booze

[lady cop]

what are you like when you drink? :quaff: :chug: :tapbeer: :vin: someone here emailed me a shocking accusation....that when i am smashed i get cuddly and lovable and sweet! :drunk2: :drunk: :drunk3: :saddrunk: this is a slander and outright lie, i am mortally wounded and offended :madrant: :argh: , i am NOT "sweet"! i am tough and rough and dangerous! i am going to sue the shit out of the next person that calls me a creampuff! :hissyfit: :shakefist: soooo...anyone here undergo personality changes while under the influence?

[livius drusus]

I just get inarticulate, dizzy and, eventually, sick. I might also be inclined to speak when I would normally keep my yap shut, but other than that, I'm pretty much a sloppy version of myself.

You, otoh, are totally a cuddly drunk. Face it and embrace it, lady cop. :giggle:

[Ymir's blood]

Generally alcohol loosens me up and makes me rather playful. There have been some times, usually when drinking wine, that I just sort of became completely withdrawn and (silently) happy. :drunk3:

:drunksgn:

[lady cop]

You, otoh, are totally a cuddly drunk. Face it and embrace it, lady cop. :giggle: ...well now my rep is ruined. :deepsigh: guess i'll enter a nunnery...hey, we need a nun smiley!

[Farren]

Three tots of Jack down the hatch I'm the life of the party. All my inhibitions drop and I find it really easy to make friends with an entire roomful of strangers. But after some uncertain quantity (I'm generally not counting when it happens) I get stupid drunk and embarrass myself by being uncoordinated, loud and nonsensical. Still friendly, but annoying. I try keep the balance but fail as often as I succeed.

Up until my mid-twenties I had a problem that cropped up every so often where I would sometimes just have a piss wherever the mood took me when I was plastered. On one occasion I peed on my friend's bed and would have been mortified if she wasn't such a close friend. On another occasion, I told everyone I was going to the toilet and instead went to the kitchen, opened the oven and peed in it, none of which I consciously remembered the next day.

The most awful incident, though, occured one night while drinking with a friend and one of his old school friends. We were really laying into the Tequila and I woke up the next morning in his bed, with him sleeping on the couch. I had no memory of the latter hours of the previous evening. He was pretty annoyed with me. Apparently in the course of chatting to his friend I said I was going to the toilet. As I got up and started walking away his friend said something which distracted me from my mission and I came back and stood in front of him (he was sitting on a couch) and continued talking for a while.

I must have lot the plot and assumed I was in the toilet because apparently while he was talking I just whipped it out and calmly started pissing all over him, oblivious to his horrified protests.

[Ex-zombie]

When I have had three mixed drinks I love to talk about philosophy with whoever will listen and respond. Might not sound weird to you but when stone cold sober I intensely dislike anything even resembling philosophy.

Of course how I behave when drunk depends alot on the mood I'm in before starting drinking. Sometimes I am quiet and sometimes talkative.

I never, ever drink Jack Daniels. At the age of seventeen I had my first taste of it and it was the only time I have been a mean drunk. I beat the shit out of a stranger at a party. I had only had 2 drinks. I felt completely pissed off at everyone and everything. The overwhelming rage scared me badly when the Jack wore off.

[viscousmemories]

Farren your first paragraph sounds exactly like me, except add on to that the propensity for breaking and entering, grand larceny and unlawfully driving away automobiles after a certain quantity of alcohol. The rest of your post made me laugh out loud, hard. :roflmao:

[Legs]

I always found alcohol enhanced whatever mood I was in before I had a drink... if I was upset, I felt more miserable, if I was happy then I became happier, if I was flirty then I became more so, if I was angry, well... look out LOL

Lately I just feel sleepy :yawn: when I drink.

Can I ask how often people consume alcohol? everyday, a few times a week, weekends only? Truthfully, I can't recall last time I had a drink... probably new years eve.

[CARLA]

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Just a PARTY ANIMAL... :D Pretty much the same personality drunk, or sober. I to become a CREAMPUFF.. :doh:

http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/12/12_13_1.gif Martini's are a dangerous drink for me. Don't know what it is, damn they get me drunk.. :yup:

The sad thing is the older you get the less you can drink. :chin: I did my best drinking, long before I turned 21.. :doh:

[Dingfod]

I'm even more mellow drunk than sober and that's pretty damn mellow. I will dance when drunk when I wouldn't dance to save my life when sober. However, I don't drink hard liquor any more, not since my election night pukefest. It will be difficult to attain the same level of drunkeness on 3.2% beer. Friday night I went out with coworkers for the fourth annual going away party for Mark, a coworker that keeps saying he is going away but doesn't. I had five beers in four hours and went home as sober as I arrived.

That said, tequila and I don't get along. The last time I got drunk on tequila, it resulted in broken furniture and lighting fixtures. This sort of thing results from my tendency when drunk to pick up and carry around people smaller than me, sometimes only a little bit smaller than me, sometimes not willingly, thus the broken furniture and lighting fixtures.

[RevDahlia]

I get more talkative and emphatic, but less articulate, when I'm drinking. Since I'm a bit of a control freak this makes for some mortified mornings: "Oh Gawd, what did I say?"

