Comments on: Binge drinking

By: at North of the Stupid Line

at North of the Stupid Line — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 09:06:15 +0000

[...] 3) Cut down on binge drinking (see my earlier post); and [...]

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:56:47 +0000

Gulp

By: JGJones

JGJones — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 21:06:35 +0000

Food for thoughts Rob,

imagine you had that 15 seconds of passing out not in the office, but perhaps while you are driving at 70mph on a busy M4 going home to Wales from London…

(I’m assuming that you’re driving here even though you take the train)

I thought of that because of what my wife went though. She was driving on the M1 in NI, overtook a car that was starting to increasingly weave around on the road so thought she’ll be safer in front rather than behind it. She took a quick peek and it turns out that the bloke in the car that’s weaving had fallen asleep suddenly or something.

So she stayed in front, and beeped the horn for quite a while and luckily it woke the bloke up. Although it felt like ages for my wife really it all lasted less than 10 seconds.

The road wasn’t very busy at that time. Now imagine it happening to you, obviously for that 15 seconds, that’s a long way to be not in control of a fast car.

I only say that to encourage your path to good health

By: Fintan Gaughan

Fintan Gaughan — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:22:44 +0000

I think its just a British culture,
they don’t know how to have a good time without a drink

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:15:30 +0000

Thanks for your comment, Joe. I’ve been analysing myself since the incident this morning, and I think the reason I’ve continued to binge drink is because a part of me didn’t want to let go of uni days. Going out and getting pissed happened a lot more often than it does now in those days.

I’ve now accepted that I need to grow up and stop holding onto the past. I’m a happily married bloke now, soon to be a qualified solicitor and will be moving away from the Big Smoke. I’m the happiest I’ve ever been, so why do I need to binge drink?

By: JGJones

JGJones — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:58:50 +0000

six or seven double Barcardi and Cokes?! Bloody hell, that is a LOT.

“Men should drink no more than 21 units of alcohol per week (and no more than four units in any one day).”

Six double Barcardi = about 12 units of alcohol
Seven double Barcardi = about 14 units of alcohol

You’re way more than 4 in a day. I’m surprised you could drink that much too…I get a bit tipsy after a single bottle of beer, mind you I hardly drink, ie a bottle of beer once a week or month, depending on if I have any around.

So I applaud you on being open about it and letting people be aware that the danger can strike anyone, including yourself.

I do wonder – BEFORE you had that 15 sec of passing out – you’ve obviously seen the adverts about danger of binge drinking etc…did you think to self that it won’t affect you, after all you are still quite young, healthy etc?

Goes to show it can happen to anyone – one shouldn’t assume because they are young and healthy and fit, it won’t affect them.