[SERIES] What is your opinion on the old saying {"In vino veritas"}?
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No shot I'm repeating that here.
K second dumbest...give us something
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Do you think its a decent rule of thumb or is it not really a reliable platitude?
I do think how someone acts when drunk tells you a lot about them. Not so much that you can get the correct answer to some question, but their behavior while drunk is a view of their thinking. Disinhibition, as someone else noted.
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Do you think its a decent rule of thumb or is it not really a reliable platitude?
It's nonsense.
Alcohol interferes with neurological function. It doesn't reveal the truth about who you are any more than a head injury would.
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Do you think its a decent rule of thumb or is it not really a reliable platitude?
wrote last edited by [email protected]truth is relative. etoh is a CNS depressant which means your inhibitory functions are diminished when you drink. which means it's harder to resist impulses or keep a secret when drinking. again, relatively speaking.
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Do you think its a decent rule of thumb or is it not really a reliable platitude?
It's close enough, ig: drunk people are less inhibited and cannot think as clearly and quickly as they do sober so, either out of lack of care or simply because they cannot keep in mind which things shouldn't be said for X and Y reasons, they might say something they held close and would not share sober. Why?
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Do you think its a decent rule of thumb or is it not really a reliable platitude?
Fun fact: the spooks in the government have tried for decades to create a truth serum, but nothing they come up with outperforms alcohol. They do have stronger stuff, but they also cause vivid hallucinations or make you loopy as fuck, and there's not much use in interrogating someone who currently believes they have knife hands or are Jesus Christ himself. Alcohol leaves you pretty much lucid no matter how sloshed you get, even if you end up blackout drunk.
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Do you think its a decent rule of thumb or is it not really a reliable platitude?
My coworkers and were discussing this early today, as it happens. It started with one person claiming that you're not yourself when you're drunk; then another posited that you're the most yourself when you're drunk because your pretenses and masking behaviors are neglected. I personally said that I thought neither was true but since I'm a known contrarian no one took me seriously, so I'm glad you asked here.
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Probably more accurate to say "in wine, no filter." People are more likely to say what's on their mind. But what's on their mind could be complete nonsense.
I've said a lot of dumb shit drunk.
In vino sine filtro
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My coworkers and were discussing this early today, as it happens. It started with one person claiming that you're not yourself when you're drunk; then another posited that you're the most yourself when you're drunk because your pretenses and masking behaviors are neglected. I personally said that I thought neither was true but since I'm a known contrarian no one took me seriously, so I'm glad you asked here.
I agree with you, our filters are what make us “us” and to claim that removing that filter somehow makes you real is wrong but also if you are always trying to hide your inner thoughts then that also isn’t you
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Do you think its a decent rule of thumb or is it not really a reliable platitude?
The interesting thing is that it works even a as placebo.
The are several studies done with subjects drinking alcoholic beverages or non alcoholic alternatives (non known to subjects).
The non alcoholic group does show inebriated behavior, even though no alcohol is present.
It shows that the convention of being less inhibited whilst drinking is a social construct, rather than an effect of the drink.
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11469-020-00321-0.pdf
