Do you drink?

Daveysil15 · 10-03-2014 06:29PM

I might drink once a month. I'm pissed after 3 pints now.

My name is URL · 10-03-2014 06:33PM

Where's the option for alcoholics who aren't ready to admit it?

10-03-2014 06:35PM

Im an alcoholic. This week is my 11th anniversary of quitting.
yay me .

PizzamanIRL · 10-03-2014 06:49PM

Where's the 'Few times a year' option?

I feel left out now.

daveyboynire · 10-03-2014 06:50PM

I started drinking when I was 17 or so, I'm 32 now and the time has come to kiss it good by, The older I get the more horrible the hangovers are getting.

caustic 1 · 10-03-2014 06:58PM

Jake1 wrote: »

Im an alcoholic. This week is my 11th anniversary of quitting.
yay me .

Congratulations to you.

Woodpecker1 · 10-03-2014 07:00PM

A beer with or after dinner. Every night. Absolutely no harm in it.

Everything in moderation.

10-03-2014 07:10PM

caustic 1 wrote: »

Congratulations to you.

thanks a million, Im delighted with myself LOL

Long may it last.

lukesmom · 10-03-2014 07:11PM

No I haven't touched a drop since last April so almost a year.

MadYaker · 10-03-2014 07:16PM

I probably drink once or twice a week. Sometimes I get hammered, sometimes its just 2 or 3 beers.

ahnowbrowncow · 10-03-2014 07:16PM

Jake1 wrote: »

Im an alcoholic. This week is my 11th anniversary of quitting.
yay me .

When will you stop being an alcoholic?

Cupcake_Crisis · 10-03-2014 07:17PM

I'd have a few drinks once or twice a week. I can't go all out like I used to on a night. Flew through hangovers from when i started drinking at 17 till I was about 21, ever since then it's been a steady slope into needing 2-3 days recovery time from a heavy night.

My name is URL · 10-03-2014 07:19PM

Woodpecker1 wrote: »

A beer with or after dinner. Every night. Absolutely no harm in it.

Everything in moderation.

No harm in it at all, but if you're having it every night with dinner it's not exactly 'in moderation' is it?

Woodpecker1 · 10-03-2014 07:26PM

My name is URL wrote: »

No harm in it at all, but if you're having it every night with dinner it's not exactly 'in moderation' is it?

I would say it is a perfectly moderate amount .

https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/check-the-facts/what-is-alcohol/lower-risk-guidelines/

Im taking about 500ml of lager .

Beer is good for your heart.

It doesn't matter if you're a male or a female, drinking beer keeps your heart healthy. According to a study Researchers at Italy's Fondazione di Ricerca e Cura, moderate beer drinking (a little more than a pint of beer a day) makes you 31 percent less likely than those who don't drink to suffer from hearts attacks, strokes or heart disease

I would go as far to say that 500ml of coke would be worse .

Galwayguy35 · 10-03-2014 07:28PM

I was heavy on the booze for most of my 20s, binge drinking at the weekend.

Hardly drink at all now, sometimes the odd hot whiskey at home or Guinness if I go to the pub which is maybe a few times a year.

I could drink well over 10 pints years ago, now 3 pints and I'm full.

IMO I think the older you get the less you are able to drink.

tayto lover · 10-03-2014 07:33PM

I drink 4 pints on a Friday night. I don't get drunk.
This is just a social drink with friends and we discuss our week gone by.
Its nice and relaxing.

Daveysil15 · 10-03-2014 07:43PM

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

I could drink well over 10 pints years ago, now 3 pints and I'm full.

IMO I think the older you get the less you are able to drink.

That seems to be the case alright. Although even when I was younger I always hit a wall after the 4th pint. I literally cannot get anymore in to me after that. Too full.

Sierra 117 · 10-03-2014 07:47PM

I never drink alcohol. Just never got into it.

Tim Riggins · 10-03-2014 07:57PM

yep

shruikan2553 · 10-03-2014 07:59PM

I drink now and again, it tends to be weeks in between if not months.

corsav6 · 10-03-2014 08:07PM

I drink about 4 times a year, I get a little drunk because I'm not used to it.

MadYaker · 10-03-2014 08:21PM

ahnowbrowncow wrote: »

When will you stop being an alcoholic?

You never stop being an alcoholic. You just learn to deal with it. Usually by not drinking. At all. Ever.

anncoates · 10-03-2014 08:26PM

Varies.

Usually about 2 weekends in a month, sometimes more sometimes less. I do try and have at least one weekend where I don't drink and I rarely drink week days anymore.

Usually would drink enough to get pretty tipsy when I do drink, maybe between 5 and 9 pints but not badly so. .

Pumpkinseeds · 10-03-2014 08:46PM

I drank a fair amount between the ages of 18 and 22, but that wasn't uncommon in the late 80's/early 90's. I'm 41 now and I only drink at weekends. Mostly gin and slimline tonic, with a lot of tonic. I rarely get drunk, I don't need to and it's harder to get over a hangover once you reach your 30's.

I don't drink every weekend and I often tip a drink down the sink before I'd go to bed rather than drinking it for the sake of drinking it. My husband gives up booze for Lent, as a health thing, and I give it up as well to provide moral support.

pajor · 10-03-2014 09:24PM

I can't handle and loathe hangovers, so I've basically given up going on the piss.

Mammanabammana · 10-03-2014 09:28PM

I used to drink. Once I got to the point where I was drinking two bottles of vodka a day I decided to stop.

If only the whole process had been as easy as those two sentences make it sound. But on the whole it's fair to say that I prefer life without alcohol. Not drinking suits me far better than drinking does.

tomboylady · 10-03-2014 09:38PM

It varies for me. I could go months without drinking, and even then when I do drink, I wouldn't drink an awful lot. A glass of wine or two at dinner maybe, the odd gin after work, that sort of thing. I never drink at home, it would never occur to me to buy a bottle of wine on my way home from work, let alone crack it open in front of the TV!

10-03-2014 11:31PM

ahnowbrowncow wrote: »

When will you stop being an alcoholic?

never, Im afraid. Ill always be alcoholic, hopefully though I will contain it by not drinking. One day at a time.

Not easy. I do think about it from time to time, especially when Im angry hurt or emotional, then I think ' **** it, Ill get drunk, ' but thankfully, I havent yet.

11-03-2014 09:13AM

I wonder what "regularly" means in the poll. If I drink on my birthday every year and no other day that is "regular".

I used to be a heavy drinker - especially in college - but then I just grew out of it suddenly. I blame this in part on a night when some friends and I went to a no alcohol gig in Dublin City. Coming out of the gig and walking down streets in dublin was my first sober experience of the "Walking Dead" effect of seeing the drunken population of Dublin stumble - fall - fight - and puke their way around the city. I decided I did not want that to be me any more.

Now I go out occasionally but would not have more than 2 - if that - drinks in a night and when I throw my monthly house party Id likely have a wine with dinner and at most 2 more in the night. I do not miss being drunk - at all.

HalloweenJack · 11-03-2014 10:30AM

I regularly drink. I get drunk about once a week and regularly have one or two drinks on other days of the week.

In the last few years, I've started smoking a lot more weed than previously and I've noticed that it's led to me drinking less.

Do you drink?

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