People who drink alone

Melisandre121

What are your thoughts on this? Do you think if someone has a few glasses of wine at the end of the day, say 2-3 nights a week, alone, is this perfectly normal? Or a little worrying?

JustTheOne

Melisandre121 wrote: »

What are your thoughts on this? Do you think if someone has a few glasses of wine at the end of the day, say 2-3 nights a week, alone, is this perfectly normal? Or a little worrying?

If it feels good why is it worrying.

falan

Melisandre121 wrote:

What are your thoughts on this? Do you think if someone has a few glasses of wine at the end of the day, say 2-3 nights a week, alone, is this perfectly normal? Or a little worrying?

Yes it's normal

NachoBusiness

I'm having a glass of Captain Morgan's right now and I'm alone.

Although, I've also just spent the past 15 mins talking to myself. So I guess that confirms the stigma.

tigger123

It's not excessive.

Peregrine

I have a few drinks on some nights. It helps me relax. Be it at home or out with people, I never really binge drink. Why would that worry anyone?

Sheep Lover

Pfft, I drink alone the whole time and have done for years and it has never done me any harm. The voices in my head told me so.

fleet_admiral

I usually have a pint alone when I have finished a long shift. Ive been talking to people all day and running around a kitchen like a blue arse fly so I like a little me time for a few minutes

Bonzo Delaney

Melisandre121 wrote: »

What are your thoughts on this? Do you think if someone has a few glasses of wine at the end of the day, say 2-3 nights a week, alone, is this perfectly normal? Or a little worrying?

Depends really is it a normal glass measure or two a night to wind down or is the bottle polished off
Back in the day used to love calling in to the local for a quiet pint most evenings after nixers to read the paper undisturbed switch off and clear the head for the following day
Mind you that generally went tits up after the third pint that's when "party time bonzo " came out to play ah good times

Think you need the mobile and Facebook close. To stay in touch with all those in the pub saying "haul in".

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

I'm in the pub on my own reading the paper and flicking through boards.ie on my own while sipping a pint... I like me... I like my own company. I went to the cinema earlier on my own... Why not!! I've two parties next weekend to attend and my brain will be melted with gowls.

I can tolerate myself.

bb1234567

Its really not any of our business..they can do what they want..as long as theyre not showing up drunk in public and causing distress or discomfort for others by doing it then what harm. Its worse to eat a chinese takeaway every night but plenty of people do that and nobody says boo to them

I just got back from france, living with a host family in a small rural village and was shocked by the drinking habits there! They drink huge volumes of alcohol but all in a very controlled way. Wine was drank at lunch , one glass, and at dinner, maybe 2 glasses. Then in the nighttime a beer or two, that is a lot. But its spaced out and doesn't involve getting drunk like in ireland. And it wasnt just the family I was living with, at get togetheres with others in the village it was the same. They drink more there but theres nothing anti social about it.

Binge drinkers here give alcohol a bad name.

osarusan

I do this.

A beer or a whiskey after my kids are in bed. Once or twice a week.

My god the shame.

bb1234567

bb1234567 wrote: »

Its really not any of our business..they can do what they want..as long as theyre not showing up drunk in public and causing distress or discomfort for others by doing it then what harm. Its worse to eat a chinese takeaway every night but plenty of people do that and nobody says boo to them

I just got back from france, living with a host family in a small rural village and was shocked by the drinking habits there! They drink huge volumes of alcohol but all in a very controlled way. Wine was drank at lunch , one glass, and at dinner, maybe 2 glasses. Then in the nighttime a beer or two, that is a lot. But its spaced out and doesn't involve getting drunk like in ireland. And it wasnt just the family I was living with, at get togetheres with others in the village it was the same. They drink more there but theres nothing anti social about it.

Binge drinkers here give alcohol a bad name.

There is massive confusion out there between binge drinking and alcoholism. People will look at themselves and say they only drink one night a week, they are not alcoholics, they don't need alcohol to function etc. And they are right, it is not alcoholism, but it is uncontrolled drinking which of itself is not good. They are missing the point that, for many, binge drinking and not classic alcoholism is a problem.

ken76

Melisandre121 wrote: »

What are your thoughts on this? Do you think if someone has a few glasses of wine at the end of the day, say 2-3 nights a week, alone, is this perfectly normal? Or a little worrying?

Perfectly fine once you are in control and you are drinking out of enjoyment as opposed to habit and boredom

ken76

osarusan wrote: »

I do this.

A beer or a whiskey after my kids are in bed. Once or twice a week.

My god the shame.

Jon the club. What's the issue? Once you are in control and the drink isn't controlling you

fleet_admiral

ken76 wrote: »

Jon the club. What's the issue? Once you are in control and the drink isn't controlling you

Ill drink to that

Spanish Eyes

But the Gubbermint thinks this is outrageous, along with buying the stuff from the Supermarket too. God almighty.

