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Weekend Drinking = Alcoholic

  • 04-03-2012 8:09pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭luckyfrank


    I dont drink weekdays ever but i do enjoy drinking saterday and sunday and getting pissed im a merry drunk, but my other half nags the bollix out of me,im not out in the pub im at home, i provide for everything

    Do i deserve this ?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Does your OH drink with you? Do you have any kids?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    go down the pub and skull 10 pints, you wont notice her nagging after that


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


    If you can't go without drink then you are probably an alcoholic, if you simply choose not to go without drink then your OH is just being a cnut. It's your body, do as you please.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    luckyfrank wrote: »
    I dont drink weekdays ever but i do enjoy drinking saterday and sunday and getting pissed im a merry drunk, but my other half nags the bollix out of me,im not out in the pub im at home, i provide for everything

    Do i deserve this ?

    If you've kids you're a bit of a **** parent IMO. If you don't you're a bad husband/BF IMO. I wouldn't want anyone who's pissed all weekend.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    Your wife seems to be driving you to the pub, now don't do anything stupid like giving up the drink.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Alcoholic.

    'Alcoholic' is such a meaningless word made even more meaningless by people who use it to describe the drinking of people they know nothing about.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Immaculate Pasta


    OP - You're a disgrace. An absolute disgrace.

    No offence like :cool:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Tell her to whist

    You're the man of the house aren't you


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 433 ✭✭Rocky_Dennis


    token101 wrote: »
    If you've kids you're a bit of a **** parent IMO. If you don't you're a bad husband/BF IMO. I wouldn't want anyone who's pissed all weekend.

    He's a bad husband/boyfriend because he likes to go out and have a few pints at the weekend? If you work hard all week, are you not entitled to unwind at the weekend?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,432 ✭✭✭df1985


    are you saying you drink by yourself in the house OP?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    He's a bad husband/boyfriend because he likes to go out and have a few pints at the weekend? If you work hard all week, are you not entitled to unwind at the weekend?

    First of all he said he was staying in. If there's kids around that's disgusting IMO. A ****ing horrible example, saying its OK to get pissed all weekend. Getting pissed all day Saturday and Sunday isn't the same as having a few pints, and the OP said he was getting pissed. Doesn't really matter if you work or not.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 786 ✭✭✭Kurz


    Act like an actual alcoholic for a week. Maybe when you've a week off. Get up in the morning and top up your coffee with a naggen, then start on the beers at lunchtime. She'll soon be begging you to go back to your weekend beers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36 chucktesta


    If ye have kids she has a point, if not I dont see the problem assuming you are a merry drunk and not causing trouble and the likes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Bring home a lounge girl....that'll show her what she's missing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    chucktesta wrote: »
    If ye have kids she has a point, if not I dont see the problem assuming you are a merry drunk and not causing trouble and the likes

    Maybe she doesn't want a pisshead for a BF? She might be just saying calm down the drinking before she walks away.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭luckyfrank


    I do have kids but when i say im pissed it means im happy im not falling around the place, she drinks with me on saterday, i like having a few on sunday watching the sport and fall asleep in the chair

    BTW anyone mentioning kids needs a reality check, having a few drinks on the weekend doesnt make you a bad parent


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 433 ✭✭Rocky_Dennis


    token101 wrote: »
    First of all he said he was staying in. If there's kids around that's disgusting IMO. A ****ing horrible example, saying its OK to get pissed all weekend. Getting pissed all day Saturday and Sunday isn't the same as having a few pints, and the OP said he was getting pissed. Doesn't really matter if you work or not.

    I think if you work hard all week, then you're entitled to relax at the weekend whether that be having a few pints/drinks at home or going for a walk or playing cards or whatever it is that you're into.

    He said that he gets merry drunk so I take it he's not causing any trouble. He doesn't drink during the week, he limits his drinking to Saturday and Sunday. TBH, I don't see the problem with it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭M cebee


    how much drink


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭luckyfrank


    M cebee wrote: »
    how much drink

    12 cans of bulmers light spread throught the day


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭MungBean


    luckyfrank wrote: »
    I do have kids but when i say im pissed it means im happy im not falling around the place, she drinks with me on saterday, i like having a few on sunday watching the sport and fall asleep in the chair

    BTW anyone mentioning kids needs a reality check, having a few drinks on the weekend doesnt make you a bad parent

    Do you live in a housing estate, draw the dole, drink cans and support Arsenal ?. If the answer is yes then your a dole scrounging scummer alcoholic and your kids will probably grow up to be junkies.

    If not then your just drinking to numb the pain of a life you never wanted, kids that you hate and a wife that you dont love any more. If the nagging is getting to ya increase the dose of sport and beer until the amount of a shít you give decreases to a manageable level.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 429 ✭✭johnners2981


    So you sit at home getting pissed on your 'own'?

