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WCDT: 13-17 Dec 2010 (1816-20)
Superkid11:
--- Quote from: Boomslang on 16 Dec 2010, 22:26 ---However, you're still YOU when you're drunk
--- End quote ---
Even after a whole bottle of burbon?
Dr. ROFLPWN:
If I hear this Goddamn in vino veritas thing one more time--
Okay, look, Boomslang kind of has the right idea. Alcohol, being brain poison, makes what cones out of your mouth 89% drunken horseshit, 18% amplified neuroses and fears, 0.9% past bad experiences as justification for fears. The remainder is the actual truth. The "truth" you think is there is your fears and neuroses and all your negativity unfurling like an ugly flower, and it is fed by poison.
This doesn't mean you're not responsible for your actions or speech. But it does mean that you are not on truth serum!
ecstaticjoy:
Yay, Faye's scar...and is it just me, or are her boobs extra-huge in panel one?
Carl-E:
OK, three posts showed up and 2 of them were about this topic, but I'm posting anyway...
There's a good bit of truth to what boomslang is saying, but there's also the fact that you're not completely you when you're very drunk. Remember, vino is wine, and bourbon, tequila, and anything else distilled is a hell of a lot stronger, getting you much more drunk than wine could in a much shorter amount of time. Alcohol is a nervous system depressant, literally slowing nerve signals to a crawl and killing some pathways off for good (hence the memory loss).
When you're that impaired, parts of your personality are completely shut off. We're not just talking inhibitions, we're talking rational thought processes, emotional reactions, all sorts of things that stop functioning correctly or even completely. The things you think at this level of inebriation are not your normal thoughts. This is why so many bad decisions are made drunk, and I'm not just talking tattoos. People die from decisions made drunk.
Now, tipsy, buzzed, happy, whatever you call it when you're a little drunk (like after a few glasses of wine), there you'll find more truth. You're still basically yourself, just with slower reactions, and slower thought processes. Things aren't shutting down, but the thoughts and emotions that keep some things in check are slowed, and you'll say and do things you normally wouldn't, but that have been in the back of your conscious mind. You may even gain some access to the subconscious, but that's the slower thought process talking - your mind finally slows to the speed of your mouth, and you can really say what you're thinking while you think it. Before the checks and balances kick in. It's a weird feeling, too, because you know it's happening at the time.
Then you drink more, because you think it will enhance this more. And that's when stuff shuts down and trouble starts.
[/sermonette]. We now return you to your regularly scheduled idiocy.
Boomslang:
--- Quote from: Superkid11 on 16 Dec 2010, 23:03 ---
--- Quote from: Boomslang on 16 Dec 2010, 22:26 ---However, you're still YOU when you're drunk
--- End quote ---
Even after a whole bottle of burbon?
--- End quote ---
Alcohol doesn't put someone else inside your head, no matter how much you drink. It can only diminish or enhance what's already in there.
Marten was already in kind of a dickish mood- look at the way he talked to Tai, while dead sober, earlier at the library. In retrospect, it's not that suprising that when he got drunk while in such a funk, he continued in the same vein, just magnified and without working brakes.
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