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Are you drinking more during the Pandemic?

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  • 16-09-2020 3:52pm
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    Temptamperu
    Registered Users Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭


    Seen today that the Royal College of Psychiatrist in England say that up to 8.5 million Britons are problem drinking during the lockdown and I was wondering is the number up here too.
    Ive totally upped my drinking having about 4, 5% cans every two nights.

    How about you?


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    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,842 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    I've been drinking less. There was a few months where I didn't have a drop at all. Drinking at home doesn't really appeal to me that much.


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    #3
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,928 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    No, drinking far less (not that I drank much to begin with). I'd drink on a night out, but haven't had one of them since February. Used to enjoy two beers on a friday evening chilling at home, but just didn't feel like it once lockdown happened, and haven't really picked up the habit since it ended. Enjoyed a few relaxing beers from time to time over the summer, but can probably count the total number on my fingers and toes. I bought 8 bottles 3 weeks ago to stick in the fridge, and they're all still sitting there. In fairness, I'm probably not typical in this regard.


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    Smee_Again
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    Drinking much less. I wouldn't be a huge drinker at home anyway but would be in the pub a few times a month usually.


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    Clazbeag
    Registered Users Posts: 48 ✭Clazbeag


    At the start when it was all new and the sun was shining every day- Yes! G&T's & wine mainly.
    Now we've just cut back to maybe Thursday and Friday night. It was scary how quickly having a few each night were becoming normal. Had to make a conscious decision to do it though as it is so easy to have a glass of wine where normally I would have been meeting friends or going to the gym etc!


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    FanadMan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭FanadMan


    I wasn't a big home drinker before the lockdown but started hitting the cans a lot for the first few months. However, in the last month or so I've just gotten sick of them and now have just a couple of cans a couple of times a week.

    To me, going to the pub was just a social thing. Don't get me wrong, I loved my pints but now I don't know if I could be bothered going out when/if my local reopens.


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    coffee_cake
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    far less. mostly only a social thing


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    #8
    begbysback
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭begbysback


    Don’t drink, but I have developed an amazon problem, house is now full of unnecessary crap.


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    #9
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,753 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Pandemic hasn't made much difference. I can walk into the office half-scuttered just as easily as I can walk to my computer.


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    #10
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    Damn your all making me feel bad... maybe I should cut down.


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    D3V!L
    Registered Users Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭D3V!L


    I'd have to get dressed to go to the shop to buy beer. So far thats been the issue.


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    #12
    Jafin
    Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭Jafin


    I've barely touched alcohol since February. I'm not one to drink at home of a Friday/Saturday night or anything, I've never seen the appeal. I generally only drink if I'm with my friends and since visits are now few and far between that has resulted in me being practically teetotal.


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    Archeron
    Registered Users Posts: 6,188 ✭✭✭Archeron


    At the beginning I was drinking loads, and spirits too, which was new as I don't drink at home. Got into drinking every night but after about five weeks of that, totally cut it out. Now I'll have a drink every few weeks and am happy with that.


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    Trigger Happy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,078 ✭✭✭Trigger Happy


    The whole lockdown is a bit of a blur for me.


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    #15
    ShatterAlan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭ShatterAlan


    Drinking like a fish.


    I'm currently living in a European city. When the bars closed I would go to the supermarket after work (from home) and get a load of cans (39c each) and sit by the river with my kindle and people watch and get slowly mashed.


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    #16
    theteal
    Registered Users Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭theteal


    Nope, much the same on the home drinking front i.e. maybe 3-4 beers over a weekend. I've been in a pub twice (not involving food) since March - one of those was a skinful which may be the years only skinful now that I think of it (won't be travelling back to Dublin this xmas). On the home straight for baby no.2's arrival so I'm t-total as of last week and for the next few. Also because of her current state there's been no wine in the house since Feb which I do miss a little but I'd never buy/open a bottle without herself involved.


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    Greyfox
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    Drinking a lot less, drinking at home just makes me sleepy


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    SEPT 23 1989
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    You have to try and keep match fit for when the pubs open again


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    #19
    bnt
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    The opposite: I usually only drink on occasions, and there haven't been any occasions, so even less than usual. I did treat myself to a 4-pack of nice beer earlier this month, that's it for the last three months.

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

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    #20
    gimli2112
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    the same but I am surprised Britain has just realised it has 8.5 million problem drinkers


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    #21
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    gimli2112 wrote: »
    the same but I am surprised Britain has just realised it has 8.5 million problem drinkers

    Thats only the ones getting psychiatric help.


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    deffo drinking more, at least 6 cans or bottles a night, cider, ipa, stout, not at the same time.


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    #23
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    At least the same but probably more. I’d have gone to the pub probably once a week usually Thursday and had a few beers at home one evening over the weekend also, sometimes more but often it would be the two nights. Of course there would be weeks with pub a few nights but generally 2 nights drinking would be the norm in the run up to look down.

    Since lockdown in March I’ve pretty much drank a reasonable few beers every single Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening/night and that has continued even though things have lifted a bit. Hard to see a reason to go back not drinking the 3 weekend nights now.


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    #24
    _Kaiser_
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    Nope. It's rare enough I'd have been out in a pub anymore before CV-19 so no change there. Might have a bottle of cider or two on Friday nights on the weekly shyte talk zoom call with the lads but that's about it.


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    #25
    Queasy Tadpole
    Registered Users Posts: 219 ✭✭Queasy Tadpole


    100%. Myself and wife have graduated from one bottle a night to now one each a night. We barely drank before.


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    #26
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Drinking less. I've had my fill already.

    I'd highly encourage people not to over indulge during these worrying times, it will only make matters worse.


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    #27
    daheff
    Registered Users Posts: 5,837 ✭✭✭daheff


    I wasn't at the start...then I started, was going through a couple of beers 4-5 nights a week...then I stopped again.


    So maybe?


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    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,813 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    I gave up drinking for good when the lockdown started.





    Now I drink for evil.


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    #29
    KungPao
    Registered Users Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭KungPao


    I’ve been like George Best since this all kicked off. Once in a lifetime chance to have a six pack on a Tuesday and not worry much about the morning - just clock in and be online at a reasonable hour, then all good.

    Trying to reduce now, the ol liver is starting to get fed up.


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    #30
    McGinniesta
    Registered Users Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    I have almost cut alcohol out entirely. I love a pint but going to the pub recently has become a chore and youd as much fun going to the dentist.


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    #31
    CrankyHaus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭CrankyHaus


    Drank a bit more for a few weeks in April, still only weekends. Got very boring. Drinking a good bit less than before now. Same as above hardly bothered with boozers with the hoops you have to jump through.


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