Drinking - How much and how often

[rshephard3]

you could pipe all summer long then forgive you with a song , that's a touch my lad

Tune. IMHO.

[scotty]

I notice this thread died out shortly after lunch hour.

[Patrick Bateman]

I am cutting down now and there are days when I don't drink anything.

During the Olympics I lapsed a bit, a beer or two watching boxing or some of the events hit the spot

How about you guys? What's normal for you.

Have any of you had to stop due to health reasons as has happened to my brother?

Work hard, play hard. Bottle of wine most nights, a fair amount at the weekends and my work drink heavily as well - we've got a bar at work full of free whisky and so on and when I go away to see my team in Budapest, now that's a party city. I love Hungarian Pàlinka!!

My liver is probably pickled and I do drink a LOT less than I used to!

[The9]

3 pints a night? Bloody hell! How did you not end up in rehab?

Probably because the average of 3 was more like 5 one night and one the next... as a 26 year old I could recover.

I had a few Southport-based escapades before the project started - we had a project roll out send-off during which I helped hoover up the bottles of wine left on the table, then when we went to a bar over the road (apparently) knocked my pint all over the project boss's jacket, had no recollection of anything after 10:30pm, was walked back to the hotel by my 6 colleagues, two of whom had been chucked out of an otherwise empty bar for dancing around with their shirts off (no recall of that either of course). This was a Thursday night, was in the office the next day.

Got an alarm phone call at 8:30am for breakfast, woke up fully dressed but barefoot, found the loo roll wrapped around my foot saturated with blood, the sink full of cubes of glass from a tumbler, the floor covered in both blood and glass, the bath full of sick and gradually pieced together what getting back to the room. We had to pick up company cars for the roll-out that morning, mine stayed in the car park until 2pm due to my obvious intoxication.

It wasn't a problem though, I was conscious I was drinking a lot and the reasons (being away and in company and with nothing else to do but go to the bar with a healthy daily subsistence allowance), I didn't HAVE to do it and proved it by stopping if I ever started worrying about it.

[Griffo]

This summer it's been most days. I've put on a lot of weight. Trying to stop the needless drinking where I ask if anyone fancies a couple of pints which turns into a huge session/night out somewhere. Need to stop having cans in front of the TV in the evening as well.