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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:
Oblomov25 · 01/02/2025 17:32

Wouldn't touch the sides, but I have an incredibly high alcohol tolerance despite being very small. Always have had, easily do dry January or don't drink for months, and then when I do I can drink tonnes, don't get drunk, no hangovers, tiny bit tipsy and declare I love you! almost intolerant weirdly.

Oblomov25 · 01/02/2025 17:39

I normally order 2 drinks, anywhere I go. A large very dry white wine, and a pornstar Martini. 🍹A ribeye steak rare. Happy days.

StupidBitchy · 01/02/2025 17:44

Absolutely smashed

ClematisBlue49 · 01/02/2025 17:47

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.

OP specifically said 4 glasses, so 4 x 125ml.

People process alcohol very differently, but mostly they don't feel the need to judge other people's consumption habits. Why does it bother you that some people can't, or don't want to drink as much as others?

NewDogOwner · 01/02/2025 17:51

I drink a fair amount of Prosecco and I would be very giddy and on the way to being drunk.

Monstermashermashedthemonster · 01/02/2025 17:52

I'd be drunk to be honest. I can only drink a small amount of alcohol. 1/2 pint fosters and I'm drunk

HRTQueen · 01/02/2025 17:53

The standard glasses that Prosecco is serviced in I am very merry on two glasses

four glasses properly embarrassing myself territory

I have never been able to drink much

CorsicaDreaming · 01/02/2025 18:43

For me, it hugely depends on how much I have eaten. Even one glass of wine on an empty stomach and I feel the effect of it (albeit not drunk) but I could easily drink four small glasses if it was over the course of an evening and I had already eaten some food before starting drinking too much - it is drinking an empty stomach seems to be a problem for me.

SnoopysHoose · 01/02/2025 19:07

@ClematisBlue49
Why does it bother you that others have a different opinion?
No need to police comments.

Upstartled · 01/02/2025 19:08

I'm a complete lightweight, I'd be jolly and then asleep in quick order.

Ruraljapangirly · 01/02/2025 19:10

Opink · 01/02/2025 12:46

I was ever so slightly tipsy, almost to the point of not being at all.

Yeah it didn’t touch the sides. But I had 2 Henikens the other day and I definitely had a buzz. I don’t drink during the week at home really (maybe for a special occasion) but if I go out for a meal i will definitely enjoy myself.

Im either stone cold sober after having drunk a fair amount of alcohol or tipsy off hardly anything. I can never understand my tolerance.

It depends on your hormone fluctuations. One day you'll be sober, a week later the same amount will knock you.

troppibambini6 · 01/02/2025 19:10

A year or so ago it wouldn't have touched the sides. I've stopped drinking now. I'm not an alcoholic I just felt so awful it wasn't worth it.
I would imagine I would be bladdered now!

SallyWD · 01/02/2025 19:12

Very mildly tipsy

yeesh · 01/02/2025 19:13

I would be sober

BCBird · 01/02/2025 19:14

Drunk enough to be given an ASBO😂

Ginkypig · 01/02/2025 19:23

95% of the time I’d be fine obviously I’d be vaguely aware I had had alcohol but not drunk, not even really that tipsy. I wouldn’t drive obviously but would feel absolutely fine to do any type of activity etc

Very occasionally it would go to my head and I’d be fine (so still safe and in control) but I’d definitely know I’d had alcohol.

why?

red wine is similar for me. I can be fine with 2-3 big glass which is the equivalent of half a bottle but tonight iv had 1 glass and I can feel iv had it even though iv eaten (although I’m not drunk)

Bubblyb00b · 01/02/2025 19:27

That would depend on whether I'm eating something or not, how tired I am, and how quick I drunk it. If I eat a large meal while drinking, drunk slowly and was not tired I would not be drunk at all, just a bit relaxed. If I did not eat all day, was shattered and downed 1/2 bottle quickly I would probably be a bit more than tipsy. But still not massively so.

MarshMallowHeather · 01/02/2025 19:33

I would have been a bit piddled, and before I went t total I could drink a few beers, but prosecco is a different ball game and goes to the head quickly!

MarshMallowHeather · 01/02/2025 19:34

Id then have a headache pretty much instantly 😞

Yerra · 01/02/2025 19:35

Small bottles hit u quicker than from a large 750ml bottle. If no food had, I would not b healthy. If eaten before drink I'd b grand

Philandbill · 01/02/2025 19:42

Quite. Wine has a bad effect on me and I avoid it. I rarely drink but am much less likely to be affected by spirits.

Sparxdislike · 01/02/2025 19:45

I rarely drink so tipsy definitely

GivingUpFinally · 01/02/2025 19:55

I'd be completely fucked and hanging the next day

isthesolution · 01/02/2025 20:33

Quite drunk!

oohyoudevilyou · 02/02/2025 09:47

I'd be loud, disorientated, oversharing and talking utter crap....and the next day I'd have a pounding headache and severe hangxiety: That's why I rarely drink, and when I do, it's one glass only.