Poll
Question:
How often do you drink?
Option 1: World consolidation into a few Mega States?
votes: 4
Option 2: More than 4 times a week, with some going in to extreme drunkenness
votes: 1
Option 3: More than 4 times a week, rarely to extreme drunkenness
votes: 12
Option 4: Between 4-2 times a week, with the occasional actual drunkenness
votes: 3
Option 5: Between 4-2 times a week, much less frequently to real drunkenness
votes: 9
Option 6: About once a week, frequently to real drunkenness
votes: 2
Option 7: About once a week, rarely to actual drunkenness
votes: 10
Option 8: Maybe once or twice a month, but frequently to actual drunkenness
votes: 2
Option 9: Maybe once or twice a month, and of that rarely to real drunkenness
votes: 9
Option 10: Very infrequently, only a few times a year or at special events.
votes: 6
Option 11: I have previously imbibed alcoholic drinks, but have not in a long time.
votes: 4
Option 12: It is prohibited by my religion.
votes: 0
Option 13: Never; it never appealed to me.
votes: 3
Self-explanatory poll. I'm about once or twice a month, frequently to real drunkenness because my tolerance is so low.
Not since 1994.
Very infrequently.
I read posts on Languish. Therefore, I am constantly drunk.
One Dixie cup worth of high quality Calvados. Every so often.
It allows me to put on airs.
I really like option 1. :lol:
About as often as it snows.
You didnt have a choice which matches me. I havent gotten drunk for many many years.
I drink about once a week.
Quote from: crazy canuck on February 13, 2014, 08:31:04 PM
You didnt have a choice which matches me. I havent gotten drunk for many many years.
I drink about once a week.
"About once a week, rarely to actual drunkenness. "
I try to have a few every weekend but these days it's more like 2 or 3 times a month. Drunk is once every year or two
I'm surprised that I am one of the few who frequently gets to actual drunkenness, though I guess me and my age group have yet to get truly vicious hangovers.
2-4 a week. Rarely get really drunk. Maybe once ever 3-4 months at parties and big nights out.
Since August, I've substantially reduced the amount I drink and taken way better care of my health generally. Nowadays, just on Fridays and Saturdays, and I've always very, very rarely ever gotten "drunk" (which I guess is defined by eventually feeling sick and/or vomiting).
Nothing since my 22nd birthday.
Quote from: Queequeg on February 13, 2014, 08:34:51 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on February 13, 2014, 08:31:04 PM
You didnt have a choice which matches me. I havent gotten drunk for many many years.
I drink about once a week.
"About once a week, rarely to actual drunkenness. "
rarely means it actually happens. ;)
Ah. By drunk I meant coming close to passing out or passing out, not necessarily getting sick. I get loud, obnoxiously drunk pretty quickly but have only vomited due to alcohol consumption once or twice in my life.
Quote from: Queequeg on February 13, 2014, 08:53:19 PM
Ah. By drunk I meant coming close to passing out or passing out,
Ok, by that definition I have never been drunk.
Btw, why would someone do that to themselves?
That depends. I brownout; I drink, have fun, then misjudge the amount of alcohol I need to consume to continue the present state of drunkenness, and then become tired and have to go home or find a place to nap/sleep. That said, this is obviously not something I do that frequently after college.
Again; I'm weird with alcohol. I get drunk very easily, but it takes a lot in order to make me feel truly sick, and very rarely get hangovers.
TBH I actually don't like that definition though. I think "incoherence" is probably the best distinguisher from drunk to non-drunk.
Quote from: Queequeg on February 13, 2014, 08:58:49 PM
I think "incoherence" is probably best distinguishes from drunk to non-drunk.
:hmm:
I'm super tired.
Too much and more often that I should.
This is probably the best spread on any poll I've ever seen on this board.
I would guess about 3 times a week on average, and I haven't been drunk in probably a decade or so.
It really varies. My parents are staying with us right now, and we often have a beer or glass of wine with dinner. Probably 5 or 6 times a week. Other times, it's more like once a month that i have a drink.
