I'm not a fan of alcohol. Unless it's Kopparberg. Kopparberg is really nice. But yeh, I don't drink to get drunk. It just seems stupid. "Yeh, I'm gonna fuck up my brain and make myself puke - that's totally a good time!" That logic doesn't make any sense to me. So you can see why Alex's insistence on hijacking whatever I eventually plan to do for my 18th in order to get me drunk irritates me. It used to be kind of funny, but now it just gets on my nerves.
oh man, puking is only part of it. When you wake up in your bed the following morning, with no recollection of how you got there or the majority of the night before, that's when you got drunk.
Alcohol is good for reducing inhibitions and social anxiety, but the process of experimenting to find the right amount can lead to a few episodes of getting drunk. I think getting to know your limits is a good thing.