Staying off the drink (1 Viewer)

[David Kronenbourg]

Who counts how many drinks they have a week? I'd say I'm somewhere in the medium risk category.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Who counts how many drinks they have a week? I'd say I'm somewhere in the medium risk category.

If I'm active I'd probably be high risk (whatever that means), because I would go out for dinner after work every night and have at least a beer and two glasses of wine then.

The weekend is a lot heavier obv. Soccer game at 10am on Saturday will turn into a few lunchtime beers and a bit of a ramble. Disco nap and out to do it all again.
Sunday brunch is also a wild card, as in it could last for most of the day.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

If I'm active I'd probably be high risk (whatever that means), because I would go out for dinner after work every night and have at least a beer and two glasses of wine then.

The weekend is a lot heavier obv. Soccer game at 10am on Saturday will turn into a few lunchtime beers and a bit of a ramble. Disco nap and out to do it all again.
Sunday brunch is also a wild card, as in it could last for most of the day.

I don't drink much during the week. Maybe one night in the pub. the weekends are usually a free for all. I generally feel like crap until Tuesday or Wednesday which is why I don't like to booze in the week.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I don't drink much during the week. Maybe one night in the pub. the weekends are usually a free for all. I generally feel like crap until Tuesday or Wednesday which is why I don't like to booze in the week.

I like the social aspect. I know most everyone in my local, there's usually a game on, the food's good, the wine's great. There's a lot to like.
Hurts you in the wallet and waistband though.

 

[Jim Daniels]

Most of my friends are married with kids now, so I hardly ever drink anymore.
I miss the craic alright, but am generally a lot happier to be drinking less.

The world cup could be trouble though. Pretty easy to get through three or four pints during a match.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Most of my friends are married with kids now, so I hardly ever drink anymore.
I miss the craic alright, but am generally a lot happier to be drinking less.

The world cup could be trouble though. Pretty easy to get through three or four pints during a match.

And there are four matches on Saturday.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Half the country is in the high risk category.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

My mate writes back saying he doesn't give a fuck what I'm drinking or where we go - he just wants "a single fucking day away from nappies".

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

And it turns out he has Red Sox tickets. So I'll just watch the game and drink some Dunkin coffee.

 

[CinnamonBoy]

That probably depends on how much you were drinking.
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A bottle of vodka a day.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

A bottle of vodka a day.

If it was in martinis in a bar, that's pretty cool.

At home or in work, not as much.

 

[CinnamonBoy]

If it was in martinis in a bar, that's pretty cool.

At home or in work, not as much.

Nah, it wasn't cool at all.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Derp

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Martinis are cool. It's the whole point of the glass.

Derp

That was for a double post

 

[Lili Marlene]

What do people make of this yoke that's been doing the news rounds this week?

http://static.rasset.ie/documents/news/alcohol-consumption-in-ireland-2013.pdf

nothing new in it imho. We all drink too much, it's great craic except when it's not. Massive regrets 20 years down the line.


I didn’t want to end up like my father - People | Popular Stories, Obituaries & More | The Irish Times - Wed, Jun 25, 2014

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Alcohol addiction and abuse seems to correlate heavily with colder/northern climes and alcohol is popular in every country where it is not strictly verboten.


Having said that I've never heard Canadians to be particular pissheads.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Alcohol addiction and abuse seems to correlate heavily with colder/northern climes and alcohol is popular in every country where it is not strictly verboten.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Mind you, according to this yoke it seems perfectly possible to binge-drink every night if you have the perfect life in every other way

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/magazine/the-island-where-people-forget-to-die.html?

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Mind you, according to this yoke it seems perfectly possible to binge-drink every night if you have the perfect life in every other way

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/magazine/the-island-where-people-forget-to-die.html?

I read that at the time.

Weren't they moderate drinkers?

 

[Lili Marlene]

I read that at the time.

I keep going back to it and dreaming.

Weren't they moderate drinkers?

yeah probably moderate in reality, but going purely by what it says in the article:

2 - 3.5 glasses of wine daily - Doesn't say how big the glasses are.

Lets assume that assume a glass = 1 unit (which I think is unlikely but anyway) and 2-3.5 = an average of 3 units per night. This is below the 5 standard units per night so yeah, that would be moderate. However, 3 drinks times 7 days = 21 units a week which according to drinkaware.ie puts people in the 'at risk' category.


Anyway, if I'm making any point here (and I'm not even sure I am) it's that if the government wants people to stop drinking then they need to take a serious look at our quality of life. Working all day in a high-stress job in a multinational (BEST SMALL COUNTRY IN THE WORLD TO DO BUSINESS IN) and then going home to binge on netflix will drive anyone to drink.