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How many units of alcohol a week do you drink?

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  • #32
    Bobtheman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭Bobtheman


    henryforde80 wrote: »
    80 on an average week.

    Really ?


  • #33
    Bobtheman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭Bobtheman


    Foweva Awone wrote: »
    Probably about 200 units a week or more in the worst times. Jaysus!

    No way


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Alcohol is the most overhyped business product in this country.

    I really wish Irish people would grow up and stop this retarded romanticisation of a drug which causes enormous damage to communities and families across this island.


  • #35
    Kevin Finnerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭Kevin Finnerty


    Truckermal wrote: »
    I normally have have 3 pints every evening so probably a bit over average!

    Used do that myself religiously. Can't beat a bit of chat and a pint. I'd have a whiskey most nights to settle down for the day.


  • #36
    Foweva Awone
    Registered Users Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭Foweva Awone


    Bobtheman wrote: »
    No way

    Yeah ... about 3 bottles of wine a day, and if you're drinking that heavily, it's not even like you can take a day off here or there or you get the DTs. And they're ZERO fun.


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  • #37
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Alcohol is the most overhyped business product in this country.

    I really wish Irish people would grow up and stop this retarded romanticisation of a drug which causes enormous damage to communities and families across this island.

    Not everyone who has a drink causes enormous damage to anyone.


  • #38
    Bobtheman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭Bobtheman


    Patww79 wrote: »
    Not everyone who has a drink causes enormous damage to anyone.

    Not everyone does it is true but half the admissions in hospital are alcohol related and God knows what % of physical fights.


  • #39
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    Bobtheman wrote: »
    Not everyone does it is true but half the admissions in hospital are alxhol related and God knows what % of physical fights.

    Fools like that don't mean we're all the same though.


  • #40
    Bobtheman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭Bobtheman


    Patww79 wrote: »
    Fools like that don't mean we're all the same though.

    True but drink causes a huge amount of damage. Huge amount. However prohibition failed and would fail again unless you shot people dead for drinking.


  • #41
    Wheety
    Registered Users Posts: 5,510 ✭✭✭Wheety


    A lot of weeks it's 0. On average it's probably 8.


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  • #42
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    Bobtheman wrote: »
    True but drink causes a huge amount of damage. Huge amount. However prohibition failed and would fail again unless you shot people dead for drinking.

    No. It causes a huge amount of damage for some people.


  • #43
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Patww79 wrote: »
    No. It causes a huge amount of damage for some people.
    Rubbish your facts do Dhaka gaff. Gun hhfand

    And a chicken curry burppp


  • #44
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    Rubbish your facts do Dhaka gaff. Gun hhfand

    And a chicken curry burppp

    Yeah, you should probably lay off it in fairness.


  • #45
    henryforde80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 166 ✭✭henryforde80


    Bobtheman wrote: »
    Really ?


    80 units is like 5 or 6 pints Monday-Friday- Friday, 10 pints Saturday.

    I know people who drink at least 200 units a week. U notice it a lot more in the country pubs than citiy pubs.

    Its not that much.


  • #46
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    henryforde80 wrote: »
    80 units is like 5 or 6 pints Monday-Friday- Friday, 10 pints Saturday.

    I know people who drink at least 200 units a week. U notice it a lot more in the country pubs than citiy pubs.

    Its not that much.

    If only those poor sheep could talk.


  • #47
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Thermoman12 wrote: »
    I’d only drink (binge drink) 3 or 4 times a month, I would usually have atleast two naggins or sometimes I’ll have a naggin and six cans, I’d never drink on my own though, that’s just sad

    That's just your opinion.

    I love drinking alone with Lyric FM on beside me and a good book.

    If I'm in the mood for something to eat I'll take my book to my local for a few scoops and a bowl of hot chicken wings and a basket of chips.

    After 25 years nixxering as a bouncer and barman this is pure paradise for me.

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  • #48
    CinemaGuy45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Brooke Deafening Hedge wrote: »
    That's just your opinion.

    I love drinking alone with Lyric FM on beside me and a good book.

    If I'm in the mood for something to eat I'll take my book to my local for a few scoops and a bowl of hot chicken wings and a basket of chips.

    After 25 years nixxering as a bouncer and barman this is pure paradise for me.

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    That food looks foul.


