For people that drink every week, do you drink over the recomended allowance?

sxt

The reccomended "low risk" levels intake of alcohol in ireland per week is 17 units for men and 11 units for women.

http://www.drinkaware.ie/index.php

A glass of wine is approx 3 units

A pint of beer is approx 2 units


The drink tolerances of a 10 stone ,80 year old man and a 16 stone , 18 year old man would be night and day

Do these recomended allowances have any basis in fact?

nocoverart

I'd nearly always go out socially once or twice a week since my late teens right through my Twenties. I never believed in house drinking unless it's a party or some kind of occasion. Honestly and unfortunately in the last year or so I have got into the house drinking
phase where it's 4 or 5 cans almost every week night, so I'm really going to have a good chat with myself in the New Year.

3ndahalfof6

My study has shown their study is wrong.

im invisible

Id drink that in one sitting

sxt

I just wonder how conservative these guidelines actually are? Is there any evidence behind it?

Sar_Bear

Pffft God yeah

NedLowry

Where's the "I drink the same" option?

Dave!

Yes, and the rest

Pottler

I have altered their figures for "weekly" to read "daily" and am doing my best to abide by that. Somtimes I go over their "daily" limit though..

For Forks Sake

I'm drunk right now.

OP, what exactly did you expect to achieve with this thread?

Where To

I wish.

dodderangler

I seem to know when I'm done
So I'd go to let's say 4 pubs in town have a pint maybe two in each one
Go to nightclub and have bout 8 bottles maybe ten
And if I'm feelin a bit sick of have pint of water or stop drinkin

Shryke

These figures have no basis in fact and only exist as a guideline in happenstance if I may use the word. Random provisional guideline without fundamental understanding, which is more than a lot of our guidelines and laws are worth.

Tom_Cruise

The recommended allowance is to low for my liking, we should start a online petition and try and make them increase it.

LoonyLovegood

If I go out, I'll probably blow the weeks amount in one night. Don't go out too often though.

Pottler

Tom_Cruise wrote: »

The recommended allowance is to low for my liking, we should start a online petition and try and make them increase it.

I have a copy of some guidelines that say you can drink 12 pints of beer daily, or two bottles of wine, or 10 shots, daily. Who knew the Hells Angels issued guidelines?

Pherekydes

I love how they say you can only metabolise one unit of alcohol per hour regardless of 'soakage'.

Like a 17 stone rugby player can only metabolise the same amount as a 7 stone ballet dancer...

coolhull

I would drink the 'recommended amount' at home, then head off to the pub for a few pints,washed down with a few half-ones

bluecode

Apparently I drink too much. Didn't know it. As I have an annual medical whether I like it or not. I have to cut down. But to be fair the Doc did say I could start in January. But if I don't I'm out of a job. Can't say fairer than that.

Can't help feeling that it's all a bit much.

downwithpeace

Does the fact I'm drinking now effect the poll?

Smidge

bluecode wrote: »

Apparently I drink too much. Didn't know it. As I have an annual medical whether I like it or not. I have to cut down. But to be fair the Doc did say I could start in January. But if I don't I'm out of a job. Can't say fairer than that.

Can't help feeling that it's all a bit much.

Did they actually tell you that you'd be out of a job?
Out of curiosity, how do they know what you drink?

Emcm

A glass of wine is 3 units oh crap '!!!! I definitely go way over my units I don't go out much young kids and all that and only drink at weekends but I would easily drink a bottle of wine on a Friday and Saturday night watching a movie or whatever! That's the problem with wine once the bottle is open its so easy to finish it! I have already consumed 3/4 a bottle tonight !!!!

Pottler

Smidge wrote: »

Did they actually tell you that you'd be out of a job?
Out of curiosity, how do they know what you drink?

The whole turning up with a half finished liter of Johnnie Walker while loudly claiming that the Bosses wife was nothing but a durty hure and you were too good for this kip might have been a bit of a giveaway. That and the whole "forgetting to get dressed" and peeing in the corporate fountain while sporting 40% proof breath and a bright red nose. It's the little things that give it away.:D

gammygils

Why does everything in life have to be over analysed?

