How often do you drink

Bobtheman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120177143#Comment_120177143

To be fair booze is something that should be done moderately and it doesn't agree with a lot of people.

I just think it's hard to socialise without it and some situations only thing to get you through!

Quitelife

Is numbers drinking going a bit like smoking ??

I remember when those that were giving up cigarettes were ridiculed but noticed quite a few people giving up alcohol in recent times and dont seem to be going back to it, more and more health articles citing Drinking as a factor in Cancer or Cardiovascular issues ?

brokenbad

My normal "drinking routine" would be as follows:

Mon - no drink

Tue - no drink

Wed - no drink

Thurs - 2 pints at home to "ease into the weekend"

Fri - 5 pints/cans at home

Sat - 5 pints/cans at home

Sun - 2-3 pints/cans at home

Would go to the local pub once or twice a month - typically would have 7 - 8 pints on average.

*Male age 47

Hooked

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120177325#Comment_120177325

"Thurs - 2 pints at home to "ease into the weekend""

GUILTY OF THIS! MANY TIMES... LOL

AndrewJRenko

A view from abroad - no safe amount of alcohol consumption

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/world/americas/canada-alcohol-health-guidelines.html

brokenbad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120175110#Comment_120175110

Was it Paddy Losty by any chance - the original "Pintman"

pauliebdub

I drink at home about twice a week about two or three pints, I've cut it down from four nights a week during covid.

I do like to get out and socialise in town maybe one a week for a few pints with friends usually on a weekday night, I dislike the city centre at weekends. Locally I occasionally go out to watch a match or have a meal with a pint.

It is a Dunne Deal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120175110#Comment_120175110

Would he take the shirt off any man's back?

Mad_maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120175184#Comment_120175184

Paddy Losty his name by any chance?

TheBlock

Male 50 I'd class myself as a Regular Drinker.

Never Drink at Home maybe one or two Cans at most on Christmas Day. I'm a pub drinker, like the company. The wife will come out for one or two with me the odd time but she prefers to have a bottle of wine at home with a good book or Netflix.

Mon - No Drink

Tue - No Drink

Wed - 5-6 Pints playing pool.

Thurs - Maybe one on the way home from work the odd time.

Fri - 5 - 6 Pints

Sat - Maybe a couple of Pints depending on how the kids games go and where we are playing could be between 2 - 5 sometimes none.

Sun - 2-3 Pints in the late afternoon.

Sometimes less than above if there's a lot on during the week and then again sometimes more if I'm out in town with the lads (one a month-ish).

Mad_maxx

Gluten intolerant so can’t drink most beers and the ones I can are mediocre so a lot less often than back in the day

CalamariFritti

Very infrequently. Maybe a pint or two with a meal once a week. The odd night out with a few more maybe once a month or so. A proper serious night out maybe 2 or 3 times a year. I'm in your age group.

P.S. I gave up cigs years ago and I'm happy about that, but tbh nights out just weren't the same after the smoking ban came in.

Mister Vain

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120177008#Comment_120177008

The pub in my village has been closed for a while and you just see people going home with bags of cans now. Everyone pretty much keeps to themselves.

screamer

I’d have a drink whenever I feel like it. I don’t have a problem with drinking, I’ve never been really drunk, and it’s about my only vice in life. Might get out to the pub once a month but much prefer a nice meal out tbh. Each to their own, drink is too demonised in Ireland.

yourdeadwright

At home 2 to 3 glasses of whiskey most Fridays & Saturday nights but not all,

Never drink anything week nights or Sunday & don't drink stout or larger at home

Once every 2 months i'll go out with the lads for about 6 pints & a few whiskeys,

Next month i have a stag to go to so that'll be 2 days of drinking ,

I'm 40 well almost

NiceFella

I had a parent that was an alcoholic so I try to be wary of my consumption.

I like the taste of a good beer and have tried the low alcoholic options (0.5%) and have to say I like them. Can drink around 3 of them and i'd feel relaxed enough.

I have tried to cut big sessions out completely but I'd say I could go heavy 1 to 2 times a month.

In the wind

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120175110#Comment_120175110

Is his name Paddy by any chance?

https://fb.watch/inzK0H96fn/

yourdeadwright

I have one mate who goes out every Friday & Saturday night, He's married with two kids m, great job & 41 ,

He's adamant that its his hobby & he loves just getting out to socialise, He heads out at about 8 when the kids are put to bed & heads home about 2,i find it a bit mad but whatever works for him i suppose,

I’d keel over if I went beyond 2 pints and I can’t drink beer, unless gluten free, so I usually drink my one to two ciders once a week and that’s it.

theteal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120177598#Comment_120177598

I might be going through a phase but that seems like a lot of gargle to me. My kids are 6 and 2 and there's not a chance I'd fancy a post 5+ pint head on me at 8 o'clock of a weekend morning. Once upon a time I may have thought that was "regular" but I must admit, I'm not longing to go back to those days.

nice bit of green

Since last summer, got it down from bottle of wine indoors every Friday and Saturdays to maybe once every 2 months. The urges have largely gone. Best decision ever.

Few friends my age also trying to reduce intake.

Male mid 40s.

saabsaab

As for the fella that says he had a rake of pints he may be spoofing but there are a few (some dead now) that did. One guy used to have 8 or nine in town then follow up with the same again in the next village and so on till he got home. He had more st home! I guess in your fifties your capacity goes down and if you keep it up it would shorten your life.

