What kind of drunk are you?

[Muad'Dib]

I get fucck9ing depresed when I am drunk.
I am so now. I think I trust it more. As if the feelings before were less rtrue or real.
But anyway, what kind of drunk are you?

[Dana27]

Unfortunately for my friends one who likes to sing. I sing very badly. Luckily for them I hardly drink at all anymore.

[LindyHopper]

I'm a really happy, convivial drunk. I'm fun to be around when I'm drunk. Which is probably why people try to get me drunk. Which is OK. :)

[LifeOnWry]

What kind of drunk am I? Probably a pretty cheap one. I go from straight to sick in half a beer.

[raz]

I'm the funny drunk. The one that always gets up and falls down and laughs for 5 minutes. Then gets back up and shakes everyones hand and makes sure everyone is okay. I'm also the caring drunk.

[Lobsang]

I'm the philosophical drunk.

[Ringo]

Unfortunately for the membership here, I can type when I'm drunk.

Well, most of the time.

Other than that, LindyHopper answered for me.

[Tripler]

I'm a happy-party animal drunk. I never puke, and I rarely pass out when I'm around people (at home, that's a different story). I classify myself as a "functional drunk", I can work, get stuff done, type, have a normal conversation etc. with a seriously good buzz on. Although, I don't drive (I walk a lot), and I tend to refrain from heavier physical activity.

On the other hand, I'm like the Incredible Hulk. If you start to seriously pick on me (for any stupid reason) then I get all pissed off and have a tendency to break things rather angrily (instead of people).

Although more comically, I also have been known to wander off in blizzards and walk 2+ miles home on several occasions.

Tripler
My friends have learned to accept my wandering pedestrian ways.

[Gundy]

I'm certainly much friendlier when I'm drunk, and far less self-conscious and shy. My voice gets increasingly louder with each drink. I fall or spill things pretty frequently. I probably dance ridiculously. I have been known to get belligerent and arrogant, but that's pretty rare. Above all, everything becomes ten times more funny.

So I guess that makes me the loud, chatty, giggly, clumsy drunk.

[Fern Forest]

I'm the sit in the corner and watch people drunk. I don't speak unless spoken too. I don't get depressed, rather I'm calm and patient.

I could probably watch paint dry and not be bored.

[akennett]

It all depends on who I'm drinking with...

Usually, I'm a talker. Which, of course, is the opposite of my sober persona.

However, with the right (wrong?) element, I become a competitive drunk. At a party thrown by my roomates and myself a couple of years ago, I got into the habit of matching drinks with anyone who wanted in - including the three guys who wanted to go at the same time. Each time any one of them would start to drink, I would raise my bottle and chug along. Unfortunately, they were drinking beer and I was drinking Bourbon (mmm...Jim Beam). Also, I would drink if any one of them were drinking - so I was drinking alot. I'm told I had a rather rough night of it.

[lel]

I'm an unpredictable drunk. 2/3 of the time, I'm a happy drunk. 1/3 of the time, I'm a depressed drunk. A few times, I've been known to go out wandering in the dark in unknown areas while drunk. All the time, I'm a cheap drunk.

This is also the first time I've ever posted in a drunk thread while sober that I can recall. :D

Why on earth am I still sober right now?

[Nvme77]

I'm like Tripler except for the Hulk part.

I turn into aquaman.

[Flymaster]

I'm a loud drunk. I get very chatty, and I laugh a lot. Once, I ate a goodly amount of Nestle Quik powder straight from the can, with a spoon. I thought it was delicious.

[LifeOnWry]

Originally posted by Fern Forest
I'm the sit in the corner and watch people drunk. I don't speak unless spoken too. I don't get depressed, rather I'm calm and patient.

I could probably watch paint dry and not be bored.

There's a totally different intoxicant that has the identical effect on me.

Or did, back before I officially became a Good Citizen.

[msmith537]

I am the type of drunk who runs down 14th Street in New York hitting my buddy with a garbage bag. Who then walks in a bar 5 minutes later covered with garbage, asks the first girl I see how handsome I am and then starts making out with her. So basically, I'm no impulse control guy when I'm drunk.

Usually just when I drink the hard stuff. Beer gets me kinda bloated so it's tough for me to drink it fast enough to get "drunk"

[TheOtherOne]

I'm loud, talkative, and uh....shit, I forgot.
I can type though, thats for damn sure!
Oh yeah, I'm a smartass too, and I tend to offend people by saying things like "What are those bleach spots on your pants? Did you sit in something?" or " WOW! You sure do have alot of make-up on! What are you hiding?".
I tend to make strangers avoid me, and friends laugh histerically.
Cheers!

