Poll: Isn't being a "lightweight" a good thing?

[DoPo]

It may be practical, but manlyness isn't always about practicality.
Were beards ever practical? No.

Wat? So you think it's somehow easier to kill a bear with your hands? Have you even tried it? I'm telling you, it's super annoying trying to get it into a chokehold or to bash it's skull open. It's much, much more practical to project beard power into it until its head explodes.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

It may be practical, but manlyness isn't always about practicality.
Were beards ever practical? No.

Beards are practical. They insulate the face.

But being a lightweight is different. It is a test of constitution. Just like any other feat in the same category, one's performance is commensurate with their training. At my "best" (from a purely objective standpoint with regards to my life, substitute best for worst), I could easily drink the better part of a bottle of liquor in a sitting. No that I no longer toy with crippling alcoholism, I'm at peace with the universe after two drinks and unhappy with the same at five.

Is it a bad thing to be a lightweight? Hardly. It just demonstrates you don't drink much. I'm sure the stigma probably has something to do with the long tradition of drinking and such so much so that at various points in history, one's capacity to imbibe was directly correlated to their life experience.

 

[malestrithe]

I'd prefer the term Cheap Date because that acknowledges my ability to save money.

Actually, I'm very cheap. one or two pints, even at my weight, and I feel inebriated like you would not believe.

 

[Phasmal]

I'm a lightweight, but I dont drink often anyway. Had vodka last night, yum.
I like alcopops.
Don't really mind being a lightweight, because being a lady there is no pressure to be manly and drink loads.
So I generally have a few drinks and then just spend the rest of the night dancing.
(At my boyfriend's brothers wedding I was quite drunk and I was wondering why as the night went on most of the other women were taking off their heels. I kept mine on all night because they didn't hurt. I realised in the morning what a mistake I had made.)

 

[Eamar]

Someone's capacity for drinking alcohol means absolutely nothing to me UNLESS they are unaware of their own limits. When I have to leave my one weekly gathering with my friends early because my sister, who's visiting, has vastly overestimated how much she can drink, I'm going to be pissed off. *definitely not bitter at all *

Likewise when someone can't acknowledge how drunk they are and end up doing stupid shit like starting fights with people who could crush them with their little finger.

Being a lightweight isn't a bad thing, not knowing your limits (or knowing them but overstepping them anyway because everyone else is still drinking) is.

 

[Exocet]

FACT: alcohol ingestion capability is directly proportional to penis size, therefore manliness.

A lightweight drinker obviously suffers from erectile dysfunction, and have a pathetic beard at best.

 

[EeveeElectro]

Well I get pyjama'd off one bottle of wine (if the wine is about 11-14%) so I'd get drunk off about 5/6 cans if I drunk beer.
So I'm a fairly cheap date and I'm more up for "things" *shifty look* when I'm drunk.
That's not an invitation for any of you to get me drunk though. >.>

Spoiler

 

[Lug100]

It really depends what you like when you're drunk, for instance all the lightweights I know are really annoying to drink with as they tend to be really annoying drunks.

For instance, while its good that you don't have to spend much to get drunk, if your already drunk by the time everyones isn't even tipsy, you're just going to piss everyone off, for instance, if you start puking when everyone's still sober, no-one's going to be looking at you to kindly in the morning.

So there are benefits and disadvantages of it really, but I see more disadvantages than advantages.

(one last note, if your already hammered and I'm still struggling to get drunk, dont help yourself to all my spirits just because you're on the floor after two pints. You will be paying for more bottles in the morning -_-

 

[mrF00bar]

You know, I got called a lightweight once after passing out through alcohol consumption. What my friend didn't realize that there was a huge amount of alcohol in the bottle & 1/2 of whiskey I tried to drown myself in. Frankly I was surprised I didn't pass out sooner.

 

[Exterminas]

It is not a skill. Simply a question of habbit.
Making a competition out of this is like making one out of Juggling cats. The guys who don't do that on a regular basis are going to loose, but that doesn't make it a desireable skill.

 

[Jandau]

I'm a lightweight. It used to bother me, but then I finished college...

 

[Patrick Buck]

I'm a lightweight, and.... and it's jsut great. I can get drunk quickly, and it's awesome. Save's money, saves time, and only one or two of my friends are, so I start doing stupid stuff, and they think it's hilarious. I don't mind being made fun of, in good sport. But I never go overboard, I stop when I've had enough...

