Im A Bad Drunk!

RockinRolla

(serious replies only please)

For years Ive had wine with the gf, whiskey and beers with the lads, the odd vodka, tequila and whatever else you care to imagine and never had any problems whatsoever.

Recently, Ive discovered Cachaca. On the last two occasions Ive consumed it all hell broke lose in a nightclub or in my hotel. My personality is not that of the aggressive sort, nor am I a confrontational person by any means - theres just something about this particular drink that makes me violent.

Has anyone had any experiences with certain alcohol that makes their mood change in comparison with others they consume...does different alcohol permit different mood swings and effects.

cherryghost

Stop drinking

And no

RedXIV

Don't know if it counts but the 3 times I've gone out and drank whiskey, I've done some seriously stupid things, 2 of which left scars. Whiskey is the devils drink for me

Wolfe Tone

No, don't be a quitter!

charlemont

Tennants .. linden village ..

imwatchingyou

sounds like me when i drink vodka lol
thats why i never drink vodka anymore,just stop drinking it

listermint

Girlfriend says im a plonker on the JD, personally i cant see the difference, im a plonker anyway.. :cool:

cherryghost

RedXIV wrote: »

Don't know if it counts but the 3 times I've gone out and drank whiskey, I've done some seriously stupid things, 2 of which left scars. Whiskey is the devils drink for me

Funnily enough. I could drink Captain Morgan or JD all night and still feel 100% in the morning. Tis great

Dun laoire

No i've never had that kind of experience with any alchohol. Seriously, for your own sake quit that sh1t. I despise people who on drink turn into complete scumbags

Rented Mule

This reminds me of the old Henny Youngman joke.

Man goes to the doctor and says 'Doc ...it hurts when I do this'.

The Doctor says 'then stop doing that'.

Cachaca is the problem ? Cut out the Cachaca.

thebigbiffo

i love whiskey - but it doesnt love me - so i dont drink more than a couple in one sitting anymore.

apart from the sleeping walking and pissing in wardrobes, i can get fairly agressive if wound up the wrong way

RockinRolla

RockinRolla wrote: »

(serious replies only please)

For years Ive had wine with the gf, whiskey and beers with the lads, the odd vodka, tequila and whatever else you care to imagine and never had any problems whatsoever.

Recently, Ive discovered Cachaca. On the last two occasions Ive consumed it all hell broke lose in a nightclub or in my hotel. My personality is not that of the aggressive sort, nor am I a confrontational person by any means - theres just something about this particular drink that makes me violent.

Has anyone had any experiences with certain alcohol that makes their mood change in comparison with others they consume...does different alcohol permit different mood swings and effects.

:rolleyes:
As time goes on I become more convinced that people act exactly as they want to when drunk. There's no difference between drinks.

If you're a "bad drunk" stop drinking.

TouchingVirus

Stop drinking the drink that makes you a bad drunk.

My dad can't drink Whiskey as it tends to make him aggressive, and I can't drink Vodka in any decent quantity because anything is liable to happen though I usually blackout good and proper and turn into a messy drunk.

That being said, drinking a lot of bourbon one particular night resulted in me becoming an abusive drunk, but it really was the exception - I don't think it's happened ever again and I've drank it on plenty of occassions since.

flyton5

Certain people just cant handle spirits. Stick to the low alcohol beers OP...

thebigbiffo

bluewolf wrote: »

:rolleyes:
As time goes on I become more convinced that people act exactly as they want to when drunk. There's no difference between drinks.

If you're a "bad drunk" stop drinking.

i think this is a bit harsh. some people react very differently on certain drinks than they do on others

FreudianSlippers

RockinRolla wrote: »

(serious replies only please)

For years Ive had wine with the gf, whiskey and beers with the lads, the odd vodka, tequila and whatever else you care to imagine and never had any problems whatsoever.

Recently, Ive discovered Cachaca. On the last two occasions Ive consumed it all hell broke lose in a nightclub or in my hotel. My personality is not that of the aggressive sort, nor am I a confrontational person by any means - theres just something about this particular drink that makes me violent.

Has anyone had any experiences with certain alcohol that makes their mood change in comparison with others they consume...does different alcohol permit different mood swings and effects.

Tequila makes me crazy. Not really violent, but like I'd do almost anything.

