Alcohol is strange

[Thumpalumpacus]

Calories are potential energy, but I don't think they energize the drinker. I did get the lack of appetite when drinking ... but the lethargy is a pretty well-documented effect. Couldn't say why you're experiencing an energy boost.

[Edwardo Piet]

I try to avoid posting much while tipsy.
There are a couple of very interesting men here who would be in serious danger of getting hit on, otherwise. 

Inhibited Thena, is always most appreciative.

* Edwardo Piet seriously hopes he is amongst the "very interesting men in serious danger of getting hit on"

* Edwardo Piet also seriously hopes you will ignore this post rather than saying "no" if the answer is indeed "no", because turtle is a sensitive turtle and doesn't want his feelings hurt. Sure I may simply not be Thena's type -- but I iz still a very sensitive turtle even irrationally so. Kikblush.

[Edwardo Piet]

To answer your question, Evie, alcohol is a depressant in that it inhibits some brain activity, in this cases forebrain operation.

Prefrontal cortex perchance?

The first thing to go is judgment, especially of one's own thoughts or actions. This makes you feel happier and more convivial in the sense that you don't question your own activities, but go with the flow ... and we feel more "natural" for it.

Makes sense. So it's a "depressant" in a similar way to "low mood" in psychiatry doesn't necessarily mean "negative mood" just as "high mood" can include irritability. So it refers to low energy rather than low pleasure? Just as "high mood" refers to high energy rather than high pleasure... have I got that about right?

I always enjoyed the first stage, depressing judgment and inhibitions. Too much for my own good. I would get to that level buzz and nurse it, but then days I wasn't like that, I felt flat, unalive. Bad sign. When you want that shimmer on the day, you may just jump down the rabbit-hole, where no day is complete without it. I did. If it was a good day, I'd "celebrate" with some good beer. If it was a shitty day, I'd tell myself to go home and unwind with a couple or six. Not saying anything about you, just relaying my own experiences.

Thanks for sharing Thumpy.

I personally find tipsiness to be awesome but full on drunkenness to be mostly negative.

I am guessing the problem is that like addiction to anything else -- one can become desensitized so it takes more and more just to get a little tipsy. Must be easy to lose one's place and go too far.

I shall try to never go too far beyond tipsiness.

To be permanently tipsy in feeling? That would be kinda cool!

We must make sure we never finish our second drink, lol. Any more than very nearly two drinks is a disaster, lol.

I find this video hilarious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEUlDNs8j-Q

To be honest though some folks behave that way anyway!

Be careful -- the hook is very fine, but it bites deep.

Thank you. I can imagine. "Just one more" is a danger, always *** (Good song though! (if you like any purely electronic purely instrumental music):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wanGIbbPEfw

)

*** Especially for ex-alcoholics, but for everyone to an extent.... (and also especially to those with addictive personalities/below average self-control).

[FebruaryOfReason]

Drink the

...|...|
--C-C-O-H
...|...|

don't drink the

...|
--C-O-H
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and wash your hands with

......H....
......O....
...|...|...|
--C-C-C--
...|...|...|

Allow me to translate, Evie

Drink the ethanol
Don't drink the methanol
Wash your hands with isopropanol

(Sorry about my non-systematic nomenclature Alex, - it's been a while!)

I was drunk last night and LadyForCamus thought my performance was awesome!
Or maybe the drink just enabled me to delude myself and hope.
Nevertheless I definitely seem to be less awesome today. I wonder if there is a correlation.

[Alex K]

It's ok, February, I'm not a purist. The last time I had organic chem was in 10th grade. The last time I had ethanol, however, was last night.

[Edwardo Piet]

Ha, ha, ha.....

I don't get it.


Translation no makey sensey to turtley wurtley.

[Athene]

* Evie seriously hopes he is amongst the "very interesting men in serious danger of getting hit on"

* Evie also seriously hopes you will ignore this post rather than saying "no" if the answer is indeed "no", because turtle is a sensitive turtle and doesn't want his feelings hurt. Sure I may simply not be Thena's type -- but I iz still a very sensitive turtle even irrationally so. Kikblush.

Ha ha...It doesn't matter who, Turtle; That's neither here nor there.
Restrained Thena's running the show.

[Excited Penguin]

You can reach a certain level of happiness in other ways... Or so they say.

But nevermind all that. Cheers!

[scoobysnack]

Alcohol is strange. Lowers inhibitions that normally would keep you from doing things you normally wouldn't. I'm sure we have all had regrets, I know I have. I have two metal plates in my hand because of booze. Punched a brick wall after playing pool actually in excitement, yet turned to disaster. One time in the dorms some girls slipped a note under my door calling me out on how I hurt her feelings when I was super drunk, and basically blacked it out that I didn't remember the conversation or ever meeting her. Went and apologized to her, even though I didn't remember anything. Been to jail multiple times over alcohol. One time I was down in New Orleans on New Years eve when I was 19 and sneaking into bars. Was too drunk to get in one, so my friends went in, and I wandered off into the ghetto apparently. Don't remember, but my lawyer said I was trying to get into homes to take a piss, and the cops came. Next thing I remember I was in jail. They say SOBER stands for son of a bitch everything's real. At least once you sober up and realize what you did.

Classic quote from cheers:

A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members.In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That’s why you always feel smarter after a few beers.”

[brewer]

Evie?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_BBLweC2_Q

hehe