[Balance]

I'm a thoughtful drunk. By that I do not mean "considerate" (though I have been known to display a certain odd, hyperelaborate courtesy when drunk). I mean that I tend to sit and think, with a sort of monolithic patience. I don't get depressed, just sort of introspective.

[DreadCthulhu]

Normally I am a pretty quiet person, but under the influence of that glorious, tasty alcohol I become very talkative, and excertive, but I tend to creep people out who know me while sober, I act that differently. Still, I have an easier time talking to people while drunk, which is the reason I drink.

[TheFunkySpaceCowboy]

I'm usually the funny ass drunk. My already poor impulse control goes out the window and I'll say/do pretty much anything that pops into my mind if I think I can get a laugh out of it. I mostly tend to do things that will amuse me which others often find entertaining as well.

I'll sometimes become the explorer drunk and want to walk around checking things out, all in the search of more amusement. The first time I got really hammered in my new apartment (two weeks ago actually) after my buddy left I put on my trench coat and black fedora and decided to explore the apartment grounds(with a glass of wine in my hand): walked around the property three or four times, amused myself with the security gate for about fifteen minutes, went and played in the fitness room for a bit. Stuff like that.

Every once and a while I become the philospher drunk, though this usually requires the presence of another philosopher drunk or a gullible-tell-me-more drunk for me to ramble at with my drunken theories.

Only once I have turned into the "hey I can drive better after drinking some" drunk, but fortunately I was so far gone that I couldn't figure out how to operate the ignition key, gave up and decided to pass out on my friends couch instead.

Once or twice a year karma catches up with me and I become the violently ill drunk. Fortunately this always happens at home, a few hours after the drinking has stopped, so when I vomit in the big humidifier in the hall in the middle of the night I only have myself to answer too the next day.

[Stephi]

I'm a chatty drunk. :D

I'll just talk and talk and talk, which is the opposite of my sober personality.

[GusNSpot]

Recovering. Almost 12 years and still working on it. So far so good.

[I can't believe that's butter!]

I'm a social, literal, and chatty drunk. My voice also seems to deepen ¨÷ of an octave, and I often try to play musical instruments if they are close at hand, so that I might listen to how I sound. I try to be considerate of others despite my condition.

[I can't believe that's butter!]

Hmmmm....make that "1/3" where the quote and gazinta are.....


Stupid character map....

[manwithaplan]

I'm a very chatty drunk. I can also be a funny drunk (although I suspect my wit would fail to raise a smile from the sober). I suffer from the mistaken belief that I know something about everything. I used very occasionally be a messy drunk, with the potential to be verbally abusive. Thankfully, that has not happened in a long time - I suspect that's at least partly because I'm a happier person all round.

Now, when I'm stoned I'm party central - at least in my head. My friends would probably beg to differ.

[pkbites]

As a matter of principal I tend to refrain from drinking in public, so my response is skewed seeing that I'm usually only drunk at home. I'm pretty much a quiet drunk. I like to just sit and enjoy the spinning sensation. I'm not physically aggressive at all while drunk which is completely opposite of my sober self when I'm eager to stomp someones guts out.
I have noticed that I can be kind of a prick (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=164848) on these boards when shitfaced, but this is not how I am in person, at least when I've been tossing a few back.

[garius]

i go full on cockney when i get drunk (kind of like an X-rated dick van dyke)

its quite embarrasing.

[Flutterby]

*tries again because the board died when sending the first time*

Okay, I'm pretty much a mix of all those things. Not usually belligerent or bitchy, but I can go from happy and talkative to philosophical and quiet to depressed in the space of a few hours drinking. It all depends on who's around, what's happening in my life and how I feel. It just varies.

Originally posted by Flymaster
Once, I ate a goodly amount of Nestle Quik powder straight from the can, with a spoon. I thought it was delicious.

I did that as a kid! Mmm Nestle Quik eaten with a spoon.. I usually had a glass of milk and dunked the spoon (without dropping the Quik off of it) into it then ate it. Yummy. Now I'm craving.

[Angua]

I'm a friendly happy, flirty drunk. A very flirty drunk around some people in fact.

[garius]

Originally posted by Angua
I'm a friendly happy, flirty drunk. A very flirty drunk around some people in fact.

how you doin ;)

at uni i lived with a girl like this - every time she got drunk she'd flirt outrageously with me. It was horrible:

1) She was gorgeous
2) We were bloody good mates - which meant i couldn't take advantage.

:smack:

[UncleBill]

I'm a former drunk. Not recovering, just former. But before, many people could not tell by my behavior that I was drunk, until slurring and mobility was affected.

