Poll: Isn't being a "lightweight" a good thing?

[StriderShinryu]

I have a fairly high tolerance. I get buzzed quickly but don't really get drunk unless I go overboard. Honestly, though, it's really just about being smart. If you go out for drinks with the express purpose of getting wasted, then I can see how being a lightweight would be a problem. If, however, you go out to have a good time, maybe watch a game or something, and share a meal no one is going to be counting drinks anyway. A lightweight can last just as long as a big drinker if they space things out and don't chug their alcohol down as soon as it hits the table. Besides, and either way, I just don't see the appeal of getting stupid drunk no matter how long it takes you. Moderation no matter what your tolerance allows you to get the buzz of the drinks that makes the outing a fun one but without getting stupid.

 

[BodomBeachChild]

Yes. I hate drinking with someone who 3-4 drinks in they're about to tap out when everyone else is getting started =(

 

[AngryMongoose]

Eh, it's harder to reach a happy medium; and when you go overboard (which is much easier to do) the results are more likely to be undesirable.

I'm in the weird situation of being a lightweight who needs to keep drinking to sustain it. Only takes me two or three to get drunk but I have to keep drinking at a steady pace to keep myself drunk. I've got a fast metabolism so unless I keep drinking my body processes it and I become sober again.

I was like that, and then I apparently developed a tolerance to alcohol. Net effect is it's difficult to get really drunk : /

 

[NightHawk21]

Well depends on what you want to accomplish, but TheBombus summed it up about right.

Pros:
Cost-effectiveness
You'll think yourself much funnier
Ladies will sympathise with you
Attractive to gay men


Cons:
Stop drinking before your friends
You'll be the drunk idiot the fastest
Be the least funny after four drinks
Have to water everything down
Lose all drinking games
Lack of manliness
Probably can't even grow a beard
Not attractive to women

Were beards ever practical? No.

Wait since when has a beard not been practical. Since times immemorial, the beard has been the most practical thing you can have on your face, and I'm not even talking about the higher status and power that is associated with having a beard.
Beards:
- were used for warmth from the outside environment (and aren't as pansy as a scarf)
- protection (to deflect the girly and poorly aimed punches of lesser men)
- as a convenient food storage mechanism (for the man on the go)
- as a knowledge reservoir (it is a well known fact that the longer a mans beard the wiser he is)
- and as a source of magically energy (studies have shown a direct correlation between beard length and magical power)

 

[ElPatron]

Being a heavyweight only means that you will lose more mass during an emergency/survival situation. In my opinion "manliness" is your ability to survive and spread your genes.

There is a reason high-speed-low-drag operators in the Special Forces aren't Bobby Lashleys or Chris Masters.

Being a heavyweight is good when you have a sedentary lifestyle, control your caloric intake and have spare time to hit the weights. Not so much in terms of "holy shit the society is falling let's see who is the manliest guy around."

It may be practical, but manlyness isn't always about practicality.
Were beards ever practical? No.

Apparently study conducted by the Pentagon found that bearded soldiers were usually less likely to get killed and were better shots.

However I can't find who the hell "Xegis Solutions" is so it's probably bullshit.

 

[rob_simple]

Well considering being a lightweight means you have little poison resistance, not really.

That's really not something I'm very concerned about. The way I see it, I'm far more likely to end up saving lots of money than I am to ingest arsenic.

If saving money is your primary concern then why drink at all?

Being a lightweight generally just means you don't drink as often as other people which is probably a good thing.

Unless you live in Scotland, like I do, in which case it means you're a poof and love cocks in your mouth and bottom.

God I hate this place.

 

[Heronblade]

Depends

If the objective is simply to get drunk, its a good thing

If the objective is to remain sober while enjoying a few drinks, or in trying to compare with your buddies how many drinks you can handle, its a bad thing.

