I don’t get that. Why though. I want you to explain. I will give something to think about, instead of going through what you do.
I just want an honest answer, don’t even bother to put your opinion for a stupid one, don’t put… Just cause of adrenaline… I don’t know who says that, but I guess somebody might say that, it is a big world out there… it is to control your emotions… I don’t know about that but, that is a stupid one too, I guess. So please, I just want to know why you or why people say Getting drunk is fun, and having a good time… No because it’s to meet people. You don’t have to get drunk to meet new people, you can do that on your own free time… Beer is not the healthiest choice, that is one of a fact I know.
-
perception12% Voted for by Trisha Militia, A Dying Mind, 5th position Gb, s0v13t.
Drinking is fun because its a shift in perception, you go your whole life thinking one varried way and acting upon what you think, drinking is so abnormal to what your use to, to that perception your use to, its escape, its no shame, its forgetting, its chemicals, but thats all within how drastically your mind and mental intake changes from drinking
-
inhibitions12% Voted for by AshesToDiamond, mellilot, Slithspear, s0v13t.
BEING drunk is fun- you get to do stupid and crazy thhings you probably wouldn’t do sober, because common-sense and inhibitions gets in the way.
The morning AFTER can be less fun- if you do something you regret.
I find that alcohol relxes me- I’m less self-conscious, so can have fun without worrying about little things, like looking good at all times, or if I look like a fool when I dance.
I’ve done a few stupid things when drunk- most of which I don’t really regret- just put them down to experience.
I try not to get too drunk nowadays. Partly because I don’t want to do anything overly stupid and partly for other reasons.
-
OVER RATED9% Voted for by Annabel Lee, the observer, cafegroundzero.
being drunk is very over rated. yes i have been drunk and i don’t discourage drinking (if your of age) people use being drunk as a cover because they are AFRAID to act how they want. Don’t deny it cuz ya just wrote it! ” I can talk to people, that I can (if enough alcohol is imbibed) dance without caring what people think.” it is used as a front, people abuse how it makes others see them.
-
because6% Voted for by MURDER she screamed, Keegan A Combes.
Its a way to forget their problems. It fixes the situation temperately. But what they don’t know is that when the drunkness wears off the problem will still be there. Its like that with drugs too. It doesn’t fix ANYTHING. I guess most kids think that it is “cool” in which its not. If they start drinking now, it will be something that will be in their life forever probably. Drinking has no point, social drinking, or drinking to get drunk. Its pointless.
-
Beer Good6% Voted for by mellilot, Scrap.
Getting drunk, for me is not in itself fun. What is fun about being drunk is the fact that I can talk to people, that I can (if enough alcohol is imbibed) dance without caring what people think.
I would say that I’m drunk now, and it’s been a while since I was drunk on my own… it’s not fun in the strictist of senses, but it is relaxing. This is the first night in a long while that I’ve had to myself, I don’t have an essay due in the next day and I’m not having to talk to people and interact with them – so I would have at one point said that it was pointless for me to be drunk right now. But the thing is I do like it. I can look forward to that buzz, knowing that at my age and with my intake it won’t feel bad in the morning.
I very very rarely get ill from drink, I’ve thrown up once the morning after drinking and twice I think the night of drinking. All three times I drank because of nerves. I don’t get stupid when drinking for fun, because I know my limit. And drinking can be fun when you know your limit because it reduces the self consciousness that can be for some people debilitating.
I do however wish that I could afford beer- it would cost me over £5 to get this drunk on beer, so far I’d estimate that it’s cost me around £2 to get this drunk on vodka. I’ve never, ever thrown up after drinking beer – and while some people say my “tubbiness” is due to the beer I drink, I don’t mind that. It’s good for my heart in the quantities I drink and it’s better for me than what I’m drinking this moment.
-
The thought differs from the act.Voted for by Morgaine.
I, too dislike the idea of not being in control, which is why I often say ‘no’ to alcohol. But those two, maybe three, times a year that I do get druk, I always have the time of my life… to be honest I have no idea what appeals to us when it comes to alcohol. I have experienced time going faster and my mind needing less to feel good.