Whiskey however makes me a bit violent which is not good because I'm about 5ft9in. lol

Sharkey 10

Not a big deal just stop drinking that which makes you angry or overly emotional.
I often think its not the drink but the state of mind/reason for drinking that determines the type of attitude you will have when your drunk.
Having said that i cant drink vodka , tesco cider (shudder) or druids

Archeron

I also cannot drink whiskey. I'm a very passive kind of dude, but I turn into a complete pr*ck when I drink whiskey. Seems to be a family thing, my dad and his dad were exactly the same.

Luckily though, I can drink ANYTHING else without any problems.

TouchingVirus

bluewolf wrote: »

:rolleyes:
As time goes on I become more convinced that people act exactly as they want to when drunk. There's no difference between drinks.

While I do believe that the reasons behind drinking, attitude of the person on the night/mood of the person on the night do have an effect, certain drinks do effect people differently. Ethanol isn't the only ingredient in alcoholic beverages, and it does metabolise differently.

anniehoo

bluewolf wrote: »

:rolleyes:
As time goes on I become more convinced that people act exactly as they want to when drunk. There's no difference between drinks.

Not true with me. Im generally a happy drunk with every drink bar whiskey. I used to drink Southern Comfort and i cannot handle it at all in any shape or form as i just ended up "messy drunk" so i was a pain in the arse to my mates. Never touch it now! My best friend goes nuts on vodka, really argumentative and agressive. Her husband cringes if she so much as touches the stuff on a night out as he has to watch what he says.

--Kaiser--

I think there is different effects with different drinks...

Whiskey makes some people very angry.
Beer tends to make people mellow.
Tequila makes people felonious.
Gin makes you cry.
Cider makes you discuss your diarrhea in a popular messageboard.

The_B_Man

Start drinkin it every night! You'll eventually get used to it! I used to be a vomitous drunk when i was 18. Now, after 10 years of practice, I never puke! It'll be the same here. Trust me...

orourkeda

whiskey makes me pee my jocks and crap the bed.

I tend to drink pints instead.

MingulayJohnny

I'm sure there could probably be somebody who will contradict me on this but I'm convinced that different spirits can affect different people in certain ways. I can drink a large amount of beer & wine and still be standing and coherent. Sometimes I'll have a whiskey if somebody offers me one in their house but I don't really drink it otherwise, it makes me drowsy. I like a good vodka and can handle it pretty well , I also like the odd cocktail if it's made well.

But one thing I discovered over the years is if I drink Gin I'm like a bear with a sore paw. Melancholic , frustrated and borderline aggressive. I don't know if it's the Juniper berries but it has happened even when I was bought cocktails and I only found after checking that there was gin in it.

RockinRolla

flyton5 wrote: »

Certain people just cant handle spirits. Stick to the low alcohol beers OP...

Thats quite an assumption.

Particularly the part about the beers. I have little love for them.

invaderjim

I find that your behaviour can vary between different types of drinks but also depends on if you haven't eaten drink and are drinking on an empty stomach or if you have been exercising.

knird evol

bluewolf wrote: »

If you're a "bad drunk" stop drinking.

Stop ?
........Defeatist.
One can always improve at anything one sets ones mind to.

MingulayJohnny

I also had a housemate about four years ago and if I was there on a Sunday night I could tell if he'd been drinking gin based on the way he walked in the door. He would fling the door open and announce himself with a roar and ten minutes later he'd be crying at something on the television. It used to wreck my head tbh , crazy , crazy fella.

Teutorix

wine, woke up behind a couch in a strangers house with last nights dinner on the floor beside me.

poppyvalley

Mingulay Johnny wrote:

But one thing I discovered over the years is if I drink Gin I'm like a bear with a sore paw. Melancholic , frustrated and borderline aggressive. I don't know if it's the Juniper berries but it has happened even when I was bought cocktails and I only found after checking that there was gin in it.

My mammy drunk nothing but gin. She'd be always happy and start singing, god rest her!

NothingMan

I'm 99% a beer drinker but have gotten drunk on Jaeger, vodka, whiskey or cocktails before and in general I'm the exact same. If I'm tired I'll eventually curl up and sleep somewhere if I'm not I'll probably be dancing or stripping somewhere. Don't think the type really effects my mood.

Have never gotten in a fight when drunk because I'd never get in a fight when sober.

frank reynolds

i've drank MOST drinks at this point, and my drink of choice now, is a double JD and coke. i never get singles of it, because you cant get the taste off the whiskey enough.

anyway, knowing that i am able to handle a LOT of whiskey, and anything else really, vodka etc... there was ONE time we came back from a gig and there was no other booze in the house apart from a bottle of gin.

