[There's a moment where he quiets and frowns faintly. He missed most of his first year of university on various jobs, and came back to it five years later as a university student. Aside from which, he was never into drinking (although that certainly wouldn't stop him from having done something stupid).

Ah, alcohol, I should have guessed. I'm not sure about taping people to the wall, but I think you wouldn't be saying that if facebook had existed when I was younger. There was plenty of stupidity going around.