The Drink 'wall'

Rented Mule · 10-05-2013 06:30PM

I was on 24-48 330ml cans per day for a good part of the Nineties. The 'wall' was usually the clock on the wall and having to work the next day.

rain on · 10-05-2013 06:32PM

3 pints is my max these days, after that the sick happens. In the wild days of my youth I used to be able for 4 pints and a can or two at someone's house after, but those days are gone... I can't pace myself at all after a certain point so I just have to keep the magic 3 pint figure in my head and things work out okay.

MichaelHunt · 10-05-2013 06:34PM

TheComeUp wrote: »

I can drink a litre of spirits and keep going barely most nights...can do a whole slab of Bulmers if I get a proper feed into before hand. I normally stick to a half litre to 70cl though for obvious reasons or anywhere from 10-15 cans if that's the choice.

this is the saddest post I have ever read on boards. I hope to God you are joking. You are a disgraceful indictment of what modern Ireland has become. Your liver will be cirrhosed by the time you are forty. Put down the cans mate, there's a whole world outside.

Outkast_IRE · 10-05-2013 06:36PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

People with big engines can stay ticking over on pints for lengthy periods. I find that I always retain some form of rationality and reason.

Heavy spirit drinking over a lengthy period is a different kind of drunk. It can make a drinker messy, emotional and a potential danger to themselves or others.

Its all down to the person, some cant pace themselves no matter what, pints are just forcing them into pacing themselves.

I can drink spirits for the night and be fine with it, mostly cause i can pace myself and if needs be will get the odd soft drink if i need a break for half an hour.

Jimoslimos · 10-05-2013 06:42PM

I thought this was going to be about that favourite student interior design - the empty beer can wall

Ando's Saggy Bottom · 10-05-2013 06:48PM

BOHtox wrote: »

If you're going to get upset with an AH style response in AH, you probably shouldn't read the forum or you'll post like that a lot.

Sure now you're moaning yourself about the fact you got a AH style response!

Pretzill · 10-05-2013 06:48PM

I hate the drunk feeling - even when I was younger my limit was 3-4 drinks to stop before the wall rised. Now I could still drink 3 glasses of vino but weekends only - having said the first glass is always the nicest - I enjoy the taste I don't enjoy getting wasted.

Hande hoche! · 10-05-2013 06:51PM

Jimoslimos wrote: »

I thought this was going to be about that favourite student interior design - the empty beer can wall

Was thinking the exact same thing.

WilyCoyote · 10-05-2013 06:52PM

I love overdoing it about once a month.

gurramok · 10-05-2013 06:53PM

It all depends on the timeframe. 6 pints is nothing really when you start at maybe 1pm and continue till 2am the next morning after a weeks dry period with food thrown in.

6 pints in maybe 3-4 hours on a night out maybe hitting that wall for most people i'd reckon but then again it depends on the strength of the beer, you'd definitely hit that wall after 6 pints of 5.5% beer for example from 9pm to 1am if you drink it fast than drinking standard Guinness which from memory is 4.3%. You'd drink more on lower strength beer!

brummytom · 10-05-2013 06:59PM

There are some right miserable so and sos in this thread.

I don't see the problem with drinking 15+ pints on a night out if it's every few weeks or so. If it was every night that would be a problem, but some people just want to get ratarsed every now and then...

harry Bailey esq · 10-05-2013 07:02PM

i have no 'wall' as such.if i have a few beers at home 6cans would enjoyable,however if im out with good company(read good drinkers) i could pace myself over a good few hours and easily sink 15-20 pints and remain pretty coherent.spirits don't really agree with me,a bottle of whiskey gets me fairly well oiled so its very rare ill be drinking those.plus the only way to avoid a spirit hangover is to drink it neat.

MichaelHunt · 10-05-2013 07:12PM

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

i have no 'wall' as such.if i have a few beers at home 6cans would enjoyable,however if im out with good company(read good drinkers) i could pace myself over a good few hours and easily sink 15-20 pints and remain pretty coherent.spirits don't really agree with me,a bottle of whiskey gets me fairly well oiled so its very rare ill be drinking those.plus the only way to avoid a spirit hangover is to drink it neat.

Mate!!
10 litres of lager or 1 litre of hard spirits!
do you have any idea the damage you are doing to your liver, not to mention your other organs? I don't care if it's only once a month, that's an horrific amount of alcohol to be consuming.

