How much do you drink?

fischerspooner

I was just wondering how much the average Irish person drinks. At the moment I'm drinking beer every night, because it really helps me relax and I enjoy it so much. Here's my beer breakdown

Monday - 2 Cans
Tuesday - 2 Cans
Wednesday - 2 Cans
Thursday - 3 Cans (nearer the weekend, I get excited)
Friday/Saturday - One of those nights I usually binge, and the other night I just have maybe 5/6 beers
Sunday - Few recovery pints

I'm just worried that I might be an alcoholic or something. I mean I'm pretty fit and healthy, but I just really like beer, all kinds. I'm 25. My flatmates are just as bad as me. Are we alone?

toiletduck

no you're not alone, most of my friends and I would be the same.

petes

Mainly drink at the weekends and have loads. This week from Sunday so far I have had the following.


Sunday - 6 bottles of miller, a bottle of wine and 2 pints
Monday - 5 pints
Tuesday - 3 pints and a bottle of win
Wednesday - Nothing
Thursday - Will have a few tonight Id say


Im 25 too.

The Bollox

I generally just drink on the weekend, but I do like to get gee-eyed on those three magical days, it really depends what I'm drinking. I mean it's after work, so the second pint o' the balck stuff has be fairly gone (I work in a bar) and after there we go to one of the lads gaff's and finish up there, wandering home at 6:00 or so

the_syco

Only in Ireland, this is OK. Anywhere else, you'd be an alcho:eek::rolleyes:

Dr. Loon

I had 8 beers last night... too much. Usually have a 6 pack on a Thursday. Couple of beers and a bottle of wine, or half bottle of vodka on Friday. Same again on Saturday, and about 4 Guinness on a Sunday. Try not to drink Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Still.... it's all too much. Hangovers are gettin' worse as I get older too.

Dave

I wouldn't drink that much during the week. Maybe a can before I go to bed every now and again, but I would have a joint most nights.

fischerspooner

oh man I'm cracking up here, this is brilliant, we're all a bloody drunken disgrace!!! I thought I was alone!! The reason this is an issue with me now, is because I've been going out with a girl from germany for about 6 months, and she thinks I "have a drinking problem". When I really don't, I'm only drunk about once a week, the rest is just for enjoyments sake. I consider myself a connesieur (wrong I know) of beer. Lately I've been drinking cans of Becks, the best canned beer in ireland in my opinion. I took two trips to germany this year and the beer there is just amazing, especially in Bavaria. Try Augustiner Helles if you ever get a chance, but I don't think they export it.

Tobias Greeshman

Usually get well plastered at the weekends, and have a few cans during the week as well. Last night I had just the one can, but I might have a few tonight, I mean there's five cans of ice cold beer in my fridge cant just leave them there...

Normally I'd have about four cans a week, other times I'd just do without completely, really depends on the humour Im in, though dunno If I could last a weekend without alcohol though! Only in Ireland eh!

Alkers

Monday: 0
Tuesday: 0
Wednesday: 5
Thursday: 0
Friday: 8+
Saturday: 8+
Sunday: 0
Bank holidays etc. up the Sunday count up to 8+

cornbb

Dave wrote:

I wouldn't drink that much during the week. Maybe a can before I go to bed every now and again, but I would have a joint most nights.

Same here. i'd drink the odd bottle the odd night and maybe a few pints at the weekend but spliffs are my real vice. Can't remember the last time I had more than 4-5 drinks in the one night.

Kingsize

i used to drink 5 nights a week (at least 3 cans too)
Hardly ever drink anymore although skulled back an unhealthy amount at oxegen!!!!
still got the beer belly though

Skitbra

You are not alone! I drink most days. It doesn't matter to me what night I drink. I can usually find other people the join me. Sunday is usually the day that I don't drink though. But so far this week i've been drinking Mon Tues and Weds. Tues and Weds I wasn't home till 3 or so after drinking all evening. Friday and Sat I shall be drinking lots as well. Enjoy it while you're young. People say that you'll have problems with your liver but thats nonsense. Liver cysts and cancer are very rare. Its only severe alcos drinking bottles of volka and whiskey that have problems in my experience.

