Unlikely, 8-10 pints a year best guess 🙂
According to the Government, yes.
According to me, no.
Its an illness just like heroine addition.
I too have a heroine addiction iolo. Florence Nightingale's my favourite.
No
Currently sat next to a lovely warm chiminea drinking a large margarita - you tell me! 🙂
It's all about self discipline. Sensible. HEALTH is your next concern. Finance is also good to keep in mind.
Currently sat next to a lovely warm chiminea drinking a large margarita - you tell me!
You must be smashed, as you appear to be drinking a pizza.
If they make pizzas out of tequila and triple sec I'm in!
0-5 units in summer per week.0-2 in winter depending if we eat out.
Oddball.
Less than 15 units this year.
3 children under 5 means I get little sleep anyhow.. I sleep like Shit if I drink so just don't bother.
Life is too short as it is.. no point in wasting precious days moping around on the sofa hungover.
I wish I suffered from hangovers.
I'm a bit of a 'moods' drinker and get a bit carried away sometimes. Some weeks I'll do a bottle of wine, Monday, Tuesday, weds, 5 pints on a Thursday night and then it's the weekend. Lots more beer and wine then!
Other weeks it's the odd beer and maybe only a couple of bottles of wine. This week following a heavy sat night I've had nothing!
I had a nice glass of this wine tonight:
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Hic..
Wat wosh the qustrun gain?
I don't drink a lot, just frequently.
4'11" woman who weighs 20 stone
How does she roll?
Yeo.. far too much if I'm honest.
Bottle of red every other night, occasional weekend on the ale.
probably not doing my body any favours but then i did smoke for years too.
It was all going so nicely, then just before I got home I was called into the pub for a pint or four. Not too heavy, but then after walking a young lady home I'm yards away from my front door when I was called up by my local chef to smash some vodka and apple juice, and before I know it it's six in the morning!
I do try.
Thought I'd have a beer with the footie last night.
Ended up having four tins of Carlsberg and a couple of small glasses of red.
Ooops.
25-30 units a week, most weeks, so yes a bit too much. I wonder how active sports, like cycling and swimming, say 3 times a week, lessen the negative health effect, if at all ? Or does it just make us more self righteous ? 🙂
It will help you with managing weight gain but it won't help repair liver damage unfortunately.
5-10 units a week I guess - probably averaging around 6.
More if the Tring nightride posse come over for the weekend. 😐
Bought a lovely bottle of brandy last night, couldn't leave it unopened now could I. 😀
As soon as you 'need' a drink you need to identify with the fact that something isn't right.
One glass of wine every 2 days becomes one every night and so on until a bottle of night is the norm - seen it happen with family.
I occasionally have a beer with dinner but that's about it at home and have no problem with people that like to try different drink etc but if you are one of the people that go to the bottle as an answer to a stressful day you could end up in trouble.
A lot of you guys on here sound like you like your drink and like trying new ales, whisky, brandy etc etc... so almost a hobby really and probably totally harmless (unless your hobby is to neck the bottle a soon as you buy it 😉 )
In my honest opinion, booze could be seen as one of the worst things ever self inflicted upon society, for those that control and enjoy it great but there are so many that cannot and for those it ruins lives.
Too many people get stressed and hit the bottle nowdays, that with obesity is going to smash the NHS a new one in 20 yrs.
One glass of wine every 2 days becomes one every night and so on until a bottle of night is the norm - seen it happen with family.
A few years ago Thursday evening was a bottle of redwine whilst watching River Cottage etc to unwind whilst mrshora went out.
It didn't last, I've been a half bottle of red ever since.
It only escalates if there any issues (cough money problems) in your life. For everyone else you take more out of the booze IMO.
I'm definitely at the high end of the scale. 40 years old and working from home. I usually drop into the local pub half way round the dog walk for a pint / natter / chapter of my Kindle book. Most nights I'll open and finish a bottle of wine [u]or[/u] three for a fiver ales.
So yes, almost certainly too much and I do occasionally make an effort and stop for a week. Does it bother me? A little. Will I ever stop altogether? Almost certainly not.
Didn't really drink at all until I was about 30 - was too busy getting off my head in other ways, so I do sometimes wonder if I'm making up for lost time...
It's the weekend! 😀
booze could be seen as one of the worst things ever self inflicted upon society
Except that booze is as old as society itself - humans have been making alcohol for thousands of years.
Modern society has bad attitudes to a lot of things, especially things that were once relatively rare and are now cheap and readily available, like fatty food and alcohol.
Responsible use is the key. My father has a glass of wine with dinner every night, but I've never seen him drunk, and similarly my daughter has never seen me drunk. Drinking isn't the problem, drinking to get drunk is.
