM I COOL??

An endless drunken party...

Most members of this forum are not even near that. They're worse or maybe they don't drink at all.

What's so good about alchohol and what's bad?

Discuss.

 

[Big Casino]

You dont have to go out and get wasted every time you have a drink. I love goin out with my pals havin a few beers talking. Do i have a good time?? yes i do. DO i get hungover? when its been a heavy night yea i do. But hell il do it all over again because i had a good time. How can you know what most members of the forum are like?? you dont know them all. Why knock someone for havin a laugh? if they dont hurt anyone else, whats the problem?

And implying people drink to be ' cool ' is ridiculous

 

[Laro]

You dont have to go out and get wasted every time you have a drink. I love goin out with my pals havin a few beers talking. Do i have a good time?? yes i do. DO i get hungover? when its been a heavy night yea i do. But hell il do it all over again because i had a good time. How can you know what most members of the forum are like?? you dont know them all. Why knock someone for havin a laugh? if they dont hurt anyone else, whats the problem?

And implying people drink to be ' cool ' is ridiculous

Every person is different. I do not know them all but I know that they are all different. Your kind of fun is not that bad, what kind of fun do you do though? Walk around and talk, play football or something else? I want more details on this.

 

[Big Casino]

Every person is different. I do not know them all but I know that they are all different. Your kind of fun is not that bad, what kind of fun do you do though? Walk around and talk, play football or something else? I want more details on this.

Yeah il go to the bar and watch the football or the boxing have a few drinks, then go out in town afterwards , for me its all about meeting people im not saying i have to be drunk to socialise but when i have had a few drinks it always ends up a better night, i gain more confidence etc and usually funny things happen.

EDIT. lol watching my mate steve when hes drunk is the funniest thing ever, hes recently single and TRIES to chat up anything that moves, lol the rejections are sooo funny then he dances....hahahahahaha even funnier

 

[Aztec Triogal]

EDIT: If you don't want to read all this, read the last three sentences of the post after this... it pretty much covers it.

You're clearly not a drinker because you demonstrate obvious logical fallacies of someone who has never tried it but yet believes they completely understand it. I would be upset about it but I was there too when I was younger. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people were.

I know when I was young, I saw people who drank to much making fools of themselves, hearing about how they threw up, and I remember thinking how that was never going to be me. What I didn't fully realize is that drinking is not entirely composed of two separate states. It's not sober and smashed. When you drink, there is a very slow progression from sober to blasted... and you're in complete control the entire way. Only when you're in the "blasted" phase are you unable to perceive your surroundings correctly. Everything up to that stage, you can pretty much perceive everything perfectly well... you just can't necessarily interact with it well. So while a sober person sees every drinker as a bumbling drunk, the drinker has a very "in-control" feel over his drinking experience. Only when he drinks too much, and most drinkers know that limit, do they become the drunks you apparently perceive all drinkers to be.

The second thing I did not understand when I was young was the concept of money. It doesn't take much money to get drunk. I'm going out tonight and I'll probably take ten bucks and have a great time. For someone my age, that's pocketchange.

The third thing I didn't understand when I was young was that drinking is not what makes a night great. You do not go out "to drink". You go out to hang out with friends, meet new people, and socialize in a way you normally would not. The drinking simply lubricates it all. Most people aren't bubblie and overly friendly... and if they are they're usually just flat out annoying. If you drink, you can be outgoing and charismatic in a way you only wish you could normally. Again, you're not bumbling around or slurring necessarily... you just feel more relaxed and more willing to meet new people.

Now you're right, drinking can be bad sometimes... but you have to look at the whole picture. While some people who lose their inhibitions to drinking do incredibly stupid things, break laws, and expose themselves in public... the majority of people just lose their personal issues (being shy, etc.). And while some people do get sick from drinking too much, most people wake up perfectly fine. It's just that you hear stories about getting sick from everyone because there's always "that one night" where you misjudged how much you drank and got sick. But it's one bad experience in a hundred...

 

[Donald Trump]

And implying people drink to be ' cool ' is ridiculous

Damn straight, smoking makes you cool, not drinking.

Like everyone has said, drinking is way to have more fun whilst socialising. A friend of mine, likes this very good looking girl, and to be honest she is way out of his league. Most of the time he won't even look at her, let alone talk to her. One night there is a huge party everyone goes and if they aren't getting smashed, they're certainly putting away a lot. So, my friend, goes and talks to this girl for at least five minutes, makes her laugh. After that he drank till he coma'ed. But I see him the next day, he has a terrible hangover, but he's smiling from ear to ear, he was exstatic. It paints rather a poor picture of AJ, but it shows that alcohol is a social lubricant. It enhances social interaction.
There's a difference between binge drinking and social drinking.

 

[Sergeant_P]

It's worth getting wasted once or twice in your life. Then once you've experienced it, stick to a glass of wine or beer with dinner.

(Totally off topic, Laguna, I recognize you from the Square Source Forums from about 5 years ago (I know... 5 years right?) with Zezi, Fenrir, and Amiel, are you the same fella and is this, in fact, the same SSF just under a new name/management?)