  • #49
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    Brooke Deafening Hedge wrote: »
    That's just your opinion.

    I love drinking alone with Lyric FM on beside me and a good book.

    If I'm in the mood for something to eat I'll take my book to my local for a few scoops and a bowl of hot chicken wings and a basket of chips.

    After 25 years nixxering as a bouncer and barman this is pure paradise for me.

    466310.jpg

    A bowl like that can make any situation paradise.


  • #50
    wakka12
    Registered Users Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Anyone else a nightly drinker?

    I crack open a bottle of wine most nights to chill out, and even though I know it’s not the healthiest of habits to have I just love a good drink..
    Theres nothing wrong with nightly drinking so long as its 3-4 units, its the amount that is bad not how often or when you drink alcohol!


  • #51
    Thermoman12
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 416 ✭✭Thermoman12


    daheff wrote: »
    why is it sad? do you ever eat on your own? or drink a cola on your own?

    i occasionally like to have a beer at home at the end of the week.....when kids are in bed... watching tv with the missus. she doesn't drink so i'm drinking on my own.

    i like the taste of a nice cold beer at the end of a long hard week. dont need to be going out for a night out to have one.

    Fair enough I suppose one is fine


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  • #52
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    CinemaGuy45 wrote: »
    That food looks foul fowl.

    :)


  • #53
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Patww79 wrote: »
    A bowl like that can make any situation paradise.

    Oh yes, with hot sauce and lots of salt ~ and buckets of cold beers :D


  • #54
    henryforde80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 166 ✭✭henryforde80


    Brooke Deafening Hedge wrote: »
    Oh yes, with hot sauce and lots of salt ~ and buckets of cold beers :D

    I'd say that hop house will be gone soon. Rotten :P:pac:


  • #55
    HappyAsLarE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 771 ✭✭✭HappyAsLarE


    Impossible to not be overweight drinking most nights surely??


  • #56
    Kevin Finnerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭Kevin Finnerty


    Brooke Deafening Hedge wrote: »
    That's just your opinion.

    I love drinking alone with Lyric FM on beside me and a good book.

    If I'm in the mood for something to eat I'll take my book to my local for a few scoops and a bowl of hot chicken wings and a basket of chips.

    After 25 years nixxering as a bouncer and barman this is pure paradise for me.

    466310.jpg

    That you Robert McCall?


  • #57
    Bobtheman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭Bobtheman


    Brooke Deafening Hedge wrote: »
    That's just your opinion.

    I love drinking alone with Lyric FM on beside me and a good book.

    If I'm in the mood for something to eat I'll take my book to my local for a few scoops and a bowl of hot chicken wings and a basket of chips.

    After 25 years nixxering as a bouncer and barman this is pure paradise for me.

    466310.jpg

    Will you see old age though?!


  • #58
    wakka12
    Registered Users Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Patww79 wrote: »
    No. It causes a huge amount of damage for some people.

    Well thats completely true, but millions of people around the world die of alcohol related deaths annually, either through overdose and addiction, suicide, accidents,violence, or long term health issues over drinking causes.And when you think about it thats really sad that so many millions of years of life are unlived because of a drink that doesnt need to be drank in the first place Society would probably be better off if it had never existed, even thoguh Im a big fan of a bit of drink every week myself

    I drink about 12 units a week in binge drink form all on a friday or a saturday..Im cutting it down to 9 units every 2-3 weeks now though.


  • #59
    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


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  • #60
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    wakka12 wrote: »
    Well thats completely true, but millions of people around the world die of alcohol related deaths annually, either through overdose and addiction, suicide, accidents,violence, or long term health issues over drinking causes.And when you think about it thats really sad that so many millions of years of life are unlived because of a drink that doesnt need to be drank in the first place Society would probably be better off if it had never existed, even thoguh Im a big fan of a bit of drink every week myself

    I drink about 12 units a week in binge drink form all on a friday or a saturday..Im cutting it down to 9 units every 2-3 weeks now though.

    That's their problem though.


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  • #61
    henryforde80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 166 ✭✭henryforde80


    HappyAsLarE wrote: »
    Impossible to not be overweight drinking most nights surely??

    For some people yes, they would pile on a ton of weight.

    For other people no, they wouldn't gain a pound and might even lose weight.

    All depends on the metabolism.


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