What kind of drunk are you?

[Specter Von Baren]

I personally hate alcoholic drinks. I hate the taste and I hate the effect. Most taste like paint thinner smells and I hate losing control of myself.

Anyway, because of all that, I've had very few experiences with being drunk but of the few I've had, I would say I'm the most uninteresting kind of drunk there is. I don't get angry, happy, sad, silly, loosen up, or even pass out, instead I just sit down and wait for the effects to go away, not wanting to do anything or communicate with anyone. Boring.

 

[Xprimentyl]

I DO enjoy alcoholic drinks, and enjoy the effects of moderate inebriation. It relaxes the very anxious person that I am; it loosens me up, makes me more sociable, well, at least more tolerating of socialization. Problem with that is more than once I've found myself, in complete control, surrounded by drunken idiots, and I get very impatient. I'm not a mean drunk, but if I'm tipsy and feeling good, I'll let someone else know if their silliness is disturbing my vibe.

While I have gotten black-out drunk more times than I care to admit, 99% of the time, I stay comfortably within my tolerance. I'm not the one who drinks beyond excess making a fool of myself. Usually by the time I get that far, I've found myself just wanting to go to sleep or can feel my body actively becoming averse to the idea of any further consumption, i.e.: I'm not the one who just keeps pounding them back at a high rate that the effects of overindulgence seemingly come on all at once, and it's too late to cut myself off. Shots? I'm not a huge fan, but I'll do them, and rarely more than one in a session; that's where mistakes are made.

 

[Baffle]

Those days are over for me, but generally a laid-back drunk. Never ever been an aggressive drunk, irritable at worst, and that rarely. Would sometimes go off on one, but only with like-minded people. Get too talkative and share things I wish I hadn't.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

On advice from my lawyers I refuse to answer.

 

[Asita]

The "non" kind. I have never gotten the appeal of drunkenness, and I find the efforts to endear it to me nothing short of bizarre. "You should have a few drinks, Asita, it'll loosen up your inhibitions!" ...Fucking hell, how is that supposed to be a perk? I'm mortified enough about the stupid mistakes I make while sober! I don't need to be even more mortified of the stupid things I did when I was under the influence! I might be too drunk to care in the moment, but that doesn't mean I won't care after I sober up again!

 

[Worgen]

I've a happy huggy drunk. Unless I'm fighting games, then I'm a happy angry drunk.

 

[BrawlMan]

I never gotten drunk in my entire life.

 

[Gordon_4]

On advice from my lawyers I refuse to answer.

I too refuse to answer on the grounds of fuck you it'll embarrass me XD

 

[Thaluikhain]

The "non" kind. I have never gotten the appeal of drunkenness, and I find the efforts to endear it to me nothing short of bizarre. "You should have a few drinks, Asita, it'll loosen up your inhibitions!" ...Fucking hell, how is that supposed to be a perk? I'm mortified enough about the stupid mistakes I make while sober! I don't need to be even more mortified of the stupid things I did when I was under the influence! I might be too drunk to care in the moment, but that doesn't mean I won't care after I sober up again!

Yeah, same. Had a little too much champagne once when I was little, went all giggly, decided not to do that again.

 

[Zykon TheLich]

Depends, beer is usually a 3 or 4 pint max, probably get a bit more animated and certainly a lot less guarded about certain things but then I tend to slow down and not say too much as my body starts to process it. That goes for home or out.

Spirits can either be a couple of rum and cokes and just stay very chill, not much different to normality, or it can go into half a bottle if at home or at a party, in which case I'll probably just suddenly need to sit down in a heap and go to sleep.

 

[Baffle]

It's hard to describe how incredibly alcohol-centric the UK is; it's just embedded is so many things:

Commiserating: drink
Celebrating: drink
Summer: sit outside the pub
Winter: huddle by the pub fire
Work events: drink
Large events like sports or festivals: drink (with an alcohol sponsor)
Food shortages: replace it with booze on the empty shelves
Lifting COVID restrictions: to save pubs

On the last one, it's often said that three pubs close every day in the UK, and that this means we're losing 'the centre of our communities'. But why are pubs the centres of our communities?! Why not pretty much anything else?

Have you ever tried buying a birthday card for someone over 18 who doesn't drink?!

(Should note that I'm not actually against alcohol; it's no longer for me, but it's just a personal decision [following which I feel great] for my own health and happiness - long-term alcohol consumption was, in my mind, a contributor to my dad dying, and he was only 7 years older then than I am now. But It's just so everywhere here.)

 

[Specter Von Baren]

It's hard to describe how incredibly alcohol-centric the UK is; it's just embedded is so many things:

Commiserating: drink
Celebrating: drink
Summer: sit outside the pub
Winter: huddle by the pub fire
Work events: drink
Large events like sports or festivals: drink (with an alcohol sponsor)
Food shortages: replace it with booze on the empty shelves
Lifting COVID restrictions: to save pubs

On the last one, it's often said that three pubs close every day in the UK, and that this means we're losing 'the centre of our communities'. But why are pubs the centres of our communities?! Why not pretty much anything else?

Have you ever tried buying a birthday card for someone over 18 who doesn't drink?!

