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**DISCLAIMER** Ice does not endorse nor approve of underage drinking. All drinking done by Ice is done on foreign soil where it is perfectly legal.
That being said, how many times have you blacked out?
I was just talking to my Korean suitmate who made me laugh by saying people blacking out in their teens in Korea is quite common. He even woke up in the middle of a road once! :laugh4:
I honestly can't say I've ever blacked out. Passed out, sure. Thrown up, sure. Not blacked out though.
Dutch_guy
12-01-2007, 20:21
Same here Ice, never drank that much.
Oh, and a Korean saying he blacked out is just cliché. Did he say how much, give or take, he had to drink that particular day ?
:balloon2:
woad&fangs
12-01-2007, 20:24
I don't drink alcohol. Getting drunk just doesn't really appeal to me. Same thing with getting high on drugs.
Craterus
12-01-2007, 20:28
Never.
Big King Sanctaphrax
12-01-2007, 20:45
I've had nights after which I've woken up and been a little hazy about the details-the worst being when I couldn't remember if I'd slept with someone I woke up next to, got out of there pretty fast-but I've never had the complete absence of recall that the term black-out implies.
Craterus
12-01-2007, 20:47
Charming.
discovery1
12-01-2007, 20:54
Never, even that one time I drank alot of jager(15 shots) in the space of four hours.
Wow, it is not as common as I thought. That's probably a good thing.
master of the puppets
12-01-2007, 21:11
i have in me Irish, Italian, and English blood. i think i can handle my drinks.
never
I don't drink alcohol. ~D
Never. Not even this one time me and a buddy were walking through the streets carrying two crates of beer and finished both of them quickly plus some more heavier liquor. I was fresh enough -- composed, logical and mentally in control -- to even engage a non-alcoholic person in debate and defeat him. I wish only a cop had engaged us, for I would've used my logic and persuasion to convince him he was out of order even though he was a policeman ding his job :laugh4:
Omanes Alexandrapolites
12-01-2007, 21:39
Alcohol wise, no - drunkenness doesn't appeal to me, although being mildly tipsy, as in three/four glasses of wine, is something which does. This is especially useful at parties where I need it to actually show my relaxed side - I'm typically a bit of a dull person when sober :sad2:
Pharnakes
12-02-2007, 00:12
Never.
Really can't see the point in drinking, tbh. Just because it is legall makes it no better than illiegal drugs. You should be sufficently mature and self aware to amuse yourself and others without needing to blur your brain to do so.
TBH, I doubt I will ever drink, except maybe at a funeral or the like out of respect for others. I probably wouldn't say this IRL, but the reason why I will never drink is becuase I am frightened of it. I have gone through 18 years of life with my brain being pretty much my one and only asset (I am not physicaly stong or tall), and so far it seems to me that I am more intellegent than most (arogance I know, but...), why would I want to loose this, in exchange for what?
Respect? Very definately not nessecary. All of my over age friends drink, some quite alot, and whatever people say about being the only sober one is not true. Its great fun the next day when you sneak up and shout in their ear.:laugh4: Also of course it is fun to be the only one who not only didn't do anything stupid, but remembers all the stupid things other people did. I love blackmail...:beam:
The privelige of waking up afterwards with no memory of the night before and 500 less brain cells? I don't think so, thanks.:no:
I admit that alchohol probaly helps to make new friends, but if that is nescecary, I don't want to be friends with them anyway, so...
Alcohol wise, no - drunkenness doesn't appeal to me, although being mildly tipsy, as in three/four glasses of wine, is something which does. This is especially useful at parties where I need it to actually show my relaxed side - I'm typically a bit of a dull person when sober
No, dull people are much more interesting:beam:
As for "sociable" don't get me started...
Never.
Really can't see the point in drinking, tbh. Just because it is legall makes it no better than illiegal drugs. You should be sufficently mature and self aware to amuse yourself and others without needing to blur your brain to do so.
But mankind generally is immature. Even if one does not drink alcoholic drinks, the question is is this person truly mature because of it? It is easy to throw around words such as maturity self-awareness but really...
