Well, it's not. A unit is 10ml of pure alcohol. So a 500ml can of Stella at 6% would be three units. A 70cl bottle of wine at 13% would be 9 units. A 25ml shot of JD / vodka is 1 unit, the whole bottle would be 28. Etc.So in other words, it's completely arbitrary and has no particular significance then? One unit could have been defined as 20 mL, or 8.5 mL, or 1 litre. It has arbitrarily been set at 10 and has no meaning at all as a guide to drinking.
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howmany units of booze do you go through a week?
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Posted 8 months ago #
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So in other words, it's completely arbitrary and has no particular significance then? One unit could have been defined as 20 mL, or 8.5 mL, or 1 litre. It has arbitrarily been set at 10 and has no meaning at all as a guide to drinking.
I like your style. Always thought you were one of the good guys. heh.
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It has arbitrarily been set at 10 and has no meaning at all as a guide to drinking.
Right, then wrong.
Arbitrarily set, although it seems a pretty logical measurement, one shot = one unit etc. etc.
But as a guide to drinking, it's pretty good, as it means you can compare how much alcohol is in 2 litres of cider to how much is in 15 shots. Or work out how much alcohol you've drunk if you've been mixing drinks all night.
As a system, it's pretty useful.
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Somewhere around the 50 mark :oops:Thats units not pints.
I know someone who, when going to the doctor, was asked about his alcohol consumption. He didn't want to tell the doc the truth, so reduced his stated intake to 42 pints a week.
Mind you, if I lived in Sunderland, I'd be on at least that every week...
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Yes realman, as a way of accounting how much bevvy you've tanned in toto of an evening it has simplicity in its favour. As a guide to drinking in terms of setting thresholds, limits, guidelines etc it is basically meaningless. Any such guide applied to a general population, which attempts to average consumption over time (x units per week), is futile.
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Been on less than 10 this past week and low and behold a long term 'digestive issue' magically got better.I plan on testing this though next week to see what happens.
My guts seem to suffer more and more these days the day after drinking and I seem to have these creeping hangovers that get steadily worse during the day.
I think I should cut my 30 to 40 units per week down really.
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Yeah. You should try it.
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Probably 35 units...
It's what we Docs used to say was safe...
And no... It is not an arbitrary unit. It measues the actual volume of ethanol swallowed. Lots of people kids themselves. 1 unit for a short but 2 for most wine glasses and 10-11 per bottle.. 2.5 - 3 u for a pint.
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You all count?
The 'unit' of alcohol is an arbitrary definition of course, it has no particular significance.
As is the number of units that is "safe". Finger in the air stuff.
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I reckon about 30 a week - normally have a couple or three bottles a night.
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In a normal week i'll get through 5-10 units 4-5 bottles of beer.
If i go out with the boys that figure quickly goes out the window, especially when we get started in about the rum but that doesn't happen so much these days maybe every other month.
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Doesn't that mean on some weeks you have to consume negative amounts of alcohol?
No, in this instance the mode is equal to the median (both zero)If the past 10 weeks, I drink nothing for nine, then 10 units, the median is 0 and the mode is 0, but the average is 1.
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last night I had: bottle of stella, pint of doom bar, pint of doom bar, jaeger bomb, pint of doom bar, jaeger bomb, half a london pride, pint of sammy smiths bitter, pint of sammy smiths bitter, pint of london pride, jaeger bomb, jaeger bomb.
how much is that?
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0 for me for about 99% of the year with the odd babycham for special events.
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My intake has got less and less as I've got older. 4 pints for me now on a night is a heavy night. And that'll be one night a week. Glas of wine, shot of whisky here and there. Ho hum.
Pass me my slippers.
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