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how much drink is to much

  • 18-08-2011 11:50pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭


    been havin a few beers every nite for the last 2 or 3 weeks, more than a few some nites :D
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    more than one at a time


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭GY A1


    can only handle one at a time :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 791 ✭✭✭Shreddingblood


    No such thing man. Bottoms up! Carpe Diem.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,851 ✭✭✭Cill Dara Abu


    GY A1 wrote: »
    been havin a few beers every nite for the last 2 or 3 weeks, more than a few some nites :D
    Have you a job?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,661 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    21 standard drinks a week is the boring answer (assuming you're a man).


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,844 ✭✭✭py2006


    Every day is too much!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭du Maurier


    GY A1 wrote: »
    been havin a few beers every nite for the last 2 or 3 weeks, more than a few some nites :D


    That's not a great trend really. You must be feeling like crap and with a groaning liver to boot!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭Fizman


    I recently drank for 17 consecutive nights. That was too much! To the point where over the course of the last few nights, I don't think I could get drunk.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭The Internet Explorer


    Sometime in June.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32 Wildebrian


    Fcuk me !! are you sure thats for a week ????????????????? Id be parched


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭gaz38979


    Im sorry i dont understand the question.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭LighterGuy


    I too drink well too much.
    Currently unemployed. That doesnt help. Its fu*ked up but in recent times I usually drink 5-6 times a week. thats well too much when I think about it. Borderling alcoholic.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    You've had a few beers every night for two weeks?

    OH. MY. GOD.!!!!!!

    Check yourself into the Betty Ford clinic now!!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭flag123


    "Itz neva enuff! - xXxChAvGurrLlxXx


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 390 ✭✭Nekro Man


    Pretty sure once you're on an airplane pissing on an 11 year old girls leg it's time to stop

    http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/08/11/Plane-passenger-urinated-on-sleeping-girl/UPI-19111313078959/


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭dundalkfc10


    never enough


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 810 ✭✭✭Laisurg


    Well it depends tbh, a lot of people in my family have a few glasses of wine every night and have done so for years and do just fine, probably not very healthy but certainly not bordering alcoholism as some people appear to think :eek: but more than once a week really would be too much for me but then again i only drink when i'm out so i'd usually get fairly pissed and feel absolutely awful the next day which puts me off doing it too often :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 314 ✭✭Shoelaces


    You got an ass that wont quit... 5 dollars? geyyt outta here...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 810 ✭✭✭Laisurg


    Shoelaces wrote: »
    You got an ass that wont quit... 5 dollars? geyyt outta here...

    ehhh? had a few tonight have we? :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 360 ✭✭greenmachine88


    I have a system that although I don't stick to every week is I feel the best thing to stick to, it consist of having beers at the start of the week, usually a few quiet one's on a Monday night, possibly some midweek beers, hit a bar after work on a Wednesday evening/night and then weekend beers which could be friday/saturday/sunday, at least it's not everyday otherwise it's too much


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭obplayer


    I had eighteen bottles of whiskey in my cellar and was told by my
    wife to empty the contents of each and every bottle down the sink, or
    else... I said I would and proceeded with the unpleasant task. I
    withdrew the cork from the first bottle and poured the contents down the
    sink with the exception of one glass, which I drank. I then withdrew the
    cork from the second bottle and did likewise with it, with the exception
    of one glass, which I drank. I then withdrew the cork from the third
    bottle and poured the whiskey down the sink which I drank. I pulled the
    cork from the fourth bottle down the sink and poured the bottle down the
    glass, which I drank. I pulled the bottle from the cork of the next and
    drank one sink out of it, and threw the rest down the glass. I pulled the
    sink out of the next glass and poured the cork down the bottle. Then I
    corked the sink with the glass, bottled the drink and drank the pour.
    When I had everything emptied, I steadied the house with one hand, counted
    the glasses, corks, bottles, and sinks with the other, which were
    twenty-nine, and as the houses came by I counted them again, and finally I
    had all the houses in one bottle, which I drank. I'm not under the
    affluence of incohol as some thinkle peep I am. I'm not half as thunk as
    you might drink. I fool so feelish I don't know who is me, and the
    drunker I stand here, the longer I get.

