Drinking

Isn't the point of drinking to get drunk? or at least alter one's reality a little? Makes sense to me, but then I have some German ancestry.
Yahoo! News - The Point of Drinking Is to Get Drunk?
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The survey showed that 17 percent of German adults believe "the point of drinking is to get drunk." This was twice the proportion of adults in Britain who felt the same way.

"The fact that German adults are seemingly more inclined than the British to get drunk could help ease the British reputation for lavish drinking and an over-indulgent pub culture," Strutton said."