I <3 my liver - do you?

[unbongwah]

All these threads about booze makes me wonder just how much folks here actually drink.

Alcohol upsets my stomach: more than, say, a single serving is enough to give me cramps. [So does apple juice, but not apple cider - go figure.] So I almost never drink and never developed a taste for alcohol. A few sips of wine during the holidays - more to be sociable than actual enjoyment - is about it for me.

Just curious about the rest of you. Private poll, folks, so be honest about how much of a pansy or a lush you are. :-)

EDIT: oh, by "binge drinker" I mean you have several drinks at once - enough to get thoroughly wasted (however many that takes you), rather than merely buzzed.

[Gordon Cameron]

I drink maybe once every 3 years.

[Lunch of Kong]

Where's the poll?

Anyway, I consume alcohol probably about once a month. Someone who doesn't know better will pour me a wine at dinner, or will buy me a shot, or there will be a toast.

I really don't enjoy the disorientation that comes with drinking, so I drink everything slowly. If I go to a social event with an open bar, I'll get ginger-ale on the rocks, because it looks vaguely alcoholic enough that people won't comment on my lack of a drink.

[BobJustBob]

These days I have a six-pack most Fridays and Saturdays, but work nights are generally verboten. Excepting last night and the night before. And tomorrow.

[extarbags]

EDIT: oh, by "binge drinker" I mean you have several drinks at once

Like through two straws?

[Major Icehole]

I drink every thursday during band practice. (3-6 beers) And either friday or saturday night. If I remember to buy it on saturday I'll sometimes drink wine on sunday with dinner. You can't buy alcohol in colorado on sundays (bullsh*t) except 3.2% beer. I'd rather drink water.

[Tyjenks]

I go through stages where I will not drink for months and then have the need to Ex-scape. I rarely drink at home, but it I go out to see a local band, I usually enjoy one or two too many.


Lots of water the day before
Vitaming B-Complex when I start
Slow down as the night progresses
Arby's Roast Beef and more water on the way home
Excedrin right before a shower to rinse off the cigarette stench
4-5 hours sleep
Emetrol anti nausea and toast for breakfastThis is my patent-pending old man routine.

[Alistair]

Jesus Ty - it would be easier just to drink less.

[Enduro_Man]

This thread de-livers. Hee-hee.

[Machfive]

I might have about 7 drinks a week, on about 3 or 4 of the days. One day of no drinks, the next day I might have one or two, another day or two without, another day of one or two, etc.

[metta]

Do you drink?

Constantly.

What are we drinking to?

Oblivion.

I'll meet you there.

[Tyjenks]

Jesus Ty - it would be easier just to drink less.

I agree. However, I have to cram all of the fun I can into the few times I get out, but still get up and study and/or dress the kiddies on the weekends. Plus, everyone knows a few beers just makes you tired and melancholy. Getting plastered gives you a full evening without the voices.

[Brian Rucker]

Used to drink alot but the hangovers got worse and my friends got older and married off into...I think it's gotta be an alternate dimension. Like one of those portals from the Angel series. Anyhow. Without the usual roster of bad influences around I just cut back on it. Rarely drink these days.

Unless my brother's around. The one remaining bad influence.

[Robert Sharp]

I basically stopped drinking when I turned 21, oddly enough. I will have a beer every now and then with chili or similar dishes. I'll have a half glass of wine tomorrow, probably and again at Xmas, maybe. That's about it. I'm not against the idea of alcohol, however, though I think getting drunk is stupid. I just don't drink that much.

[Guido Jones]

I'll have a beer or two with dinner if we eat out, or at lunch on Fridays with co workers. Mac & Jack to win.

[Johan O]

...That's about it. I'm not against the idea of alcohol, however, though I think getting drunk is stupid. I just don't drink that much.
If you dránk more you would become stupid, and thus have no problem with getting drunk. Drinking is it's own reward that way.

I binge about once or twice a month. Nothing I plan on, it's just the way it goes after a few beers.

[Athryn]

I usually drink a beer with dinner if we go out, or if I'm cooking a dish with wine, I usually have a glass along with it while I'm cooking, and if I remember to buy beer I drink some occasionally.

[Crispus]

In my 31 years, I've had one bottle of beer, one strawberry margarita, and one shot of...something. Don't remember what, though it tasted cinnamony.

[Alistair]

(that's cough syrup)

[metta]

I'm not against the idea of alcohol, however, though I think getting drunk is stupid.

I can't believe how long it took me to realise I hate being drunk, what I love is getting drunk. It's the hops and the slow capitulation, sip by sip.

But I'm Irish. I don't have much choice in the matter.

[Shadarr]

I almost never drink, but when I do I usually get pretty drunk. I don't like the taste (OMG supertaster!) so I won't bother unless I'm going to get a decent buzz.

[Raife]

You really should have made this a public poll.

[unbongwah]

If you dránk more you would become stupid, and thus have no problem with getting drunk. Drinking is it's own reward that way.
Apparently so...
You really should have made this a public poll.
Thought people were more likely to vote - and be honest - in a private poll than a public one. The presumption being that people would share their drinking anecdotes in the replies if they wanted.

