Why do people drink?

Well, I do get drunk some time as well. But for me there is only one negative aspect of it: it's not healthy. It's poison, acute and chronic. Acute is not bad: just don't drink so much that you kill yourself and preferably not so much that you have to throw up. Chronically it damages your brains: mostly your memory. You tend to forget things more often and loose your orientation. But this is only getting a problem if you drink very often very much; with other words, when you have a drinking problem.

This problem with drinking counts for eveyone. Luckily for me it's the only negative aspect of alcohol(ic drinks). Other effects it has on me: I get more open, happier, cheerier - nicer for me and for the people around me. But this is when I am yet tipsy. When I'm really drunk I'm still happy, but ofcourse start to babble and do funny. Also very fun for the people around me. :D :lol: And that's ok too. At my study everyone is drunk at a time, and then we laugh about those people.

Another thing I like with alcohol: drinking a lot with my girlfriend, alone. You should know how much you start enjoying each other. ;)

I'm a student. Politicians see the alcohol consumption by students as a problem. Recently I talked to a friend of my parents who is a doctor. He himself said that the problem is not the students. There is a tendency: when you start at the university you start to get grown-up and can do whatever is right in your perspective. But you wanna have fun and with alcohol you can have fun (one form of fun). But when people are done with their study they usually quit drinking in that amount. I think the fun is a bit over then. Perhaps because you're just getting old. Or because you've seen the fun and it's always the same and it's getting boring. Anyway, students start drinking but stop with it as well after about 4/5 years. Problem-drinkers don't stop if they don't try. And they get drunk much more often. I only get drunk on occation. They daily.

I like alcohol. My girlfriend too. My fellow-students too. I just do what I like within certain borders: don't bug others and keep yourself healthy.

October, do you get this? Or is it stupid in your opinion? I've talked with more people who have your ideas. Some found me stupid, but most of 'em got the idea but didn't like it for themselves.

Oh, one more thing: Once when I got really drunk, I threw up in the bathroom (with the toilet one meter behind me
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) and my mother had to clean it up. I was so ashamed, but she forgave me. Still don't know why. But this is one thing I'll always try to avoid. Throwing up is not fun in any case.
(That happened to be the night I met my girlfriend. :satan: But our relationship started when we were sober though. ;))
 
two more problems with drinking. money (at least here in sweden) and the day after.

btw, matrix, wasn´t there any paper in the toilet room?

another problem with drinking: most girls look better, so you have to be carefull.;)
 
A typical Finn drinks 4 liters everyday....






...and now I mean water!
Btw, how much does 3% beer cost there in Sweden?
:confused: :confused: :confused:

(EDIT: ) And now I mean those 0,33 l bottles... You have them there, right??
 
Matrix - agree with you on just about everytihng you said - alcohol is not harmful in done in moderation or even if done to get drunk as long as you don't puke and don't get drunk too often.

Drinking and driving is bad, stupid, and fatal.

I have a similar story about throwing up - the only time I threw up I was actually CHUGGING Vodka - bad idea btw - and this was right after I ate 4 slices of pizza :( I threw up for an hour straight and was sick the entire night.

But that was when I was a relative newcomer to alcohol; nowadays I know my limits :)
 
I guess I'm really the only one in this thread that's been sober every day for his entire life.
 
There was paper in the bathroom. I could've cleaned it myself but I hardly even realised I threw up. I just did that and then went to bed. The only think I remember was seeing a red-coloured dirty fluid on the ground.

It happened because I've had lots of red wine (that's why it was red), beer and Bailey's, in variating sequence.
Originally posted by animepornstar
two more problems with drinking. money (at least here in sweden) and the day after.
In Norway a beer costs 50 Norwegian kroner. That's about $5.50. In the Netherlands it's $1.20. :D

But this policy doesn't work at all! What happens now is that people drink very much when they drink. They don't drink often, but if they drink, then they go for it.
Originally posted by scorch
thats not Matrix, one of our sensible mods speaking is it? :lol:
Sensible?! As far as I can tell, I'm only sensible when it comes to my girlfriend, but now you also see what we're doing when we're alone. ;)
 
mmmm...

Baileys...

That's about the only alcohol I've had that tastes good. Just like chocolate milk, with a twist.
 
I can understand people drinking for pleasure, what I can't understand is drinking merely to get drunk, which is idiotic. If you end up getting drunk at some point, then fine, but please don't start drinking with it as your eventual goal.
 
