How many units of alcohol do you drink a week ?

[Scoffers]

most of the time, nothing, but every now and again I'll have a couple.

 

[wahoo]

about 30 pints of stella , is that to much?

 

[Trufflehound]

whats a unit?

It's actually a lot easier to work out than the government makes out.

A 'unit' of alcohol under the government's definition is 10ml of pure (100%) alcohol. To work out the number of units all you have to do is multiply the volume of each drink in litres by the strength in %.

So one litre of 40% whisky will contain 1 x 40 = 40 units.

A 750ml (0.75 litre) bottle of 12% wine will contain 0.75 x 12 = 9 units.

A pint (568 ml, or 0.568 litres) of 5% beer will contain 0.568 x 5 = 2.84 units.

Etc...

 

[Simster]

about 30 pints of stella , is that to much?

One pint of stella is too much because it's a shithouse pint.

 

[Trufflehound]

I haven't been adding up the alcohol total, but I have drunk in around 160 different bars and cafés so far in 2010 - for work. What do I win (apart from cirrhosis)?

 

[Trufflehound]

One pint of stella is too much because it's a shithouse pint.

Is the correct answer.

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

I very rarely touch a drop of alcohol during the week but I worked it out once, on average I'll consume well over the weekly recommended unit intake in the first 3 hours of being out on a Friday. Then repeat it the following night.

Probably why I'm always skint and ill.

Doesn't help that I recycle my alcohol by consuming my own piss too.

 

[MJsGhost]

Doesn't help that I recycle my alcohol by consuming my own piss too.

 

[Gully]

Nothing now.

Snap, gave up alcohol about six years ago...don't miss it at all.

 

[dougdeep]

the maximum units figure is a figure plucked out of the air by the Government and holds no medical grounds to it.

I think it's pretty obvious that drinking too much is bad for you.

 

[Ludensian Gull]

Average about 30 pints of guinness a week .

 

[smudge]

I'm zero tolerance when at work. That's 3 months without a drop.
I find now when I get home I can't handle very much at all.

 

[Two Professors]

Far too much according to that lot,but should cost a lot less to cremate
But I'm nearly 60 ,so don't really give a toss-Strongbow counts as one of my five a day!

 

[Bry Nylon]

I'm zero tolerance when at work. That's 3 months without a drop.
I find now when I get home I can't handle very much at all.

Same - zero tolerance when at work.
However, on my days / nights off I used to love a few cold beers and a bottle of red. But recently I stopped drinking altogether. Hard at first, but can't believe how just much better I feel for it.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I think if I was a family Man with kids I wouldn't drink much at all. As it is I am single with no dependants and have no responsibilities so



What the hell.

 

[cheshunt seagull]

More than I should based on the guidelines, but I am not conscious of any effect on my health. Most of my drinking is around meals and always in the evening.

Monday - Thursday; about 12 units
Friday - Sunday; about 24 units (much less if any driving is involved)

36 in total

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

That drinking level will add 5 years to your life expectancy FACT. Teetotalers will die 4 years before your moderate drinking and that is a scientific FACT.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

18yrs old to 23 yrs old shed loads consummed. (single man)
24yrs old to 30 yrs old the odd and glass of wine a week. (in a relationship with first mortgage)
31 yrs old to 35yrs old, off the scale! (single man)
36yrs old to 40yrs old, moderates amounts (small mortgage double income)
40 yrs old to present, the odd glass of wine and brandy a month.(kids and big mortgage and one main income)

So how many units overall would be difficults to say but at one stage i suppose i was thinking i must slow up and the answer is Get a F*cking big mortgage and a wife and kids and stopp p*issing it down the road.



Maybe US can qualify in keeping you guys off the bottle a mortgage of 7 times their income should do it.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

18yrs old to 23 yrs old shed loads consummed. (single man)
24yrs old to 30 yrs old the odd and glass of wine a week. (in a relationship with first mortgage)
31 yrs old to 35yrs old, off the scale! (single man)
36yrs old to 40yrs old, moderates amounts (small mortgage double income)
40 yrs old to present, the odd glass of wine and brandy a month.(kids and big mortgage and one main income)

So how many units overall would be difficults to say but at one stage i suppose i was thinking i must slow up and the answer is Get a F*cking big mortgage and a wife and kids and stopp p*issing it down the road.



Maybe US can qualify in keeping you guys off the bottle a mortgage of 7 times their income should do it.

Can't get 7 x but can get 5 x

 

[wahoo]

One pint of stella is too much because it's a shithouse pint.

if you were a woman i would beat the living shit out of you (whilst on the stella of course)