[ SECRET POST #1843 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1843 ⌋


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Comments

[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...