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Either way, I struggle to find a likely definition of "drinks" where 8 per week does not seem excessive. Like even if "half a pint of beer" is the definition (
by anyfoo 1y ago
Either way, I struggle to find a likely definition of "drinks" where 8 per week does not seem excessive.
Like even if "half a pint of beer" is the definition (unlikely), that means drinking 4 pints of beer per week, throughout a long time? I.e. not just for 2 weeks in a row or so? That does not fit my definition of "social drinking" anymore.
And mind you that that's a purposefully underestimating assumption. The actual definition of a drink is likely larger than half a pint of beer.
- hyperadvanced 1y agoI think a bog standard IPA is about 2 “units” of alcohol. I like the old alcoholic “I’ll only have one or two” and it’s a wine glass filled to the brim or a mason jar half full of whiskey
- intrasight 1y agoI've recently had to admit to myself that my standard can of IPA is in fact two beers.
- jeffbee 1y agoWhether 8 standard drinks per week becomes heavy or not would seem to depend on one's own body mass.
- zeroonetwothree 1y agoMost people don’t think that one per day is excessive. 8 is only a bit more than that.
- thot_experiment 1y agoAlways interesting to see different perspectives, visiting my aunt (almost 70yo) it was half a liter of beer with lunch, and another half with dinner as kind of just a normal thing. Maybe not every day but also some days you'll have another after dinner. Nobody thinks twice about that level of consumption, there is zero negative stigma. Even if someone gets a little drunk most evenings it's not thought of as a problem, work meetings are had over beers after lunch. Life expectancy exceeds that of the United States, so personally to have someone say 8 beers a week is excessive is mindboggling to me.
- intrasight 1y agoSurvivorship bias