Heavy Drinking

Shellie13 · 16-11-2005 11:10PM

mp3guy wrote:

Ya, redbull is one messed up chemical concoction

http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/files/health/redbull/

I was about ten when that stuff came on the market 1st! Innocently my mammy packed it in her little darlings lunch box! Low and behold i ended up wired to the celing for the rest of the day! Not to mention the classroom whispers that i was in fact drinking beer!:D

Dr. Dre · 17-11-2005 12:44AM

Well I would drink usually 10 pints a night (sometimes more, depending how early I go out - usually directly after work)
4 days a week (sometimes 5)
So I'm screwed

matrim · 17-11-2005 12:52AM

Deleted User wrote:

but i think that anybody that likes the taste of alcohol has a problem to some extent!it doesnt have a nice taste to tell us we shouldnt drink too much of it!

I'd say the opposite. If you don't like the taste of it and you still drink it then you are only drinking for the effect (not to say you aren't if you like the taste.}

Myself I'd normally drink between 5 and 10 pints on a night out, depending on what I was doing.

BrenC · 17-11-2005 12:55AM

I'd drink from 3 - 6, I tend to drink fast so Im usually on my 2nd when people are on their 1st

Ajnag · 17-11-2005 03:30AM

Rofl, Heavy drinking for me used to be a night out and then a bottle of vodka at the party after.
Long time ago, my tolerance is gone to **** and the hangovers get worse as time pass's.

alcohol's a ****e drug anyway, there's far better out there.

Second that mordeath.

Dizzyblabla · 17-11-2005 07:41AM

oh god, I'm a raving alcoholic!!

I have no idea how much I drink, I count it in money, depending on how much I spend on a night out, generally that would be about 60 - 70euros. I guess if you count it as 2 vodka's and one diet coke costs on average 10euros, that's about 12 vodka's, but then if we're in rounds, I can drink more... (sometime I also find I've spent more when I've checked my bank balance, damn those pubs with drink links in them!! (atm machines))

ccd · 17-11-2005 09:27AM

10 Pints twice a week. I drink 2 pints of guinnes at the same time and a hip flask of vodka. I dontthink thats exsessive or Binging

Prior Of Taize · 17-11-2005 09:45AM

ccd wrote:

Had a chat with some ne ast nie and I have to say I was quite surprised when they decribed me as a heavey drinker. What is you definition of a heavey drinker.Mine is someone who might drink 16 or 17 pints in one nite. My friend would classify anything over 5 as heavey. What would you describe as heavey

with that kind of drinking you yourself must be heavy.

ccd · 17-11-2005 10:04AM

You not wrong there. 6 foot and 12.5 stone. At what stage is some one classed as alcholic

magpie · 17-11-2005 10:06AM

Well I would drink usually 10 pints a night 4 days a week

80 units a week is a little over the 21 recommended

I drink 2 pints of guinnes at the same time and a hip flask of vodka

I try and have at least 4 pints, a bottle of scotch and 12 tequila slammers on the go at the same time

Sarn · 17-11-2005 10:31AM

On average I'd have 4-5 pints on a Friday night spread out over about 5 hours (yes, I'm a slow drinker but I've learnt my limits over the years). I'm a Guinness drinker and enjoy the taste, so non-alcoholic Guinness isn't an option.

seamus · 17-11-2005 11:00AM

ccd wrote:

You not wrong there. 6 foot and 12.5 stone. At what stage is some one classed as alcholic

There's no set amount you have to drink to be classed as an alcoholic. It's an attitude to alcohol. Many people/places will have their own way of saying "You're an alcoholic", many of which would place 90% of Irish people in the "alcoholic" class.

You cannot be told you're an alcoholic. You first have to realise for yourself that your alcohol intake is affecting your life (for better or worse) in some way. If you cannot bring yourself to change your intake to change its effects, you have a problem.

Miss Fluff · 17-11-2005 11:34AM

Work is the curse of the drinking classes

Siogfinsceal · 17-11-2005 01:00PM

whaaaaa 5 is just a warm up your friends very wierd!!!! im a girl of about 8st and id drink twice that in a good night

to me an alco is someone who drinkls that much everynight rather than just on a night out and someone who will sit alone at night and get drunk by themselves couple times a week

Sarsfield · 17-11-2005 03:19PM

Dr. Dre wrote:

Well I would drink usually 10 pints a night (sometimes more, depending how early I go out - usually directly after work)
4 days a week (sometimes 5)
So I'm screwed

If you're being serious then that's bad

petes · 17-11-2005 03:22PM

Sarsfield wrote:

If you're being serious then that's bad

Not at all. Perfectly normal behavior.

