How much do you drink?

[Tricky]

Darat got me wondering when he posted in another thread saying that he considers a person who has a drink every week to be borderline alcoholic. I think that's a bit extreme, but I know we have a fairly wide range of drinkers here.

For the purposes of this poll, one drink is one pint of beer, one glass of wine, or one shot (1 1/2 oz) of 90-100 proof hard liquor.

No names, unless you really want to. I don't want to turn this into an AA meeting.

 

[geni]

Religion and Philosophy?
3 drinks a week but I'm a student.

 

[Tricky]

Religion and Philosophy?
3 drinks a week but I'm a student.

Well, this is where the "drinking around kids" thread was. Plus, need I remind you of The Philosopher's Song

Immanuel Kant was a real p!ssant
Who was very rarely stable
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table
David Hume could out-consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist
Socrates himself was permanently p!ssed

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will
With half a pint of shandy was particularly ill
Plato, they say, could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey every day
Aristotle, Aristotle
Was a bugger for the bottle
Hobbes was fond of his dram
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart
"I drink therefore I am"

Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's p!ssed

 

[EdipisReks]

i'm an alcohol snob, and since i don't make very much money as student worker, i don't get to drink that often. however, i tend to get drunk every couple months on the weekend, usually on single malt scotch and grey goose.

 

[Yahweh]

How much do you drink?

Well, I wouldnt call myself a connoisseur....

 

[roger]

I didn't vote because nothing really seemed to fit.

During the summer I'll often have a beer with dinner, but often don't even finish the bottle. Other times I might have 2, very occasionally 3.

Winters find me sipping bourbon, scotch, port etc, after a meal.

Never really get drunk, occasionally slightly affected.

Never, ever 'go out drinking'. Boring.

Certainly don't have a planned drinking night.

Sometimes a six pack sits in the fridge for a few weeks before it is consumed. Other times it'll be gone in 2-3 days.

As I type this I am drinking a 2001 Artazuri Navarra wine, left over from dinner.

 

[Lord Emsworth]

Well, two or three times a year, but never very much (around one beer). I haven't been drunk for 2 or 3 years now, because I simply came to loathe it.

 

[toddjh]

I wasn't sure how to vote. I only drink two or three times a year, but I drink a lot on those occasions (I don't see the point of not going all the way! ).

Jeremy

 

[bug_girl]

i don't drink at all, but i have epilepsy, and am heavily medicated.
Which is, IMHO, just fab.
I can have a happy little buzz by just standing up real fast.

Somedays though, i'd Really like a black russian. alas, i can't even have a sip of beer without immediately zzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

[Suddenly]

Religion and Philosophy?

I can connect everything. I only drink when I philosophize. Actually, more likely the other way around. I drink on average about once a month, usually almost to excess but not quite. I usually have a few when the stress level goes up to where my back starts to hurt. I kick off work and sip some bourbon and watch old movies or maybe make weird posts here.

There are a lot of serious boozers in my line of work. Some are mostly functional drunks that try to keep somewhat sober in the office; others go on semi-weekly benders that would embarass Dennis Rodman. One guy I knew came to trial reeking so bad that the judge could smell it and started yelling at the defendant, how dare he come to court drunk, etc. The lawyer had to tell the judge that he was the one that reeked, not the client. Didn't end well.

 

[Iamme]

I like the feeling of control. To know that I can open up a refrigerator door, if I so choose, and open up a cold one, that for years, in my early up-bringing, was something considered of the devil. For a while there, in my life, I think I had the attitude that I would make up for lost time!

Now I have gotten older and wiser and not as reckless and have scaled back to .5-3 drinks a day. I probably realistically average in the neighborhood of 1.5 a day, perhaps, as just a guess.

 

[arcticpenguin]

I voted "maybe once a year" because there wasn't an option for "maybe once every 3 or 4 years".

RE once a week: how much are they drinking that once? Are they getting drunk and doing stoopid things?

 

[UnrepentantSinner]

This thread belongs in Community and the Drinking Around Kids thread belongs in Social Issues.

The mods need to get on this stuff instead of playing EQ all night.

Oh, and I drink a lot, every day, sometimes twice a day. I believe the quality of my posts reflects that.

 

[Dids]

I put 1 or 2 per month, although it's closer to once per month or two.

But, I see at the moment "Never" is leading. How much is due to recovering alcoholics - I've got the idea the AA program seems to stress even the merest whiff of whisky and you're condemned again - and how much is due to the "just never started" crowd.

[I used to drink 2-4 500ml cans every night for a few years, then stopped one day cold turkey just after I got engaged. No nagging from the fiancee or such, just she cannot drink, so drinking myself seemed selfish. I just suffered two evening of hands wanting to do things, so just had a pint glass of water handy instead.]

 

[Ratman_tf]

Once or twice every few months.

My dad drinks every day.

My uncle drinks every hour, and while I've never seen him without a drink, I have seen him with two...

...and he used to drive a logging truck. While intoxicated.

 

[evildave]

I might drink two or three drinks in a week, on average. Occasionally more, but not often, sometimes none in a month.

Generally, I don't get anything out of it. I like cider. I like beer. They're just fizzy drinks, like soda. It's always been a razor thin line for me between feeling any effect at all and being violently sick, so drinking a lot doesn't really appeal to me... unless I just feel like making myself sick.

 

[Kimpatsu]

I drink so much, sometimes even Dubya makes sense, but I'm not as thunk as drinkle peep I am.
*Hic*

 

[Ove]

Every Tuesday i have ONE pint of exellent beer, usually Killkenny Draft or a similar. Every Friday and Saturday i have ONE luxory beer, usually Belgian or a Danish from a Microbrewery. I never go out on a pub to get drunk. When we are out playing i get two to tree beers the whole night (i have to drive home). Finally once or twice a year we go to a party and i gets plastered, .... sometimes.

 

[MRC_Hans]

A drink a week makes you a borderline alcoholic? That's plain silly. Not even AA would suggest that.

I drink two glasses of wine a day (always with dinner). Health-wise that is actually beneficial (although a tad expensive in calories if you are trying to loose weight ), but I would concede that it could bring you to the border of alcoholism. Not the quantum in itself, but the habit of relaxing with a glass of wine could make you loose control during some crisis.

I never get drunk at parties, in fact, I cannot remember when I was last drunk (yeah, too drunk to remember? - no, i think not---).

Hans

 

[Kimpatsu]

And now, even the Guardian is getting in on the discussion...