Me I probably drink about 3 times a week (usually no more that 6) and maybe once a month go on a lash with someone, not to get drunk but I'd lose count of how many. I would at times have wine or a whiskey at home too and it's easy to lose track and finish a bottle without being aware. I probably should cut back on the home drinking.

shane b

My attitude to drinking may be a bit strange to some. I dont get the whole drinking at home thing so i prefer to go to the pub for a pint although i dont go too often. Last drink I had was a christmas nite out with work in december.

Im 45 with 3 kids ranging in age from 2 - 8. The younger ones dont sleep that well at night so i could be up so in the midddle of the night at any stage. Its not fun doing if you have drink on board and the hangover if you have to get up at 6 am is not worth it. The only time I drink now are work functions or if im away from home. Also I dont have any drinking buddies or family in the area and I live about 4 km form the local pub. I cant see this trend changing in the next 10 years until my oldest learns to drive maybe.

On the other hand my younger brother who is 42, still goes for a few every friday nite and the odd saturday nite. He works in construction and has always gone for a few after work or on the way home. His wife does all the child care stuff on a friday and saturday so he has no need to be home or sober enough to bring kids to matches, training etc the next day.

iamstop

43 M here.

Mid week can be none or 1 to 3 cans. Usually once or twice. Friday and Sat are usually 3 to 6 pints/cans. I do love a can or two on a Sunday but I can sometimes over do it and it makes me feel shite on the Monday if I don't have the chance to sleep it off. I need to knock the Sunday drinks on the head. Feel a lot better in work on the Monday for it.

yourdeadwright

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120178357#Comment_120178357

I was the same for a very long time i never drank at home ever, As alcohol for me was just for social outings ,

Then during lock down i done it once or twice & it was nice to unwind, So now i will do it most Friday & Saturday night with the missus just to unwind when the kids are gone to bed, but only have whiskey as i will literally just have 1 or 2 & I'm done so i never over do it,

The way i see it is if i had a Guinness or larger id get the goo & wake up with a sore head,

Girl Geraldine

Erra I wouldn't be fond of dhirnking, but when i do go at it i'd go at it awful and very hard. I'd have 45 pints in about two hours. I'd have a packet of crips then and maybe a packet of peanuts and I'd go for probably, erra I'd have 10 more anyway. I'd get up the following morning then and Maureen would have the fry on. And I'd go at it again. And there'd be no fúckin' stopping me. I'd take the shirt off any man's back. Bastards.

Girl Geraldine

In all seriousness though, drinking culture has changed immeasurably from when I was a gasun. It is a different world now. People drink hardly a fraction of what they drank years ago. I am surprised that so many are drinking so little.

Back in my fathers day, it would have been the norm for fathers to drink in the pubs most nights of the week after work. This was before the day of when fathers became actively involved in raising children. If you weren't at work, you were in the pub and if you weren't in the pub, you were at work. It might be only Sunday a father would be at home with the family for mass and Sunday dinner. This was the reason pubs were closed on Sunday back in those day - so fathers would have to go home to their family.

I remember many times having to find my father or deliver a message to him (this being the 90's before the era of mobile phones). If it was the evening time we knew just to go to the pub to find him for whatever it was because that is where he would be after finishing his work.

I remember being a gasun of 7 or 8 and for while my mother was in hospital over a good chunk of the summer. I would go with my dad during the days to his work jobs (was a builder and carpenter) and I'd spend my evenings in the back of the local drinking man's pub, eating chips and drinking coke, at listening to all sorts of shíte. When going home time came, off we'd go driving home. And do it all again the next day. This would have been considered a normal upbringing at the time, but if it were to go on nowadays you'd probably have Tusla called on you.

I also remember times I'd go to school probably absolutely reeking of cigarette smoke, having spent the previous evening in a smoke filled drinking man's pub.

It was commonplace for a family of children to be sat at home in rags with their belly stuck to their back bones because the father had drank his wages or dole, or had not come home on Friday and was still AWOL on Monday. I won't say that was the norm, but it was common enough for it not to be considered all that unusual.

My uncle and few friends used to go on all weekend pub crawls of all the rural pubs scattered around the county - drunk driving from one pub to the next. Often of a Monday, they would hardly recall where they had been over the weekend, or when they eventually came home they might have damage to the car from a minor crash, and not have the faintest idea as to where/when or how it occurred. This was back in the 1970s and 80s.

Mister Vain

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120182156#Comment_120182156

That's true. I remember when I started my first job 20 years ago. Half the staff didn't show up on a Monday morning because they were too hungover. You'd never see that now. My niece is 18 now and hardly drinks at all. Her mother was a big drinker at that age.

yourdeadwright

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120182156#Comment_120182156

Unfortunately there are still people & families who live life like that now,

To call it common place is a stretch , it was the life of the unfortunate,

quokula

I did a lot of binge drinking in my 20s but grew out of it. Or maybe I just had kids and responsibilities, moving house to a different town a few years ago certainly contributed too, it was never a conscious decision to cut back but it just kind of happened and I don't really miss it. Met a friend recently who is doing dry January and was counting down the days to February. I'm not actively doing dry January, but I don't think I've actually had a drink this month anyway.

I'll still have a good few pints if I'm out but that's usually limited to things like weddings, Christmas parties or other occasions.