TBH, I doubt I will ever drink, except maybe at a funeral or the like out of respect for others. I probably wouldn't say this IRL, but the reason why I will never drink is becuase I am frightened of it. I have gone through 18 years of life with my brain being pretty much my one and only asset (I am not physicaly stong or tall), and so far it seems to me that I am more intellegent than most (arogance I know, but...), why would I want to loose this, in exchange for what?
I doubt drinking alcoholic beverage is really a sign of respect at a funeral. If you attend a funeral is it not respectful already? What if you compose a music piece for the one who perished? Is it not respectful? Or what if you do something else to show your respect, something you know the dead one would find respectful? May it be drinking to one's passing away or another act or acts.
A beer once in a while isn't all that bad. If you truly are that intelligent as you claim, a few beers now and then won't hurt you much. Of course, do it at your own risk, if you do it.
What I'm gonna say is personal and private, but at the moment I don't really give a **** 'cause I'm making a point I want you to understand. I remember I was able to multitask a lot, having many difficult intensive threads processed by the brain, lots of creativity and intellect, lots of speed of processing, all the different parts of the brain perfectly in connection and optimal (creativity, rationality, emotion, etc.) etc., but you know... At some point I drank a lot, and whaddaya know, it remained there. If you think alcohol is going to damage you that badly, think again. A few beers here and there ain't bad for you, in fact a beer might stimulate you. You know what's going to damage you? Aging, (negative) emotions, serious accidents, bad education institutes, and the likes, not a few beers now and then. Of course if you can't handle alcohol, then stay away from it or learn to handle it.
As for "sociable" don't get me started...
Please get started. I wish to read what you think.
Now, let's open up a beer and rejoice in drinking one ~:cheers:
EDIT: I forgot to add, women might damage you too. They are the most hazardous creatures existing (if you are vulnerable that is). It is generally more predictable to fight off a bear or a lion 'cause you know all the possibilities. With women you gotta be in control and know exactly what you're doing and what she's thinking.
IrishArmenian
12-02-2007, 02:42
Wait, I voted, but I read more and I realized there is supposedly a difference between passing and blacking out. Care to elaborate?
Uesugi Kenshin
12-02-2007, 03:01
Respect? Very definately not nessecary. All of my over age friends drink, some quite alot, and whatever people say about being the only sober one is not true. Its great fun the next day when you sneak up and shout in their ear.:laugh4: Also of course it is fun to be the only one who not only didn't do anything stupid, but remembers all the stupid things other people did. I love blackmail...:beam:
Doing stupid stuff is part of the human experience! Like that time I played bloody knuckles (sober), or when I grabbed that burning stick that somehow ended up ten to twenty feet away from my fire last week and ran it back to the fire, after which I threw it back into the fire and it almost bounced back onto my shoes, or when later that night I put my hand in the fire to put that big log into it without throwing up sparks and setting a friend's afro on fire.
No burns that night, and everyone was sober (we're all underage), and part of the fun was the random mischief!
Oh yeah and I like drinking moderately, excessive drinking doesn't appeal to me, but drinking a few beers, especially after hard work, definitely does.
Evil_Maniac From Mars
12-02-2007, 03:08
Wait, I voted, but I read more and I realized there is supposedly a difference between passing and blacking out. Care to elaborate?
To my knowledge, passing out is when you simply lose conciousness, and blacking out is when you forget everything about when you were drinking.
Personally, I have never done either, and have no intention of doing so. Besides, alcohol has an interesting effect on me - it calms me down right from the get-go. My girlfriend was laughing at me last summer at a wedding (I had a few beers, she nothing) because I was getting calmer as the other guests became more rowdy.
Mouzafphaerre
12-02-2007, 03:17
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Only once, in which I had my collarbone broken and my skull torn really wide.
Not because of drinking (I don't drink). I had stumbled into a d@μn chain which shouldn't have been there. :wall:
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Never, I don't see the point in drinking so much I pass out, vomit or don't remember what happened. I drink to the point where I feel tipsy but I always stop myself drinking too much.