-
Because...Voted for by Launcelot.
Everyone believes it is the fun thing to do. Every person I talk to will always come up with the same response, because they like how they feel. If loosing control over yourself is fun, count me out. Besides you can achieve these effects without chemical aid. Lastly, I believe that being drunk somehow excludes you from rules and social norms, for instance if you got drunk a boinked someone, well you were drunk…it wasnt really you…right?
-
Loss of self controlVoted for by paconianphysics.
I had the pleasure of reading everyones responses. I think one of the most prevalent common threads running through the responses was that drinking was a chemical method of removing inhibitions. Inhibitions are one of your means of self-control. In effect what people have been saying is that they lack the self control to control their inhibitions. my parting question then would be: just imagine how pleasurable to oneself to remove ones inhibitions without the need for chemicals?
-
easy...Voted for by ohsweetie2788.
people think getting drunk is fun because it breaks the rules (if you are under age) and gives you a rush, it sends you back to a person who has no cares and just does what they want when they want…no worries no cares no stress anymore. i personally think getting drunk to the point of passing out is dumb but getting drunk itself (if you can control it) is not too bad.
Ash
-
Why?Voted for by Diemgordon.
Because everyone tells them it is. Why do some people think sadomasochism is fun? I can’t understand that one either.
-
easy option to fill in time = lazy. BUT socially productive for youngerVoted for by redbrita.
it is the easy option for people to let loose, it removes some of their responsibilities, but i think it is also the lazy option because people seem to miss out on so much when they're drunk. however, i've only been tipsy (and ive been legal for 6 years now) because i get enough (as in alot of enjoyment) out of life without losing inhibitions and without dampening brain cells. i see what others are missing though - utilising your time rather than trying to 'fill in' time. helps people socially grow though, through bonding and stuff, so im not against it when you're young/legal. maybe you should just be able to get over it and find something more personally interesting??
-
people changeVoted for by jonesz12.
Drinking for me is always done within a group of people, never done alone. When I drink with other people, we begin to have different personalities than we normally would. And seeing some of your friends acting drunk, is just funny. You'd have to see it to believe it, but it is entertaining. Some people just become loud and obnoxious, and others just crack out some of the best jokes I've ever heard. Your friends aren't the same people when sober as they are when they are drunk. That is why I have drank in the past.
-
Drinking is fun.Voted for by Charlottesimmons.
For me there are nights when nothing could be better than sitting around with good friends, listening to music, and drinking a few beers. We all know our limits, and once we get our buzz we slow down and just enjoy each other's company. You don't have to get smashed to have a good time, but getting a nice buzz is awesome. I've never been so drunk that I've done something I regret or gotten sick. I've had a hangover once and that was mainly because we were camping and my sinuses were going crazy and it was freezing cold, all I had was the headache from hell.
There's nothing wrong with drinking (as with any drug) as long as you aren't using it to escape your problems or going past your limits. I make it a point not to drink if I'm upset.
-
LOOK BELOWVoted for by Dead Kennedy Rolls.
1.) People are stupid. 2.) It is kind of fun, when you do hilarious shit... which brings me to my 3rd point. 3.) Peer pressure. Because the conformity says it is. Also, when you are drunk, you do stupid shit, people laugh, and you feel good because they're laughing. It makes you feel accepted. That is until you get behind the wheel, run over three young children and are suddenly in jail getting ass-raped.
Adding your reply:
Registration is required because of issues with spam. It is fast and free! This author would LOVE to get a comment from you, please join!
March 12, 2005
Edit | Reply
March 16, 2005
Edit | Reply
March 17, 2005
March 20, 2005
Edit | Reply
March 20, 2005
March 21, 2005
Edit | Reply
May 20, 2005
Edit | Reply
December 21, 2006
Edit | Reply
FAS is bad, but getting drunk is fun.
