How much can you drink?

MadYaker · 12-04-2014 04:38PM

Gheebag wrote: »

Was out with a friend last night and he drank 15 pints of Bud in 3 hours,(Yes I was counting),but he walked out the same way he walked in.Now he's a big man weight wise but there no way I'd drink that amount in one day.So how much alcohol can you consume?

That's a pint every 12 minutes. That's impressive, not because its a lot of alcohol but because Bud is so vile I'm surprised anyone would want to drink that much of it, it also cost him about €70.

To be honest I have absolutely zero interest in discovering the limits of my alcohol intake. That sort of thing usually ends in a trip to the hospital or lots of vomit followed by passing out. Id say the most I've ever drank is a bottle of buckfast followed by a few cans. I remember nothing from that night so I usually just have the bottle before going into town and nothing else.

The most I've ever seen anyone drink is 2 bottles of tulamore dew in about 6 hours. He ended up in hospital.

harry Bailey esq · 12-04-2014 04:51PM

MadYaker wrote: »

a bottle of buckfast followed by a few cans.

always a recipe for disaster.The guy with the tullamore dew was lucky that it was only the hospital he had to go to and not the graveyard

Cantremember · 12-04-2014 05:04PM

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

its called pacing yourself

No. It's called fooling yourself.

D1stant · 12-04-2014 05:05PM

Gheebag wrote: »

Yes we went in at 10 and left at 1.15.

So does your friend have the power of speech, because a pint every 12 minutes for 3 hours... A man of few words?

Jesus the point of going to the pub is to socialise, not to gorge

Penny Tration · 12-04-2014 05:08PM

About 6 shots (or single vodkas and diet coke), 4 or 5 pints and a glass of wine.

That's enough to get me **** faced drunk, without a raging hangover the next day. I'd be seriously drunk, but not too drunk to prevent me getting home safely. That'd be after a dinner, though. On an empty stomach, two glasses of wine and I'm drunk.

PLL · 12-04-2014 05:14PM

When I was 19 and a student a regular night was about 8 pints of bulmers followed by double vodkas until I went home, I was never sick and remember all the nights out unless I had done shots.

Now a mother, 4 pints of bulmers and I am talking absolute sh**e, looking for a burger then my bed :-)

harry Bailey esq · 12-04-2014 05:17PM

Cantremember wrote: »

No. It's called fooling yourself.

so you've never spent the whole day in a pub? 15 pints over the course of a day is no biggy, and so what if its 70 or 80 quid if your in the right place in the right company its well worth it.Spending 70 or 80 on pints in three hours is just gluttony though.

Gheebag · 12-04-2014 05:21PM

D1stant wrote: »

So does your friend have the power of speech, because a pint every 12 minutes for 3 hours... A man of few words?

Jesus the point of going to the pub is to socialise, not to gorge

Ye,there wasn't s bother on his speech

FTA69 · 12-04-2014 05:22PM

I'd also do twenty pints on a special occasion like a funeral or St Patricks Day. Last Patricks Day I had my first pint at 2pm and was still drinking at 4am. I'm fairly all or nothing when it comes to a session

Conall Cernach · 12-04-2014 05:22PM

Gheebag wrote: »

I drank 6 pints in the same amount of time and I'm still suffering

Are you sure he drank them? Back in the day there was a strange phenomenon known as "shadow drinking" where someone would deliberately spill some of their drink when no one else was looking so as to make it appear that they had drunk more than they really did. They might also let on they had a swift one at the bar while they were waiting on a pint or downed a few while you were in the bog.

Savage Tyrant · 12-04-2014 05:30PM

8 pints is the norm of a night out followed by a hefty hangover.
10 pints from time to time will result in a dying hangover.
12/14 pints over a day out (wedding, christening) will make me, an atheist, pray to god for the sweet sweet release of death the following day.

The above is for lager usually Heineken or carlsberg ..... Pint bottles of Guinness is a totally different matter... 6 is pissed, 8 is fućked and 10 has me inside out and being sick when I get home.

Daveysil15 · 12-04-2014 05:35PM

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

Thing as well is the type of drink too, it will effect your feeling of getting drunk. For me I think cans/pints obviously makes me very full and I can feel my body trying to process the sheer AMOUNT of the crap as well as the actual alcohol. That has an effect on overall feeling imo.,

I'm the same. That's why I hate weddings and Christmas parties because there is usually a large meal followed by a few pints, so I just get full very quickly. I actually can't eat and drink at the same time. A lot of people would have a glass of wine or a pint with their dinner but I could never do that. Is has to be one or the other. I can't drink on a full stomach.

mfceiling · 12-04-2014 05:41PM

Next to nothing..seriously. I could drink a can of Guinness and have a hangover the next day, and I fcuking hate hangovers.

