I just don't understand how someone can get THAT unbalanced when they're drunk.... I've been so drunk i've gotten alcohol poisoning many times before and i STILL don't get that bad.
I thought that too until I fell down a flight of stairs one time. To be fair somebody spilled a drink on the stairs and there was plastic on the stairs so very slippery. I'm glad I was drunk though. I could have been seriously hurt that night and not just the next morning.
Everyone reacts differently to different kinds of psycoactive substances, some get more disoriented than others, clearly you are one of those who does not get such a intense reaction to your inner ear
Had a "cantus" (I'm belgian, no idea what you call it in english if it exists, it's basically a group off students coming together singing songs and drinking untill they pass out) about 500 metres from my home. Had to crawl home