As for getting an actual buzz on, maybe twice a year. Sloppy drunk? Not for years and years.
... not sure how to vote, but those are the facts.
Maybe a beer or a glass of whisky per week. But it's been a loooong while since I've been drunk. The recovery time afterwards is just not worth it.
Huh. I find this very strange. I can drink quite a bit, say around 4 hard-hitting cocktails, and wake up feeling, if anything, refreshed.
Very infrequently. I generally get us a bottle of wine at Christmas, and another for New Year's and maybe 2-4 6-packs of beer the rest of the year.
I don't think I've actually been drunk since 1988.
Once or twice a month, at most. Usually to fun-level of inebriation, but no further. I think I have a pretty good sense of when to cut myself off and I simply don't drink anything other than water or soda once I've hit a good buzz.
I occasionally have a cider with lunch when at home, if that counts too. :cheers:
Spellus, I'm like you. I have never had any of the usual side-effects I hear from people (blackouts, bad hangovers, etc.). Probably because I don't drink enough?
Quote from: Queequeg on February 13, 2014, 08:22:21 PM
Self-explanatory poll. I'm about once or twice a month, frequently to real drunkenness because my tolerance is so low.
haven't touched a drink in nearly two weeks. I think I'm far away from "World consolidation into a few Mega States?" for now, at least. :)
Quote from: Queequeg on February 14, 2014, 12:34:46 AM
Huh. I find this very strange. I can drink quite a bit, say around 4 hard-hitting cocktails, and wake up feeling, if anything, refreshed.
It depends on quantity, speed, accompanying food etc. Though I have to say even feeling tipsy is more of a nuisance these days. I like to spend my sparse free time clear headed. If I were allowed to drink at work, though ...
Yeah, so many other factors. Some nights I've drunk liters of vodka and felt fine the next morning, other nights I had two beers and felt like hell.
Not since 2002.
I have over 10 different beer brands totaling about 25 beers in my house.
I will drink maybe 3-4 a month. No where near drunkeness as that would mean consumption of upwards of 15 beers or shots to get me plastered.
I've cut down a lot over the past year, so I only drink about once a week now, usual dose is 3 pints of beer. Every now and then I forget how old I am and overdo it.
I'm in agreement with Syt's comments, nowadays the cost-benefit analysis for drinking is getting increasingly unfavourable for me. The drink often seems to have no effect, then if I keep on drinking tips over into drunkenness too easily..............the middle ground of finding things more entertaining and fun is being squeezed. I've even skipped the Saturday night drinks a couple of times lately, there seems to be a feedback loop in operation which leads to cutting down even more.
I've always said the upside of being a social drinker is my anti-social behavior.
About once a week, though I haven't gotten drunk since I took the LSAT in December.
Quote from: Grinning_Colossus on February 14, 2014, 03:20:32 AM
About once a week, though I haven't gotten drunk since I took the LSAT in December.
How did that work out for you?
Quote from: Queequeg on February 13, 2014, 08:58:49 PM
TBH I actually don't like that definition though. I think "incoherence" is probably the best distinguisher from drunk to non-drunk.
I met incoherence once. I didn't like him. He hasn't been back since.
Between 2-4 times a week. Friday or Saturday I usually end up properly drunk, but not always.
My problem is that due to size and habituation, getting drunk is expensive.
Quote from: Tyr on February 14, 2014, 01:42:45 AM
Yeah, so many other factors. Some nights I've drunk liters of vodka and felt fine the next morning, other nights I had two beers and felt like hell.
It's the dark stuff in beer (tannins?) that gives you the hangover. That why.
Quote from: Queequeg on February 13, 2014, 08:56:53 PM
That depends. I brownout; I drink, have fun, then misjudge the amount of alcohol I need to consume to continue the present state of drunkenness, and then become tired and have to go home or find a place to nap/sleep.
Pretty much the same for me too.
Quote from: PJL on February 14, 2014, 04:23:51 AM
Quote from: Tyr on February 14, 2014, 01:42:45 AM
Yeah, so many other factors. Some nights I've drunk liters of vodka and felt fine the next morning, other nights I had two beers and felt like hell.