    Probably that many is about enough ;););)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭mcw92


    When you wake up naked, alone and confused!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    obplayer wrote: »
    I had eighteen bottles of whiskey in my cellar and was told by my
    wife to empty the contents of each and every bottle down the sink, or
    else... I said I would and proceeded with the unpleasant task. I
    withdrew the cork from the first bottle and poured the contents down the
    sink with the exception of one glass, which I drank. I then withdrew the
    cork from the second bottle and did likewise with it, with the exception
    of one glass, which I drank. I then withdrew the cork from the third
    bottle and poured the whiskey down the sink which I drank. I pulled the
    cork from the fourth bottle down the sink and poured the bottle down the
    glass, which I drank. I pulled the bottle from the cork of the next and
    drank one sink out of it, and threw the rest down the glass. I pulled the
    sink out of the next glass and poured the cork down the bottle. Then I
    corked the sink with the glass, bottled the drink and drank the pour.
    When I had everything emptied, I steadied the house with one hand, counted
    the glasses, corks, bottles, and sinks with the other, which were
    twenty-nine, and as the houses came by I counted them again, and finally I
    had all the houses in one bottle, which I drank. I'm not under the
    affluence of incohol as some thinkle peep I am. I'm not half as thunk as
    you might drink. I fool so feelish I don't know who is me, and the
    drunker I stand here, the longer I get.

    Probably that many is about enough ;););)

    Everyone loves a bad copy and paste joke.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 360 ✭✭greenmachine88


    mcw92 wrote: »
    When you wake up naked, alone and confused!


    ..on a golf course


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭obplayer


    Everyone loves a bad copy and paste joke.

    OK, so I didn't try very hard but not everyone has seen the joke.
    I did try hard the night in Manchester when I woke about 1 am under a bush. About 2 minutes from my flat. Probably had about enough that night, but the trick is to do it when you are young and grow out of it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭Jamie Starr


    Yellow sick.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    Depends really, when you stop being a functioning alcoholic thats too much I guess.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,116 ✭✭✭starviewadams


    When you wake up in a Garda cell or hospital with absolutely no recollection of how you got there.

    I've done both of the above and quit drinking for about year each after both episodes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,254 ✭✭✭overshoot


    or when you pass out by a bank.... count yourself lucky if you arent able to take out money


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 412 ✭✭janja


    21 standard drinks a week is the boring answer (assuming you're a man).
    God hate that! Thank god im not a man....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 357 ✭✭Steodonn


    Who wants to be sober anyway

    Up until a week ago I drank every day for almost a month but ran out of funds


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 809 ✭✭✭Ditch


    GY A1 wrote: »
    been havin a few beers every nite for the last 2 or 3 weeks, more than a few some nites :D


    Just carry on the way ye going .....

    By the time it's too late? Ye'll recognise that ~ in hind sight .....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,145 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    Not sure who said it, but I've always like this one - "If you can lie on the floor without holding on, you're sober enough".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Mammanabammana


    Anything that causes a problem IS a problem.

    If you're wondering if you're drinking too much OP, that means you probably are. People who aren't drinking too much never wonder if they are drinking too much. Simples. Ask yourself honestly if you're living a life, while drinking as much as you are, that's as good as (I don't mean the same as, but as good as) the life you'd be living if you weren't drinking. If you're not, then your drinking is becoming problematic. So what I suggest you do is cut back to one or two nights a week drinking, get out with friends to a cinema or for a bite to eat or to a coffee shop, or even just find out if you can enjoy your own company at home with the TV or at the computer, reading a book, whatever, without drinking. If you can do that and enjoy yourself without drinking, then your drinking is probably under control and you're ok.

    If, however, you can't do these things without wanting to drink, or without incorporating a visit to the pub into things, or without having a few drinks in the fridge to look forward to when you get home, then you might need to have a more serious look at your drinking patterns and take yourself in hand, if you can, before it's too late. There seems to be a tendency to use the phrase "problem drinker" as interchangable with "alcoholic". Personally I don't believe they're the same thing. It's my experience that most people, for one reason or another, go through a phase where they are problem drinkers, ie they drink too much. And most of those people finish that phase, get through whatever it is that caused that level of drinking, and normal service is resumed. But there's always the few that don't, for whom there is no way back. Drinking at home, drinking alone, drinking every day, drinking to excess on a regular basis without any real reason to do so - these would generally be accepted as warning signs that things aren't really as they should be.