Anyway, kinda pleased to see that roughly a quarter of Qt3 folks drink very little or nothing - makes me feel like less of an outlier. :-)

[Raife]

Thought people were more likely to vote - and be honest - in a private poll than a public one. The presumption being that people would share their drinking anecdotes in the replies if they wanted.

But you're sacrificing entertainment value for accurate data. Who does that?

[SlyFrog]

What does occasional binge drinker assume for the rest of the time? About once or twice a year I get good and plowed drunk, and probably have a few drinks a week the rest of the time.

[Aeon221]

I don't have a drinking problem, I've got a sobriety problem.

[John Merva]

Did anyone else read the title as "I eat my liver"?

[Mister Widget]

I chose "A few drinks a month", and it's almost always wine with a meal.

[metta]

I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
-Brendan Behan

[fire]

I chose special occasions, and it's usually wine with a meal. Special occasions can be every couple weeks, or every couple months, so -- varies.

[Andrew Mayer]

Since reading that article that someone posted here about Fructose essentially acting on your liver the same way alcohol does I figure cutting that shit out has earned me extra drinks.

[Cosmic Hippo]

I drink... rather a lot, relatively speaking. I don't drink every day, but I do a few times a week. I get intoxicated (one way or another) probably once a week. But I'm a college student whose research $$ dried up and who isn't currently taking any classes right now (I only need spring to graduate, so I'm just working full-time this semester and saving up to go on a habitat for humanity trip), and I HATE my job, so I feel like I'm excused.

[EvilIdler]

I don't even like alcohol. Never did. More money for other drugs!

[Bill Dungsroman]

I chose special occasions, and it's usually wine with a meal. Special occasions can be every couple weeks, or every couple months, so -- varies.
Vampire games.

"Hey Bill, your cell is ringing. You want another Bass?"

"Yeah, sure. WTF it's 1 AM who the hell would be call...oh, hi fire! Yes, I will be home soon to post in the Vampire thread. Oh, ok. How many White Russians? Awesome."

[Morkilus]

I heard once that "binge drinking" was defined as "more than 3 drinks". So... yeah, whatever.

[Karen]

I drink maybe once every 3 years.
You need to drink more.

[Karen]

Ben and I drink like europeans. We have either wine or beer with dinner every night. If we don't have wine or beer, it means that we haven't budgeted correctly.
However, we never drink at any time other than dinner. A friend of ours was visiting and wanted to know if we wanted to grab a beer (we were in a historic district outside of a pub). Ben's response was "what? without food? It's only 3pm." It's funny we never drink had liquor. The only liquor we have is for cooking. I have to pull out my cook book when someone wants a margaritta.

[jpinard]

None, unless you consider Nyquil "drinking".

[Alistair]

Ben and I drink like europeans.

That must be the other kind of European...

[MyNameIsWill]

I almost never drink, but when I do I usually get pretty drunk. I don't like the taste (OMG supertaster!) so I won't bother unless I'm going to get a decent buzz.
Same here, except change "I almost never drink" to "About two to three times a month.."

[EvilIdler]

That must be the other kind of European...
I think she meant "French, as portrayed in the foreign section of Blockbuster" :)

[Karen]

I think she meant "French, as portrayed in the foreign section of Blockbuster" :)

Exactly, the north american stereotype of european that is.... Italian would work also.

Plus my parents have a vineyard - so I HAVE to like wine or something like that. (they grow crappy french american hybrids)

[krokodile]

I get shitface maybe once a month, or every 6 weeks or so.

[Brendan]

Generally two or three units a week, with a binge once every month or two. I've found that I get depressed about two days after a light binge so I'm cutting back on doing that.

[Rward]

beers for breakfast .......... occasionally
probably go thorough a case and a half to two in a month in summer, could be at dinners, at home playing games, general saturday afternoon, whenever.

More in winter because then we have soccer and someone has to bring beers for after every game. Then we usually hit the bar at the club we're playing at.
Plus the odd one or 2 after midweek practice.

We're the "social side" so its almost compulsory :)

[RickH]

It's a great way to get that know-it-all brain to shut up for a while and let you enjoy the silence.

[Elton]

Wow, I've cut back on my drinking in my 30's and it still looks like I'm a total lush compared to most of you. I guess I had a few heavy-drinking friends in college who influenced me. (Law students have unbelievable livers.) I have beer or wine with dinner occasionally, and about once a week I meet up with people at a bar for some Belgian beers, three or four of which are enough to get me tipsy. (I don't consider that binge drinking though.)

I've rarely drank as much as when my parents and aunts and uncles all came to visit Amsterdam this year. My father and a couple of my aunts can really put it away. Repeated over a few weekdays: a couple of Belgian beers before dinner, then wine with dinner, then my show-off uncle wants us to come back to his swank hotel room for champagne. I collapsed with exhaustion after they left.

Edit: I voted "occasional binge drinker", although "Few drinks a week" is probably more accurate -- I haven't had an alcohol-induced vomit in years.

[triggercut]

I win.

I generally have a drink or two *every day*. Usually it's a glass or two of red wine, sipped and enjoyed for what it is.

The best part? I'm drinking on the advice of a doctor! I'm a high-risk candidate for heart disease and Alzheimer's, based on some faulty genetics, but the evidence that drinking in moderation helps to prevent both of those ailments is now too overwhelming not to listen to. Drinking in moderation is demonstrably *good* for you.