Drinking, like all drugs, makes you DESIRE to do things based only on what you PERCEIVE is happening. When people forget all their 'inhibitions', which means they stop trying to hold onto power over the things around them, they feel more alive in comparison.BUT, people should learn that they can do this without drinking, by JUST LETTING GO. People can 'get drunk on pure water'.
March 3, 2007
Edit | Reply
But just the fact its a new feeling and somthing ur not used to, u would probally go around ur whole enitre house looking through all the walls.
petethemeat
May 13, 2007
Edit | Reply
January 10
Edit | Reply
Sharing the Big Book: There is a Solution
"We are average Americans, " starts the second chapter of the Big Book, first penned by Bill and published by A.A.:"All sections of this country and many of its occupations are represented, as well as many political, economic, social, and religious backgrounds. We are people who normally would not mix. (Tell us about it. Just look at the variety of opinions and the different ways that people express their thoughts!)
"But there exists among us a fellowship, a friendliness, and an understanding which is indescribably wonderful. We are like the passengers of a great liner the moment after rescue from shipwreck when camaraderie, joyousness and democracy pervade the vessel from steerage to Captain's table."
"Unlike the feelings of the ship's passengers, however, our joy in escape from disaster does not subside as we go our individual ways. The feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us. But that in itself would never have held us together as we are now joined.
"The tremendous fact for every one of us is that we have discovered a common solution. We have a way out on which we can absolutely agree, and upon which we can join in brotherly and harmonious action. This is the great news this book carries to those who suffer from alcoholism. An illness of this sort and we have come to believe it an illness involves those about us in a way no other human sickness can. If a person has cancer all are sorry for him and no one is angry or hurt. But not so with the alcoholic illness, for with it there goes annihilation of all the things worth while in life. It engulfs all whose lives touch the sufferer's. It brings misunderstanding, fierce resentment, financial insecurity, disgusted friends and employers, warped lives of blameless children, sad wives and parents anyone can increase the list.
"We hope this volume will inform and comfort those who are, or who may be affected. There are many.
"Highly competent psychiatrists who have dealt with us have found it sometimes impossible to persuade an alcoholic to discuss his situation without reserve. Strangely enough, wives, parents and intimate friends usually find us even more unapproachable than do the psychiatrist and the doctor.
"But the ex-problem drinker who has found this solution, who is properly armed with facts about himself, can generally win the entire confidence of another alcoholic in a few hours. Until such an understanding is reached, little or nothing can be accomplished."
(Tthe trouble is that there is not enough honesty for us to really connect or relate any more. We are so very busy poring over so much bull shit on the internet. Most of what we do with the computers is a waste of time).
"That the man who is making the approach has had the same difficulty, that he obviously knows what he is talking about, that his whole deportment shouts at the new prospect that he is a man with a real answer, that he has no attitude of Holier Than Thou, nothing whatever except the sincere desire to be helpful; that there are no fees to pay, no axes to grind, no people to please, no lectures to be endured these are the conditions we have found most effective. After such an approach many take up their beds and walk again.
"None of us makes a sole vocation of this work, nor do we think its effectiveness would be increased if we did. We feel that elimination of our drinking is but a beginning. A much more important demonstration of our principles lies before us in our respective homes, occupations and affairs. All of us spend much of our spare time in the sort of effort which we are going to describe. A few are fortunate enough to be so situated that they can give nearly all their time to the work.
"If we keep on the way we are going there is little doubt that much good will result, but the surface of the problem would hardly be scratched. Those of us who live in large cities are overcome by the reflection that close by hundreds are dropping into oblivion every day. Many could recover if they had the opportunity we have enjoyed. How then shall we present that which has been so freely given us?
"We have concluded to publish an anonymous volume setting forth the problem as we see it. We shall bring to the task our combined experience and knowledge. This should suggest a useful program for anyone concerned with a drinking problem.
