Ok this is just my point of view, but alot of the american poster's on this topic seem to be down on booze? I drink like on the weekends, and mainly at partys, not to fit in or be cool or whatever...I have not drank at some partys and its ok but not the same...Drinkin makes bad jokes funny, it make you slurr so you can joke about that, it affects your sexual nature as in you want it more or less depending on the type of person you are, it makes you more honest, because you do not care about what anyone thinks. It can improve listenin to music, it can loosen you up and feel free..like I feel weird if i dance when im sober, but if i have a few drinks you cant get me off the dance floor....so yeah...drinkin can have it downsides but only if you do it wrong...like when i started drinkin i didnt get smashed straight away, i built up, first having 2-4 at a party then 4-6 to a party, then 4-6 plus shots...now it just depends how im feeling...like tonight me and my cousin are ganna drink a few...then 2moz night i have a party proberly get blind...because ill be surrounded by my good friends and my gf so i feel safe, plus im a funnier bloke when im drunk and everything is funny to me when im drunk