What are your thoughts on Alcohol

[Virtud Tierra]

You suppose so? Cause when I get really trashed, I'm pretty sure my lizard-brain takes over and I do some famously retarded shit and wake up remembering nothing but a vauge feeling of guilt and maybe a few more bruises then I had before.

I think sober folks have reservations when they speak and act normally, and alcohol loosens up their toungue and all, but drinking like, way more then that pretty much turns you into the lizard-brain version of yourself that is nothing but insanity and cop-punching.

I can honestly say that has never crossed my mind when drunk. Even so, there's still a difference between being a dumbass and a violent, abusive monster...

Why I don't drink gin, in any case.

When I drink gin, I turn in to Winston Smith...

You just have'nt been drunk enough.

[Vetalia]

You just have'nt been drunk enough.

By that point I'm more focused on vomiting on the nearest patch of clear ground than anything else. But then again, your mileage may vary.

[Tunizcha]

I don't understand why Budweiser is so popular. It's crap tasting beer.

I'd rather enjoy a fine lager.

[Virtud Tierra]

You just have'nt been drunk enough.

By that point I'm more focused on vomiting on the nearest patch of clear ground than anything else. But then again, your mileage may vary.

Well, thats just the start of the party on the path to finding your own darker mirror image of your, my young patawan. You puke, and then pound some liquor on your now freshly emptied stomach.

Thats when the Devil Gin takes over.

[Jingoist Hippostan]

Why is my only option to change the drinking age 12?

Also, I like alcohol.

[Wilgrove]

I don't understand why Budweiser is so popular. It's crap tasting beer.

I'd rather enjoy a fine lager.

I like Pabst Blue Ribbon myself.

[Sociopathic Platypii]

One of the licensing regulations of the establishments would a requirement to not serve alcohol to someone who is obviously drunk (much as UK bar staff can do now, if the feel it best), and it would be damned expensive, which would preclude most people from doing it anyway. However, it' not 100% water tight, and no solution ever could be, even a total ban.

Well when crack addicts start running around the streets of London because the police is too overworked enforcing petty laws, I'm sure everyone will understand that it's for the greater good. You could either over-enforce it if you are bored (like US police in suburbs regarding underage drinking) or you could consider it a joke (like US police in New York, LA, who have better things to do like preventing robberies). Either way it will fall on its face and attract ire or contempt from either side.

[Dcarbo]

We should treat violent drunks the same way we treat violent sober people: lock them up.

[Jingoist Hippostan]

We should treat violent drunks the same way we treat violent sober people: lock them up.

This has been my opinion on all forms of alcohol and drug specific crime. If someone's being loud and belligerent, arrest them for disorderly conduct or disturbing the peace or any number of other laws. Their state of intoxication is irrelevant, it's the behavior that's important. The same applies with driving. I don't care if a drunk guy's driving along having just shot up a giant dose of heroin and cocaine as long as he's driving safely. The issue is not his intoxication, the issue is his driving. And reckless driving laws exist for a reason. If someone is driving unsafely, charge them as such. Don't charge them for being drunk. They've already violated the important law, the alcohol might've motivated it, but is in the end irrelevant.

[Maraque]

Alcohol has been very very good to me. ^_^

[Sierra Lobo]

There is nothing wrong about alcohol, or selling these products. Its those people who imbibe alcohol and not be responsible of their actions. Nowadays, personal responsibility is a vague memory and that most people rather put blame on different things rather than owing up and taking resposibility of their own actions.

[Jingoist Hippostan]

Ethanol is the most powerful pyschoactive known to man. why do you think it is consumed so regularly.

That's not true. Alcohol is probably one of the weakest. If we're talking powerful to mean potent, than LSD is obscenely more potent than alcohol. It's dose is measured in micrograms, as is the dose of many other hallucinogenic drugs.

Most drugs produce a shift in consciousness more pronounced than that of alcohol. I don't think you'll ever convince me that alcohol is more powerful than, say, meth or DMT. Hell, that bottle of robitussin sitting in your medicine cabinet will get you more fucked up than any sane amount of alcohol.

