I like booze way to much but finally realized its destructive and a crutch for stress . Weekend regret – missed sunny day rides etc . fortunately i’ve managed to start to get on top of it and dramatically cut down this year now my home life is a bit more settled (Split with Ex / Kid involved / living at mums whilst i brought house) I managed my longest ever dry period in (memory 3 weeks) just last month – Had a bit of a blowout at a festival last week VIP Free Booze backstage etc – that could have resulted in me loosing my licence/job/house as i lost house keys but had car key on me .. slept in car for 4 hours then drove .. would have been over the limit. Alcohol takes away all my sensibility and rationality so need to cut .. I did have 6 Golden ales over the weekend (4 Saturday and 2 sunday) after the day was done and that needs to be my limit from now on.

Hate the feeling of been very drunk, room spinning and can’t think straight. And about 5 years ago I figured out that even a couple of drinks made my mood much more depressed than usual, so now I don’t bother apart from the very occasional drink because I like the taste.
Looking back, I shudder at what I used to drink and the stuff I would do when I was a teen/early twenties.

I can drink ordinary pub beer all night but haven’t been paralytic for many years. I just get more talkative

I like wine but it doesn’t like me and the disproportionate enjoyment:hangover ratio the next day has steered me towards water with a meal.

Not fond of shorts and liqueurs are just puke

I love beer, wine and whisky, I drink them for the taste and very rarely get even tipsy these days.

Last time I was drunk was during the Euros when I got invited out with some boozers from work, it was messy and I got some stick from the wife (fairly) for being a bad example to the kids. Hanging over the toilet at 6:45pm after cycling from birmingham pissed is not something I’m in a hurry to do again.

Before that was a couple of years before.

We normally have 1 drink 3-4 times a week, and maybe a pint (or two) if I go on a work lunch.

I don’t get drunk anymore, as i care about the consequences more than I did as a youth. Also, I don’t like the whole ‘piecing the evening together’ aspect of alcoholic amnesia; I don’t trust myself not to piss people off these days.

Love relaxing at a restaurant, or at home, with good company, good food and a bottle of wine though!

[/quote]I like a drink as much as the next man, but not as much as the next woman (the Mrs).
To be honest I’m just bored of hangovers and wasted weekends.

That. All of that.

I have drunk 5 pints this year
1 pint at a meal – July ish.
2 at SSUK- friday night only.
2 sometime in August but i forget why.

2 is my limit as i am pissed off that and i have drunk at this level for about 15-20 years ish. Never really liked it that much tbh just did it to be social.

I tend to apply the practice of little and often, enjoying the feeling of having 1 or a few. In fairness, family life and work tend to keep me dry 2-3 days a week. I’m more than happy to upgrade to pie eyed when the chance occurs. These tend to be more the odd day and night away, either with mate’s or MrsB, when all child/ work related duties are suspended. This is probably once every 6-8 weeks, and I can live with a hangover every now and again. I tend to find a decent brekky and a steady hour or two on the bike clears me of the worst of a hangover, I’m not one for sitting around feeling sorry for myself.

I like the odd beer or dram but in the last few years there’s only one occasion that i can remember when i had more than a couple in one day. I’m coming to the end of 3 busy weeks working away and I’m knackered, get home about 8pm on Thursday and need to be at the train station in Aberdeen at 11am on Friday for a stagger ….. its not going to go well.

I think that I drank my life quota from the age of 14 to 19.
Then along came motorbikes,cars and girls,which are a lot more fun sober,so I would often volunteer as the designated driver.
I also grew to hate the whole ‘you can’t call it a good night unless you are pissed’ brigade, especially the ones that used to try and make you feel like a killjoy if you weren’t on your way to blootered.

Hate being drunk – did the usual stuff when I was a student, but quickly realised I was doing it because everybody else was rather than because I wanted to.

I enjoy a beer or a whisky, although I can get bored of the taste of beer quite quick – I’d rather have 2 different half pints than a single full pint. That first mouthful though – bloody lovely.

Rarely go to the pub – most drinking is at home – beer with Sunday dinner or a wee dram of a winter evening reading or listening to music. Maybe get through 2 or 3 units a week.

It’s also so bloody expensive these days – buy a pint in London and you get very little change from a fiver. Not like the old days when it was a pound a pint (for dishwater admittedly) at the Loco on Mill Road, Cambs…

That made me smile ..the old days being a £1.00 a pint.
My old days recollection as a 15 yr.old ..12p a pint 😀

Been drunk twice this year, probably 3 times in last 12 months and to be honest it’s probably 3 times too many as I like 2 or 3 beers but after that I seem to just keep drinking till I’ve had way too much and really suffer for it the next day.

Weekends are too valuable to be hungover.

Have resolved to be a couple of beers on a Saturday from here on in as I was getting into the habit of a couple every night and if nothing else I’ve put on 5kg this year in combination with change of career which has seen me go from 17,000 steps a day to about 6000!

Nah, grew out of getting pissed years ago. Not that I did it that regularly.
2 or 3 pint bottles on a Friday night is my usual max. Or when I go out with my brothers, just watch as they put the pints away and I stop after 3 or 4!