Most Saturday nights I drink a single can of bulmers and I'm happy enough with that.

Aidric · 12-04-2014 05:46PM

Always a greater tolerance on the day of the cure it has to be said. :pac:

DEFTLEFTHAND · 12-04-2014 05:48PM

Conall Cernach wrote: »

Are you sure he drank them? Back in the day there was a strange phenomenon known as "shadow drinking" where someone would deliberately spill some of their drink when no one else was looking so as to make it appear that they had drunk more than they really did. They might also let on they had a swift one at the bar while they were waiting on a pint or downed a few while you were in the bog.

Dean Martin supposedly was like that, he'd throw out his drink when nobody was looking. He socialised with big drinkers like Humphrey Bogart and Spencer Treacy so I think that's where the legend of him being a lush came from.

3hn2givr7mx1sc · 12-04-2014 05:49PM

700ml bottles of spirits were a regular enough thing for pre-drinking before I left college. Looking back now it was fairly retarded! Managed a litre of vodka once, don't know how I didn't puke everywhere.

About 12 pints would be my limit. More to do with the insane bloating than the drunkenness.

shamrock55 · 12-04-2014 05:52PM

I dont know how much it takes to get me drunk, but id need to be spending 100 euro to have a good night out

meoklmrk91 · 12-04-2014 05:58PM

It has been said to me that I am some girl to drink, wouldn't be a massive drinker but if on a rare night out I do tend to enjoy myself, usually starts out with a few pints of Guinness, then spirits and shots and often a few cans back at a house party, don't really get hangovers, it's just a lack of sleep that gets to me.

Most of the time a few bottles of ginger beer a chat or a movie and I'm happy, haven't been out since January and no plans to either, I like going out but only every once in a while, I don't think I've ever even been out twice in a month, go out maybe 5-6 times a year.

Lawrence1895 · 12-04-2014 06:04PM

Quite a lot

ardle1 · 12-04-2014 06:04PM

SFA..... And most people are the same, they just think they can drink 'loads', and they're grand.... lol lol :rolleyes:

corner of hells · 12-04-2014 06:14PM

D1stant wrote: »

So does your friend have the power of speech, because a pint every 12 minutes for 3 hours... A man of few words?

Jesus the point of going to the pub is to socialise, not to gorge

Maybe it was intravenously .

FTA69 · 12-04-2014 06:19PM

I was volunteering for an Irish charity over here that looked after elderly or sick Irishmen who were on their own in London, you'd call around to their house, do their shopping for them and mainly just keep them company for a few hours or bring them to watch the hurling or whatever? Jesus some of the stories of drinking they could tell were obscene. One fella used to be a complete wino and street drinker in Finsbury Park. He said they used to mix White Ace cider with cans of 9% lager in a bucket and then fire a bottle of gut rot vodka into the mix and drink from it using plastic cups, often washing down handfuls of Valiums and other prescription drugs. How some of these men were even alive is beyond me.

Bootsy. · 12-04-2014 06:26PM

Apparently every pint shortens your life by 2 minutes, and every shot shortens your life by 5 minutes.

I've done the calculations, and it turns out I've been dead since 1896.

whupdedo · 12-04-2014 06:37PM

On a day booze (which are mostly behind me now sadly, thankfully) i would without a bother drink between 15 to 20 pints of whatever the sauce i was drinking was, either cider or lager, that was considered fairly ordinary around here, I knew a big hefty guy who used to order 6 pints in 1 go and drink them while normal people would drink 2 to 3, the absurd thing about it is he would order 3 rounds a night

131spanner · 12-04-2014 06:58PM

Depends on how long you have time-wise, but in the average pre-drinking session its usually 2 naggins / 5 cans and I'm fairly steamed!

Diabhal Beag · 12-04-2014 06:59PM

Not to be smug but I did survive a neknomination back in the day.

Seriously though I have a limit of about 10 pints in 24 hours.

Cornelius Cornpipe · 12-04-2014 06:59PM

I'd drink 10-12 pints of stout most Saturday nights. Might have another 6 to 8 on a Sunday if there was a match on or something.

I was tipping a bird a few years ago, and she gave me a taste for the red wine. So I'd have two bottles of that on a Saturday night if I wasn't going to the pub.

Femme_Fatale · 12-04-2014 07:00PM

Cornelius Cornpipe wrote: »

I was tipping a bird

Waitress?

12-04-2014 07:02PM

Depends on how long. An all day session could easily see 12 to 16 pints/cans put away and maybe a few shorts too.

Normal night out would be 8 to 10 pints followed by maybe 5 or 6 vodkas/ whiskeys etc.

jane82 · 12-04-2014 07:04PM

I once told the barman to stick on another pint. He said there are no more.

How much you can drink is no measure of how much a man you are. If you believe it to be itll be a life waisted.

How much can you drink?

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