To think a bottle of wine is a LOT to drink for 1 person?

[lesley33]

This comes out of a discussion with a frind who I saw on Saturday morning. When we talked about what we were going to do that weekend it came up that she was planning to drink a bottle of wine to herself that evening. When I commented that this was a lot, she said she regularly drank a bottle of wine.

So AIBU in thinking this is a lot for someone to drink in 1 night?

Fair enough hmc - you continue with your posting style.

'can't abide'... 'does my nut'... 'nonsense position'. Wow, tetchy...

I love a glass of wine but can stop at one or two, same as I can with a bar of chocolate. Moderation is the key for me, otherwise I'd end up drunk and fat. (Obviously not saying that's the case for everyone else, just me!)

Interestingly, after I had my children both times I struggled to moderate my alcohol intake and would get ridiculously drunk on nights in/out due to not recognising my tolerance levels and would usually end up with my head down a toilet, totalled for the whole of the next day. Not fantastic when I had children to look after. So perhaps that's the reason I'm so good about it now.

Hmm... It is a lot if it is a regular thing.

On occasion I do drink a bottle - me and my sister wentout for a walk to the pub at the weekend - and ended up sitting for quite a while. We ate dinner and polished off two bottles of chardonnay between us.

It isn't an everyday occurrence though - and it took us about three hours to drink it all...

Excellent post roastveg. Drinking more and more is normalised these days. And yes, we Brits do have a terrible reputation for binge drinking.

No u lite weight, I also find love my 4 Dcs so much more after a bot if wine!!!!!

I drink what I like

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Good post by RoastVeg.
When I first drank wine, a glass was 125ml (6 glasses in a bottle) and wine was generally 8-9% alcohol.
Now, many pubs don't even serve glasses smaller than 175ml, and wine is generally 12-14% alcohol. Like roastveg says, that's crept up on people over the years, and seems 'normal' to some, now. The thread started with people saying "That's only 3 glasses" er, no, that's 6 "unit" glasses, it's just that your glasses are oversized. With the increase in alcohol level there are now about 9 or 10 units of alcohol in a bottle I think.
To be sitting drinking 9 units of alcohol on your own of an evening sounds an amount to be worrying about to me. To be doing that on a regular basis, is clearly even more of a worry.

Also on the small issue I am size 8 and 8 stone , I usually find my lovely fatter friends are hopelessly lite weight.

My lovely mil non drinker died of liver cancer at 52

My 12 year old dd survived the recent school coach crash with facial injuries but is ok!!! Not to b facetious but live and enjoy as u never no wots in store

OP, I think your friend telling you that she was planning to have a bottle of wine shows that she does think it's not a regular thing to do, she sees it as an exception and therefore worth mentioning.

Glad to hear your dd is okay thebody!

I agree backforgood - it's a perception thing - if you went to the pub and had 9 whiskies on a daily basis or even a few times a week you might (or others might) think you drank quite a lot whereas bottle of wine at home people are saying its out of order to even question it

When I asked her, she said she drinks a bottle of wine on average 2 days a week. So it is a regular thing. Before she has just said she is going to have some wine. Not sure why she mentioned a bottle this time.

I drink a bottle once a week with food and with friends.

Well you are allowed to question it sandy but apparently only if you have read all 238 posts (there will be a test later)

I don't think it's too much. I often hoover up a bottle of red, on occasion I've been known to down a litre.
I don't tend to do it when DD is around or I'm on my own with her. I've a dread of her needing to be taken to hospital and me being too drunk to drive
. It is totally irrational though. I am a much better driver when I've a few on board.

Hmc thanks do much, she and we r getting there, hopes and prayers for the 2 girls still seriously injured in hospital. X

Blimey, I can sink two bottles without a problem. And still drive.

Huh, you really were riled by my comment, weren't you, hmc? Really no need to be so defensive, especially if you think you were in the right by just wading into the thread without reading it.

Here -

Shouldn't that be a bottle of wine merchant

I jest, of course - it's midday here and the little ones have just gone down for their nap. It's too early even for me.

Well enjoy your bottle of wine tonight

And I accept that this is more normal than I realised. All of my friends drink regularly, but only 1 who does seem to have an alcohol problem, drinks more than half a bottle of wine in 1 go. So from my own experience, I did think this was unusual. This is where mns is good as it does expose you to people outside your own immediate circle.

Bottle of wine over a long afternoo or dinner - fine. Glugged down at a puib in an hour or so - not fine.

Very well written post Roastveg

I now have an urge to call you RoastFrog

Drinker here....but then I did work onboard ships as a young 'un and have had an extraordinarily high tolerance since then so it seems .

It's just different strokes for different folks and all that! Mind you, even now amongst my grown up friends with children, I still don't see eyebrows raised in my direction very often though and one or two can even keep up with me, hmmm....

Anyway, it really is so different for different people, there are no comparisons, we are all unique!

In my defence I don't drink too often since having dc's, and never when they are in my sole care, (having never been good the morning after and long since given up the hair-of-the-dog mornings!! at the thought I ever had those )

I also feel I should add that tonight I have been working until midnight, at my desk, with nothing but a cup of tea! (Do I get a medal?)