I am 34. 14 years ago everyone wanted to see me drunk. Everyone told me I would outgrow my distaste for binge drinking. That I would understand in a few years. Um, no.
I still don't understand why people get drunk, or think its fun, or whatever. I mean, yes it's their business if that's their hobby and they aren't driving I won't say anything about it. I tried it but I will never get it. Boring. I didn't see any difference between that and Benadryl, which I also don't like. It made me cranky. Like I need to be any more cranky. I'm not the kind of person who wants to walk around a party in a daze.
Incidentally, I should mention that I don't like parties. Most people who plan a "party" invite a bunch of people over and fill them up with beer and music. That's not a party, that's a gathering. My last party (which I did serve beer at to people who wanted it), we played paintball and had water balloons and silly string hidden around the property, then we had a dirty riddle contest, and the winner of the riddle contest got to light up a bonfire with a roman candle where we burned Kenny from South Park at the stake. People still talk about it.
First of all you have to develop a taste for alcohol to even be able to ingest enough to get drunk, and most alcohol tastes terrible. It tastes like medicine and anyone who says otherwise when they first try a whole beer is just trying to fit in. (With the notable exception of Irish Cream, IMO, but it has so much fat in it that it's not the kind of thing you can really get smashed on.) Second of all, you are doing something that YOU KNOW is going to make you dizzy, stupid and sick, and it will kill brain cells. Bah. Not interested.
Thirdly, since alcohol brings out the part of a person that is usually hidden, I think if that bit is a happy person, you should just let them out anyway. There's no shame in being a happy person. If it's a bit that thinks it's funny to punch people in the face, leave it there and get a gym membership.
In my experience its either people who don't want to take responsibility for their own actions who feel they have to drink to have fun every time they go out, (or worse, who feel YOU can't have fun without drinking, or even worse, think you won't notice when they put rum in your coke), or people who are self-medicating. I can understand a little why someone might binge every once in awhile, I do that with cheesecake when I find a place that serves a good one, I do it with Doritos once a year or so even though I know my stomach doesn't like them, but the people who do it every weekend are missing something crucial. Like a reason for being, or a life's work. I don't know. But something isn't there that should be.
Rant about Drunks
I still don't understand why people get drunk, or think its fun, or whatever. I mean, yes it's their business if that's their hobby and they aren't driving I won't say anything about it. I tried it but I will never get it. Boring. I didn't see any difference between that and Benadryl, which I also don't like. It made me cranky. Like I need to be any more cranky. I'm not the kind of person who wants to walk around a party in a daze.
Incidentally, I should mention that I don't like parties. Most people who plan a "party" invite a bunch of people over and fill them up with beer and music. That's not a party, that's a gathering. My last party (which I did serve beer at to people who wanted it), we played paintball and had water balloons and silly string hidden around the property, then we had a dirty riddle contest, and the winner of the riddle contest got to light up a bonfire with a roman candle where we burned Kenny from South Park at the stake. People still talk about it.
First of all you have to develop a taste for alcohol to even be able to ingest enough to get drunk, and most alcohol tastes terrible. It tastes like medicine and anyone who says otherwise when they first try a whole beer is just trying to fit in. (With the notable exception of Irish Cream, IMO, but it has so much fat in it that it's not the kind of thing you can really get smashed on.) Second of all, you are doing something that YOU KNOW is going to make you dizzy, stupid and sick, and it will kill brain cells. Bah. Not interested.
Thirdly, since alcohol brings out the part of a person that is usually hidden, I think if that bit is a happy person, you should just let them out anyway. There's no shame in being a happy person. If it's a bit that thinks it's funny to punch people in the face, leave it there and get a gym membership.
In my experience its either people who don't want to take responsibility for their own actions who feel they have to drink to have fun every time they go out, (or worse, who feel YOU can't have fun without drinking, or even worse, think you won't notice when they put rum in your coke), or people who are self-medicating. I can understand a little why someone might binge every once in awhile, I do that with cheesecake when I find a place that serves a good one, I do it with Doritos once a year or so even though I know my stomach doesn't like them, but the people who do it every weekend are missing something crucial. Like a reason for being, or a life's work. I don't know. But something isn't there that should be.
And Jean Gnome? LMAO!!