We HAVE to go to the pub to be protected from ourselves. That is the message here folks.

Coming to a house near you.

Nanny State or what.

posturingpat

The Honey Monster wrote: »

I'm in the pub on my own reading the paper and flicking through boards.ie on my own while sipping a pint... I like me... I like my own company. I went to the cinema earlier on my own... Why not!! I've two parties next weekend to attend and my brain will be melted with gowls.

I can tolerate myself.

Brilliant. Feel exactly the same.

conorh91

Nothing wrong with it at all in my view.

Nevertheless, if I had a whole bottle of wine myself while alone, I'd probably not want to admit it.

But it has happened. I get through a bottle of wine very easily when drinking from those popular, bucket-sized goblets.

Yeah I blame the wine glasses….

Wanderer78

nice to see ireland is still deluded with alcohol and its use

boobar

If I have the house to myself which is rare, I like to relax with a glass of wine or a whiskey.

Nothing unusual in it.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Wanderer78 wrote: »

nice to see ireland is still deluded with alcohol and its use

What are you on about. I have well under the 21 recommend units.

Richard Hillman

I much prefer sitting at home with a few beers on my own than going out with friends.

Going out always turns into an ordeal. Getting smart-casual dressed, arranging a meet time and place that suits everyone, meeting up with wierdos that for some reason need to travel in packs to get to the drinking destination, waiting for people, having to save seats for pricks that turn up late, people that insist on rounds, waiting for everyone to be ready to go for a smoke, queing at the bar and so forth. Then there is the getting home part and people that insist on waiting around forever to get a 7 seater taxi because we must travel in a pack.


Nope, 6 cans, a tub of Pringles and whatever is on Sky Sports for me. The likes of Facebook, board's and whatsapp where invented for the purpose of not having to physically socialise with people any more.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

I work nights. My next drink will be a pint next Friday night/Saturday morning... It will be on my own after a 50 hour working week in stupid temperatures. I'm looking forward to it already.

YFlyer

Instead of a few glasses of wine, I would sometimes have a few mugs of wine while relaxing watching TV.

Spanish Eyes

Personal choice was always there to either drink alone or with others at home.

Until someone decided that it was not in the interests of the PUBS.

Go figure.

Your home is your castle and they cannot control you there. EVER. As much as they would like to try!

Robsweezie

People who drink alone are people who drink alone. Nothing more, nothing less

Maddy5102

I don't think it really ever about when or where or with whom you drink I think it's more about why you drink. If it's to relax at the end of a big day and your by yourself that seems to me a lot more healthy then getting smashed with by yourself or with other people because of some emotional reason!

Herb Powell

Wanderer78 wrote: »

nice to see ireland is still deluded with alcohol and its use

Oh fucck off.

Alcohol does not magically become more healthy in the prescence of others.

Thoie

There's a lot of "ifs" to the question.

You should get 5 glasses of wine from a bottle. If a bottle lasts the entire week, that's quite reasonable.

If the person says "I can't sleep unless I've had some wine", I'd suggest they learn other ways to destress/talk to their doctor.

If the person gets unreasonably ratty when someone suggests that's quite a bit, it'd give me pause for thought.

The stigma about drinking alone is usually a concern that the quantity being consumed is underestimated. Combined with other signs, people may wonder "is it really one, maybe 2 glasses, 2-3 times a week?" Or is it really a bottle a night? Does the person pass up social events in order to stay home and have their glass of wine?

There's nothing wrong with either drinking at home, or drinking alone, or doing both. I would find it peculiar if it was all the time.

endacl

Sheep Lover wrote: »

Pfft, I drink alone the whole time and have done for years and it has never done me any harm. The voices in my head told me so.

You're never really alone when there are voices in your head...

Irelandcool

in the end we all die alone

I occasionally drink alone but prefer being in the company of others.

YFlyer

Thoie wrote: »

There's a lot of "ifs" to the question.

You should get 5 glasses of wine from a bottle. If a bottle lasts the entire week, that's quite reasonable.

If the person says "I can't sleep unless I've had some wine", I'd suggest they learn other ways to destress/talk to their doctor.

If the person gets unreasonably ratty when someone suggests that's quite a bit, it'd give me pause for thought.

The stigma about drinking alone is usually a concern that the quantity being consumed is underestimated. Combined with other signs, people may wonder "is it really one, maybe 2 glasses, 2-3 times a week?" Or is it really a bottle a night? Does the person pass up social events in order to stay home and have their glass of wine?

There's nothing wrong with either drinking at home, or drinking alone, or doing both. I would find it peculiar if it was all the time.

Its expensive to head into town.

