lostonearth35 wrote:
Me. I think the closet I've come was sipping a glass of wine at someone's wedding as a preteen. Now I don't touch the stuff, and I don't understand why everyone seems to think you have to get drunk to have a good time.
Just last night I watched a video about some characters that you wouldn't think are drunks, at least in the original Japanese versions that are considered family friendly. Like Wario and even Peach! There's a Wario game where in the Japanese version an enemy character throws a mug of beer all over Wario, and in spite of his size, physical strength and the fact he eats whole cloves of garlic without getting sick, he immediately gets plowed and dies. I have a theory that it's because he's got a tiny brain.
Of course, in the American version they changed the beer to a generic bomb. But there's another game, I think it was Mario Kart for the SNES, where in the Japanese version the first place winner celebrates by guzzling a whole bottle of champagne. Which isn't really a problem if you're big reptile like Bowzer, but when a young, small and girly-girl character like Peach is chugging it... it's kind of shocking. But not as shocking as when the guy in the video explains all the booze consumed by the protagonist in Harvest Moon 64 and how he should dead, and it's an E-Rated game!
Japan doesn't make nearly as big of a deal about characters getting drunk. I wonder how bad alcoholism is there? I'll bet it's not nearly as bad as in North America. And maybe this was way off-topic but I was dying for an opportunity to talk about it.
Well thank you for sharing that anyway because I found it interesting.
As for the original question: no, I've never been drunk and don't ever want to be. There was only one time when I actually had quite a lot to drink throughout the day, but that was only because the drinkers around me kept topping my drinks up. They wanted me to be drunk and still encourage me sometimes.
The drinks hardly affected me, surprisingly!
So yeah, I have the occasional drink with family simply because I like the taste of some of them. Otherwise, I quite dislike the way people abuse alcohol and how it permeates many cultures. I hate seeing what it does to people when consumed in excess. I wouldn't want to put my body through that kind of stress. Being around drunk people makes me uncomfortable, too.
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