Heavy Drinking

bluewolf wrote:

Once I started drinking after my LC, I went nuts with it for about a year, and by nuts I mean drinking 7-8 drinks once a week. My birthday then was something else though Then I gave up for a while. Then I drank maybe a few times a year, on special occasions and on some of those I would get quite drunk. The last time I got very drunk was at the bf's office party where they were given about 4-500 euro to spend between 5-6 of us for dinner and drinks. There were mystery shots Or before that at my birthday when so many people bought me drinks it was insane.

Other than that I would have 1-2 drinks once in a while.
Now, I don't drink.
And believe it or not, I go out and have a great time. House party I was at the other week was the best ever and I was stone cold sober.

I just don't get this obsession with alcohol. I thought 7-8 drinks was nuts and yet here we have people talking about 10+ as if it's nothing, and more than once a week. How can you go out to have fun with your friends when you just want to do that kind of thing. Aren't you as well off sitting in a corner drinking straight from a spirit bottle. You can't tell me anything more than a few drinks makes things more fun, if even then.

Their friends are doing the same thing probably... I fail to see the problem, once they're not comatose at the end of the night.

just like the anti smoking brigade

because you dont drink, doesnt make drinking bad

kizzyr wrote:

I'm not anti drink I'm just at a loss to understand why everything in this country must revolve around alcohol and the excessive consumption of it. Are Irish people that limited in the use of their imaginations that this is the best we can do in order to have a good time? I am emabrassed at the state of our country when the pubs and clubs shut, people puking , getting sick, starting fights etc etc. What is the point of drinking that much if this is the end result. That can't be fun. I also hate the way people treat you like a freak if you are on a night out and turn down a drink. No is never enough people keep on trying to force you to have a drink, probably in a bid to make them more comfortbale.

Have to agreee with you there on the whole not having a drink comment.Ive gone off the booze for a few months at a time for medical reasons and just because i got sick of it.In this counrty if you refuse a drink on a night out its like you have ten heads,this goes all the way from young to old.

bluewolf wrote:

It was the 8 bottles I meant...

a bottle of beer is 330 mls, so three bottles of beer is equal to 2 pints... 8 bottles of beer is like, 5 nearly 5 pints, thats not that much , thats 5 cans.

looder wrote:

i'd drink about 6 large bottles of bulmers and maybe 5 vodka and orange(i'm a student-it's cheap) on a sat nite out.

don't think thats excessive although last wkend i drank at least that amount each nite from thursday to Sunday inclusive;)

That is a lot of alcohol to consume on one night out.

This is at least the third active thread on alcohol on AH at the minute. People blame Irelands traditional drink problem on the fact that for centuries we, along with other countries with notoriously bad weather like Scotland, Russia, much of Eastern Europe etc etc, have drank to liven up the depression of living in nations with rough climates for most of the year, whilst those in more psychologically friendly weather areas (Italy, Spain, south of France) are very moderate drinkers.

Cue the good weather, there are numerous people posting on boards rubbered, and Saturday evening at 7pm town was full of Irish/Russians/Poles locked out of their bins We drink during the bad weather because there is little else to liven us up in the midst of Arctic winds in January. We drink in summer to celebrate the fact the bad weather is over, and because ice cold beer tastes even better on a hot day

Personally, on a night out lasting 3 odd hours Id usually have around 13 drinks, give or take. Barely ever drink during the week at home, although if the weather is good Ill have a few cold cans out the back. Saturday was something else, 1:30pm to 4:30am. Beach and two gaffs, christ twas at least 22 and a small amount of vodka (3 pints, two bottles and the rest cans). I was told by a girl from an Indan Ocean French colony who was at the first party we went to that nobody from her country could survive that amount (she had four cans and already thought she had drank too much)

But thats whats makes you proud to be Irish


Regarding alcoholism, my mate is an alcoholic and hes only 19. Degsys description would basically describe his habit. After a long day at work most of us unwind with a spliff or maybe one/two cans. His 10 odd cans per night story is pretty much the same as my mate, hes hospitalised himself numerous times with broken bones, been arrested, went missing a few times on sessions and hasnt been found for close to a day afterwards. Hitting the clubs with him can often be just plain annoying. By the time I arrive in town he has usually had the equivalent of 8 or so cans in a few hours (equivalent in that he has been drinking a matching amount of whiskey, alcohol wise). Occasionally he will have taken a few yokes before starting drinking (yes, before, you read correct). Somehow he has an amazing ability to act stone cold sober for the 30 seconds he needs to when he arrives at the door of the club, Ive barely ever seen him refused entry for being drunk, despite the fact that when I met him two minutes earlier he could barely talk he was so out of it. So by about 1am he will usually have had maybe 17 drinks, pulls a sickener and then pisses off home, which if its only the two of us means Im essentially out clubbing on my own for the next 90 mins if I have no bird. Hes a good mate and all but his drinking is out of control.