Mikeus Caesar
12-02-2007, 04:11
I always drink excessively (i don't drown my sorrows, i tie concrete blocks to their feet and throw them in the ocean) and have never passed out or vomited or any of that sort of thing. The worse thing that's happened is lying down looking at the sky, rolled over to see something only to roll straight onto some broken glass some idiot had been throwing about earlier - now i have a big 3-inch scar on left elbow. But then, i had also been smoking a bit of the 'wacky tobaccy' which also helped dull the pain.
IrishArmenian
12-02-2007, 04:22
Alright, then once is the number of times for that, too.
Interestingly enough, I've never vomited due to anything other than one bad case of sea-sickness.
Proletariat
12-02-2007, 08:05
Bunch of wussies
Bunch of wussies
HARDASS!
doc_bean
12-02-2007, 10:52
Three or four times I think.
I'm only counting the "What the Hell happened last night and how did I end up here?" moments.
Bunch of wussies
:laugh4:
Kralizec
12-02-2007, 13:33
Only once. The next afternoon I woke up and couldn't remember at what time I went home or how I had gotten there. I broke one or two things in my room (nothing expensive) and still had my contacts in and my clothes on.
Somebody Else
12-02-2007, 14:35
I'm sure I must have done... But I don't remember.
Bunch of wussies
I knew it. :wall:
Actually I'm pleasantly surprised that so many of the guys here have so much character. ~;p
Geoffrey S
12-02-2007, 16:17
Twice drinking related, twice sports related.
Justiciar
12-02-2007, 16:38
Only three times that I can recall. I really don't drink that often, and when I do it's seldom to such excess. Infact I dare say I've wet myself more times than I've blacked out. :shame:
Only three times that I can recall. I really don't drink that often, and when I do it's seldom to such excess. Infact I dare say I've wet myself more times than I've blacked out. :shame:
Euuurgh...did I just say character? ~;) :laugh4:
Ramses II CP
12-02-2007, 16:41
Surely it only has to happen once before you figure out your absolute tolerance. I'm an alcoholic (Former, no longer drink) and I only blacked out once, the same night I threw up the lining of my stomach and discovered that enough alcohol actually makes me impotent. When I woke up the next morning, at home, with a sore throat but no hangover I really didn't even think I'd had all that much to drink the night before.
:egypt:
DemonArchangel
12-02-2007, 18:03
Unfortunately, I don't drink, so blacking out just doesn't happen for me.
KukriKhan
12-02-2007, 18:19
A blackout is a whole other animal from a passout. Link to Duke Uni study (http://www.duke.edu/~amwhite/Blackouts/blackouts7.html).
The inability to move memory from short-term to long-term characterizes the syndrome. A black-outer may remember events of the past 10 minutes, but not of an hour, or day ago. Although the quantity and speed of alcohol drinking plays an important role, it's not the only factor, apparently. Some folks blackout quicker, for longer, and more frequently than others.
So you know what you're doing, sort of, but don't remember it afterwards?
Though I'd guess at that point you may not know what you're doing anyway. :laugh4:
A blackout is a whole other animal from a passout. Link to Duke Uni study (http://www.duke.edu/~amwhite/Blackouts/blackouts7.html).
The inability to move memory from short-term to long-term characterizes the syndrome. A black-outer may remember events of the past 10 minutes, but not of an hour, or day ago. Although the quantity and speed of alcohol drinking plays an important role, it's not the only factor, apparently. Some folks blackout quicker, for longer, and more frequently than others.
Interesting study, Kurki.
Slug For A Butt
12-02-2007, 20:37
Never, though it's not for lack of trying. :beam:
And for the sanctimonious types here (no names mentioned) who are looking down their noses at getting ratarsed on a night out with their friends let me tell you that you haven't lived. Great fun!
I've done silly things, funny things, embarrassing things and fat ugly things after a bellyfull of beer but I don't regret them (apart from a few of the fat ugly ones). :shame:
Long live Stella King of the beer people! ~:cheers:
More then a couple but never from just booze there was always narcotics involved.