Something like eighty percent of violent crime involves the over consumption of Alcohol. Any thoughts on how to solve this problem?

Sean

Uh...Source?

[Big Jim P]

If you can still have thoughts on alcohol, then you haven't had enough alcohol.

[Tunizcha]

If you can still have thoughts on alcohol, then you haven't had enough alcohol.

Fixed.

[Jingoist Hippostan]

If you can still have thoughts on alcohol, then you haven't had enough alcohol.

Fixed.

better fixed.

[Tunizcha]

I have recently found new drug classifications done by scientists that wanted new drug rankings.

[Barzan]

When I drink gin, I turn in to Winston Smith...

Who'da thunk? Your avatar certinly didn't clue me in to that one...

I don't understand why Budweiser is so popular. It's crap tasting beer.
Fixed!

Actually, it's popular because there's no accounting for taste or for class. Why the hell do you people have "light beer"? That's a good quesiton too.

I don't understand why Budweiser is so popular. It's crap tasting beer.

I'd rather enjoy a fine lager.

I like Pabst Blue Ribbon myself.

Uh oh. You're not a hipster are you?

[Virtud Tierra]

Ethanol is the most powerful pyschoactive known to man. why do you think it is consumed so regularly.

That's not true. Alcohol is probably one of the weakest. If we're talking powerful to mean potent, than LSD is obscenely more potent than alcohol. It's dose is measured in micrograms, as is the dose of many other hallucinogenic drugs.

Most drugs produce a shift in consciousness more pronounced than that of alcohol. I don't think you'll ever convince me that alcohol is more powerful than, say, meth or DMT. Hell, that bottle of robitussin sitting in your medicine cabinet will get you more fucked up than any sane amount of alcohol.

Something like eighty percent of violent crime involves the over consumption of Alcohol. Any thoughts on how to solve this problem?

Sean

Uh...Source?

Yeah, I'd think a straight ounce of LSD-25 or PCP would wreck a guy more then a couple of shots of whiskey.

Or maybe I've just developed that much of a tolerance? Probably not.

[Tunizcha]

I don't understand why Budweiser is so popular. It's crap tasting beer.

I'd rather enjoy a fine lager.

I like Pabst Blue Ribbon myself.

Uh oh. You're not a hipster are you?

I am. Do you hate me now? *pouts and does puppy dog eyes*

[Jingoist Hippostan]

I have recently found new drug classifications done by scientists that wanted new drug rankings.

That seems very, very, very wrong. Solvents below cannabis? Solvents, for those of you not aware, would be inhalants. I'm pretty sure huffing gas is a lot worse for you than smoking weed.

[Barzan]

I don't understand why Budweiser is so popular. It's crap tasting beer.

I'd rather enjoy a fine lager.

I like Pabst Blue Ribbon myself.

Uh oh. You're not a hipster are you?

I am. Do you hate me now? *pouts and does puppy dog eyes*

Depends. If you say you're a hipster, then you technically can't be a hipster. But I believe that counter-culture is just as bad as the right-wing fanatics in that they waste resources, time, air and they spread around a lot of useless garbage -- both thwart the progression of society.

[Wilgrove]

Uh oh. You're not a hipster are you?

Nah, I just like good beer.

[Tunizcha]

I have recently found new drug classifications done by scientists that wanted new drug rankings.

That seems very, very, very wrong. Solvents below cannabis? Solvents, for those of you not aware, would be inhalants. I'm pretty sure huffing gas is a lot worse for you than smoking weed.

Not totally sure about that, the only drug I have studied up on is cannabis. I'll get back to you if I find something.

[Barzan]

Uh oh. You're not a hipster are you?

Nah, I just like good beer.

Fair enough. I used to drink that at my Grandmother's house when I was too young to buy any for myself.

Not totally sure about that, the only drug I have studied up on is cannabis. I'll get back to you if I find something.

All I know is this: don't eat a whole "special brownie" on an empty stomach after you've been drinking all night.

[Cameroi]

alcohol is boring.
people turn to it because they've been brainwashed into associating imagination with immaturity.
if there were nothing wrong with the culture, people wouldn't be wanting it.