In college, we all have some pretty interesting experiences; some we remember everything minute detail about, others we can’t quite recall the details from start to finish. I’m pretty sure most of us have heard the terms “black out” and maybe even “brown out.” Browning out is when you get to the point of intoxication where you start to lose little bits, or details, about what happens during your night. Blacking out is when you cannot recall whole chunks of what happened or you’re not aware of what you may have said or done. A black out can span from five minutes to even hours of time that have escaped you.
Unfortunately, although those definitions of what “browning out” and “blacking out” are seem very straight forward, blacking out can go to different levels. Some researchers claim that there are seven different types of drunks, but there are some very streamline patterns when it comes to the levels of drunkenness. You may have your “slurring and stumbling” drunk, the “eat everything in sight” drunk, or the “hump everything including the air” drunk. These are easy to handle and quite funny to witness, especially when it’s some girl across the street grinding on a streetlamp, or a guy humping a fire hydrant! [True story on both of those examples–scout’s honor.]
Yes, it is quite hilarious to watch people do things in a very drunken state. Daniel Tosh and Robert Stanley, better known as Rob Dyrdek, have shown videos of drunk people walking, or attempting to do sober activities on their shows Tosh.0 and Ridiculousness. Here are two clips they have made fun of:
It’s funny when someone is doing expected drunk things like murmuring, slurring their words, stumbling, leaning over onto things and everyone around them, spilling their drink, devouring all the food and peeing a lot. The last point brings me to the destructiveness of people being drunk. Drunk past the point of taming.
I’ve heard of people peeing their pants because they couldn’t wait any longer in the long line for the restroom at a bar or a club. I’ve even heard of people peeing themselves in bed or on someone’s couch in their sleep. But I’ve never witnessed someone so black-out-drunk that they go to a random empty corner where there is nothing in someone’s home and just letting it all out because they think they’re in a bathroom over a toilet. It’s especially traumatizing when you invite someone into your home because they can’t make it home. I have surely learned my lesson about black-out-drunks! Waking up to a drunk guy standing over the end table less than a foot away from your bed, peeing all over your personal belongings because he thinks he’s over a toilet is absurd!
It’s hard to gauge yourself when you’ve past your limit. Every person has their own limit, and they know it’s time to stop drinking after this. It’s not that hard to do, you can simply slow down, mix in some water, or just call it a night and head out to hunt for some food. Better safe than sorry. You don’t want to end up being a destructive drunk who pees all over someone’s things causing more damage than you’d be able to make sense of once you’re sober. You definitely don’t want to end up being the drunk that makes people call the cops in order to contain a potentially life threatening situation. There’s never any need for getting so plastered that you can’t even control your body because there are always consequences that you will have to deal with in the aftermath.