I have not had a single blackout. But then again how would I know?
I know I have been so drunk that I couldn't walk, but I remember every minute of it.
The last time, I remember clearly as glass. It was one of the many "wet" nights in the military and I was exeptionally drunk. We ordered a transport from our fort to come and get us and one of the female seargents in our party had a bottle of vodka which were passed around on the way back to the fort. I took a long and good gulp of this 60% pure alkohol and passed it on. Several rounds later we finally returned to the fort. I was in a state where I couldn't keep my legs under me and I had help reaching the barracks. In the hall I fell to the ground and couldn't get up. The aforementioned seargent had to carry me to my room, undress me and put me to bed. I remember she thought I was a heavy bastard but when she undressed me, she told me she would have taken advantage of me had I been more sober. Apparently she thought I was catatonic. But I still remember all of it. I remember I thought I would have taken advantage of her had I not been so damn sleepy. She kissed me goodnight and tucked me in. I thought that was a nice gesture and we became good friends later on (the platonic kind I might add).
The_Mark
12-03-2007, 15:49
I've had two complete blackouts (both on a cruise ship between Turku and Stockholm, where it's traditional to be wasted), and a few more hazy homecomings. Lots of times with my speech being utterly incomprehensible.
littlelostboy
12-03-2007, 16:21
The first time I blacked out was my first experience with hard liquor (tequila). I was celebrating with a friend and he brought a bottle of tequila from the bartender and we were doing shots after shots.
The next thing I knew were a few hazy moments in the bathroom, bar floor, on the street, taxi and somehow, on my friend's bedroom floor.
My brother told me I tried to poison myself with 19 tequila shots and puked in my sleep in the bar. And I thought the stuff on my shirt was food...
Oh well, fun times, sweet sixteen.
Recently, another one happened in June this year. A guy just finished his army stint and was celebrating and yours truly was in a good mood and downed some martini, B52, vodka and some beer and alcohol.
Somehow I managed to get myself into a taxi where I passed out at the void deck of my flat. I only woke up around 5am after an hour of black out.
Great story Sigurd! :2thumbsup:
Well, I once drank lots of vodka and then some absinthe, at that point I had triple vision for a short time and that's when I stopped to drink some...milk on advice of some other students and some aspirin later on, next morning I felt quite fine.
Then last time I was drunk I drank a lot of different stuff, started with one or two beers, then vodka redbull, followed by gin tonic, this strange stuff where you lick salt from your hand, then drink, then bite into an orange (I was way too slow and it tasted like ****, but then I just tried everything the barkeeper mentioned) etc. It hit a bit hard later on and I also stumbled in that club on the way from the toilet, found that utterly embarassing, gave the last drink back to the barkeeper and told him to throw it away. :sweatdrop:
Well he told me he wouldn't give me anything anymore anyway because he didn't want me to throw up.
That's about the worst I've come to, never threw up or such thing, once I felt bad after two beers, just stopped there. :shrug:
Never and proud :2thumbsup:
A couple of times back in college, never since. My auto-pilot is generally reliable. :barrel:
As I mentioned before: I am Bavarian and we have beer parties aka. Volksfeste....I do not mean the infamous Oktoberfest, as it is by now a very international event...btw....none of you guys and gals from Italy, NZ, England, US, Scotland etc past/blacked out in Munich [yet]...U r liars!:laugh4:
Back to our beer parties: I go to the "Gäubodenvolksfest" every year with my friends and we would drink a couple of beers there and...well, let us put it like this: "The whole damn town plus surrounding cities passes out there!". Well, it has to be in our Lower Bavarian blood....beer. Some people become idiots in other words aggressive , but most are fun to talk with & we have all ages from 16 - 99 years having a beer together. A vast majority of them just goes there to have a fun time. "U guys have Disneyland...We have the Gäubodenvolksfest".
I think to black out is more like the kind of coma you reach drinking a lot of hard liquor.....I do not like that . The hangover is a freaking hell-trip, at least in my age [33 yrs. and rising]. I try to avoid that.