"Of necessity there will have to be discussion of matters medical, psychiatric, social, and religious. We are aware that these matters are from their very nature, controversial. Nothing would please us so much as to write a book which would contain no basis for contention or argument. We shall do our utmost to achieve that ideal. Most of us sense that real tolerance of other people's shortcomings and viewpoints and a respect for their opinions are attitudes which make us more useful to others. Our very lives, as ex-problem drinkers, depend upon our constant thought of others and how we may help meet their needs.
"You may already have asked yourself why it is that all of us became so very ill from drinking. Doubtless you are curious to discover how and why, in the face of expert opinion to the contrary, we have recovered from a hopeless condition of mind and body. If you are an alcoholic who wants to get over it, you may already be asking What do I have to do?"
"It is the purpose of this book to answer such questions specifically. We shall tell you what we have done. Before going into a detailed discussion, it may be well to summarize some points as we see them.
"How many time people have said to us: "I can take it or leave it alone. Why can't he?" "Why don't you drink like a gentleman or quit?" "That fellow can't handle his liquor." "Why don't you try beer and wine?" "Lay off the hard stuff." "His will power must be weak." "He could stop if he wanted to." "She's such a sweet girl, I should think he'd stop for her sake." "The doctor told him that if he ever drank again it would kill him, but there he is all lit up again."
"Now these are commonplace observations on drinkers which we hear all the time. Back of them is a world of ignorance and misunderstanding. We see that these expressions refer to people whose reactions are very different from ours.
"Moderate drinkers have little trouble in giving up liquor entirely if they have good reason for it. They can take it or leave it alone.
"Then we have a certain type of hard drinker. He may have the habit badly enough to gradually impair him physically and mentally. It may cause him to die a few years before his time. If a sufficiently strong reason ill health, falling in love, change of environment, or the warning of a doctor becomes operative, this man can also stop or moderate, although he may find it difficult and troublesome and may even need medical attention.
"But what about the real alcoholic? He may start off as a moderate drinker; he may or may not become a continuous hard drinker; but at some stage of his drinking career he begins to lose all control of his liquor consumption, once he starts to drink.
"Here is a fellow who has been puzzling you, especially in his lack of control. He does absurd, incredible, tragic things while drinking. He is a real Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He is seldom mildly intoxicated. He is always more or less insanely drunk. His disposition while drinking resembles his normal nature but little. He may be one of the finest fellows in the world. Yet let him drink for a day, and he frequently becomes disgustingly, and even dangerously anti-social. He has a positive genius for getting tight at exactly the wrong moment, particularly when some important decision must be made or engagement kept. He is often perfectly sensible and well balanced concerning everything except liquor, but in that respect he is incredibly dishonest and selfish. He often possesses special abilities, skills, and aptitudes, and has a promising career ahead of him. He uses his gifts to build up a bright outlook for his family and himself, and then pulls the structure down on his head by a senseless series of sprees. He is the fellow who goes to bed so intoxicated he ought to sleep the clock around. Yet early next morning he searches madly for the bottle he misplace the night before. If he can afford it, he may have liquor concealed all over his house to be certain no one gets his entire supply away from him to throw down the wastepipe. As matters grow worse, he begins to use a combination of high-powered sedative and liquor to quiet his nerves so he can go to work. Then comes the day when he simply cannot make it and gets drunk all over again. Perhaps he goes to a doctor who gives him morphine or some sedative with which to taper off. Then he begins to appear at hospitals and sanitariums.
"This is by no means a comprehensive picture of the true alcoholic, as our behavior patterns vary. But this description should identify him roughly.
"Why does he behave like this? If hundreds of experiences have shown him that one drink means another debacle with all its attendant suffering and humiliation, why is it he takes that one drink? Why can't he stay on the water wagon? What has become of the common sense and will power that he still sometimes displays with respect to other matters?
"Perhaps there never will be a full answer to these questions. Opinions vary considerably as to why the alcoholic reacts differently from normal people. We are not sure why, once a certain point is reached, little can be done for him. We cannot answer the riddle.