    Getting pissed with your friends is great craic, but on your own with kids in the house? She might have a point


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 433 ✭✭Rocky_Dennis


    luckyfrank wrote: »
    12 cans of bulmers light spread throught the day

    I'm not fighting your case anymore. I can see why she is nagging you :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 902 ✭✭✭DoneDL


    luckyfrank wrote: »
    I dont drink weekdays ever but i do enjoy drinking saterday and sunday and getting pissed im a merry drunk, but my other half nags the bollix out of me,im not out in the pub im at home, i provide for everything

    Do i deserve this ?

    So, on the two days a week that you should be spending time together you go to the pub? Bit of an own goal, oh and you`re not living up to your username.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭M cebee


    luckyfrank wrote: »
    M cebee wrote: »
    how much drink

    12 cans of bulmers light spread throught the day

    im no saint either
    she has a legitimate complaint
    could you drink at nite instead and do some stuff with kids daytime


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    luckyfrank wrote: »
    I do have kids but when i say im pissed it means im happy im not falling around the place, she drinks with me on saterday, i like having a few on sunday watching the sport and fall asleep in the chair

    BTW anyone mentioning kids needs a reality check, having a few drinks on the weekend doesnt make you a bad parent

    You're drinking 12 cans on a Saturday afternoon with kids in the house and I need a reality check?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭luckyfrank


    12 cans is nothing

    and i do spend time with my kids when i have a few playing cod now with my son, creepy the way MungBean knew i supported arsenal, already watched hells kitchen on sky plus and booked in to watch true blood at 10 with other half i feel im being persiecuted


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36 chucktesta


    12 cans of cider during the day? Jaysus, i retract my earlier post!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭luckyfrank


    unless its me 12 cans of bulmers light is nothing, wine/spirits will leave you fooked, i dont know lads must get drunk easily these days


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    luckyfrank wrote: »
    unless its me 12 cans of bulmers light is nothing, wine/spirits will leave you fooked, i dont know lads must get drunk easily these days

    How do you know 12 cans is nothing? What's the most you've ever drank?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 roisinsotoole


    I wonder if she was doing what u are would reaction be the same!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    luckyfrank wrote: »
    12 cans is nothing

    and i do spend time with my kids when i have a few playing cod now with my son, creepy the way MungBean knew i supported arsenal, already watched hells kitchen on sky plus and booked in to watch true blood at 10 with other half i feel im being persiecuted

    Jesus. You asked for an opinion. You really don't see anything wrong with drinking away on a Sunday evening as you're spending time with your children? If you do and can't stop get professional help. If you don't and probably could stop, then listen to your partner and cop the **** on.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭luckyfrank


    TheZohan wrote: »
    How do you know 12 cans is nothing? What's the most you've ever drank?

    Well once i drank all the water in the sea and swam all the way to italy but thats another story, i can drink 12 get up 2moro and function, little bit bitchy other boardsies, he is without sin cast the first stone, im a good guy i like my few drinks at the weekend, my mates are out all night most weekends and i know they arent faithful, and here's me a family man getting s/hit for a having a few at the weekend

    Something not right there


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    luckyfrank wrote: »
    Well once i drank all the water in the sea and swam all the way to italy but thats another story, i can drink 12 get up 2moro and function, little bit bitchy other boardsies, he is without sin cast the first stone, im a good guy i like my few drinks at the weekend, my mates are out all night most weekends and i know they arent faithful, and here's me a family man getting s/hit for a having a few at the weekend

    Something not right there

    12 cans each day over the weekend is a crate of Bulmers...12 litres. Maybe your g/f is looking out for you, they generally don't bitch and moan unless there's something up or they have endocrine problems. Are there any alcoholics in your family?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭luckyfrank


    TheZohan wrote: »
    12 cans each day over the weekend is a crate of Bulmers...12 litres. Maybe your g/f is looking out for you, they generally don't bitch and moan unless there's something up or they have endocrine problems. Are there any alcoholics in your family?

    me da, functioning though and he has to drink i choose too


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 roisinsotoole


    luckyfrank wrote: »
    TheZohan wrote: »
    How do you know 12 cans is nothing? What's the most you've ever drank?

    Well once i drank all the water in the sea and swam all the way to italy but thats another story, i can drink 12 get up 2moro and function, little bit bitchy other boardsies, he is without sin cast the first stone, im a good guy i like my few drinks at the weekend, my mates are out all night most weekends and i know they arent faithful, and here's me a family man getting s/hit for a having a few at the weekend

    Something not right there[/Quote. Sorry but a family man puts family before booze. When a member of family is not happy because of alcohol then u need to grow up, leave ur drinks until kids in bed


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    luckyfrank wrote: »
    Well once i drank all the water in the sea and swam all the way to italy but thats another story, i can drink 12 get up 2moro and function, little bit bitchy other boardsies, he is without sin cast the first stone, im a good guy i like my few drinks at the weekend, my mates are out all night most weekends and i know they arent faithful, and here's me a family man getting s/hit for a having a few at the weekend

    Something not right there

    What have your friends got to do with it? You're getting pissed up all weekend in front of your kids, but that's OK because your friends are cheating on their partners? That just makes them cnuts, it doesn't make you right FFS!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,090 ✭✭✭livinsane


    If you're doing it every week, you're drinking too much. Its grand when you're young and single but if you're living with a partner and have kids, you have to go without drink during the day. Just keep it to the night time and have proper nights out once in while rather than cheap nights/days in all the time.

