quote Praetorian_LordCheers for this. Rather insightful.That can largely be explained by dosage effects. In small amounts it removes inhibitions, in larger amounts it can have any number of different effects. Alcohol's actually one of the few substances which can reliably penetrate the blood-brain barrier, which is basically your brain's last line of defence against blood-borne infections. Meaning it can get in where few other drugs can, and wreak havoc with any and every part of it - including your reasoning centres. Your behaviour might then make perfect sense to you at the time even if it's in direct contrast with how you'd normally behave. So no, it doesn't have to be a simple extension of your usual personality.
Everything else you've said is about right though. I think your experience as a bartender gives you more of an insight into the social nature of drinking behaviour than its actual biological and psychological effects.
quote Ben73Maybe the experience of forgetting or blacking out. It is sort of tongue and cheek, but maybe they are just crazy.I don't get it when people say "last night was so fun, I can't rememeber anything"
Seriously how was it fun if you don't remember.
I never have drank so much I couldn't remember the night before. Sure I forget parts but overall I remember most things.
So that either means I have never been drunk, or alcohol doesn't effect my memory much. Because there have been times where I have felt quite drunk but still remember it the next day.
quote Ben73I think most people say that tongue in cheek in all honesty. I know I do.I don't get it when people say "last night was so fun, I can't rememeber anything"
Seriously how was it fun if you don't remember.
quote ChelskimanThat's not a generalization. I've met scores of people who seem alright and fun, but I can never hang out with them because anything and everything they do involves getting drunk, and there's not one thing I can do with them that calls for sobriety. I'm pretty sure he had specific instances in mind, of which there are many.Nobody said the people who drink alcohol can't have fun without it, what a massive generalisation that was, considering you don't know anyone here irl. I drink a lot, and I've had fun many times sober. Drinking is a social past time. People have been gathering together for years to have a drink. Is it needed to have fun? No, it's not, but it certainly enhances it when you're with a group of people you know.
quote captain booLol. It's not the alcohols fault that somebody got killed in an accident. It's the person who decided to get into the car knowing he/she was drunk. You don't see a bottle of alcohol going on trial for killing people. As I said before, it isn't the alcohol people should blame, it's the person drinking it. And sure it's poison, in large amounts, which basically everything is. I don't smoke, but I'm not going to go around claiming smoking is the devil's work and it causes lung cancer.Virtually all of my friends do, though, but that's normal. I have an irrational hate of the substance for the lives it costs us for both accidents and as alcohol in itself is a poison. I dislike how it often changes people for the worst and the excuses it gives people, when they're not excuses at all. I also detest the dependence some people have on it for every social occasion. It's simply mind blowing how fun cannot initiate itself without alcohol in some people's eyes. But these are often the same people with the winning hypothesis that if they overindulge and their memory is wiped from severe brain dehydration, they must've had a heck of a good time.
Logic. Cannot Comprehend.
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