Love drinking, but never at home.
It’s the whole booze/fags/darts/pool social combo I enjoy.
I don’t like getting too drunk but once I start I have zero ability or will to stop.
If I need to get up in the morning I’ll arrange a cab to take me away early, and I’ve got a dutiful missus to send me home.

Variable abv beer would be ideal for me. I drink fast because I love huge gobfuls of Guinness, but even starting as late as ten I can do a lot of damage.
Currently on day three without booze (a rarity) but I’ll be working tonight (in a pub) so that probably won’t last.

I try not to. 2 pints feels like plenty these days, although I seem to have 2 pints fairly often.

I think the last time I was properly stumbling about incoherent drunk was over a year ago at a works do. Everyone else was the same, collective amnesia, it took a few of us getting our heads together to figure out what went on. It wrote off the whole weekend after and a good portion of the next week as well.

Big nights out like that are once or twice a year events. I usually end up staying out much later than intended.

Don’t go to the pub often but if I do it’s 4-5 pints tops. If I drink at home it’s either a bottle of red shared with the missus or a few tins of whatever they have in the corner shop or on offer at Sainsburys.

Well, if we are looking relative to this thread I am borderline alcoholic and need to sort my life out.

Though I didn’t have a drop this Friday or Saturday (pint with lunch out Sunday)

But I did just spend a week in Spain drinking every day.

Swings and roundabouts init.

I hate the drink culture in this country, it’s an immature attitude that extends into adulthood

Agree with this really. Getting hammered should be something you try out as a teenager. Or on your stag do.

I don’t like being drunk, I do like the feeling I get from a beer or two or a large glass of wine. Therefore I stick to that, usually 1 beer, or glass of wine, rum or whiskey.

I like the taste of alcohol, but lose the appetite for it after a couple of drinks so find it easy to limit my intake. That said I used to only drink at weekends, but the last couple of months it’s spread into the week too. I’ve started to reduce drinking to weekends again.

An absolute yep. If I could I would happily go down to the pub now with my pals and get trollied! Great fun!

BUT… Unless you practice regularly it is a young man’s game. Age 35 I feel is when it starts to become a bit more difficult to sustain…. once your brain latches on to the idea that hangovers can somehow kill you and you realise that you are not going to live forever, and therefore it might be better to do something more worthwhile with your time. I only binge a few nights a year now…… God I miss those carefree younger days though.

Getting drunk, yep or not?

No, not for me.

Hey that doesn’t mean I don’t like Beer, ohh I love it.. well real beer to clarify.
But I’m not a heavy drinker by any stretch, 2 pints max a week.. normally none unless I pop out to my not so local for a pint of Hampshires Finest.. then it’s only one.

I just can’t drink..

Whiskey on the other hand I’m fine with, of all the years I’ve been snifting it I’ve only once been drunk on it and that was when I was 20.. I didn’t touch the stuff until I was back in my early 40’s then decided I liked it again.. So these days I may have 2x3fingers on either a Friday or Sat night.

So, and I’ve done this online with the NHS, I’m classified as very low drinker and well below what is deemed these days as Average.

I am not against drinking per say. Quite enjoy the ‘glow’ of being out in good company and having a few drinks as people have said.

However:

I hate the drink culture in this country, it’s an immature attitude

I whole heartedly agree with this. I first noticed it when I went to Uni. I went to Manc for uni in the 90’s and I generally found there was more of an attitude of going out for a good time and enjoyment.

Whenever I went back home (west Scotland), my friends would be saying “i’m going out to get smashed” … a different attitude / culture and I found I couldn’t abide by. they would be saying if they weren’t completely out of it, then it hadn’t been a good night ???

That latter attitude of going out with a view to getting trollied has become more pervasive over time I’ve found. The likes of Georgie Sh!te err Shore glamourising it does nothing to help either.

I suppose out relaxed alcohol acceptance is our equivalent of US gun law acceptance … alcohol can do plenty of damage to a society just like guns can.

I hate the drink culture in this country, it’s an immature attitude that extends into adulthood

Growing up in Scotland it was like some badge of honour bollox,full of boasting and bullshit about the amounts you could/would drink.
I really hope more of the kids have wised up.

Just thinking about what others have said about crutch for stress/drink culture at uni.

I drank far too much at uni, during and after one or two shitty relationships on top of the usual stress. I distinctly remember the feeling of drinking more to try and forget things. I think I’d be very ill or dead by now if I’d continued like that, and I was frequently pretty unwell plus I didn’t manage to do anything much at weekends.

Still, there are some good stories from it and it was all part of growing up. Although I might have a beer at the end of a hard day I don’t get that feeling of trying to drink until I can’t remember, which is fine. I know people that have struggled for a bit longer though, and like anything else it can ruin your life.