I mentioned this thread to Mrs Daz last night and she had a good laugh at my estimate of 40 units per week. Seems it's more like 50-60 😯 She suggested I keep a booze diary but I fear that will only encourage me...
Try to drink nothing mon-thurs, but sometimes have a beer in the sun after a ride or a whisky nightcap. Friday is generally the biggest night with a couple of beers to start then moving on to shorts or homemade cocktails. Saturday involves less drink, especially if I'm riding the next morning. Sunday night I usually share a bottle of wine with Mrs CD in the evening.
Nearly all drinking is a home.
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Working yesterday ev so had one of these.
I'm a beer snob. I like a nice bottle of ale, I also brew my own.
I enjoy drinking beer. I would honestly miss it if I stopped completely. But then I'm having one a night, sometimes less, during the week and two or three at the weekend.
So 10 bottles of good beer a week is probably slightly above the recommended intake.
I do occasionally cut down but that's more to do with controlling weight than anything else
I would say the "signs of a problem drinker" are thinking:
it's an achievement to 'be off the drink' and tell people so at every opportunity
that certain situations automatically 'call for a drink'
any remotely stressful experience means they 'need a drink'
that getting wasted on upmarket drinks makes them a connoisseur rather than a drunk
I mentioned this thread to Mrs Daz last night and she had a good laugh at my estimate of 40 units per week. Seems it's more like 50-60 She suggested I keep a booze diary but I fear that will only encourage me...
If Mrs Daz is right and you were drinking pints thats about 25 pints and 4500 calories per week you are consuming... I think i would die!
I would say the "signs of a problem drinker" are thinking:
it's an achievement to 'be off the drink' and tell people so at every opportunity
that certain situations automatically 'call for a drink'
any remotely stressful experience means they 'need a drink'
that getting wasted on upmarket drinks makes them a connoisseur rather than a drunk
Totally agree with that statement - User-removed, do you consider yourself an alcoholic? It sounds like it, especially as you 'make an effort' to stop for only a week - I am not having a go here or making a judgement it just seems that not many heavy drinkers consider they have a problem.
So yes, almost certainly too much and I do occasionally make an effort and stop for a week. Does it bother me? A little. Will I ever stop altogether? Almost certainly not.
How many 'acceptable alcoholics' are there in this country, a vast amount i bet.
Yes,
Do I need to drink? No
Do I like it? yes
Sat in bed enjoying a 16 year old single malt tonight, after a few beers, it's been a shit day and I'm pissed off. I could meditate or have a tommy tank but a single malt works fine.
If you're going to start asking if people are alcoholics, you should at least define what it is first. Just so we're all clear 😉
If you're going to start asking if people are alcoholics, you should at least define what it is first. Just so we're all clear
I think only some government dribbler could define it - difficult to say who is and who isnt as there are so many different variables.
My definition is dependency; if you are dependent your an alcoholic.
Look at George Best. Everyone loved him. 1966 and all that. All the money, all the women and all he wanted was drink.
Poor bastard.
How many closet alcoholics in your office? If you insist on a drink every day maybe you're on the brink.
When did any of you guys get your blood tested? Maybe ask for your liver function results.
My definition is dependency; if you are dependent your an alcoholic.
Even that's a bit vague. Most addictions are defined by physical dependency, where you get withdrawal symptons if you stop. By that definition hardly anyone, even the heavy drinkers, will be alcoholics. Then there's mental dependency, which I guess is more what you're talking about, but good look with defining that. It could mean absolutely anything. The word 'alcoholic' is used far too much for my liking.
When did any of you guys get your blood tested? Maybe ask for your liver function results.
I had an MOT recently and my liver function was all normal. Very few weekends through my twenties didn't involve partying. And I'm not just talking about a few pints and a kebab at 11pm.
I would but the f**************s would charge me more.
As before I enjoy rather than need. Too much? Probably but thats life some of us don't fit the mold. I reckon living in hotels for 10+ years probably changed the way I feel about stuff like this.
The word 'alcoholic' is used far too much for my liking.
Thats probably because you drink 50-60 units per week and many people would consider you an alcoholic because of that....
Thats probably because you drink 50-60 units per week and many people would consider you an alcoholic because of that....
Well that didn't take long 😀
Haha, i am not anti drink in any way and its not a personal attack but you have to admit there are a lot of people who see things this way.
The real point is: Do you think you drink too much? Do you think it is negatively changing your life or health?, if not then who cares.... Its only societies problem when you overstep the mark with your body and the NHS has to try and find you a new liver....