28th August 2003, 2:44 PM
You see, alchohol slows down and sometimes stops communication between brain cells. This results in various effects. One of them is the removable of inhibitions, where one is more likely to do things they would otherwise not do. Other effects are reduced reaction times, slurred speech, blurred vision, loss of motor control, and at a certain point, loss of bowel controls. It does nothing to enhance brain function whatsoever. It's that first moment of drunkeness, where it's just the inhibitions that are being disabled, that is the fun part.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)