KTRIC

Recently I've been having 1 or 2 bottles in the evening. And I thought that was bad.

Wavey

I would be the same, 3-4 Monday- Wed. Maybe 5 on Thursday and and 2 or 3 eight packs of Carslberg over the W'end.
Im 26.

CerebralCortex

Monday: 0
Tuesday: 0
Wednesday: 0
Thursday: 0
Friday: 0
Saturday: 0
Sunday: 0

Skitbra

You're great.

ixoy

Going back the last week it was umm
Thursday: 0
Friday: 4...
Saturday: 0
Sunday: 0
Monday: 5
Tuesday: 0
Wednesday: 2

.. but most of the time I wouldn't drink anything mid-week. Prefer my fizzypop, such as Coke, in the evenings. I don't bother playing catchup either at the weekend.

Kingp35

I only really drink at the weekends now but I usually get absolutely plastered and stumble home about 6 in morning. Ill go out the occasional weekday or have a couple of cans playing poker with the lads but i usually wouldnt drink during the week.

I play for a soccer and a gaelic team so i gotta keep myself fit which is hard if your locked all the time. Its hell playing a match on a sun morn after a night on the sauce

Kernel

Friday: 8-10 pints of Fosters, 2 Jamaican black rum & blacks.
Saturday: 10 pints of lager, 3 tequilas, 2 kamikazes, 3 Sambucas, 2 aftershocks, 2 large bottles of tiger beer.
Sunday: 2 large bottles of bulmers, 6-10 pints Fosters.
Monday: 6 pints curer.

The other days would just be meths or buckfast down the lane.

petes

Kernel wrote:

Friday: 8-10 pints of Fosters, 2 Jamaican black rum & blacks.
Saturday: 10 pints of lager, 3 tequilas, 2 kamikazes, 3 Sambucas, 2 aftershocks, 2 large bottles of tiger beer.
Sunday: 2 large bottles of bulmers, 6-10 pints Fosters.
Monday: 6 pints curer.

The other days would just be meths or buckfast down the lane.

I always laugh at this. So on Sturday you are saying you had 22 drinks and were still able to count them.

seamus

fischerspooner wrote:

I'm just worried that I might be an alcoholic or something. I mean I'm pretty fit and healthy, but I just really like beer, all kinds. I'm 25. My flatmates are just as bad as me. Are we alone?

That your flatmates are doing it aswell, certainly bodes a little better for you. Is it just a routine that you've fallen into now, or would you all feel a little weird if you weren't having a few beers watching the TV at night? Do you bother drinking if everyone's gone out, and you're on your own?

I'd only drink on a Saturday night or a Friday if there's an occasion. Drinking during the week would upset my sleep, and would render incapable of doing anything bar watching tv that night (my brain switches off from the ability to do functional things once I touch alcohol).

irlirishkev

In the last week:

Thursday - Pints of Guinness in the local, can't remember how many.
Friday - Many pints of bulmers, Some champagne, Bacardi and coke.
Saturday - 2 bulmers, 2 guinness in the afternoon, then 5 bulmers in the evening.
Sunday - Sangria, Margueritas, Cans of bulmers
Monday - few cans of Bavaria Crown (I like the stuff)
Tuesday - 5 pints of Guinness in my local.
Wedensday - 5 pints of Bulmers in Pravda


Usually I wouldn't drink during the week.. I've just had a lot on the past week or so. But I've I've fallen into a trap recently aswell.. I stock up on cans for the weekend for before going out, but I don't get through them all before monday so I tend to have a couple every night, and I usually have a nice joint to help me relax too. If I'm out of beer, I'll probably have some of the Jim Beam I keep stocked up.