Gweedling · 10-05-2013 07:13PM

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

i have no 'wall' as such.if i have a few beers at home 6cans would enjoyable,however if im out with good company(read good drinkers) i could pace myself over a good few hours and easily sink 15-20 pints and remain pretty coherent.spirits don't really agree with me,a bottle of whiskey gets me fairly well oiled so its very rare ill be drinking those.plus the only way to avoid a spirit hangover is to drink it neat.

15-20 pints over a "good few hours" is not pacing yourself in anyone's language

The Dagda · 10-05-2013 07:24PM

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

i have no 'wall' as such.if i have a few beers at home 6cans would enjoyable,however if im out with good company(read good drinkers) i could pace myself over a good few hours and easily sink 15-20 pints and remain pretty coherent.spirits don't really agree with me,a bottle of whiskey gets me fairly well oiled so its very rare ill be drinking those.plus the only way to avoid a spirit hangover is to drink it neat.

I hope you don't drink like that on a school night sonny?! You'll never get the junior cert if you do...

harry Bailey esq · 10-05-2013 07:28PM

Gweedling wrote: »

15-20 pints over a "good few hours" is not pacing yourself in anyone's language

right,so if i go to a pub to watch an early match,say 11.45 kick off and i stay out til 2.30 am that's 15hours.That makes it roughly a pint an hour,which is very slow by my reckoning.so yeah its fair to say id be pacing myself.

Prodigious · 10-05-2013 07:36PM

This thread spells out a lot of Ireland's serious issues.

Pug160 · 10-05-2013 07:42PM

I'm what most people would consider to be a lightweight. I start feeling it after about 4 or 5 pints.

Anybody ever read about Andre The Giant? He apparently necked down 156 beers in one sitting, and on another occasion drank 14 bottles of wine. It sounds unbelievable but he was a huge man.

Edit: Maybe the numbers are a bit high but he was supposedly a huge drinker.

3hn2givr7mx1sc · 10-05-2013 07:45PM

The last definitive wall I hit was after a liter of vodka. Hungover for about 3 days after it. Awful idea!

Talib Fiasco · 10-05-2013 07:55PM

Cody Pomeray wrote: »

Jesus.

15 cans of beer on a night is 7 Litres.

It's hard not to sound like a wet blanket saying this but you're going to pay that back someday with your health if you carry on.

I don't know how anyone can think it's reasonable to do that to their own body...

I realise the risks involved but I'm the healthiest I've ever been and it's not like I do this every week. I understand your concern but I know once I leave college I mightn't even drink more than a few pints. I'm studying to become a primary school teacher and it's not the sort of profession that has the tolerance or the time to be drinking that much so in a way I guess I'm making up for it?

MichaelHunt wrote: »

this is the saddest post I have ever read on boards. I hope to God you are joking. You are a disgraceful indictment of what modern Ireland has become. Your liver will be cirrhosed by the time you are forty. Put down the cans mate, there's a whole world outside.

Chill...

Hamiltonion · 10-05-2013 07:55PM

Paddies Day

1pm - Bottle of Cava in Mimosas

3pm-7pm 2/3 bottle of dark rum

7-8 1 pint

8-10 4 cans larger

10pm went for a "quick nap before due to leave for a party. Woke up at 5am, no hangover whatsoever. Generally half of that would cripple me for days

Pug160 · 10-05-2013 08:00PM

Drinking a lot is obviously going to have an impact on your health but it can vary from person to person a great deal. Someone getting drunk on about 6 or 7 strong pints is arguably doing as much damage to themselves as someone getting equally as drunk but drinking more. Therefore if the second guy was only drinking 6 or 7 but not getting rat assed like the lightweight drinker, he may well not be doing himself as much harm.

It's all debatable though.

FTA69 · 10-05-2013 08:01PM

I'd drink 15 pints on a good night and be in a reasonable enough state considering, rarely slurring and never messy/puking/aggressive. My friend over here owns a pub and I think that's part of the problem. When I go for pints there I end up rat arsed by midnight and because the session continues on I'll easily end up drinking until 5am. During the week I'm fastidious about my diet and train hard in boxing (around 8-10 hours a week) but then every two weeks or so I end up killing myself with drink. While I've no bother putting that much away, I'm destroyed for two days afterward and training is usually a write-off on Monday because I'm a heap of sweat and death after 20 minutes. Forget sparring, my head is still banging and I'm puffing 20 seconds into it.

