I'm watching a programme about young people and their drinking habits and it's all a bit scary. They say that we should drink 21 & 14 units a week respectively for men and women. I worked out that i probably drink 100+ units a week, not that i think that's a good thing, it's pretty lame, but i'd say that most people i know do likewise, especially in the better weather. Assuming a pint of lager's around 3 units, a bottle of wine on averge around 9, a can of beer around 2.5 and spirits around 1.5 a shot, what's normal for young people, and what's acceptable?

usual week none
because i have to do a bunch of traveling when i'm going to gigs it's not worth drinking and missing the trains
we were talking about this yesterday
we had drunk 2 cans of lager and were over the limit for that day. i dont drink everyday so im not sure how much i do drink in a week but its well over 21 units. i think most people will drink that in one night.
I'll often go a few weeks without drinking at all
But across a month I guess I'd manage... maybe 20 or so.
Not a huge fan of alcoholic drinks any more. I just kind of realised I'd never really liked the taste, plus being drunk is just dull these days.
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More than 21 for sure.
But surely most people ahve more than 21 on a night out?
It is quite worrying when you think about it like that.
Exactly
I guess I downed 30+ units on Friday night.
Serious future health issues for me!!1 yay
probably about 12
does that mean i have alcohol deficiency?
probably
about 2-5
sometimes none though.
We had a survey in lecture
once about this.
Me and my friend next to me were shocked to find the highest number on the chart was 40 a week, because we had pretty much doubled that the week before.
I anticipate drinking much less next year though, being second year and all. I think I'll really need to.
I used to regularly drink 70+ a week
Now I don't drink at all.
I'm a moron when I'm drunk and I'd rather be able to express myself properly.
It's a constant battle with some of my 'friends'' atitudes towards my diet choices, though. I don't see how it affects them whether I am drunk or not. I tend to act more giddy around drunk people in any case as their high rubs off on me.
i'll have about 40 units a night.
and usually out on a friday and sat, so that's 80 units in 2 days.....
which is bad....
i've started to cut down on the alcohol... It's just getting stupidly expensive, and i can't be bothered with hangovers these days.. getting too old! they last me days and days :(
how do you have 40 units in one night!
that's 40 shots of vodka!
so 20 double vodkas with mixer
thats more than possible
or a small bottle of vodka
and a few other drinks
a liter of vodka twice a week seems excessive
though there were plenty of times at uni i'd drink like that, it wasn't twice a week every week!
actually maybe it was, but spread out over the week. it's the level of binge rather than frequency i find a bit impossible but then again i am old now :(
yeah well i dont drink that much anymore
but its easily possible. i drank about 20 units yesterday just sitting in the shade and playing football and wasnt even that pissed, for people to get regularly annihalated then i think theyre gonna have to drink a lot of units.
not that i am suggesting this is big or clever
well yeah...
my tolerance has just built up over the years... so i now need to drink ridiculous amounts to get twatted. i can drink a man under the table pretty much every time. I'm voted as 'person who can drink the most' on facebook. i'm not proud of this! and i am getting bored of all this excessive drinking..
Wacky!
:P
no, one measure of spirits is 1.5 units.
depends, 37.5% vodka is 0.9 units for 25ml
measures are 35ml mostly these days. for a single.
and i don't drink 37.5% vodka!!
laughable. that's practically wine!
i tend to go for the nearing 50% mark to be honest. gin.....
you are my newest hero
i'd rather be a light weight!
be a lot sodding cheaper.
scientist, artist and alcoholic
<3
those things go hand in hand really....
ie. being drunk all the time and hoping for that sporadic yet fruitful 'genius' epiphany. works a treat.
Plus i feel i owe it to society to kill a few of my brain cells regularly... we don't want me getting too clever and accidentally taking over the world. etc..
a unit or so over
no more. (H)
in germany, 0
in leeds, about 10
about 35 units a week
oh dear
0
About 3-5
I guess I do still have binges but it's hard to remember when the last one was.
I used to be a really hard drinker, double vodka coke is my drink and I'd regularly down over 10 of them in a night. It has to be said that I had a far wider social circle then - I find it almost impossible to socialise even in a basic way without alcohol. I basically had to say to myself, 'well, tough shit'. I'm not going to pretend that living like this is ideal because sometimes I don't see anyone for weeks, but I prefer being sober in enough ways to make it worthwhile.
But yeah, I reckon I used to drink about 60 units a week. It wasn't acceptable!!!
Shit, a bottle of wine is 9 units?
I used to drink at least 1 bottle on all my evenings in... maybe more than 60 units then...
0, I'm too lazy and I live in the middle of nowhere.
most weeks, 0
maybe 1 or 2 if it was rounded up from the past sixth months
zero
straight edge till death, kinda
Usually over a hundred per week
Yeah it does feel bad to add it all up
Average?
about 3-6, if that.
Like a pint, or a couple of glasses of wine.
100+ a week?
that's insane - the equivalent of more than fifty pints a week. Good luck to you, might be a good idea to think about cutting down a bit.
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Pints of good beer tend to be 3 units, so maybe 25 pints and a bottle of vodka on the weekend. Still too much, but not as excessive as you put it.
that's still pretty crazy
I'm intrigued.
Are you a student? Do you binge, drink steadily throughout the week or a bit of both? With about 200 calories in a pint, then you must be caning 5,000 calories a week just in beer. Are you a have a pint at lunchtime sort of drinker?
Are you a voyeur?
no
I'm just someone who loves a good drinking yarn!
Pretty much zero.
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probably about 15 every second week.
0 during the weeks inbetween
wow
I AM A STUDENT
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I probably drink on average 30-40 units of Scrumpy Jack a week, but the pub is less than 100 yards from my house so it is quite easy.
I drink with a guy there on the weekends. He had 45 pints of Thatcher's cider (6-7%) last bank holiday weekend which I think equates to 150 units, he regularly drinks 12 pints of it on a Friday night, about 3 on a Saturday afternoon and another 10 in the evening after he's eaten dinner. He sometimes knocks back about 4 or so pints of it on a Sunday as well. My parents keep saying that he'll die soon if he keeps that up. He says that he will live until he is 32 (he is 21) because he has an American football-style t-shirt that has the number 32 printed on it.
More than I probably should =/
I am also a student so whoopso. It'll be less this week because of exams and whatnot. Looking back, this last week has had probably about 55 but yesterday was a fairly big one so that is my excuse.
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good luck to him with it. Reckon he should knock it on the head though. Natural cider is one of the worst things you can drink in that sort of volume.
45 pints? Christ, that's insane...he must have been hungover / still drunk for at least three days later. It must have been one of the worst back to work after a Bank Holiday feelings ever. He has also literally pissed away £150, pn a Bank Holiday. Warsome!
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He is too proud to be a hillbilly lumberjack drinker to give it up.
He admitted to being hungover for a few days after that. On the third and final night of his bender he ended up having sex with a girl on the decking outside of the pub... in front of everyone in the pub.
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Well, I didn't really mean "proud". He doesn't try to prove anything by drinking that much, he just does. Only on the weekends mind, as I said, he is a lumberjack and therefore has to operate a chainsaw in the week!
nothing a week
i hate alcohol that you can drink "casualy". therefore nothing a week.
that and im 17
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hardcore
i tend have about 22-25, i think
one day probably constitutes about a half of that, then the rest's spread out over the week.
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Bout 30
that's with an averagish night out, probably about 10 without. Probably about 40 this week.
I normally have about 60 units while on the tube to work
right
off to get the morning vodka