Me beer...no blackout....just a straight and honest headache the next morning as one deserves being a bit nasty to your health.....Beer is a pretty honest drug!~:cheers:
Duke John
12-03-2007, 16:52
Voted 0, but after reading the replies it might have been 1. During the last night of the introductionary period of the university we saw the sun rise and went back to the faculty. There I looked for a toilet only to be become awake on a different floor and my friends telling me that I had been sleeping on a table and fell of with a loud crash. I don't know wether I had drunk too much or was simply too tired though. During the following cantus I thought it was safer to ask for orangejuice.. I am happy to know my limits now.
littlelostboy
12-03-2007, 17:04
this strange stuff where you lick salt from your hand, then drink, then bite into an orange (I was way too slow and it tasted like ****, but then I just tried everything the barkeeper mentioned) etc.
That my friend, would be tequila. Another version is you lick the salt from the rim of the shot glass.
That my friend, would be tequila. Another version is you lick the salt from the rim of the shot glass.
Another version is to lick the salt off a womans breast and bite the lemon from her lips.
I went on a trip to Lithuania once... I had 16 shots of tequila one night; still no blackout, but damn hard walking back to the hotel. :beam: (I love wild Israeli women)
Innocentius
12-03-2007, 22:00
I've had a few blackouts. One fever-related when I was 9 (my parents had to carry me out of the bead and give me a cold shower, didn't remember a thing) and a few alcohol related (way too young to drink, plus I'm pretty skinny).
First alcohol-related one was probably the first time I really got drunk. I was 13 or 14. One second I was drinking beer and having fun, the next I wake up, feel sick and crawl to a ditch where I throw up. Someone kicked me into that ditch and tried to shave my mohawk off during the same night. Those were the days.
I had a quite good one this spring when I drank a little too much vodka. Apparently I was sitting on the bus home, puke all over my clothes, staring blankly in the air for ten minutes straight. When we got off, which I, of course, don't remember, I went to the subway to ask when the train home left, but I thought it would take too long, so I got really pissed at the conductor (or whatever you call those "ticket controllant-guys" in the booths), gave him the finger and took another bus home to a friend. Fell asleep while on the bus, which I had to wait for longer than the subway anyway, but remember what happened once I woke up (this was in May, so the sun was up by this time).
I've stuck to beer since, I just can't handle liquor.
IrishArmenian
12-04-2007, 00:28
Innoncentius, too much vodka? That's an oxymoron if I've ever heard one.
Mouzafphaerre
12-04-2007, 02:05
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There's never too much vodka; only ugly women.
:eeeek:
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seireikhaan
12-04-2007, 02:11
Meh. I've not much a taste for booze, and, oddly enough, I value my coherence. Guess I'm just a weirdo.(well, and a minor:sweatdrop: )
Meh. I've not much a taste for booze, and, oddly enough, I value my coherence. Guess I'm just a weirdo.(well, and a minor:sweatdrop: )
Heh, I use to be that way.
:beam:
Then came that one night senior summer...
IrishArmenian
12-04-2007, 07:35
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There's never too much vodka; only ugly women.
:eeeek:
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Mouza, are you in my head?
Hey, Kammi, some people like it, some don't. Maybe it is a cultural issue, maybe religious, maybe personal, whatever the reason don't do it if you don't want to.
Peasant Phill
12-04-2007, 09:26
Some great stories. Had to laugh about the comparison between beerfesten and disneyland.
I knew all the Belgians here had at least one black-out. You have to or you may be eligable for extradition.
I know of two times I blacked-out and all happened in my first two years at university in Ghent.
One was after a Cantus* where a few friends and I had a few drinks after the cantus itself. When I was riding home on my bicycle I heard a glass fall.
Apparently I had been steeling glasses from the bar but I was unaware of it, neither was my friend I rode with.
