[Overheal]

Rhohypnol, but..

[Sharpshooter]

Did you leave out a ..t.. there?

[Lionel Messy]

Without a shadow of a doubt, if i drink 8 pints in my house i won't feel nearly the same effects as if i had just 4 in pubs. I don't know what it is! The ideal amount of jars to have in a pub is two because you have that buzz. I know what your on about.

[LH Pathe]

Other than alcohol, what makes you pose questions like this

[jill_valentine]

Originally Posted by steviecakes

I'm just in from a night in a loud bar. I was driving so didn't drink. The place was fairly lively, loud music, people dancing, and we all had a good time...

Now, as I left to walk back to my car my ears were ringing, and I was experiencing some sort of 'buzz'.... My ears are still ringing now but apart from that I feel 'normal' again.

So I'm wondering if the environment you're in contributes to how alcohol effects you when you do drink.

What do you think??

They've tested this out, and yeah, being in a "drunk" atmosphere or drinking non-alcoholic drinks with an expectation of intoxication has pretty much exactly the same effect. Sympathetic behaviour and placebo effect at work. It's interesting. Worth bearing in mind if you're out for the night, try it out. Switch to the water every other pint and save yourself a few bob, and you'll still feel pretty much exactly as drunk by the end of the night as you would otherwise.

Another interesting booze related thing is that drunken behaviour is different in one country compared to how it is in others, depending on what the stereotype is there. So a French person given the exact same amount of alcohol as a Irish person will be affected differently and behave differently, because their expectations of what the drink will do to them are different.

[Sharpshooter]

Originally Posted by LH Pathe

Other than alcohol, what makes you pose questions like this

An inquiring mind?

[RichieC]

Is it not enough you won the evening without you bragging about it on the intertube?

[Duggy747]

Generally, doing a double drop of hash, smoking some MDMA, and injecting coke seems to give me the above-average kick for the night.

Though the scag will make you feel like a couple of bad fortnights in a balloon.

[LH Pathe]

teh barmans fart

[whoopsadaisydoodles]

I've said the same thing before OP, I get into the car and I feel a little merry, I've wondered is it because I've had about four diet cokes and I'm getting a caffeine high but I think it is the environment. Definitely know what you're talking about though.

[Tom Cruise]

Wine gums

[Abi]

Originally Posted by steviecakes

I'm just in from a night in a loud bar. I was driving so didn't drink. The place was fairly lively, loud music, people dancing, and we all had a good time...

Now, as I left to walk back to my car my ears were ringing, and I was experiencing some sort of 'buzz'.... My ears are still ringing now but apart from that I feel 'normal' again.

So I'm wondering if the environment you're in contributes to how alcohol effects you when you do drink.

What do you think??

I think the lads have been firing a dash of vodka in your drink everytime you go to the jax.

[Sam Mac]

Ed Sheerans song

[steviecakes]

Originally Posted by IrishAm

You may have been experiencing a mild case of euphoria?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphoria

N'ah, I doubt it..... it wasn't that good a night!

Originally Posted by jill_valentine

They've tested this out, and yeah, being in a "drunk" atmosphere or drinking non-alcoholic drinks with an expectation of intoxication has pretty much exactly the same effect. Sympathetic behaviour and placebo effect at work. It's interesting. Worth bearing in mind if you're out for the night, try it out. Switch to the water every other pint and save yourself a few bob, and you'll still feel pretty much exactly as drunk by the end of the night as you would otherwise.

Another interesting booze related thing is that drunken behaviour is different in one country compared to how it is in others, depending on what the stereotype is there. So a French person given the exact same amount of alcohol as a Irish person will be affected differently and behave differently, because their expectations of what the drink will do to them are different.

Originally Posted by whoopsadaisydoodles

I've said the same thing before OP, I get into the car and I feel a little merry, I've wondered is it because I've had about four diet cokes and I'm getting a caffeine high but I think it is the environment. Definitely know what you're talking about though.

That's what I was getting at! At least I'm not going mad... and others have heard about/experienced this also.

[Pace2008]

Originally Posted by steviecakes

So I'm wondering if the environment you're in contributes to how alcohol effects you when you do drink.

What do you think??

Absolutely. My mates an I were only discussing this recently. We'd been out on a pub session a few weeks before and got through a fair go o pitchers between us, taking in about 9 or ten pints each on average. We were absolutely locked. Fast forward to the weekend after and we were sitting in with cans, had about 8 each, we were barely off baseline. Same seems to apply tyo smaller amounts of drink. If I have four cans watching the game at home I'd may as well have been sipping on water for all my consciousness would be altered. 4 pints out before the club and I'd be buzzing and getting a bit silly.

I find it quite surprising as I would have considered alcohol to be primarily a physiological thing unlike, say, trips, where your surroundings play a vital role in the experience.