I'd also consider it a bad thing at a frat party, those who fall unconscious there have a tendency to end up like this guy:

 

[Callex]

I'd probably say I was a mental lightweight. Generally I think it's a good thing; I can get drunk for a lot less and I'm usually quite puke-resistant. When bars are so damn expensive you have to predrink as effectively as possible; a couple of quid, 1.5 litres of lambrini and you have the ingredients for a fun night.

Unless you live in Scotland, like I do, in which case it means you're a poof and love cocks in your mouth and bottom.
God I hate this place.

Yeah but everyone's a lightweight to the natives over here. From the people I know, the Glaswegians seem to be the worst for it. 25+ units and still standing? What the actual fuck.

 

[Gardenia]

I am 95 kg, male and living in Norway, where the cheapest, shittiest vodka available costs about 59,60 USD per litre. When I go out, I usually buy a 70cl bottle of Jägermeister, which incidentally is also just under 60 USD (68,73 USD per litre).
In a bar, if I want a cheap beer, it usually ranges from 8,3 USD to 13,2 USD for a pint. If I want a drink (4 cl alcohol), it's anywhere from 15 to 20 USD.

I wish I was a lightweight.

 

[loc978]

Disadvantage: it pretty much displays a somewhat weak constitution, or at least a major susceptibility to mind-altering chemicals. Hope ya never go in for surgery, or if you do, hope the anesthesiologist goes closer to the minimum dose than the maximum.

Also, never get drugged and kidnapped, or any other outlandish scenario involving involuntary drug use. Avoid the merest breath of deadly neurotoxin... and try not to get pepper sprayed (that stuff actually doesn't work on me... I used to cook for the gas chamber).

Oddly enough, I have a very high tolerance to pain killers and anesthetics, despite being so prone to intoxication by alcohol. Maybe I've grown this tolerance from all the morphine, codine and anesthesia I had after a near fatal accident I had a while ago. But I can be put under for surgery and be feeling fine within a couple of hours : \

huh. Now that is pretty odd. One would think a tolerance for alcohol would go hand in hand. It certainly does for me. Just goes to show that general rules of health never apply to everyone.

 

[Moderated]

It may be practical, but manlyness isn't always about practicality.
Were beards ever practical? No.

Actually, they were.
Warmth.

 

[Broady Brio]

It's been said already, but never mind.
It's good if you want to save money.
It's bad if you want to win at drinking games. (As I found out the hard way.)

 

[bojackx]

I am 95 kg, male and living in Norway, where the cheapest, shittiest vodka available costs about 59,60 USD per litre. When I go out, I usually buy a 70cl bottle of Jägermeister, which incidentally is also just under 60 USD (68,73 USD per litre).
In a bar, if I want a cheap beer, it usually ranges from 8,3 USD to 13,2 USD for a pint. If I want a drink (4 cl alcohol), it's anywhere from 15 to 20 USD.

I wish I was a lightweight.

Damn, that's rough. I think here in the UK they might be changing the laws so that 1 unit of alcohol has to cost at least a whole 50 pence!

Seriously, I sympathise with you.

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

I'm allergic to alcohol.

Your move.

Objection, possible crippling medical condition has no bearing one's ability to be a man. Requirement is struck from the list. Rather:

How many meat pies can you eat in on sitting?

This, and the length of your beard determines your lightweight or heavyweight position.

 

[Jeremy Meadows]

While it does seem nice to save the money in this economy It would suck that only 1 hour into the party you have to stop drinking if your planning on driving home. Or your past out by midnight cuz you are a lightweight. So I'm still glad I can hold my alcohol.

 

[Brotha Desmond]

It's good because if you ingest less alcohol and cause less liver damage.

 

[Leadfinger]

It's OK if you are a lightweight and you know it. It's good if you know to stop before you are raging and out of control.
captch=public good

 

[MetalMagpie]

On balance, it's a good thing because I live in London where alcohol is expensive.

But it does involve a bit of thought on a night out. I deliberately drink slowly, so that I have one drink for every two that everyone else has. After a few hours, I start to alternate between alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks (usually by that point nobody notices).