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The wife and I certainly do!
We're not big drinkers by any stretch. Me - probably 10 pints of beer a week, and a couple of whiskys. The wife has a couple of bottle of wine and the odd G&T if socialising.
Our 19 year old daughter barely drinks, and only has a couple of beers if going out with mates. A lot of her mates are tea-total or barely drink either. And she never drinks in the house for the sake of it, only when friends are round. Certainly seems a social shift away from getting bladdered every weekend.
She'd rather meet up at Maccies, KFC or Nandos than the pub - so not sure the shift is entirely healthy! 🙂
Same - daughters 21 and 25, older one never drinks, younger only very occasionally. Puts me to shame (and they do remind me of the, admittedly very few, occasions I have rolled in a little worse for wear).
And yes they too far outweigh us in the junk food / takeaway stakes.
We are all teetotal in our house but then FBG is only 9 so there is time yet for him...
i definitely drink more than my kids, as they are 15 and 4!! 😛
Its an interesting topic tho, as to me, 10 pints and a few whiskeys is a serious amount of drinking for 7 days! I maybe do between 2-6 cans (440ml) or bottles (500ml) a week. Which is usually 1 or 2 on a friday/saturday and sunday evening.
Although my wifes mate's husband does 20 cans of fosters a day. He unfortunately is an alcoholic.
The ten pints and couple of whiskys is over 3 days - Fri, Sat and Sun! 😬🥴🍺
Mon to Thurs nothing.
No were about the same, but then I'm teetotal and my kids are 7 & 10 so maybe also not the best sample...
10 pints and a few whiskeys is a serious amount of drinking for 7 days!
Agree! Alkies! 😲
My son's coming up for 19, I don't think he drinks much at all. Went to a few parties where he said his mates have got drunk, but he never has as far as I know.
I have a max of 4/5 beers a week, usually not even that though.
i definitely drink more than my kids, as they are 15 and 4!!
Yeah our 4 year old is a real lightweight
10 pints and a few whiskeys is a serious amount of drinking for 7 days!
I was going to say the same but then my 2-3 cans of strong craft beer, bottle of red and couple of whiskies is probably equally as bad, certainly blows past 14 units a week pretty quickly I think... 🙄
The ten pints and couple of whiskys is over 3 days
Oof!
10 pints and a few whiskeys is a serious amount of drinking for 7 days!
Agree! Alkies! 😲
Don't GPs tend to double the amount of alcohol that people admit to drinking? 😀
No kids to compare to, but for ~10 years now I drink booze less than a handful of days a year and when I do, one glass often leaves me feeling drunk and hungover.
Even when I drank more frequently and more by quantity, it usually just made me feel sleepy. God only knows what would have happened to my weight with the extra booze calories!
Used to often have a glass of merlot after work, but over time that increased up to three, a sign that my old job was getting to me in terms of stress.
To add some balance, our neighbours recently left their 17 year old daughter at home alone when they went away for the weekend.
She had a houseful, they were all absolutely bladdered and we were entertained to the sight of people projectile vomiting in the street, keeling over into the bushes, and the sounds of "I can't believe she said that about me, the slag" and "Leave it Darren, he's not worth it!" echoing into the night
It could have been an episode of the Inbetweeners. It restored my faith in the younger generation 😀
Definition of an alcoholic - someone who drinks more than you do.
My kids are young still, but going the other way my parents generation tanned the bevvy like it was going out of style. But it was all cooking ale in those days - 5% ale would have been exotically strong whereas that is bog standard now.
Definition of an alcoholic – someone who
drinks more than you do.has Lager in their username 😆
You. Must. Be. Joking. I'm a <5 units a week person. I have 21 and 24 year old sons who seem to just be starting on that in the first hour!
It restored my faith in the younger generation
Indeed. My 15yo nephew recently experienced his first "...and you overdo it alone" experience at an open family bar. We now have the "going full Albert" euphemism to lean on. My sister cleaned up the mess. He was up bright and bushy at 7am the next day to clear the garage with his Father.
Don’t GPs tend to double the amount of alcohol that people admit to drinking?
Yeah. On the basis we HALVE the amount we admit to.
Mafs innit.
DrP
I'll have one or two cans a week at home, or an occasional short. Wife might have one or two Baileys a week. We probably go to the pub once a month and no more than two drinks each.
We've both done our "lost weekend" drinking phase, and just stopped when kids came along. Don't like how I feel the next day after having one too many, can't afford to waste a day off work feeling shit any more, and MrsMC is the same.
