Mid Week Pints at the Local Pub

Brendan Flowers · 16-10-2013 06:38PM

April O Neill wrote: »

Well, I'm sure you know that's not what I meant. Just seemed incongruous to mention Facebook in his post. Two totally separate things. That can both be part of your life.

Ssshhh don't you know how cool and "hipster" it is to knock Facebook at any opportunity.

K-9 · 16-10-2013 06:40PM

Captain Chaos wrote: »

For a woman is it's a large amount of drink. For a 6ft 15st man it's really not especially if you've had a big dinner before hand, soaks alot of it up.

I think the original quote way back was on about drinking 6 pints 2 nights a week plus 10-12 pints on a weekend night, possibly twice again.

Something like 22 to maybe 36 points a week on a long term basis isn't doing you good physically or mentally, an increased tolerance level is irrelevant in that regard.

JimFin · 16-10-2013 07:54PM

Was there really any need to turn this thread into a what is to much to drink and what is not - wasn't the intention of this thread. :mad:

Interesting to read what the mid week trade is like around the country and what attracts people to go out mid week. Rural pubs will struggle to stay open mid week esp when heating and lighting is required from early eve so its interesting to hear the punters view on why or why not go out.

bucketybuck · 16-10-2013 08:32PM

BearThomas131 wrote: »

5-6 pints mid week means your an alco ...... Have ye ever heard such ****e hahahaha

If somebody is saying that to them 5/6 pints of beer is just a "few pints" then it is probably in their interest to point out that very few people would take that much beer and not feel the after effects.

There are people who can take 5/6 pints as easily as I could take 2. You also will indeed find these people in a pub during the week.

16-10-2013 08:58PM

bucketybuck wrote: »

If somebody is saying that to them 5/6 pints of beer is just a "few pints" then it is probably in their interest to point out that very few people would take that much beer and not feel the after effects.

There are people who can take 5/6 pints as easily as I could take 2. You also will indeed find these people in a pub during the week.

Well all I can say that out of quite a large number of people (men) I know (and not all Irish) that 5 or 6 pints would leave them not much worse than a bit groggy for a bit after getting up the next day.

There is a big difference than being hungover after 5 or 6 pints and feeling 80 or 90% after it. I would feel around between 80 and 95% the morning after 5 or 6 pints and within an hour of being up I'd hardly know I was out. There is always a rouge day once every few months when you might feel worse but that's the exception rather than the rule.

I could go about my day after a lot more than 5 or 6 pints, I mightn't be feeling tip top but it wouldn't stop me getting on with it.

bucketybuck · 16-10-2013 09:11PM

Dante Billions Drugstore wrote: »

Well I can say that out of quite a large number of people (men) I know (and not all Irish) that 5 or 6 pints would leave them not much worse than a bit groggy for a bit after getting up the next day.

There is a big difference than being hungover after 5 or 6 pints and feeling 80 or 90% after it. I would feel around between 80 and 95% the morning after 5 or 6 pints and within an hour of being up I'd hardly know I was out. There is always a rouge day once every few months when you might feel worse but that's the exception rather than the rule.

I could go about my day after a lot more than 5 or 6 pints, I mightn't be feeling tip top but it wouldn't stop me getting on with it.

I have no doubt about it.

I would also be surprised if you didn't have a few cans about the house, and drank rather more than 5/6 pints at the weekend.

16-10-2013 09:20PM

bucketybuck wrote: »

I have no doubt about it.

I would also be surprised if you didn't have a few cans about the house, and drank rather more than 5/6 pints at the weekend.

Well I have said a number of times that 5 or 6 pints would be a quiet night so most weekends I would drink a lot more than 6 pints yes, even on a midweek night out 6 would be on the low side.

Sure who doesn't have a stock of drink in the house? Doesn't mean I drink cans or spirits etc constantly though. Including pub and at home I would probably only drink about 2 to 3 night a week on average. Of courses there are weeks where you end up drinking most nights if there is a lot going on but it's far from every week.

I don't get your point really I haven't mentioned anything out of the ordinary for the majority of people up and down the country.

bucketybuck · 16-10-2013 09:30PM

Dante Billions Drugstore wrote: »

Well I have said a number of times that 5 or 6 pints would be a quiet night so most weekends I would drink a lot more than 6 pints yes, even on a midweek night out 6 would be on the low side.