Stealth Drunk, Retired.

[Jessity]

My behavior while drunk usually depends on my mood before I start drinking. Usually I'm happy, fun, flirty, talkative. Sometimes, though very rarely, I'm unhappy, sad, or angry. (Never ever been "violent" though.)

And I'm a total klutz when I drink.

[welby]

I range from being a happy, conversational drunk to a sloppy fall down drunkard who says far too much. Usually it's the former.

[Beech]

My German Sheperd knows just how drunk I am.

When past that 'certain stage' it has been know that his 10min late night walk has turned into an hour plus, with me waking up next morning asking my wife if I took the dog out! (also with shoes & trousers covered in mud!):o

[clayton_e]

Originally posted by Dana27
Unfortunately for my friends one who likes to sing. I sing very badly.

One of my friends is in a church choir (no we never let him down for it) and when we're drunk he sings... church music.. Loudly.

At least its funny.

[JRDelirious]

Mellow drunk, more communicative than usual, but peaceful. Gimme a corner of the room and someone else who I can people-watch with and I'm happy. Can be more easily induced to dance, which is damn nigh impossible when I'm stone sober. Eventually, very sleepy drunk, the really harmless kind.

My brother, OTOH, is a chatterbox-philosopher drunk that moves on to the "I love ya, Man, y'know I mean it" drunk.

And garius, I was in exactly the same situation!

Then again it was the 1980s last time I ever was really, really soused, ever since I stop at having a moderate buzz on.

[ageless6]

I never liked alcohol. I damned well ADORED it. I wound up in the hospital with cirrhosis. Much to everyone's surprise I got better. Gave the juice another go. Back to hospital, this time they were sure I wouldn't make it. But I did!

Haven't had a drink now for four years. (Boy, you must be thirsty).

That,sir,is correct. Thirsty doesn't come close to it. I still have an uncracked 2 liter jug of whiskey and half a case of beer (chaser) in a cupboard. It's my personal ongoing test. I'd better go. I'm beginning to salivate.

[Gorgon Heap]

I'm a friendly conversational drunk for the most part. A few years ago I was in a bad way - life was hell and I was drinking way too much. I'd flip out and scream and smash stuff and sob.

I staightened up quite a bit; I only drink on the weekend now and, as I said, I'm usually in a good mood.

However, though it doesn't happen so much any more, I have kind of the sameproblem as garius. Though I'm a northerner, I spent my formative years in Texas, so when I started drinking my southern accent really started coming out, which gives my friends a real hoot.

Also, I tend to get loud. :D

[fizzestothetop]

I've only been drunk once and then I was incredibly giggly. Everything in the world was funny to me, but bein' around two funny drunks probably helped that along quite a bit.

It's not so different than when I'm on one of my natural highs (yeah, I'm one of those weirdos that gets those) and I get all giddy and nutty for no reason.

Thankfully I'm not like my friend who was a pass-out-in-the-bathtub-and-lay-in-your-own-puke-drunk. :)

[Lsura]

I start out as a happy, giggling drunk, but if I continue to drink after that point (an extremely rare occurrence), I become apologetic. I will apologize for anything and everything.

[garius]

Gorgon Heap - the worst part is that i wasn't born in London, i'm a home counties kid at heart (think countryside, flat caps, sheep, hugh grant accent). Unfortunately i'm one of those people who picks up accents very easily and i've been living here for 5/6 years now.

At new years my brother rang me just after midnight to wish me a happy new years, by that time i was well and truly sozzled and the accent had him in stitches.

<size="1">Comment for other Brits: Luckily its a "proper" accent - not some dodgy Jamie Oliver thing... </size>

[garius]

must...learn...to...code...

[nashiitashii]

My behaviour when I'm drunk varies a bit, but lately when I've been drinking I've been the happy chit chatty type drunk until I've had alcohol in my system for a couple of hours; then I turn into the sleepy drunk who just wants to find a warm spot to curl up in and fall asleep.
Other substances make me hornier than the dickens with energy to spare. It's bizarre.

[Gorgon Heap]

Again, garuis, I still have the same problem. Hell, I don't even need to drink and acents start flowing, but when I do drink, I find it hard to stop.

My wife and I were Iin New York City some time ago, somewhere around last year's St. Patty's Day, an we were bored so we walked into a really nice Irish Pub. Well, it being New York, it was staffed by actual Irish people (might sound odd to you, but hey).

Inside of one beer and only a few sentances with the bartender (a lovely lady at that) I was speaking with an Irish accent right to her face.