I think I might be getting all embarrassed over nothing, though. Once I was imbibing with some friends and got way out of line, or so I thought; when I apologized to my hostess the next day, she said "Wha? You were drunk? :pardon?:" So either I'm a bitch all the time, or I'm not that terrible of a drunk.

Farren, thank you for your stories. Nothing makes a lush happier than the opportunity to go "See? I'm not as bad as HIM!"

[Beth]

It depends. Alcohol amplifies whatever mood I am in. In moderation, that is good, otherwise, it is berry, berry bad.

[xouper]

Booze? None for me, thanks. :nooo:

[SharonDee]

I only drink to relax, like when I had a bad commute home or just a bad day in general. Hubster does the "getting drunk" around these parts, starting in the early morning and going well into the evening on the weekends. Watching him takes all the fun out of it, really.

[meena]

hm. I have a drink to escape. from everything. but damn if it doesn't all come back! oh well, at least I get to act like a nutty, silly person, who doesn't make sense. I don't drink a lot, just enough to get a buzz going.
I like watching others drink, so I know how I look when I do...lol.

[livius drusus]

That sucks, Sharon. :deepsigh:

[Legs]

Watching him takes all the fun out of it, really.

How do you drink through that veil of yours? :D

[SharonDee]

How do you drink through that veil of yours? :D
With a very, VERY long straw. :P

[kensloft]

Twenty plus years of hard drinking. If there was alcohol in it it was cool.
Drank with politicians, punks, bikers and the guys in the local bars. Early on I remedied my hangovers. It was a bad move. I could drink 'til the cows came home and, oftentimes, I opened the gate. The following, day as the co-workers would call in sick, I'd be there, working. See. I told you it was a bad move not getting hangovers.

All manner of stumbling, blurred vision, sloppy speech etc. happened and the only people that I liked to drink with were the punks. They were up front. They were civilized. And they were great drinkers.

Instead of the run of the mill 'after the party was over' melodramas(what'd I say, do etc.), they soon taught me that when my eyes opened from the alcohol induced power nap, the thing to do was to crack another beer.

Did you know that you could get comfortably drunk three times in a day?

[Legs]

Did you know that you could get comfortably drunk three times in a day?

Define comfortably. Is that like in your jammies on the love seat?

[Shaguar]

When I have had a few I develop the body of a greek god, the wit of Oscar Wilde and the voice of Dean Martin and an ability to dance that would make Fred Astaire seem like an amateur. In reality I develop the body of another God (Bhudda), the wit of Josef Goebbels, tone deafness and the dancing ability of a demented hippo.

BTW I have always been able to put a decent amount away without too much ill affect until I recently had my first Magarita WOW, I have never drunk Tequila and now I am glad I discovered it late in life.

[Ensign Steve]

When I drink, I become quite obnoxious. I talk loudly, swear, insult people, and knock over drinks and other things. This is another reason I prefer to drink alone in my home. :) Cheers!

[lady cop]

When I have had a few I develop the body of a greek god, the wit of Oscar Wilde and the voice of Dean Martin and an ability to dance that would make Fred Astaire seem like an amateur. In reality I develop the body of another God (Bhudda), the wit of Josef Goebbels, tone deafness and the dancing ability of a demented hippo.

BTW I have always been able to put a decent amount away without too much ill affect until I recently had my first Magarita WOW, I have never drunk Tequila and now I am glad I discovered it late in life.
you dance beautifully :dance: , you ARE a greek god :david: (ok, semi-italian), and funnier than john cleese :laughcry: ....so are your lips still numb? :snogging: now THAT was hilarious! :quaff: margarita=novacaine to Englishman.

[koan]

My mother has a nasty habit of calling me when she is drunk. :angry: :blahblah:

Please, don't drink and phone. :assault: :blahblah:

It can be fatal.

[Dingfod]

BTW I have always been able to put a decent amount away without too much ill affect until I recently had my first Magarita WOW, I have never drunk Tequila and now I am glad I discovered it late in life.Although it is possible to get wasted on margaritas, you haven't really experienced tequila to its full effect unless you've gotten so drunk you were sick on tequila shots. The next day after-effects of getting drunk on tequila shots will convince you that you poisoned yourself and are going to die before the day is over or that you've already died and the tequila is keeping your dead body animated for a short while. Believe me, you will not forget something like that. It was 1986, a year I do not wish to repeat.

[godfry n. glad]

I'm a very friendly drunk. Particularly to those members of the opposite sex.

Tequila is great! I drink it with reasonable frequency and have never had a hangover from it. Vodka, on the other hand, is a cruel joke played on us by the Ruuskies.

godfry

[RevDahlia]

Please, don't drink and phone. :assault: :blahblah:

It can be fatal.
Amen to that. Drunken emailing is also a terrible idea.

Tequila and I don't get along. I've never been drunk on tequila, because for some reason it always wants to crawl right back up my esophagus the instant I've downed it. Even if I'm stone sober. It's kind of embarrassing, because usually I can hold my liquor like nobody's business... but one shot of tequila and I'm retching my face off.