Eldest has just turned 18, doesn't drink. Most of his friends don't either, or at least only occasionally and not much at a time. The only one who does the showing off getting drunk thing at parties has parents that still do the same.
It generally worries me how many of our generation still get properly hammered at a get together, or regularly drink well over the weekly guidelines. Trying not to sound judgey but I don't want to be like that. Watched a mates marriage disintegrate when his wife went from social drinker to functioning alcoholic, have had to call an ambulance out for a 40 something at a party.
Just don't need the aggravation that too much drink causes me or other people.
Loads of young people don't drink. There's just more entertainment options these days. Remember before the internet and smartphones? You HAD to leave the house if you wanted any fun or social encounters. The only places to gather where I lived were pubs and clubs so we used to over do it. Now you can just stay home with your VR headset and have the most scientifically advanced masturbation in human history.
Plus have you seen the price of a pint? It's nearly an hours wages for a teenager. I used to get leathered for a tenner.
We’re not big drinkers by any stretch. Me – probably 10 pints of beer a week, and a couple of whiskys.
That's some going, especially if it's every week.
She’d rather meet up at Maccies, KFC or Nandos than the pub – so not sure the shift is entirely healthy!
Judging by the way a lot of teenagers waddle rather than walk these days I'll stick with booze rather than fast food thanks.
EDIT - 10 pints a week isn't going for it, that's playing.
That’s some going, especially if it’s every week.
It really isn't. In a night... fair enough, but over a week?
Just to add it into the mix, apparently the younger generation are doing nowhere near the level of drugs we used to do either.
Mind you, reaching adulthood in Manchester in 1988, we didn't drink that much either, but we did spend all weekend, every weekend, absolutely ripped to the tits on industrial quantities of weapons grade Ecstasy 😀
Judging by the way a lot of teenagers waddle rather than walk these days I’ll stick with booze rather than fast food thanks.
She does do 10 and 11 hour days doing her apprenticeship at equestrian yard - shovelling a lot of shit! There's not an ounce of fat on her. 🙂
We’re not big drinkers by any stretch. Me – probably 10 pints of beer a week, and a couple of whiskys. The wife has a couple of bottle of wine and the odd G&T if socialising.
You do realise that by definition you are big drinkers. NHS advises no more than 14 units per week, you are way over that.
Interesting topic though as my daughter is 16 and neither she, nor her mates, drink. My 17 year old niece is the same, as is her 18 year old boyfriend and his mates. They are happy going to Nandos, watching Netflix or just staying in and socialising by Instasnapgramtwitbook.
I don't have kids thankfully but my 77 year old dad drinks more than me.
Any threads about alcohol consumption on here immediately attract the pious ones.
Well aren't you just great for not drinking ten pints of beer a week?
Give yourselves a divine pat on the back 🤬
Pious?
Or as they're alternatively known....
lightweights 😉
Instagram, Nandos and X box. Note to self; if a genie comes out of the lamp, remember to ask to go back to being 18 in 1986 not today.
No kids, but thankfully my twin nieces have been absolutely tearing into it celebrating their A level results.
I wonder how much the internet effects how much younger generations drink these days? Knowing that there could be photo and video evidence of a night's debauchery available for all to see in perpetuity might make it less appealing.
I can't recall whipping out my Minolta 110 camera to take a photograph of my £3.75 Berni Inn sirloin, egg and chips so I could show all my mates on Monday.
We started drinking in pubs as soon as we'd finished our GCSEs, those saying 10 pints and a couple of whiskies is a lot for a week we'd regularly drink that each night at the weekend and sometimes more.
I definitely wasn't a alcoholic just came from a culture of heavy drinking. I'd occasionally cut back and get fit but drift back into it carried on through my 20s and 30s.
Might not be beer but up until about 6-7 , years ago could easily have a night drinking 3 bottles of wine each with the missus and her family or mates.
About 5 or 6 years ago I stopped not teetotal but almost just fed up with it and wanted a good marathon time. I still occasionally drink and go for it don't see the point in a having just one beer especially in the past year or so with injuries meaning I'm not racing. But we are a week onto our hols and I haven't drank since the ferry
I don't know if that hard drinking culture in teens is as prevalent as it was or maybe its just I'm in a different demographic these days and don't see it. I tend to go to the sort of pubs that teenagers wouldnt be seen dead in and I'm usually drinking Nanny Stare or a Decaff coffee.
I wonder how much the internet effects how much younger generations drink these days? Knowing that there could be photo and video evidence of a night’s debauchery available for all to see in perpetuity might make it less appealing.