Sure who doesn't have a stock of drink in the house? Doesn't mean I drink cans or spirits etc constantly though. Including pub and at home I would probably only drink about 2 to 3 night a week on average. Of courses there are weeks where you end up drinking most nights if there is a lot going on but it's far from every week.

I don't get your point really I haven't mentioned anything out of the ordinary for the majority of people up and down the country.

I also have no doubt that you don't understand my point.

My name is URL · 16-10-2013 09:41PM

Lapin wrote: »

Always better crack in my local during the week.

Full of real drinkers who spend a few bob. Good customers.

Unlike the once a week shower who flood the place on a Saturday night turning up half pissed after starting at home and knocking back their shots of yeager-bombs, insult the bar staff, stumble around in their high heels, before throwing up all over the floor of the jax, falling out the door and doing it all again in the niteclub.

I've given up on my local for that reason. What's worse is come a Tuesday evening the staff are just completely worn out and that affects the atmosphere a great deal. Just doesn't feel like a place where you want to kick back and spend a couple of hours over a few pints with the other auld fellas

Jacks do be in a hoop too :pac:

16-10-2013 10:03PM

bucketybuck wrote: »

I also have no doubt that you don't understand my point.

You are suggesting that I'm doing something out of the ordinary which I am not.

JohnnyChimpo · 16-10-2013 10:06PM

Dante Billions Drugstore wrote: »

Well I have said a number of times that 5 or 6 pints would be a quiet night so most weekends I would drink a lot more than 6 pints yes, even on a midweek night out 6 would be on the low side.

Sure who doesn't have a stock of drink in the house? Doesn't mean I drink cans or spirits etc constantly though. Including pub and at home I would probably only drink about 2 to 3 night a week on average. Of courses there are weeks where you end up drinking most nights if there is a lot going on but it's far from every week.

I don't get your point really I haven't mentioned anything out of the ordinary for the majority of people up and down the country.

Jesus mate, I just thought you were being a bit of a hardman earlier, but now you're starting to sound like a real mental case. Maybe take a few weeks off the sauce like, for the laugh/see if you can.

bucketybuck · 16-10-2013 10:07PM

JohnnyChimpo wrote: »

Maybe take a few weeks off the sauce like, for the laugh/see if you can.

"I can quit any time I want..."

Maximus Alexander · 16-10-2013 10:10PM

Dante Billions Drugstore wrote: »

You are suggesting that I'm doing something out of the ordinary which I am not.

You are though.

Hulk Hands · 16-10-2013 10:12PM

I really don't get the normal definition of an alcoholic as someone who drinks a lot. To me, an alcoholic is someone who feels the need to drink to get through the day, be it drinking during work or drinking prior to a funeral etc or every evening just to get through until tomorrow, regardless of how much they consume. Someone who drinks every waking hour of a long weekend for fun but will forget about it until the following Saturday, is far from an alcoholic. Same with midweek social drinkers

worded · 16-10-2013 10:12PM

The swan in stretham had a stripper on Sundays and they brought around a tray of roasted potatoes for the punters.

First naked woman I ever saw at the age of 14 was there.

Proper entertainment, call me old fashioned if you will.

They wouldn't serve snake bite to any irish lads, but what pub is perfect ?

16-10-2013 10:20PM

JohnnyChimpo wrote: »

Jesus mate, I just thought you were being a bit of a hardman earlier, but now you're starting to sound like a real mental case. Maybe take a few weeks off the sauce like, for the laugh/see if you can.

Honesty this place is gone mad. You have a couple of pints at the weekend and maybe one night out during the week and you are some sort of raging alco.