"We know that while the alcoholic keeps away from drink, as he may do for months or years, he reacts much like other men. We are equally positive that once he takes any alcohol whatever into his system, something happens, both in the bodily and mental sense, which makes it virtually impossible for him to stop. The experience of any alcoholic will abundantly confirm this.
"These observations would be academic and pointless if our friend never took the first drink, thereby setting the terrible cycle in motion. Therefore, the main problem of the alcoholic centers in his mind, rather than in his body. If you ask him why he started on that last bender, the chances are he will offer you any one of a hundred alibis. Sometimes these excuses have a certain plausibility, but none of them really makes sense in the light of the havoc an alcoholic's drinking bout creates. They sound like the philosophy of the man who, having a headache, beats himself on the head with a hammer so that he can't feel the ache. If you draw this fallacious reasoning to the attention of an alcoholic, he will laugh it off, or become irritated and refuse to talk.
"Once in a while he may tell the truth. And the truth, strange to say, is usually that he has no more idea why he took that first drink than you have. Some drinkers have excuses with which they are satisfied part of the time. But in their hearts they really do not know why they do it. Once this malady has a real hold, they are a baffled lot. There is the obsession that somehow, someday, they will beat the game. But they often suspect they are down for the count.
"How true this is, few realize. In a vague way their families and friends sense that these drinkers are abnormal, but everybody hopefully awaits the day when the sufferer will rouse himself from his lethargy and assert his power of will.
"The tragic truth is that if the man be a real alcoholic, the happy day may not arrive. He has lost control. At a certain point in the drinking of every alcoholic, he passes into a state where the most powerful desire to stop drinking is of absolutely no avail. This tragic situation has already arrived in practically every case long before it is suspected.
"The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so called will power becomes practically nonexistent. We are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a week or a month ago. We are without defense against the first drink.
"The almost certain consequences that follow taking even a glass of beer do not crowd into the mind to deter us. If these thoughts occur, they are hazy and readily supplanted with the old threadbare idea that this time we shall handle ourselves like other people. There is a complete failure of the kind of defense that keeps one from putting his hand on a hot stove.
"The alcoholic may say to himself in the most casual way, "It won't burn me this time, so here's how!" Or perhaps he doesn't think at all. How often have some of us begun to drink in this nonchalant way, and after the third or fourth, pounded on the bar and said to ourselves, "For God's sake, how did I ever get started again?" Only to have that thought supplanted by "Well, I'll stop with the sixth drink." Or "What's the use anyhow?"
"When this sort of thinking is fully established in an individual with alcoholic tendencies, he has probably placed himself beyond human aid, and unless locked up, may die or to permanently insane. These stark and ugly facts have been confirmed by legions of alcohoholics throughout history. But for the grace of God, there would have been thousands more convincing demonstrations. So many want to stop but cannot.
"There is a solution. Almost none of us liked the self- searching, the leveling of our pride, the confession of shortcomings which the process requires for its successful consummation. But we saw that it really worked in others, and we had come to believe in the hopelessness and futility of life as we had been living it. When, therefore, we were approached by those in whom the problem had been solved, there was nothing left for us but to pick up the simple kit of spiritual tools laid at out feet. We have found much of heaven and we have been rocketed into a fourth dimension of existence of which we had not even dreamed.
"The great fact is just this, and nothing less: That we have had deep and effective spiritual experiences* which have revolutionized our whole attitude toward life, toward our fellows and toward God's universe. The central fact of our lives today is the absolute certainty that our Creator has entered into our hearts and lives in a way which is indeed miraculous. He has commenced to accomplish those things for us which we could never do by ourselves.
"If you are as seriously alcoholic as we were, we believe there is no middle-of-the-road solution. We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of our intolerable situation as best we could; and the other, to accept spiritual help. This we did because we honestly wanted to, and were willing to make the effort."
For me, I think a middle of the road solution would not be total abstinence, but a moderation including not drinking on most days, when we have work, hunting, family and children, war, and what not? Even making love for having babies.
Please register or login to comment! It's totally free