DigDog
Lifer
- Jun 3, 2011
- 14,825
- 3,099
- 136
i have a rather lax attitude to drink and drugs. i think the general morality is ridiculous, and when i drink, i get completely shitfaced.
And when i was a kid, i would drink in the morning. I also rarely drunk, because alcohol wasn't really my thing. But i would get stoned in the morning more often than not.
But now that i'm old and wise, i like to do something with my day. And, i like to try to accomplish something without getting rekked.
Drinking is, without a doubt, calling it quits. When you're a teenager, drinking a can of bud (king of beers) can give you that extra ooomph to go and do stuff (mostly hit on girls waaaay out of your league), but when you get to be a grownup, drinking just makes you go sleepytime.
The same for me was weed, i'd hit a big-ass toke and go conquer the universe, but nowadays, i smoke a little puff and i fold in two like a human origami and crawl under the covers and die.
So, the stigma doesn't come from the use of the substance, but rather from the circumstances. It's not that you are drunk, but that you are drunk "at that time when nobody else is drunk". It's because you do something that other people don't do.
If you walked around with a boot on your head, people would criticize you just as harshly. But, if you were drunk in a backstage room, waiting on your concert to start, then it would be totally cool even if it was morning, because people do that.
If you are drinking an expensive whisky in a study at 6am while smoking a cigar and musing over your hunting trips in africa, still cool.
Drinking bottom shelf vodka in a hostel, not cool.
I guess what people really want to avoid, is that after-drunkenness feeling, which most people just sleep off. And when they see you drunk at 11am, they know by 5pm you'll be out of drunkness, and just groggy and feeling like shit, and too early to go to bed. That's what they instinctively know is bad, and why they criticize you.
And when i was a kid, i would drink in the morning. I also rarely drunk, because alcohol wasn't really my thing. But i would get stoned in the morning more often than not.
But now that i'm old and wise, i like to do something with my day. And, i like to try to accomplish something without getting rekked.
Drinking is, without a doubt, calling it quits. When you're a teenager, drinking a can of bud (king of beers) can give you that extra ooomph to go and do stuff (mostly hit on girls waaaay out of your league), but when you get to be a grownup, drinking just makes you go sleepytime.
The same for me was weed, i'd hit a big-ass toke and go conquer the universe, but nowadays, i smoke a little puff and i fold in two like a human origami and crawl under the covers and die.
So, the stigma doesn't come from the use of the substance, but rather from the circumstances. It's not that you are drunk, but that you are drunk "at that time when nobody else is drunk". It's because you do something that other people don't do.
If you walked around with a boot on your head, people would criticize you just as harshly. But, if you were drunk in a backstage room, waiting on your concert to start, then it would be totally cool even if it was morning, because people do that.
If you are drinking an expensive whisky in a study at 6am while smoking a cigar and musing over your hunting trips in africa, still cool.
Drinking bottom shelf vodka in a hostel, not cool.
I guess what people really want to avoid, is that after-drunkenness feeling, which most people just sleep off. And when they see you drunk at 11am, they know by 5pm you'll be out of drunkness, and just groggy and feeling like shit, and too early to go to bed. That's what they instinctively know is bad, and why they criticize you.
Facebook
Twitter