Originally Posted by
hypochondriac 
Wow, really Boleo. I'm surprised by that research, and the point of it...?
I can't think of anyone I would rather socialise with when they had had a few drinks, no one. Not even the really shy people I know. I know sometimes people say 'so and so is a fun drunk' but I have been noticing this recently and it really is just so people can laugh at them and take the mick later. I have never wanted to be the person who was that 'fun'.
I was painfully shy when I was young and I think I thought alcohol helped me socialise, but I made a bit of an arse of myself so I stuck to drinking by myself, which is obviously of no social benefit.
It surprises me how many alcoholics become anti-alcohol just because they gave it up. I know quite a few people who are more bubbly and more fun to be around after a couple of drinks. A couple of drinks to a normal drinker is OK, I will never go around preaching the evils of alcohol just because it doesn't agree with me. I'm allergic to peanuts and nuts, but that doesn't mean other people can't enjoy them.