drunk people can tend to be very annoying when you are sober. i find it is always best to just leave or not bitch just join them.
I am a prude, I don’t like being around drunk people. For some reason I find it rather creepy when people’s personalities change (for better or worse) and when they’re not in full control of their nominal mental faculties. Also, it is boring as hell carrying on a conversation with someone who is. If I can I’ll, leave as soon as people start getting drunk. The best way to do this is just bugger off without telling anybody else they start slobbering all over you begging you not to leave, or worse, they don’t :eek:
The only drunks I actively hate however are the ones that live next to me and decide 2am is a great time to test the power of their stereos. And that whooo! thing is pretty friggin annoying too.
Guess I’ll wait for a dopefest to be held at a juice bar. 
I like to play poker with drunk people, although it is like waiting till they pass out and then rolling them. Otherwise, they bore the hell out of me.
Drunks? Well, let’s see.
On the negative side:
Drunks expurgate smelly liquids from a number of orifices at inopportune moments on unwilling bystanders who must endure and then clean up the offerings.
Drunks insist on trying to communicate by picking noisy arguments at late hours, and have a nasty tendency to hit, stab, and shoot family and friends as part of their self-justified right to express themselves.
Drunks love to drive, but maim and kill when behind the wheel, and have a remarkable propensity to get behind the wheel and do it all over again as if they did not do a good enough job the first time.
Drunks ruin not just their own lives, but the lives of those whom they touch, for they are unable to accept responsibility for their own behaviour, unable to meet their familial and societal obligations, and unable to leave others alone.
On the positive side:
Some drunks have the good grace to crawl off into a hole and kill themselves before doing too much harm to others.
I guess this means that I do not like drunks.
I like drunk people, its easy to get money from them.
You know, it’s funny- all I asked was, who hates “drunk people”? And yet a number of people seem to have read me as explicitly talking about alcoholics.
I’m not talking about alcoholics; I’m talking about people who are drunk. If you have fourteen beers in one night and that convinces you that you’re my buddy and that you need to say friendly things to me in a loud voice, you’re drunk!
-Ben
That’s because there is frequently a nasty correlation between the two. Also, many of the very serious concerns about the nature of the harm done by drunks (e.g. drunk driving and violent crime) have little to do with whether they are only occasional drunks or full blown alcoholics, other than the frequency of the incidents.
If your question is “Do you hate happy drunks,” then I would respond that I find them annoying, and I wonder if they are only occasional drunks or if they have more serious problems.
Many young people grow out of being occasional drunks, and some social groups regardless of age participte in heavy drinking, so I can see why you do not draw as close a connection from drunks to alcoholics as I do. From my perspective, however, I socialize with peers who are many years past the experimentation stage, and at the social functions which I attend alcohol flows freely, but drunks are heavily discouraged. On the few occasions when I do encounter a drunk, that person usually is an alcoholic, with many of the problems to which alcoholics are prone.
Quite a few people post here drunk, usually under subjects like, ‘Boy, I’m really drunk’
Thats one case of people I don’t like drunk.
Whew! I thought for a minute you were going to narrow down the hate!
Ben, I don’t know anything about you, where you grew up, how old you are or what instructional films you’ve watched, but has it ever occurred to you that people can be drunk without being Barney from the Simpsons?
I mean, out of all the things in the world that could offend me on this board, the pompousness of your ‘hatred’ is really driving me nuts today…and I’m stone cold sober!
I am a responsible, married, employed, athletic, healthy woman. I don’t do drugs, I don’t smoke, I have many friends, am respected by my family and co-workers.
AND SOMETIMES I SIT IN A BAR…AND…bear with me here…drink a few beers. I get a buzz sometimes, I get tipsy sometimes. I get giggly and flushed and silly sometimes.
Do I jump up, rip my clothes off and dance on a bar? Molest cats? Drive? Proposition a gum machine? No. I keep within my group and am careful not to make a spectacle of myself. I enjoy their company and conversation.
Have I ever been crazy drunk? Of course. But you know what? People make mistakes. Don’t you hate that? I hate people who makes mistakes…all of them. I’ll admit that I HAVE had too much to drink and been sent home and tucked into bed…and was ashamed the next day when I suffered a headache and hangover…so from then on I was careful about how much I drink…because I’m a responsible adult who learns from mistakes.
Just because some idiot tried to slobber all over you doesn’t mean we all will.
trust me on that.
jarbaby
Although I’m sure there’s plenty o’ dopers that would pay money for that, jarbaby 
(I’d pay money to see you propsition a gum machine)
FWIW, It really depends on the situation, the person, the personality, and the amount of alcohol drunk before I would go around saying I hated a drunk.
I have a very good friend that I like to go out drinking with. She’s a wonderful, sweet person, and after a few beers, she gets drunk. She still remains the same wonderful, sweet person, with a wicked sense of humor and a propensity to give strangers backrubs (only if the stranger is willing, of course) in bars. Is that hateful? Not in the least. We also go to a bar that is walking distance from her home, so if we’ve had too much to drink, we can walk rather than put ourselves and others in danger.
There are plenty of people that like to go out for a few drinks, get silly, and have a designated driver/taxi/their own legs take them home. They are not worth any form of hate, because they are still being responsible people, even though they are intoxicated.
That being said, I do hate it when people drive drunk. I’m not talking about a glass of wine with dinner, but someone that has a .19 BAC and thought it was time to go get another case of beer.
Obnoxious and loud drunks, well, I’m not fond of them, but if you’re hanging out at a bar, then you gotta deal with them. My only problem is when they get physical (fights, playing grab-ass with any woman that walks by, etc), and that’s when I take my leave.