Just enjoy yer night out and yer few pints for fux sake!! :mad: :mad:

Smidge

Pottler wrote: »

The whole turning up with a half finished liter of Johnnie Walker while loudly claiming that the Bosses wife was nothing but a durty hure and you were too good for this kip might have been a bit of a giveaway. That and the whole "forgetting to get dressed" and peeing in the corporate fountain while sporting 40% proof breath and a bright red nose. It's the little things that give it away.:D

That sounds alarmingly like past personal experience

Pottler

Smidge wrote: »

That sounds alarmingly like past personal experience

No, but I did see another lad do pretty much the same! I quietly thought "ledge", but tut tutted with all the others:)

Stheno

Pottler wrote: »

No, but I did see another lad do pretty much the same! I quietly thought "ledge", but tut tutted with all the others:)

I was at a Christmas party where something similar happened, but it involved a very inebriated member of staff hitting on a senior managers wife repeatedly

They didn't remember an iota when they were hauled in for a disciplinary

At another two staff members got into a row and battered each other senseless, (broken nose and something else) and got suspended for a week

Smidge

Pottler wrote: »

No, but I did see another lad do pretty much the same! I quietly thought "ledge", but tut tutted with all the others:)

Would've paid good money myself to have seen that

areyawell

This just took the biscuit on that site. Everyone know the cure works. Out on a Saturday night absolutly hungover to bits on the Sunday. Down to the local for 2 or 3 pints, Sorted for the full day!

SO YOU THINK another drink will cure your shakes the morning after?
Think again.

Your body is going through withdrawal. DTs and the fear aren't exclusive junkie territory you know. Hair of the dog just prolongs the torture. Although in the short term you'll dampen down the shakes, the body ends up having more toxins to deal with and more severe effects will result. Shakes will become earthquakes.


One more beer might make you feel a bit better (for a little while) but the only hangover cure is time.

That's right - TIME! It takes your body roughly one hour to get rid of one standard drink - that's half a pint, or a small glass of wine or a shot. So unless you've invented a time machine you just have to wait this one out!

And if you've seriously got the shakes the morning after, you're heading to be way older before your time. If not already, next you'll have chronic dry skin, bloodshot eyes, broken veins, ulcers and turn into a moody arse - all before you've got a chance to wear a 'Life begins at 30' badge. Time to rethink your drinking.

Skerries

areyawell wrote: »

This just took the biscuit on that site. Everyone know the cure works. Out on a Saturday night absolutly hungover to bits on the Sunday. Down to the local for 2 or 3 pints, Sorted for the full day!

SO YOU THINK another drink will cure your shakes the morning after?
Think again.

Your body is going through withdrawal. DTs and the fear aren't exclusive junkie territory you know. Hair of the dog just prolongs the torture. Although in the short term you'll dampen down the shakes, the body ends up having more toxins to deal with and more severe effects will result. Shakes will become earthquakes.


One more beer might make you feel a bit better (for a little while) but the only hangover cure is time.

That's right - TIME! It takes your body roughly one hour to get rid of one standard drink - that's half a pint, or a small glass of wine or a shot. So unless you've invented a time machine you just have to wait this one out!

And if you've seriously got the shakes the morning after, you're heading to be way older before your time. If not already, next you'll have chronic dry skin, bloodshot eyes, broken veins, ulcers and turn into a moody arse - all before you've got a chance to wear a 'Life begins at 30' badge. Time to rethink your drinking.

coolhull

Like someone said earlier, don't overthink it. Go out, have a few pints or whatever, and let tomorrow take care of itself. It always does.

bluecode

Smidge wrote: »

Did they actually tell you that you'd be out of a job?
Out of curiosity, how do they know what you drink?

Blood tests show raised levels of some enzyme related to liver function.

Takes six weeks without drinking for it to go.

Odysseus

bluecode wrote: »

Apparently I drink too much. Didn't know it. As I have an annual medical whether I like it or not. I have to cut down. But to be fair the Doc did say I could start in January. But if I don't I'm out of a job. Can't say fairer than that.

Can't help feeling that it's all a bit much.

How will they know what you drink, this is based upon your own self-report yes?

brummytom

I'm a student...

Sunnyisland

stx wrote: »

The recommended "low risk" levels intake of alcohol in ireland per week is 17 units for men and 11 units for women.

http://www.drinkaware.ie/index.php

A glass of wine is approx 3 units

A pint of beer is approx 2 units


The drink tolerances of a 10 stone ,80 year old man and a 16 stone , 18 year old man would be night and day

Do these recommended allowances have any basis in fact?

TBH I have never met anyone yet who drinks alcohol who abides by the above study.

ceadaoin.

bluecode wrote: »

Blood tests show raised levels of some enzyme related to liver function.

Takes six weeks without drinking for it to go.

Well if its showing up in a blood test surely that means you are starting to suffer some liver damage as a result of drinking? Probably best you stop for a while even if it wasn't dependent on keeping your job

SEPT 23 1989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boeX9KtSvUA

this performance is the yardstick i use

Odysseus

realies wrote: »

TBH I have never met anyone yet who drinks alcohol who abides by the above study.

I have met a good few, however, in some cases it seemed quite obsessive. If you look at some quick assessment tools like the CAGE or TWEAK questionnaires I reckon that if you used those formats at a bus stop on a Monday morning most people would fail.