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i probably drink 2-3 times a week and will have at least 5 beers if i go to a pub, on weekend matchdays i tend to drink as much as 8-12 pints of average strength lager, i am in my mid 20's (not sure if that is relevant)

Is this too much? how do i compare with fellow onlinegooners

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RNTGOONER wrote:i probably drink 2-3 times a week and will have at least 5 beers if i go to a pub, on weekend matchdays i tend to drink as much as 8-12 pints of average strength lager, i am in my mid 20's (not sure if that is relevant)

Is this too much? how do i compare with fellow onlinegooners

There is an organization that can help you with that

Lightweight

Do what ya want mate, your only young once.

Alcohol......the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems. (Homer Simpson)

Beer is lovely.

I now only drink at weekends. It gives my liver a chance to recouperate.

RNTGOONER wrote:i probably drink 2-3 times a week and will have at least 5 beers if i go to a pub, on weekend matchdays i tend to drink as much as 8-12 pints of average strength lager, i am in my mid 20's (not sure if that is relevant)

Is this too much? how do i compare with fellow onlinegooners

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You got to be kidding

20+ beers a week is less than a normal consumption for your average mid 20-year old.

With regards to comparison. Personally I only drink alcohol on matchdays. My usual intake over the course of the day (7am - 9pm) would be 20+ pints

Back in the day when i could drink my intake was mon, TUE, wed, Thur lunchtimes 4 pints=16 pints. Mon, TUE, wed, Thur evenings an average of 6 pints=24 pints. Fridays in THE pub at 12 have à lockin untill 4 then Back in THE pub at 7 till 11.30 about 15 pints. Sat 3 or 4 pints before footie then Back in THE pub after so another 12 pints. Sunday lunchtime have 3 or 4 with my dad before THE toast then Back in THE evening for 4 or 5 more. Thats 76 pints over à week.....was That drinking too much? Sorry for THE spelling and text doing this on an iphone

M-50 wrote:

RNTGOONER wrote:i probably drink 2-3 times a week and will have at least 5 beers if i go to a pub, on weekend matchdays i tend to drink as much as 8-12 pints of average strength lager, i am in my mid 20's (not sure if that is relevant)

Is this too much? how do i compare with fellow onlinegooners

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You got to be kidding

20+ beers a week is less than a normal consumption for your average mid 20-year old.

With regards to comparison. Personally I only drink alcohol on matchdays. My usual intake over the course of the day (7am - 9pm) would be 20+ pints

kinell!!!

I'm slaughtered after eight pints! Slaughtered and happy.

in reality there have been matchdays when i have sunk only 6or7 and then there are days when i have drunk more like 16, but an average of about 10, i try never to drink two days in a row but if i end up out till late on friday and game is on sat then i do brake that rule, basically just thinking about my liver!!

can't believe some people are drinking heavy for 4 days in a row - never do so unless i am holiday you must have Kevlar livers!!

Can't beat a few cartons of Ribena.

Perhaps you should get your liver count checked. Mine should be 40 but its 42, nothing to worry about according to the doctor.

Its a good job because I had a heavy session last night

stg wrote:Back in the day when i could drink my intake was mon, TUE, wed, Thur lunchtimes 4 pints=16 pints. Mon, TUE, wed, Thur evenings an average of 6 pints=24 pints. Fridays in THE pub at 12 have à lockin untill 4 then Back in THE pub at 7 till 11.30 about 15 pints. Sat 3 or 4 pints before footie then Back in THE pub after so another 12 pints. Sunday lunchtime have 3 or 4 with my dad before THE toast then Back in THE evening for 4 or 5 more. Thats 76 pints over à week.....was That drinking too much? Sorry for THE spelling and text doing this on an iphone

Mate you ain't 'up Stairs 'there as we speak holding court with Georgie best whilst I Phoning it are ya
You must have ran into Merson , Adams and Co on few nights out as well
Respect ...but remind me never to get into a session with you !

RocastleRock wrote:Perhaps you should get your liver count checked. Mine should be 40 but its 42, nothing to worry about according to the doctor.

Its a good job because I had a heavy session last night

Mate if you got 40 livers i wouldn't even worry about how you drink

Government advice is to drink no more than 16 pints or average strength lager per week.

http://www.drinkingandyou.com/site/uk/what.htm

I hardly drink these days, drank more in my teens.

Despite my constant complaints about modern football, I myself am only 26 (so can only remember the tail end of how football should be). I used to drink a lot when at uni (didn't everyone), but now I tend not to drink during the week. When I drink, I like to get drunk, I've never much liked the taste of alcohol so never see the point of having "one or two beers". If i have too many, I get awful hangovers so I need to be careful when I have work the next day, and thus tend to only drink on a week night if there is a Sunderland game on.

I'm even going out less and less on a Friday since I normally have to be up early for football, so Saturday is pretty much the only day I drink. I travel to all the home games (and a fair number of aways), and so on a home match day I will get an 8am train and drink 3 cans on the way to Edinburgh, then I have a 1.5 hour trip to Newcastle, in which I tend to have another 5. This nicely gets me through an 8 pack of lager, and then I get the metro to Sunderland on which you aren't allowed to drink. I get in for about twenty to 12 and so by noon I have made it to the Lambton Worm where I meet my mates, and we probably have around 5 pints whilst discussing the upcoming game/ watching the early kickoff. Around 2 o'clock its off to the stadium, get in for around half past and have a quick bottle of overpriced shite in the stadium. Bearing in mind cans arent quite pints, it means probably a pre match consumption of around 11 or so pints.

Post match it just depends on my plans. If we have lost and I go home, I only have maybe 3 or 4 cans on the way back just to try and stop the headache you get when you've drank quite a lot and then stopped completely. If we've won and I'm going home then I would probably have around 8 more cans on the way back

The only trouble is I often stay in Sunderland until around 8 to have post match drinks with my mates, so would have about 3 or 4 pints with them and then have 4 or so cans on the way home

So on a Saturday anything between 14 and 20 or so pints for home games, and probably similar for aways depending on how I'm getting to the games

Quite a bit I suppose, but as I say I don't drink anything on other days, so it isn't too bad, and sometimes on a Saturday I just feel that I can't much be arsed, at which point I might just have around 7 pre match and 3 afterwards