h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It differs from country to country of course, but in the UK the recommended limit is:

Men - no more than 21 units of alcohol per week (and no more than four units in any one day).

Women - no more than 14 units of alcohol per week (and no more than three units in any one day).

One unit equates to:

"a 1/2 pint of ordinary (3.5 per cent) strength beer or lager

a 25 ml pub measure of spirits (40 per cent)

a small (125 ml) glass of 9 per cent wine

a 50 ml pub measure of sherry, port or vermouth."

I think I'd register a little bit above the above limits.

Hell, no. I'd say I drink about 40-55 units a week, which is about 20 pints of 5% lager, and maybe a few glasses of wine as well.

*Gets out fingers and toes*

1 pint of bass = 3 units.

Normal night's drinking = 5 pints of Bass .

3 x 5 = 15.

15 x 7 = 105.

So minimum weekly consumption is 105 units.

105 x 52 = 5,460 average units per year.

5,460 x 27 = 147,420 units which is the minimum alcohol quantity consumed by this Hooter in my life,

5,460 x 25 = 136,500 units I shall probably drink through the rest of my life

Therefore

147,460 + 136,500 = 283,960 units during my entire drinking life,

Allowing for days of overage, let me round that up to 300,000 units for accuracy, or 100,000 pints of .

Not bad,

so the answer must be....





Of course I do...



And mine's another please...



(so that's 300,001 )

I have to say I do just to balance everyone else out, at most I'll have 2-3 in a week, some weeks none.

I don't drink that often,but when i do i really do

3.5 percent is ordinary beer? I've only ever seen that in China...

the answer is no, when I drink I do it with the intention of getting drunk, and therefore never within the recommended limits. Hey, I'm a student. And who even feels 4 units?

I quoted that from a health site thing. I'd say about 4 was normal myself.

Hell yes! I've had 6 units since Crimbo.


Now if you are talking tea......

no chance. I rarely go into a pub with out having four or five beers, and its usually in a pub that I know that does decent real ale, and the ones I tend to ahve are nearer 5% a go and if I open a bottle of red wine when I get back I drink it all so no, I guess thats an average* of say 15 or so pints of ale a week, some of which are sometimes guiness and a couple bottles of wine a week and more when there is an ocasion to go drinking I'll be in the pub tomorrow 12 midday, leave midaternoon then back again, then home and to the pub in the evening for ht elive music

Maybe I'm being spoilt with all this lovely Belgian beer then.

It varies though doesn't it?

At present I am having from 0 to 1 unit a night, as I am still recovering from the litre bottle of Tia Maria I downed in 2 hours a few weeks ago.

How many units in a litre of liquor?

That is a point, having just read the comment about Belgian beer. We drink Belgian and its often 8% on average. Kwak is rather nice!

21 units a week!
I though it was 21 units a night.
Anyways, back to my drink

wolfticket - me, myself and my liver

I reckon I'm almost exactly on that limit, sometimes a little under. Mainly in glasses of wine with a meal, or beer in the summer/a night out.

sprout

Hmm...lets see.

Starts counting.....gives up

Oh dear, I think my liver is going to explode.

Best anethatise myself in preparation then.

My doctor recommends that I shouldn't drink so much. DOes that count?

RTC

No; last time I checked it was around 50-60 per week, but I'm older now and drink more than so it's probably gone up since then . What was really scary was the chart the doctor showed me. It had a green band (a little is good for you)that gradually faded to blood red (you have 6 minutes to live) - most people I know would've been in the red or off the scale entirely .

There are loads of variables though and the recommendations are only averages so don't take them as gospel.

usually yes, just below them,
but every once in a while (2 or 3 times a year) I'll exceed them, usually at a party

Within the limits? Fat chance

14 units a week? 3.5% average strength for beer? 3.5% is weak for a mild, let alone bitter.

And no, I don't keep within 'recomended limits'. I think I'm probably closer to 14 units a day than a week.