# Why do people drink beer/liquor to excess knowing they'll get violently ill after? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 26, 2020, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-drink-beer-liquor-to-excess-knowing-theyll-get-violently-ill-after/921610 "2020-09-26T18:33:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![echoreply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/echoreply/32/3641_2.png) [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-drink-beer-liquor-to-excess-knowing-theyll-get-violently-ill-after/921610/42 "2020-11-09T22:06:33Z")
> [@hibernicus](#): > > Where I live, some people, including responsible adults, enjoy getting very drunk in the company of friends. I think compare the following statements, and which of them might be from an alcoholic, and which are from somebody who just happened to drink a lot that time. “I drank way more than I intended.” “I intended to drink a lot, and I did.” “I intended to drink a lot, (but I couldn’t actually have stopped myself, even if I wanted to).” “I intended to drink a lot, but just wasn’t feeling it, so I stopped after 2.” “It’s the one night a year I can really tie one on, but I sure pay for it later.” ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-drink-beer-liquor-to-excess-knowing-theyll-get-violently-ill-after/921610/43 "2020-11-09T22:10:25Z")
Man, reading this thread makes me wish I could get drunk sometime. Not even for a buzz, just to see how it feels. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-drink-beer-liquor-to-excess-knowing-theyll-get-violently-ill-after/921610/44 "2020-11-09T23:16:07Z")
**“I drank way more than I intended.”** Me- 30’s and 40’s **“I intended to drink a lot, and I did.”** Me- teens and 20’s **“I intended to drink a lot, (but I couldn’t actually have stopped myself, even if I wanted to).”** Me- never in my life **“I intended to drink a lot, but just wasn’t feeling it, so I stopped after 2.”** Me- now **“It’s the one night a year I can really tie one on, but I sure pay for it later.”** Me- never I didn’t experience my first hangover until I was in my mid-20’s and I’ve only had a handful of hangovers over my entire life. The next day “payment” has never really entered into my calculations. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-drink-beer-liquor-to-excess-knowing-theyll-get-violently-ill-after/921610/45 "2020-11-10T12:31:18Z")
People talk like a hangover is some horrible thing. I look at it as a day when I know I’ll feel better and better as the day progresses, which is a positive. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-drink-beer-liquor-to-excess-knowing-theyll-get-violently-ill-after/921610/46 "2020-11-10T20:56:38Z")
“I feel sorry for people that don’t drink, because when they wake up in the morning, that is the best they are going to feel all day-” Frank Sinatra ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-drink-beer-liquor-to-excess-knowing-theyll-get-violently-ill-after/921610/47 "2020-11-10T21:22:28Z")
> [@eschrodinger](#): > > > [@bump](#): > > > > The OP’s Uncle and cousin sound more like people who can’t control themselves at all when alcohol is around. > > That’s alcoholism. It isn’t just people who are constantly sneaking alcohol. It’s also someone who can not drink all week, but once they decide it’s time to party, they can’t stop at a reasonable number of drinks. Having one drink means having 20. This is me. And why I have been mostly dry for over a decade. I don’t keep much alcohol in the house, and what I do keep is for cooking. I don’t know WHY. If I have freely available alcohol in a social setting, I will inevitably get stupid drunk. And I recognize that, and see it as a problem, so I just abstain, aside from the occasional beer (if I bring home beer for making stew, which is the only time I have beer on hand…) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-drink-beer-liquor-to-excess-knowing-theyll-get-violently-ill-after/921610.md?page=2)