In my teens, twenties and early thirties I hid behind alcohol and hash. Gradually weaned myself off, and havent had a smoke in ten years now, and haven’t been drunk for nearly twenty. Got diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy about 15 years ago, now take carbamazepine, and that may contribute to the awful day after feeling I get after more than two or three pints – or it may just be age. So its a couple of beers or glasses of wine once or twice a week. I cant keep malt whisky in the house however, the temptation is too much!
Edit – cant stand the idea of spoiling days with hangovers – lifes too precious

I like a beer or 3, I have a switch that goes off in my head though before I get arseholed, its the auto sat nav in my head taking me the shortest route to bed 😆

Even as a young lad going out with the lads, I always back doored it because I wanted my bed!

I like a good drink on a Saturday.

drunk, no, fresh ,yes.

In the pub, I tend to stick to three pints of beer. After that it’s whisky as I have less hangoverness with that.

A nip of something tasty out of a hipflask when bivvying is part of my routine though. I think that’s a mood thing.

As a student I feel I should register my devotion to drinking in excess and often however having just finished my placement year and starting the 4th year of my masters degree in Mech Eng, I’ve started to dial it down somewhat and prefer pubs/bars to clubs every other night.

Oh yes.

Currently into week 4 of a forced detox. Stuck in the middle of the North Sea until the weather drops. It may be over 5 weeks by the time I can actually get to a hotel.

First thing I will do when I get there, is have a beer.

A cool, refreshing beer, don’t care what it is, if I end up in NL at the usual hotel, I will have several of the rather fine Jopen IPA they normally have on draft. At about 7%, I will be completely hammered in a couple of hours. Marvellous.

Not a fan of being drunk. I like wine & beer but not really one for spirits. Of late i’ve found that a glass of red can last over on hour so I’m usually sleepy long before I’m anywhere near being even so much as “refreshed” let alone drunk

Oh yes.

Currently into week 4 of a forced detox. Stuck in the middle of the North Sea until the weather drops. It may be over 5 weeks by the time I can actually get to a hotel.

First thing I will do when I get there, is have a beer.

A cool, refreshing beer, don’t care what it is, if I end up in NL at the usual hotel, I will have several of the rather fine Jopen IPA they normally have on draft. At about 7%, I will be completely hammered in a couple of hours. Marvellous.
I’ll be having a cool refreshing beer or two on the train home after this trip – I’m not a regular offshore though, so I’m not quite at the smashing it on the train stage.

Rarely drink to excess these days, currently kicking the habit of a couple of rums each evening.
Haven’t drunk since Saturday evening and that was only 2 ciders with some food, although I had to be sober as my girlfriend and her recently dumped best mate had made their way through 4 bottles of wine during the afternoon.

Said friend had to be carried downstairs, put in taxi, carried up her stairs, then put into bed.
Then we had to stay for a few hours to make sure she didn’t vomit in her bed…

But alcohol, great fun…

I can’t remember the last time I was totally wasted, but I’ve regretted 99% of the times I was (even if it’s just the amount of cash I’ve wasted during the night). I’m happy enough getting to a max of “giggling way too much at stupid/unfunny stuff” drunk these days, generally avoid a hangover that way to.

not touched a drop for almost 30 years. before that, i was a complete idiot.
don’t care what anyone else does, but don’t expect me to clean up after you. i’ll be long gone when you get to that level of drunk, i feel very nervous around drunk folk.

nah, not getting drunk drunk no. i like to have a few drinks while relaxing and having a laugh with friends and family, and sometimes ill wake up next morning and think “blimey, i think i was a bit p1ssed actually”. just getting merry will do me, i generally know when ive had enough and then just stop, whilst i know of mates who’ll stick their fingers down their throats, chuck up on the spot and off they go again. nahhhh not for me.

I hate the drink culture in this country, it’s an immature attitude that extends into adulthood

another +1. them that go out to ‘get p1ssed’ rather than go out to ‘enjoy socialising and if you get a bit p1ssed so be it’. boasting how many pints theyve had, wearing it like a badge and revelling in the pats on the back and ‘oooh hes a one isnt he ha ha’. no he isnt a one, hes a (probably lying) ****t.

I think you could easily rephrase the question ‘how much do you drink?’ to ‘do you have a decent local?’

That’s the crux of it, really. If you have, plus a few mates who’ll meet you down there at the drop of a hat….

I’ve got both, so we’re quite partial to nipping out for a few beers. Which is fine, as long as you learn how to deal with this! 😀

Sometimes I do. Sometimes I don’t. I used to always stay out when I was younger and worked in town. Nowadays, not so much. Now I’m an old fart, once I’ve had a few beers I just want to fall sleep on the sofa in front of Newsnight. Rock and roll!!!

The occasional glass of Bourbon for me nowadays. My issue is that I’m fairly self destructive and once I get a bit giddy I’ll just continue. That and having a low tolerance made me decide to quit drinking on any sort of major scale

In some ways I wish I drank more so that giving it up either temporarily or permanently would be worthwhile. But it’s rare that I have more than 2 or 3 drinks per day at the weekend. Really like good beer good wine and good whisky but usually quite happy to stop after a couple. Hardly ever drink during the week but that’s not a deliberate thing