How does alcohol affect your interaction with other people?

[frankleigh]

The following is from a question about alcohol, posted by someone else on another site:-

Alcohol - "Does it remove responsibility from your actions?

Can you pass it off as - "Sorry about last night, I was drunk!"?

Have you ever used it as an excuse and do you really think it carries weight?

After all...you don't have to drink it!"

There was more, but the above is a direct quote, and the gist of what was asked.

[frankleigh]

I�ll add � there were always comments that late at night, after the pubs closed, sites like this and others became inundated with drunks posting inane comments, and not caring if they upset people or ruined a website.

It was always obvious � their posts contained typos that they couldn�t be bothered to correct (or didn�t notice), or maybe there was some rambling on about some perceived injustice if they used the site when they hadn�t been drinking. Basically it was drivel that sent many of us away to find something else to do, or just away to bed, or just away from the site altogether.

I also get the same impression occasionally from regular users who �like a drink� while they�re winding down before going to bed. They may think that bottle of wine, the glass of Jack Daniels or Voddy is just to help them relax, or to sleep, but don�t realise how it is clouding their judgment.

Do you think such people realise when they continue drinking as they post that the rest of us can see that they have turned from posting sensible and/or interesting topics when they are sober, to those same people who appear online after the pubs close?

[cyanide]

Well,personally i don`t drink so if someone says to me sorry i was drunk i usually tell them to eff off and tell them if they do things under the influence of alchol that they wouldn`t normally then they shouldn`t be drinking.I have got nothing against people who drink,my husband is back from Iraq next week and will be plastered LOL,but i can`t stand a drunk who insists on arguing and talking utter crap.

[idalovett]

Its years since I got plastered. Apparently I had St Vitus Dance on the dance floor then wandered to prop myself up against a wall and slid down it laughing hysterically. 30 years later I am still reminded of it so these days I enjoy a drink or three but never ever have got drunk since. I just wait for friends to get into a drunken state then video them for the aim of blackmail.

[snagged]

I had three texts at around 3am this morning from a friend who is one of the nicest people I've ever met when not under the influence - but when hammered turns into a complete idiot... I didn't reply - which made things worse: 3 more inane and abusive texts - which I also ignored... half an hour ago I got a long, rambling apology.... boring!!

[dot.hawkes]

I have just signed in here and noticed your thread tel, I may be able to have a drink tomorrow night as i am working all weekend but off on monday, though i have to be up t rake my grandson to school at 8.30, but i will take note of what you say here and if i ever do have a drink i will perhaps watch the quantity, in the mean time, I will have to balme my uncorrected typos on the erased letters missing from thsi cheap keyboard or my tiredness through working such long hours.