How much do you drink?

fischerspooner · 14-07-2005 03:55PM #1

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 · 14-07-2005 03:57PM

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

petes · 14-07-2005 03:57PM

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 · 14-07-2005 03:58PM

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 · 14-07-2005 04:00PM

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

Dr. Loon · 14-07-2005 04:01PM

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 · 14-07-2005 04:04PM

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 · 14-07-2005 04:05PM

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 · 14-07-2005 04:09PM

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 · 14-07-2005 04:16PM

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 · 14-07-2005 04:19PM

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 · 14-07-2005 04:22PM

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 · 14-07-2005 04:27PM

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 · 14-07-2005 04:29PM

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

Wavey · 14-07-2005 04:29PM

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 · 14-07-2005 04:33PM

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

Skitbra · 14-07-2005 04:34PM

You're great.

ixoy · 14-07-2005 04:36PM

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 · 14-07-2005 04:37PM

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 · 14-07-2005 04:38PM

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 · 14-07-2005 04:43PM

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 · 14-07-2005 04:53PM

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 · 14-07-2005 04:54PM

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 · 14-07-2005 04:54PM

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 · 14-07-2005 04:54PM

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 · 14-07-2005 05:04PM

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 · 14-07-2005 05:07PM

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 · 14-07-2005 05:08PM

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 · 14-07-2005 05:12PM

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 · 14-07-2005 05:15PM

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 · 14-07-2005 05:15PM

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

How much do you drink?

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