2006-12-31 04:06:54 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
Obviously not always, but generally people will be less likely to lie to you when they are drunk, simply becasue they don't think to conceal it as the brain is slowed down. Of course people can be completely truthful when sober. However there is evidence that ethanol (alcohol) has actually been used as a truth drug on some occasions - A book by a former Soviet KGB officer based in Washington, details the use of near-pure alcohol to verify that a Soviet agent was not compromised by U.S. counterintelligence services. (Washington station: my life as a KGB spy in America - Shvets, Yuri B; Simon & Schuster, New York, 1994)
2006-12-31 04:14:03 · answer #1 · answered by drums_guitar_and_death 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends on how the drink affects you. It might mellow you and make you look at people with a more loving or harsh eye. If you're an angry drunk, you'll spout bitterness that you don't normally feel. Or love, if that is the way the drink affects you. I don't think drunks tell the truth. And I don't think that being sober makes you honest either.
2006-12-31 05:01:01 · answer #2 · answered by True Blue Brit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a firm believer in the thesis that somebody would never say or do something when drunk which he would never ever have done or said when sober.
Alcohol may cause you to overcome your inhibitions, but it doesn´t make you a totally different person. People who only speak the truth when drunk would have said that sooner or later anyway, it would have just slipped out someday. And the cheating-on-your-bf because you were drunk is just a sad excuse.. so no excuse at all. :)
2006-12-31 04:51:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is said that people talk the truth when drunk, and would agree with this to a point. It depends on the person really, if they are nasty and aggressive whilst drunk they will tend to say things that are their truest feelings along with the incoherant gibberings, people that get happy when drunk just ramble on incoherently and you usually can take what they say with a pinch of salt!
2006-12-31 04:11:19 · answer #4 · answered by Mr Sarcastic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A drunk tells the truth they only rehearse when they are sober
2006-12-31 04:22:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither, if people are inclined to lie, they will do so sober or drunk. Although their lies tend to be more transparent when they are drunk and the rest of the world is sober.
2006-12-31 04:40:07 · answer #6 · answered by I_Love_Life! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people always speak the truth and tell you what they think of you when drunk not when there sober they are all nice and being your friend when drunk they are slagging you off appy new year !!!!
2006-12-31 04:10:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
when there being serious and want to tell the truth id say sober,,,
but when its something that they wouldnt normally say,,, then that'd have to be drunk,,,, little truths also slip out when drunk too
2006-12-31 04:09:06 · answer #8 · answered by mikey101 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"In Vino Veritas"
people talk a lot of sh1te when drunk,but their true personality is more likely to come through.
if it's 'confessions' you're asking about, I would say accept what he said when he was drunk, ignore the retraction that he made when he was sober
2006-12-31 04:11:54 · answer #9 · answered by Vinni and beer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They speak more of their version of the truth when drunk.
2006-12-31 06:34:52 · answer #10 · answered by Baby'sMom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