Drinking just to get drunk.

[DragonBlaze]

Why does it matter "how" it makes you happy as long as it does? Yes, if you abuse it, you may become dependent on it, but drinking occasionally will not make you crash or feel like you need to do it again. I don't know where you heard that once the alcohol leaves your system you feel the need to have more alcohol to make you happy again, but its not true. You're talking about an alcoholic, not an average person that drinks.

I don't think anyone here will disagree that alcoholism is bad, but getting drunk is not the same thing.

I am happy 95% of the time, yet I'm not drunk 95% of the time, hmmm...

[Bluhman]

You're drunk 100% of the time?!

[DragonBlaze]

You're drunk 100% of the time?!

You guessed it!

[Cerebus]

And on a final note, I believe everyone has a right do what makes them happy as long as they're not hurting anyone else in the process.

Oh, that I agree with you. But everyone has the right to find it stupid (or not) as well.

If some guy's fun is to punch his wall until his fists are broken, it's his own business, as long as he doesn't punch people until their face are broken. But damn, that would be stupid.

So if some guy's fun is to drink until he gets drunk, it's his own business, as long as he doesn't drive or disturb people. But I personally think it's stupid (although sometimes, it depends on the circumstances).

All in all, it is sort of like getting "high", it is a pseudo-happiness.

I call it "Artificial Fun or happiness".

[Darkfox]

I call it "Artificial Fun or happiness".

That works too. Love your new sig by the way, not often I see so much truth in one of those.

[Prpl_Mage]

The reason why people go to places and get drunk is because they have no fun games to play.
OR they lack the friends to play games with.

[SaiKar]

I've decided that Cerebus is my represenative in any and all debates like this. I always find myself wanting to quote his posts and just say "this."

[Darkfox]

I've decided that Cerebus is my represenative in any and all debates like this. I always find myself wanting to quote his posts and just say "this."

I agree.

[Shady Ultima]

DB got my point a lot better.

And he's right, not a lot of people are like that. Being 22, ALL my friends get drunk on the weekends, and none of them are violent, or puke. The only thing they do is get really loud. I've noticed that people are more often just shouting, which is annoying, but violence and puking is less common.

[Apex]

There is a huge difference in maturity when it comes to drinking. People that live in my house ARE the obnoxious, loud, vomiting types that it dreads me to even associate with; on the other-hand, my personal selection of friends are calm, and social about it. Really depends on the situation and maturity of the people doing it, I'd say. A lot has to do with peer-pressure, the age-old excuse.

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

Let's bring some cold 40s and watch some smurfs. Or is that the show for the weed...

[Grandy]

Its funny, a lot of you are talking about how people get violent, stumble, puke, and just do stupid things when people drink. I must ask, how often are you around drunk people? Thats the what the media portrays drunks as, and yes, there are a few people like that, but out of all the parties I have gone to, I have only ran into one violent drunk, very few people that have puked, and generally nothing really 'stupid' has happened.

Well, last time they get drunk without me to act as Jimmy Cricket, all 6 of my friends decided it'd be a good idea to invade a school and break all the windows, and they'd have succeded to were not for the security guard.

[Desimodontidae]

I don't drink much anymore. A beer or two at parties, maybe a mixed drink. But man, I used to be really bad... or good. Depends on how you look at it.