Of course I could stay off the beer if I wanted to but I don't want to. Any week or weekend I chose to its not an issue. I had a bit of a session last night as a friend and a number if other people from work wanted to and a couple tonight on the way home, I will probably drink very little if at all this weekend as next weekend is a bank holiday. Nothing Strange or startling about it me at all, yet some people just can't see that it appears. I would drink pretty similar to the majority of people I know.

hawkwind23 · 16-10-2013 11:14PM

just back from my local
great fire and nice chatter
decent crowd in and good pints.
nothing to be ashamed of
so much so we have just got a wee carry out to go with a wee smoke

to answer a few queries on here about drinking , some people like drinking midweek to have a chat and enjoy the warmth
for some it is preferable to sitting at home watching tv
6 pints over an evening is debatable but doesn't automatically make someone an alcoholic and its ridiculous to suggest that.

i lament the demise of the irish pub as a centre of community so am maybe biased but the people who once drank there are real and its a loss to society to have them so aggressively destroyed and now thought of as the refuge of the witless and drunkard

anyways , 3 wessons 8.4 ciders for £7 , delicious

April O Neill · 16-10-2013 11:49PM

Dante Billions Drugstore wrote: »

Honesty this place is gone mad. You have a couple of pints at the weekend and maybe one night out during the week and you are some sort of raging alco.

Ah now, now, you said more than a couple. In fact, you even said 6 pints would be on the low side for a weekday night.

Do what you wanna do, but *please* don't make out this is something that everyone does, sil vous plait!

bigbudda · 17-10-2013 01:03AM

My local is fantastic midweek:)

Games night...movie night...quiz night. ..open mic... free food and drinks offers.... every week without fail.

Really making the effort to get people in rather than just sticking on 'the match' and a beer of the week special.

Wompa1 · 17-10-2013 03:54AM

I'll have to tell my friends and family if I'm ever questioned about drinking over 7,000 euro worth of alcohol a year. Working weeks worth of days when I'm maybe 80%-95% capable, that I go out during the week because when I was in college we did that and waiting until the weekend seems too long and answer it with argh ah sure I know plenty of people in this country that do it too...it may time for a long talk.

Couldn't give a fiddlers what anyone does as long as they don't hurt anybody else in the process.

It's easy to get into a drinking rut in Ireland. It's so ingrained into the place.

17-10-2013 10:04AM

April O Neill wrote: »

Ah now, now, you said more than a couple. In fact, you even said 6 pints would be on the low side for a weekday night.

Do what you wanna do, but *please* don't make out this is something that everyone does, sil vous plait!

Wompa1 wrote: »

I'll have to tell my friends and family if I'm ever questioned about drinking over 7,000 euro worth of alcohol a year. Working weeks worth of days when I'm maybe 80%-95% capable, that I go out during the week because when I was in college we did that and waiting until the weekend seems too long and answer it with argh ah sure I know plenty of people in this country that do it too...it may time for a long talk.

Couldn't give a fiddlers what anyone does as long as they don't hurt anybody else in the process.

It's easy to get into a drinking rut in Ireland. It's so ingrained into the place.

There is some serious exaggeration going on here lads that's all I can say. Working weeks when I'm not 100%??, except on a rare occasion I would only be out one night during the week and then its probably only maybe 2 out of every 4 weeks on average that I would be out properly midweek (a couple of pints or cans here and there on the other weeks would be bout as much as there would be if anything) , Yeah I usually have a good few on at least one of the weekend night almost every week but life is for living. What exactly is your problem with going out midweek, life doesnt have to end when you finish college and I for one certainly have no intention of stopping midweek nights out.

You would swear I'm going out alone too, the majority of my midweek nights out are with the work crowd, so that would be quite a few people I work with and all my own friends who don't see anything out of the ordinary about midweek nights out.

Ye two have a very skewed view of the whole think imo, when you see 6 pints as a lot. There are very few people in this country who would count 6 pints as more than an quiet couple of pints.

Honey-ec · 17-10-2013 10:25AM

Hulk Hands wrote: »

I really don't get the normal definition of an alcoholic as someone who drinks a lot. To me, an alcoholic is someone who feels the need to drink to get through the day, be it drinking during work or drinking prior to a funeral etc or every evening just to get through until tomorrow, regardless of how much they consume. Someone who drinks every waking hour of a long weekend for fun but will forget about it until the following Saturday, is far from an alcoholic. Same with midweek social drinkers

And that, in a nutshell really, is the attitude of a lot of Irish people who don't see their drinking as a problem. Alcoholics aren't just the people who are putting vodka in their morning orange juice you know.

