Alcohol Consumption.

[Tilly2]

Just wondering, how many of you drink alcohol on a daily basis, with or after your evening meal perhaps?

Lots of posts refer to people having a drink and I just wondered how many of you drink each day.

[pixie374]

I'm rubbish at drinking. Very occasionally, I do, but not much- it goes straight to my head...

[douglas9401]

Guilty up until the moment that our Shortbread Senate decreed a much lower blood/alcohol limit for drink driving compared to the rest of the UK. Just can't take the chance next morning, even just a couple of cans.

More recently my enforced confinement and having to take amitriptyline has kept me dry for the last six weeks or so.

[Hopkirk]

Certainly not every day, it's not compatible with my job. Sometimes I go for a week or even two without a drink.
Also never to excess (I did enough of that in my twenties)

[woofgang]

it varies....if I open a bottle of wine then I will probably drink it over 3 or 4 nights and them maybe not have any other alcohol for a few days to a week to a month.....

[Baldric]

We have a glass of Wine with and maybe another after Dinner most nights.
If it's hot there maybe a cold Stella involved at some stage but never more than two, and a G and T is not unknown so long as tomorrow is not a 'School Day'
Awaits arrival of Scotch Troll to 'have a go'

[andy-hughes]

A life-long teetotaller, it's never been a question for me.

In parallel with our differing attitudes to children from other nations in the world - see the Madeleine McCann thread - we differ in our approach to alcohol.

The vast majority of other countires, Europeans especially, drink socially, with food, and with enjoyment.

The British, for some reason, drink to be drunk - their choices based on the fast inebriation for the least cost.

Yes that is generalising, but it is still true.

[Eleena]

Hi Tilly, a bottle of wine .. same as woof. Lager, weekends couple at the most. Any more and I couldn't function, it would send me to sleep.

[Eleena]

Although recent studies say otherwise ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/23/risky-drinking-among-baby-boomers-sees-make-half-hospital-alcohol/

[pastafreak]

Very little here. Like it but can't afford it.But when I was married it was a race to make sure I got my half of the bottle each night. I had to....

[wolf63]

I didn't like the out of total control feeling of drinking alcohol so I gave up when I was about 18. If I go to a wedding or something I might have some wine but could never finish the glass

Baldric - what's a Scotch Troll? Or is Scottish Troll or am I missing something - as per usual.

[-Talbot-]

The vast majority of other countires, Europeans especially, drink socially, with food, and with enjoyment.




Good grief.
Have you ever socialised with any Europeans?

[ferlew]

I just have a white wine spritzer from time to time, even that goes to my head a little.
For many years I had a couple of V&Ts every night, then one day I just stopped, I was worried I was addicted. I was fine.

[-SharonA-]

We have wine with our Sunday dinner and occasionally we drink spirits in the week. But not every night tho.

[EDDIE51]

I only drink real ale two pints a day. Never spirits and only very rarely wine.
The government advice is to have 2 alcohol free days a week so that means you should have a drink on the other 5 days!

[tonyav]

Depends on what day of the week it is ( unless I'm on hols ), have to get up for work five days a week.

[Samuraisan]

I try to have a day or two alcohol free days a week. Love a few glasses of Chardonney or Sauvignon Blanc, a VAT goes down well too, only occasionally though.

[nailit]

Havnt had a drink for 2 weeks and 4 days. Not bad going for me seeing as I was drinking a bottle of vodka for breakfast not so long ago...

[tonyav]

Well done, nailit.

[pixie374]

Well done, nailit xx I drank heavily and stopped at 18. I was teetotal for over 20 years. Have only just restarted in the last couple of years.

[nailit]

Thanks Tony and Pix
Ive always maintained that addictions arnt a problem. They are a symptom.