The other time I was drinking Tequila. Not much of a hard liqueur man, I wasn't aware that booze hits you suddenly instead of gradually like beer. One moment I was dancing, drinking and socializing; the next I was passionately kissing a girl in the hall. I lost everything in between but I'm quite sure I still remember the most important parts of that evening/night. After that we (that girl and me) became quite good friends which I'm glad about.
I never regretted blacking-out unlike that one time I got plain drunk. It where the 'Gravesteenfeesten'. Simply put it's a big party in Ghent for students where your ticket in is a beer glass of 1/2 l. Free dark beer for the rest of the evening. Never have I been as sick as that night. I probably puked all the way home (a 20 min bicycle ride). I always had a bucket or something similar next to my bed in case I had to puke in the middle of the night. When I woke up that morning my bed was very damp (I hoped it was sweat) and in my bucket there was a thin layer of a black substance. After that I couldn't drink dark beer for over 2 or 3 years.
* For people who are unfamiliar with this see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantus
Never blacked-out, but that be because there's never enough alcohol available to do so, only enough to get mildly drunk. And anyway its so much more fun drawing on my friends who have passed out.
Never through drinking. Have almost blacked out a few times through excercise but never totally.
littlelostboy
12-04-2007, 14:05
The other time I was drinking Tequila. Not much of a hard liqueur man, I wasn't aware that booze hits you suddenly instead of gradually like beer. One moment I was dancing, drinking and socializing; the next I was passionately kissing a girl in the hall. I lost everything in between but I'm quite sure I still remember the most important parts of that evening/night. After that we (that girl and me) became quite good friends which I'm glad about.
I never regretted blacking-out unlike that one time I got plain drunk. It where the 'Gravesteenfeesten'. Simply put it's a big party in Ghent for students where your ticket in is a beer glass of 1/2 l. Free dark beer for the rest of the evening. Never have I been as sick as that night. I probably puked all the way home (a 20 min bicycle ride). I always had a bucket or something similar next to my bed in case I had to puke in the middle of the night. When I woke up that morning my bed was very damp (I hoped it was sweat) and in my bucket there was a thin layer of a black substance. After that I couldn't drink dark beer for over 2 or 3 years.
Hahaha, yeah, after that tequila incident, I remember dancing and grinding myself against a girl in the middle of the dance floor.
One of my friend had the same thing happened to him. He drank so much liquer that when he puke in the toilet, black stuff came out.
I've never blacked out, I've never even been drunk.
RoadKill
12-05-2007, 01:54
Once on New years Eve, trust me its not pleasent.
Don Corleone
12-05-2007, 02:11
I've settled down some, but when I was younger :drunk: :hanged: ....
Hazy about the details the next morning, probably 1/2 a dozen or so. An actual honest-to-God blackout? 4, maybe 5 times. On the last one, Mrs. Corleone told me that she would be invoking "till Death do us part" option on the contra ct to void it, so I've lighted up some since.
The most interesting (as in 10 years later and I'd still like to know wtf happened...) I woke up in Pittsburgh just after noon on a Sunday in a girl's dorm room. I had started out by drinking at a basketball game on Saturday afteroon. In Connecticut. 800 miles away. :dizzy2:
woad&fangs
12-05-2007, 02:14
Reminds me of the story of some writer who started drinking in Paris one night and ended up in Sardinia the next morning without a clue of what happened in between. I wish I could remember who it was.
seireikhaan
12-05-2007, 02:14
:laugh4: at the last story, Don. That musta been one hell of a trip.
Uesugi Kenshin
12-05-2007, 02:16
I've settled down some, but when I was younger :drunk: :hanged: ....
Hazy about the details the next morning, probably 1/2 a dozen or so. An actual honest-to-God blackout? 4, maybe 5 times. On the last one, Mrs. Corleone told me that she would be invoking "till Death do us part" option on the contra ct to void it, so I've lighted up some since.
The most interesting (as in 10 years later and I'd still like to know wtf happened...) I woke up in Pittsburgh just after noon on a Sunday in a girl's dorm room. I had started out by drinking at a basketball game on Saturday afteroon. In Connecticut. 800 miles away. :dizzy2:
Wow Don that's pretty nuts....
