is "I was drunk" a reasonable excuse for bad behavior

dilligaf73 wrote: »

Very true. No excuse, but sometimes it needs to be used for minor embarrassing moments.

Haha. It can make for some awesome stories if you're willing to laugh at yourself, which I certainly am! But if you end up doing something not so savory it's not cool no matter how you spin it.

Personally I think it adds insult to injury that someone would use it as an excuse. It's an immature way to try get out of trouble.

The most common excuse when you've been caught with your pants down, followed by 'you know what I'm like when I drink spirits'..... blah, blah

(Not from experience of course, I'd be guilty of stone cold sober murder if I found myself on the other end of that excuse)

It really depends. If its something completely discretionary and a totally stupid thing to do like breaking a window under the influence, then it is completely inexcusable. However I believe that if it is something like a person having a smoke when they promised themselves they wouldn't or saying something to someone which they would not normally say, even though they would normally say it under their breath, then I think it is ok if the drink aspect can be named as having some responsibility for that. We are only human after all. Alcohol DOES alter brain activity which everyone is aware of so obviously some leway must given for those who have consumed excessive amounts of alcohol in REAL terms. I know it is the person's personal decision if they wish to consume alcohol but things do happen under the influence.

With that said, I don't BELIEVE people when they say "oh I was so drunk that I done this that and the other" etc because there is always a deep set initiative/instinctive morality no matter how drunk you are. Or maybe thats just me.

I've done things when I've been drunk but nothing like breaking a window or anything. I knew what I was doing and I agree that it was alcohol that propelled me beyond the point where I would normally have stopped and I was aware of my actions but it was nothing so severe that I would have had to do any real thinking or questioning about it. ( and no this has nothing to do with drugs or anything of that nature.)

I wish I could have said this in fewer words and in a way that is more legible or comprehensible to everyone but I done my best!

No way is it! A friend of mine is a demon once booze enters his system, I mean deranged behaviour. No therapist in the universe could figure out the thoughts that go through this guy's head, they'd need a therapist afterwards! :pac:

I think at one point or another he's done something to rock the friendship with each and every one of us lads. He really does turn into a pyschopath of sorts.

Try stealing clocks from random house parties for no good reason, telling your siblings you're going away for a while cuz you have to kill someone, knocking a friend out and beating him while he's unconcious, stealing a hammer so you can beat someone with it and hitting a friend with it trying to stop you............hell, that's just recently.

Everytime he does this bullshìt he puts it in his mind that "If I don't remember it happening, it didn't happen so shut up!" Even though we know he clearly remembers.

Anyone else would tell him to fùck off but we've grown up with the guy, he is a very good friend to us and he hasn't had a great life (It's abig thing to do with his parents who got divorced, various evil stories they told him that drove him mad)

But, in short, being drunk and an asshole is no excuse for your behaviour.

itsallaboutheL wrote: »

I get in trouble quite a bit when sober...

by your logic i should **** myself off a bridge!!:pac:

well when i was 18 to about 25ish i was living in london and i gotten into more trouble fighting all that carry on and it was all through drink when i drank sorts i went off the head.im nearly 40 now and have like a few pints but never touch a sort so its all about control like.

It's a legitimate excuse for dying of alcohol poisoning.

Dragan wrote: »

So some excuses are acceptable and some are not?

Your mate sounds like a tool, sorry.

Basically you won't let him blame booze but you will let him blame his parents?

Fair enough.

Using Booze as an excuse is a tad different than your Parents for something they did. You chose to drink, I'm sure he didn't choose for his parents to do that.

On saying that, the afore mentioned "friend" still sounds like a tool.

No it's not, it never ever is.
"Oh sorry for saying that, I was really drunk at the time."
Fcuk off. If you didn't mean it, you wouldn't have thought it in the first place, It never would have entered your drunken brain.

Nope never
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I voted 'No' because I feel drink lowers your inhibitions and can make you say / do what you may feel like doing / saying but under normal circumstances would have enough sense to know that it's not a good idea. In other words it can bring out 'the real you'.

For example, you would really love to do your work colleague coz they're so damn hot but have more sense than to approach them because you're happily married. You're out on a work 'do' and mashed drunk like everyone else and she comes on to you - it's gonna be VERY hard to say 'No!'

You know it's wrong, you know you shouldn't even contemplate it but because your inhibitions have been smashed you go for it anyway. I.e: you wouldn't normally do it but because you were locked you did what you would really like to do!

See what I'm getting at?