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How drunk would you be after 4 small Proseccos?

202 replies

Opink · 01/02/2025 12:34

Just curious as I can never understand my alcohol tolerance

OP posts:
AndrewPreview · 01/02/2025 15:16

Absolutely wankered.

I would probably be starting on the hangover at the end of glass 2. I don't really drink (1 or 2 a year on average) and wine just gives me a headache.

Shetlands · 01/02/2025 15:17

It's 3/4 of a bottle in 2 hours so in my 40s I'd be a bit giggly, in my 50s I'd be merry and now in my 70s I'd be trying on other people's glasses, twanging my friends' bra straps and inviting the waiter to join us on holiday!

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 01/02/2025 15:21

Oblomov25 · 01/02/2025 13:24

Blimey this thread is most unusual. Most threads most MN'ers are bladdered after the first sip.

That's because it's an unusually neutrally-phrased thread for an alcohol-related one imo. Judgy booze OPs get all the drinkers coming along and saying 'Pah, you pearl-clutching lightweights!' and then the inevitable horrified pile-on from the anti-alcohol side. People love to contradict. There's nothing to contradict in an open question!

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 01/02/2025 15:22

I'd be able to tell I'd had a drink, but would be barely tipsy.

MissRoseDurward · 01/02/2025 15:29

Would depend how quickly I drank them and whether I'd eaten. Over the course of an evening, with a meal, I'd probably know I'd had a drink, but wouldn't be drunk.

I wouldn't knock four glasses back quickly on an empty stomach.

buffyfaithspikeangel · 01/02/2025 15:29

Not at all
On a night out I could easily drink 2-3 bottles of wine plus spirits

beadystar · 01/02/2025 15:30

sweeneytoddsrazor · 01/02/2025 13:08

Alcohol is strange. One glass of dark rum and I would be sick. 5 sots of Sambucca no problem
Prosecco unless on an empty stomach is fine.

I too would be sick on a small glass of dark rum. I would be drunk on a small measure of Tequila. Red wine and whiskey (and Prosecco!) have almost no impact. So funny.

CrushingOnRubies · 01/02/2025 15:35

How full is my stomach?

Full not very tipsy

Empty I'd be very tipsy

But 4 Proseccos in on go would give me awful heartburn.

theriseandfallofFranklinSaint · 01/02/2025 15:40

buffyfaithspikeangel · 01/02/2025 15:29

Not at all
On a night out I could easily drink 2-3 bottles of wine plus spirits

Yes, this is me. I can drink endless glasses of prosecco and be fine the next day (not saying I wouldn't be tipsy after a couple of bottles though!)

Can't wait for my first ice cold prosecco after finishing DJ! 🥂

FiveTreeHill · 01/02/2025 15:40

Would people actually be passed out drunk vomiting after 4 proseccos?

I'd be tipsy, maybe drunk if I'd not eaten but no where near vomiting or passing out. I wouldn't have much, if any of a hangover the next day. I reckon I'd have to have 3 bottles to actually be that drunk.

I think most people I know have at some point drunk 4 proseccos or equivalent in my presence and no one has passed out. Thinking at weddings, Christmas day

Meadowfinch · 01/02/2025 15:41

four small glasses is 2/3 of a bottle or about 6 units of alcohol.

Over 2 hours, I'd be light headed, unfit to drive, and wanting my bed. But then I'm a lightweight when it comes to alcohol.

Redglitter · 01/02/2025 15:42

4 small prosecco wouldn't affect me in the slightest 🥂

SharpOpalNewt · 01/02/2025 15:42

Fairly tipsy if I hadn't eaten.

thecherryfox · 01/02/2025 15:42

I have felt tipsy after one, but I guess because I’m only 4’10 and ‘petite’ so alcohol hits me more than the average person. Depending on what I ate that day and how big the glass is, I would say four would make me very tipsy, bordering drunk (whatever people class as drunk anyway)

Meadowfinch · 01/02/2025 15:43

buffyfaithspikeangel · 01/02/2025 15:29

Not at all
On a night out I could easily drink 2-3 bottles of wine plus spirits

Blimey ! 😮 I'd be in hospital

ERthree · 01/02/2025 15:47

I would be rat arsed but then i don't drink.

mummysmagicmedicine · 01/02/2025 15:49

Very close to vomiting

Ethylred · 01/02/2025 16:05

That's 2/3 of a bottle and I would be drunk. So would you be.

AdoraBell · 01/02/2025 16:08

Probably legless.

Shetlands · 01/02/2025 16:18

Meadowfinch · 01/02/2025 15:43

Blimey ! 😮 I'd be in hospital

...and I'd be on a slab in the morgue! 😂

buffyfaithspikeangel · 01/02/2025 16:26

@Meadowfinch I'm tall but I don't know why my tolerance is so high. Saying that, the rest of the family is the same and I can out drink the men

Last time I went out I had Prosecco, wine (2 bottles), cocktails, tequila, gin and then vodka

The weirdest thing is I barely drink, and that was a night out after no alcohol for 18 months! I got home at 6am, but did have a hangover from hell

Rogerisourlodger · 01/02/2025 16:34

BarbaraHoward · 01/02/2025 14:22

Absolutely loving the posters who are making sure we know they wouldn't touch prosecco but would have cava or cremant. Peak MN. Grin

Four small glasses of prosecco would have me tipsy I think, assuming I'd eaten. I probably wouldn't have four though, I'd have one glass of bubbly then switch to wine which I can nurse.

At a wedding or on Christmas Day or the like when I'm sipping and nibbling all day I can drink it all day we without much difference.

Eh? The OP asked about prosecco but some people (including me) don't like prosecco, so gave an example of something reasonably similar but made differently (hence mentioning what it was in case that's relevant). What's peak MN about that?

spacepies · 01/02/2025 16:40

Me with my besties goes like this.
Glass 1 chill Glass 2 chill Glass 3 laughing starts Glass 4 talking about people we dont like Glass 5 dancing in boxers and baggy shirts / jumpers and taking selfies Glass 6 order food 4 bottles later wake up with best mates feet in my face, wondering what the fuck we did why is there tinsel round my waist its june why our gay mate got mini umbrellas in his hair why she got socks on her hands time to get coffee ready.

However when we are on holiday whole different game we wake up and start texting each other where the fuck are you are you alive get a reply with a pic oh dear he looked better last night french exit time before he wakes.

And spend the following day hungover and share last nights stories just to do it all again.
Yeah we need to grow up.

SALaw · 01/02/2025 16:50

I'd be legless. But could have several vodkas and feel slightly tipsy.

SnoopysHoose · 01/02/2025 17:24

@CrushingOnRubies It's 125ml over 2.5 hrs not in one go.
I'm really wondering those saying they'd be legless, ill, hungover, it's over a fair amount of time ; 1 glass per 40 minutes.

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