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Thread ID: 55825	2005-03-20 09:38:00	The Mystery of the Nice Guy-Angry Drunk Transformation	vinref (6194)	PC World Chat

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336158	2005-03-20 09:38:00	I have a friend who is happy, lively, courteous and civil, and is very popular. But when he gets drunk, it's like something out of the R L Stevenson novel of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. He becomes surly and aggressive, with a hint of paranoia. I can't explain it, because I know that he does not have any personal/financial/psychological problems of any significance, certainly nothing to give rise to the embarrasing drunk friend from hell after a few jugs. If I am mistaken, then has something serious that is well-hidden. But the more I thought about this, the more I notice it in other people as well, mostly young men. In fact, I find it fairly common. Currently, there is a plague of them where I live. So what is it with young men and the Jekyll-Hyde thing when they get drunk?	vinref (6194)
336159	2005-03-20 10:02:00	Repressed emotionally, high testerone types combined with low tolerance (not the amount but the effect) for the suds leads to behaviour of this nature. Leads to loss of inhibition. In others booze makes shy, withdrawn types gregarious and confident. In me it makes me randy and sleepy. Sleep always wins :D	the highlander (245)
336160	2005-03-20 10:29:00	" In me it makes me randy and sleepy. Sleep always wins" There is a reference to this in one of Shakespears plays, and it eludes me ( two glasses too many ...) Maybe one of our more sober readers can produce it ... Cheerssssh Tony	TonyF (246)
336161	2005-03-20 11:27:00	stop doing P? no seriously, depending on this guys hormonal balance, he might not be able to handle the increase in testotorone and get agro. As an interesting aside, when females get too much alcohol in their system they reach a similar level of testorone as males do normally. Some females (we all know of one) can't handle this increase and become a bit 'wild', guys though have just learnt to control themselves with this much testorone. The next day is the opposite though, an increase in oestrogen occurs. This is why many alcoholics have some form of breast development. oh the wonders of alcohol. Uni is teaching me well :) - David	DangerousDave (697)
336162	2005-03-20 11:38:00	Macbeth Act ii Scene ii Macbeth: What three things does drink especially provoke Porter: Marry sir, nose painting, sleep and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes and unprovokes; it provokes the desire but takes away the performance.	Dally (6292)
336163	2005-03-20 11:47:00	Spot on Dally ! Thanks	TonyF (246)
336164	2005-03-20 12:04:00	" it provokes the desire but takes away the performance. " On this theme .. In the Army in WW2 in the Pacific, our rations always included a big dollop of limejuice, which was supposed to suppress manly urges... The rude and licentious soldiery used to refer to it as Droop ...	TonyF (246)
336165	2005-03-20 14:14:00	Good heavens, Tony. What great nutritionist brain thought of that ingredient for THAT effect? Lime juice is such a good source of Vitamin C that sailors were given it in "the olden days" to guard against scurvey. Even today it's promoted for its Vitamin C content - so I'd have thought it would make you all healthier & fitter and ?????? (Care to enlighten us whether it worked for the army's purpose? No, perhaps not...Sorry I asked)	Laura (43)
336166	2005-03-20 20:20:00	........then there was this rumour of 'bromide' being added to canteen tea.........	Terry Porritt (14)
336167	2005-03-20 21:58:00	I think the lime juice was for vitamin C Laura. Perhaps Tony's had a special suppliment in it ;) IIRC, my old man called the stuff battary acid, like tobacco it was compulsory, along with salt tablets, greasy butter (called... axle grease), mozzies and there remedies and land crabs, it was apparently one of the joys of the WW11 Pacific theatre. All these things were invented to make the men angry at the enemy :D	Murray P (44)
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