Are you implying that's semantically surprising? My wife has to take even a single standard glass slowly. All smaller people I know do, unless they are intending to get at least tipsy, which is probably outside most definitions of "social drinking" (but not outside typical drinking behavior among friends, if you want to take the phrase "social drinking" as statistically literal).

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KeplerBoy 10 months ago | parent | next [-]

Isn't getting tipsy the driving motivation behind social drinking? If it weren't, people would be drinking grape juice.

	▲	YeGoblynQueenne 10 months ago \| parent [-]
		It's a cultural thing. Traditionally, in Mediterranean societies, "drinking socially" means you are sitting at a long table with your family having a big meal and drinking wine from a small glass. Granted, today the families are smaller, the tables are shorter, the meals are faster, the wine glasses are larger, "social drinking" spills out to drinking with friends and colleagues, and getting at least pleasantly sloshed of a night out is increasingly common, as is bingeing and getting totally smashed with your friends. At which point, yeah, the purpose of "social drinking" is getting off your tits. We are all slowly turning into Western Europeans I guess :/

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quantified 10 months ago | parent | prev [-]

How much is sex and how much is body weight and genetics? Swedish and Japanese livers process stuff quite differently, I expect some variation even among "Anglo".