Emily comments on LessWrong experience on Alcohol - Less Wrong

1 Post author: Elo 17 April 2015 01:19AM

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Comment author: Lumifer 17 April 2015 03:07:06PM 2 points [-]

there's a joke that I can get drunk off "fumes".

Everybody can, in fact inhaling alcohol vapors is a very efficient way of getting very drunk very quickly.

Comment author: Emily 18 April 2015 05:05:57PM *  0 points [-]

Sure. The joke is that it's just the ambient fumes from other people's drinks, not from purposefully inhaling vapours beyond maybe a brief sniff of someone's beer. It is just a joke / exaggeration of oversensitivity.

Comment author: Elo 21 April 2015 12:41:30AM 0 points [-]

I find I can act more freely around drunk people. Something like how you can pick up people's accents and start using them by accident. and also "pretending to be drunk" allows for more social freedom. Although being drunk seems to slow down my brain and frustrate me more than help in social situations.

Comment author: Emily 21 April 2015 08:36:34AM 0 points [-]

Yeah, I agree - there's almost definitely some of that going on.