Ideas & Trends: Is It the Drunk or the Drink Doing the Talking?

NY Times Week in Review ^ | August 6, 2006 | JOHN SCHWARTZ

[Cobra64]

[Pharmboy]

Thanks for the bump...

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[mdmathis6]

I thought your "drunk" did great, personally!

[soccermom]

Yawwnnnnnn..."ping" me when the NYT interviews experts on BP disorder.

[Pharmboy]

Nope...won't bother. I would not want to confuse you with any facts form medical research. After all, "you know someone." But, whomever is close to you and suffers from BPD certainly has my sympathy.

[Paved Paradise]

I heard Jackie on the radio and thought he was great when he gave these comments. Thanks for posting this. Like he said, if Alcohol was truth serum, all those guys telling girls at closing time that they were in love with them, and they were the most beautiful things in the world, well, obviously, that would be the truth, right?

[soccermom]

If you won't even acknowledge that people with BPD are prone to spewing outlandish things in manic mode you're the one who refuses to acknowledge the facts of medical research. I dare say I know more about BPD by having a loved-one with the disease than you do by performing a "google" search. Your own link dispels the notion of "in vino veritas", so why are you incapable of considering other possibilities?

[Exit148]

Didn't I read that his father was an anti-semite. Could it be that Gibson was simply spouting off invectives that he'd heard and been raised on? Doesn't mean that he has the same hate.

[beyond the sea]

I heard Jackie on the radio and thought he was great when he gave these comments. Thanks for posting this. Like he said, if Alcohol was truth serum, all those guys telling girls at closing time that they were in love with them, and they were the most beautiful things in the world, well, obviously, that would be the truth, right?

LOL ......... right.

Yes, and I remember getting pretty wasted at my wife's family reunion years ago and telling my mother-in-law that she was a wonderful human being.

Truth serum --- LOL!

;-)

[Pharmboy]

A bit worse than that, IMO. His father is a holocaust denier and a Jews-are-the-root-of-all-evil conspiracy nuts. When asked specifically about his father's views, he said that his father never lied to him. And besides, we're not talking about some nine year old kid here repeating what his father said.

[Paved Paradise]

I'm a little late but your response was darn funny. I don't get why everyone thinks alcohol somehow brings out the "real you." I accept that alcohol releases the inhibition control, but that doesn't mean the the clap-trap coming out of one's mouth is necessarily what one really thinks or believes, just because it's floating around in your brain. Imagine the kind of weirdness floating in Stephen King's mind!!!

I'm sure you'll have a good example yourself.