@JS Sahib,
I think, in Asian countries, drink is mainly the problem of high class families or the "Intellectuals" I had few friends which included N.F Paracha and some of other Journalists and writers including Poets and usually after few drinks, I used to have a real mind blogging, intellectual discussions from life to death.. from love to hate.. from religion to faith... from sports to wars... I never noticed that they were out of line or were behaving like a typical sharbiis of our countries. I think the reason was that they come from a background where drink was not a taboo and they were used to see Alcohol from early age. On the other hand, If they never had a drink, then they would even get drunk with a glass of Lassi as the mere feel of "Feel Good" would do the trick!
I will tell u a real life story.. One of our friend who was a regular drinker, once was approached by a friend of a friend who wanted to drink on new year's night with the lads... As he arrived late, there was no drink left for him except one "Shot" which was mixed with his friend's la orina (SPANISH FOR LIQUID WASTE) and to everyone's surprise, he didn't realize that he was sipping on the gold stream and he actually got stoned. Not sure if It was his threshold or there was a magic in his friend's la orina. LOL
But you do see people get stoned in the wast though they end up killing people with drink drive rather then anything else!
Posted 2 years ago on 11 Jan 2010 17:46
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