My wife punched me in the shoulder and hissed at me to stop, but I hadn't even noticed I did it.

Friends understand this, but I'm afraid some day it'll happen and someone will get offended.

[Khadaji]

I am mostly a happy drunk. Actually, most people can't tell when I'm drunk. But when I'm depressed, drinking can make it worse (and can make it better.) Mostly, I'm a happy drunk.

[roadrunner70]

My wife won't let me drink anymore.

She says it makes her a**hole sore.

[Fretful Porpentine]

I'm another accent-switcher, but only when I get drunk in the company of British people. I develop this horribly pretentious mid-Atlantic accent; I don't want to, it's just that I can't help echoing back the sounds that I hear.

On the other hand, one night in Quebec City, it did get me a compliment from one of the most interesting men I have ever met, Raymond the plaster-and-drywall-man from Kent. He was about sixty years old when he just up and decided to plaster and drywall his way around the world one day. And he had the good grace to tell me I talked just like an actress in an old film. I've always treasured that :)

Otherwise, I'm a fairly ordinary drunk -- chattier and a lot less shy than in regular life, but still recognizably myself.

[Angua]

garius Behave ;-)

I get enough of that from a certain lecturer (or should I say lecher-er) when we're out. He even once tried to come onto me in front of my boyfriend, and who, one drunken evening informed me that he could have me any time he wanted to, and he didn't give a damn about my boyfriend!

[auntie em]

Depends on what I've been drinking.

For example:

Margaritas = Badass Invincible Dancing Drunk

Bloody Marys = Mellow Happy Conversational Drunk

Wine or Champagne = Drunk who is completely enamoured of everybody in the room

[ladydisco]

I'm a very happy drunk.
And very loud.

I also tend to play leg guitar when I'm drunk. It's a sure sign that I'm having a good time.

[lieu]

Depends on how drunk. Here's what Dan Jenkins has to say about it...

1. Witty and charming (part 1)

2. Rich and famous

3. Benevolent

4. Just one more and We'll eat

5. To hell with Dinner

6. Patriotic

7. Fire up the Enola Gay

8. Invisible

9. Witty and charming (part 2)

10. Bulletproof"

[Judith Prietht]

Ah yes, the bulletproof drunk. I'm more of a blathering drunk, myself. I'll talk about anything, to anyone. It doesn't matter how personal or TMI it may be. I'm also an insomniac drunk. If I've imbibed a significant amount, I cannot fall asleep to save my life.

[Tir Tinuviel]

I'm an everything drunk.
I get happy, silly, violent, talk utter crap, sad, quiet, horny, sleepy... you name it.
There is normally some falling over involved somewhere, and I too do the clipped-upper-class-British-accent thing. ;)

Beer rocks!

[RAWDuke]

I'm the drunk who gets better looking the more you drink ;-}

[Dante_Hicks]

On beer: Each beer I have, mentally I go back 2 years in age--and it's cumulative. Case in point: getting loaded at a buddies party, finding his old Tyco racetrack in the garage and setting it up in the living room like it was Christmas morning. I guess I must have had 10 beers because I felt 10 years old again.

Add Captain Morgan or shots: The following day I turn into Grissom from CSI trying to piece together what the fahhhk happened the night before with few clues (unexplained soreness or bruises, strange taste in my mouth, phone numbers on napkins, left shoe size 12/right shoe high heel size 4, etc...).

I guess I should stick to beer and only drink myself down no further than 16 year old (so I'm old enough to have a license to drive home).

[jazzmine]

I'm less shy and more friendly. I'm not loud, but probably am more fun. And if I'm with someone I really like, I'm easier to get into bed. :)

[Stonebow]

I am a very sleepy drunk. that's usually after 2 drinks or so. it's very sad...quite often i'm dozing before i get a decent buzz on.

[garius]

Angua - I always do - its a bloody curse! ;)

The girl i was living with had a similar problem with a rather randy media lecturer - he'd hit on her whenever he got drunk enough to be suitably brave.

several times i got ambushed by her in the pub and told that i was her boyfriend for the night just so he wouldn't keep trying to hit on her.

[Ethilrist]

Talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk ....

[Sunspace]

I've never been drunk. I'm not sure I want to find out.

[lachesis]

well, having grown up with an alcoholic, i can probably count the times i've actually been anywhere close to drunk on my thumbs. i still kept a pretty tight rein on myself after a landmark 4 White Russians in one evening. i did spend the night at a work acquaintance's apartment once or twice. quite platonically, though.

drinking in general tends to make me sleepy. if i'm not tired, i can occasionally get a bit maudlin.

lachesis
and besides...it's so much more interesting to be sober and watch everyone else get ridiculous.