    Kids are well wise to adults when alcohol is involved. I hated it when I was a kid and my parents had drink on them. It was fine when it was a proper night out and you knew they were out together in the pub, but when they were around the house during the day after drink, I used to hate it. Fecking eejits trying to play with you and they half pissed. My grandfather used to go around the house on all fours giving the kids horsey rides, but he was so drunk that he'd end up throwing you off half way!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    If your drinking 12 litres of Cider (not Cidre :mad:)* every weekend then I hope you are partial to cirrhosis of the liver. :)



    *You should try Stella Artois Cidre. It's lovely. And Bulmers Spiced Apple and Honey.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    luckyfrank wrote: »
    12 cans of bulmers light spread throught the day
    No, how much do you drink? Not your wife.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    No, how much do you drink? Not your wife.
    Fecking Ribena just shot out me nose, nice one :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    Fecking Ribena just shot out me nose, nice one :D

    Are you 4 years old?:) I drink Ribena too!!!!!!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    luckyfrank wrote: »
    me da, functioning though and he has to drink i choose too

    Right so Frank. Your da is an alcoholic and you spend all day Saturday and Sunday boozing(not going mental on it, drinking 12 cans each day). Now can you see why your g/f might be a bit narky with you? Alcoholics don't start off drinking 7 days a week Frank, they build up to it. Have you considered giving up the booze for say two weekends or maybe a month to prove to your missus that you're OK? I'm sure she's worried about you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 888 ✭✭✭cbreeze


    luckyfrank wrote: »
    I dont drink weekdays ever but i do enjoy drinking saterday and sunday and getting pissed im a merry drunk, but my other half nags the bollix out of me,im not out in the pub im at home, i provide for everything

    Do i deserve this ?

    Go to the pub, do this with friends and take Mrs luckyfrank with you [get a baby sitter] - you are working hard during the week and fairrplay for not imbibing Monday to Friday - but enjoy the weekends and the family


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    I think, like most here, I was with you until you said twelve pints in a day. Twelve pints of Bulmers Light is almost a full bottle of vodka, weight-for-weight.
    700ml of 40% vodka = 280 ml of alcohol.
    12 x 4.5% B. Light = 270ml of alcohol.
    Halve that and you'd be closer to normal. Even that wouldn't be most people's normal, but it's conceivable.
    Maybe you have a wooden leg, maybe you're in denial - that's a lot of drink.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    grindle wrote: »
    I think, like most here, I was with you until you said twelve pints in a day. Twelve pints of Bulmers Light is almost a full bottle of vodka, weight-for-weight.
    700ml of 40% vodka = 280 ml of alcohol.
    12 x 4.5% B. Light = 270ml of alcohol.
    Halve that and you'd be closer to normal. Even that wouldn't be most people's normal, but it's conceivable.
    Maybe you have a wooden leg, maybe you're in denial - that's a lot of drink.

    Most vodka is 37.5%, it's only the likes of Smirnoff Black label or Absolut blue that are 40%.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    TheZohan wrote: »
    Most vodka is 37.5%, it's only the likes of Smirnoff Black label or Absolut blue that are 40%.

    Maybe, never buy vodka outside of a duty-free nowadays.
    Okay... There's 8ml less alcohol in a bottle of normal Smirnoff.
    Even worse.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,943 ✭✭✭wonderfulname


    When you said 6 litres of bulmers over the day I wasn't overly concerned about the alcohol content there, I could do that over a day easy, I wouldn't do it every week now mind you, a couple of times a year is closer, but I could manage it and not get drunk. It's the nutrition issues that freak me out there, 1700 liquid calories you go through in a Saturday, assuming it's light and not original (double that if it is), that's just gross man...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭M cebee


    When you said 6 litres of bulmers over the day I wasn't overly concerned about the alcohol content there, I could do that over a day easy, I wouldn't do it every week now mind you, a couple of times a year is closer, but I could manage it and not get drunk. It's the nutrition issues that freak me out there, 1700 liquid calories you go through in a Saturday, assuming it's light and not original (double that if it is), that's just gross man...

    the effect on kids and partner are primary concern


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,943 ✭✭✭wonderfulname


    M cebee wrote: »
    the effect on kids and partner are primary concern

    I know, but you already addressed that, just giving the OP one more incentive...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭TanG411


    If you don't drink then you're also assumed to be an alcoholic. :(


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