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13-10-2013 06:01PM

kneemos wrote: »

Don't know if it's an Irish phenomena or a universal thing,but whatever happens on a night out an Irish person will always remember how many pints they had.
Is it a measure of the quality of the night or bragging or something?

It's to qualify everything else that's said.

Savoir.Faire · 13-10-2013 06:03PM

Deleted User wrote: »

It's to qualify everything else that's said.

Absolutely. A story about a night out can have a completely different context based on whether the teller has had 3 pints or 2 gallons.

Horrid Henry · 13-10-2013 06:11PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

Going out to have fun and using alcohol to enhance that experience can be great.

Going out with the intention to drink as much as possible is something I've never understood. I'd assume that someone who drinks a ridiculous amount of alcohol is boring, and unable to find or create amusement while sober or somewhat drunk. Therefore I'd have no interest in spending the evening observing the antics of someone with a major alcohol problem.

How do you find the time to drink all that, let alone the money?
22 drinks in one day? Either you basically spend all of Saturday drinking, or you're drinking those ridiculously fast. Why not drink half of that amount so you can drink at a more relaxed pace, save yourself money, and still get drunk.
You're free to do whatever you want of course, I just don't see the point in spending that much money, and I'm sure you're aware of the massive damage keeping that routine up will do to you.

Head out at 8...probably drink 2.5 pints and hour until midnight...then just hit the shorts. Head home at 4 or 5am. Not being funny, but €200 a week on booze wouldn't put a dent in my budget.

MadYaker · 13-10-2013 06:15PM

The Gallagher brothers from Oasis were right belters back in the day. They seem to have calmed down a bit now though, or at least the talented one has. Noel reckons he spent a million pounds on drugs and booze in the 90s.

MadYaker · 13-10-2013 06:17PM

kneemos wrote: »

Don't know if it's an Irish phenomena or a universal thing,but whatever happens on a night out an Irish person will always remember how many pints they had.
Is it a measure of the quality of the night or bragging or something?

Well this is nonsense, I haven't a notion how many pints I had last night. I was drinking before we went to the bar and I remember the whole night I think, I simply wasn't counting.

wretcheddomain · 13-10-2013 06:21PM

Was I the only one to interpret the thread title as referring to obese drinkers?

I was trying to think of a clearer alternative but when I thought of 'heavy drinkers' I end up rocking the same boat.

kneemos · 13-10-2013 06:45PM

MadYaker wrote: »

Well this is nonsense, I haven't a notion how many pints I had last night. I was drinking before we went to the bar and I remember the whole night I think, I simply wasn't counting.

Better check your DNA.

hidinginthebush · 13-10-2013 06:47PM

Savoir.Faire wrote: »

I relish a good old weekend on the razzle from time-to-time. I love when the Irish rugby team are playing in Dublin as I use it as an excuse to let the hair down and imbibe a large quantity of turps. 5 or 6 pints before the game to wet the whistle, then a hipflask of whiskey to warm the gills. Then back into town for a bite to eat, couple of glasses of wine, then back on Uncle Arthur's Elixir until I'm as drunk as a skunk. Invariably end up stumbling out of Leggs at some ridiculous hour rather the worse for wear.

I'm a rambunctious drunk, but never messy or obnoxious. The worst thing about it is the next day, when my eyes look like a greyhound's bollocks on a frosty morning. Not as big a fan of the hair of the dog cure as I was.

It may well seem that way to you while drunk, its rarely the case though.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 13-10-2013 06:54PM

I usually drink once or twice every week or every second week. When I drink, I drink pretty much all that I can get into me.
Last night I had a naggen of vodka and 5 cans over a few hours with friends, then went clubbing and had 3 pints, 2 tequilas and a shot of whiskey. Hangovers are getting more intense as I get older.

2 litres of cold coke, a coffee, dinner I made the previous day and only need to heat up and 1 or 2 lyrica is my hangover cure, oh how I love my lyrica, without you, hangovers would be unbearable.

kneemos · 13-10-2013 07:06PM

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

I usually drink once or twice every week or every second week. When I drink, I drink pretty much all that I can get into me.
Last night I had a naggen of vodka and 5 cans over a few hours with friends, then went clubbing and had 3 pints, 2 tequilas and a shot of whiskey. Hangovers are getting more intense as I get older.

