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⌈ Secret Post #1843 ⌋


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Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 0 - repeats ]
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Comments

[writerserenyty.livejournal.com]

I agree. I mean, nothing against drinking in moderation. But right now I'm studying abroad in London. I'm LOVING my time here. But half the people on my program really seem to be here to party/drink; most people went out to the pubs straightaway. And nothing against having a good time, but if all you're doing in a city is getting drunk, you're missing out! I'm not abstaining from alcohol or anything (I've been to a pub myself), but if partying is your only goal I kind of feel bad for you. /rant that's been bothering me.

[childings.livejournal.com]

I love it when people act like people who drink just drink to be drinking. Sure, there are some people like that, but "partying" as you call it is socializing (just like cosplaying at cons involves some degree of socializing), most people drink/smoke weed/whatever when they are talking with or hanging out with other people. I don't get the big hoopla about people drinking or doing drugs with friends, if they're doing it in moderation and they aren't just getting high or drunk by themselves every night of the week, what is the big deal? How is that immature? I hate to break it to all of you, but this is very human behavior -- human beings have been doing this since the beginning of time, it's nothing new.


Hey OP, what if someone's watching anime while drunk and/or high? How does that fit into your either/or paradigm?

[writerserenyty.livejournal.com]

IMO there's a big difference between going "let's go hang out/socialize/party" and "let's go get wasted." The second is the one that I've noticed a lot. The specific "let's go out with the specific purpose of getting drunk/whatever" is totally different than going to a party. I've met people on the trip whose only expressed interest is alcohol, or where they can go and get alcohol. And I find that kind of sad, when you're paying however much money to study abroad in a city with so much culture and life beyond that.

[followthemoth.livejournal.com]

That's a very big cultural problem there though. 75% of people emergency in England is related to alcohol.

I know Canada/US has people abusing drugs too, but it's on a different level than in the UK.

I know this cause I'm in England a lot, half of my family lives there and stuff.

[writerserenyty.livejournal.com]

All the people I'm referring to are American, though.. but it is possibly because of getting into the culture here about drinking.

[followthemoth.livejournal.com]

Your criticism is completely valid, wherever you're located.
There are drunks everywhere; I guess I just wanted to add that UK drinking culture is very different and a lot more 'intense' than North American drinking.

Although I will say that if American alcohol laws are anything like ours, the freedom over there would be quite intoxicating.

[(Anonymous)]

You're being pretty judgemental, though, for no apparent reason.

I have a very strong interest in culture, theatre, live music, all those other things that are presumably, according to you, acceptable passtimes when studying abroad. I'm a gamer, a nerd, and pretty bookish to boot.

The first year I was studying abroad in London? I have never partied harder. I was in class or in work during the days, and went out pretty much five nights a week. That year was, to date, the best year I've ever had.

Being a huge geek and a huge drunk aren't mutually exclusive.

[writerserenyty.livejournal.com]

I know they aren't, not in the least. I don't want to come off as too judgmental, but IMO getting drunk is something you can do regardless of what country you're in. I just find it weird that you'd spend all that money/energy getting to someplace where you're doing the same thing you'd be doing at home. But hey, to each their own.

[(Anonymous)]

No, definitely to each their own.

But being abroad isn't just about seeing things, it's about meeting people, too, and I definitely met more people on my drunken escapades than I ever did at a museum. And some of those people are still my best friends now, five years later.

So yeah, differnent people also get different things out of experiences, is what I'm saying. Maybe you see it as 'doing the same as they were doing back home', but back home when I went drinking it was always with the same old people in the same old bars ;)

[pureaddiction.livejournal.com]

Being a huge geek and a huge drunk aren't mutually exclusive.

Thank you!

[(Anonymous)]

Ahaha, I remember being at a party where one of the older relatives of the host was impressed by both the amount of liquor and the cumulative education of the people holding most of it... he gave a toast to "you educated drunks". :3 (It helped that folks were the happy, non-crazy-bounds-overstepping type of drunks.)

[(Anonymous)]

Lol, same anon from above - I started grad school last year, and I HAVE NEVER SEEN SO MANY DRUNKS IN ONE PLACE. And this is both students and staff. Our post-tutorial drinks inevitably turn into lenghty nights of drunken debauchery/discussion of critical theory. It's bizarre and awesome.

[(Anonymous)]

> Being a huge geek and a huge drunk aren't mutually exclusive.

Bahaha... that describes me too well... also, what's so wrong about drinking for the sake of drinking? I enjoy the taste of alcoholic drinks. It gives me a fun buzz. It makes me more social, sheds a lot of my worries, and I have fun. No, it's not fun to go so far that you puke and pass out, but that seems far more common with the people who drink less often, because if you do it often enough you actually know your limit...

[toshi-hakari.livejournal.com]

As writerserenyty mentioned, there's a huge difference between "let's go party and have a drink" and "let's go get wasted". If it's the latter, you can't even call it socializing, because when you're drunk to the point of not being able to talk to someone else coherently, then it's basically like getting wasted all by yourself.

Also, I sadly know a lot more people who just go out to drink just to get extremely wasted. I was around them once while in their drunken state and felt extremely uncomfortable because I never drink to the point of being drunk (and no, I'm not saying that to feel like a ~special snowflake~ or anything, I just don't because I'm not keen on vomiting or waking up with a hangover).

On the other hand, there's nothing bad about going out with friends and having one or two drinks in moderation. That's what I'd call socializing.

Thanks to your icon I also basically read your comment in Captain Haddock's voice and was sorely missing a "billions of blistering blue barnacles" at the end or in the beginning XD

[childings.livejournal.com]

Man I totally missed the part where I was defending binge drinking or overindulgence

Perhaps I should've used a different icon, but all my "drinking" icons feature alcoholics :/

[toshi-hakari.livejournal.com]

I wasn't insinuating that you were defending overindulgence. You were just saying that drinking can be a form of socializing (which I agreed with when it's on a controlled level) and I just kinda wanted to chip in and say that it's not socializing when people are so drunk they can hardly speak to anyone else.

Sorry if it seemed like I was implying something.

I have nothing against all the guys in your icons, because holy shit, do I crush on them :| And Captain Haddock will forever be that one (fictional) guy I will always love for getting drunk XD