Guys and Girls and Drinking.


NrrdGrrl! Discussion Forum: Just Plain Talk: Guys and Girls and Drinking.
By Que on Friday, March 6, 1998 - 11:29 pm:

I don't know why, but I just discovered that many of my male friends make it a habit of getting drunk and then chatting on IRC or something. I think this is a strange male phenomenon..or maybe fettish? They seem to like passing out on the keys and stuff....I don't get it.

I mean, the getting drunk part i understand...but you'd htink they'd do something fun while drunk and not try to type and stuff....I don't know, I just thought it was weird.

Everyone should feel free to make more serious discussions about alcohol here than I just did... I just wanted to break the ice...

Bye!


By Anonymous on Sunday, March 8, 1998 - 10:24 am:

i know guys who get drunk and then go on IRC too. i don't know, maybe it gives them more horny courage when they want to bother girls!


By Anonymous on Sunday, March 8, 1998 - 01:13 pm:

I'd be surprised that they could type.....(grin)


By Anonymous on Thursday, March 12, 1998 - 02:44 am:

I'd be surprised they could type BEFORE they were drunk ehehehhe lol *wink*


By Marie Hioug on Thursday, April 9, 1998 - 02:45 pm:

MAybe it's something in the Y chromosome, and were not suppossed to know why guys go in IRC when drunk.

Question:
What is IRC
also, i've heard people talking about the "benjamins," and writing in desks. What the heck is a benjamin!?


By GwenSTE on Friday, May 8, 1998 - 12:20 am:

Ahhh I prefer AOL but I only have a comp at work and my boss took AOL away :( But IRC is like AOL-Chat rooms more or less. I haven't really explored it like all the way though or whatever. It's ok.
UM A benjamin.. hmm.. I just thought it was reference to that song!?
Oh re: drinking... ahhhh dammit. I'm a lush so I 'won't go there'. But a beer does sound good right now.
Peace.


By Shampoo on Friday, May 8, 1998 - 02:57 am:

You know why I think they do it? (get drunk and chat). It's so they can look cool "hey everyone, i just came back from this kick-ass party and now i'm pissed outta my mind!!" and we're all supposed to go "ooh, a rebellious bad boy type! how sexy!" but it usually has the opposite "you are so gross" effect. That's why they do it, though, to announce to the world "I AM COOL! I GET DRUNK!!"

Whatever.


By Helen on Monday, May 11, 1998 - 04:04 pm:

There are loadsa blokes on here who do that. They`re all like, "Wow, I`m so amazingly rebellious!" Everyone does it, just maybe they don`t go online when tanked <grin>
I guess that`s a whole "I`m a big hard man, me" thang.


By Keely on Monday, May 11, 1998 - 11:14 pm:

Okay to bring up something a little more serious discussion...

It amazes me the number of people who do drive when they have been drinking or doing drugs. What amazes me even more is the amount of people within my age group that are accepting it because they "need to get home". I must admit even I have been in the situation where i have almost had to drive home while under the influence of drugs.

I guess i am brining this up because in Canada, (and i am not sure about the US) this upcoming weekend is a long weekend... and is "the" weekend to go out and get loaded. Plus the week after that is prom for me. So the next two weekends are big drinking weekends. I know that school does all it can to educate us about this, (including a big assembly on it tomorrow morning). But for some reason it doesn't seem to sink in. It's "cool" to be able to drive your car and not kill yourself when loaded, but "stupid" to crash... what's the difference? You are still doing something against the law... It's just that one person was luckier than another.

Another something that bothers me about the whole driving "under the influence" thing is the lack of education towards driving under the influence of drugs. i know more people that are likley to drive stoned than drunk. But i guess educators are "assuming" that drugs are not as popular as they are and that drugs are not as social as alcohol... Well they are... at least where i live. in fact in many circles drugs are more popular. Why? it's cheaper.

Another thing: Most adults do not set a good example. Sure my parents don't drive drunk but they drive after they have had a few beers. I guess a lot of teens assume that if their parents or other adults can drive with a couple beers in them and make it home alive then so can they. Teens don;t consider the tolerance the adult may have built up to alcohol, or the many more years of driving experience, or how dumb that adult really is being. ( sorry, that wasn't put nearly as eleoquently, sp?, as i wanted it to be.)

The thing is you can promise and swear on your mothers grave that you will never drive drunk or under the influence but until you are in the situation when you might have to it's tough to say that. It may be your grave you are swearing on.


By Star on Sunday, July 5, 1998 - 03:39 pm:

I just want to say that driving drunk is silly, but it isn't absolutely horrible to drive a little buzzed... I mean, would you bitch at someone who just took a Benadryl? Those things buzz you up pretty hard if you take more than two... *grin*

*Star*


By Marsha on Monday, July 6, 1998 - 04:20 pm:

hey Star-Are you a fellow pill popper?
Marie-A benjamin is a 100 dollar bill. Sorry so late.


By Celia Gardner on Tuesday, November 10, 1998 - 08:15 am:

I don't drink and don't see why I should. But it's okay if you want to.

N.B. If any males are reading this, being drunk is NOT attractive.


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