And as I say this as a heavy drinker myself. But I know that I drink too much. I've never missed work because of it, it hasn't affected any of my relationships or any of the things that people seem to think only happen to "real" alcoholics. But there's no use in pretending that I don't drink more than is medically advisable, particularly for women.

strobe · 17-10-2013 10:36AM

Honey-ec wrote: »

And that, in a nutshell really, is the attitude of a lot of Irish people who don't see their drinking as a problem. Alcoholics aren't just the people who are putting vodka in their morning orange juice you know.

And as I say this as a heavy drinker myself. But I know that I drink too much. I've never missed work because of it, it hasn't affected any of my relationships or any of the things that people seem to think only happen to "real" alcoholics. But there's no use in pretending that I don't drink more than is medically advisable, particularly for women.

But drinking more than is medically advisable doesn't equate to you being an alcoholic, Honey. Which I think was the posters point.
Now maybe you are, I don't know. But alcoholism isn't defined as drinking above the reccomended safe intake of alcohol as proscribed by the state.

Maximus Alexander · 17-10-2013 10:43AM

The thing is nobody is accusing anyone of being an alcoholic, the only people who have used that term are those that are on the defensive (for some reason) about their drinking habits.

All that's happened is a few people have come out and said that they drink a lot, but that they don't think that it's a lot. Some other posters have been surprised, and pointed out that it definitely is a lot.

strobe · 17-10-2013 10:45AM

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

The thing is nobody is accusing anyone of being an alcoholic, the only people who have used that term are those that are on the defensive (for some reason) about their drinking habits.

All that's happened is a few people have come out and said that they drink a lot, but that they don't think that it's a lot. Some other posters have been surprised, and pointed out that it definitely is a lot.

Post was in reference to Honey's comments on alcoholism. Haven't read the whole thread.

Honey-ec · 17-10-2013 10:49AM

strobe wrote: »

But drinking more than is medically advisable doesn't equate to you being an alcoholic, Honey. Which I think was the posters point.
Now maybe you are, I don't know. But alcoholism isn't defined as drinking above the reccomended safe intake of alcohol as proscribed by the state.

I'm well aware of that. But I do think that some of the people posting on this thread would tick some of the other boxes for alcohol having the potential to become a problem. I'm just pointing out that just because you can still function to a high degree doesn't necessarily mean you can drink like a fish and have nowt to worry about.

17-10-2013 10:51AM

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

The thing is nobody is accusing anyone of being an alcoholic, the only people who have used that term are those that are on the defensive (for some reason) about their drinking habits.

All that's happened is a few people have come out and said that they drink a lot, but that they don't think that it's a lot. Some other posters have been surprised, and pointed out that it definitely is a lot.

There have been a number of people saying other posters are alcoholics straight out and very much suggested in other posts.

Some people don't appear to see the difference between someone who chooses to drink a fair bit and an alcoholic, there is a world of difference.

strobe · 17-10-2013 10:52AM

Honey-ec wrote: »

I'm well aware of that. But I do think that some of the people posting on this thread would tick some of the other boxes for alcohol having the potential to become a problem. I'm just pointing out that just because you can still function to a high degree doesn't necessarily mean you can drink like a fish and have nowt to worry about.

Ah I see, yeah. Would agree of course. Everyone knows alcohol can be bad for you.

Maximus Alexander · 17-10-2013 11:01AM

Dante Billions Drugstore wrote: »

There have been a number of people saying other posters are alcoholics straight out and very much suggested in other posts.

Some people don't appear to see the difference between someone who chooses to drink a fair bit and an alcoholic, there is a world of difference.

There was one poster back on page four who claimed someone was probably an alcoholic. That's a far cry from a number of posters saying it straight out.

As I said, all this alcoholism talk is coming from people being oddly defensive about their drinking habits.

anto9 · 17-10-2013 11:08AM

bucketybuck wrote: »

Oh you can act indignant all you want, but the cold reality is that if you are blithely drinking 6 pints on a week night without any ill effect then you are probably an alcoholic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism#Early_signs

10 pints most nights with at least 15 on a Saturday ,so no i dont have a drinking problem,or more correctly in getting the beer down ;-)
PS ,I also drive better after the 15 pints .Its just a scooter thingy so i am more liable to harm myself rather than others.The Country where i live now ,dont have widespread alchol testing as of yet ;-)

Mid Week Pints at the Local Pub

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