Someone's going to come along in a minute and tell you all off for making light of binge drinking.
I'm not here to tell off any adults for using their own free will to decide what is or isn't wise to do in their own lives and with their own bodies - as long as those premeditated decisions don't impact on anybody else's life, safety or mental/physical well-being or give them undue cause to feel threatened or frightened - and that the people actively making these decisions don't later try to use being drunk as a defence for their own pre-planned poor judgement (victims of spiked drinks and 'pranks' obviously excluded).
I agree that many of these tales are indeed amusing - although it's always worth bearing in mind that folk will often be laughing AT you rather than WITH you and that a single poor decision of this sort can dog you and your reputation very negatively for years to come, especially in the age of social media, viral videos and things posted online being accessible forever.
I personally don't drink alcohol for various reasons, although I genuinely don't judge those who do. I do make alternative poor eating choices more often than I should, so I'm certainly not the self-appointed healthy-food-and-drink police. I can well understand that people enjoy the pleasant feeling of relaxing, loosening up and getting 'merry' from a few drinks.
What I will never comprehend (and I may be the odd-one-out here or just a control freak) is what drives otherwise reasonably intelligent adults to plan ahead to deliberately get themselves into a position where they know they will seriously lose the ability to keep themselves safe. They actively decide in advance to 'toddlerise' themselves, likely end up wetting or defecating themselves in public and being 100% reliant on the goodwill of others - often also similarly smashed or complete strangers who could very easily take advantage; or the emergency services who have any number of more worthwhile things to be using their stretched professional (taxpayer-funded) time and resources on - to get them home safely and without any recollection of how this all actually happened (assuming that it indeed did). The big difference being, of course, that toddlers are expected to do this, know no better and therefore will always have a competent adult waiting there to protect them from themselves.
As I say, I honestly believe in live-and-let-live, and do find some of the harmless anecdotes very funny, but I really, genuinely would love to know what drives millions of people to regularly take things way, way too far, knowing full-well in advance that that is exactly what is going to happen and the very possible enduring consequences affecting their reputations, friendships and even livelihoods. Can anybody enlighten me?