Surely at that age having evidence is part of the fun?
I can still recall all the legendary storied of projectile vomiting at our 6th form ball, or the friend who got so drunk before hand his parents were called to recover him before it even started (passed out in the bike sheds). I'd quite like to have more photos from that era to be honest.
My legendary tale was drinking whisky chasers in a pub before going to a night club (as drinks were too expensive there). Sometime after getting there I realised I'd consumed too much alcohol and was going to pass out. I attempted to leave but some some bloke kept getting in my way, I staggered left, he went left, I went right, he went right. Bang! Knocked myself out on a plate glass mirror and was deposited outside by the bouncers...
Definitely. Eldest now 40 has hardly drank alcohol since his daughter was born 18 yrs ago. Younger son hammered it as far as his (and mine) cash would go up to about 30yrs old. 38 now and very rarely hits it. Me?, honestly probably average 4 cans an evening most nights for the last 20yrs. Had a good job in a corporate environment, took VR 12 months ago and now gardening about 30hrs per week. 65 yrs young with no health or mental problems and never ill; cycle around 50 miles a week either road or mtb. No reaction to either Covid jab and looking forward to another bollocking from the nurse at my next 5yr check up. Not particularly ashamed, but don't consider myself a role model either.
I wonder how much the internet effects how much younger generations drink these days?
Yeah, I recently saw some photos of a messy night out from over 20 years ago - photos had to be printed and scanned, and there was no social media to share them on in any case.
Surely at that age having evidence is part of the fun?
Yeah, I recently saw some photos of a messy night out from over 20 years ago – photos had to be printed and scanned, and there was no social media to share them on in any case.
Evidence for "us" had zero risk of showing up on a search of social media by a potential employer.
Or as they’re alternatively known….
lightweights 😉
Damn, busted.
I think so, 6-7 pints a night + a few scotches, double figures weekends owing to starting earlier in the day obs.
I eat very healthily though.
Yes I do. 3 pints a week and a couple of 0.5%'s (not allowed to drink spirits). Son drinks the occasional fruit cider. Says he doesn't like the taste of beer or lager.
Evidence for “us” had zero risk of showing up on a search of social media by a potential employer.
Does that ever actually happen?
There's always someone more famous than yourself with the same name which takes up the first 100 Google search results....
both my kids like a drink. lad is 30. drinks on a saturday after rugby, only for a couple of hours.
daughter is 23, she goes out 1 night a month with her friends. she drinks more than the son, and me probably.
i like a drink on a saturday afternoon. about 8 pints give or take a couple.
i dont think we drink a lot.
Does that ever actually happen?
There’s always someone more famous than yourself with the same name which takes up the first 100 Google search results….
An employer would have the candidate's address, school, previous jobs, university... not at all difficult to find the right person.
I like a beer, and a wine and whisky. I’ve got to properly limit it though but have a couple of beers and a whisky over the weekend nights. Wines a problem, I only ever have one glass-refilled 😂 Can’t be bothered with benders or bug nights, a while back a mate and I for some reason just lost the plot and drank a bottle of Highland Park between us in a night. Haven’t felt the need to do that again.
Kids though, I don’t know, I can understand not wanting to get off your Tits and then waking up to it plastered all over Tik Tok. Worst we had was waking up to find out you’d knobbed Louise 😂
I did laugh at the post about the teenage party, had the same a few weeks ago. Fella was asleep on my driveway. It was 9:30pm and still daylight 😂
There’s just not the drinking culture nowadays. When I graduated and started work in the mid/late 90’s, I worked at city centre design and publishing agencies where the entire studio went to the pub every single lunchtime and put 2 or 3 pints away, then you’d be straight to the pub after work
I had one studio manager who’d sink a bottle of red every lunchtime! Another creative director would put away 5 pints of Guinness! 😳
That kind of thing is unthinkable nowadays. A shame as it was bloody great fun at the time 😃
Son is almost 21 and only drinks occasionally - usually out in his car anyway. Daughter just 18 and doesn't like the taste - might occasionally have a bottle of Kopperberg.
As for crap food, my son trumps the lot of us by a long way. He's Type 1 also which does not help his blood sugars. I'm sick of cooking four meals to find he's gone out for a Maccys.
I didn’t think 10 pints a week was that much. Oh well.
Probably what I get through (though I can’t drink pints and hate getting drunk). No spirits except a couple of bottles of Lagavulin over the winter.
