I will never be sympathetic with people who get shit faced in public. There was an easy solution: don't drink alcohol.

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What does the science say about why hundreds of millions can consume alcohol with no craving for it again? If the alcohol itself is the cause of addiction, how do we explain this?

By a “prone to alcoholism” gene? How does such a gene expand through the gene pool, when it would have to be a gene that reduces one‘s survivability? How does it even surface to begin with? It’s not like ethyl alcohol has been a ’thing’ for all that long historically, it only ever existed in trace amounts in fruits where particular yeasts happened to have landed. In any concentration, it’s only the past many thousand years that it has surfaced.

Even if such a gene exists, it remains true that the substance itself is not the problem.

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The speed that I blacked out was what scared me the most. Every other time I've lost time or had fuzzy memories from drinking (maybe 3 times my whole life) the descent was very slow and I had every opportunity to stop to prevent it. This was like a light switch. Super scary.

You said you bought a round of shots, and 2 rounds. In the real world (every bar I've been to) that could equate to 5 to 7 shots of alcohol just in that place. If you were on an empty stomach you would, most probably, be blitzed.

Is OP definitely a man? I thought so too but then I thought maybe they’re a girl.

Go to your doctor ASAP. Honestly, it really truly sounds as though you were drugged. My friend had that experience and thank goodness her friends wouldn't let her go with thr guy who clearly drugged her. Unfortunately many of those drugs leave your system quickly. Go ASAP.

I couldn’t imagine being on a sub. Y’all are too comfortable with each other to where having to secure your dangly bits is even an issue. Lol

There’s usually a 1MC announcement, I just didn’t hear it

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Damn shipmate. Don't they usually give y'all submariners a heads up if y'all get visitors?

this has happened to me before where i went to a club with a few girls and got invited to someone’s table. I don’t remember anything after taking one drink from them.

You are restating what I said, and not accurately. I am not claiming that because someone somewhere can go a day without a drink, alcohol is not addictive. I stated that hundreds of millions can drink something today, and then not go for a ‘fix’ thereafter. They can go days or weeks or whatever, WITHOUT COUNTING DAYS, and not be obsessing over where/when they last had alcohol or where/when they might next have, or have to abstain from, having it again.

To repeat: were the substance itself addictive, that would not be the case. The bottle would enslave everyone it touches. IT DOES NOT.

But I can see where alcoholics wish to imagine that it’s the demon rum that is the problem. Beats the hell out of acknowledging maybe I just like anonymous wild sex or maybe I’m just a mean and nasty prick or whatever, in a world that approves of neither trait. Or perhaps spares one the effort of digging into one’s past to grasp exactly how one became that way.

I’ve been spiked twice, sounds like what happened to me.

That’s how it was for me too. I didn’t realize it until I was telling my buddy and he told me. Then we check my bank statements to compare how many drinks I thought I had to how many I did have.

That’s not how alcohol addiction works; none of the science on it agrees with your take. Assigning your weird ideologies to addicts might make you feel very smart but don’t use them to try and shame people, let alone someone who says they were drugged.

It took me a while to figure out what happened. It was really confusing because I didn't think this could happen to me. It took a friend telling me that's what it was for it to finally click.

Did you seriously just say alcohol isnt addictive and because ppl can drink one day and not the next then it doesnt count as addiction? Yikessss. You need to go read up on addiction. I got news for you: someone who’s been sober 25yrs after being an alcoholic is still addicted. After 25yrs straight of not drinking the next day/ they are still addicted. Another news flash: a heroin addict is also addicted for life. Just because they are sober for X years doesnt mean shit. That’s why the people who have recovered are VERY serious about their sobriety dates. All it takes is a single slip- even 25 yrs later, and their entire life can spiral out of control again.

Oh boy! Guess he forgot to yell "FEMALE ON DECK!" Coulda saved a little embarrassment. Good news is, unless you look weird down there, its all more or less the same.

Every time I brought someone on, it was a learning experience for them. There is so much that is unique about a ship, or boat, when compared to what most folks consider normal.

In your case, sounds like they learned a little more than they were expecting ;)

"And this is where we hang our coats, thank you Seaman"

Red code, family in coming

Hopefully no one days this to you if it ever happens to you

Haha, you'd think the tour guide would ring a bell or yell a warning before entering any living areas of the ship.

You may have had a drink that was intended for one of the ladies you were with.