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How much can you drink?

  • 12-04-2014 2:28pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26


    Was out with a friend last night and he drank 15 pints of Bud in 3 hours,(Yes I was counting),but he walked out the same way he walked in.Now he's a big man weight wise but there no way I'd drink that amount in one day.So how much alcohol can you consume?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,955 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    I don't think Budweiser counts as drink does it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,443 ✭✭✭MonstaMash


    Enough to make me happy, not enough to kill me...

    Your friend is a fool, his liver won't last long drinking like that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,903 ✭✭✭Blacktie.


    Enough


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    Once I get to my fourth pint I just hit a wall. I literally cannot stomach anymore than that. And I wouldn't even be that drunk, I just feel too full.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,042 ✭✭✭zl1whqvjs75cdy


    I used to be way better in my student days. Now I'd be feeling it after 3 pints, drunk after 5 and on my arse after 7.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,362 ✭✭✭K4t


    Too much


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    I can drink a bottle of wine and be drunk, but I can drink vodka like water and not get past tipsy!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    I am a lightweight. Skinny and short arse. Had maybe 4 or 5 cans last night and I was well on my way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 Gheebag


    I drank 6 pints in the same amount of time and I'm still suffering


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭SamAK


    4-5 pints over as many hours and I wobble home. Any more than that and **** gets messy.

    Being overly drunk has to be one of the unpleasant highs of any drug.


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  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Depends on loads of things. How much I've eaten, how tired I am, what I'm drinking etc.

    Smithwicks is only 3.8% but fcuks me right up. Can drink a bottle of white wine with dinner and be fairly ok, merry just. Two weeks ago I had a half pint of leffe before eating dinner and it went straight to my head. Didn't have anything else to drink til I ate. Last Friday had a glass of red wine and an actifed tablet (clever girl) and was unconscious on the sofa within half an hour :o

    Your friend might have looked ok but his insides are crying I bet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    My cut off for pints is 5 and importantly not necking them or the cut off comes sooner. I'll then slowly have a few gin and tonics over the rest of the night.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    Thing as well is the type of drink too, it will effect your feeling of getting drunk. For me I think cans/pints obviously makes me very full and I can feel my body trying to process the sheer AMOUNT of the crap as well as the actual alcohol. That has an effect on overall feeling imo.,


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭J_E


    To be honest I don't like to test my limits if possible, there's a point of drunkenness where I feel a little out of control that I've hit twice and I really hate it. Usually caused by drinking too much whiskey.

    After a few glasses of wine, or about 4-5 pints, or a few cocktails/spirits, that's when it's the time to stop for me or at least break with water.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,419 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    bluewolf wrote: »
    Really? Really?

    I thought that myself , so I did some adding , division etc and figured out OPs friend had a pint every twelve minutes .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 Gheebag


    I thought that myself , so I did some adding , division etc and figured out OPs friend had a pint every twelve minutes .

    Yes we went in at 10 and left at 1.15.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Not even enough to get drunk. After two or maybe three pints, I just feel completely full. It's really annoying when you physically can't drink any more (for fear of it coming straight back up) and somebody puts a pint in front of you, and calls you a "lightweight" for not being able to drink it. I find it kind of sad when people take pride in the volume of liquid they can consume.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭J_E


    RayM wrote: »
    It's really annoying when you physically can't drink any more (for fear of it coming straight back up) and somebody puts a pint in front of you, and calls you a "lightweight" for not being able to drink it. I find it kind of sad when people take pride in the volume of liquid they can consume.
    They're morons, got to call out that sort of ****e.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    How much I've eaten

    Food intake is a definite helper. At a wedding my cut off goes exponentially up. Those bread rolls are handy for something. :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,223 ✭✭✭orangesoda


    a fair amount of soda, have drunk 5 litres in a day once


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Enough.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    Yea c'mon like unless your real young (up to early 20's) ye should be in a place where ye can actually just say piss off to any genuine lightweight talk. If someone actually held that opinion seriously I'd be inclined to think there is probably better company available somewhere.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Yea c'mon like unless your real young (up to early 20's) ye should be in a place where ye can actually just say piss off to any genuine lightweight talk. If someone actually held that opinion seriously I'd be inclined to think there is probably better company available somewhere.

