It isn't? Nor is it anything to do with music.

because it turns shy indie boys and girls into sexual tyrannosaurs?

Coz it makes you fall over, dance to McFly and go home with a minger.....



Hmmmmm.....maybe it isnt that cool after all



*cracks open the third can of cider*

It isn't cool, but it is ace. Mmmm, drunk...

It loosens the inhibitions, makes people funnier and means you can have the greasiest most disgusting food without really tasting it's shit quotient.

Just like music which I take it we all like being drunk is a form of escapism, instead this one can be done in a social context.
Sure it brings out sides of your charecter that might not rear their ugly head but it can be revealing all the same.

I enjoy getting drunk...

I don't think many people actually think they're really cool because they drink. Sure people will act like twats but it's not like it's coke or something. Not exclusive enough to be 'cool' anyway. It's just something people do.

to quote bukowski....when you drink the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you buy the throat

On friday night I fell backwards off a wall and landed on my head from 10ft.

Being drunk enabled this to happen without me experiencing an ounce of pain, and for this, I am eternally thankful to drunkness.

I like to drink, i dont think that its cool, but i do enjoy it.

It removes some of my inhibitions which basically means that i will dance/talk to the pretty girl. Both are good things that i would regeret not doing...

its good to have a drink and loosen out a bit, but i don't like being drunk . . . . .
it doesn't agree with me

Drinking is cool as is smoking and taking drugs.

I have never drunk a drop of alcohol in my life, not through choice but for medical reasons. This has lead to me having a different perpsective of alcohol than most people. from my view I like hanging out with people who moderately drunk, but everybody has their limit, and it seems that in British culture its not a night out, unless you drink to excess. and thus people dink more than they can handle, they cheat on their partners, get off with strangers, become violent and generally twattish, throw up, fall over, and generally behave in a comedic yet pathetic manner. The problem is a lot of people think alcohol allows them to do whatever they like, as its a catch all excuse. only a few months ago some twat decided to hit me unprovoked whilst drunk, then try and get sympathy from everyone else after i battered him as i had the "unfair advantage of being sober", there was also a girl i used to know who used to burst into tears every time she had a few pints. Now if sober ole me went around lamping people and bursting into tears (I.E doing a gazza impression) I'd be a bigger pariah than a Leper wearing a Galastasary shirt in no time

I think the drinking culture here is best summed up by Chris Morris in Brass eye holding up a pint and stating "its not a drug its a drink". Alcohol is so entrenched in our culture, to the extent that people are amazed when I tell them I'm in a nightclub whilst sober. There's also an increasing amount of 16-25 types who drink more pints in one 24 period than William hague does in his imagination.

That said, I would drink if I could, I've seen how much fun people can have on it, I'd probably take the odd night of random sex, violence, and traffic cones, for a few nights of inhibitionless fun. and the scary thing I think that as society has conditioned me to think that way (I guess i'm like one Paalovs dogs after its gone deaf).