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[sonic_d]

I had more or less completed the next entry for my intoxication series 2/3 weeks ago, mainly talking about my drinking tastes and habits nowadays. However I didn't like it as it was pretty boring and became a bit preachy, so I binned it.  This one has come out the same tho, so sod it.

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[toccata_n_fugue]

I never heard that Brighton anecdote before. That's hilarious. I find that I act liek a twat if I feel self-conscious. I either clam up or talk too loudly in an attempt to hide my shyness, if I don't have too many things to think about when I'm drunk I act better. Also Sherry/port always make me happy drunk, red wine always a moaning ponce. Even more than usual.

I do drink lager but I regard it like coke, its not the flavour its just the rush as the sugar hits your blood. I prefer pilsner export. Old Speckled Hen is my current Ale of choice.

Alcohol combating shyness..

[anonymous]

When I'm self conscious (i.e 24/7 if not with the 3 or 4 people I've known for years) and I consume alcohol, I get disproportionately louder with each drink, until I'm really loud, arrogant and shouty and end up being abandoned for life by boyf/mates etc out of shame. Which is why I drink very little these days, I'm perfectly able to make a twat out of myself and make people hate me when sober, and it means I don't spend as much money doing it.

Re: Alcohol combating shyness..

[sonic_d]

Most ppl who know me would not really consider me to be shy or self-conscious. Infact most ppl who know me could argue that I am barely conscious, let alone self conscious. However in certain scenarios I do become quite aware of myself. When I drink I tend to talk more openly about things or just simply spout a load of offensive stuff. I don't have to be drunk to do so, altho getting there helps out. It's the more environment (usually down the pub) that lends itself to this type of banter.

This was highlighted by yesterdays pub trip where none of the attendees were drunk, yet the conversation always returned to porn, paedophilia, shit and slap dappy. Ok so these are quite immature topics and those present probably blame me for this. But I enjoy talking about increasingly twisted and offensive stuff simply becuz it makes me laugh. It's not big or clever, but it's fun.

Skat Happy!

Re: Alcohol combating shyness..

[dantefs]

I think you need to be in a certain mood to do anything, and this mood is based on an expectation or stereotype of what the evening (or event) will be like. When I get to a pub (or in a drinking session with mates) I start to get into a "talking shit" mood even if I'm not that drunk. Sometimes, even when I've not been drinking at all, if others have been drinking I start to feel drunk, probably because my mind almost expects it.

I wouldn't say it's "shyness" I'm drinking to avoid (although that's part of it) - even with people I don't know if the conversation turns to something I know a lot about I'll happily talk endlessly. And I can do public speaking quite easily these days (have had to for various jobs). It's more, to use a cliche, a social lubricant thing. Things just feel a lot easier and more enjoyable when booze (or certain drugs like speed or coke) are involved. Perhaps that's because I'm shy, I don't know - but it feels more than this.

Re: Alcohol combating shyness..

[absentmindedfan]

That's true, if people appear to be listening to me and I'm asked about something I'm passionate about I generally wont shut up (just ask x19 he's made that mistake many times). Perhaps pubs have some sort of chemically created atmosphere that makes people talk crap and not care (a combination of sweat, puke, beer and fag smoke?)
Maybe we use the excuse of drink to talk about subjects we wouldn't normally just bring up for no reason. So often I've been in a pub and someone's just said "You know what?"...and proceeded to bore me to tears with the intimate details of their relationship, where at work they wouldn't dream of bringing such a subject up.
The more I think about it, the more I feel it's an arbitrarily decided social stereotype. We excuse our need to talk about crap or taboo subjects or even intimate details about ourselves that we wouldn't normally dare to discuss with the fact we were in the pub,(and thus drunk) and so our conversation topics are excusable and to be forgotten as a drunken escapade.