LITERALLY after i had half the glass gone (it was mixed with 7up) i ended up balling my eyes out uncontrollably for about an hour. it DEFINITELY makes you sad. i couldnt stop all these horrible sad thoughts coming into my head and i havent touched the stuff ever since. it's really bad.

definitely a horrible horrible one for me. i'll stick to the double whiskeys

Teutorix

frank reynolds wrote: »

i've drank MOST drinks at this point, and my drink of choice now, is a double JD and coke. i never get singles of it, because you cant get the taste off the whiskey enough.

anyway, knowing that i am able to handle a LOT of whiskey, and anything else really, vodka etc... there was ONE time we came back from a gig and there was no other booze in the house apart from a bottle of gin.

LITERALLY after i had half the glass gone (it was mixed with 7up) i ended up balling my eyes out uncontrollably for about an hour. it DEFINITELY makes you sad. i couldnt stop all these horrible sad thoughts coming into my head and i havent touched the stuff ever since. it's really bad.

definitely a horrible horrible one for me. i'll stick to the double whiskeys

True story, gin makes people depressed ive both seen and experienced it.

Rum makes me feel like a pirate, especially since i swig it from the bottle :cool:

orourkeda

Teutorix wrote: »

wine, woke up behind a couch in a strangers house with last nights dinner on the floor beside me.

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smash

Vodka makes me crazy, and I never remember the night when I drink it.

AdMMM

I've dubbed Buckfast as a bottle of bad news. Nights tend to be crazy when I've been drinking that.

df1985

Im another one that whiskey doesnt really agree with, makes me moody, sometimes aggressive. its a shame because i love jameson and red but cant have it in big quantities.

I can drink vodka like water, just makes me happy and act the eejit. can drink rum no problems.

Redbull as a mixer and im a lunatic, but thats expected i suppose knowing whats in redbull.

sambuca=blackouts, tequila=no problems.


At the same time though, if you have something bothering you/on your mind/something you're stressed about, any type of alcohol in big enough quantities will bring it out.Have personal experience of this recently.

Futurecrook

Apparently

So you think certain drinks make you act unlike yourself?

The fact is though, all the booze contained in every alcoholic drink is pretty much the same stuff - whether its lager, stout, wine, vodka, cider, whiskey, tequila, whatever - in simple terms, its really just ethanol with some flavourings. Alcohol is alcohol...

But how come we're all familiar with the reputation of certain drinks? For example, you'd probably expect that alcohol - particularly whiskey or strong lager - increases testosterone levels in men, right? Wrong. All types of booze make a lad's testosterone levels drop. After a big session you might only have half the testosterone you started with and it could be three days before you get it back up there, so to speak.
So why can personal experience tell you that some drinks affect you differently? One theory is that if you expect to react in a certain way to a certain drink, you probably will.



Several studies have been done where volunteers are given free booze if they take part in a study on the effects of alcohol, but half are given alcohol-free substitutes. Sneaky tricks like rubbing some alcohol around the rim of the glass helped to dupe the volunteers into thinking they were drinking the real deal. The researchers weren't being tight, this was the point of the experiment. And you'll never guess what happened. About 80% of the 'sober' volunteers who thought they were on the lash for free, started acting like they were drunk. They were talking louder, staggering about, feeling dizzy, slurring their speech, tripping up - yet they all would have passed a breathalyser test.


If you still think that certain drinks make you act unlike yourself, maybe it's not the drink but how and how much you're drinking.

From the Drink Aware site.

Rented Mule

Teutorix wrote: »

wine, woke up behind a couch in a strangers house with last nights dinner on the floor beside me.

Woke up this morning with a wine glass in my hand
Whose wine, what wine, where the hell did I dine?
Must have been a dream I don’t believe where I’ve been
Come on - you wanna do it again?
Do you, you feel like I do?

There is a music lyric for every occasion.

sponsoredwalk

RockinRolla wrote: »

Recently, Ive discovered Cachaca.

Where did you get this drink and how much?
If you're getting confrontational because of this particular drink maybe
it's because your not confrontational enough in daily life.
Part of the driunkards philosophy

To the people who take the moral high ground claiming that drinking brings
out the true inner self of a person I'm going to say you haven't a clue
what you're talking about - mainly because you don't drink

I've come to realise through painful experience that when you've had a bad
night from drinking it's because what you've really been doing is indulging in
the inner confusion you've been feeling while sober & couldn't express, it
builds up & then when your mind and body are physically weakened by
booze it can take hold. It points to the fact your lacking in something in
your daily life & not satisfying, it just explains why you should never ever
drink while depressed of feeling rough, definitely for me anyway.
Couple alcohol with a sensitive brain set up & you've got haywire so
if all drink messes you up or depresses you get off the stuff! If it's one
drink it's either all in your mind & being reinforced by psychological
positive feedback (i.e. oh this drink gets me angry but others don't, you're
just playing mind games on yourself) or you've had a bad day or there's
something seriously repressed just waiting to be expressed in other ways -
namely anger because it's the easiest & serves as a release.

