Drinking games.
These have always been a mystery to me. I have tried, and failed, to understand the point, but clearly I'm missing something somewhere. My hypotheses so far have included:

We like being sick. - Surely not? This mind-set is too alien for me to give it a moment's credit.

We like making our friends sick. - Slightly more plausible, but as I always end up holding hair, catching vomit and scrubbing carpet in these circumstances this one doesn't fly for me either.

We had *some sort of horrible booze* left over and we needed to get rid of it. - If it's that bad, surely you can just throw it away? Otherwise just make some cocktails out of it, or use it to clean paintbrushes or something.

It's the quickest way to get pissed. - If you can't manage your own drinking well enough to hit your target level of inebriation without a drinking game, I'm not sure you should be allowed to drink at all.

It's fun! - No. It's not. It could be fun, I suppose, if you managed to come up with a decent game, and if you were happy for people who felt that they'd had enough booze now to stop playing at that point, but unfortunately neither of these two things have ever happened.

We didn't want to go to *specified event* anyway. - Ah! Finally something that sounds plausible! Or at least it would, if I could think of an event so dire that I'd rather spend several hours vomiting and feel like death for most of the following day rather than than attend it.

Please, if you can enlighten me as to why this isn't just a method of bullying your more sober/lower alcohol tolerance friends and/or placing yourself in a coma I'd be very grateful.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 13:39, 8 replies)

Totally agree
The best and only permissible drinking game goes like this: Sit in a pub, have a pint, take it in turns to make the dangerous Indiana Jones-style journey over to the bar to get another round in. When it gets to the first person, repeat the process until closing time. Go home. Piss in alleys. The usual.

Any other so-called 'fun' drinking game is designed by shits for the benefit and enjoyment of other shits. Just don't do it. Ever. Ever. E...v...e...r...
( SpankyHanky, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 13:44, closed)

You are wise beyond your years, young wookiee.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 19 Oct 2009, 13:47, closed)

I couldn't agree more
The only one which even remotely works is "the beer hunter" where one can in the crate has been shaken up to fuck so at some point in the evening someone gets sprayed with beer. Even so.
(thefuckestuppest cheapened this, on, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 13:50, closed)

my favourite drinking game
is the one where you hold the glass up to your face, before gently resting the rim of the glass on your bottom lip and gradually pouring it's contents into your mouth. it's always great fun, would recommended it to anyone.
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 14:01, closed)

I agree, but for a different reason
every drinking game I have ever played has involved a big group of people and you have to drink when you get wrong whatever you're supposed to do. Now I must be some kind of savant at drinking games because I rarely get 'it' wrong so end up drinking anyway just to pass the time.

Does any of that make sense? No?
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 14:15, closed)

The reason most drinking games are shit
Is because people don't bother to play them properly. In a good drinking game, the purpose should be to laugh at others expense. Games played at uni are pretty much invariably shite, but I've had great fun playing with my friend's hockey club. Twenty grown men sitting around a table playing bunnies is really very fun.
( MatJ LOOK, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 17:03, closed)

If it's about the fun,
just play a fucking game. The drinking part will take care of itself.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 17:27, closed)

"...if you can enlighten me as to why this isn't just a method of bullying your more...lower alcohol tolerance friends..."
Haaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaha.
Now I understand the reason for your upset.
( thealternativefact, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 20:32, closed)