Why drinking is more important when biting off the tip of your tongue

So I enjoy drinking. I would say drinking in excess, but that can be defined in a lot of different ways. How much is excess? You could say when you start to get a buzz, loosen up a little, when you start speaking too loudly, lose control of bodily fluids, lose consciousness, and they would all be good choices. I ‘m going to say that biting off the tip of my tongue is when I should start slowing down. Now it’s not like I haven’t bit my tongue before completely sober, but never the tip. And to think that was after 2 drinks. God only knows how much tongue would have been left had I decided to keep trying to eat, and drink. Typing and body language could have ended up as my only viable methods of communication.
Needless to say I stopped eating at that point and focused on drinking. After all, you’ll die from lack of fluid much quicker than from lack of food, so drinking is a lot more important. And you may argue that they are talking about water, and not alcohol, but as a staunch supporter of the bible, I think Jesus is a little smarter than all of us and he turned water into wine. Of course you could also say that was for a wedding celebration and not for surviving, but I would just say to you, the whole damn book is a metaphor for life and the wedding represents an end to happiness, sex, dreams, and goals, and for anyone to survive that, Jesus is teaching us, they must drink!