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[flamingsword]

Friday before last I was introduced to tequila by jenndoesntblog, and since then when I say that I like the taste of it and look forward to buying some eventually, everyone seems to think that's ominous. Would anyone care to explain why? Answers have been vague . . .

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[m1yuk1chan.livejournal.com]

Oh there's nothing wrong with tequila, it peoples' reaction to it that can be a little wrong. Me for example: I'd been drinking for years before I actually got sick drunk or had a hangover. Tequila would be the culprit of that little escapade. It also made me the angriest drunk I've even been... Which means I was being super catty. :3

I've had it since then and it doesn't bother me at all. Of course I never new how to moderate when I was younger and I was trying to drink my neighbor under the table. I still won though. :D

[daddio914.livejournal.com]

"Real" tequila supposedly has small amounts of a hallucinogen, just as "real" absinthe does. As I recall, it was similarly outlawed.

Really, though, tequila just has a bad rep. It's dusty cantinas full of gunslingers, charros, and banditos. It's the dirty drunk slumped against an adobe wall, hiding under a sombrero. It's what makes all of them so wild and untamed.

Hmm... I somehow don't think this is going to discourage you any. Not that I set out to do that. Ominous. This is a good word. Tequila hangovers are like no other. Call it the other side of the coin. Drink enough of it, and the next morning you'll swear you're undead.

[flamingsword.livejournal.com]

Well, I make kick-ass absinthe, so no not really with the discouraging. And I don't get hangovers. Still don't understand why people think this applies to ME.

[sushi-slave.livejournal.com]

Tequila plus "peoples like us"... well results may vary, but they usually range from violently psychotic to OMG! Did I really sleep with them? Twice?

[flamingsword.livejournal.com]

I'm socially acontextual. I don't really care whether something is supposed to work like that or whether something is 'a girl's drink', 'menswear', or 'authentic'. And thus I don't really have a 'people like us' that I apply to myself as a social normative. And why does everyone else think that I'm subject to the out-of-character actions? Most of you have seen me drunk, and I'm just . . . louder. And I talk a little slower.

I think other people have a reaction to alcohol that may not be just a disinhibitor, but that also shuts down specific reasoning processes about future values and consequences of their actions. And I don't get that. And now I feel all awkward and alien again.

[kohagal.livejournal.com]

My one experience with tequila (not in margaritas) was at a club in Downtown D. The only time anyone has ever bought me a drink was a tequila shot, which ended up being 5 or 6 (I lost count) and from what I was told, I was quite the flirt. Of course, when I got home I was very hysterical crying and screaming and just wanted to be held with no one there to help me out. Surprisingly I remember a lot about the night, even puking in my car.

I have not had tequila (except in margaritas) since. That was the one and only time that I ever got piss drunk.

[tanniynim.livejournal.com]

Many people (see above) have reactions to tequila that they do not have to other alcoholic beverages. I just don't like the taste, so I don't drink it. Then again, I haven't had the opportunity to have *good* tequila.

[flamingsword.livejournal.com]

This was silver Patron, so it was the 'good' tequila. But this is me. I drink to excess once a year or less, and even the one time I was stumbling drunk, I'm still me. Drinking doesn't bring out any hidden'character traits when you don't have any. :\