SuperNaut said:
I know that alcoholics have difficulty with this but, do we really need to point out the difference between having a beer and getting drunk?
Do you really think that alcoholics have difficulty with the difference between having a beer and getting drunk? I am an alcoholic who's been sober a little over 21 years. I still know the difference - it's hours of sweating and cussing until the dang liquore store opens.
We know drunk from not drunk. Even towards the very end, when we don't know much else, we know that. When we find ourselves in the sate of being not drunk, we will do 'bout anything (lie, cheat, steal, end relationships, etc. ) to achieve the state of being drunk. Kowing that difference is sorta fundamental to being an alcoholic - like knowing how to quack is fundamental to being a duck.
The only note I will add is that some folks who say that drinking 3 beers is like drinking "iced tea" might be pretty surprised if they measured their reaction time/judgement. I saw a video on the news one night, and it turns out that objective measurements show the effects of surprisingly small amounts of alcohol.
In the video - it had something to do with lowering the BAC for DUIs in NC - the Highway Patrol set up an obsctacle course with traffic cones. Then they invited in a bunch of legislators. They asked legislators drink a drink, blow a breathalizer, and then drive the course. The Highway Patrol would count how many traffic cones got knocked over, and ask the legislators to repreat the cycle. As I recall, the effects started to show up with one or two drinks, while the subjects still looked, talked, and reported feeling absolutely sober.
[Of course, it must be noted these legislators all being fine Baptists, none of them had so much as smelled a drop of liquor in their lives before the test].
Now I understand that fine legislators in my state may not be the sharpest tools in the shed, but the results were still surprising.
Me, I never saw the point in three beers (unless they were in the beginnig, middle, or end of a case - or you were wanting to ease into a fifth). Each to his own.
I personally can't mix living with drinking, much less shooting and drinking.
Mike