I guess it depends on the definition of "drunk." I've been buzzed enough that I wouldn't consider driving, but I haven't ever had any of the classic "drunk" symptoms beyond a somewhat looser tongue.
@jsfs Same here. I rather enjoy a good beer or an occasional port, but one drink per evening is plenty. Perhaps a just have a phobia about not being in control of myself. I've gotten a little buzzed a few times, didn't like that feeling, so I quit.
Wow...wasn't expecting "Never been drunk" to be winning the vote. Maybe because the rest of the population is currently enjoying themselves too much to enter an answer before decent morning hour of at least 10 AM.
I can't remember the last time I've been drunk. By the time I hit 29 I began to realize that vomit-drunk was coming a lot earlier in the night and fun-drunk wasn't sticking around very long anymore. Add that to the next day migraines and alcohol became a lot less appealing. An occasional glass of sweet wine is about all I do anymore.
@2many2no re: "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
I have heard that spoonerism (kind of) all my life, but I am not sure I really understand it, as it really is about the least enthusiastic endorsement one can give. I don't drink (alcohol) at all, but given the choice between those two things, yeah, I would rather have the bottle in front of me.
Probably would be more often if my wife a) would drive at night or b) would let us just take a damn uber when we go out. Is it so wrong of me to want to enjoy every beer a craft brewery makes in one sitting?
@cbilyak This is where things get to be a blur for me… The idea of forgetting what you did in a given drunken night, etc. seems to be some kind of tipping point for people. I used to follow this gauge, trying to recall what happened in a given night, failing, and thinking, damn, I must've drank more than I thought last night. Then I realized, I have just as little of a grasp on what I did in a given night if I didn't drink at all. I just have kind of a suck-ass memory.
I'm not sure that I think I've ever been drunk. When I consume a lot of alcohol, I just get extra loquacious (no, worse than normal; y'all don't realize how much wordiness and random cognition I've got bottled up here) and/or sleepy, but I've never really felt drunk. I had a boss once who used to try to get us drunk. Probably the biggest night I had drinking we had to be in to work (on a Saturday, in a loud welding shop no less) three hours after we finished and I was completely fine. It probably helps that I'm 6'7"+ and between 225 and 280 (range across my adult life). I can't remember the last time I had more than a couple of (literally, two) drinks within two or three hours; usually it's just one.
I'm pickled more often than not.
@Pavlov
So drunk you're using "pickled," eh?
That's pretty fucking sauced.
@MehnofLaMehncha Only way to roll . . . All or nothing kind of guy.
@Pavlov this explains why you're so acidic.
@Thumperchick Good pickle pun . . . I'm generally full of piss and vinegar - regardless if I'm drinking.
@Pavlov damnit, you stole my next one.
Horst: Do we have any alcoholics among us?
Man 1: Uh, me.
Man 2: Right here.
Man 3: I'm drunk right now!
@CraigDanger I'm not an alcoholic, I'm a drunk. Alcoholics go to meetings.
@CraigDanger I'm not as think as you drunk I am.
Too Long.
Nobody likes a quitter.
I guess it depends on the definition of "drunk." I've been buzzed enough that I wouldn't consider driving, but I haven't ever had any of the classic "drunk" symptoms beyond a somewhat looser tongue.
@jsfs Same here. I rather enjoy a good beer or an occasional port, but one drink per evening is plenty. Perhaps a just have a phobia about not being in control of myself. I've gotten a little buzzed a few times, didn't like that feeling, so I quit.
Wow...wasn't expecting "Never been drunk" to be winning the vote. Maybe because the rest of the population is currently enjoying themselves too much to enter an answer before decent morning hour of at least 10 AM.
@DaveKnowsAll Denial ain't just a river in Egypt!
@DaveKnowsAll I blame benzodiazepines, SSRI's and SNRI's (and possibly also reduced barriers to opioids) for the decline of those imbibing.
And, I'm more than a little fucking shocked I could spell benzodiazepines without assistance.
@Pavlov you got a gold star for that spelling job.
@Pavlov I hope that's true. It's not my experience that people follow those warning labels, but I would like to believe that.
@DaveKnowsAll It's just the biggest bar, the vast majority are still drinkers, just with varying levels of frequency
I can't remember the last time I've been drunk. By the time I hit 29 I began to realize that vomit-drunk was coming a lot earlier in the night and fun-drunk wasn't sticking around very long anymore. Add that to the next day migraines and alcohol became a lot less appealing. An occasional glass of sweet wine is about all I do anymore.
It took way too long for me to realize the difference between drinking and drunkeness. Now I try to drink more, but get drunk less.
Drunk is reserved for Cowboys games.
Or as a wise man once told me, "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
@2many2no re: "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
I have heard that spoonerism (kind of) all my life, but I am not sure I really understand it, as it really is about the least enthusiastic endorsement one can give. I don't drink (alcohol) at all, but given the choice between those two things, yeah, I would rather have the bottle in front of me.
@DrWorm Have you never heard the song?
@smyle I understand it in context the song, but the expression pre-dates the song at least 40 years. It is typically used in an "oh boy!" context.
@DrWorm I think it may have something to do with the tendency to perform a temporary chemical lobotomy.
Or not. Probably shouldn't overanalyze when I've been drinking.
I am very relaxed at the moment. I have had six beers. I am certainly not drunk, but not in a condition to drive.
Probably would be more often if my wife a) would drive at night or b) would let us just take a damn uber when we go out. Is it so wrong of me to want to enjoy every beer a craft brewery makes in one sitting?
@patthetuck Of course not. Shouldn't even have to ask.
I'm at that glass of red wine a day stage of life. It really sucks. I'm moving to denver
Last time I was drunk was 1985 to 1998. And boy was that fun!
At this point, I think I'm much closer to my next drunk than my last....c'mon 5 o'clock! Oh who am I kidding, c'mon any time after noon.
Buzzed...regularly. So drunk I cannot recall everything that happened, 3.5 years ago. It is ALL good...as long as you do not drink and drive.
@cbilyak This is where things get to be a blur for me… The idea of forgetting what you did in a given drunken night, etc. seems to be some kind of tipping point for people. I used to follow this gauge, trying to recall what happened in a given night, failing, and thinking, damn, I must've drank more than I thought last night. Then I realized, I have just as little of a grasp on what I did in a given night if I didn't drink at all. I just have kind of a suck-ass memory.
I'm not sure that I think I've ever been drunk. When I consume a lot of alcohol, I just get extra loquacious (no, worse than normal; y'all don't realize how much wordiness and random cognition I've got bottled up here) and/or sleepy, but I've never really felt drunk. I had a boss once who used to try to get us drunk. Probably the biggest night I had drinking we had to be in to work (on a Saturday, in a loud welding shop no less) three hours after we finished and I was completely fine. It probably helps that I'm 6'7"+ and between 225 and 280 (range across my adult life). I can't remember the last time I had more than a couple of (literally, two) drinks within two or three hours; usually it's just one.
I can't remember the last time I was drunk. Luckily, I just drink til I pass out and forget everything every night. So technically never drunk.