To think getting quite drunk with a baby is odd??

[Choccywoccydoo10]

NC as could be outing.

So we are suppose to be visiting friends this weekend. They have a 6 month old we have a toddler. They want to go out for dinner and drink then go back to theirs and pop open the champagne. Apparently they have quite a few bottles. My DP friend then said he's going to guzzle the wine and his wife will be drinking too.

Obviously most of the drinking will be when the kids are in bed but AIBU to think you wouldn't do this?? What if something happened like an emergency and you needed to go out or the baby needed something. I wouldn't want to get really drunk while caring for my D'S.

I'm all for having fun and a laugh but a glass or 2 not 3 bottles of champagne and guzzling wine!

AIBU or would other people do this?

Getting drunk in front of children; not a good thing

The desire to get drunk with friends when children are in bed - fine

Personally, I just couldn't face drinking much when mine were little - the poor sleep and hangover that resulted wasn't worth it for me

He sounds like someone you don't really like hanging out with anyway - lairy and loud. I probably wouldn't like that either

A bottle of wine is 6 glasses. If staff in a pub are saying that, they are upselling. It is about money, that is all.

Drinking doesn’t have to make you drunk

If you’re not drunk then it’s not wrong to be in charge of a child then is it?

Ok, if you’re not fit to get behind the wheel of a car you’re not fit to care for a child. That any better?
So one drink makes them unable to drive so they're really unfit to look after a child? Really?

Notreallyarsed that law specifically states it is against the law in public, not in your own home.

If you’re not drunk then it’s not wrong to be in charge of a child then is it?
Not what you said though was it...

If you’re not drunk then it’s not wrong to be in charge of a child then is it?
That’s exactly the point I was making to you.

@PurpleDaisies I never said anywhere that having a drink wasn’t ok, I said being drunk wasn’t.

I can see there are lots of people who disagree. Fair enough, up to you and your conscience.

Ok, if you’re not fit to get behind the wheel of a car you’re not fit to care for a child. That any better?
I'll just repost this again..,,,

Notreallyarsed you equated smoking spliffs and drinking. There are legally acceptable levels of drinking so smoking spliffs is totally different.

Right, and one drink wouldn’t put you over the limit? Unless you’re in Scotland.

I meant in terms of impairment, are you being deliberately obtuse? You can’t attack someone for being illegally unfit through drugs to care for a child while advocating being legally unfit through alcohol because the point is if you’re unfit you’re unfit, it doesn’t matter how you got that way does it?

Unless the whole point is feeling morally superior about being on the right side of the law and not about actually being fit to care for your child

Right, and one drink wouldn’t put you over the limit? Unless you’re in Scotland*
And your comment was you're unfit to drive so you cant look after a child, so you were wrong.
1.5/2 drinks in the uk still wont make most people drunk but they cant drive.

Clearly your alcohol tolerance is higher than mine kali

I don't drink

To be fair, a bottle of wine IS three large pub glasses (250 mL each), brasty.
Kali, I don't know. Of course it's true some people are bigger, some are a lot more used to alcohol, some have eaten before drinking etc. but... yes, I'd say having drunk 3/4 of a bottle you are drunk, even if you don't feel drunk. Or put it this way, if you think of drinking 3/4 of a bottle in one session as ok, you have an alcohol problem? No?

do you need it explaining for the 4th time?
You haven't explained it. At all. You think it's boring to not drink alcohol. It makes absolutely no sense why it would be boring. Unless your sole entertainment comes from a glass of liquid, which is pretty sad.

Where did you say you were from standandwait?

Stand Drinking 3/4 a bottle of wine is only two large glasses. I would drink this easily, and did last friday! In fact it's easily possible to drink more than this over an evening. I don't have an alcohol problem, it was drunk completely by choice, not need! You are measuring other's drinking habits against your own.

BTW after my two large glasses of wine I had a G&T, yes, I was slightly inebriated, but not to the point I was unable to take care of a sleeping baby. I was of course unfit to drive.

F off, I'm not part of your culture

You have absolutely no idea what culture I’m from. Not that I’m sure it makes a difference.

Ah, this is what I love about MN, because we can be honest, we learn so much. Fresta, I've drunk 2/3 of a bottle myself on more than one occasion. Maybe it would have been clearer if I'd said that "if you think drinking that much in one session is NORMAL, then you''... etc etc. I mean, we all have the occasional special evening, and I don't at all say that anything over NHS guidelines is alcoholism, but ... put it this way, I repeat, in no other place I've ever lived would a bottle of wine be considered three glasses! Them's very, very big glasses!

kootoo123 Unless they are paraletic people sober up pretty quickly in emergency situation

This is true. I've performed successful CPR after a bottle and a half of wine.

So it's just that we have bigger glasses?

There is nothing remotely wrong with getting sloshed with kids around.

I disagree. I witnessed it a lot when I was young and rather I didn't. Heavy drinking can lead to situations not safe/unpleasant, at best, for children. Depends on the parents, environment and their drinking tolerance.

I agree with you OP. A couple of relaxed drinks with friends is one thing, to get absolutely wasted (which I would be after several drinks out, followed my champagne and wine) is very much another. Save it until you have a child free night.

I would not want to have to deal with the hangover with young children either!