So, Ben, I can’t say I’m really, totally with you, as long as those who drink keep at least a bit of common sense.
I don’t hate people that drink. Certainly don’t look down on them.
I don’t hate drunks either, though I do find them a bit annoying, and wont hang out in public with them.
I do look down on those drunks who get smashed every day of the week after work. But I don’t hate them.
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So let me get this straight:
I express a pet peeve: I dislike being around drunk people.
I title the OP “Who hates drunk people?” in the same spirit of, say, “Who hates Dennis Rodman?” or “Who hates finding out at the last minute that there’s no TP left?”
And that equates to “pompousness” and “hatred”?
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I never said that you were not. Why do you feel such a need to justify yourself to me?
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Ah, I see. We both hate it when people make mistakes… but I don’t drink as much as you do, so I’m “pompous.”
I’m sorry to hear that you made mistakes. Judging from your overreaction to my pet peeve and the amount which you are reading into my comments, I would suggest that you might have some lingering issues about your past which would best be resolved outside of this thread.
-Ben
Calm down, Ben, there’s always going to be a couple of people who overreact to a post.
They’re probably drunk when they overreact, too…
I’ve been drunk and I’ve never done that.
Drunks insist on trying to communicate by picking noisy arguments at late hours, and have a nasty tendency to hit, stab, and shoot family and friends as part of their self-justified right to express themselves.
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I’ve been drunk and I’ve never done that.
Drunks love to drive, but maim and kill when behind the wheel, and have a remarkable propensity to get behind the wheel and do it all over again as if they did not do a good enough job the first time.
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I’ve been drunk and I’ve never done that.
Drunks ruin not just their own lives, but the lives of those whom they touch, for they are unable to accept responsibility for their own behaviour, unable to meet their familial and societal obligations, and unable to leave others alone.
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I’ve been drunk and I don’t think I’m like that.
So, I guess you’re over generalizing.
Or you’ve just never been REALLY drunk.
I don’t hate, I’m just uneasy around them, and would like to stay away. Probably because, growing up, my parents hardly ever got drunk. My parents do, now, during New Years Eve and they sleep through half of New Years. I’m someone who doesn’t like things suddenly out of the ordinary–like changes in a person’s personality and behavior when drunk.
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*Originally posted by Ben *
So let me get this straight:
I express a pet peeve: I dislike being around drunk people.
And that equates to “pompousness” and “hatred”?
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Um…yes. When you say “who hates drunk people” and the answer is…“I do!” that equates hatred.
I was being sarcastic. You didn’t say you disliked mistakes, you said you disliked PEOPLE. And that’s fine, too. I suppose we can’t be friends with everyone.
Ben, what exactly would be the ideal reaction to someone generalizing an entire group of people into one horrible personality? I was trying to tell you that I and several other people in this world are able to go out and have a few drinks and not become the slobbering naked lunch space alien like pod people you’ve described.
Oh and do me a favor, don’t psychoanalyze me based on two posts, OK?
This thread is starting to read like a Castle Filmstrip, or perhaps a Jack Chick pamphlet, so perhaps I’ll make my exit. I’ve got so many issues to deal with, after all.
jarbaby
I almost started a thread about something similar, but it’ll fit here just as well. I’m going to a graduation party-type thing tonight, and will likely run into a girl I’ve encoutered at previous school-based functions. Her behavior at the last one was my inspiration for my would-be thread.
Basically, I hate it when people aren’t really drunk, but use the fact that they’ve had a couple drinks to behave in ways they wouldn’t dare 99% of the rest of the time. The girl to whom I refer cornered a group of about six of us and commenced to bragging about her sexual conquests of most of the male half of the class. Personally, I don’t care who anybody’s sleeping with, but considering that our group was composed mostly of school staff, not students (me, my bf, couple other co-workers and their SOs, and my bf’s parents), it wasn’t exactly the best choice she could have made.
Note to “drunk” student: sometimes, polite laughter is nature’s way of telling you to shut up.
I don’t hate drunk people in general; I enjoy a good bar-hopping session now and then myself. I don’t like jerks, drunk, pretend drunk, or sober.
I don’t like drunk people who might:
Hit my car when they are driving with a load on.
Throw up on me.
Hit on me rudely and persistently.
Spill things on me.
Shoot me.
However…
I like to drink. I have been drunk. I will no doubt be drunk again. Luckily, I am a pretty quiet drunk. If I want to really tie one on, I make sure I’m not driving and I’m with people I know well and trust. Usually cuts down on future embarrassment and/or jail time.
I have earned a good living for 20+ years serving drinks to people. My father was an alcoholic. I do not drink, have an almost allergic reaction to 2 drinks.
There is a certain category of people who become aggressive and angry when drunk, undergoing an large personality transformation. In my opinion these are the worst drunks.
I find I tolerate drunkeness in strangers quite well. Sure, they’re loud and can be assholes, but by last call it’s sort of like working in a daycare center.
However, in my friends and people I care about, I find drunkeness more difficult to abide. At most ‘organized fun’ type events where there will be social drinking, I rarely go the distance to the end of the event. I’m good for the first few hours, while everyone’s just relaxing. Once the booze kicks in, well a few get funnier, but they all just seem to get stupider to be honest. These are people I otherwise admire and enjoy.
(I can’t understand why society so strongly endorses such a powerful and dangerous drug.
Yet marijuana, which seems so weak by comparison is so demonized. Sorry, just an observation.)