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The alcohol just removes all filters. So yes, you wanted to sleep, but at normal times you’d be too embarassed to not sleep in your bed. With alcohol, it’s sleepy time, you sleep and that wheelbarrow looks a lot more inviting than the floor.
It’s sex. She’s talking about sex.
Yeah I get it, it’s just I’ve known plenty of girls who really wish they didn’t sleep with a guy when they were drunk, and guys as well.
This just isn’t how alcohol works, or is a gross over simplification, it inhibits and impairs you, but that doesn’t mean in your waking sober hours you just wanted to jump anything that has a pulse, there’s been times I was into a girl when drunk but when I was sober I was really glad that I didn’t because she repulsed me and had an ugly personality
I still think it’s not necessarily true
The punchline is always porn.
I don’t know man, the right kind of dirt in the right wheelbarrow? Pretty preem passing out drunk “mattress” as they’re called by civilized folks.
when people say this you can instantly disregard any worth you may have thought they had.
I’m in the Navy. If you can’t do your job while drunk you can’t do your job.
I’m European. If you can still do your job just drink more!
My dad was blown away when he had to go do work at auto plants overseas in Europe (prob germany?) and the breakroom vending machines had beer in them. I guess there was a 2 beer unofficial limit. This was like 3 decades ago… So maybe it’s changed.
Looks like Russia’s taken some preventative measures
Definitely wanted to throw up on my shoes, just didn’t have the courage.
Definitely also want to throw up on your shoes, working up the courage now
I blame the shoes for looking so throw-up-on-able.
The one time I threw up on a guys shoes, I blamed the dubious decision to eat french toast for breakfast after drinking Jose Cuervo all night and not going to bed.
When I was an alcoholic, I wanted to keep my best friend from ruining his marriage by having an affair, so I tried to murder him with a gun. Pretty sure I would’ve gone about it differently had I been sober.
There needs to be more context to this story.
We were working together in a different state; he kept talking about this girl we worked with; we got drunk at her place- some of us (me) drunker than others; he gave me a ride back to the house we were renting and then went back to the party; I was convinced he was gonna sleep with the girl, and was infuriated he’d do that to his lovely wife and their daughter; I got my pistol and was gonna shoot him when he got home; I was too drunk to chamber a round; our other roommate was there and wrestled the gun away from me.
It’s an insane bit of logic. “In order to keep you from ruining your marriage, I’m going to kill you.”
His wife ended up sleeping with her boss a few years later, too, so. 🤷♂️
If you don’t cheat on them they cheat on you
“I can’t let you ruin your life, so I will ruin both of us for you, buddy!”
Exactly, lol. That’s noble, right?
Whoever said chivalry is dead never heard this story.
I just woke up so I can’t formulate it, but there’s some joke about chivalry having an extramarital affair in my presence.
😂 you’ll get there buddy. Let me know when it forms properly.
Sorry to break it to you, but you’re gay.
Trust me, been there and it wasn’t for me.
I think in terms of thought process, we probably have all the context available…
“You think I’m going to just let you ruin your marriage? You’re my best friend. I’ll kill you you stupid bastard.”
Men, don’t settle for a best friend who won’t threaten to kill you.
Also maybe make sure there’s a second friend nearby at all times.
That’s it… That’s all the context there is…
I posted the full story in another comment, but that is the jist of it
Gosh, that’s… a lot.
“When I was an alcoholic” I hope that the “was” in your comment means that you’re in a better place now. I also hope your best friend is still your friend and/or that he didn’t end up ruining his life (or that he was able to rebuild a half decent life from the wreckage of his mistakes)
I finally read the entirety of your comment, as I had wrongly assumed you had just quoted me the whole time (might wanna check your markup btw)
But yes, I’ve been sober for 7 years now. We maintain a loose friendship, like stereotypical men do with one another; he did not sleep with the girl, but his wife did sleep with her boss a few years after this whole kerfuffle. Is that irony?
A lot of whiskey and rum, lol
No but seriously, yeah. It was pretty stupid.
It was about the goal, not the how.
“I’ll keep you from ruining your marriage by ending your life.” Seemed pretty solid at the time.
Probably would have had better aim and saved his marriage!
She slept with her boss a couple years later. Guess you can’t win em all.
Wow. I did many crazy things while active alcoholic, but murder was not one of them
Yeah I had some issues I guess. Though, to be fair, I also never murdered anyone.
I was in a long term relationship with someone with a drinking problem. When a drunk person says something to you they fucking mean it. Their filter is weaker and, as I label it “they have the courage to say something that they were afraid to say sober.” When you figure this out everything is easier to understand.
While drunkenness isn’t a blanket excuse for behavior, I don’t believe it’s inherently fair to say we are our true selves while drunk. Alcohol affects our reasoning, it doesn’t merely remove filters.
Alcohol makes you feel and act different way. Your statement is not correct
There’s an old saying that the first thought in your head is what you’re conditioned to think, and the second is what you actually think. Kind of an ego/id thing.
I like this better. I’m not sure if it’s 100% true - hard to know what a thought actually is, when you get super specific - but I like that it’s kinder.
Huh, mines backwards… I wonder if people with “no filter” are similar. I just take a long time to process conversations, it’s actually exhasting.
True to an extent but there’s also a level of brain damage that can come with long term alcoholism (or extreme intoxication) where they lose the ability to form coherent thoughts while plastered and their drunk ramblings can be contradictory.
Not every drunk/alcoholic person is the same. Bummer you had that experience though.
I regularly tell people I absolutely hate that I love them while drunk. It’s how my brain makes sure I don’t tell them to go fuck themselves… I also tell everyone i like, that I love them though…
You wanted to go camping but fucked it up because you were drunk.
No, that sounds like camping to me.
Yeah, the first mistake everyone makes when camping is deciding to go camping.
I fucking love camping but had to glamp it up for it to pass the WAF… We have a blast when we do it but it’s only a couple times a year.
Also pretty sure I didn’t want to run over an orphanage and kill 37 children
How big are your feet? Holy shit.
It’s not the size of the feet that count. It’s how many orphans you kill.
Make every step count.
how small were the orphans?
I thought the implication of a car being involved was quite obvious
You can’t drive a car if your feet are so big they can kill several orphans!!
Use your common sense!!
Could be a big car.
Or a small American SUV
You mean a ‘truck?’
Thank you for this BLESSED meme my group chat will enjoy this :P
I knew I shouldn’t have drank “Lego Yoda Lite”
Allah is very angry at you!
Wasn’t he the guy that got sneakily served wine by his daughters because they desparately wanted to sleep with him? Most believable plot ever
I tried the read the Bible when I was teenager. Lot immediately put an end to that
I actually agree with the sentiment of this post even though there are obvious exceptions. Your character doesn’t change when you’re drunk, just your inhibitions. So yeah, getting drunk reminds me I can be an asshole and probably I want to be more often than I do.
But you know what I’ve never done while even blackout drunk? I’ve never cheated on my wife. Because I don’t want to do that. I’ve had crazy hot women ask me to hook up and I was too drunk to even say, sorry I’m married. All I could get out was naww.
I’ve felt bad because I have seen devistation in the face of young women being blown off by an older dude but I was too drunk to express myself. I was also probably too drunk to be a great lover at that time, so maybe I did them a favor. But when you’re that drunk and the next morning all you can remember is destroying the ego of a skinny 25 year old, you know you didn’t imagine it.
The first saying is pretty idiotic
BS. Drinking lowers your inhibitions, it doesn’t make you do anything you wouldn’t want to.
It makes you less rational and quicker to instinctively do shit before your rational brain catches you. Those instinctive things aren’t some hidden desires, it can be some random dumbass shit. Hell, people have “call of the void” telling them to do suicidal shit
I think it’s both. It lowers your inhibitions and lets you do things that you wouldn’t otherwise do: dance on a table, go home with a stranger, call up an ex, etc. But, it also breaks the inhibitions on the various random thoughts people have that aren’t “hidden desires” but are just intrusive thoughts.
For example, “I didn’t want to sleep in a wheelbarrow”, sure. But, you did want to lie down. And, the wheelbarrow was right there. Once you were in the wheelbarrow, you didn’t want to sleep there all night, but you did want to relax for a bit.
So, it’s not like “I want this outcome”. It’s more like there were a lot of small steps between here and there, and a rational brain would have put a stop to things along the way, but a drunk brain doesn’t second guess a lot of those small decisions which result in one big outcome like sleeping in a wheelbarrow.
I think that makes sense
Sounds like cope, or maybe we’re just talking about different kinds of behavior. I’ve seen plenty of drunk people do stupid or horrifying things that weren’t instinctive; they were just acting out stuff they already wanted to do sober.
I’ve done dumb things while drunk too, like throwing up off a balcony. Not something I’d ever plan sober, but it happened before my rational brain caught up. That’s probably closer to what you mean: impulsive stuff that slips out before logic intervenes.
But that’s not the same as people suddenly becoming violent or hypersexual when they drink, every time they drink. That’s inhibition loss revealing what’s already under the surface. The booze didn’t create it; it just took away the filter. Those absolutely are hidden desires.
Alcohol doesn’t make you do something alien to you. It makes you less able to stop yourself from doing what you’re already inclined to do, whether that’s stupid, aggressive, or emotional.
People seem to disagree with the way this was said, but I do agree with the premise that I’ve always wanted to do everything I’ve ever done while drunk. I have never once woke up after a night of drinking and felt like my actions weren’t my own desires. If I had, I would never have put another drop of alcohol anywhere near my lips ever again, as that would be severely irresponsible. It’ll lower my inhibitions, decouple me from social anxieties a bit, but that just gives me more spoons to be outwardly social or energetic. I can obviously only speak of my own personal experiences, so I will not make claims about how others handle alcohol, but if I personally felt I wasn’t able to make my own choices while under it’s influence, it’s not a substance I’d ever come back to.
“People” You know it’s funny, it shot up to around ten upvotes, then suddenly it was -2 and now it’s where it’s at, so I think one person with a few alts just took what I said personally. And you know how it is, people see the down votes before they read the comment and form an opinion that shapes how they read the comment, if they read it at all. I don’t mind, it doesn’t matter, and we’re all just here to shoot the shit anyway. I’m well aware of how amazing I am at word choice and getting my point across (/s), and I know people tend to get defensive when you insinuate the bad thing they did when they were drunk was more about them than the alcohol. It’s a point I stand by, though. I used to drink a lot, and I’m not proud of all of my actions from that time period, but I do own them. And I know the terrible things that my supposed friend did nearly every time we drank was just him showing me how he truly feels and wants to act, and I will absolutely crucify myself on this hill before I let people like that blame the alcohol rather than self-reflect. But I’m glad to know there are others out there like you who know that no one and nothing is responsible for their actions but themselves. Personal responsibility seems to be fading out in our society.
‘sounds like cope’ in an inappropriate context like that makes you sound, I’m afraid, like a tit.
I’d say if it is something you wouldn’t do sober, then doing it while highly intoxicated can be said to be something alien to you, not something you would’ve done normally. But I agree with what @merc@[email protected] said above so we too might agree but just think about it differently.
It also weakens your sense of cause and effect, being drunk makes it harder to link consequences to actions. I’ve done things that really hurt people while drunk and even while still wasted instantly felt bad cause they got hurt. I definitely wanted to punch my friend for pouring booze on the floor but I definitely didn’t want to crack his rib.
This is why I crash my car into a tree everytime I drive sober.
Actually it’s pretty comfortable. I worked in landscaping and whenever I’m on break, I’d sit in a wheelbarrow. It’s cool and the shape fits your body pretty well.
If you’re shaped like SpongeBob?
Nah, you sit with your feet between the wheelbarrow handlers and it’ll tilt toward with handlers acting as chair legs, so you’re basically sitting in the chair. And I’m 6’2, it’s really comfortable, you’d be surprised. And most wheelbarrows aren’t square, they’re like round or tapered at where your head rests.
Although I was joking I appreciate the description as I wouldn’t have assumed it was feet between the handles.
or a slightly smaller wheelbarrow
In fitness circles they call it “Barrel Bod”
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It does look pretty comfortable
