Was Flight an accurate portrayal of an alcoholic? He acted normal most of the time and was pretty coherent from what I could tell, in my life the few alcoholics I have met are in way worse shape.
Actual functional alcoholics, you can't even tell they're drunk because it only gets them normal
>>223586224that makes no sense. how can you tell that someone is a functioning alcoholic then?
>>223586170Flight is a good portrayal of the high-functioning alcoholic, which is probably the worst type to be because you never end up having that "rock bottom" moment that convinces you to sober up. It took Whip's plane nearly crashing to set off the chain of events ending with his prison time that caused him to finally get off the sauce.In particular, the struggle and temptation after a few days sober and the use of other drugs (cocaine, and Whip had a big ol' box of weed in the beginning) to "balance out" is very realistic.
>>223586247By our smell.
>>223586170Not in the slightest. No one can drink vodka like that.
>>223586247Smell is a good way. Even if someone is a functional alcoholic and is acting normally, sometimes we can slip up and forget to chew hum or have a mint or something to cover the booze breath after a mid-day covert tipple.
>>223586257I drank the vodka like that. I'm drunk right now from drinking vodka like that.
>>223586170I've been showing up drunk to work every morning for the past five years. Why don't they just fire me or tell me to get my shit togheter?
>>223586281Hope you die soon ngl
>>223586247glassy eyes
>>223586294I'm gonna guess that they are drunk or high too. And 5 years is a long time bud, you probably don't have much left if you keep going like this.
>>223586170It was pretty accurate portrayalt. an alcoholic
>>223586328I don't think so. I work with what seems to be well-adjusted respectable people.
I was going to drink last weekend but I ended up just taking edibles instead.
>>223586389Porque no los dos?Being crossfaded is way better than just being drunk or high
>>223586427Weed and booze is a shit combo though
>>223586247in addition to smell the haggard look is also a dead giveaway. Chronic dehydration and lack of sleep takes it's toll over time
>>223586532What's with the assumption that alcoholics don't get any sleep? I get shitfaced and pass out before 10pm and get my 7-8 hours every night.
>>223586505It's a godly combo, you're just shit>>223586581It's poorer quality of sleep than if you could get the same while soberHowever if you're anything like me, you'll get to the point where you need to booze yourself back to sleep if you get up in the middle of the night to piss or anything, so it's really 3-4 hours with like a 1-2 hour booze break and another 3-4 hours after that.Other factors come into play too. For instance, hard liquor doesn't make me sleepy and relaxed the same way beer does. If I'm drinking hard liquor, I'm not sleeping. And there's a big difference in general between being an alcoholic in your 20s vs being one in your 30s and beyond.
>I was baked AF when I did that barrel roll with a plane
Is this the thread?
>>223586247>that makes no sense???It's why they are called functional alcoholics
what movie is this from?
The thing with alcoholics is that they all think they're better at hiding it than they are. What you call a "functioning alcoholic" is a person that everyone charitably thinks is retarded or dopey. Denzels droopy black guy face kind of nails that in a way that a normal person would assume he probably isnt drunk, but hes not fully tuned in either
>>223587218Man on fire
>>223587224Speak for yourself. People only ask me if I'm alright when I'm sober
>i'm drunk right now
>>223587303>retarded guy stops acting as retarded>uncanny valley alarms start going offThat tracks
>>223587341I think it has more to do with the shaking and sweating
>>223587218i drank the vodka
>>223586255best way to cover up the smell? I hear oranges work pretty well
>>223587218Airplane! (1980)
>>223587218Training Day
deadass saw my coworker hit a bump of coke and tried to offer me some after work I was caught off guard because I though he was the type to drink a beer after work .some people can just hide their vices and seem normal
>>223587772So did you accept his offer?
>>223586247>how can you tell that someone is a functioning alcoholic then?moonfacebad skin/hairbody odorAlcohol isn't like heroin where you look like a "sexy druggie", it just makes you bloated and ugly
>>223587858>heroin makes you look like a sexy druggie Are you retarded?
>>223586247>that makes no sense.It's called tollerance, and it can build up for pretty much any drug or poison eventually.
>>223586170Was more curious if cocaine (?) could cancel out being completely shit faced like what happened towards the end of the movie. Dude comes out 100% correct and if he didn't puss out on the stand and admit everything he would have sailed right through