(Should note that I'm not actually against alcohol; it's no longer for me, but it's just a personal decision [following which I feel great] for my own health and happiness - long-term alcohol consumption was, in my mind, a contributor to my dad dying, and he was only 7 years older then than I am now. But It's just so everywhere here.)

I think pointing to how one of the most important UK leaders of the modern age, Winston Churchill, was known for drinking all day every day, kind of gets the point across.

 

[Baffle]

I think pointing to how one of the most important UK leaders of the modern age, Winston Churchill, was known for drinking all day every day, kind of gets the point across.

Pretty sure our current one does too.

 

[Specter Von Baren]

Pretty sure our current one does too.

Also I think part of why the UK has such a fixation on drinking, as do a lot of countries, is because for a looong time, if you didn't have access to a well then wine was the safest source of hydration you could have. Also keep in mind, though I would guess you know this, that our modern levels of alcohol in our drinks are much higher than they were in "ye olden times" and so you'd need a longer time of drinking back then in order to reach the levels we can now. So more loose drinking habits developed and became ingrained in the culture until today where technological advancements have made those old traditions harder to pull off.

At least that's my theory, there's unfortunately not a huge amount of history on the effects that alcohol may have had on events in our past for me to really know.

 

[Baffle]

Also I think part of why the UK has such a fixation on drinking, as do a lot of countries, is because for a looong time, if you didn't have access to a well then wine was the safest source of hydration you could have. Also keep in mind, though I would guess you know this, that our modern levels of alcohol in our drinks are much higher than they were in "ye olden times" and so you'd need a longer time of drinking back then in order to reach the levels we can now. So more loose drinking habits developed and became ingrained in the culture until today where technological advancements have made those old traditions harder to pull off.
At least that's my theory, there's unfortunately not a huge amount of history on the effects that alcohol may have had on events in our past for me to really know.

You have to boil the water to make beer (to extract malt), that's what made beer safer. You don't, IIRC, need to boil to make wine, but alcohol inhibits the growth of bacteria anyway (which is why some high-strength alcohols are self-limiting - the alcohol kills the yeast - so you need special techniques to make pointlessly high-alcohol beers). Modern alcohol levels are quite a bit higher than they were even in the 1970s and maybe later, let alone in the distant past, though some have dropped again in the UK for tax reasons (I think anything over 5% is in a different tax grouping).

But it's more than that; the British drinking culture is different to, say, mainland Europe, but the historical technological situation can't have been that different.

 

[Kyrian007]

I tend to stop the second I start to feel effects... most of the time. I've never been into altering perceptions, because I generally prefer how I usually feel to the altered states I've been in. Drunk... too dizzy. I don't like the spinning paired with the knowledge I'm not actually moving. Its like vr without the fixed points of focus. But I have on a few occasions gone beyond just barely drunk. The problem is in those instances I went way beyond it, and don't really remember it well enough to know what I'm like while I'm drunk.

 

[Thaluikhain]

I think pointing to how one of the most important UK leaders of the modern age, Winston Churchill, was known for drinking all day every day, kind of gets the point across.

One of the more controversial ones as well, though, and the drinking probably didn't help.

But it's more than that; the British drinking culture is different to, say, mainland Europe, but the historical technological situation can't have been that different.

I'm led to believe that the British did drink more than at least some mainlanders (who expressed some surprise at never meeting a sober brit), not sure if that's true though.

 

[Specter Von Baren]

One of the more controversial ones as well, though, and the drinking probably didn't help.



I'm led to believe that the British did drink more than at least some mainlanders (who expressed some surprise at never meeting a sober brit), not sure if that's true though.

I mean, the Russians also have a reputation for drinking a lot.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I never gotten drunk in my entire life.

Same here.

I've gotten stoned a few times in high school, but even that was fairly mild.

 

[Gordon_4]

It's hard to describe how incredibly alcohol-centric the UK is; it's just embedded is so many things:

Commiserating: drink
Celebrating: drink
Summer: sit outside the pub
Winter: huddle by the pub fire
Work events: drink
Large events like sports or festivals: drink (with an alcohol sponsor)
Food shortages: replace it with booze on the empty shelves
Lifting COVID restrictions: to save pubs

See also: Australia with the added entry of 'because we can'.

On the last one, it's often said that three pubs close every day in the UK, and that this means we're losing 'the centre of our communities'. But why are pubs the centres of our communities?! Why not pretty much anything else?

Pubs, or Public Houses are the centre of a lot of things because they were one of a few places whole communities would gather in ye olde days. The other one was church (assuming they had one) so it was how people got to know each other. So when people lament their closing, they're usually lamenting one that's been around for anything between 50 and 400 years. No one gives much of a shit if a pub that opened in 2010 closes in 2022 beyond maybe "Awww, I liked that place". But when really old, borderline historical places go to the wall, its felt a bit more keenly. Its why I prefer pubs to bars or night clubs: their only purpose is to get shitfaced, or get shitfaced AND dance. If I go to a pub I can have a beer, yes. I can also have a plate of sausages and mashed potatoes, or a chicken and vegetable pie the size of my head, or a chicken parmie with chips and salad of sufficient size to sink the Titanic. And I can do it sitting outside on a wonderful, blue sky day. Or I can be inside on a cold and wet one and watch my favourite weather as I eat a meal sitting at a lovely table looking out a window.