How often do you drink?

Dick Rimmington · 05-10-2017 09:42PM

im not a huge drinker at all although my alcohol consumption has certainly increased this year. that being said, i only go to pubs every couple of months and then its often just for 2-3 drinks. i do enjoy a few when i have friends visiting which would be maybe 3-4 times a month. those are usually the best nights too!

monty_python · 05-10-2017 09:45PM

Daily. About 6/7 pints every day. Sometimes.more
I'm a very lonely person so I like the company in the pub

Snugglebunnies · 05-10-2017 10:12PM

Maybe once every 2 months or so. Its too expensive, I have to get a babysitter to go out and I can't handle hangovers at all. I'm quite surprised at how regularly people drink on this thread!

mdwexford · 05-10-2017 10:27PM

Pretty much every weekend.

I like to unwind after working all week.

Mostly just at home with friends though.

La.de.da · 06-10-2017 01:53AM

Last time I drank was the all Ireland semi final. Before that last Christmas. I'm just not able anymore for sessions.

Three drinks would be my max nowadays.

I gave my poor liver an awful going over when I first started drinking. Out at least 4nights a week. Great times they were though.

So long · 06-10-2017 01:55AM

Every day.

06-10-2017 02:08AM

super_furry wrote: »

Only when I'm at work.

TD?? :P

harry Bailey esq · 06-10-2017 02:19AM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

20 pints a week is doable

A full day in the pub and it's easily doable. I spent a long weekend in Spain a few months back, just two of us and I was sinking about 15 + pints a day. We made an English bar our 'base' for the few days starting there in the morning and returning for a couple at the end of the night.
They done a huge full English breakfast every morning that had a pint included for the princely sum of six quid, there was an option to get freshly squeezed orange juice or tea instead but the novelty of having a pint with breakfast in anyplace other than an airport ensured I already had the goo on me by ten every morning.

harry Bailey esq · 06-10-2017 02:25AM

monty_python wrote: »

Daily. About 6/7 pints every day. Sometimes.more
I'm a very lonely person so I like the company in the pub

A solo pint with only a newspaper for company isn't without its charms either.

_Dara_ · 06-10-2017 07:48AM

La.de.da wrote: »

Last time I drank was the all Ireland semi final. Before that last Christmas. I'm just not able anymore for sessions.

Three drinks would be my max nowadays.

I gave my poor liver an awful going over when I first started drinking. Out at least 4nights a week. Great times they were though.

Are you me? :eek:

Pac1Man · 06-10-2017 08:23AM

Wow, actual alcoholics live amongst us. I heard the rumours but it's actually true!

OldMrBrennan83 · 06-10-2017 08:56AM

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SEPT 23 1989 · 06-10-2017 09:26AM

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

A full day in the pub and it's easily doable. I spent a long weekend in Spain a few months back, just two of us and I was sinking about 15 + pints a day. We made an English bar our 'base' for the few days starting there in the morning and returning for a couple at the end of the night.
They done a huge full English breakfast every morning that had a pint included for the princely sum of six quid, there was an option to get freshly squeezed orange juice or tea instead but the novelty of having a pint with breakfast in anyplace other than an airport ensured I already had the goo on me by ten every morning.

had a day of it myself a couple of months ago started straight after the fry at 10.30 got to about 7.30 that night about 30 pints between us

you wouldn't be doing it every weekend

Pac1Man · 06-10-2017 09:42AM

Patww79 wrote: »

Remember that makes us all alcoholics as we, as a nation, collectively drink and need to be saved from ourselves.

Your excessive drinking is giving me a hangover Pat.

smeal · 06-10-2017 10:00AM

I like having a glass of wine on a Friday after work and will go "Out on the town" probably once or twice a month.Over the past year or so my love for going out has subsided unless there's an occasion i.e. friends get together or a birthday. I'd much rather be putting the money towards something more valuable like a nice holiday than going out for the sake of it. Similarly I would much prefer to sit and have a few drinks in someone's house or up in the local and have a decent conversation. Its the hole in the purse and the week long tiredness after a night out that gets me now!

06-10-2017 10:05AM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

had a day of it myself a couple of months ago started straight after the fry at 10.30 got to about 7.30 that night about 30 pints between us

you wouldn't be doing it every weekend

A group of us from work go on a proper all day session every so often on a Saturday, starting around 8am in the early house and usually making it until around 1am (or later once or twice). You would totally lose count of how many pints (+sprints when you enivatabley change over to them later in the evening) but I know by noon on the last day we did it we had about 7 pints each drank and we drank solid till about 1am after, even for food we just got rolls a few times during the day and ate them in the pubs

Roll on the evening, I've a massive thirst reading about all this drinking!

06-10-2017 10:41AM

Meccanico wrote: »

Fancy a whiskey to tonight, can anyone recommend a nice one?