 

[Davey Gaga]

You're clearly not a drinker because you demonstrate obvious logical fallacies of someone who has never tried it but yet believes they completely understand it.

The words "hit", "nail" and "head" immediately spring to mind, here.

I drink, mostly, because of the social implications. With alcohol, yo u become much less uptight and, at parties and gigs, you can just let yourself go in the company of your friends, do nothing but smile, laugh and, generally, have a good time. I definitely think that one night of the best banter in the world is worth taking the next day to recooperate and having hours upon hours of stories to talk about the next day. If you can control what you consume, and how much thereof, then you can avoid the vomitting and general feeling of sickness both during and after consumption - I've only ever been ill twice, the latter of which was due to being spiked and the former of which was due to an unhealthy volume of straight vodka being downed at the New Year Bells.

I don't think that I'll ever give it up until it starts to have an effect on me. I'm not addicted, nor do I drink on a(-n overly) regular basis, so I'm fine with what I do.

 

[Ovan]

Personally I've found that I can make do without alcohol, but what I'm guessing Laro is implying is the stereotypical high schooler or college dood, who apparently go out just to get smashed.

However, I agree that in most cases, alcohol is used as a tool for socialization. Nothing wrong with that IMO.

On a more personal note, though no one cares, I don't drink because I HATE the taste of basically every type of alcohol (I've tried quite a few, truthfully), and my logic is if I don't like it, why bother? =P

 

[Aztec Triogal]

On a more personal note, though no one cares, I don't drink because I HATE the taste of basically every type of alcohol (I've tried quite a few, truthfully), and my logic is if I don't like it, why bother? =P

Now this I can understand but it is a completely different matter altogether. When I started drinking all I could stomach was Bailey's Irish Cream because nothing else tasted good to me. After awhile I developed a taste for Jack Daniel's (especially mixed with coke) and a few light beers... now my tastes have changed again and I'm almost strictly a beer drinker. I drink Yuengling, a Pennsylvania beer... which I express my affection for quite prolifically in this deleted thread from the FFIX forum.

EDIT: This would be an example of drinking too much...

 

[Big Casino]

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Ouch you really posted that? lol. yuengling sounds pretty shady to me, very eastern europe. I used to be strictly a morgans spiced drinker nothing else, but now its all about beer, tennants ice cold all the way.
Ovan its probadly something that will grow on you, after trying different mixes youl find something you like, just stay away from 3 litre bottles of cider

 

[Joejoe245]

My mate comes up mine one every month or so. We get a few crates of beer, crack open a few and eat our chinese takeaway whilst playing Final Fantasy games. This is our regular friday night.
Saturday night, we have a few drinks, and then hit the town with some of my other mates, hit a few bars and clubs - one bar.club in particular where we always end up having six shots of sake each in the space of one minute.
We often go out to cheer one of our mates up or to take ours minds off women. either way we always end up having a great time and for some bizarre reason, I never wake up with a hangover... can somebody please describe to me what one feels like :/

 

[SaShman]

I started drinking when I was 14 and my first time was a pretty bad experience passing out and vomiting isn't really fun. Since then I've never been that bad but I've still vomited on occasion. During year 12 I started to actually enjoy the taste of some drinks, I used to love Jack Daniel's with coke, then I developed a taste for Budweiser, Heineken and Corona's (especially with lemon).

This year I decided to quit drinking though, for no particular reason really. I just went out to a club one night, decided not to drink, then realized I had just as much fun as normal. I have nothing against getting drunk really, I just don't do it possibly due to stubbornness, but I do enjoy keeping my head clear to.

I agree that it is a good 'social lubricant' so to speak, but I realized I am just as much of a dickhead while I'm sober as I am while I'm drunk. Plus I enjoy laughing at my friends make drunken idiots of themselves.

 

[Prince Oberyn Martel]

I really want to type out a detailed and valid argument that would absolutely pwn this thread....but I'm hungover, so Aztec T's post will have to do for that. Good stuff.

It's nice, it's sociable, if you did something bad with sober mind you can get thrashed and have the excuse "If I don't remember it, it never happened!", winds down the day and/or week and most of all beer has been helping ugly people have sex since 1862.

Sure there is some bad side effects if you over indulge but I like to see it as an important metaphor for life. Take too much too fast with bad mixes and your head will end up down the toilet.

 

[Bun]

I don't drink (individually or socially), so there really is no point for me, and I think it's difficult to put yourself in someone elses shoes to truly get an idea of their reasoning for such a topic. Personally, I despise alcohol and have had scarring experiences with it by the people who have and still abuse it. And while I know it is not the drinks fault, I still have trouble convincing myself that not everyone is irresponsible (although I can only think of 2 people in my life who don't or didn't drink; it's quite pitiful that the majority has and still does). When people are constantly proving they don't want to or cannot be responsible with alcohol, it's kind of hard to believe they ever will.

