"Drink is a funny thing....."

Are you sure , you haven't drank something this evening?

Your post is like a madman's shite , all over the place.

Yeah OP you sound like one of those people who don't need drink to be 'drunk' :)

Drink is a funny thing alright. There isn't just one 'form' of drink though. I have had very different experiences over the years from beer\cider versus shorts\cocktails versus straight spirits versus wine. Wine sipped with a dinner speeds the appetite and if chosen well is the perfect 'super condiment' to food. Wine 'plonk' glugged quickly on its own at a party can floor someone used to beer. I've had the munchies from beer (craving pizza, crisps that kind of thing) yet too much beer leaves me unable to face a restaurant meal.

Drinking beer I feel like I get drunk from the head down (so you are aware first of a certain light headedness and dizziness) whereas with spirits it creeps up slowly from the stomach and then wham you're full on drunk. Best not to speak, you might embarrass yourself when you get to that point.

Our species has a long history with alcohol but primarily lower forms of alcohol such as weak beer and wine. Distilled spirits are 'novel' to us biologically - see the podcast below for more.

I have heard the effects of alcohol described variably:

• You become more 'yourself'
• It is a holiday from yourself
• It can make a shy person extroverted \ quiet person loud \ loud person quiet

And honestly I don't know which is true, somehow both seem to be! That's the funny thing about alcohol.

I can relax without a drink, but a drink in hand is a signal that I'm now off duty from the day to day cares of everyday life.

Then there's the beer goggle effect. To quote Shakespeare - it doth provoke the desire and remove the performance.

And alcohol can cause blackouts. What's surprising is that you seem to be functioning away ok and not seem that drunk to others - and yet no memory.

Yep it's a funny thing.

This is a great podcast on drink and its effects on human society:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talking-drunk-author-edward-slingerland/id1548227946?i=1000530237614

It there an app that can translate these posts to something even vaguely resembling coherency ?

Don't mix your mom's vodka with your dad's codeine anyway....

I'd like to subscribe to your publications.

Back in the day as a college student the goal was to get drunk cheaply, which meant vodka, which meant blackout. I was that person who made an absolute show of themselves, falling over a glass table and breaking it, peed in the bed after too many drinks, tried to punch someone over jealousy, had an ambulance over cause I fell badly, experienced sexual assault, and the list goes on.

Bar jokes are funny things. Ya know the ones that start with "An x goes into a bar..."

I’ve heard this before quite a bit and I think there is something to it, but I’m wondering does this apply only to those who never drank or those who stopped drinking because of issues with it, or both? Personally I would say the former, I know two men who never drank, both arseholes and both totally untrustworthy individuals.

This is the most boards thing ever.

A thread starts by someone boasting of being a non-drinker. A few posts later it turns out the OP, is, however, a total ****-ing speed freak. Which kind of steps on the original point just a teeny bit.

Brilliant.

The 'merry' stage. Hard to stay in that zone in rounds but drinking at home modulating what you drink and when you can stay in that merry stage for the evening.

Wtf is the OP on about

Oh! Something in common so.

But...I never did a course in neuroscience. Must have been locked.

He's on SPEED, jesus will you ever pay attention

Nope, just did a module in neuropsychology and a few degrees in psychology

And prob be richer too

This thread has inspired me to crack open a Beamish

An aside... they had to enforce drink driving laws on the Amish buggies as there had been too many accidents alas. I thought the horse would be ok on auto pilot but sadly not.