Is it bad form to go to the off license three time in one day?

Egginacup

Nucular Arms wrote: »

I have been wondering recently about the etiquette surrounding trips to the off license.

I visited the off license three times today, for 8, 4 and 4 cans of guiness between the hours of 4pm and just before ten.

Each time my head has told me that it's the wrong thing to do, but each time also, my heart has said "f**k it" and I have capitulated.

I was just curious as to whether your typical boardsie would take issue with this as I kind of felt a pang of shame on round three but i'm not sure that I should have.

Beer doesn't "go off" like tomatoes or bread or ham yet people buy food for the week only to sling a load of it out. Apply this concept to the non-perishable beer and you are sorted.

dirtyden

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

Ah,that old chestnut. Some people can drink and some people can't.18 cans over the course of the day is not a whole lot if you fall into the former category,which you obviously dont and the op clearly does.Have you never spent a whole day in a pub?20-30 pints is not uncommon amongst my peers.

20-30 pints is a ridiculous amount, bordering on obscene.

Very very few people sit down and drink 30 pints in a day.

Nucular Arms

dirtyden wrote: »

20-30 pints is a ridiculous amount, bordering on obscene.

Very very few people sit down and drink 30 pints in a day.

20 maybe but that would be my limit I would say. Stretched over the course of a full day though it's not that bad I would have thought.

Maybe I do move in strange circles!

As regards the calories etc. I don't know what it is but I drink I suppose more than most people but I'm still the same size I was ten years ago when I was 21.

6'4, 32 inch waist.

I don't exercise but I eat pretty healthy and don't drink fizzy drinks or any of that.

I do eat a lot of biscuits and such though!

buried

Guinness has a far, far less calorie count than a lot of other mainstream branded beers, and I think a lot less than some spirits with mixers even.

buried

buried wrote: »

Guinness has a far, far less calorie count than a lot of other mainstream branded beer

A fact very few people actually know (and don't believe when you tell them), people assume guinness is the worst of all when in fact it has the lowest calories.

eternal

Wrong.
http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/calories-in-food/alcoholic-drinks/guinness.htm

Tony Beetroot

Amia Immense Comma wrote: »

A fact very few people actually know (and don't believe when you tell them), people assume guinness is the worst of all when in fact it has the lowest calories.

And what ever calories it has gets blown out of your arse with the explosive trots.

eternal

eternal wrote: »

Wrong.
http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/calories-in-food/alcoholic-drinks/guinness.htm

Wrong? That confirms what I said. Click on Heineken or carlsberg and they have more calories than guinness.

Tony Beetroot wrote: »

And what ever calories it has gets blown out of your arse with the explosive trots.

I have to say my most enjoyable "deliveries" are after a feed of Guinness never got people fearing a visit to the toilet the next day.

buried

eternal wrote: »

Wrong.
http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/calories-in-food/alcoholic-drinks/guinness.htm

Jayzus. I always thought it was around the 140 calorie per pint mark? I know I seen that somewhere

eternal

Amia Immense Comma wrote: »

Wrong? That confirms what I said. Click on Heineken or carlsberg and they have more calories than guinness.

It has a higher calorie count than MOST of the drinks. I know because I calorie count everything.

eternal

eternal wrote: »

It has a higher calorie count than MOST of the drinks. I know because I calorie count everything.

You are counting them wrong so.

eternal

eternal wrote: »

I'm not being dragged into your arguing. It has higher calories than most of the drinks.

Which beer on that list has more calories than Guinness. Guinness is 37 per 100g. All the largers are over 40 per 100g. Just read the article you linked.

Wacker The Attacker

Why not get your weeks booze in one go.

Think of it as your weekly shop

Rough Sleeper

eternal wrote: »

I'm not being dragged into your arguing. It has higher calories than most of the drinks.

If only there were some sort of authoritative source that could settle this dispute

nox is right, stop digging

Nucular Arms

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

Why not get your weeks booze in one go.

Think of it as your weekly shop

Yeah i would but what tends to happen is that i have a few and then i basically cant stop myself from keep on going. I rarely set out trying to drink so much.

Its something about myself i would like to change in fairness.

eternal

I was looking at cider, wine and spirits. All lower. The beer seems to be high too but everyone knows beer and stout is fattening.