Siogfinsceal · 17-11-2005 03:22PM

ah theres worst things you could be doing dr dre but yeah it is a bit excessive! I used to be like that a few years ago cos I got free drink in work and gradually your tolerance builds up and next thing you know youve drank half the bar and your still sober!

Tar.Aldarion · 17-11-2005 03:34PM

Mordeth wrote:

nobody drinks beer for the taste, if you did you'd drink non alcoholic beer.

I drink cider for the taste, same with shots and cocktails.**** drinking something I don't like-for idiots, 'lets get pished lads'.

Dr. Dre · 17-11-2005 03:52PM

Sarsfield wrote:

If you're being serious then that's bad

Oh, I'm serious alright. For pretty much the last 10 years.
I've a good job, it doesn't interfere with my work. So it's all good.

Siogfinsceal · 17-11-2005 03:55PM

The liver is evil and must be destroyed!! ;-)

Angels · 17-11-2005 04:12PM

Anything over 8 id say is heavy unless your ammune to it & feel u can drink more thats just excessive than, might need help ( ur liver i mean)

The Song Thrush · 18-11-2005 03:37AM

Ag marbh wrote:

10 drinks over a night isn't too damaging.

I know you want to believe that's true, but I'm afraid it isn't.

ando · 18-11-2005 10:18AM

On average I'd have 4-5 pints on a Friday night spread out over about 5 hours

same as me, I find doing rounds is a pain in the arse cause then I have to force myself to drink faster

Well I would drink usually 10 pints a night 4 days a week

imo thats a very heavy drinker

madness · 21-11-2005 09:48PM

when im at home its 8 cans of bud and a bottle of wine, when out in the pub id probably go through 14 or 15 bud depending on where i am, if go to a club put another 5 or 6 on to that.

Sangre · 21-11-2005 10:02PM

For the 3 monts of the summer in America I think I averaged about 45 pints a week...not good for the old body.
Put on well over a stone aswell.

lazylad · 21-11-2005 10:41PM

I consider someone who drinks more than 3 or 4 drinks a night for more than 3 days of the week a heavy drinker. A person who would have 7 or more in one night once every two weeks is a binge drinker in my opinion(kinda like thrill seeking drinking in my opinion, "lets go mad 2nite!").
I myself could not drink too fast. It goes straight to my head. And i am not one to go out and take shots. My brother can drink most people under the table, i wonder sometimes how he can do that he's as skinny as me but taller. I dunno. Some people are able to metabolise alcohol quicker and id say that#s why people have different limits to heavy drinking.

21-11-2005 11:20PM

You people are kidding yourselves if you think 10 pints isn't excessive. It's far more than you need on a night out, especially if followed by shots or vodka. It wasn't until I left Ireland in May that I really realised how big of a problem drinking is there. People get completely hammered and spend obscene amounts of money, every single weekend. Imagine what it's doing to your liver. I lived in France in the summer with another Irish girl, and we went out a fair bit with local people and were seen as the Irish alcos, despite the fact we don't drink much at all. We'd have a glass, maybe two, of vodka and coke before going out, 2 beers in a club and maybe a shot and people were looking at us like we were insane. They all just have one drink, or two at a stretch. I live in Spain now, where binge drinking is the only entertainment (I'm talking knacker drinking in a car park, everyone does it), people get completely hammered but even they drink in general far less than the average Irish person. It's really worrying.

Shellie13 · 10-06-2006 11:50AM

read "growing up a drunk girl!"
She describes her "alcolism" growning up in middleclass america...god makes me realise how bad we are here...she was tame compared to my friends!

ThE_IVIAcIVIAIV · 10-06-2006 11:57AM

i once drank 13 pints of miller and bulmers a few months ago and i was as sober as ever... i was taking care of my drunk friends who drank like 5-6.... its wqeird somedays drink doesn't affect me but then others i can be drunk in 5-6 too.. , had 6 vodak n whites and 5 double vodka red bulls a few weeks ago and couldn't remember half the night

10-06-2006 12:06PM

5-6pints+ is heavy, I would say, particularly if it's more than once-twice a week.

I'm absolutely appalled to hear people drink 10 pints in one evening, nevermind more. That's insane.

'm quite a light drinker, though. Maybe 3/4 pints if I'm out... 5/6 cans or 8 bottles if I'm in...

Er, that's not "quite light"...

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