What's your budget?

theteal · 06-10-2017 10:47AM

Mid 30's now so the level of drinking has fallen off a cliff due to a combination of factors that come with growing up. The last 4 years has seen a lot of saving money for wedding/baby/house deposit/mat leave so regular sessions just don't happen. I've stepped away from the football clubs in the last year (aforementioned baby) so evening/night time pub visits have ceased to exist. The occasional pub lunch might see a pint of ale being enjoyed - I actually had a nice pint of Doom Bar yesterday with a beef and ale pie now that I think of it.

I've not been back home to Dublin since May, there'd usually be a scoop or two with the mates in town when I do get back.

On a more regular basis, I'd say maybe 1-2 nights a week myself and mrsTeal might share a bottle of wine or 2-3 beers. How times have changed!

I will add that the lads won the London Junior championship the other week. That was a session and a half. I had 6 pints of lager iirc and I paid for it the next day.

Lux23 · 06-10-2017 10:49AM

I normally only drink on a Friday night, and completely overdo it as a result. I am an all or nothing woman.

ChikiChiki · 06-10-2017 11:02AM

Used to be every weekend. Since I left Ireland maybe once or twice a month if even. Much more content as I never was comfortable in that social setting or around drunk people due to alcoholism in my family which has left some lasting effects on me psychologically. Frequently I'd just dissappear on nights out rather than face the protests when you tell the group your with your leaving.

Rikand · 06-10-2017 11:21AM

Resolution for 2017 was not to drink at home anymore. Had one good pub session in early January with the wife and then we found out she was pregnant.

I have had 1 drink since then, a can of Guinness at home the night my little man was born.

Not gonna drink at home anymore and with 2 kids now I'd say the pub will be few and far between

06-10-2017 11:23AM

Rikand wrote: »

Resolution for 2017 was not to drink at home anymore. Had one good pub session in early January with the wife and then we found out she was pregnant.

I have had 1 drink since then, a can of Guinness at home the night my little man was born.

Not gonna drink at home anymore and with 2 kids now I'd say the pub will be few and far between

Your doing it wrong, pregnant wife = free taxi

pilly · 06-10-2017 11:26AM

OP, if you're genuinely worried about your drinking a good guideline is are you drinking alone? If you are then that might suggest a problem.

06-10-2017 11:27AM

pilly wrote: »

OP, if you're genuinely worried about your drinking a good guideline is are you drinking alone? If you are then that might suggest a problem.

Get a dog never drink alone again.

06-10-2017 11:29AM

Drink maybe once a month these days and then it is mostly just to have it in my hand. I liked all the changes that came over me when I stopped drinking to any large degree - so never went back.

pilly · 06-10-2017 11:36AM

Rikand wrote: »

Resolution for 2017 was not to drink at home anymore. Had one good pub session in early January with the wife and then we found out she was pregnant.

I have had 1 drink since then, a can of Guinness at home the night my little man was born.

Not gonna drink at home anymore and with 2 kids now I'd say the pub will be few and far between

Was the session the cause of the pregnancy.

06-10-2017 11:36AM

pilly wrote: »

OP, if you're genuinely worried about your drinking a good guideline is are you drinking alone? If you are then that might suggest a problem.

I wouldn't consider drinking alone an issue especially as you get older. I'll have a few beers tonight playing fifa or watching a movie. The wife will be at work so it'll be just me and the dogs.

ginger_hammer · 06-10-2017 11:40AM

6-8 cans at home on a friday night, not much else.

seachto7 · 06-10-2017 11:45AM

Rarely and I don't miss it. A mugs game. It's the hangovers in particular I don't miss.
Worked in and played music in pubs for years and saw enough on a weekly basis to extinguish any charm with going on a session.
I can't even think of any reason why I would like to get drunk now.
I can't understand, but it's just me, how getting trashed is considered a normal part of a night out for so many Irish.
Whatever about going out having a few drinks and you end up with one too many, but going out with the intention of getting f**ked up, I just don't get. I never got it.
I also dislike the way tourists come over here with a romantic vision of getting trashed drunk, as if we are all sitting around laughing with the drink in us.
I have seen some funny stuff happen to drunk people and I've seen people die because of drink.

Steve F · 06-10-2017 11:55AM

seachto7 wrote: »

Rarely and I don't miss it. A mugs game. It's the hangovers in particular I don't miss.
Worked in and played music in pubs for years and saw enough on a weekly basis to extinguish any charm with going on a session.
I can't even think of any reason why I would like to get drunk now.
I can't understand, but it's just me, how getting trashed is considered a normal part of a night out for so many Irish.
Whatever about going out having a few drinks and you end up with one too many, but going out with the intention of getting f**ked up, I just don't get. I never got it.
I also dislike the way tourists come over here with a romantic vision of getting trashed drunk, as if we are all sitting around laughing with the drink in us.
I have seen some funny stuff happen to drunk people and I've seen people die because of drink.

See above Yes the hangovers I remember are enough to put me off
I voted rarely to Never
I found as I got older the hangovers lasted longer and longer
longest HO I had lasted 3 days I wanted to die

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