[LolaCocaCola]

I am the "I love everybody" drunk.



I loooooooooove YoUooUoUoUuuuU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Huggggg


*hic*


Thank god I only drink about once every couple of months.

[Lookout]

I fall down, my speech gets slurred, get depressed, gets happy, very talkative, I wander aimlessly, I get angry, I dance with chairs. The funny thing is I don't drink anymore. I guess all the drinking I did has caused some physical problems.

[Kickback_Joe]

I would be the Functional Drunk. Often times the only ones who can tell are my parents (Must be a reason for this I cannot remember), my wife (She says I snore when intoxicated) and my neighbor (Police man).

[WillSantini]

Drunk = horney. Any Lady Dopers want to have a drink with me? :D

[TJay]

I'm an aggressive drunk apparently - I use the word apparently because I also seem to be an amnesia suffering drunk as well the next morning, and can barely ever remember anything I've done, and have to be reminded by my hubbie. I don't usually get into fights or anything, it's usually a case of someone bumping into me in a crowded pub, and then glaring at me like it's my fault which sets me off. If I was sober I would totally ignore them, but if I've had a few I set off after them apparently, demanding to know what they thought they were doing, and who do they think they are etc etc!

As a consequence of this, I now tend to stick to two glasses of wine when I go out!

[Angua]

garuis, ever the genteman. Trust me, the ladies appreciate it :)

Did your friend's randy media lecturer get the hint? I ask because mine doesn't! He's actually tried it on with me whilst my boyfriend's had his arm round my waist :eek:

However, the funny looks I got from some of the second year undergrads has now been explained. There is a photo from the department ball last Wednesday of myself and this lecturer, with him with a cigar in one hand, blatantly looking like he's trying it on with me. Anyway, someone, decided that it would be really hilarious to get this photo onto an OHP slide with the caption "It ain't easy pimping" written underneath. The joke being that with the cigar in his hand, he looks like a pimp, especially in the dinner jacket. They then put this OHP slide up before his lecture on Monday. his class htought it was hillarious. He was slightly shocked! Goodness knows what the undergrads must think of me...

[Angua]

Oh, and I ought to add, he doesn't even need to be drunk to start coming onto me. When I've been demonstrating first year lab, he's always been rather "friendly", and been prone to attempting to get as physically close to me as possible, without looking too lecherous. For instance, I was attempting to show some students how to do something on the computer, but couldn't find the relevant file. Seeing as he's head of lab, I called him over, expecting him to ask me to move out of the way so that he could get to the computer. Instead, he squeezes himself into the 30cm gap between the computer desk and me, such that, because I was sitting on a rather high stool, his head was resting on my knee...

Hmmm... sorry for the hijack!

[non-native]

Another happy drunk here. I start telling people about how great they are even I've never met them. And then I might get sick. I don't if I sweat it off.
And somewhat apathetic, but I assume that's everyone. People say they like me better when I'm drunk because I'm usually a bitter asshole when I'm sober.

[gus28]

For me, it seems to be controlled by the mood I'm in before I have a drink. If I'm happy before, then happier after. This unfortunately also works with pissed, depressed, etc. I'm a pretty easy going person though, so it's usually ok.

[garius]

angua - eventually she said something to him.

Basically i told her that i wasn't going to do the "pretend boyfriend" thing anymore:

1) People were starting to assume that there was something going on between us.

2) It was getting increasingly hard for me to keep thinking "she only wants to be mates" - it was really starting to f*ck me up mentally.

So anyway she agreed to say something to him, and she did and he never did it again.

What did she do?

Next time he hit on her she "accidentally" called him "dad" :D

[Angua]

Originally posted by garius
angua - eventually she said something to him.

Basically i told her that i wasn't going to do the "pretend boyfriend" thing anymore:

1) People were starting to assume that there was something going on between us.

2) It was getting increasingly hard for me to keep thinking "she only wants to be mates" - it was really starting to f*ck me up mentally.

So anyway she agreed to say something to him, and she did and he never did it again.

What did she do?

Next time he hit on her she "accidentally" called him "dad" :D

*snigger* Unfortunately, that's not going to work in my case - he's no more than 10 years older than me!

I've tried saying something, along the lines of "The boyfriend thought you you were out of line", but as I've mentioned earlier, he doesn't give a damn about what my boyfriend may think.

My mother, paragon of sound advice giving that she is, reckons I should do nothing, but be flattered. Which would be fine, except my first years are asking me how long we've been seeing each other :eek: