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Bottle of wine binge drinking?

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  • #62
    jackal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 791 ✭✭✭jackal


    The best way to nip this wine drinking "glass or two in the evening" problem (which generally means at least 2 glasses each) in the bud is to never ever buy a bottle for less than 20 quid.

    1. You will generally be getting great wines that are truly delicious in and of themselves, rather than easy drinking, blended, bland stuff.
    2. I have no scientific basis for saying this but with few exceptions, I have never gotten a hangover off good (€15 euro+) wine.
    3. If you are spending a good bit, you might do a bit of research and learn a bit, rather than just unscrewing lidl's latests €3.99 wonder on a monday night.
    4. Most people cannot afford €20 quid a pop every time they want a glass of wine on a weeknight, where as if you stock up on cheap bottles and they are sitting there, its oh so easy to crack one open on a whim.

    As for the original question, a bottle of wine to myself certainly makes me drunk, but not messy. Is it binge drinking? The people who make the medical definitions of binge drinking are in my unqualified opinion, alarmist clowns, so no. Have a look at "Boozed up Britain" or similar programmes to see what binge drinking truly is.


  • #63
    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    Drinking alone is the exact same as drinking not alone.


  • #64
    Mr. Loverman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,001 ✭✭✭Mr. Loverman


    jackal wrote: »
    The people who make the medical definitions of binge drinking are in my unqualified opinion, alarmist clowns, so no. Have a look at "Boozed up Britain" or similar programmes to see what binge drinking truly is.

    Come on now, just because you don't drink as much as some dumb ass chav who probably thinks the Republic of Ireland is in the UK doesn't mean you aren't binging...

    I'm not the medical professions biggest fan but I'm pretty sure they have no reason to overplay the effects of alcohol; if anything I'd expect them to say the opposite due to lobbying etc.


  • #65
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    Call Me Jimmy wrote: »
    Drinking alone is the exact same as drinking not alone.

    Effects on Physical well being - yes, on emotional well being - not a chance. But, it really depends on what you mean by drinking? Having a couple of bottles watching a movie or getting hammered?

    Getting hammered with a bunch of friends is not the same as getting hammered on your own.


  • #66
    NinjaK
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 963 ✭✭✭NinjaK


    Im not a wine drinker but im just wondering, how many 500ml cans of regular beer would a bottle of red wine equal to (drunk wise)?


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  • #67
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    NinjaK wrote: »
    Im not a wine drinker but im just wondering, how many 500ml cans of regular beer would a bottle of red wine equal to (drunk wise)?

    Someone mentioned earlier in the thread that 5 cans equate to a bottle of wine. Sounds about right I suppose.


  • #68
    donegal_road
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭donegal_road


    donegal_road wrote: »
    over how many years OP?

    bump

    *often surprises me how often people tend to disregard this*


  • #69
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    I wrote about this in another thread. I was at a house party and i actually heard a mate of mine say, "Nah I am not in the humour of drinking I will just have the wine". There was a programme on the BBC and they were interviewing people who turned up at their doctors then sent to a liver unit to be told they have cirrhosis, they basically need a liver replacement. But then shock "but all we ever drank was a bottle of wine each night" we wouldn't even consider ourselves alcoholics.

    So beer is an average of 4 to 6% alcohol content, wine 14to 16%+ so I estimate 1 bottle of wine is the equivalent of drinking 5 to 6 pints.

    5 or 6 pint usually gets me well oiled and it would not be good to drink that everyday.


  • #70
    keith_d99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭keith_d99


    44leto wrote: »
    I wrote about this in another thread. I was at a house party and i actually heard a mate of mine say, "Nah I am not in the humour of drinking I will just have the wine". There was a programme on the BBC and they were interviewing people who turned up at their doctors then sent to a liver unit to be told they have cirrhosis, they basically need a liver replacement. But then shock "but all we ever drank was a bottle of wine each night" we wouldn't even consider ourselves alcoholics.

    So beer is an average of 4 to 6% alcohol content, wine 14to 16%+ so I estimate 1 bottle of wine is the equivalent of drinking 5 to 6 pints.

    5 or 6 pint usually gets me well oiled and it would not be good to drink that everyday.
    Nah 7-8 units - 4 pints for the average bottle of wine


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