How much do you drink on a night out?

12-12-2009 01:57AM

Generally, about 3 pints (but proper beer, German or Belgian, not watery sh1t) or 2 or 3 glasses of wine. Any more than that and it goes over pleasantly buzzed and I just don't really enjoy it. That's not to say I don't drink much more on occasion but I couldn't do it on a regular basis. It's not that I can't hold my drink (I can drink a hell of a lot for the size of me before I get mega drunk) but I just don't see the point in going beyond the slightly drunk stage. I never set out to get drunk, it sometimes happens from getting into rounds and stuff.

Aldito · 12-12-2009 02:04AM

Brian Fit Pebble wrote: »

ara come of it folks, there's a lot of **** written here at the mo

If someone can say 12 pints, firstly they're doing fantastically well for even remembering the amount of pints they consumed and secondly, if you remember every other individual drink after that you're a bull****ter...

We all have day long binges where god knows what you're had but making a list of all the drinks the next day is a conversation I haven't seen anyone have seriously since they were a teen.

Any pukes with the previous tall orders??

Yeah there's a bit of an "I'm such a legend" vibe in this thread. Fact is, if you're going on a 50 unit bender, there's no chance you can accurately make a list of how much you had to drink the night before, let alone exactly what you had to drink. I think it's a real irish thing, bragging about getting hammered and puking, it's what you do when you're 15, but everyone in college still seems to use it to impress other people...

Atavan-Halen · 12-12-2009 02:17AM

I don't really go out that much but when I do I tend to get hammered.

Last time I was out I had about 5 bottles of beer, 4 pints of bulmers and then 2 or 3 cans of druids.

Worst night out: Large bottle of Fat Frog + Blue WKD + Smirnoff Ice + Beer + Wine + Whiskey + Cider + Brandy = One very sick atavan-halen

citizen_p · 12-12-2009 02:32AM

anything and everything i can....i drink any drink...all the same result....alchol is alchol same result.....

and mixing drinks dosnt make your drunker.....just feel worse in the morning

Atavan-Halen · 12-12-2009 02:34AM

Mousey- wrote: »

anything and everything i can....i drink any drink...all the same result....alchol is alchol same result.....

and mixing drinks dosnt make your drunker.....just feel worse in the morning

Hm.

Mixing drinks (excessively) just makes me violently ill. Hence never doing it again after the above mentioned time.

12-12-2009 02:41AM

How much do I drink? Depends upon the occasion. Just a glass of wine or a pint for a brunch or dinner. Sometimes I go days without an alcoholic drink. But when it's party time or a football game, after a couple pints I'm ready to dance on table tops!:cool:

partyatmygaff · 12-12-2009 03:25AM

200ML of pure ethanol
200ML of pure methanol

1 500ML glass

The one drink to end all drinks.

dylano_k · 12-12-2009 03:50AM

DarkJager wrote: »

Last night I had out (last week):

6 cans
1 shot Jagermeister
9 Pints Heineken
5 shots Aftershock Red
and to top it all off:

An entire pitcher of vodka and red bull to myself. I don't think I need to explain how that shopping list feels the next morning.

How the hell do you remember anything after 1 shot of aftershock, im no lightweight but FFS

6-7(depends on who finishes their 6th bottle 1st) bottles of bud at home
3 Pints of bulmers in club
2 tequila then im on that dancefloor pulling fat chicks

minidazzler · 12-12-2009 03:51AM

partyatmygaff wrote: »

200ML of pure ethanol
200ML of pure methanol

1 500ML glass

The one drink to end all drinks.

Well, yeah, because Methanol is poisonous. Otherwise you would just be REALLY drunk, and possibly die of too much alcohol intake, rather than the pain that comes with injesting Methanol!

Holsten · 12-12-2009 03:53AM

Too much really, but it depends on the night.

Usually 6 bottles of beer, then 4/5 pints or a few vodkas, and perhaps a few shots.

Again it really depends on what night, who you're out with, where you're going, etc...

12-12-2009 04:03AM

Wednesday night: 10 pints, jager bomb, 3 hennessy.

tonight(evenly between 10 people): 1 bottle of poitin(real stuff), 1 litre bacardi, half bottle jameson, bottle of home made 20% cider, half bottle of fruit brandy, half bottle of gin, bottle of lemon vodka. Then 4 pints of beer and a can of tennents(obviously not shared).

Tomorrow: 12 pubs of christmas!!(so at least 14 pints)!!

Royale with Cheese · 12-12-2009 04:09AM

Don't go out all that often but when I do...

Usually 6 bottles of beer at home, and then maybe 2-3 pints in town. I don't actually like niteclubs so I go in very late and spend as little time in them as possible, hence less drinking in town.

Thoie · 12-12-2009 10:42AM

I don't want to be the killjoy in the party (but I'm about to be). I thought I liked my drink as much as the next person - though apparently I've been standing next to the wrong people. Anyway, here's a little story.

A number of years ago I was in hospital for a while following an accident. While there I got to know a girl who was in there as long as I was. We got chatting, and would talk a few times a day. On the second day she suddenly said "I'd love a can, but my friends and family suck, and won't bring me any. You have lots of visitors who bring you things, if I gave you money could you ask them to bring me in a 6 pack?"

This struck me as a little strange. She was in her mid twenties, her visitors seemed nice, but from time to time they'd leave her, crying. More of the story emerged over the coming days. She, along with a lot of colleagues, had been made redundant 6 months earlier. They'd all got large redundancy payments, jobs were hard to find, so a bunch of them had got into the habit of meeting up each day to compare jobhunting notes.

They'd meet in the pub a few days a week, and have two or three pints over the space of a few hours. Sometimes they'd go for a night out, and have some more. All was fine for about 5 months, until she suddenly collapsed one day. While everyone else was fine with the regular drinking, for some reason she wasn't, and it transpired she had very serious liver damage. She was in hospital, hooked up to drips, not very well able to take care of herself for at least 6 weeks that I know of - I never knew what happened to her afterwards. The reason she wanted a drink was because she was very upset about the long term prognosis.:rolleyes:

Short version - some people's bodies can handle that amount of alcohol, some people's can't. Until the damage is done, you don't know which category you fall in to. For the people who are actually drinking as much as they state in this thread, it might be worthwhile mentioning it to your doctor the next time you're there - liver function tests are relatively easy to carry out.

Mark200 · 12-12-2009 11:38AM

I'm starting to get too drunk on nights out so I'm gonna make an effort to go a bit easier from now on... but lately it'd be something like 3 - 4 pints of bulmers, 2 - 4 cocktails (if in Captain Americas or TGIs beforehand), and 6 - 9 Jager bombs (Dtwo have a 3 Jagerbombs for €7.50 deal), so it's always a multiple of 3 anyway!

But, in reference to the post above, I don't go out drinking all that often.

robby^5 · 12-12-2009 11:39AM

About 5 bottles before heading out then about 5 pints once we hit the pub, so this would be over the course of like 6 hours. That would get me pleasantly inebriated

Not into this whole getting drunk for the sake of it thing, I prefer to get to that point where you're just in a good mood and not absolutely **** faced.

Catari Jaguar · 12-12-2009 12:40PM

Why the fcuk would anybody drink 20 pints? Have you any idea how much liquid that is?

"I like the taste". I like orange juice, I'm not going to drink 20 fukn pints of it.

"I like to have a drink on the table". I meet friends in cafes and chat for hours. I don't order 10 cappucinos.

This thread is absoloute garbage with so much made up crap. Seriously bragging abour how much drink you can "sink" is the most pathetic thing I've heard. It's not manly. It's not clever. It's not admirable.

There is one reason to drink so much that's listed here and it's simple: YOU DRINK TO GET DRUNK.

Like most of the Irish, you have no balls, no confidence, no personality and are crippilingly insecure. Can't have a wedding without being pissed, it's a barbecue let's get fukt, kid's communion sure we'll all get hammered, watching the football of course we need to be locked.

Can't socialise, can't chat someone up, can't vocalise your real feelings, can't dance, can't have fun WITHOUT HIDING BEHIND THE DRINK.

Cop the **** on and grow up. You're borderline alcoholics in here. It's nothing to be proud of.

Exon · 12-12-2009 12:41PM

I don't drink - i'm not a waister!

Anyone who drinks more than 5 beers a week regularly is decadent!

WeeBushy · 12-12-2009 12:42PM

Lil Kitten wrote: »

Why the fcuk would anybody drink 20 pints? Have you any idea how much liquid that is?

"I like the taste". I like orange juice, I'm not going to drink 20 fukn pints of it.

"I like to have a drink on the table". I meet friends in cafes and chat for hours. I don't order 10 cappucinos.

This thread is absoloute garbage with so much made up crap. Seriously bragging abour how much drink you can "sink" is the most pathetic thing I've heard. It's not manly. It's not clever. It's not admirable.

There is one reason to drink so much that's listed here and it's simple: YOU DRINK TO GET DRUNK.

Like most of the Irish, you have no balls, no confidence, no personality and are crippilingly insecure. Can't have a wedding without being pissed, it'a a barbecue let's get fukt, kid's communion sure we'll all get hammered, watching the football of course we need to be locked.

Can't socialise, can't chat someone up, can't vocalise your real feelings, can't dance, can't have fun WITHOUT HIDING BEHIND THE DRINK.

Cop the **** on and grow up. You're borderline alcoholics in here. It's nothing to be proud of.

None of your business how much and what people drink, tbh.

Mark200 · 12-12-2009 12:47PM

Lil Kitten wrote: »

Why the fcuk would anybody drink 20 pints? Have you any idea how much liquid that is?

Yeah, about 20 pints of liquid.

Lil Kitten wrote: »

Why the fcuk would anybody drink 20 pints?
This thread is absoloute garbage with so much made up crap. Seriously bragging abour how much drink you can "sink" is the most pathetic thing I've heard. It's not manly. It's not clever. It's not admirable.

I don't think very many people here are bragging at all. They're answering the question that was asked.

Lil Kitten wrote: »

Like most of the Irish, you have no balls, no confidence, no personality and are crippilingly insecure. Can't have a wedding without being pissed, it'a a barbecue let's get fukt, kid's communion sure we'll all get hammered, watching the football of course we need to be locked.

Can't socialise, can't chat someone up, can't vocalise your real feelings, can't dance, can't have fun WITHOUT HIDING BEHIND THE DRINK.

Cop the **** on and grow up. You're borderline alcoholics in here. It's nothing to be proud of.

Wow.

First of all, people are answering based on how much they drink "on a night out". Not a lot of people said how often they have a night out, so you're jumping to a lot of conclusions for no reason there. Personally it's very common for me to go weeks, or sometimes months, without even having a taste of alcohol.

Most people can socialise just fine without being drunk, or without having to have a drink. They just have a lot more fun when they are drunk. I don't see why that's such a big problem for you.

Aldito · 12-12-2009 12:51PM

Mark200 wrote: »

Most people can socialise just fine without being drunk, or without having to have a drink. They just have a lot more fun when they are drunk. I don't see why that's such a big problem for you.

Still, in Ireland every single thing has to be celebrated by drinking huge amounts of alcohol.

Not saying I don't do it, or I have anything against those who do, but it is definitely a national characteristic to cover up some of our insecurities by drinking, and that is pretty sad.

ToniTuddle · 12-12-2009 01:01PM

Lil Kitten wrote: »

Why the fcuk would anybody drink 20 pints? Have you any idea how much liquid that is?

"I like the taste". I like orange juice, I'm not going to drink 20 fukn pints of it.

"I like to have a drink on the table". I meet friends in cafes and chat for hours. I don't order 10 cappucinos.

This thread is absoloute garbage with so much made up crap. Seriously bragging abour how much drink you can "sink" is the most pathetic thing I've heard. It's not manly. It's not clever. It's not admirable.

There is one reason to drink so much that's listed here and it's simple: YOU DRINK TO GET DRUNK.

Like most of the Irish, you have no balls, no confidence, no personality and are crippilingly insecure. Can't have a wedding without being pissed, it's a barbecue let's get fukt, kid's communion sure we'll all get hammered, watching the football of course we need to be locked.

Can't socialise, can't chat someone up, can't vocalise your real feelings, can't dance, can't have fun WITHOUT HIDING BEHIND THE DRINK.

Cop the **** on and grow up. You're borderline alcoholics in here. It's nothing to be proud of.

It's a thread asking people how much they drink.

People are being honest in their posts. Some are taking the piss no doubt, but the majority are being honest.
There's no need to be so aggressive.

Maybe some good will come from this thread and make people realise how much they are actually drinking.
Few have already said they will be cutting down now as a result.

12-12-2009 01:04PM

Lil Kitten wrote: »

"I like the taste". I like orange juice, I'm not going to drink 20 fukn pints of it.

"I like to have a drink on the table". I meet friends in cafes and chat for hours. I don't order 10 cappucinos.

Sure why would I drink 20 pints of orange or 10 cappucinos there is no alcohol in either drink, so it would be an awful waste of time.

Now, its 12 pubs time!!!

GiftofGab · 12-12-2009 01:13PM

Lil Kitten wrote: »

Why the fcuk would anybody drink 20 pints? Have you any idea how much liquid that is?

"I like the taste". I like orange juice, I'm not going to drink 20 fukn pints of it.

"I like to have a drink on the table". I meet friends in cafes and chat for hours. I don't order 10 cappucinos.

This thread is absoloute garbage with so much made up crap. Seriously bragging abour how much drink you can "sink" is the most pathetic thing I've heard. It's not manly. It's not clever. It's not admirable.

There is one reason to drink so much that's listed here and it's simple: YOU DRINK TO GET DRUNK.

Like most of the Irish, you have no balls, no confidence, no personality and are crippilingly insecure. Can't have a wedding without being pissed, it's a barbecue let's get fukt, kid's communion sure we'll all get hammered, watching the football of course we need to be locked.

Can't socialise, can't chat someone up, can't vocalise your real feelings, can't dance, can't have fun WITHOUT HIDING BEHIND THE DRINK.

Cop the **** on and grow up. You're borderline alcoholics in here. It's nothing to be proud of.

I started this thread to see just see how much people honestly drink on a night out. It's not about bragging rights. I wanted to see the level of drunkeness of the general population in a nightclub i.e. are most people sober, tipsy, drunk, hammered, etc.

The reason beinging was that personally I think I drink too much on a night out and would like to cut down.

TBH right or wrong, nobody here wants to be chastised for their own choice of consumption of alcohol. I believe that most people here know when it is an appropriate time to get drunk and when it is best to stay sober.

12-12-2009 01:21PM

Thoie wrote: »

I don't want to be the killjoy in the party (but I'm about to be). I thought I liked my drink as much as the next person - though apparently I've been standing next to the wrong people. Anyway, here's a little story.

A number of years ago I was in hospital for a while following an accident. While there I got to know a girl who was in there as long as I was. We got chatting, and would talk a few times a day. On the second day she suddenly said "I'd love a can, but my friends and family suck, and won't bring me any. You have lots of visitors who bring you things, if I gave you money could you ask them to bring me in a 6 pack?"

This struck me as a little strange. She was in her mid twenties, her visitors seemed nice, but from time to time they'd leave her, crying. More of the story emerged over the coming days. She, along with a lot of colleagues, had been made redundant 6 months earlier. They'd all got large redundancy payments, jobs were hard to find, so a bunch of them had got into the habit of meeting up each day to compare jobhunting notes.

They'd meet in the pub a few days a week, and have two or three pints over the space of a few hours. Sometimes they'd go for a night out, and have some more. All was fine for about 5 months, until she suddenly collapsed one day. While everyone else was fine with the regular drinking, for some reason she wasn't, and it transpired she had very serious liver damage. She was in hospital, hooked up to drips, not very well able to take care of herself for at least 6 weeks that I know of - I never knew what happened to her afterwards. The reason she wanted a drink was because she was very upset about the long term prognosis.:rolleyes:

Short version - some people's bodies can handle that amount of alcohol, some people's can't. Until the damage is done, you don't know which category you fall in to. For the people who are actually drinking as much as they state in this thread, it might be worthwhile mentioning it to your doctor the next time you're there - liver function tests are relatively easy to carry out.

That's scary because we're always told a few drinks a few times a week is much better than a big binge at the weekend. I would quite often have a few drinks on several days, never getting drunk. Scary!

simonw · 12-12-2009 01:32PM

Either the majority of the posters in this thread are lying, or I need to hand in my Being-Irish license

Kiera · 12-12-2009 01:37PM

I drank waaaay too much last night!:(

Never know how much i actually drink, i lose count after 5 beers.

D-A-V-E · 12-12-2009 01:38PM

usually i drink a few cans before hand and then a couple pints/shots and maybe a couple cocktails depending where i am.

back when i drank spirits i used to have a shoulder of vodka before going out and once i had a shoulder and a bottol of wine and 2 cans..i blamed the cans for me not making it out!

Catari Jaguar · 12-12-2009 01:43PM

GiftofGab wrote: »

I wanted to see the level of drunkeness of the general population in a nightclub i.e. are most people sober, tipsy, drunk, hammered, etc.

You don't need to ask on boards.ie to know. Open your eyes in a nightclub and you'll see. Or just look on the streets at the clowns going around in bare feet, puke on the streets, fights breaking out, singing and shouting at 3am. Ask any garda in Temple Bar. Irish people get paralytic. Go into any a&e on a thursday - saturday just to double check.

GiftofGab wrote: »

The reason beinging was that personally I think I drink too much on a night out and would like to cut down.

If you want to cut back, cut back. Can't make a decision and stick to it yourself? What does it matter to you if anyone else does or not? Oh because most drinkers will keep at you and at you, "ah you'll have another, go on you will" buying rounds and pressurising you until you're as drunk as they are. So they feel better about it. Gotta drag everyone else down to their level. Sit sober or have 1 drink and just look at them make drunken tits of themselves for one night and you'll definietly want to cut back.

GiftofGab wrote: »

TBH right or wrong, nobody here wants to be chastised for their own choice of consumption of alcohol.

Maybe not want to but need to. Which is sad. There aren't many other countries that need to tell grown ups when they're too drunk to function and that maybe, just maybe they should cut back. Sites like drink.aware set up. Campaigns going to try to curtail drinking. But the tagline is "know the one that's one too many". By all means drink and be drunk, but be one away from comatose and liver collapse. The govt make too much money from revenue and are owned by publicans so won't make a stand against a very real and serious problem. It's sponsored by Diageo(an alcohol company) ffs!

The level of self defense and justifciation here in responses is shocking.

GiftofGab wrote: »

I believe that most people here know when it is an appropriate time to get drunk and when it is best to stay sober.

Hahaha. Watch the morons make fools of themselves at their office parties this Christmas and put their jobs at risk. How many have sober unprotected one night stands with strangers they meet in a bar? How many people when sober would get in a car with a drunk driver?

Believe what you want, but it's hard for most of the population to stay sober at any event. Irish culture revolves around drink. Look at it been applauded and encouraged in this thread. I'm glad some posters have the sense to disagree with some of the rubbish posted. A 15 year old kid posted up how much he drinks (allegedly) and no one batted an eye lid.

For the record other people's drinking habits affect me directly and indirectly. So it is my business and my right to be pissed off and comment on it.

Cupcake_Crisis · 12-12-2009 01:47PM

Slightly too much last night. A naggin of vodka and a few jamesons and red lemonde. Nights out would usually be along those lines too

Mark200 · 12-12-2009 01:54PM

Lil Kitten wrote: »

You don't need to ask on boards.ie to know. Open your eyes in a nightclub and you'll see. Or just look on the streets at the clowns going around in bare feet, puke on the streets, fights breaking out, singing and shouting at 3am. Ask any garda in Temple Bar. Irish people get paralytic. Go into any a&e on a thursday - saturday just to double check.

That only tells you how drunk people get, not how much they drink.

Lil Kitten wrote: »

Maybe not want to but need to. Which is sad. There aren't many other countries that need to tell grown ups when they're too drunk to function and that maybe, just maybe they should cut back. Sites like drink.aware set up. Campaigns going to try to curtail drinking. But the tagline is "know the one that's one too many". By all means drink and be drunk, but be one away from comatose and liver collapse. The govt make too much money from revenue and are owned by publicans so won't make a stand against a very real and serious problem. It's sponsored by Diageo(an alcohol company) ffs!

That line about the Government not taking a stand against it, in the same paragraph where you describe campaigns that try to curtail drink, is a bit contradictory isn't it.

You're deliberately misinterpreting the "know the one thats one too many" line. The point is that you should know the difference between a casual drink, and drinking more than you can handle.

You're starting to sound like you have a serious chip on your shoulder for anyone who even dares to have a few drinks.

How much do you drink on a night out?

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