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How late can you drink and still be at work on time in the morning?

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  • #32
    Lump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,984 ✭✭✭✭Lump


    Last Friday I went out till 5 am, was in work at 9am.... an hours journey away.... did a 13 hour shift and Live TV..... I did once go directly from a party to work I was still drunk doing football focus ;)


  • #33
    PauloMN
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional North East Moderators Posts: 10,886 Mod ✭✭✭✭PauloMN


    Dalfiatach wrote:
    3 weeks ago I went on the dry altogether because of this...plan it to stay off it completely for 6 full weeks, then only drink when I don't have work the next day.

    Age has a lot to do with it alright. In my 20s I could go out till 3 or 4am, grap a couple of hours sleep, make it to work on time and be at least semi-functional the next day. Nowadays I'm 34, and I can't have more than 3-4 pints and be in bed by 11.30 or I'm useless the next day. Any more than that and I just won't be capable of making it to work till lunchtime at least, and when I do turn up I won't be much use.

    Looking back, I think the turning point was about 27-28. It was all downhill from there :o

    :D LOL, I feel your pain. Mid-twenties a Thurday night session would be no bother, plenty of pints and up 7am no problem.

    Mid-thirties it's 4 pints every few months, bed early and I just might be ok (as long as neither child decides to have a sleepless night)! Oh how things change.... :D


  • #34
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Cant drink on a work night anymore. Im just not motivated enough to bother getting me arse out of bed the next day if i do.


  • #35
    6ix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 766 ✭✭✭6ix


    I worked 12 hours shifts starting at 8am until recently, and have had a fair few Sunday mornings where I finished drinking around 4.30/5am and made it into work. Needless to say the day was torture. Glad to be finished those hours now! :D

    I'm 22, and I find that tough, so I can't imagine it'll get much easier with time. Sometimes, I think I'll give up drinking once I pass my twenties, if my hangovers continue to get progressively worse.


  • #36
    TPD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,813 ✭✭✭TPD


    Is 6 pints the rough limit for most people? I can usually drink about 8 or 9 tins and get to sleep at 4 or 5am, to wake up around 10 with a slightly dry mouth but otherwise fine. Then I fall back to sleep for another 6 hours and im right as rain in time for dinner.


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  • #37
    cance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭cance


    back in my teens, i drank from 3:45pm right through till 7 am the next morning.

    I finished my last can as i walked into the back of dunnes stores cornelscourt for an 8 hour shift.

    2 hours in i wanted to die, and it got 100 times worse an hour.


  • #38
    slemons
    Closed Accounts Posts: 532 ✭✭✭slemons


    some of my mates are still in college. last semester i was doing every thurs nite til 5 am. sleep on a couch or bed if i scored - not much sleep either way. loads a beer, shots and a bottle a wine after the club
    work at 9 til 6, an hours sleep and then training at half 7. All day sat in bed though


    Over the summer i havent done much drinking on a work night. Some all day sundays. One that went on til half 7. mid july. The sun was splitting the rocks on de walk home and all the polski's were waiting for the bus to take them out to the factory.

    Still made it to work for 9 though. Died all day but the boss was out, thank fvck. that was my last mad one actually

    Im planning a big one again this sunday, but i reckon im gonna call in sick this time...


  • #39
    doonothing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭doonothing


    as mentioned somewhere in there, if im drinking til, say, 4, ill wake up at 7, with a headache dry mouth, all the usual. takes me about an hour to fall back asleep then.
    i can take advantage of this, if i need to be up at 8, i keep drinkin til 5, its fantastic!
    and, you know, crippling agony.


  • #40
    blow69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 668 ✭✭✭blow69


    Try falling into bed at 3 a.m and having to be in work at 9 to work a 12 hour shift in Smyths Toystores.And it was.......wait for it.............Chistmas time! You can only imagine the fun i had the next day.

    Needless to say i didnt stay at that job too long.Had no time to study.Goddamn Smyths!


  • #41
    pretty-in-pink
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭pretty-in-pink


    why stop? sleep is for the weak.


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  • #42
    stepbar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,123 ✭✭✭stepbar


    I remember one time, just a month after I started work in the bank, I got home round 5.30am - bed at 6am - up at 9.30am and in for work at 10am (an hour late). I got away with it somehow ;)


  • #43
    angelbaby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭angelbaby


    did an all nighter there a few weeks ago and managed to get to work on time!!although i think maybe the fact i hadnt slept helped prevent the possability of sleeping in!!!Apart from that time i think the latest was probably about 6 or half 6 in the morning n was in for work at 9.


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