retired_sahin

never

alidog

Stuff the cost, he'll be dead by 40.

sdfikes

usually have a glass of wine at night with my dinner... apart from that i am sober all week....although do tend to go a bit crazy on occasions like a mates birthday.

drank like a fish at uni.. amazing how getting a 9-5 / mon -fri job puts you in a routine and cuts out the drinking.

alidog

Must admit I'm surprised by the number of people saying "Never" or "Almost never". Thought there'd be more people on here who liked a drop or 2.

I guess the drinkers are all still on their way home from the pub!

alidog

I guess that's where I'm slightly different - I work 3 days on, 3 days off (12 hour days mind) so I have 3-4 nights a week where I can have a few without fear of having to get up for work the next day.

If I worked 9-5 I'd have to be more careful as I don't recover from alcohol as well as I did in my younger uni days.

retired_kpr

I think it's quite odd how people don't take alcohol seriously at all. People don't see that it's a problem to regularly get drunk, it's seen as something that's perfectly normal. If occasionally you get drunk, and then the day after it has a negative affect on your life, i.e. you don't perform as well as you could at work or study, or you don't do stuff that you would be doing normally, then by definition you have an alcohol problem. But people don't seem to realise this at all, they think it's perfectly fine to get hammered every so often and be completely out of action the next day. Imagine if it was drugs, imagine if someone got wasted on drugs and then felt terrible the whole of the next day, or turned up to work looking and feeling rough after their drugs binge. It'd be seen as totally unacceptable, wouldn't it? Yet if the drug is called alcohol people do this and don't bat an eyelid.

I drink most nights, by 'most' I mean more often than not. Usually it's just a couple of pints at the pub with a friend, but about once a week it's a binge where I'll get fairly drunk. And recently I've started to recognise how bad this is. Often I swear to myself that I'm going to have a week with no drinking, but it nearly always doesn't happen, I'll be tempted in by a pint at the pub and then have one or two more. And it does have an effect on my health - I don't feel massively healthy these days, and four years of battering my body constantly with alcohol is probably a big reason for this.

Far too many people don't think alcohol is bad in the UK. Most people in this country have an alcohol problem, but they just think that 'having an alcohol problem' means lying in a ditch after blacking out on vodka every day.

retired_google

4 nights a week.

2 nights are on (my) weekend. The other 2 are after work on Friday and Saturday night and that's only about an hour, hour-and-a-half before closing time.

retired_shean

Every day really, but usually just 1 or 2 cans with a meal, while i'm playing pro evo or something like that.

retired_xonlythestrongx

About once a fortnight, roughly.

Drink loads of Irn Bru though, about two litres everyday.

retired_lbherrera

Not often , not really old enough to drink in public really , but don't really drink at home. Mainly just social things , so once , twice a month?