It is what it is. We virtually live outside most of the year and don’t drink at home* , I do 70-80km of hill running a week. Vegan 30 years, never smoked, don’t even take paracetamol. Struggling to find a reason to cut down.
*Bought a perfectdraft machine in lockdown . Dangerous… Far too easy to empty a barrel of Clwb Tropica between us in a week!
There’s always someone more famous than yourself with the same name which takes up the first 100 Google search results….
Not always!!
Son is almost 21 and only drinks occasionally – usually out in his car anyway.
You want to have a word with him about that
No, my eldest is enjoying socialising and partying now she can. She seems to have inherited my ability to drink too without getting a hangover. Me, I rarely drink at home but do like one when on holiday in the pub. Rarely do a binge session these days, which is probably good.
Absolutely. I don’t have kids.
No kids but i hardly drank in my 20's much cheaper and more fun items that facilitated a night out clubbing than booze. When that lost it's appeal and civilised evenings at the pub with a few friends became more of the weekend thing then drinking increased. Probably have 6 500ml bottles of cider a week and a glass of wine or so.
My opinion on it… drugs is bigger than drink. I’m the wrong side of 20, enjoy a drink rather than drugs, probably because recreational drug taking would get me sacked. But the scene is huge, bigger than most realise. Balloons, mdma, ket, just to name a few. Whether parents can spot such hobbies is another thing! A pill & a couple of £5 bottles of water is a night out for some of my younger mates. If you’re not looking out for it, why would you spot it?
Avoiding their parents whilst their jaw is in another post code is also another fine art! My younger missus having worked as a paramedic out of the city centre in Birmingham, also shares the same opinion. They might not be blackout drunk… but don’t check their bloods!!
I enjoy a voluminous cornucopia of pleasures but try to balance it out with exercise and diet. Did go once to A STW party somewhere up north and was completely outclassed.
binners
Just to add it into the mix, apparently the younger generation are doing nowhere near the level of drugs we used to do either.
Mind you, reaching adulthood in Manchester in 1988, we didn’t drink that much either, but we did spend all weekend, every weekend, absolutely ripped to the tits on industrial quantities of weapons grade Ecstasy 😀
Did your parents know?
Young people drink less now because it is expensive and the alternatives are more readily available than they ever were.
Interesting thread. The usual suspects trumpets chiming in from the moral high ground.
It's all subjective isn't it. Tolerances and appetites vary. Your korma is a spicy curry to me, ( not really) My cask strength single malt is paint stripper to you....perhaps mibbe not.
Judgemental folk will judge.
The tee total brigade are the worst, worse even than a reformed smoker. I'm one of them but choose to keep my opinions on smoking fags to myself.🤗
Unless you puff a douche flute, you look like a knob for the avoidance of any doubt.
Do I drink more than my kids? Infinitely more, I don’t have any kids
Comment from Binners would apply to lots of insurance brokers I know and they lament the loss of that culture.
Played rugby at university and it was a right of passage to get pretty sloshed.
Now I only drink on a non school night.
Luckily my latest blood test revealed no damage from past drinky-poos.
Definitely, but they're not of legal drinking age yet so probably a good thing.
Judgemental folk will judge..The tee total brigade are the worst
Almost in the same sentence brilliant.
Almost.😍😘
Got four kids of drinking age, i have to really dig in to beat the four of them....
Was at my nephews 21th family party, and I'd say definitely ,my brother in law propping our side up by well over half.
That said the nephews had a double share of the 'cocktail tree', but on the score side, lots of flavoured vodka and rum for the grown ups*. Dark Matter spiced and some Project 173 chocolate rum I think we out did them.
*Relatively speaking.
Although there was only the five of us, Dominoes in that household is a hard banter match, and apparently after I left, the police turned up, neighbour complained,they saw a 21st party banner, 5 people riotously playing dominoes while drinking rum something to be upset about that you need to call plod to attend.
What a waste of their time.
I used to tell my parents "I don't drink much, I don't like the taste" I can't believe parents are still falling for it
But probably substitute recreational drugs for booze these days
My opinion on it… drugs is bigger than drink
This is very true. I am a Uni lecturer and we take students away for weeks field trips (pre COVID) and it been really noticeable in recent years we don’t end up with big drunken groups/hangovers. They don’t come out the shop with pallets of beer etc like 10+ years ago. One student had her 21st the last trip we were able to run, and they were all sober or at the most had 2 nice beers or shared a half decent bottle of wine between 3.
However drugs are becoming normal (thankfully not on field trips but round the city). So so easy to get hold of and tutees have told me it is normal at every single house party they go to (that wasn’t the case for me nearly 20 years ago).
we don’t end up with big drunken groups/hangovers
You don't lecture in Geology! When my son went away to Spain on a group fieldtrip they had a special broefing presentation on the perils of hungover fieldwork in the sun. Didn't stop one young lady falling off a rooftop whist inebriated and breaking her leg. One of the lecturers was arrested for removing samples whilst hungover too! When I was at university it was always the Geologists too.
You don’t lecture in Geology!
This is EXACTLY what I lecture in! There are always exceptions and we give them similar talks, as it has been an issue over the years. But it is really noticeable on many of our trips over the last 5 years or so the amount of drinking has hugely reduced.
have told me it is normal at every single house party they go to (that wasn’t the case for me nearly 20 years ago).
all different sorts of drugs around but I believe its actually less prevalent now than 20 / 30 years ago
all about the circles you mix in of course but while weed is perhaps more common party pills / coke are not. 20 / 30 years ago city of london financial district was coked up all the time. I believe much less so now. My local pillheads bar is cleaned up
heroin is less of an issue now as well
Edit - I know a some youths and while they smoke a little weed they do nothing like the amount of drugs their mothers did at the same age!
I only really drink on work nights out, or a little when on holiday - of which there have been neither over the last 18 months.
Last time I touched a drink was second May bank holiday.
My wife has the occasional binge drink evening when we meet up with friends but only 3-4 times a year.
My kids are 14 and 10 - we're happy to let them try a little splash of whatever we're drinking, and the oldest likes a glass of cider on holiday but that is it.
Interestingly one or two of her friends drink, but this is facilitated/egged on by family members who also drink a lot.
Yes and no. Son is 30 drinks mostly moderately but occasionally has a session with his buddies. Daughter doesn't drink. Me somewhere in between still drinking but never have a session, can't stand the hangover these days.
I enjoy a voluminous cornucopia of pleasures but try to balance it out with exercise and diet.
This. Love the piety on threads like this.
There’s always someone more famous than yourself with the same name which takes up the first 100 Google search results….
Not always!!
One of my many namesakes was starring in the local theatre the other year, hence my name was up in posters all over town.....
Also probably worth noting that age checking in pubs has got way way stricter in the last five or ten years. It is unlikely that a 16 or 17 year old would even get in to a pub now, never mind be served or manage to buy alcohol themselves from a shop. Certainly in central Edinburgh the 'challenge 25' thing seems to be extremely strictly enforced and the days of the dodgy off license serving anyone at any time of day seem to be a thing of the past.
As another bit of balance to the thread, friends of mine with 17 year olds who didn't drink got a bit of a shock when those 17 year olds turned 18 at university and started hammering it pretty much every night all over social media!!
Edit. Forgot to add I am 43, don't have children, haven't been to a pub since I think February of last year, but now that everything is back open can't wait to go for a proper night out and end up in the Banshee Labyrinth.
all different sorts of drugs around but I believe its actually less prevalent now than 20 / 30 years ago
all about the circles you mix in of course but while weed is perhaps more common party pills / coke are not. 20 / 30 years ago city of london financial district was coked up all the time. I believe much less so now. My local pillheads bar is cleaned up
heroin is less of an issue now as well
Edit – I know a some youths and while they smoke a little weed they do nothing like the amount of drugs their mothers did at the same age!
Mmmm you can order any drug in any quantity via a text message or online, delivered to your door in any city now, it's as easy and efficient as ordering take away food, pay by paypal or credit card.
I work with youngish people in education and they are quite open about it, cocaine is more prevalent and affordable, and comes up on swabs in every toilet in the UK, it's certainly different to back in the day but I think it would be naive to imagine drugs are not used considerably wider now than ever, and at a younger age.
I agree. It is like Uber drugs (alongside your Uber Eats). Radio 4 did an interesting half hour piece based upon this https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-51237885
10 and a couple of whiskeys sounds about normal, maybe not every week but a fairly common pattern for me would be post thursday night ride, 2 or 3 pints. another 2 or 3 on a friday tea time at the local cricket club. Footy on a saturday, pre-match/halftime/post-match pints; thats 8 then family walk on a Sunday, pub lunch, another 2 pints easy. then whiskey on the couch watching tele in between.. thats on a weekend where im not going out-out!
my kids are kids so cant compare but i do notice the youngsters at work have a completely different attitude towards drinking than we did (do) that reminds me, forgot pre-pandemic lunchtime beers with lads from work!