It's the dark stuff in beer (tannins?) that gives you the hangover. That why.
There's more than that. Other nights I've drank 10 beers and been fine.
Dehydration is the main thing. Falling asleep with the AC heater on=Ouch
Aye, I make sure to drink copious amounts of water (even if it's hard) to mitigate hangovers.
Not sure if this has any scientific basis or I'm placebo-ing, but ingesting vitamin-C also seems to help me. Oh, and stomach protectors are a charm. A lot of the unpleasantness of a hangover is also derived from your stomach being unsettled so tackling that helps immensely.
I drink far too much. I try to have Mondays and Tuesdays off but that's about it. Usually open a bottle of wine with dinner every evening. The missus will have 1-2 glasses and I have the rest.
Quote from: Gups on February 14, 2014, 05:06:09 AM
I drink far too much. I try to have Mondays and Tuesdays off but that's about it. Usually open a bottle of wine with dinner every evening. The missus will have 1-2 glasses and I have the rest.
Do you consider yourself to be an alcoholic?
Maybe 3-5 times a month, never to incoherence/passing out.
I've been working in the bar industry/at a brewery for over a decade straight at this point in my life. I generally drink 5-6 days a week, though only on rare occasions do I drink to the point I would consider myself drunk. A lot of it is sampling the new beers that come in, sampling new beers from the local brewery, especially with their new pilot system, and trying out new beers to see if we want to purchase them for the bar. :cheers:
Usually a couple of times per week, some beers with my buddies mid week and a proper night out on friday or saturday. Throw in an additional day if there's a big game on tv in the middle of the week and we meet in a bar to watch it. Most of the time it's just beers, with liquour only when going out. It's been years since I last got properly drunk.
Yeah. Big game on TV does mean a drink or two.
Just tried to remember the last time I passed out drunk... April 2011 it was, we were "celebrating" our last day working in a TV show, and passed out drinking vodka with the workmates the night before.
Fortunately we had planned ahead and had sod all to do during that last day at the office, but had to attend anyway :lol:
Quote from: celedhring on February 14, 2014, 04:58:50 AM
Aye, I make sure to drink copious amounts of water (even if it's hard) to mitigate hangovers.
Not sure if this has any scientific basis or I'm placebo-ing, but ingesting vitamin-C also seems to help me. Oh, and stomach protectors are a charm. A lot of the unpleasantness of a hangover is also derived from your stomach being unsettled so tackling that helps immensely.
You shouldn't be using stomach protectors for that, they're medicines, not party helpers.
:Embarrass:
They're an emergency solution though, if my stomach really feels bad. I have prescription for using them anyway, it's not that I lie to my physician in order to get them and get drunk more.
:lol:
It's just a pet peeve of mine, I have a friend here who uses them every time she gets out and it irks me a bit. She also has legitimate stomach issues, but anyway that's not their proper use. That's what you get by being a pharmacist's son. :P
It could be worse, she could be taking paracetamol.
Anyway, I used to get pissed every Saturday when I as young, though only three times to the point I had blackouts or vomited.
I've barely drank for the last decade. I did get embarrassingly drunk at my brother's wedding though. It's amazing how how much your tolerance drops after three years without a drop of alcohol entering your system. :P
Not often anymore; but when I do I drink a lot.
Actually had a near death experience recently, alcohol related, which has caused me to consider quitting altogether. but havent.
Only time ever blacked out was when 22 or so. 12 beers and fifth of tequila will usually cause that to occur.
One or two bottles of wine a week spread out over three or four evenings, rarely but spectacularly to drunkenness.
I have a glass or two of scotch every week or two. I haven't been really drunk since the 2010 AFC Championship game.
Depends. Back home be in Paris or Bragança, with the family around, that will be a couple of glasses of wine per meal and nothing much else besides the occasional beer or glass of port birthdays or special holidays such as New Year's Eve whith champagne.
If not, a couple of beers when going out or a cognac if I'm lucky to find some decent one.
