Alcohol and our culture..

I am interested in peoples experience with alcohol..

I was doing some reading and found this




https://www.sirc.org/publik/drinking3.html


So they seem to be suggesting that a build up of tolerance levels means that people of some cultures will have little or no bad side effects, while others will have increased bad effects as a result of drinking too much.

I'd like to hear where you are from and how you usually behave when you are drunk.
Are you a loving drunk or do you become 'punch' happy?

I'm from the UK and I'm usually the happy/mellow drunk or the one that looks after everyone else when they drink too much and get emotional/puke. Not the most glamourous way of spending house parties but at least people are ok.

I've only ever been the messy, emotional, violent drunk once, and that was being violent to nobody else but myself. I'm still trying to forget that night.

The English binge culture is often blamed on the times pubs are open. With restricted hours people wanted to drink as much before closing time. Getting drunk, or 'plastered' was seen as a rite of passage as soon as one got to legal drinking age. Now with subsitised 'loss leaders' from supermarkets and 'alco-pops' that taste like non alcoholic drinks plus liberation of women to be as OK to be seen 'legg less' in public [so mem don't have that monopoly now; all this adds to less inhibitions and more work for emmergency services + at A&E. [Accident and Emmergency hospital department (added for interpretation)]. So the English binge culture just grows [like bugs in an agar dish].

I enjoy a drink, havn't got drunk for a lot of years but when I did once or twice back in my teens it didn't make me violent just stupid



I don't quite know what the answer is to Britains problems regarding the bad effects of alcohol. We see the violence on Friday & Sat nights. Many ( not all )just going out to get totally plastered and cause trouble. Some say alcohol is too cheap, some blame the longer licensing hours. Changing this I don't think will solve the real problems.

I think it's all down to the quality of life that those in the UK have. There was a report published yesterday saying that young people in Britain are the most likely binge drinkers in all of Europe, even though alcohol is dealt with more strictly than in most other parts of Europe, which suggests it may not be to do with licensing laws as such.

Here's the story about it:
BBCNews

We may have a high Standard of Living in this country but there must be other factors at play to make so many young people feel the need to get so drunk they can't remember who they are. Whether it's the intense amount of exams, social pressures or family issues I don't know, but I don't think it's right to soley blame young people for binge drinking anyway.

I think it has more to do with the environment in which people drink. Drinking in a loud pub full of people who don't know each other and who may or may not be in a jovial mood will definitely contribute to unsavory behavior. Whereas, drinking in a close knit environment such a family or group of friends sharing a drink after dinner, like in most European communities, doesn't usually result in binging or belligerent behavior.

2007 saw the start of the death of the pub. Going to the pub will become a thing of the past.

More and more people are drinking at home which means they are drinking more than they would at a pub because they are giving themselves home measures.

I think after a while people will soon get sick or bored of this. Tolerance levels do rise which makes it expensive to get pissed.

I think alcohol sales will drop in the UK over the next 10 years.

Yep, we are seeing the same kind of changes here.

Only here, people are turning away from alcohol and pubs only to replace them with pills and raves..

I dont know if thats better or worse, i guess we will have to wait and see..

I have been sober now for 10 years ,but I never had a drinking problem .
I would drink. get drunk , fall down , No problem .
It depend ed on what my poison of choice was for the day or night . Or what if any plans were. just drinking , or going dancning . I can only remember becoming destructive twice while drinking , once was when my dad passed and few months later my real mother turned up , and once when my ole man screwed up big time and I caught him with 'his hand in the cookie jar' so to speak.I first time I beat the rocks almost to death with my face when ever I'd trip and fall . When I woke up that next morning had both wrists broken and my nose was broken and them rock was really really in bad shape
And the second time , well lets just leave it at this ,the ole man has a real fear of strange 'cookie jars' now.

Down south, there are no drinking ages and such tosh. Kids learn to drink (wine and beer) at their parents' table. Drinking is very social, either at home or out, and always accompanies food. Getting mellow is required, but blind drunk isn't acceptable. No lure of the forbidden, no rolling in the streets drunk at midday.

LMAO

'Down south',down south where?...in Saudi Arabia.What a load of bulls***.

I'm an Englishman and personally have a very liberal attitude in terms of alcohol. I get lively then tired, never violent. I find my Chinese friends have a low tolerance and get drunk very quickly, but not punch drunk, sort of wayward and loud.

No, in the Mediterranean. You know, where people are civilised.

The worst I've ever done when I'm drunk is dance badly. I don't understand the people who get violent.

Agreed.

My apologies I shouldnt of jumped to conclusions even if your location is stated as UK.