    I very rarely go to pubs, but at some point I usually hear someone being casually called a "lightweight". There's never any malice in it - it's just a throwaway, jokey term - usually aimed at someone who decides to go home at 10 because they have to get up for work the next morning, or someone who orders a glass instead of a pint. It's just weird that the term is ever used in that context. I mean, a couple of pints of any liquid within a couple of hours is quite a lot - unless you've just run a marathon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    id have 15 pints no problem,20 even,but not in 3 hours.There was a similar thread a while back and i got slated for saying same.There is either a lot of lightweights that post here or a lot of liars :) Google. 'Andre the giant drinking habits' if you want to see some frightening stats. They guy was a legend when it came to the noble art of getting thrashed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    3.50


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76 ✭✭anotherposter


    not as much these days as i used to be able to :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭SamAK


    id have 15 pints no problem,20 even,but not in 3 hours.There was a similar thread a while and i got slated for saying same.There is either a lot of lightweights that post here or a lot of liars :) Google. 'Andre the giant drinking habits' if you want to see some frightening stats. They guy was a legend when it came to the noble art of getting thrashed.

    Aren't you the big man for being such a 'heavyweight'.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭Jumboman


    12 pints is the most I've ever drank in one sitting.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    SamAK wrote: »
    Aren't you the big man for being such a 'heavyweight'.

    its called pacing yourself


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Depends on what I'm drinking and if I've eaten anything first. Usually I drink spirits with a lot of mixer in and I'd probably have maybe 5 or 6 gin and tonics on a Saturday night, at home. Though I wouldn't force myself to drink it, I'd often end up pouring a drink down the sink before bed instead of downing it for the sake of drinking it.

    On the very rare occassions that I'd go on a real binge, it scares me how much I can drink while being relatively sober. I drank a lot and mixed my drinks when I was between 18 and mid 20's. Once you get into your 30's it's harder to recover from a hangover, and you get a bit more sensible.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,294 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    Gheebag wrote: »
    Was out with a friend last night and he drank 15 pints of Bud in 3 hours,(Yes I was counting),but he walked out the same way he walked in.Now he's a big man weight wise but there no way I'd drink that amount in one day.So how much alcohol can you consume?

    That's a pint every 12 minutes. That's impressive, not because its a lot of alcohol but because Bud is so vile I'm surprised anyone would want to drink that much of it, it also cost him about €70.

    To be honest I have absolutely zero interest in discovering the limits of my alcohol intake. That sort of thing usually ends in a trip to the hospital or lots of vomit followed by passing out. Id say the most I've ever drank is a bottle of buckfast followed by a few cans. I remember nothing from that night so I usually just have the bottle before going into town and nothing else.

    The most I've ever seen anyone drink is 2 bottles of tulamore dew in about 6 hours. He ended up in hospital.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    MadYaker wrote: »
    a bottle of buckfast followed by a few cans.
    always a recipe for disaster.The guy with the tullamore dew was lucky that it was only the hospital he had to go to and not the graveyard


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭Cantremember


    its called pacing yourself

    No. It's called fooling yourself.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭D1stant


    Gheebag wrote: »
    Yes we went in at 10 and left at 1.15.

    So does your friend have the power of speech, because a pint every 12 minutes for 3 hours... A man of few words?

    Jesus the point of going to the pub is to socialise, not to gorge


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    About 6 shots (or single vodkas and diet coke), 4 or 5 pints and a glass of wine.

    That's enough to get me **** faced drunk, without a raging hangover the next day. I'd be seriously drunk, but not too drunk to prevent me getting home safely. That'd be after a dinner, though. On an empty stomach, two glasses of wine and I'm drunk.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭PLL


    When I was 19 and a student a regular night was about 8 pints of bulmers followed by double vodkas until I went home, I was never sick and remember all the nights out unless I had done shots.