[pescifish]

Wow, all these tequila haters! All the more for me.

Tequila is my friend. :weed: <--- that's almost like an agave, sorta

If I'm going for a buzz, I can always count on tequila to go down smooth and not kick my ass the next day. That's not true for me for wine or other hard liquors. Admittedly, I haven't had anything but moderate to high end tequila in years (Patron Silver is my current preference), so that might be part of it.

I don't really know how people think I act when I've had a 2-3 drinks (which is about as far as I go when I get "drunk"). I know I've told people the next day that I was pretty tipsy and they say they couldn't tell at all. I get red in the face and have a shit-eating goofball grin. But I get red in the face and grin like a idiot all the time, so those aren't telltale indicators.

I know that I usually feel warm and happy and comfortable inside myself. No different than without booze, I prefer enjoying that feeling while being alone. I don't tend to drink as much when I'm out with people because there really are few people with whom I'd trust enough to be 'out of control'. Plus, if I'm going for a peaceful buzz, I'd rather be home in front of my fireplace or relaxing in my hot tub. Unlike the company of other people who always demand focus on them, my pets seem to like it when I am self-absorbed and are great company. My bird, in particular, loves my margarita happy dances! :snoopy: :stickman: :bundance:

[Shake]

I'm a very friendly drunk. Particularly to those members of the opposite sex.
Ditto that. As a normally quiet, reserved fellow IRL, I become much more sociable and flirty when I've had a few. Although, I rarely drink at all anymore, never mind to excess. This makes me a cheap drunk, though.

On New Year's Eve (my b-day) we went out to dinner with some friends from out of town, and I had a nice tall beer while we were waiting to be seated. I felt fine until we walked over to the table, when I realized I had a nice little buzz going! I'm one of the heaviest lightweights I know.

[RevDahlia]

On New Year's Eve (my b-day) we went out to dinner with some friends from out of town, and I had a nice tall beer while we were waiting to be seated. I felt fine until we walked over to the table, when I realized I had a nice little buzz going! I'm one of the heaviest lightweights I know.
I'm the lightest heavyweight I know, and I sometimes catch a buzz off one beer, especially if I haven't eaten much. Oddly, the one-beer buzz goes away with the second beer. It usually takes four or five drinks to get me more than very mildly tipsy.

It's terribly sad, but when I was living in NYC and stony broke my roommate and I used to starve ourselves before going out on the town, to save money.

(Not-really-a-lush disclaimer: I used to be a serious problem drinker, but fortunately I'm not miserably depressed anymore. Now I confine my drinking escapades to once a month or so.)

[kensloft]

Did you know that you could get comfortably drunk three times in a day?

Define comfortably. Is that like in your jammies on the love seat?

Did j'a ever try to stretch out and sleep on a love seat? Tumbling out of them ain't fun. "Pillows on the floor" does the trick. Jammies are optional.

Now that I think about it if your other half is on the other half of the love seat in jammies then that ought to be about the feeling of being comfortable..

[Dingfod]

On New Year's Eve (my b-day) we went out to dinner with some friends from out of town, and I had a nice tall beer while we were waiting to be seated. I felt fine until we walked over to the table, when I realized I had a nice little buzz going! I'm one of the heaviest lightweights I know.
I'm the lightest heavyweight I know,...That night in Colorado back in 1986 I mentioned, a 100 pound woman from Texas was sure she could drink this 250 pound oilfield pumper under the table, challenged me to to a shot for shot competition in order to do so. She was removed from the premises by her husband carrying her over his shoulder after only three hours. It was four more hours before I stopped drinking. I stopped after the furniture and lamp breaking incident, stood in the kitchen, holding the refrigerator up, drinking orange soda pop for about three more hours then went to my home to sleep for one hour before going to work. By noon that next day I was convinced that dying was preferable to how I felt at that time.

...and I sometimes catch a buzz off one beer, especially if I haven't eaten much. ...I have felt slightly but discernibly impaired after only one or two beers, it depends on a lot of factors including having eaten before or during the drinking of the beers. Other times like last Friday, I've drank five or six beers and didn't feel impaired at all.

[RevDahlia]

That night in Colorado back in 1986 I mentioned, a 100 pound woman from Texas was sure she could drink this 250 pound oilfield pumper under the table, challenged me to to a shot for shot competition in order to do so.
<Walter Sobchak> Fuckin' amateurs. </Walter> A shot-for-shot competition is no way to quantify drinking prowess. The ability to put away stupefying amounts of alcohol without humiliating oneself and/or throwing up is an exact science, and involves timing, good judgement in picking one's poisons, and general good discipline.

The best drinker is not the one who consumed the most liquor, nor the one who remained the most coherent. S/he is the one who drank more than anybody at the table realized at the time, and was still able to figure out who owed what on the bar tab at the end of the night.

Your little Texan friend made all skinny female lushes look bad, damn her.

[Dingfod]

Your little Texan friend made all skinny female lushes look bad, damn her.Her husband removed her because she had turned nasty and violent. By the time he got her to their car she had passed out. Considering how much she drank I would consider her a lightweight. The only lesson to be learned, size does make a difference.