YFlyer

Hello hello! Are yee all gone out? Hic

Mo14

Nothing wrong with it at all; I like my own company and I like a nice glass or two of wine / beer.
People going out on the weekend and getting shitfaced is probably worse for them than me sitting here with a drink reading a book or boards is for me.

diomed

I was in Lidl at 10:00am a few weeks ago. The guy before me at the checkout bought ten bottles of beer, the guys after me bought five bottles of wine and a packet of biscuits. Why do you buy alcohol as soon as it is possible to buy it in the morning? That is worrying.
There is nothing wrong drinking alone. If you do it every day it is not good.

4zn76tysfajdxp

diomed wrote: »

I was in Lidl at 10:00am a few weeks ago. The guy before me at the checkout bought ten bottles of beer, the guys after me bought five bottles of wine and a packet of biscuits. Why do you buy alcohol as soon as it is possible to buy it in the morning? That is worrying.

Not really. They could've been about to start a long shift at work or anything, really. Sometimes I buy beer in the morning in anticipation of a party in the evening so that it will be nice and chilled. And biscuits are delicious.

Menas

I am having a glass of wine right now..on my own.
Perfectly normal...and helps wash the cornflakes down.

wp_rathead

Spanish Eyes wrote:

But the Gubbermint thinks this is outrageous, along with buying the stuff from the Supermarket too. God almighty.Coming to a house near you.
We HAVE to go to the pub to be protected from ourselves. That is the message here folks.

Nanny State or what.

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Personal choice was always there to either drink alone or with others at home.

Until someone decided that it was not in the interests of the PUBS.

Go figure.

Your home is your castle and they cannot control you there. EVER. As much as they would like to try!

I've nothing against a good "gubbermint" bashing when it's due- but what do they have to do with the OP's question?

anncoates

Wanderer78 wrote: »

nice to see ireland is still deluded with alcohol and its use

Actually the real issue with Ireland is the weird situation where going out with friends and getting paralytic is seen as less "alcoholic" then having a few beers at home by yourself or passing a LIDL in the summer and picking up a slab on special offer.

Buona Fortuna

My OH and most of her family don't drink (maybe one at Christmas :eek:)

I drink alone.

It goes further anyway, when you don't have to share

Egginacup

Melisandre121 wrote: »

What are your thoughts on this? Do you think if someone has a few glasses of wine at the end of the day, say 2-3 nights a week, alone, is this perfectly normal? Or a little worrying?

Why do you have to be with someone to enjoy a beer/wine/whiskey/brandy/whatever ?

Have you never gone to the pub on an afternoon with the paper or a book and enjoyed your couple of beers by yourself whilst reading or doing the crossword?

And what's this taboo about drinking alcohol at home as well? If it's so wrong then why is alcohol sold in containers specifically to be transported away from the point of sale (the off license) and consumed elsewhere (at home)?

I think people who are vehemently against drinking at home are the ones with the problem. They are effectively admitting that consuming alcohol is a dirty, shameful activity that they engage in but at least don't sully their residence with such a filthy pastime......or something like that.

Corvo

Drinking alone isnt the problem for me.

It's the damn record player I bought. I only have one record and I was having a few whiskeys in the house listening to it over and over again.

Then I said "Christ Im sick of that song"...

It wasn't even turned on.

That's what drinking alone does

Badly Drunk Boy

YFlyer wrote: »

Instead of a few glasses of wine, I would sometimes have a few mugs of wine while relaxing watching TV.

Yeah, I sometime like to drink alcohol from non-glass containers.

OldMrBrennan83

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Egginacup

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Yeah, I sometime like to drink alcohol from non-glass containers.

Do you sit there quaffing Cab-Sav from a tetra-pak carton? :pac:

Best is the box of cider. When it's nearly empty, take out the foil container baggy and squeeze the last remnants through the plastic tap. Then inflate the foil baggy and use as a pillow when you're bolloxed.

Egginacup

Patww79 wrote: »

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A pub that I go to for a Saturday pint is brilliant. I go there alone and sit at the bar in the corner with the paper or my phone and read online newspapers. Have a few beers and the juke box in this place is the best I've ever seen/heard. It has just about everything on it. Every album by every band from every era. From Stones, Beatles, Kinks to Zeppelin to Sex Pistols to the Jam...to Pearl Jam...to bloody everything. Why wouldn't you want to drink alone in such a place?

JustTheOne

Nothing annoys me more than people who Can't do things alone.

Oh I can't eat alone people might judge me, as if people care that much about you, idiots.

Slightly off topic i know.

Reoil

Melisandre121 wrote: »

Do you think if someone has a few glasses of wine at the end of the day, say 2-3 nights a week, alone, is this perfectly normal? Or a little worrying?

F**k off and mind your own business.

pavb2

If you cant enjoy your own company then you shouldn't inflict it on others.

Pavb2 ch7:v23