First-time inebriation.

[Pierre]

Get drunk because you want to, not because everyone else does.

If you don't want to, don't get drunk, you won't enjoy it.

 

[LiveForTheLaunch]

I love how this topic turned into a "everyone share their drunk stories".

By the way Ben, nothing wrong with sounding like me!

From the sounds of things, you didn't have enough to give you a proper hangover. You know you've had you first 'proper' drinking experience when you're either violently sick or can't move the next day. Not that I condone that, in fact, I try to avoid it, but everyone needs to do it at least once.

No, you don't need to have a hangover to be truly drunk. I barfed six times at my worst and I didn't even have a hangover.

 

[Snoo]

Of course.. was that not in the middle of the day Taylor?

 

[Hixee]

You're 18 and you've only just go pissed? Oh dear.

From the sounds of things, you didn't have enough to give you a proper hangover. You know you've had you first 'proper' drinking experience when you're either violently sick or can't move the next day. Not that I condone that, in fact, I try to avoid it, but everyone needs to do it at least once.

I've never been drunk, and it irratates me that theres the assumption that excessive alcohol consumption is something that "needs" to be done.

**** you. Frankly.

I'm not really encouraging it, I don't think... :S

I once got horrifically drunk, it was highly unpleasant. It now allows me to keep a lid on my drinking, I know my limits now. I don't actually see anything wrong with that at all.

I'm not saying you have to get drunk, just that if you are, you need to have had a bad experience at least once.

From the sounds of things, you didn't have enough to give you a proper hangover. You know you've had you first 'proper' drinking experience when you're either violently sick or can't move the next day. Not that I condone that, in fact, I try to avoid it, but everyone needs to do it at least once.

No, you don't need to have a hangover to be truly drunk. I barfed six times at my worst and I didn't even have a hangover.

I've highlighted the key word in the sentence. You clearly missed it.

 

[furie]

Oh dear... You may want to skip this :lol:

I watched a program a few months ago about "why we drink".

Essentially, we all have a receptor in our brains which react to things like alcohol to produce a pleasurable feeling. It's this receptor which "gets us drunk" and also lets us know how much we enjoy it.

There were two lots of experiments done on this. I don't remember the exact details, so the figures and details should be taken as a "rough guide".

One was dodgy... They gave pre-teens, teens and adults alcohol (so that in terms of body weight/size they received the same measures of alcohol). They then had them do dexterity tests. It showed that it affected the adults much worse than the teens or pre-teens.

These experiments were banned, but the research continued on rats. Essentially it showed that an immature brain is less effected by alcohol than a mature brain. Yes, there are physical side effects, but if you stay within safe physical limits a teenager will be less inebriated than an adult.

It's all to do with the receptor. It doesn't connect neural pathways to the rest of the brain until later in life. So the effect is lessened. This explains why I could drink ten pints at 17 and be fine - but three pints and I'm wobbly now

Second experiments were done with primates. They left a selection of drinks for groups of monkeys. Some just fruit juices, some alcoholic. They found that around 60-70% of the monkeys seemed to enjoy the alcoholic drink. Out of those, about 20% actively sought out the alcoholic drink all the time, the other 30-40% seemed to have it every so often, but would be happy with the fruit juice.

This led on to experiments looking at the pleasure receptors in the brain and the reaction to alcohol issued in a controlled environment. They found similar results in humans. Some people have a mass of brain pleasure reaction to alcohol. Some have a fair amount. Others it doesn't activate the receptor cells at all.

This proves that people are actually physically built to REALLY enjoy alcohol, just enjoy it every so often (to varying degrees), or to just get nothing from it really at all.

It also proves that as a teenager, you're less likely to feel the effects of alcohol in the same way an adult does (obviously it is a different age per person).

So, don't hate people because they're programmed to love alcohol, but don't diss those who are programmed not to And if you tried it and "it did nothing for you" - chances are if you were young that you weren't mature enough yet

 

[Snoo]

^I've honestly felt that maturity since I was 18 or so.. being almost 23 now. In high school, drinking less then once a week, I could down more then my drinking binge of last year when I drank up to 4 days a week.

Crazy funny to be honest.