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Drink guidelines

  • 22-07-2016 12:36PM
    #1
    Jesus.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭


    Does anyone else think the new drinking guidelines sound a bit daft? It used to be 10.5 pints per week for blokes and now its down to 8.5.

    Seven per week and not per night!!


    (For women its even less)


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  • #2
    intheclouds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,175 ✭✭✭intheclouds


    Jesus. wrote: »
    Does anyone else think the new drinking guidelines sound a bit daft? It used to be 10.5 pints per week for blokes and now its down to 7.

    Seven per week and not per night!!


    (For women its even less)

    Have you a link?


  • #3
    Dr Crayfish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    Seriously who gives a sh*t we're all going to die of something eventually


  • #4
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Its not like anyone follows the guidelines anyway

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #5
    Jesus.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭Jesus.


    I was just going on a snippet I heard on the radio. Its actually 17 units for men (roughly 8.5 pints) and 11 units for women. It was 21 for men.

    http://www.drinkaware.ie/facts/what-are-the-low-risk-weekly-guidelines?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=lowrisk


  • #6
    Speedwell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭Speedwell


    It makes it a bit difficult for someone like me, who is not much of a drinker, to be taken seriously when I point out to my husband that the amount he drinks might be exacerbating certain of his health problems. No, he doesn't have anything like a drinking problem, but the amount he drinks at a given time could be triggering a certain kind of migraine he is prone to, for example. I can cite official guidelines till I'm blue in the face only for him to respond, "Don't be having a go at me, I don't even have as much as most people", and he's right.


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  • #7
    jamesbere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    Guidelines, you mean challenges.


  • #8
    Jesus.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭Jesus.


    jamesbere wrote: »
    Guidelines, you mean challenges.

    Not much of a challenge though James. One and a bit pints per day!


  • #9
    intheclouds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,175 ✭✭✭intheclouds


    Jesus. wrote: »
    I was just going on a snippet I heard on the radio. Its actually 17 units for men (roughly 8.5 pints) and 11 units for women. It was 21 for men.

    http://www.drinkaware.ie/facts/what-are-the-low-risk-weekly-guidelines?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=lowrisk

    Ah good. Im just under most weeks.


  • #10
    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,885 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    8.5 pints a week? Shur I have that pre-drinking before a night out...


  • #11
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Id be under most weeks myself, a sign that my social life isnt the best :o

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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  • #12
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    I keep confusing pints with units


  • #13
    jamesbere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    Jesus. wrote: »
    Not much of a challenge though James. One and a bit pints per day!

    How many weekly "guidelines" can you do in a day challenge


  • #14
    Captain Chaos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    They're only guidelines. Everything is going to kill you one way or another.

    I had a great uncle who drank at least 2-4 pints every day on his way home from work until he retired and weekends were just another story. He started drinking in his late teens and lived till the ripe old age of 98 with all his metal faculties intact.

    So he had a minimum of 22 pints a week for almost 80 years. There are people who have never had a pint in their lives that have had liver cancer and died in their 40s, things just happen. Genetics plays a major role in what will trigger certain elements in your body more os that others.

    I'd tend to not drink from one end of the month to another and then drink a months guideline limit in 2 nights. Swings and roundabouts.


  • #15
    Jesus.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭Jesus.


    I know a chap, and I'm not exaggerating this one bit, who's in his early 50's and hasn't worked a day in 25 years. Yet he goes to the pub at opening each morning, drinks all day, comes home for his dinner at sixish and then goes back out until closing. He must get through 20 pints per day. He's been doing this every day for decades. Where he gets the money I haven't got one iota but he must be spending the guts of 700 pound per week. Unless he won big money at some point and nobody found out I don't know. His liver must be totally pickled.


  • #16
    Jesus.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭Jesus.


    GLaDOS wrote: »
    Id be under most weeks myself, a sign that my social life isnt the best :o

    I'ts worse when you're well above it and still have zero social life!


