Hi,
I hit this social drinking thing recently. I thought it meant just a drink or two to relax the nerves or something. Then I met this person, who had 4 drinks in 3 hours and was drifting a little bit. I started to wonder if they had a drinking problem they weren't aware of.
Where do you draw the line?
Edit: lol tried to add more than 5 but didn't work. Sorry I underestimated you guys ._.
So the guideline says no more than 4 in 3 hours essentially.
It's more than the liver, also the intestinal floral…
I’d be more concerned if I was drinking 4 drinks alone than having 4 drinks with others.
Friend of mine is a functional alcoholic. She drinks only a bit too much, but does so at least 3 times per week. Once per fortnight she'll get plastered. She masks it well, but I'm sure it's taking a toll on her body.
Could you see it in her appearance? I believe It ages the body quite a bit.
She doesn't have great skin colour. I think that when the liver is about to give up, your skin goes yellow… like when you've got Hep C. Her muscle condition is quite good. Gets flu-y a lot. Reckon her immune system is pretty compromised.
That's pretty sad to hear. I hope your friend finds a way out somehow :(
There is no > 5 poll option…
When the bunch of degenerates I am drinking with become sufficiently tolerable for me to socialize with.
Ranges from 1-73.
lol Isn't it easier to find a different crowd?
For my liver it would be but that guy is also a degenerate.
4 drinks in 3 hours lol? You can drink that much and be legally fine to drive!
When I was younger, I’d stop when I ran out of money, if out, or when I became sick.
That depends on your body weight, but I don't think it's legal to drive after 4 drinks. Something like this maybe.
Even the cops say two in the first hour and one each hour after that. You'd need to be tiny to be over 0.05 with those rules.
Most drinks aren't 1 standard drink.
I couldn't drive, only normally have 1 drink a week and if have four in that amount of time definitely feel impaired.
Oh FFS
I have 10 drinks in 3 hours
Lol
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I don't think drinking socially relates to how many drinks someone had, it relates more to the context and environment one is drinking in.
Some people use the term social drinking to justify drinking more than they should. That is it's ok I've had 10 drinks because I'm with friends.
That's my feeling too. If your friends are trying to converse, but you aren't able to keep it at a normal speed, there's nothing 'social' about it, it's just you drinking alone in the presence of others.
People who voted the first option must be easily susceptible to peer pressure.
Sorry the options are ordered by vote counts.
I only drink socially, never drink at home, drinking socially to me could mean between 4-15 beers.
yeh ditto.
I can smash through a lot on a "big night". Or I can have a glass, or a few glasses of wine with people, which I don't consider to be a lot.
But I very rarely drink alone and often go weeks without a drink.
That, in my mind, is a social drinker.
Agreed. I also think not drinking often and then having a big one makes the hangover 100 times worse haha.
Sounds more like low tolerance. I know a few people who get pretty tipsy after half a drink.
The Australian guidelines recommend that adults should not drink more than 4 standard drinks over several hours..
I'm sure a lot of people drink more than 4 standard drinks over several hours. That's equivalent to 3 bottles of beer. As long as people aren't drinking excessively daily or weekly, then they should be fine. Your future liver will thank you for not poisoning it to death.