Define a Drunken Mistake

Mickey H

The Backwards Man wrote: »

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Don't be so hard on yourself man.

kiffer

Doc wrote: »

I'm kind of getting annoyed at the people who are saying that some thinks can be classified as drunken mistakes but others can’t. Why do you get to draw an arbitrary line between what is a drunken mistake and what isn’t?

If someone wouldn't do something sober and did it when drunk and regret having done it when they sober up again then it was a drunken mistake.

Alcohol dose change people’s personalities even if it is just lowering you inhibitions. Your inhibitions are a pretty big part of your personality!

I have often done and said things drunk that I wouldn’t say or do sober. It may have been that I thought it was funny when drunk and sober know it isn’t or I thought it was a good idea and sober I don’t, but the fact remains I wouldn’t do it sober and regret having done it so think of it as a mistake ( a drunken mistake). I haven’t cheated on anyone drunk or sober but I could see how someone who is drunk might. Do I think it is excusable? No if they have that little control over themselves then they shouldn’t drink and what’s to stop them doing the same next time there drunk. But do I think it’s a drunken mistake? Yes.

I'm a jolly drunk must of the time and come out of my shell a bit more and don’t over think everything I say so it normally works out well for me but occasionally not and I make a drunken mistake. I don’t expect to be absolved of any wrongdoings when I sober up because they were drunken mistakes I was drunk and nobody forced me to drink but I wouldn’t normally do some of the things sober I do when drunk.

The only time you could really trust that someone who makes a drunken mistake wouldn’t do it again though is if they never drink again.

I kind of agree and sort of disagree.
if you tell your SO that they "can be an annoying whinging bastarrd of a cow" while drunk but you wouldn't while sober because while you actually feel that way a lot of the time you wouldn't make the mistake of saying it then saying it was a mistake is kind of an unapology... You're not saying that you are sorry you said it, that it's not how you feel but it was a mistake to say it.

The mistake was only made because you were drunk but the feeling was real.
Now, telling someone that you have drunkenly mistaken for Winston Churchill that you think "He's a barbiturate taking arsehle of the highest order and if it wasn't for his hard work during the blitz you would show him what for"... the drunken mistake is mistaking some guy for Winston Churchill not disliking Churchill