The gas thing is I then get mad urges to repeat this process every 2-3 weeks. I think it's some sort of Irish cultural thing embedded into my psyche. Funnily enough I won't touch a drop of alcohol if I'm not out on the lash, it's all or nothing,

Pug160 · 10-05-2013 08:12PM

FTA69 wrote: »

I'd drink 15 pints on a good night and be in a reasonable enough state considering, rarely slurring and never messy/puking/aggressive. My friend over here owns a pub and I think that's part of the problem. When I go for pints there I end up rat arsed by midnight and because the session continues on I'll easily end up drinking until 5am. During the week I'm fastidious about my diet and train hard in boxing (around 8-10 hours a week) but then every two weeks or so I end up killing myself with drink. While I've no bother putting that much away, I'm destroyed for two days afterward and training is usually a write-off on Monday because I'm a heap of sweat and death after 20 minutes. Forget sparring, my head is still banging and I'm puffing 20 seconds into it.

The gas thing is I then get mad urges to repeat this process every 2-3 weeks. I think it's some sort of Irish cultural thing embedded into my psyche. Funnily enough I won't touch a drop of alcohol if I'm not out on the lash, it's all or nothing,

I drink pints too but that's because I'm a lightweight and don't usually go past about 7. But how can people drink 15 pints? That's an awful lot of liquid. I'm not even sure drinking that much water would be good for you, let alone beer. Are you guys not running to the toilet a lot?

FTA69 · 10-05-2013 08:23PM

I don't know to be honest. I'm only an average size lad as well but I've often outdrank friends of mine who are 17 stone plus. It's not an exaggeration either like. I suppose you could manage 10+ pisses in a night.

MichaelHunt · 10-05-2013 08:25PM

FTA69 wrote: »

I'd drink 15 pints on a good night and be in a reasonable enough state considering, rarely slurring and never messy/puking/aggressive. My friend over here owns a pub and I think that's part of the problem. When I go for pints there I end up rat arsed by midnight and because the session continues on I'll easily end up drinking until 5am. During the week I'm fastidious about my diet and train hard in boxing (around 8-10 hours a week) but then every two weeks or so I end up killing myself with drink. While I've no bother putting that much away, I'm destroyed for two days afterward and training is usually a write-off on Monday because I'm a heap of sweat and death after 20 minutes. Forget sparring, my head is still banging and I'm puffing 20 seconds into it.

The gas thing is I then get mad urges to repeat this process every 2-3 weeks. I think it's some sort of Irish cultural thing embedded into my psyche. Funnily enough I won't touch a drop of alcohol if I'm not out on the lash, it's all or nothing,

you've got a drink problem mate.
perhaps it's due to boredom, itchy feet outside of the gym. happens to a lot of guys who are at an high level in sporting fields.

I'd suggest going to a psychiatrist and getting some disulfiram.

Pug160 · 10-05-2013 08:30PM

MichaelHunt wrote: »

you've got a drink problem mate.
perhaps it's due to boredom, itchy feet outside of the gym. happens to a lot of guys who are at an high level in sporting fields.

I'd suggest going to a psychiatrist and getting some disulfiram.

In my opinion the high amount of liquid is probably making it worse than it would be if he was drinking spirits. Although none of it is good for you, obviously. I wouldn't call it a drink problem as such if he's just binging every now and then, but it's certainly a potential health problem.

FTA69 · 10-05-2013 08:31PM

I'd suggest accepting the fact that I'm a 25 year old living in London and that getting lashed is often part of that equation. Most people at that crack tend to grow out of it by their 30s.

It's by no means a healthy attitude to booze but I wouldn't say I need to talk to a psychiatrist. Follow on that logic and you'll be worse than the Yanks, a bloody head shrinker and drugs for everything.

tommyombomb · 10-05-2013 08:35PM

When I hit the wall, i put the head down and burst through it

Pug160 · 10-05-2013 08:49PM

FTA69 wrote: »

I'd suggest accepting the fact that I'm a 25 year old living in London and that getting lashed is often part of that equation. Most people at that crack tend to grow out of it by their 30s.

It's by no means a healthy attitude to booze but I wouldn't say I need to talk to a psychiatrist. Follow on that logic and you'll be worse than the Yanks, a bloody head shrinker and drugs for everything.

Most doctors say that heavy drinking can be tolerated by the liver up until the age of about 30 or 35 (depending on when you start) but after that it takes its toll. Have fun for the next few years then cut back a bit.

Btw, if you like beer more than spirits you could look out for the stronger Euro beers in certain bars. They are much stronger than average beers in the UK and make you slow down the drinking process. They are also much better quality.

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