Eutow

I have read somewhere that Bulmers has more calories than a Guinness. Between Heineken and Guinness, Guinness seems to have less calories, although the links below give different readings for each for some reason.

http://andykennyfitness.ie/sugar-calories-in-beer-stout-cider/

http://www.mensfitness.com/nutrition/what-to-drink/beers-calories-and-carbs

People say Guinness is a heavy drink, but I would disagree. The reason being because I like my imperial stouts, and Guinness compared to them would be watery or light bodied. Also, Guinness I find easier to drink compared to lagers and Bulmers due to it having less carbonation, and it fells like there is less sugar involved. I don't get that dry scaly mouth feeling from Guinness that Bulmers left in my mouth when I used to drink it.

eternal

eternal wrote: »

I was looking at cider, wine and spirits. All lower. The beer seems to be high too but everyone knows beer and stout is fattening.

Cider isn't lower, it's the same or higher.

The conversation was about pints (so beer or cider) not about wine or spirits. Also the spirits are not taking into account the mixer which the vast majorly of people use with them and are hight in calories (not saying it makes them higher than a pint but it pushes them up a lot.

buried

Nucular Arms wrote: »

Yeah i would but what tends to happen is that i have a few and then i basically cant stop myself from keep on going. I rarely set out trying to drink so much.

Its something about myself i would like to change in fairness.

Feic it man, your causing no harm to nobody else, what does it matter? Unless you want to stop it yourself for whatever reason for yourself, then fair enough. These are pretty $hitty times we live in and we all need a bit of release now and again, drink is a kind of mainstream answer to those things that we all have to put up with, but there are countless other ways to pass the time as it too y'know? I wouldn't feel too bad about it all, we all got to release somehow. But if you want a change, look to your hobbies and interests that don't involve it. A lot of people nowadays feel the same.

eternal

Amia Immense Comma wrote: »

Cider isn't lower, it's the same or higher.

The conversation was about pints (so beer or cider) not about wine or spirits. Also the spirits are not taking into account the mixer which the vast majorly of people use with them and are hight in calories (not saying it makes them higher than a pint but it pushes them up a lot.

I only drink sugar free drinks so I can't comment.

Tony Beetroot

eternal wrote: »

I only drink sugar free drinks so I can't comment.

Such as?

Hammar

OP ,stop worrying about what anyone else thinks. It's none of their business what you do.
I hope you had a good session.

eternal

Tony Beetroot wrote: »

Such as?

Pepsi Max, Coke Zero. If I'm out it's Bulmers Light or Coors light. I don't know what the sugar level is in them but the calories are much lower.

Hank Scorpio

yolo

AskMyChocolate

8,4 and 4 cans? :eek:

Jesus OP, can you not see that you have a serious drink problem?

Your drinking progression (syntax) is all wrong. It should be 4,4,8...

What would happen if you decided to go on a serious bender?

You'd end up having to make 8 or 9 trips. That's what.

16 cans is a bit mental.
The most cans I've ever drank in one sitting was 10; once I had gotten to #7 I had to keep going until #10 so that I was able to build a nice pyramid on my desk.

HardenendMan

Jaysus my dealer would tell me to F off if I called 3 times in one day. Oh wait...off licence you say...oh emm

Menas

Suppose it is one of the nice things about getting older...there is always rakes of beer and wine and spirits in the house.

harry Bailey esq

dirtyden wrote: »

20-30 pints is a ridiculous amount, bordering on obscene.

Very very few people sit down and drink 30 pints in a day.

Personally,I would only do it maybe twice,perhaps thrice a year.But it does happen,ask a barman.I had somewhere in the region of 12-15 pints last night,I started around 7ish came home around 3.I wasn't drunk. Merry,yes.Drunk no.

Nucular Arms

Hammar wrote: »

OP ,stop worrying about what anyone else thinks. It's none of their business what you do.
I hope you had a good session.

Had a good one last night actually! Was my birthday, good fun.

eternal

Nucular Arms wrote: »

Had a good one last night actually! Was my birthday, good fun.

Happy Birthday!! This thing called getting older has made you ponder thus driving you to said off licence. The mystery has been revealed.

Aidric

16 cans sounds like a lot on the face of it but two cans an hour over the course of afternoon/evening is manageable if supplemented by food.

I wouldn't manage 16 Guinness though.

Nucular Arms

Hammar wrote: »

OP ,stop worrying about what anyone else thinks. It's none of their business what you do.
I hope you had a good session.

Had a good one last night actually! Was my birthday, good fun.