    Now a mother, 4 pints of bulmers and I am talking absolute sh**e, looking for a burger then my bed :-)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    No. It's called fooling yourself.

    so you've never spent the whole day in a pub? 15 pints over the course of a day is no biggy, and so what if its 70 or 80 quid if your in the right place in the right company its well worth it.Spending 70 or 80 on pints in three hours is just gluttony though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 Gheebag


    D1stant wrote: »
    So does your friend have the power of speech, because a pint every 12 minutes for 3 hours... A man of few words?

    Jesus the point of going to the pub is to socialise, not to gorge

    Ye,there wasn't s bother on his speech


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    I'd also do twenty pints on a special occasion like a funeral or St Patricks Day. Last Patricks Day I had my first pint at 2pm and was still drinking at 4am. I'm fairly all or nothing when it comes to a session


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,955 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    Gheebag wrote: »
    I drank 6 pints in the same amount of time and I'm still suffering
    Are you sure he drank them? Back in the day there was a strange phenomenon known as "shadow drinking" where someone would deliberately spill some of their drink when no one else was looking so as to make it appear that they had drunk more than they really did. They might also let on they had a swift one at the bar while they were waiting on a pint or downed a few while you were in the bog.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,165 ✭✭✭Savage Tyrant


    8 pints is the norm of a night out followed by a hefty hangover.
    10 pints from time to time will result in a dying hangover.
    12/14 pints over a day out (wedding, christening) will make me, an atheist, pray to god for the sweet sweet release of death the following day.

    The above is for lager usually Heineken or carlsberg ..... Pint bottles of Guinness is a totally different matter... 6 is pissed, 8 is fućked and 10 has me inside out and being sick when I get home.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    Thing as well is the type of drink too, it will effect your feeling of getting drunk. For me I think cans/pints obviously makes me very full and I can feel my body trying to process the sheer AMOUNT of the crap as well as the actual alcohol. That has an effect on overall feeling imo.,

    I'm the same. That's why I hate weddings and Christmas parties because there is usually a large meal followed by a few pints, so I just get full very quickly. I actually can't eat and drink at the same time. A lot of people would have a glass of wine or a pint with their dinner but I could never do that. Is has to be one or the other. I can't drink on a full stomach.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,905 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Next to nothing..seriously. I could drink a can of Guinness and have a hangover the next day, and I fcuking hate hangovers.

    Most Saturday nights I drink a single can of bulmers and I'm happy enough with that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    Always a greater tolerance on the day of the cure it has to be said. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Are you sure he drank them? Back in the day there was a strange phenomenon known as "shadow drinking" where someone would deliberately spill some of their drink when no one else was looking so as to make it appear that they had drunk more than they really did. They might also let on they had a swift one at the bar while they were waiting on a pint or downed a few while you were in the bog.

    Dean Martin supposedly was like that, he'd throw out his drink when nobody was looking. He socialised with big drinkers like Humphrey Bogart and Spencer Treacy so I think that's where the legend of him being a lush came from.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,838 ✭✭✭✭3hn2givr7mx1sc


    700ml bottles of spirits were a regular enough thing for pre-drinking before I left college. Looking back now it was fairly retarded! Managed a litre of vodka once, don't know how I didn't puke everywhere.

    About 12 pints would be my limit. More to do with the insane bloating than the drunkenness.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,247 ✭✭✭shamrock55


    I dont know how much it takes to get me drunk, but id need to be spending 100 euro to have a good night out


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    It has been said to me that I am some girl to drink, wouldn't be a massive drinker but if on a rare night out I do tend to enjoy myself, usually starts out with a few pints of Guinness, then spirits and shots and often a few cans back at a house party, don't really get hangovers, it's just a lack of sleep that gets to me.

    Most of the time a few bottles of ginger beer a chat or a movie and I'm happy, haven't been out since January and no plans to either, I like going out but only every once in a while, I don't think I've ever even been out twice in a month, go out maybe 5-6 times a year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭Lawrence1895


    Quite a lot :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭ardle1


    SFA..... And most people are the same, they just think they can drink 'loads', and they're grand.... lol lol :rolleyes:


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