Quote from: The Larch on February 14, 2014, 06:18:03 AM
:lol:
It's just a pet peeve of mine, I have a friend here who uses them every time she gets out and it irks me a bit. She also has legitimate stomach issues, but anyway that's not their proper use. That's what you get by being a pharmacist's son. :P
What an odd view. Proper use?
I last drank on NYE, not a drop since then. Since I went from lardass to lean to buff my tolerance has nosedived and I'm a very cheap date these days. Also, it take DAYS now for me to feel 100% after a few beers or a bottle of wine. So the old girl's not in her previous fighting form.
Clear spirits drunk neat or mixed into fizzy water with some lime give me the least trouble these days.
Generally I have a drink or two every couple of months. The couple times I've done more, it hasn't really fazed me.
Quote from: katmai on February 14, 2014, 07:27:05 AM
Only time ever blacked out was when 22 or so. 12 beers and fifth of tequila will usually cause that to occur.
You'd have given Andre the Giant a run for his money.
I'm 2-4 times a week (varies depending on festivals & other events) and almost exclusively beer these days. Trying to keep it down closer to 2 times per week to help me get in better shape, but every time I turn around one of the local breweries is putting out a new beer or I get something from my favorite brewery to test.
Plus I have a bad habit of buying too many growlers of fresh beer when I'm out and those usually need to be consumed within 2 weeks or the beer goes flat.
I have never gotten drunk intentionally since a few times when I was younger just to see what it was like.
But I drink once or twice a week. If we have any beer, which we usually do not, I will have one with dinner and I always get a beer when we go out to eat.
I didn't drink for 23 years. Now I drink a glass of wine with dinner most nights, and when I go out I have a beer. I am not 19 any more, so I don't just sit around and get plastered.
I used to drink a glass of beer or wine with meals regularly, but I find that makes me feel more tired than anything. These days, I like to have a vermouth and soda before dinner. :frog: But usually no alcohol with the meal.
I'm a situational person, though. I went to a low-key New Year's Eve party this year, and had 2 drinks in all. And I've gone on extended dieting periods where I cut out booze entirely. But if I'm in a social scenario where people are "drinking drinking," I have a pretty high tolerance and don't usually embarrass myself much, so I'll join in fully.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 14, 2014, 02:30:45 PM
When it starts to have noticeable negative effects on the rest of your life.
What about the dependence vector? Or is that just incorporated in negative effects?
E.g., the fellow who is good at his job, is good to his wife and kids, but pretty much always works his way through a six-pack during a workweek evening, and feels somewhat agitated internally if he can't for whatever reason?
That person would be much better off seeing the Capetano about some blues and some greens.
I dunno. No serious answer at the moment.
I've just noticed kind of two basic styles of over-drinking among people I've known -- the weekend-binging, Josq-facedown-in-a-kebab-on-the-night-bus style; and the more subdued but continual, couple-of-beers-at-the-bar-after-work, splitting-a-bottle-of-wine-for-dinner, a-little-whiskey-watching-TV-til-bed style.
EDIT: And then there are the pros who combine both; I haven't known many people (in a non-work capacity) with that tendency fully expressed.
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on February 14, 2014, 02:35:48 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 14, 2014, 02:30:45 PM
When it starts to have noticeable negative effects on the rest of your life.
What about the dependence vector? Or is that just incorporated in negative effects?
E.g., the fellow who is good at his job, is good to his wife and kids, but pretty much always works his way through a six-pack during a workweek evening, and feels somewhat agitated internally if he can't for whatever reason?
I'd say that's too much. After all, it'll be a big disruption to him taken away...and it isn't even something that's good for his health.
Poor Jos. :(
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on February 14, 2014, 02:35:48 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 14, 2014, 02:30:45 PM
When it starts to have noticeable negative effects on the rest of your life.
What about the dependence vector? Or is that just incorporated in negative effects?
E.g., the fellow who is good at his job, is good to his wife and kids, but pretty much always works his way through a six-pack during a workweek evening, and feels somewhat agitated internally if he can't for whatever reason?
I don't think addiction in itself has to be a problem.