Kevin.

fischerspooner

well I have long days, I work, I study a bit, read, and I go to the gym every day, then I come home, cook dinner, so when I sit down at 9pm or whatever I'm usually WRECKED, and a couple of beers is just the best feeling ever, it tastes so good. Yes I do it on my own, I've no problem with that, I even go for pints on my own sometimes.

derek27

man i was off the hook with drinking there for a long time. just got it regulated a bit lately. up til about 2 months ago, this was my schedule...

monday 6+
tuesday 6+
wednesday borrow money for 5 or 6
thursday 6+
friday off the scale of 0 to 12
saturday money would be the only limiting factor
sunday 6+

i'd even find myyself goin out on my own during the week to my local. was missing work and sleeping late in the days and everything, and was becomming immune to the effects of the alcohol. so i changed my ways before it was too late. now...

mon 0
tue 0
wed 0
thurs 3-4
fri 3-4
sat ~8
sun 3-4

i enjoy it more now, and have more money, and got back to working my regular hours. funny thing is, i'm studying toxicology and i'm hugely aware of the magnitude of the pathological damage alcohol can have if taken in excess, but i realised that i wasn't drinking solely for the alcohol, rather it was just to be out of the house and socialising. so it was easy for me to cut my intake. we irish certainly drink an awful lot more than most.

Megatron

nerf ...

well for the last 2 years it's been

Monday : 0
tuesday : 0
Wed : 0
Thurs : 0
Friday : 0
Sat : maybe 3- 9
Sunday : 0

where as before that it was :

Monday : 2
tuesday : 3 - 4
Wed : 3
Thurs : 3
Friday : 5 - 12
Sat : 5 - 12
Sunday : 4 - 9


I've changed my drinking ways , and no i'm not having a go at anyone here.
i as most of you do , drink when i feel like it ... i just think i've drank enough and there is no need to drink every night. but then thats just me.

Gareth2303

Why are the irsih such alcos!!!! lol...this is so funny, especially CerebralCortex...Your drinking habits are insane!! :P

I don't drink , HAH, stick that one in your pipe, ......or bottle,........... or can

fischerspooner

actually people who don't drink please don't post here. And I know I didn't say that in the original post but I'm saying it now. To be honest with you all, I never trusted people who don't drink, unless they're recovering alcoholics, only then can I understand why you wouldn't drink.

Megatron

fischerspooner wrote:

actually people who don't drink please don't post here. And I know I didn't say that in the original post but I'm saying it now. To be honest with you all, I never trusted people who don't drink, unless they're recovering alcoholics, only then can I understand why you wouldn't drink.

cop on m8.

people don't drink for the same reason people don't do drugs or anything else ..

because they dont' want to.

ok maybe thats not everyone , but the majority

petes

fischerspooner wrote:

actually people who don't drink please don't post here. And I know I didn't say that in the original post but I'm saying it now. To be honest with you all, I never trusted people who don't drink, unless they're recovering alcoholics, only then can I understand why you wouldn't drink.

Why wouldnt you trust someone who didnt drink. Thats a crazy statement to make.

jimbling

fischerspooner.... are u serious?

do you smoke hash.... do you take e's .... do you snort cocaine.... etc etc... the people who do would prob say the same thing to you... and it would be just as valid

chump

everybody should try drinking though

except of course if it you can't, medically

ro1798

my tally not happy about it

FRIDAY 8th july 2 cans beer....
saturday 9th 1 bottle of kinsey vodka, 4 cans tuburg, 3 pints of bet down heineken, 2 barcardi and ginger ales bet down ( then ian brown gig amazing)
sunday 10th 8 cans tuburg
monday 11th six cans tuburg
tuesday 12th nothing
wednesday 13th 2 litre bottles bulmers


the irish are kidding themselves if we think we are controlled drinkers we are not we are proud if we can drink people under the tables week in week out. why?


ronan

rainbow kirby

Haven't been drinking since my 21st birthday, 3 weeks ago. I rarely drink in general, it's just too expensive.

PullMyFinger!

the_syco wrote:

Only in Ireland, this is OK. Anywhere else, you'd be an alcho:eek::rolleyes:

Agreed. We're a nation of Alco's

netwhizkid

Originally Posted by PullMyFinger!
Agreed. We're a nation of Alco's

I concur, glad i don't touch the stuff myself, i can actually remember a night out ! it's like i have a gift, most people can't remember a thing, only that they have got an awful headache !!

crazymonkey

I only drink 5 or 6 pints once every two weeks on average, since i bought my poxy house, at 26 i wish i could afford to drink like i did when i was 21, well thats growing up for you,

tenandtracer

My granduncle drank, at the very minimum, a 750ml bottle of whiskey *every* day of his life and he died a happy man in bed.





Mind you he was thirteen years of age!!

CerebralCortex

fischerspooner wrote:

actually people who don't drink please don't post here. And I know I didn't say that in the original post but I'm saying it now. To be honest with you all, I never trusted people who don't drink, unless they're recovering alcoholics, only then can I understand why you wouldn't drink.

We don't drink because we are more intelligent than the majority and realise that alcohol is a drug that has a sedative effect.
I understand we non drinkers intimidate you because we are strong enough to resist taking the easy paths in life.
You are just pissing your pants with fear.

CerebralCortex

chump wrote:

everybody should try drinking though

except of course if it you can't, medically

That is like saying everyone should try heroin.

NONSENSE.

There isn't one good reason to drink alcohol.

If you like to use it o relax then you should get help.

Wertz

cornbb wrote:

Same here. i'd drink the odd bottle the odd night and maybe a few pints at the weekend but spliffs are my real vice. Can't remember the last time I had more than 4-5 drinks in the one night.

That just about sums me up and all. Used to drink a lot more when I was a bit younger, but I just got tired of it; seem to appreciate the odd time I get really smashed now as opposed to just getting rat arsed every w/e
Whoever mentioned about hangovers getting worse as you grow older...thought that was just me.

Rubens

Mmmm just counted my intake of late ...

About 30-35 pints of cider a week spread over 3 or 4 sessions ...

Somebody call an ambulance. Anybody else drink this much?

:eek:

Nightwish

very very very rarely drink-maybe once a year.
doesn't go well with the medication

slade_x

I never drink during the week, only when i go out at the weekend

Havent been out for the past 3 weeks but when i do id say not more than 5/6 pints of guinneas and then get a few double vodkas in the Niteclub

Kernel

petes wrote:

I always laugh at this. So on Sturday you are saying you had 22 drinks and were still able to count them.

Yes, of course. Most of the time drinking doesn't affect my photographic memory.

Kernel

CerebralCortex wrote:

We don't drink because we are more intelligent than the majority and realise that alcohol is a drug that has a sedative effect.
I understand we non drinkers intimidate you because we are strong enough to resist taking the easy paths in life.
You are just pissing your pants with fear.

Don't be so presumptuous and get off your high horse. Not drinking doesn't make you any stronger than anybody. Perhaps you don't drink because you are boring, or cant handle it, are too mean to spend money, or don't like socialising. There are many reasons a non-drinker can be 'weaker' than a drinker in many aspects.

"More intelligent"... always gives me the chuckles!

Naos

netwhizkid wrote:

I concur, glad i don't touch the stuff myself, i can actually remember a night out ! it's like i have a gift, most people can't remember a thing, only that they have got an awful headache !!

Those people who cant remember a thing have simply drank too much.
Its called a blackout, and can be annoying/scary.
It is possible to get very drunk, and still remember everything, although sometimes you must be reminded of certain events to jog your memory.

As for drinking, on avg over here in Spain Im about on about 2 cans a night,
and when I go out probably 6 pints(They dont drink as much over here).

Gross Halfwit

Usually just approx 8-9 pints of Guinness of a Friday and a few of a Sunday night, but It aint every Friday or Sunday unfortunately.

I dont drink as much as I used to.

Devious

Mear wrote:

Those people who cant remember a thing have simply drank too much.
Its called a blackout, and can be annoying/scary.
It is possible to get very drunk, and still remember everything, although sometimes you must be reminded of certain events to jog your memory.

Man i hate that, been happening to me a lot lately. About 3 weeks ago, I pretty much erased half the night from my memory - couldnt remember a thing: the drunken shambling around in the club, the walk home, falling flat on my face, trying to pet the swans by the canal, the HUGE feed in the takeaway - nothing. And as for the hangover..........

Gareth2303

The funniest thing is being sober and chatting to someone drunk..a friend of mine came in after a night out and had a chinese with him ... He just sat down on it and it squirted over everyone .. haha

Sparky

i dont normally drink during the week, due to my job and having to get up early, i mostly drink on fridays and saturdays id normally go through about 6-7 pints of bulmers (for the summer) and about 4 JD and coke and maybe 2 red bulls and vodka, it can change due to money etc.