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Like on a weekend? On a Friday night I will drink maybe 5 pints of Fosters or Worthingtons, then go on to the JD 'n Cokes, maybe drink about 4 doubles and then proberly 2 or 3 vodka and Red Bull's and a few After Shock. 
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On Saturday I managed to knock back 3 peach schnapps, 4 Goldschlagers and 5 or 6 Smirnoff Ices.
I was cabbaged.
But on average I will consume about 2 bottles of beer a week and maybe a couple of brandies.
Having said that, I did binge drink quite badly on Saturday, you know its going to get weird when your opening Meed half way through the night!
a) I run out of money
b) I feel like crap (usually about 4 - 6)
Hopefully i'll be beating my all-time record, 6, on Friday night.
First and most importantly alcohol is a poison and as such is harmful to the body if taken to excess.
The term binge drinking refers to drinking to excess.
Each time you drink you are putting strain on your liver because this is where the poison is broken down.
This isnt of great concern if you only drink a few units, but when you drink 10+ units your putting a lot of pressure on your liver to remove the poison.
It takes a healthy liver one full hour to digest one unit of alcohol, so if you go and drink 6 pints of strong lager it will be 12 full hours till your body is clear.
This is obviously MUCH harder for the body to cope with than 6 pints spread over the week.
There is also the violence, accidents etc. and general £20bn a year price that goes with over drinking.
.:Crispy:.
Why not just buy a big bottle of White Lightning and stay home?
Why the fuck not just buy a bottle of meths and lay in the street?
Nope I don't clear out my bank account on a night out. I mean if I get £20 out then i'll spend it then that will be it for the night.
Because i'm 18 & don't need to be hanging around in the park getting drunk on crappy cider. When I can just go to a nice warm pub & sit down & have a drink.
Because i'm not that stupid & I use meths for cleaning car parts so I sure ain't putting it any where near my mouth.
.:Crispy:.
There needs to be patrols of high streets, anyone behaving badly gets treated like they would in a club, a not so gentle reminder that they are ruining other peoples night out.
No worries:) I had a go back to even it out;)
As do I, it spoils the whole night out the going home part having to deal with people trying to pick fights with you for no reason & watching girls & feeling sorry for them because they've had to much to drink & have no common decency anymore:mad:
However, I do believe in getting totally hammered if there is a reason to do so like a birthday or wedding etc. But then when i'm in that state i'm just in an extremely silly mood & find things like street lamps highly amusing:D
You've got the usual collection of women wearing shoes that are uncomfortable, skirts that are too short and are waving about while standing up.
Then you've got blokes being sick while their mates laugh and the usual "you looking at me", I'll vent my anger at my shite life fights.
Its all grim and sends me into a deep funk even thinking about it.
Others are right, we are going to hell in a handbasket, lets turn the clock back to when everything was nice.
Out of interest, how many units are in a pint of beer, shot of spirits etc?
Yea, it depends. Sometimes I'll drink just enough to get tipsy (could take 2 - 6 shots), but sometimes I like to get full blown drunk (could take 5 - xx) shots. I rarly drink lager (tastes like shite) and I only keep strong stuff in the house (20% bare minimum)
Had quite a bad weekend this time. Never been as drunk as I was on Friday night, and I got quite tipsy on Saturday night, and again on Sunday. I've missed the first two days of school this week 'cos I've been feeling like shit.
You might want to seriously consider the amount you are drinking, having more than 100 units a month seriously impares your mental functions. Memory, learning, communicating, emotions etc. are all effected.
As for how many units are in what measure?
Thats a hard one really, especially if you are at home because then most people just rough shots.
A 25ml (the standard) shot of 35-40% spirits should be about 1 unit.
A pint of normal strength lager is about 2, but many of the stronger lagers (stella for one) are closer to 3.
A normal Friday night used to entail a bottle of vodka or JD then double and triples all night in town, normally at least 15 doubles minimum along with an aftershock with each ..
As you can imagine though, I currently attend an Alchohol/Drug self help group..
Even the stella alone is going to add up to about 9 or 10 units a day.
Good luck.
My brother used to drink upwards of ten pints a day, very heavy drinking and the nasty effects that went with that.
He got himself in trouble and he cut down drasticly for a while, it wasnt pretty but he got through it.
Im not an Alcholic, im a drunk
Alcholics go to meetings"!