When you drink alcohol, do you stop after you begin to feel its effects, or do you keep going?
What do you consider to be drunk? Falling down? Slurring? Change in disposition/personality?
A co-worker and I have had this discussion many times. He considers “going drinking” to have a glass or two of wine. Conversely, I consider it to drinking 8-10 beers in a single sitting.
Yes, yes I do. I do not get drunk at home, in fact I rarely drink at home unless I have someone over for dinner and we are drinking wine.
However, if I go out with friends for drinks it is usually not just one or two drinks and I am usually getting a buzz of some sort. Progressing to drunk is entirely dependent upon several factors but even when drunk at most it is slurred speech. I don’t get drunk to the point of falling down or have any change in disposition/personality.
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I drink until I get to a point where I feel a nice comfortable buzz. It usually kicks in after the 2nd glass of wine or the 3rd beer. I tend to continue drinking just enought to maintain that level. Basically it’s not so buzzed that if there was suddenly an emergency (child gets hurt, that type of thing) that I couldn’t snap to it and feel completely sober.
If I’m at a backyard barbeque, I can drink beer most of the day and not really feel the effects of it.
So, I don’t really get drunk. I consider drunk to be having great difficulty with judgment, stumbling over my words, stumbling when I walk, etc. I spent much of my youth like that, and I’ve managed to find a happy equilibrium.
I most certainly do. I’m well past the " getting falling down drunk is fun" stage of my life, but I can tie one on with the best of them and still sometimes have more than I should and get a little stumbly. There are still a few occaisons where I’ll show off my Marion Ravenswood-like ability to drink with the very best of them, but the recovery period is taking longer and longer than it used to, so those are rare occaisions indeed.
Umm, yes!
I drink until I’m done drinking. Sometimes that’s before I feel the effects, other times it’s when I run out of booze.
“Drunk” = when I’m aware of impaired speech/motor control/thought. Which probably means considerably beyond .08 bac.
I’m twenty eight years old, I drink all the time, and I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve been drunk.
I was with my ex for 6 years, and she NEVER saw me drunk.
It’s a little point of pride for me…
Getting drunk is the point of drinking to me.
The line between buzzed and drunk is, at best, fuzzy.
I consider drunk to be the point at which perception is noticably degraded. For example, I turn my head and there’s a moment before perception synchronizes with the new view. How much alcohol it takes to get to that point varies. And what that converts to in a BAC for myself I have no idea.
Normally it’s 2-3 drinks for me, tops. I don’t like to be out of control.
I don’t drink.
Then why even bother posting? God that’s annoying when people do that.
In reference to the OP, I drink pretty much every night, usually a couple bottles of wine is my standard. I don’t get drunk, my tolerancy has gotten to that point.
Yes, exactly! 
I don’t get drunk, and haven’t in many years. I just don’t like the sense of impairment. At most, I will drink until I can detect the effects–a slight relaxation, short of what you’d generally call “a buzz”. It usually takes 2 or 3 mixed drinks or glasses of mead to reach that point; I generally only have one.
“Drunk” in my book refers to noticeable impairment of movement or speech, usually accompanied by a substantial change in disposition.
I got drunk last Saturday night. Not falling down, telling people I love them, trying to open bottles with the Jedi Mind Trick drunk (been there), but very buzzed, inhibitions very low, can’t run out of things to talk enthusiastically about drunk. It happened spontaneously, and somewhere along the line it occurred to me that, through no conscious effort, it was the first time I’d consumed any alcohol at all in over 4 months. It’s not that I don’t like to drink, but alcohol has always been something I can sort of take or leave, and it’s becoming more so as I get older.
I will admit that I enjoyed the feeling and the drink (southern comfort and sprite) enough that I had two more last night, but it wasn’t the same. Doubt I’ll drink again for awhile.
I don’t get drunk anymore. The most I would do is a buzz–maybe three to four drinks would be the most over an evening. I get more relaxed and a little less inhibited but not out of control.
My lovely & gracious wife of 30 years purchases 2 - 3 cases of Miller Lite every Friday nite during her weekly grocery shopping. Usually 3. Do I get drunk? Not falling down, sluring stupor…& not EVERY nite…c’mon…jeeze! I’m usually done after 10 - 12 beers, decent buzz going on, but that’s on school nites when I gotta get up in the morning. ( school nites = work nites ). Friday & Saturday nites a few more…no, I don’t drive during this.
Let the alcohol counseling begin!
I rarely drink and I drink very little when I do. I *may *have been drunk one time about 35 years ago.
I can usually feel the effect of alcohol after a sip or two. One drink makes me very tired. Two would probably knock me on my butt. I can’t see the sense in going out just to get all drowsy. So I drink water.
You bet I get drunk although the last time that I was truly fucked up was Labor Day. Beyond that I like to keep a light buzz so that I can still drive and talk to women.
Well, you asked for it. Stop drinking Miller Lite. 