 

[Rey]

Drinking can be really bad sometimes because if your drinking and then you decide to drive chances are you will die or get a serious injury. Drinking also gets people crazy and makes them do weird things if they get drunk of course. Well I tried it but it just does not taste that well in my opinion.

 

[Big Casino]

Drinking can be really bad sometimes because if your drinking and then you decide to drive chances are you will die or get a serious injury. Drinking also gets people crazy and makes them do weird things if they get drunk of course. Well I tried it but it just does not taste that well in my opinion.

Thats a pretty weird thing to say, i mean not everyone goes crazy? what exactly do you mean by crazy anyway?? Fair enough uv tried ' gettin drunk ' but that dont make u an expert. And also people who decide to drive after their boozy are just plain idiots who should lose their license, but the majority of people wont do that.

 

[Fusilli]

Meh, I assume most people drink because it helps them to loosen up and have fun. *shrug* As a non-drinker I can't really say. And I may not be wrong in guessing that with some people they don't REALLY need to drink when they go out, they just do because it's what they usually do.

Anyhoo, I don't drink for quite a few reasons. Firstly I hate the taste of alcohol, so why bother with something if it's disgusting? In my experience, people can get scary when they've had a few drinks, and I don't like it. It's all a little too unpredictable for me, being around drunk people makes me uncomfortable. I don't like the idea of losing control of myself either, and doing things that I wouldn't usually do because I've got a few drinks in me. The way I see it, that's a BAD thing. And I also want to keep my body as healthy as possible thank you very much.

Binge drinking is unbelievably common round here even at ages as low as about 12 (which I think is kind of ridiculous, there are REASONS behind these age restrictions), and it seems that the vast majority of people my age at school are always talking about parties where they got absolutely trashed. It just.. doesn't seem like fun AT ALL to me.

 

[Solidjuss]

Absolutely no idea why I drink... one thing is that it's easier to communicate with others than... even with the ones with who I normally wouldn't talk. Other thing is that I am more respected then (wth right This is the life in my homecity... 90% of my class is drunk most of the time)... Third thing is...I am an alcoholic probably... just can't end...
For 4th, I feel bad after drinking, not only physically but mentally as well... I think what the heck I did and so on... besides, playing saxophone better when little bit drunk, I don't do anything better when drunk.... only destroy things and so on...

Oh, I drink good beer because of good taste Like a bottle or three some evenings...

 

[Bun]

Thats a pretty weird thing to say, i mean not everyone goes crazy? what exactly do you mean by crazy anyway?? Fair enough uv tried ' gettin drunk ' but that dont make u an expert. And also people who decide to drive after their boozy are just plain idiots who should lose their license, but the majority of people wont do that.

You've got your statistics messed up. Here is a bit of information taken from the CDC's website:

Alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes kill someone every 31 minutes and nonfatally injure someone every two minutes(NHTSA 2006).But there are effective measures that can be taken to prevent injuries and deaths from impaired driving.

(I suspect this is a rough estimate given the fact that authorities cannot catch every drunk driver)

So...the majority of people won't drink and then drive? Seems like a lot of people dying or being injured as a result of drunk driving to me.

Meh, I assume most people drink because it helps them to loosen up and have fun. *shrug* As a non-drinker I can't really say. And I may not be wrong in guessing that with some people they don't REALLY need to drink when they go out, they just do because it's what they usually do.

Anyhoo, I don't drink for quite a few reasons. Firstly I hate the taste of alcohol, so why bother with something if it's disgusting? In my experience, people can get scary when they've had a few drinks, and I don't like it. It's all a little too unpredictable for me, being around drunk people makes me uncomfortable. I don't like the idea of losing control of myself either, and doing things that I wouldn't usually do because I've got a few drinks in me. The way I see it, that's a BAD thing. And I also want to keep my body as healthy as possible thank you very much.

Binge drinking is unbelievably common round here even at ages as low as about 12 (which I think is kind of ridiculous, there are REASONS behind these age restrictions), and it seems that the vast majority of people my age at school are always talking about parties where they got absolutely trashed. It just.. doesn't seem like fun AT ALL to me.

This is another reason why I don't drink--it just doesn't taste all that good; the alcohol, anyway. I've drank before and it's just not something I could get into. It was a peer pressure thing--just as a lot of people have said they drink because it helps them "loosen up", so I'm guessing the majority reason is social and eventually a form of habit--all of my friends were doing it, but it never stuck because of some reasons I don't feel like listing out. It honestly just makes me sick to my stomach, and I don't want to put myself in a situation where I am willingly making myself vulnerable and where I could lose control.

Not to mention the fact that just being around people who are drinking makes me incredibly uncomfortable. That's why I stopped hanging out with the people I used to, because they're apparently incapable of hanging out without getting shitfaced. Amazingly enough, it's very hard to find someone who doesn't drink or at least has enough decency to respect choices. (I hear a lot of "I drink, get over it")

The way I see it is, if people want to drink, that's fine--more power to them. But I'm not going to put myself in a situation where I don't feel safe and comfortable, and I don't think that's asking too much.