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Depends on what I’m drinking.
Champagne? I’m an obnoxious asshole but but god do I love mimosas. They just taste so fucking good that I don’t even notice how many I’ve had. They’re like fucking candy or chips that I can’t stop shoving into my mouth.
Wine? Sad and start crying…the irritating sob story kind.
Rum/Vodka? Loud, happy, chatty, everyone’s BFF.
Tequila? Can go a few different ways.
I don’t drink beer or do shots though, so idk about those.
Can anyone convince me that the whole "different drunk from different alcohol" has any real scientific basis? I've just never really felt like I act any different on different types of alcohol. No matter the type of liquor or beer, I just lose some social inhibition and motor function, I don't really feel emotionally any different than I usually do when I'm drunk.
I could only explain it as such that we may drink different drinks according to the setting and mood we're in. I would never drink tequila at a formal work function, where champagne/bubbles is totally acceptable. And I have to be in the mood for hard liquor, so I most oftenly go for wine/beer. So perhaps that determines the way we act, rather than the sort of alcohol.
I can definitely see how the settings that are more likely to have one kind of liquor over another could influence the energy and what level of drunkenness is acceptable, and how that would relate to feelings people would relate more towards certain drinks. Thanks
I haven't done formal research on the topic, but as far as I can see this is correct- alcohol just lowers your inhibitions and makes you more suggestable, therefore easier to influence by your enviroment- you're way more likely to be depressed and sipping whiskey slowly by yourself than partying with Coronas with lime.
It would be interesting to look at regional ideas of what different alcohols are appropriate for and see if the "effects" change with it
After I've had a bunch of jaegarbombs I hurl so bad that policy in my house was written. Does that count?
It’s probably more to do with how strong each one is - wine vs liquor, for example, and if you drink them faster or slower and if there’s a mixer with one type vs wine, that’s drunk by itself.
So not so much the what, but the how.
That's true, I always assume the same level of drunkenness when people talk about different liquor, but maybe people get different levels of drunk and end up feeling one level more than another depending on drink
People can form strong psychological associations with alcohol too. Get blackout drunk a few times on tequila in college? That person is more likely to tell you that tequila hits them harder than other liquors, or that they can't drink it because it makes them sick.
Dylan?