How much do you drink?

[anat0l]

I drink probably an average of once a month. I say  average, i.e. some months I don't drink at all, but it also doesn't mean I have 12 drinks in one go per year.

I'm a school teacher, and while you might think there's a lot about my job that might only be tolerable by drinking, I ain't that silly enough to know tomorrow is (often) another school day and turning up with any in your system is a risky decision.

But you'll sleep off whatever you've drunk, viz. just one glass. True, but then there's a host of other reasons: health (don't have the best track record on weight or the heart), often having to drive, harder to concentrate on school work after leaving school if a drink is had, etc. etc.

I grew up in a household where drinking was never normal at all except at celebrations. My mum never drank and neither does my sister - they never got used to it, couldn't get used to it and content to live without it. My dad mainly drank beer at parties (now an occasional wine); no where near alcoholic levels. He did some harder stuff when he was younger (Chivas Regal was choice top shelf stuff in the Philippines in his younger days), but nearly well past that when he became a father.

Most of my drinking happens when I'm travelling. Even then, because I'm really not used to drinking often at all, on board or in a lounge I'm also not used to knocking back constantly. I once read a trip report on Flyertalk of someone who consumed 8 bottles of Krug on a SQ flight - yeah no, not me and not even close; I wouldn't probably do one bottle unless I somehow nursed it all over one flight, and not chomping at the bit for an opportunity to find out.

 

[VPS]

Easy answer @Virgin Bart: I’ve never liked the taste of any alcohol. Even in food it makes everything taste ‘off’ to me. Don’t eat rum balls, Black Forest cake, anything with wine added etc.

When I was 18 - early twenties the peer group (especially cricket teams after a match ) was always, ‘we’re going to get you pissed’ so then it just became a personal stubbornness.

Both reasons are still valid as I’ve got older!

Also, interesting side benefit from a sample size of one: don’t drink, don’t smoke, don’t gamble = no debts… YMMV.

Now, if we had a thread on how much you’ve spent on golf clubs and Green fees do you think that would equate to most people‘s alcohol bill?

I admire people that just say no I don’t want to drink and don’t take any cough from people

 

[craven morehead]

My Doctor says too much, I say not enough. We're still negotiating.

Tell him you're an alcoholic not an accountant and not good with numbers.

 

[esseeeayeenn]

There are more people trying to claim the moral high ground in this thread than climbers attempting Everest.

 

[Scarlett]

Now, if we had a thread on how much you’ve spent on golf clubs and Green fees do you think that would equate to most people‘s alcohol bill?

Ahem. I think you might be onto something there! Never even want to try to tally up the cost, nor the airfares to get to various places around the world. Found a new app called ‘course vaults’ that I’m using as a tracker:

…they’re missing about 30 courses in their database that I have played, so ~770 courses so far.

On the drinking issue; I’ve really noticed how the Australian drinking culture has changed over the past 30 years. In the 80s and 90s (probably 00’s as well) it really did seem to be THE thing that Australians embraced and were known for. Certainly for the sporting and work groups I was part of, when work/play was done you went to the pub, bar, or you had drinks at someone’s place. There was no other discussion, that was just the done thing. People then went off to do other things but it always started with drinks.

Nowadays there is so much more to the discussions: coffee, food is more important, going to an ‘attraction’ or event, rather than what is the availability of alcohol at that attraction or event. Maybe it’s the normal way of things as you get older and ‘recovery time’ becomes important, but I reckon it’s more than that. Certainly cost is a real factor in limiting social drinking but maybe we are actually thinking about living a little healthier?

Like most things, AFF is very far from reality though, with the ready availability of alcohol in lounges and premium cabins meaning that the results @SOPOOR gets on the poll probably skew a little higher.