why booze?

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is it actually better than all that other crap, or is it just that it's legal & stuff?

― duane, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

legal. i know far too many anti-hippies who refuse drugs today because they weren't cool enough to score any when they were 15. (i wasn't either, but that's besides the point). but these people are all enthusiastic boozers. but there is a legion of enthusiasm for all legal intoxicants, even if they're usually mild like tobbacco and caffine.

― matthew james, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

love booze. its not just cos its legal either, although its availability does help. why do i love booze? cos it brings out the best/worst in me. my guitar playing is better when i'm pissed (but not too pissed). i have the balls to proposition people when i'm drunk. i can get pretty obnoxious when i'm drunk, like i'll say things to people i don't know (very loudly so that everyone in bar can hear) that i can normally force myself not to say. e.g

"you fucked my friend and he says you've got a hairy back!"

"hey you look like a bulldog!"

and the list goes on. have been known to attack people when drunk. will have arguments with people who are acting like twats when i would normally just walk away.

oh yeah, i'm a regular exhibitionist while drunk. can hardly stop myself from dancing like i'm the "ho" in a hiphop video, sometimes on stages and tabletops on a quiet night at the pub. on rare occasions i will even flash.

but i don't mind being an idiot, its fun and it gives people something to talk about, bitch about, laugh about, sometimes people even admire me!

booze is better than pot cos i can't stand sitting in the corner feeling paranoid. every other drug i can think of is beyond my financial capabilities, except mushrooms which only appear in mushroom season of course.

― lady die, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Alcohol is rubbish. I hate it. But it is the means to an enjoyable end, and therefore classic. If only it didn't TASTE SO BAD!

― DG, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Alcohol is great, it's not just cos it's legal. I mean, stuff like beer is godawful but other stuff is classic as hell. It's strong enough that you get something out of it, but it's not going to make you go completely insane. Drugs like pot are crap, they do nothing for me and they make you all duuuuude and shit, but good drugs like cocaine make people go nuts. If I had to choose between drinking and smoking, the smoking would go out the window tomorrow. It's really great stuff.

― Ally, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's just great to watch other people get very silly, it has to be said. Sometimes I join in this state.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just thought I'd clarify what I meant - alcohol the concept = classic, alcohol the taste = massive dud. Even if you mix something with it, there's still that horrid taste underneath, though of course if you drink enough you can't taste it any more anyway.

― DG, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't know. I used to ride around on my bicycle with a secret drink of wine and crackers so that no-one could tell I had been drinking, always. Once a boy came down my street on a motorbike and I got on it and we rode around the block in the dark. Another time a boy knocked on my door and said is there anywhere to fish around here. I left the house and walked down to the beach with him, in the dark. He was much older than me, I think he might have been quite nice, but I never found out. I was babysitting my sister. I love my sister. After a really terrible time I ritually smashed a bottle in the fireplace and ate something to signal the end of that. It basically worked. I'm happier without happiness.

― maryann, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i think that should be cross-posted to the 'what would your novel be about' thread.

― ethan, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's all about takin' bong hits and then rippin' a 24 pack apart. I dunno who the hell sits in the corner all paranoid and shit 'cept people that can't deal or couldn't think until they tried the shit. Man, I used to snap before pot, all the shit I would see wouldn't get me paranoid, I'd just fuckin' get pissed and cynical and mean. SMoke a lil' herbage, though, and I'm chill, can chat with anyone about anything. Of course, I won't go a single day without m'beer, m'fabuloso beer, and shrooms are definitely da bomb.

― stoner, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like the taste. Honestly.

― anthony, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I used to be an enthusiastic drinker but after moving to England where everybody is drunk and violent ALL the fucking time it's lost its appeal somewhat.

― dave q, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry, that's the self-righteous explanation. The REAL reason I stopped is the time I woke up in Tottenham with my wallet gone, got home somehow and had a screwdriver for breakfast, then spilled it on an electric heater. ZAP!

― dave q, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't recon its much better or worse than the other crap, its all pretty poisonous in some way, all pretty enjoyable too. Booze has more permutations and nicer flavours than the rest.

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Who was the drunkard beating up Vic Reeves on Ruby Wax last night? The face seemed familiar but I couldn't place him, and I couldn't stand watching the rest of the show to find out.

― John Davey, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Better or worse isn't a very good question, because "all that other crap" could take into account things that make you feel very different than alcohol. Or even compliment an alcohol buzz. But for me personally, I'd say better than SOME things, because alcohol never makes me feel like I'm losing my mind. That's a good thing.

― Sean, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Why? Cheap and, when mixed well, tasty. When not mixed well, that's when you consider drinking bleach instead.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

With booze you carnt looze.

― Pete, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Just in case there are any impressionable souls reading this, I should like to make it clear that the above is a blatant Baran lie.

― Tim, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And I would like to point out that loose - which Pete has oh so charmingly mispelt as looze - is not the same as lose (or loze).

― Emma, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But phonetically Looze is pronounced almost the same as lose, but different to loose.

― Pete, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think Emma was just using any excuse to get her complaint about the super-virulent lose/loose misspelling epidemic off her erm... chest.

For the record, I'm not a huge fan of booze, as it often just makes me lethargic and/or morose. Occasionally, however, it's the drug of gods and I come to life in spectacular fashion. I think it's all to do with timing the intake the alcohol. I think necking high-strength drinks early on is the best policy.

― Nick, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nick: see puking thread

― Dave M., Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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