2 litres of cold coke, a coffee, dinner I made the previous day and only need to heat up and 1 or 2 lyrica is my hangover cure, oh how I love my lyrica, without you, hangovers would be unbearable.

That Lyrica sounds like heavy duty Shoite.

daithi1970 · 13-10-2013 07:20PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Some people, like me, love being very, very drunk. Very very few people can tell the difference between merry me and black-out me.

Look up Korsakoff Syndrome, it might cool your jets for a while...:rolleyes:

13-10-2013 11:55PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

How do you find the time to drink all that, let alone the money?
22 drinks in one day? Either you basically spend all of Saturday drinking, or you're drinking those ridiculously fast. Why not drink half of that amount so you can drink at a more relaxed pace, save yourself money, and still get drunk.
You're free to do whatever you want of course, I just don't see the point in spending that much money, and I'm sure you're aware of the massive damage keeping that routine up will do to you.

Start at 6 or 7 on a Friday or Saturday and drink till 2 or 3am and that amount would easily be put away at a steady pace. The 4 jagers and 5 whiskey could be put away in the last two hours easily in the nightclub.

An all day session on a Saturday would see a lot more put away than listed there for any of the days.

Gerry91 · 14-10-2013 12:07AM

Azalea Fat Minute wrote: »

Start at 6 or 7 on a Friday or Saturday and drink till 2 or 3am and that amount would easily be but away at a steady pace. The 4 jagers and 5 whiskey could be put away in the last two hours easily in the nightclub.

An all day session on a Saturday would see a lot more put away than listed there for any of the days.

Exactly, I often see people do two bombs at a time even. Could take no length to get 4 into you.

Start at 8 and as OP said that's 2.5 pints an hour till midnight. That's steady enough pace to me, I've seen a lot worse

I've often seen people get 8 cans into them in about two hours from college days

Sauve · 14-10-2013 12:12AM

I always wonder how people who are drunk/hungover from Fri-Sun have the time to do it?
If you've a 9-5 Mon-Fri job, then when do you get shït done? Do you have other hobbies/commitments/stuff to be at, and when do you do it?!

Genuinely baffled by that one, it'd be like being away all weekend, every weekend

14-10-2013 12:14AM

Just put up with being hungover.

Sauve · 14-10-2013 12:21AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Just put up with being hungover.

Can't do it- can't function with a hangover at all. The Fear, sickness, headaches, just cant handle any of it anymore.

Crooked Jack · 14-10-2013 12:23AM

Horrid Henry wrote: »

Shane McGowan's also an embarrasment...have you ever seen him in action?

And Oliver Reed just keeled over and died during a session.

He's one of the greatest writers Ireland has ever produced. embarassment indeed (and yeah, he was born in london, blah blah blah, read his books, he's very much a product of Ireland)

14-10-2013 12:26AM

Sauve wrote: »

I always wonder how people who are drunk/hungover from Fri-Sun have the time to do it?
If you've a 9-5 Mon-Fri job, then when do you get shït done? Do you have other hobbies/commitments/stuff to be at, and when do you do it?!

Genuinely baffled by that one, it'd be like being away all weekend, every weekend

Even a quite weekend for me consists mostly of watching sport, relaxing and sleeping. Even going on the beer Thursday, Friday and Saturday night would have little effect on that. Going out or potential hangovers get priority over almost anything else so I just wouldn't arrange anything if I knew big sessions were planned.

Apart from that I can manage to go about my day fairly ok when hungover unless it's particularly bad. I'd regularly go to work hungover so doing it at weekends when you are mostly doing nothing is a lot easier.

Wattle · 14-10-2013 12:28AM

Crooked Jack wrote: »

He's one of the greatest writers Ireland has ever produced. embarassment indeed (and yeah, he was born in london, blah blah blah, read his books, he's very much a product of Ireland)

That is true he's one of the best lyric writers I've ever come across but man did he piss it all away. I sat a couple of seats away from him in the cinema one time and he had his bottle stashed in his coat. Or maybe I'm being unfair it was probably just his disease/condition taking it's course.

