Mid Week Pints at the Local Pub

K-9 wrote: »

they are saying 20 pints a week is harmful to you,

I don't think 20 pints a week would be considered overly harmful. Its well known the weekly safe limits are way too strict so using them to come to the conclusion is not really accurate.

Wompa1 wrote: »

How do you not call it denial? You said, weeks is an exaggeration. That's denial.

Isolated days cannot be looked on as "weeks" in my opinion and also it ignores the fact that it mightn't make a blind bit of difference if you are 80% or 100%. People are rarely 100% anyway, be it a bad nights, having the flu or a cold etc etc.

Wompa1 wrote: »

You talk up about how much you drink and then when someone talks about it in a less than positive manner, you underplay it yourself. You have said 60 euro would be a cheap night out for you..when I stated that would be a lot for me and I'd want somebody to have a talk. You underplay it and make it seem like I'm exagerating when all I did was look at your statements, do some simple maths and come out with that figure and I bet 7,000 is low because you probably drink on certain extra days like Arthurs Day, St. Patricks Day, Birthdays etc.

I didn't say 60 euro would be a cheap night out I said its rare I would spend less on a night out, what I count as a night out though is a biggish session so would not be every time I drink as you are assuming. That's also taking into account other things like food, taxi's etc.

There is simply no way on earth I spend anything like 7k per year on nights out that just pulled out of the sky.

Tiddlypeeps wrote: »

You seem to not like the idea that you spend as much as others have claimed on drink per year. I'd recommend for your own sake and nobody else's that you keep track of how much you spend in a notebook or something. Just jot down a quick note the morning after a night out with a rough guess based on how many pints you had.

If it works out at what you say it is then that's fine, some would consider it a bit on the high side but at least you know yourself what's going on and your fine with that. But if it's a lot higher than you estimate then I'd be concerned if I were you, because it indicates that you are lying to yourself and trying to convince yourself you drink a lot less than you really do.

This requires very little effort and the only reason not to do it would be that you are scared of what it will tell you.

The fact of the matter is when I know what my outgoings are per month on rent, bills, car loan etc and knowing what I earn its easy enough to work out roughly what I spend on nights out and if I was spending 7k a year I'd know about it. I'm not saying I don't spend a fair bit, but its not near as high as some people are estimating. It certainly wouldn't require writing down to roughly work out that sort of thing.

Wompa1 wrote: »

so...what you said about the amount you drink and what your threshold for spending on a night out was a load of sh1te? You don't go out 3 nights a week, spending at least 60 euro on the weekend nights and at least 6 pints on a week night..which, if it's 6 pints and you're paying for taxis and food, you're spending more than the 20 I had factored in.

If you actually read my posts then you might have an idea of what I was saying. I stated more than once that I don't go out 3 nights every week so that straight away is that put to bed. I also said I wouldn't count having 6 pints as a night out so when I said 60 euro for a night out I wasn't referring to going for a couple of pints, and this would make up a decent number of my trips to the pub. I'm also lumping in cans which usually cost me 1 euro each when answering questions about intake. There are also quiet weeks where I spend little or nothing. Every week is different so its hard to give the type of exact figures people appear to want.