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How Many Units Do You Consume?

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  • 22-07-2011 2:13pm
    #1
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭


    Recommended safe limits of alcohol consumption per week is no more than 21 units for a man and no more than 14 for a woman.

    1 unit of alcohol is equal to a half pint of beer, standard 35.5ml measure of spirits or one glass of wine (100ml). Source

    So how many units of alcohol do you consume a week on average and do you think it's too much or not enough?

    How Many Units Do You Consume> 174 votes

    0 - 5 Units
    0% 0 votes
    5 - 10 Units
    26% 46 votes
    10 - 15 Units
    9% 16 votes
    15 - 20 Units
    9% 17 votes
    20 - 30 Units
    11% 20 votes
    30 - 40 Units
    13% 24 votes
    40 - 50 Units
    13% 24 votes
    50 - 60 Units
    9% 17 votes
    60 - 70 Units
    3% 6 votes
    70 + Units
    2% 4 votes
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    stimpson
    Registered Users Posts: 7,821 ✭✭✭stimpson


    People say that alcohol's a drug. It's not a drug, it's a drink.


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    #3
    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,941 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    Zero. And that's plenty for me.
    I prefer smoking the ganja.


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    Giblet
    Registered Users Posts: 11,980 ✭✭✭✭Giblet


    stimpson wrote: »
    People say that alcohol's a drug. It's not a drug, it's a drink.

    Luckily, the amount of heroin I use is harmless, I inject about once a month on a purely recreational basis. Fine. But what about other people less stable, less educated, less middle-class than me? Builders or blacks for example. If you're one of those, my advice is leave well alone. Good luck.


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    #5
    Show Time
    Registered Users Posts: 1,637 ✭✭✭Show Time


    stimpson wrote: »
    People say that alcohol's a drug. It's not a drug, it's a drink.
    it is a drug in liquid form. No different then if you snort it up your snozz or inject it into your veins or roll it into a joint.

    As for my own unit intake it is a nice round figure of zero.


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    #6
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    Don't like Units meself. I schtick to the Pints.


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    #7
    muboop1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭muboop1


    I don't usually remember very clearly...


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    #8
    stimpson
    Registered Users Posts: 7,821 ✭✭✭stimpson


    Giblet wrote: »
    Luckily, the amount of heroin I use is harmless, I inject about once a month on a purely recreational basis. Fine. But what about other people less stable, less educated, less middle-class than me? Builders or blacks for example. If you're one of those, my advice is leave well alone. Good luck.

    An overdose of heroin is fatal - in the short term. But there has been no research whatsoever into long term effects.


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    prinz
    Registered Users Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    Could go for weeks consuming 0 units, some weeks 2-6 units, some weeks a lot more. No idea what the average works out as tbh. The average one month could be completely different to the average of the next month. I think I can safely say I am well under the recommended on average. Although I am certain I've blown that recommendation out of the water some weeks too, just not very often.


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    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    stimpson wrote: »
    An overdose of heroin is fatal - in the short term. But there has been no research whatsoever into long term effects.
    Drugs destroy families. Well, a disabled lonely teenager, a blind mother, but a family held together by the father's crack dealing, which he uses to keep them in talking books and dildos.


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    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Drinkers are jokers. I can't understand why people put that crap in their body, they'll die from liver failure or many of the drink related illnesses.

    Worst thing is when I'm at a bus-top and can smell the alcohol off people, stop breathing near me. Also when I'm in a nightclub there are tons of drunk people around, I didn't pay good money to have drink spilled on me when I paid in to have an aul dance.

    They should ban alcohol, it's costing the taxpayer a fortune in healthcare and people are getting killed on the roads from drink-drivers.


    Regards,

    A smoker.


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    #12
    sink
    Registered Users Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭sink


    I don't drink regularly, but I have gone on a bender on more than a few occasions. Last time I drank was over a month ago at this stage, but I will be going on the tear next week and will consume 30+ units in one night.


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    coffee_cake
    Registered Users Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    On average, about zero


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    L'prof
    Registered Users Posts: 12,032 ✭✭✭✭L'prof


    21 units a week equates to 10.5 pints? Sometimes I'd do that 4 nights a week, sometimes not at all.


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    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Very little.


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    #16
    df1985
    Registered Users Posts: 4,432 ✭✭✭df1985


    20-30, odd time more, all in one big night at the weekend. its not right or healthy but its pretty standard for someone my age in this country.


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    #17
    I Love Cheese
    Closed Accounts Posts: 149 ✭✭I Love Cheese


    This week I have drank about 50ish? Bottle of rum, about 12 cans and a few "mixes". Before you call me out, Im a unemployed student with as sad as it seems, nothing else to do in the nighttime.


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    #18
    NTMK
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,575 ✭✭✭NTMK


    None


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    #19
    mackg
    Registered Users Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    about 25 I suppose but it would never be 25, either 0,40 or 70.

    70s are rare


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    #20
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    bluewolf wrote: »
    On average, about zero

    Heh, heh! :D
    G86 wrote: »
    Tequila!!:D

    Myself and Bluewolf in action last night :)

    Picture314.jpg


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    #21
    Ricardo G
    Registered Users Posts: 1,308 ✭✭✭Ricardo G


    Would 21 units in one night be considered binge drinking? and would it be worse than drinking 21 units over 7 days??
    Just curious:)


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    #22
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    0

    No intention to change that either.


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    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Ricardo G wrote: »
    Would 21 units in one night be considered binge drinking? and would it be worse than drinking 21 units over 7 days??
    Just curious:)

    Yes, of course.


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    yupyup7up
    Closed Accounts Posts: 845 ✭✭✭yupyup7up


    at oxegen, over 4 days, i had 195 or something


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    #25
    coffee_cake
    Registered Users Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    MCMLXXV wrote: »
    Heh, heh! :D

    That's why I said on average :) I haven't been drunk in years, I rarely drink :)


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    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    yupyup7up wrote: »
    at oxegen, over 4 days, i had 195 or something

    ah ya mad legend lol


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    #27
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    About 50 in the last seven days. Quiet week! :)


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    #28
    mackg
    Registered Users Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    leeroybrown wrote: »
    About 50 in the last seven days. Quiet week! :)

    50 in a quiet week:eek: you must be the baddest man in the whole damn town.


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    #29
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    0 for me, most weeks. Can take or leave alcohol, mostly leave it.


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    #30
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    mackg wrote: »
    50 in a quiet week:eek: you must be the baddest man in the whole damn town.
    What? T'is nothing. Sure doesn't it add up awful quick when you have a few pints with the lads, a few cans, a few rums, some gin, a sup a whiskey...


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    #31
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    High Risk of good times


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