Originally posted by rmsharpe
I guess I'm really the only one in this thread that's been sober every day for his entire life.

There are others rmsharpe, but we just haven't bothered to post in a thread that has a title we can not possibly answer for lack of the experience. Now I'm *only* 19, but I have been to England where I was old enough to drink, and am at college, which is self explanatory. I have only had very small amounts of alcohol before, all when I was young and my parents offered me a taste of their "grown-up" drink. I never liked it, and as I learned how it has no good qualities I decided never to drink it. That was about 10 years ago, and the only time I have had any alcohol since then was when my parents got champagne for my high-school graduation to celebrate their last child finishing school. I took one sip of it, and had a lot of trouble just swallowing it. That just reenforced my decision never to drink alcohol.
 
Matrix, I see what you're saying. And I don't condemn anyone who drinks. The bottom line is that I believe the Bible, and it is replete with warnings of drunkenness. It doesn't say you can't drink. So I drink, once in a while. But drinking with the goal of getting drunk (whether you intend to drive or not) is just plain stupid, and I don't understand why people are obsessed with it. It's an escape, a temporary out. And people looking for those are usually hurting inside, looking for life's big answers.

The answers are not in the bottom of a bottle.
 
October, most people who drink regularly (like going out and having wine or whatever) would'nt be christain, i doubt it any 'good' christain would get drunk, intentionally and unintentionally.


about drinking to get away from things, i was about to say that that doesn't happen, but actually, i was really depressed about 6mnths ago, and i started drinking, to make me feel happy and get rid of the **** i was feeling. then one night i was going to kill myself, and i got skulled to ease the pain... then i got happy, rung up my ***** gf who was wanting me to kill myself and talked to her.


moral of the story, alchohol has saved my life.
no, ok, i shouldn't joke about that ****.
 
Theres nothing wrong with drinking to get drunk. In my book it's a primary step of college. So I do it once every few weeks, and I will continue to do it until I get bored of it or graduate college, whichever comes first :)
 
I could relay some drinking stories that would shock and scare people into aging ten years, but have already gone into that before to a small extent, and don't really wish to revisit that aspect of one's past.

But I will say this. Drinking in order to get very drunk does have its uses in certain limited circumstances, for some people. It is of course regrettable, but sometimes we find ourselves faced with situations that weave themselves into such patterns.

I can say that I cannot recall the last time I drank without the intention of getting drunk. By this, I mean a proper, lengthy drinking session, not a quick 4 pints for lunch. More like lining up four bottles and ending up singing in German. The issue of drinking for pleasure is one that has a very blurred boundary with getting drunk. Where does pleasure stop and drunkeness begin? In my experience, at different times for different people.
 
As an in-college student whose accomodational toilets are shared with the bar I can say that alcohol leads to:

1. bad aim
2. lack of hygiene
3. vandalism and grafitti
4. 4 girls in the same bath at the same time.
 
I think it is an indictment of the norms of present Western capitalist societies where people don't feel relaxed enough unless they drink. Surely one should try and remove the hangups without resort to a drug (legal though it may be).
 
I'm certainly no fan of capitalism but I don't think we can blame it for the fact that people like to drink! And Americans I'm sure don't drink as much as many other nations. Drinking to feel relaxed may be the point of drinking for SOME people, but not the majority. Others drink as a social activity, others cus they like to get drunk, others cus they are addicted, and many dont drink at all :).

"Surely one should try and remove the hangups without resort to a drug (legal though it may be)."

-Hmmm...It would be kinda hard to remove the hangover WITH resorting to alcohol, wouldn't it?
 
Originally posted by ApocalypseKurtz
I'm certainly no fan of capitalism but I don't think we can blame it for the fact that people like to drink! And Americans I'm sure don't drink as much as many other nations. Drinking to feel relaxed may be the point of drinking for SOME people, but not the majority. Others drink as a social activity, others cus they like to get drunk, others cus they are addicted, and many dont drink at all :).

It's my impression that in a competitive type of social environment fostered by the prevailing capitalist Western societies, people are mostly stressed and tense particularly from work. They need alcohol to relax - you may call it social drinking but it is just another name for drinking to relax socially!


"Surely one should try and remove the hangups without resort to a drug (legal though it may be)."

-Hmmm...It would be kinda hard to remove the hangover WITH resorting to alcohol, wouldn't it?

You obviously equated "hangups" with "hangovers". Hangups are anxieties or even neuroses which prevent a person from acting naturally or spontaneously! ;)
 
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