BooSH

Just a thought really on how much alcohol people drink, because of late i've considered myself to be drinking to much, i carn't remember the last weekend i've not got boozed up, and today i've bought a box of those 20 Stella bottles from tesco's and i've had to tell myself to stop drinking em because i could easily polish the lot off . Just a good job i've got no JD o love that

NUTTYNICK

I can see this turning into a bit of a pissing contest (no pun intended).

I've really had to cut down, mainly because I'm 37 and need to grow up

There was a time I was concerned and sometimes I still am. I just do more phys to overcome the increasing belly.

I would say I've been drinking fairly heavily since I was 14. When I was officially old enough to get in the pubs, it would be around 6 - 7 pints a night apart from Saturday when it was 'mental' night and then only a couple on Sunday to recover.

The last 10 years or so have been pretty bad thinking about it. Since 1995 when I was working in Germany where beer was strong and stupid cheap, I'd get through a massive amount. If the beer was there, it was drunk, end of.

Recently though, 6 to 8 cans of Kronenbourg a night. Then I have a 'guilt' complex and cut right down then hit it hard again.

I'd hate to think what my insides are like. I doubt organ donors r us would take anything. Cut right back now though but saying that, I'm on my 10 can of carlsberg export now (started when the F1 was on). Steady drinking is one of my fortes.

Bottom line is, if you're worried, stop!

I have to take the odd six month break anyhow due to work.

ScoobyWon't

Far too much. If I don't go out though, my mates think I'm up to something (or someone ).

I reckon last week must have seen 30+ pints sank. And a couple of bottles of wine.

BooSH

I'm planning on taking a break, i'm just bored of drinking, but what else is there to do at night. I don't want to turn into a goverment statistic.

NUTTYNICK

I got ill once and the docs suspected accute pancreitis. I had to work out what I was drinking a week units wise. The doc went ape **** when I told him 105 units a week. Shocked me as well tbh.

Sometimes I think a lot of 'social drinking' is down to the job

Maz

iTrader: (34)

Would you guys say you are addicted?

NUTTYNICK

A nice game of Crib with your friends or how about a good book

abbott

im 27 and i dont drink at all , id definitely say im not excessive.........

i used to be partial to a couple of bottles of buckfast on a weekend night but just cant be arsed anymore...

NUTTYNICK

In a way yes. I have resisted the urge to wake up and have a beer (unless on a weekend away at Blackpool on some stag weekend or what have you)
I can also leave it though as long as I'm busy. Like I say, I go away for quite a few months at a time where there is no beer and don't crave it.

mickywrx

iTrader: (29)

I drink more than plenty, and am happy with my excessivness.

Statistics..... Pah!

People who know me, know how much I drink per week.

NUTTYNICK

Good on ya fella. Stay away from it if I were you.

It's right what they say. If alcohol were invented now, it would be instantly banned.

mickywrx

iTrader: (29)

Sober as a Judge me, Maz. You know that

ScoobyWon't

Not really, I've not touched a drop today. It's mainly a social thing, we go out to meet up, I rarely drink at home unless I have guests, which isn't that often.

BooSH

I suppose so, but in the social sense, i'm in the forces and went to afghan for 4 months and didn't miss the booze but back here, but when ever i go out it's nearly always down the pub if only just for a coulple to catch up.

Maz

iTrader: (34)

Joining the AA may help. Don't say you haven't got a car!

abbott

well thats the crack matey , i used to like a good drink but just dont bother anymore , doesnt do anything for me except land me in bother , i dont like the taste of it i prefer to sit with a diet irn bru as the lads are getting wasted !!

BooSH

Thats so true, the waccy baccy is far less dangerous than the booze (if ony the goverment would see that )

daddyscoob

I would drink 3 or sometimes 4 nights a week. Normal night 12 ish cans of normal lager. If it's a session or night out and steady then perhaps 16 - 18.

Probably too much I know but it never effects my work. No days off and never late forwork

PS I'm 46 and do a fairly phsyical job.

NUTTYNICK

I know a few mates who've taken themselves off the beer for getting into bother. That's the reason I never drink shorts. Get's me a bit fired up. Beer just fills me up.

Like BooSH though, I'm in the forces and drinking is a bit of a must (I know it's not really but nobody likes to deny it).

The day I wake up craving a beer, I'll go to AA.

Maz

iTrader: (34)

A few years ago a lad I got to know had a similar problem whilst in the army. He was a tank driver posted in Germany and because there was nothing to do he would invariably end up getting p!ssed every night, just through sheer boredom. He ended up leaving the army and started a full time job driving an artic. The combination of working full time and responsibility of driving helped him to completely curb his boozing. I think it's something you work your way out of slowly but surely.

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

God, 12 cans of lager on a normal night, ok, I am just a lightweight.

ScoobyWon't

One of my old colleagues would have about 8 pints of Stella before going onto rum and coke for the rest of the night. He'd be out every night of the week. Weekends were fatal - he'd be in the pub before 12 and not go home on the same day. I've seen him drink a full bottle of Jamesons whilst watching a Grand Prix and then going to the pub!

BooSH

So what your saying is until i leave the forces i'm gonna be a manic alcoholic. . Only joking i'm not that bad but everyone on here knows how bad the drinking culture is in the forces, it gets ridiculous, i've lost count of the amounts of pints of other other peoples **** i've drank and thats tame

EXSCOOBY

i was bad 4 bottles of vodka a week
i came to the decision that i would rather live than die
so i stopped and havent had a drink in a long time
thats it for me now
i cant imagine drinking alcohol now

DYK

Ive just cut down naturally over the year's,not that im that old.But when i used to drink it was to get absolutley wrecked.Would never put the weight on because was always active going climbing and moutain bike weekends and stuff.now i just have the odd tipple of vodka some times neat or with orange.Always remember my first drink though,was 8 yrs old and i drank a 1 litre bottle of old english with my mates,then they left me lying drunk in one of the ww2 bomb shelters we used to play in,think i was that age to when i tried my first cigar and almost choked to death.

fatherpierre

You'l be lucky to see 55!!

Physical job or not, your liver must be scared of your mouth.

If your job is physical then you must be totally dehydrated.

I thought I drank a lot.

Tend not to touch any booze during the week and have a 'few' at the weekend. Probably still over the guidline amount.

fatherpierre

5 weeks isn't long enough to say you're not a drinker

5 months and you can brag

Scoob99

iTrader: (1)

Well i have done a bottle of red each night since Thursady, only cos it was a long W/E would you say that was excessive?
Cheers
Colin