How much do you all drink per week? - Discovering alcoholism

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Rarely, which is good because alcohol is fucking expensive around here, especially if you drink outside. The amount some of my friends spend on a night out is absolutely ridiculous especially considering they're wagies. How spending a days salary getting shitfaced at a bar is considered normal is beyond me. The most retarded consooming.

People say "drugs are expensive", but let me tell you: weed and most drugs other than alcohol give you way more bang for the buck.
 
I have a wonderful spreadsheet that I just enter my number of drinks for the day and it automatically calculates how many drinks I'm allowed to have that day and the date (and day of the week) of my next permissible binge.

I then ignore it anyways.

I am, coincidentally enough, at 1.65 again after having had a bottle of 8.5% ABV white wine two days sooner than allowed. What's really unfortunate is that I have this long stretch of days about a month back when I wasn't drinking at all, because I was back home and it was easy to not drink. Well, think about what a moving average means. A day's values drop out, a day's values are added. For the average to not go up, if I'm dropping off non-drinking days, I must be adding non-drinking days. What a miserable life.

My spreadsheet also calculates a moving alcoholism index (defined as percent of days in the past month at which I would qualify as a heavy drinker; since heavy drinking is defined based on drinks over the past month, that basically means a weighted two month average of behavior with the most weight put on recent days). By the measurement I've fallen from a high of 100% in this past month to as little as 50%. Yay!!!!!
 
I drink maybe once a year when someone actually manages to drag me out somewhere. I typically drunkpost in the drunk/high thread whenever I do, so you can pin down the last time I drank by searching my name there. I think it was last May celebrating a graduation. I just have no interest in it, really. It all tastes like shit to me and I always get a terrible hangover, no matter how little or what I drink. I also hate the feeling of being drunk. I'm cool with feeling buzzed, but being really drunk is just a shitty feeling. I don't get the appeal.

I will say that when I do drink, I usually get borderline blackout drunk. I have zero tolerance, so after one or two drinks I'm already tipsy to the point it starts to go down like water and I don't have the ability to remind myself how much I dislike not having my wits about me.
 
Jesus Christ: several bottles of wine a week or 2-3 beers every night is “objectively normal”?

Liquor and beer companies must be very pleased that our society has “normalized” alcoholism.

I’ve been stone cold sober for 3 years now, mostly due to health reasons. But now I can’t stand the taste (former whiskey drinker here). It’s weird how one has to make excuses not to drink in social situations. That’s fucked up.

It’s also fucked up that people assume that you’re a party pooper or lack personality because you don’t drink.
 
Airbrushed Van Art said:
Jesus Christ: several bottles of wine a week or 2-3 beers every night is “objectively normal”?

Liquor and beer companies must be very pleased that our society has “normalized” alcoholism.

I’ve been stone cold sober for 3 years now, mostly due to health reasons. But now I can’t stand the taste (former whiskey drinker here). It’s weird how one has to make excuses not to drink in social situations. That’s fucked up.

It’s also fucked up that people assume that you’re a party pooper or lack personality because you don’t drink.
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People drink less now than did in the 19th century, let alone back in ancient times when most of the world would sip diluted wine to stay hydrated since the water was poisonous. Except the Chinese since they discovered that boiling water with a plant called "tea" worked just as well.

You aren't an alcoholic if you drink 10-15 standard drinks a week. You might be an alcoholic if you drink that much on a single night.
 
TheGreatDodongus said:
I literally just missed a flight today due to overdrinking at the airport bar and passing out. I didn't think I had a problem, but this shit doesn't happen to functional people. I guess I need to reevaluate things. Fuck.
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Happens to the best of us. I once got so hammered at the airport in US (had some guy I just met buying me drinks) I have lost my passport and some other documents. Boarded the flight just with my photo ID and prayed for the best. Luckily someone from United found my passport and the flight crew delivered it to the airport in the city I was staying in so I could pick it up the next day. Super lucky otherwise I would have been fucked.

These days i drink much much less, I'm in Poland so it was normal for us when we were 15-16 year old kids to be downing vodka in the park (followed by mandatory puking) but I can't imagine even having hard liquor these days. I'll normally have kalimotxo (red wine mixed with diet coke, my husband can't understand how anyone can drink that) or few coronas or sometimes Polish style beer (basically beer with a splash of raspberry syrup, it's how a lot of people drink it here).
 
Running average of 0 alcoholic drinks per week. When I do drink I drink a shit ton, but that's only when I'm able to get together with friends and that happens a few times a year at most.

I'm just not able to drink and enjoy alcohol in non-social situations anymore.
 
I used to drink every day. Stopped drinking completely for 5 months, and picked it up again a couple weeks ago, drinking 2 beers a week. But after today I'm going to cut it down to 2 a month. Work is just too busy, and I need to keep my head clear.
 
Almost ritually exactly 6 beers (0.5l) a week, which I buy after work every Friday. Rarely swap some of them out for cocktails (if in the summer) or wine (if I'm having steak).
 
Once every month on my day off I will day drink 4-6 beers and hear some music, but I am quickly tiring of that. If I can't be around like-minded people to banter with and have fun, there's no point really. Bars (and i am talking about family owned joints, from larger venues that served food to holes in the wall that catered to a niche crowd -often 3rd shift workers) have been closing at record pace since the smoking ban. There is no recreating that kind of congenial atmosphere so I am about to just cut it out completely. No sense in trying to relive the past; time to age gracefully.

Plus I still have weed. Won't ever be giving that up.
 
Sober for 4 years and enjoying every day! Seriously, that shit stunted my quality of life in ways that's unfathomable to those who still enjoy the bottle a little too much.

I hope those of you with bad drinking habits find the courage to quit and reclaim your lives. You only got one, and every day spent drunk, puking and miserable is a day where you could spend zero thoughts on drinks and feel amazing and alive instead.
 
I'm actually trying to stop. For a good whiles I was averaging about 6-8 shots of whiskey, with probably a couple few 6 beers. The weekends would be more. I could do half a handle in a night.

Drinking has a bad history in my family and one of my uncles has drank themselves into brain rot.

I'd like to get to the point that I could do like a 40oz every Friday or so. But I just know that as soon as it starts, it doesn't stop. I'll have to change my username if I'm able to kick it lol. It's been a rough week.
 
I was drinking over half a liter of vodka a day from wakeup to bedtime. I dropped it down to not drinking after work if I had to go to work the next day (I work only 3 to 4 days a week). I finally got tired of always feeling like shit, not being able to go do anything because I was already drunk, and every aspect of my life slowly getting shittier. I just stopped having it in the house (I have nobody to go to bars with and I wont go alone), and for the past month I'm suddenly getting so much more done, I feel great, and people seem to like me more. I give myself one night a week to get shitfaced but I usually dont even use it because I'm busy with a project. I'll still get a beer or two at a restaurant, but just not having it in the house has helped tremendously.
 
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