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Do drunken minds speak sober hearts?

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My most deeply held opinions are very easily pried out by alcohol. It's gonna get me in nasty situation one day when someone overhears something without knowing the entire context.

I wouldn't say its entirely about truth though. Sometimes you'll also more greatly exaggerate any lies, sometimes feeling out of necessity. But as someone else said, yeah, it mostly just removes your natural filter between brain and mouth. Truths will come out, but I'd say conversationally your stated opinions tend to just be more honest and meaningful (to you), but beyond that anything else tends to just be pure exaggeration. So the only truth that tends to be shown more is through opinions.
 
its not truth serum, its courage in a can. youre more likely to state things that are on your mind while drunk, and usually things that are on your mind that you wouldnt normally say are truths. usually.
 
Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Originally posted by: RichardE
The Harpoons got her huh?

Tragic 🙁
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:laugh:
seriously? she fuckin died, man. grow up.
 
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Yes, there's a degree of truth to it.

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Originally posted by: Shadow Conception
The saying sounds a bit inaccurate to me. Drunken a couple weeks ago, I said a lot of pretty senseless stuff I would not normally say... many were truths, but many were also greatly exaggerated/untruthful things.

When the sense gets blown out of you by intoxication, you always tell the truth? That can't be right.

Even if you speak truths while intoxicated, you'll also probably be speaking lies. Then remains the question of how to divide truth and lies.

I'm going to drink until your post makes sense.

I'm going to post until your drink makes sense.
I'm going to sense until your drink makes post.
 
Originally posted by: RichardE
Originally posted by: meltdown75
Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Originally posted by: RichardE
The Harpoons got her huh?

Tragic 🙁
rose.gif

:laugh:
seriously? she fuckin died, man. grow up.

Sorry man guess it was kind of tasteless
the initial comment didn't bother me but I could do without the n00b piling on with a smiley :roll:

she got hit by a boat and died, i wouldn't make that shit up. RIP

whatever, you guys didn't know her, it's alright. laugh it up. my bad.
 
Originally posted by: meltdown75
Originally posted by: RichardE
Originally posted by: meltdown75
Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Originally posted by: RichardE
The Harpoons got her huh?

Tragic 🙁
rose.gif

:laugh:
seriously? she fuckin died, man. grow up.

Sorry man guess it was kind of tasteless
the initial comment didn't bother me but I could do without the n00b piling on with a smiley :roll:

she got hit by a boat and died, i wouldn't make that shit up. RIP

whatever, you guys didn't know her, it's alright. laugh it up. my bad.

well to be fair it was a strange comment to have been made in this thread, specially based on you replied to and quoted a post that was very much a joke about, well... large women and drinking.
RichardE's reply is something I found straight inline with your post, based on the fact that I assumed it was a joke that went along with the post you quoted.

But that is why I didn't reply to it at all... I just couldn't tell.

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?
 
Originally posted by: Shadow Conception
The saying sounds a bit inaccurate to me. Drunken a couple weeks ago, I said a lot of pretty senseless stuff I would not normally say... many were truths, but many were also greatly exaggerated/untruthful things.

When the sense gets blown out of you by intoxication, you always tell the truth? That can't be right.

Even if you speak truths while intoxicated, you'll also probably be speaking lies. Then remains the question of how to divide truth and lies.

it's truth serum. that's the truth.
 
Originally posted by: destrekor
well to be fair it was a strange comment to have been made in this thread, specially based on you replied to and quoted a post that was very much a joke about, well... large women and drinking.
RichardE's reply is something I found straight inline with your post, based on the fact that I assumed it was a joke that went along with the post you quoted.

But that is why I didn't reply to it at all... I just couldn't tell.

rose.gif

?
nah it's for real. sorry to ghey up the thread. she was nice and funny, but we were never really buddies after the tryst. i can say with certainty that she took advantage of my inebriated state. she was sober both times we were together, and i was so corked i couldn't finish either time. i got razzed about it quite a bit because she lived on my floor in residence. not a good move really, made the rest of that year kinda awkward in that sense. maybe a decade later, i was bored and googling friends from my university days and came upon a story about her being killed in a boating accident. sorry for the TMI parts but
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and /threadjack
 
I had a friend tell me when she was drunk that she hated her bf, hated being around him, hated how he always wanted to talk to her, etc. and this was really surprising because i thought she really liked him a lot. well it turns out 3 years later they're married, so I guess she was either lying or changed her mind.
 
If a drunk person always told the truth, there'd be no bible+oath at court, just a tray few dozen Jello shooters, or some alcoholic beverage of choice.


 
Originally posted by: Jeff7
If a drunk person always told the truth, there'd be no bible+oath at court, just a tray few dozen Jello shooters, or some alcoholic beverage of choice.

That would make court more fun :laugh:
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7
If a drunk person always told the truth, there'd be no bible+oath at court, just a tray few dozen Jello shooters, or some alcoholic beverage of choice.

no sir, I did not hit that man [buurrrp], but I did kill tha*hic*at lovely woman.
 
I've made up such insane shit when I've been drunk, that I wouldn't have believed that I had said such things, if the people telling me weren't so close - and if it weren't for that fact that multiple people told me the same thing independently of one another.

The lies I tell aren't even ones that have an incentive behind them. I think a part of me likes to bullshit just to see how far I can get, and the alcohol removes me ability to sense the plausibility of the lies.

But I don't lie when sober (apart from the white lies that all people say in the course of life).
 
You're much more likely to speak your mind, but at the same time your judgment is also so screwy that you often say things that you otherwise wouldn't believe to be true.
 
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