 

[SEXTON HALE]

High tolerance is definatly good up to a point but now that its ridiculously expensive for me to get really drunk I envy you light weights somewhat.
Its not exactly a bad thing but there are downsides to it though if I could reset my tolerance somehow I definatly would.

 

[The Funslinger]

Pros:
Cost-effectiveness
You'll think yourself much funnier
Ladies will sympathise with you
Attractive to gay men


Cons:
Stop drinking before your friends
You'll be the drunk idiot the fastest
Be the least funny after four drinks
Have to water everything down
Lose all drinking games
Lack of manliness
Probably can't even grow a beard
Not attractive to women

And ladies and gentlemen The Bobmus wins the thread.

If your a lightweight you're not a man because as we all know manliness is measured in how many liters of beer we can drink.

EDIT: If you're a woman it's probably for the better, men are attracted to women that are wasted easily. If a woman can drink them under the table they're going to get intimidated.
EDIT: Not all men.

I always thought one's manliness was measured by how many pints of blood one could stand to lose through open wounds without fainting. For me, it's three or four, and then I'm out.

Source: was stabbed, and ruined a perfectly good pair of jeans. Unless you want a pair of jeans with one leg completely red, like some kind of Two-face casual friday sort of deal...

 

[The Funslinger]

You know, I got called a lightweight once after passing out through alcohol consumption. What my friend didn't realize that there was a huge amount of alcohol in the bottle & 1/2 of whiskey I tried to drown myself in. Frankly I was surprised I didn't pass out sooner.

I know how you feel.

In about an hour or so, I consumed about 700ml of vodka, straight. Having missed two meals, and smoked pot.

My total memory of the visit to A&E comes to about fifteen seconds.

People called me a lightweight for that. I then had someone consume a similar amount of vodka over several hours while heavily mixing it with cola. Somehow they thought they could rub that in my face.

 

[bojackx]

Well considering being a lightweight means you have little poison resistance, not really.

That's really not something I'm very concerned about. The way I see it, I'm far more likely to end up saving lots of money than I am to ingest arsenic.

 

[StriderShinryu]

I have a fairly high tolerance. I get buzzed quickly but don't really get drunk unless I go overboard. Honestly, though, it's really just about being smart. If you go out for drinks with the express purpose of getting wasted, then I can see how being a lightweight would be a problem. If, however, you go out to have a good time, maybe watch a game or something, and share a meal no one is going to be counting drinks anyway. A lightweight can last just as long as a big drinker if they space things out and don't chug their alcohol down as soon as it hits the table. Besides, and either way, I just don't see the appeal of getting stupid drunk no matter how long it takes you. Moderation no matter what your tolerance allows you to get the buzz of the drinks that makes the outing a fun one but without getting stupid.

 

[BodomBeachChild]

Yes. I hate drinking with someone who 3-4 drinks in they're about to tap out when everyone else is getting started =(

 

[AngryMongoose]

Eh, it's harder to reach a happy medium; and when you go overboard (which is much easier to do) the results are more likely to be undesirable.

I'm in the weird situation of being a lightweight who needs to keep drinking to sustain it. Only takes me two or three to get drunk but I have to keep drinking at a steady pace to keep myself drunk. I've got a fast metabolism so unless I keep drinking my body processes it and I become sober again.

I was like that, and then I apparently developed a tolerance to alcohol. Net effect is it's difficult to get really drunk : /

 

[NightHawk21]

Well depends on what you want to accomplish, but TheBombus summed it up about right.

Pros:
Cost-effectiveness
You'll think yourself much funnier
Ladies will sympathise with you
Attractive to gay men


Cons:
Stop drinking before your friends
You'll be the drunk idiot the fastest
Be the least funny after four drinks
Have to water everything down
Lose all drinking games
Lack of manliness
Probably can't even grow a beard
Not attractive to women

Were beards ever practical? No.

Wait since when has a beard not been practical. Since times immemorial, the beard has been the most practical thing you can have on your face, and I'm not even talking about the higher status and power that is associated with having a beard.
Beards:
- were used for warmth from the outside environment (and aren't as pansy as a scarf)
- protection (to deflect the girly and poorly aimed punches of lesser men)
- as a convenient food storage mechanism (for the man on the go)
- as a knowledge reservoir (it is a well known fact that the longer a mans beard the wiser he is)
- and as a source of magically energy (studies have shown a direct correlation between beard length and magical power)