I've never blacked out, much less ended up very far away from where I started out in a strange woman's room.
I think it depends a lot on whose room you end up in. :sweatdrop:
Maybe blackouts allow us to beam ourselves on an overconscious level something or other. :dizzy2:
Maybe I should try that...
Don Corleone
12-05-2007, 03:33
I think 4 or 5 is a stretch. I'm counting and I think 3 is the right number, and the last time something like that happened was 7 years ago. As for the girl in Pittsburgh, we didn't sleep together that night, I just crashed at her place. Apparently, I wasn't even acting drunk. The next day they all thought I was putting on an act. Uh, yeah, I'm just pullin your leg! :idea2:
ajaxfetish
12-05-2007, 03:38
Teetotaller here.
I expect you're not counting general anaesthesia. If you were it'd be 1 for my wisdom teeth.
Ajax
Peasant Phill
12-05-2007, 08:38
Seeing as some of us have unknowingly talked, acted, charmed, ... our way into the favour of girls/boys during our black-out I must reach an interesting conclusion.
Keeping in mind the fact that the subject doesn't remember what he/she did during his/her black-out while a large percentage of those subjects can prove they won the favour of one or more girls/women during there black-out (waking up in her/his room, kissing her/him, ...). I must assume that there is an even higher percentage of subjects that can't prove that they won the favour of one of more girls/boys during there black-out.
As such, I can only reach one conclusion:
Blacking out makes a the subject an irresistible lust object, or at least very likeable.
P.S. I'm looking for volunteers to test this theory on.
Heh, I remember having the opinion that those who claimed to having blackouts were full of s**t.
It was just a charade to cover up that they had acted stupid. I based this reasoning on the belief that people acting out of character when drunk showed their true self. If they had sex with catatonic women, they were rapists. If they brawled, they were thugs etc.
I believed that to really get to know a person, you would would need to get that person exceptionally drunk. What came out of that person then would be their true nature.
I am trying to abort such beliefs, but it is hard.
Peasant Phill
12-05-2007, 11:24
By your reasoning then I would be a lazy, somewhat disturbed man with a disproportioned sex drive...
... Wait, that isn't far from the truth.
That may be somewhat true Sigurd and because I fear similar things I always try to maintain control over myself(then again, if I am in control over me, that's me isn't it?), I mean I don't know what I'd do once I lose control, two scenarios I find possible for myself:
1. Annoy a nice lady by blabbering and drooling around her either in emo "I never had a woman"-style or whatever else annoying I can come up with. :sweatdrop:
2. Deep down inside me I have my old bloodlust and maybe a lot of aggression locked up, I think, would be nice if it's not there anymore but if I'd open the lock being drunk, bad things may come out. :viking:
There was also this movie trailer (http://www.eurogamer.net/tv_video.php?playlist_id=6245) which said: "We are what we pretend to be."
It's about computer games but the statement is rather general and true I think, except in the context the trailer uses it. :laugh4:
Vladimir
12-05-2007, 14:03
But mankind generally is immature (and etc across several threads...)
Can you stop talking about yourself? Gah!
IrishArmenian
12-05-2007, 16:22
Heh, I remember having the opinion that those who claimed to having blackouts were full of s**t.
It was just a charade to cover up that they had acted stupid. I based this reasoning on the belief that people acting out of character when drunk showed their true self. If they had sex with catatonic women, they were rapists. If they brawled, they were thugs etc.
I believed that to really get to know a person, you would would need to get that person exceptionally drunk. What came out of that person then would be their true nature.
I am trying to abort such beliefs, but it is hard.
I could definitley see how you'd have that assumption. I kind of did too, until I actually did black out. I've no idea of what happened that night, but I'll assume I did the same thing I do when I'm influenced: act like myself except either louder or quieter.
Innocentius
12-05-2007, 18:15
Once on New years Eve, trust me its not pleasent.
But then again, how would you know it wasn't pleasant?~;)
Rather; waking up the morning after a blackout is not pleasant (though I'm still young and don't get much of a hangover).
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