• fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
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    The alcohol just removes all filters. So yes, you wanted to sleep, but at normal times you’d be too embarassed to not sleep in your bed. With alcohol, it’s sleepy time, you sleep and that wheelbarrow looks a lot more inviting than the floor.

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    I don’t know man, the right kind of dirt in the right wheelbarrow? Pretty preem passing out drunk “mattress” as they’re called by civilized folks.

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        My dad was blown away when he had to go do work at auto plants overseas in Europe (prob germany?) and the breakroom vending machines had beer in them. I guess there was a 2 beer unofficial limit. This was like 3 decades ago… So maybe it’s changed.

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    18 hours ago

    Definitely wanted to throw up on my shoes, just didn’t have the courage.

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          The one time I threw up on a guys shoes, I blamed the dubious decision to eat french toast for breakfast after drinking Jose Cuervo all night and not going to bed.

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    When I was an alcoholic, I wanted to keep my best friend from ruining his marriage by having an affair, so I tried to murder him with a gun. Pretty sure I would’ve gone about it differently had I been sober.

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        We were working together in a different state; he kept talking about this girl we worked with; we got drunk at her place- some of us (me) drunker than others; he gave me a ride back to the house we were renting and then went back to the party; I was convinced he was gonna sleep with the girl, and was infuriated he’d do that to his lovely wife and their daughter; I got my pistol and was gonna shoot him when he got home; I was too drunk to chamber a round; our other roommate was there and wrestled the gun away from me.

        It’s an insane bit of logic. “In order to keep you from ruining your marriage, I’m going to kill you.”

        His wife ended up sleeping with her boss a few years later, too, so. 🤷‍♂️

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      Gosh, that’s… a lot.

      “When I was an alcoholic” I hope that the “was” in your comment means that you’re in a better place now. I also hope your best friend is still your friend and/or that he didn’t end up ruining his life (or that he was able to rebuild a half decent life from the wreckage of his mistakes)

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        I finally read the entirety of your comment, as I had wrongly assumed you had just quoted me the whole time (might wanna check your markup btw)

        But yes, I’ve been sober for 7 years now. We maintain a loose friendship, like stereotypical men do with one another; he did not sleep with the girl, but his wife did sleep with her boss a few years after this whole kerfuffle. Is that irony?

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    I was in a long term relationship with someone with a drinking problem. When a drunk person says something to you they fucking mean it. Their filter is weaker and, as I label it “they have the courage to say something that they were afraid to say sober.” When you figure this out everything is easier to understand.

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      While drunkenness isn’t a blanket excuse for behavior, I don’t believe it’s inherently fair to say we are our true selves while drunk. Alcohol affects our reasoning, it doesn’t merely remove filters.

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      True to an extent but there’s also a level of brain damage that can come with long term alcoholism (or extreme intoxication) where they lose the ability to form coherent thoughts while plastered and their drunk ramblings can be contradictory.

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      There’s an old saying that the first thought in your head is what you’re conditioned to think, and the second is what you actually think. Kind of an ego/id thing.

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        I like this better. I’m not sure if it’s 100% true - hard to know what a thought actually is, when you get super specific - but I like that it’s kinder.

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        Huh, mines backwards… I wonder if people with “no filter” are similar. I just take a long time to process conversations, it’s actually exhasting.

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      I regularly tell people I absolutely hate that I love them while drunk. It’s how my brain makes sure I don’t tell them to go fuck themselves… I also tell everyone i like, that I love them though…

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      Wasn’t he the guy that got sneakily served wine by his daughters because they desparately wanted to sleep with him? Most believable plot ever

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    I actually agree with the sentiment of this post even though there are obvious exceptions. Your character doesn’t change when you’re drunk, just your inhibitions. So yeah, getting drunk reminds me I can be an asshole and probably I want to be more often than I do.

    But you know what I’ve never done while even blackout drunk? I’ve never cheated on my wife. Because I don’t want to do that. I’ve had crazy hot women ask me to hook up and I was too drunk to even say, sorry I’m married. All I could get out was naww.

    I’ve felt bad because I have seen devistation in the face of young women being blown off by an older dude but I was too drunk to express myself. I was also probably too drunk to be a great lover at that time, so maybe I did them a favor. But when you’re that drunk and the next morning all you can remember is destroying the ego of a skinny 25 year old, you know you didn’t imagine it.

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      BS. Drinking lowers your inhibitions, it doesn’t make you do anything you wouldn’t want to.

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        It also weakens your sense of cause and effect, being drunk makes it harder to link consequences to actions. I’ve done things that really hurt people while drunk and even while still wasted instantly felt bad cause they got hurt. I definitely wanted to punch my friend for pouring booze on the floor but I definitely didn’t want to crack his rib.

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        It makes you less rational and quicker to instinctively do shit before your rational brain catches you. Those instinctive things aren’t some hidden desires, it can be some random dumbass shit. Hell, people have “call of the void” telling them to do suicidal shit

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          I think it’s both. It lowers your inhibitions and lets you do things that you wouldn’t otherwise do: dance on a table, go home with a stranger, call up an ex, etc. But, it also breaks the inhibitions on the various random thoughts people have that aren’t “hidden desires” but are just intrusive thoughts.

          For example, “I didn’t want to sleep in a wheelbarrow”, sure. But, you did want to lie down. And, the wheelbarrow was right there. Once you were in the wheelbarrow, you didn’t want to sleep there all night, but you did want to relax for a bit.

          So, it’s not like “I want this outcome”. It’s more like there were a lot of small steps between here and there, and a rational brain would have put a stop to things along the way, but a drunk brain doesn’t second guess a lot of those small decisions which result in one big outcome like sleeping in a wheelbarrow.

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          Sounds like cope, or maybe we’re just talking about different kinds of behavior. I’ve seen plenty of drunk people do stupid or horrifying things that weren’t instinctive; they were just acting out stuff they already wanted to do sober.

          I’ve done dumb things while drunk too, like throwing up off a balcony. Not something I’d ever plan sober, but it happened before my rational brain caught up. That’s probably closer to what you mean: impulsive stuff that slips out before logic intervenes.

          But that’s not the same as people suddenly becoming violent or hypersexual when they drink, every time they drink. That’s inhibition loss revealing what’s already under the surface. The booze didn’t create it; it just took away the filter. Those absolutely are hidden desires.

          Alcohol doesn’t make you do something alien to you. It makes you less able to stop yourself from doing what you’re already inclined to do, whether that’s stupid, aggressive, or emotional.

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            People seem to disagree with the way this was said, but I do agree with the premise that I’ve always wanted to do everything I’ve ever done while drunk. I have never once woke up after a night of drinking and felt like my actions weren’t my own desires. If I had, I would never have put another drop of alcohol anywhere near my lips ever again, as that would be severely irresponsible. It’ll lower my inhibitions, decouple me from social anxieties a bit, but that just gives me more spoons to be outwardly social or energetic. I can obviously only speak of my own personal experiences, so I will not make claims about how others handle alcohol, but if I personally felt I wasn’t able to make my own choices while under it’s influence, it’s not a substance I’d ever come back to.

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            I’d say if it is something you wouldn’t do sober, then doing it while highly intoxicated can be said to be something alien to you, not something you would’ve done normally. But I agree with what @merc@merc@sh.itjust.works said above so we too might agree but just think about it differently.

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    Also pretty sure I didn’t want to run over an orphanage and kill 37 children

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    If all drinking did was limit inhibition, but it also clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Some people cannot think things all the way through when intoxicated.