Just what I think anyway...

sponsoredwalk

sponsoredwalk wrote: »

To the people who take the moral high ground claiming that drinking brings
out the true inner self of a person I'm going to say you haven't a clue
what you're talking about - mainly because you don't drink

I have absolutely no idea why everyone thinks people who don't drink never drank. Do you really think that anyone who starts drinking will never ever give it up?
Anyway good to know the drinkaware site backs me up on this one.
I'm highly skeptical, I really am. Self-fulfilling prophecies.

scientific1982

Whiskey makes me aggressive but its so ****in tasty. I try and limit my consumption and get people to tell me if im being a ****.

sponsoredwalk

I never said that, I said people who don't drink, as in drink actively. Have
you never had those kind of people give that lecture, about drink bringing
out your true self, i.e. if you go crazy because of drink once then that
means you really are a bad person inside. I've heard that kind of conversation
more than once & it's ridiculous, from non-drinkers. Personally I think that
outlook is just a mental justification to those who don't drink.
But I agree, people act as they want to i.e. do not repress it. However,
when people get violent or angry - if that's what they wanted then fine,
but when they wake up & wonder why whatever happened last night
happened then what I wrote is what I think explains it.
But, think about it. When a person gets really angry at a bus stop and
smashes it because they were hammered, were they angry at the
bus stop? They certainly acted as they wanted to, namely to smash
the window in the fit of anger but is that really how they wanted things
to go & is that how they really would have chosen to deal with that
anger had they been given the chance?

Horse_box

I don't buy in to this ''Oh I get so aggro on whiskey'' bull****

You get aggro cause you're a cunt and can't handle alcohol, not because of the type of alcohol you drank

Gunsfortoys

Drinking lowers inhibitions and this is a FACT. People do stupid stuff with the effects of alcohol, it makes them more daring and kind of gives them confidence. I do not believe for one second that people don't lose their common sense and sense of dignity when drunk. FFS thats like saying you didn't crash your car because you were drunk, you are just a bad driver!:rolleyes:

El Weirdo

listermint wrote: »

Girlfriend says im a plonker on the JD, personally i cant see the difference, im a plonker anyway.. :cool:

Everyone is a plonker on JD.

Professional Griefer

I dunno.
2 weeks ago I smashed a naggin off my head.
Funfun:rolleyes:

Terry

bluewolf wrote: »

:rolleyes:
As time goes on I become more convinced that people act exactly as they want to when drunk. There's no difference between drinks.

If you're a "bad drunk" stop drinking.

I disagree.
More later.

Futurecrook wrote: »

Apparently



From the Drink Aware site.

80% of people are idiots. No news there.

I firmly believe it's all down to the individual.

The only time I have ever thrown up the morning after drinking was after Pernod and black.
The only time I was ever arrested was after Vodka.
The only time I have ever started a fight without someone pushing me to the limit was after cider.

I have not had any problems with beer since i was 17. Therefore I only drink beer. It works for me.

desertcircus

Terry wrote: »

The only time I have ever thrown up the morning after drinking was after Pernod and black.
The only time I was ever arrested was after Vodka.
The only time I have ever started a fight without someone pushing me to the limit was after cider.

Ah, there's your problem, too small a sample size. To be properly sure, you'd need to spend twenty nights on each, and make sure you can't tell what you're drinking at any point. If you then have an arrest record that matches the Smirnoff purchases on your bank statements, I'll believe you. Oh, and you'll need to do it with a few other people at the same time - thirty or so should do it.

*Please note: don't do this. In fact, avoid any research where a positive correlation involves repeated vomiting, arrests, or assaults.

IrishZeus

El Weirdo wrote: »

Everyone is a plonker on JD.

My fave drink so i have to disagree...

Last time i drank white wine i crawled out of a couch naked... fair to say it hasnt been touched since

Kimono-Girl

El Weirdo wrote: »

Everyone is a plonker on JD.

just found out there im going to be a plonker on JD this weekend