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alcohol..honest or not?

Ok just wondering about the effects of alcohol on ur honesty..I know personally, everything I say/do when I'm drunk is about 99% true genuine. But is everyone else the same? I guess my reason for asking this is analysing how someone is being with me...when drunk he's overly nice and complementative but sober he's not. isit just cus he's shy when he's sober or because alcohol has influenced his feelings??

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Alcohol generally makes you lose control, i think the effects are different for everyone.
I am always aware fo being drunk, so when I act a certain way it's because I've chosen to let myself do so. There was never a drunken act I committed without knowing what I was doing, or that it was alcohol making me act as such. I am usually aware of being drunk, I just sometimes choose to let it run its course.
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Well, being drunk makes you horny but it also makes you more confident. I doubt he'd be like that if he didn't feel anything when sober.
Reply 4
I agree with what people have been saying alcohol makes me more confident so i end up saying things that i think of and then decide i shouldnt say them but then just say them anyway. :biggrin:
My friend told me the saying 'A drunken man's words are a sober man's thoughts'.
Who knows.
Reply 6
rockthecasbah
My friend told me the saying 'A drunken man's words are a sober man's thoughts'.
Who knows.


gosh I hope that's the case. It's not that he's not nice when sober, he still flirts I guess but he just doesnt say things like he does when drunk. but then again I badly perceive things.
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You shouldn't take everything someone says or does as the truth really. People can so some stupid things when theyre drunk that I'm pretty sure they wouldnt do when sober, and probably regret them. I doubt many people would piss in a letter box when sober, didnt stop my friend though:smile:
Reply 8
"In vino, veritas"
Alcohol lowers your inhibitions, i think it generally makes you more honest. If you were gonna think up a lie, and dream up an evil plan or something, you'd do it sober.

OP if you wanna know if he fancies you, just ask him. Sometimes if youre completely off your head you do flirt with (or even come onto) people you dont really fancy. But i think it sounds like hes just being himself and hes shy when hes sober.
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hmmm if I felt confident enough to ask him I would. I guess I'm looking reassurance of where things are going. It seems he only txts me/asks to meet up when drunk. *shrugs*
I dont drink alcohol but i go clubbing all the time and work in bars, so im around drunk people a lot, and for most people alcohol acts as a truth serum (sp)
dont want to be a bad influence, but, maybe you should just get stupidly drunk too? youre sure to blurt something out about loving him sooner or later
Anonymous
Ok just wondering about the effects of alcohol on ur honesty..I know personally, everything I say/do when I'm drunk is about 99% true genuine. But is everyone else the same? I guess my reason for asking this is analysing how someone is being with me...when drunk he's overly nice and complementative but sober he's not. isit just cus he's shy when he's sober or because alcohol has influenced his feelings??



personally I speak crap when i'm drunk. lots of it...
Reply 14
halfoflessthan50p
dont want to be a bad influence, but, maybe you should just get stupidly drunk too? youre sure to blurt something out about loving him sooner or later


lol thats been an idea in my head.. It will most likely end up that way soon enough. had to refuse drink the other night incase somethin like that did happen. but i think next time I'll do no refusing.
:biggrin:

and you'll always have that drunken, embarassingly clumsy first kiss to remember him by :smile:
Reply 16
My honesty depends who im with generally, close friends i get really truthful people i'm not so close with generally less so with girls i think i may have a chance with i am generally a liar in all honesty.
I love being drunk, as long as I can still stand and dance.
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Maybe the alcohol is just brining his true feelings to the suface, that is he does really like you but when he's sober he's not confident enough to be 'overly nice and complementative'.

Is he like that with everyone, or just you?
My drunken behaviour often brings out the best in people :biggrin:

Only the other week i was larking about on the way home from the pub in Hazlemere, Bucks when at some point on the reckless journey with my cousin i managed to lose my wallet.

Lo and behold i get a phone call today from the Hazlemere branch of Natwest to say that some kind person has handed in my wallet with the cards still there and the 20 quid :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

There are two possibilities, one it was in their front drive after hiding from a car that reveresed after us :rolleyes:
Or it was in somebody's bush/front garden after bush diving :biggrin:

What a nice person, i shall buy them some flowers (women) or a pint (man).