Gerry91 · 14-10-2013 12:40AM

Wouldn't class myself as that big a drinker anymore since I graduated really. Working all week and match on a saturday means once a week at best is all I have to go out and sometimes I don't even bother. Would have put back a load in my college days though nothing compared to some amount of my peers tbh

Nothing better than going on the absolute tear IMO, and I really think you can't beat a good aul day session. If i could I'd love to go out more but gyming and training most days and dieting quite a lot mean I don't

Haven't had a day session in way too long, just love them whether it's a college event, going to a rugby/gaa match, watching match in the pub or any random event, just a huge fan of them

Smidge · 14-10-2013 12:51AM

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

I usually drink once or twice every week or every second week. When I drink, I drink pretty much all that I can get into me.
Last night I had a naggen of vodka and 5 cans over a few hours with friends, then went clubbing and had 3 pints, 2 tequilas and a shot of whiskey. Hangovers are getting more intense as I get older.

2 litres of cold coke, a coffee, dinner I made the previous day and only need to heat up and 1 or 2 lyrica is my hangover cure, oh how I love my lyrica, without you, hangovers would be unbearable.

What's lyrica?

kneemos · 14-10-2013 01:02AM

Smidge wrote: »

What's lyrica?

Prescription painkiller.

Smidge · 14-10-2013 01:08AM

kneemos wrote: »

Prescription painkiller.

Ah I see

LOTD · 14-10-2013 02:27AM

It's all about how you handle your drink. I couldn't do pints and shots, in the volume some people do them in, more of a pints guy, don't like spirits at all. Whether you are big drinker or not, people have good and bad moments/memories involving alcohol. What's surprising me the most about this thread is the regularity of huge sessions people have that's some going, but hey each to their own.

April O Neill · 14-10-2013 03:10AM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

The thing is you have to be really really good at something (besides drinking) to get away with being a boozehound hellraiser.

Well, good at something that makes one famous. Really, really good at being an architect. Can't be a heavy drinker. Really, really good at being a rock star. CAN be a heavy drinker.

14-10-2013 09:07AM

April O Neill wrote: »

Well, good at something that makes one famous. Really, really good at being an architect. Can't be a heavy drinker. Really, really good at being a rock star. CAN be a heavy drinker.

Depends how heavy a drinker mean. If you mean drinking more or less constantly everyday then yes it wouldn't be possible for a person in a normal job but there are a lot of people who do an awful lot of drinking and who work in all sorts of jobs from very good ones to minimum wage ones and hold then down.

SEPT 23 1989 · 14-10-2013 09:24AM

I wish bands today would drink heavily and get into serious substance abuse then we might have some music we can actually listen to again

Vinz Mesrine · 14-10-2013 09:34AM

It's one thing I've never understood.

When I was younger (17/18) until my daughter was born (25) I used to go out fairly regularly, in the early days myself and the lads went out Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday night but the one thing that always did and still does baffle me is how people remember exactly how many drinks they had the night before. Tbh people who say they had 10 pints of this, 6 shots of that and 8 shots of something else are usually, imo, lying through their arses.

jamesjoyce1710 · 14-10-2013 09:59AM

Azalea Fat Minute wrote: »

Even a quite weekend for me consists mostly of watching sport, relaxing and sleeping. Even going on the beer Thursday, Friday and Saturday night would have little effect on that. Going out or potential hangovers get priority over almost anything else so I just wouldn't arrange anything if I knew big sessions were planned.

Apart from that I can manage to go about my day fairly ok when hungover unless it's particularly bad. I'd regularly go to work hungover so doing it at weekends when you are mostly doing nothing is a lot easier.

jesus, that has to be one of the sadest existance ever, poor chap, hope you grow some sense soon!

AlanG · 14-10-2013 10:14AM

Don’t forget the likes of Oliver Reid and Keith Moon were drinking in the UK and US at a time when most beer in these countries was about 3.2%. Not really comparable to Irish beer. If you take into account the obvious exaggeration that accompanies most of these stories it is likely they didn’t drink too much more in one go than any piss head would if they could afford it. It kept them in the papers though which was great marketing by their handlers.

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