  • #17
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    The trouble with these guidelines is that I dont think anyone takes them seriously. So what is the point in having them?


  • #18
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,334 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    A couple of bottles of red wine and 2 home measures of whisky so far this week. It's Friday and am over the limit already! Which bottle of wine will I open tonight :)


  • #19
    Jesus.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭Jesus.


    Winterlong wrote: »
    The trouble with these guidelines is that I dont think anyone takes them seriously. So what is the point in having them?

    Indeed. The likes of Shane McGowan would consume a weekly amount literally before breakfast.


  • #20
    Burial.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭Burial.


    Speedwell wrote: »
    It makes it a bit difficult for someone like me, who is not much of a drinker, to be taken seriously when I point out to my husband that the amount he drinks might be exacerbating certain of his health problems. No, he doesn't have anything like a drinking problem, but the amount he drinks at a given time could be triggering a certain kind of migraine he is prone to, for example. I can cite official guidelines till I'm blue in the face only for him to respond, "Don't be having a go at me, I don't even have as much as most people", and he's right.

    That certain kind of migraine is probably just the hangover and the only cure for that is more drink. Wahey!


  • #21
    Smondie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭Smondie


    Can people not take responsibility and show some self control without the government having to try and babysit?


    You shouldn't be allowed drink if you need a babysitter.


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  • #22
    Smondie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭Smondie


    Can people not take responsibility and show some self control without the government having to try and babysit?


    You shouldn't be allowed drink if you need a babysitter.


  • #23
    intheclouds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,175 ✭✭✭intheclouds


    People only take the guidelines seriously when they are sitting in a consultants office being told some bad news about their health and the discussion of how much the regularly consume comes up.


  • #24
    Speedwell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭Speedwell


    Burial. wrote: »
    That certain kind of migraine is probably just the hangover and the only cure for that is more drink. Wahey!

    Naah, he gets cluster migraines, whether he drinks or not. The attack lasts for a few days or more. But I notice it more frequently follows a night when he's had a few pints.


  • #25
    lawlolawl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭lawlolawl


    Was reading an article today on the Guardian website about a study that said alcohol is the direct cause of seven different types of cancer, even at moderate levels of consumption.

    I used to be a regular drinker until recently and it was definitely ****ing up my health. I feel much better overall since I quit.


  • #26
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    I might be drunk right now.
    I dont know anymore.


  • #27
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,713 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Speedwell wrote: »
    Naah, he gets cluster migraines, whether he drinks or not. The attack lasts for a few days or more. But I notice it more frequently follows a night when he's had a few pints.

    I gave up red wine because I recognised that it triggered migraine headaches. Also chocolate. I am not a big drinker but I can drink most spirits in modest amounts, but one glass of wine - less than a glass in the case of red wine - will set it off. I have not eaten chocolate in years, nor have I had red wine - and very little white wine - and I have not had a migraine since I gave it up.


  • #28
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,647 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    It'd take me about 6 weeks to get through 17 units. Can I sell off my excess units like carbon tax?

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #29
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Jesus. wrote: »
    Does anyone else think the new drinking guidelines sound a bit daft? It used to be 10.5 pints per week for blokes and now its down to 8.5.

    Seven per week and not per night!!


    (For women its even less)


    Why are you drinking pints when you have an unlimited supply of wine?


  • #30
    Jesus.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭Jesus.


    lawlolawl wrote: »
    I used to be a regular drinker until recently and it was definitely ****ing up my health. I feel much better overall since I quit.

    When I gave it up for three months once (Doctor wanted me back for more tests) people kept saying to me "I bet you feel much better!". Maybe some folk do but I didn't feel one jot better. In fact I felt worse. It was the most boring time of my life.

    I think some folk are just natural drinkers & others aren't. Some can live life fully without a drop and to others that'd be like a life sentence. Different strokes I guess.


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  • #31
    hairyslug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,561 ✭✭✭hairyslug


    It's like the "5 a day" except easier


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