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on February 14, 2014, 02:35:48 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 14, 2014, 02:30:45 PM
When it starts to have noticeable negative effects on the rest of your life.
What about the dependence vector? Or is that just incorporated in negative effects?
E.g., the fellow who is good at his job, is good to his wife and kids, but pretty much always works his way through a six-pack during a workweek evening, and feels somewhat agitated internally if he can't for whatever reason?
I classify that as at the very least a danger sign.
Quote from: The Brain on February 14, 2014, 02:52:09 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on February 14, 2014, 02:35:48 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 14, 2014, 02:30:45 PM
When it starts to have noticeable negative effects on the rest of your life.
What about the dependence vector? Or is that just incorporated in negative effects?
E.g., the fellow who is good at his job, is good to his wife and kids, but pretty much always works his way through a six-pack during a workweek evening, and feels somewhat agitated internally if he can't for whatever reason?
I don't think addiction in itself has to be a problem.
I am addicted to breathing. I just cant stop. If I try I feel like I am going to die.
Normally once or twice a week.
What does "real drunkenness" mean?
Quote from: jimmy olsen on February 14, 2014, 03:14:43 PM
Normally once or twice a week.
What does "real drunkenness" mean?
You drunk post on Languish.
This struck me as a good resource for people trying to cut back on their drinking: http://www.drinkingdiary.com/index.html
And this seems to be the big alternative program for people who don't want to abstain entirely: http://www.moderation.org/
:console:
I can't put down 8 beers without feeling all bloated and gross. Not even 4, really. Beer has a built-in anti-excess mechanism.
I'm drunk now.
But I won't indulge in drunk posting.
Oops.
Quote from: celedhring on February 14, 2014, 05:48:40 PM
I'm drunk now.
But I won't indulge in drunk posting.
Thanks, it's appreciated. :)
QuoteOops.
SON OF A...! :ultra:
Hmm, have not had a drink in about 3 weeks. I will go get me a beer now.
Better now. :)
Be interesting to see a geographical breakdown and if it confirmed stereotypes of civilised continentals, high functioning alcoholic Brits and abstemious but bingey Americans.
"Abstemious but bingey" is pretty much my exact drinking habit.
As a brewer, I always have alcohol around the house. Some of it is even worth drinking. ;)
I tend to have somewhere around 4-6 drinks/week; sometimes more, sometimes less. When I'm incredibly stressed or incredibly depressed, I don't drink. It actually tastes nasty to me when I'm upset. When things are good, I may have an extra glass of wine with dinner.
That being said, last weekend, three friends and I split seven bottles of mead over the course of about three hours. We followed that up with food and then a mixed drink that had whiskey and absinthe in it. Yeah, I spent an hour or so throwing up in the middle of the night, and was pretty much worthless the next day. It was a lovely reminder of why I don't do that anymore. :glare:
Have you entered any local brewing contests Merithyn?
Four beers or their equivalent every day, except when fasting excludes it.
There is food in beer, but there is no beer in food.
I almost never drink wine or liquor.
Quote from: Queequeg on February 15, 2014, 09:45:36 AM
Have you entered any local brewing contests Merithyn?
Yep. My first "legit" one last month. I did okay. Apparently, if I'd put it in the "right" category, it would have done better than okay. *shrugs*
Quote from: merithyn on February 15, 2014, 12:39:54 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on February 15, 2014, 09:45:36 AM
Have you entered any local brewing contests Merithyn?
Yep. My first "legit" one last month. I did okay. Apparently, if I'd put it in the "right" category, it would have done better than okay. *shrugs*
My friends won one last year in Chambana. They were super proud of it.
I rarely drink, maybe just a little sometimes at holidays. It just doesn't appeal much to me anymore.
I don't drink.
Quote from: Siege on February 15, 2014, 09:54:01 PM
I don't drink.
Not even the blood of goyim children? :(
I'm buzzed on a combo of Calvados, Neurontin and painkillers and I'm horny as hell.
Beat that.
Uh, no thanks dude.
Boy, I was a bit...disorganized last night. :lol: