Varies for me. Left to my own devices i could happily do 4 to 5 bottles of red a week or 4 to 5 beers a night for 5 nights.

I try and only do 3 nights on it but depending how fed up I am Thursday is sometimes on the cards

Heavier night seems to be Sunday #Monday fear.

My nan was one of the smartest people I knew. She was very active in the garden and ate very little, but she chain-smoked rollies from a very young age and drank wine from the box from getting up in the morning until bedtime.

Then one day out of the blue aged 88 she just died!

Keep away from this stuff. They’re killers!

mostly one a night, sometimes none, weekend maybe two or three units – AF beer bought online at the same time as full-fat beer enables this

My nan was one of the smartest people I knew. She was very active in the garden and ate very little, but she chain-smoked rollies from a very young age and drank wine from the box from getting up in the morning until bedtime.

I think you’re being slightly sarcastic here, but I’ll take the baton.. 😀

She sounds like my grandparents, all smokers, all drinkers to some extent. All dead, mainly in their 60s, early 70s, one in his early 50s. But, what I need to add to the alcohol and smoking is that they generally tended to come from very deprived backgrounds, have a terrible diet by modern standards, and have worked in some appallingly toxic places. (Nickel works, munitions factories, and so on.), and lived their lives surrounded by poor air quality and other chain smokers, as per the norm pre-80s.

Frankly, I’d be more amazed if any of them had made it to their 80s. 😀

Then one day out of the blue aged 88 she just died!

Jeanne Calment, who at the time was the oldest woman in the world, gave up smoking at the age of 117. Five years later she was dead!

I’m have a pretty active social life, including being out on school nights, which tends to involve sinking a few.

This. For example the last week:

Friday – Out with mates in Manchester, about 6 pints
Saturday – MTB ride followed by pub, then a 40th birthday party in the evening, 8 pints at least
Sunday – Friend over visiting, a takeaway curry and a few beers at home.
Monday – Down the pub with a mate in the afternoon, then ran into some other mates and stayed out longer than planned. Another 8 pinter
Tuesday – The weekly tuesday night MTB ride, followed by pub and 4 pints
Wednesday – Down the pub to see a mate who’s leaving the country. Another 4 pints

And this is not an atypical week. I suppose I could stay in and not see anyone, or not drink when everyone around me is, which would be even worse. All I know is that without the social life (much of which revolves around bike riding) I’d be lonely, miserable and depressed, which IMO is much more dangerous for my health.

Too much, some social, some not. Had a bit of a scare when I just totted up last week’s total. Relieved when I took another look and realised I’d counted the bottles that my wife and I had shared, rather than just my half.

Still. Not all necessary, looking to keep a closer eye on myself!

Heck, you drank in 6 days what it would take me almost 60days to get through. I think I’d wet myself after 4 pints of anything.

This. For example the last week:

Friday – Out with mates in Manchester, about 6 pints
Saturday – MTB ride followed by pub, then a 40th birthday party in the evening, 8 pints at least
Sunday – Friend over visiting, a takeaway curry and a few beers at home.
Monday – Down the pub with a mate in the afternoon, then ran into some other mates and stayed out longer than planned. Another 8 pinter
Tuesday – The weekly tuesday night MTB ride, followed by pub and 4 pints
Wednesday – Down the pub to see a mate who’s leaving the country. Another 4 pints

Fun Police have been doing the sums. ONS Stats say average pint is now £3.95. So that week in the pub has cost around £120. That is not including takeaway and beers at home.

And this is not an atypical week.

Blimey! 🥴

ONS Stats say average pint is now £3.95.

If only. Apart from the 40th birthday party which was at the cheap local cricket club it was all 5-6 quid a pint. Reckon I spend about £600 a month on ‘socialising’. It’s worth it.

Ignore our comments… it’s mostly jealousy (well, it is on my part anyway).

Ignore our comments…

If it wasn’t for the fact that it’s pissing it down I’d be on the weekly road ride tonight, and you can guess where that ends (your local actually!). This weekend I’m up in Newcastle visiting family and some old mates, which won’t offer any respite.

ONS Stats say average pint is now £3.95.

I’d drink a lot more if that were the case 😀

This weekend I’m up in Newcastle visiting family and some old mates, which won’t offer any respite.

Newcastle is probably the best city to go out in right now (just don’t tell anyone).

I’d drink a lot more if that were the case 😀

Yeah, get a schooner for that price and you’re doing well. Assuming you actually like beer that is. I’m very much in the “drink less, drink good stuff” category. If beer was cheaper, or I was richer, then I’d drink more, for sure.

 I think I’d wet myself after 4 pints of anything.

This is me also. I just can’t handle the quantity these days.

120 quid a week?

PFFT!

You’re clearly unfamiliar with what Daz drinks

Only IPA’s distilled from the tears of angels, at exactly 2,000ft above sea level

Jeanne Calment, who at the time was the oldest woman in the world, gave up smoking at the age of 117. Five years later she was dead!

Wonder why she gave up? Can’t have been for longevity reasons… 🙂 I suspect a pious hectoring relative. I was my poor old nan’s only mate for the last years, most of the family having shunned her punitively over the smoking. Or at least using that as an excuse not to visit.

I used to smoke heavily myself but like Binners, gave up about ten years ago after noticing diminishing returns, plus it being generally harder to smoke anywhere. Since then I’ve struggled with my weight which I’m not certain is the greater evil. I’m sometimes tempted to take up vaping if only for weight control. I assume it’s the nicotine that is an appetite depressant, plus  the having a fag/vape in place of eating’ thing… any vapers care to share their experience? Bit of a thread detour I suppose, soz.

If beer was cheaper, or I was richer, then I’d drink more, for sure.

Years ago, I was dreaming about what I’d do if I won the lottery and one of the ideas was to travel around Europe buying good wine and whisky, stocking up a good wine cellar, and then I realised what I’d actually turn into. I’d have no self control, and would be inebriated from lunchtime every day. I’d still like to win the lottery, of course, but I’d probably not stockpile booze in the house, with easy access. 😀

jambourgie

My nan was one of the smartest people I knew. She was very active in the garden and ate very little, but she chain-smoked rollies from a very young age and drank wine from the box from getting up in the morning until bedtime.

Then one day out of the blue aged 88 she just died!

Reminds me of my late Uncle Jim. Smoked unfiltered woodbines until the day he died at 96 after a life of outdoor farm and quarry work. Spent everyday of his retirement until not long before he died out collecting wood and then sawing/chopping logs which he mostly gave away.
Not a big drinker though, had a glass of port every night of his life following an illness when young and the local quack advised him to drink port as it was good for the blood and the odd pint while out playing dominos.
Never had a woman in his life……………

The thing about the 6 pint a week limit, is that I and a lot of people I know drink more than that.

No-one seems to suffer any significant problems.

That’s why it’s looked at quite cynically.

Never had a woman in his life……………

Bingo. Uncle Jim wasn’t daft!

take up vaping if only for weight control. I assume it’s the nicotine that is an appetite depressant

Yup, nicotine is a pretty effective appetite suppressant, but so also is strong coffee imo.

Never had a woman in his life……………

Bingo. Uncle Jim wasn’t daft!

I’m trying to work out how he avoided women by going to bingo? 😀

You’re clearly unfamiliar with what Daz drinks

I was secretly relieved when the local craft ale bottle shop closed last year. Saved me about 40 quid a week. I do miss the £9 a bottle belgian lambics though.

ONS Stats say average pint is now £3.95.

I’d drink a lot more if that were the case 😀

I’d drink a lot less if that were the case. 😀

There’s a lot of variables to an “average” price of a pint. A pint of fizzy pish from the Manchester Arena recently I think came to eight quid. At the other end you’ve got old men’s pubs in Northern towns turning out “bitter” and “lager” for sub-£2. And then there’s the perpetual anomaly that is London.

When I was drinking in pubs semi-regularly (like, once a fortnight) pre-Covid and pre house move, the going rate pretty much everywhere in town was about £2.60. I don’t actually know what it would be today, my local is a little real ale pub that shuts at 9pm so probably isn’t typical of the area.

Don’t drink much at all if I’m honest. Had a couple of drinks at Easter, before that was new year, before that was the start of lockdown.
Guess there’s a bonus to being stuck in the house every night, gets a bit boring having a drink by yourself after a while.

We’re presently watching a good friend who was, for a while, a functioning alcoholic descend into becoming very much a non-functioning alcoholic

Thats literally and metaphorically a very sobering experience

It’s tragic. Short of kidnapping them and locking them up, theres absolutely nothing you can do

Thanks for the clunking reality check.