    So my suggestion would be to sit down and look seriously and honestly at your drinking OP, look at the effect it's having on your life and those around you, perhaps ask your closer friends, the ones that are good enough friends to say the tough stuff when it needs to be said, if they see any changes in your behaviour - are you withdrawn, more isolated, perhaps your general mood has changed; often others can see things about us that we can't see ourselves. Only you can know honestly if it's too much and what needs to be done. Hopefully it'll all work out for you just fine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,739 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    I love drink, but I can only have one, two at the most...three I'm under the table, Four I'm under the host.

    I've been about 3/4 times a week for the past few months, getting completely hammered each time, I think I am nearing too much.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,254 ✭✭✭overshoot


    thought id give a more serious reply than last time,
    sometimes theres nothing better than a cold beer, nothing much wrong with having a few after a long day, especially if its stressfull or just heading out for a chat but if ya feel ya need that beer and cant do without maybe go off the stuff for a bit.

    ps its 21 units for a week, someone said before its 21 drinks. a shot is 1 unit, a pint is 2 units. all i say is i hope my liver can take a weeks supply and a bit in a night


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    There's a "too much drink" these days? When did this happen? You'd think twould have been on the news.....


    In the words of Father Ted:

    "More drink!!" "Wahey!!!"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭FunkZ


    I love drink, but I can only have one, two at the most...three I'm under the table, Four I'm under the host.

    I've been about 3/4 times a week for the past few months, getting completely hammered each time, I think I am nearing too much.

    Your liver probably has more holes than a block of cartoon cheddar cheese! :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    Personally, I think if you have a habit of getting shitfaced once every weekend then you're drinking too much. I just don't understand why people would want to waste their money doing that every weekend - it's senseless.

    The last drink I had was a small glass of diluted whiskey two weeks ago.

    Before that I hadn't consumed one ounce of alcohol in about 4 months.

    The most I've ever drank was about two years ago when I drank 5 pints of Bulmers, 5 shots of vodka, 1 pint of Guinness and 1 naggin of Jack Daniels. Never again, I couldn't remember a thing and I was covered in vomit.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ~Becktron


    Last Friday night, I had 2 naggins before we went out and 1 bottle of wine and then the same after, dunno about the club, I didnt count, but I was grand after. I know its too much, but it didnt leave me in a ditch anywhere or unable to remember anything, no vomiting or passing out. Had a brilliant night, I think its too much when you wake up somewhere and no idea where you are, covered in your own sick. On your own, if your with friends its grand, because it was probably somebody elses brilliant idea at the time and everyone followed. Good aul friends. What would you do..

    Oh and while your young and all that, if your always like "I need a drink" and your absolutely GASPING for one, then you should lay off for awhile. Or altogether, and if theres family history of alcoholism. Or any major addictions

    ITS THE WEEKEND! WOOOO!

    Find the drink that agrees with you, some people I know drink Vodka and know they shouldn't, but still continue to drink it and always get violent with some poor soul after or during nights out. Switch drinks if thats the case I think too.

    Tequila anyone? :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 516 ✭✭✭Lawlesz


    Woke up Sunday morning, in a police cell with no idea how i got there. Would not have been as bad in Ireland, but I live abroad, which is what was so frightening. Not enough to make me stop though, just one bad experience (among many others)...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    When you wake up with mud on your feet and blood on your balls.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Black puke the following day. Though vomitting blood halfway through the night is a probably a pretty bad sign as well I suppose.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    how much drink is too much?

    If you're out drinking and ordering a pint every 10 to 15 minutes, then you collapse and die, you should probably slow down the frequency of ordering to every 20 to 25 minutes after that.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    waking up walking into another bedroom and pissing on the wall thinking it's the bathroom,i'm sure everyone has done it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 648 ✭✭✭k4kate


    realies wrote: »


    Lot of people posting humerous answers but it is a serious issue.

    Thanks realies for posting that. Been a bit of a shocker for me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭Wattle


    When you get the 'staggers' it's time to stop. Just lie down in the street and wait for the cops or a good samaritan to bring you home.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Alter-Ego


    I varies from person to person and lifestyle to lifestyle.

    Personally I think it's time to cut back when you're sh1tting out your own liver?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭Funglegunk


    When your friends start making up ridiculous **** about what you did the previous night, stuff you'd never imagine yourself doing, and you're not sure if you did it or not.


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