I have to try again...don't know what I typed wrong...all I typed was MATH. So if 1 unit is half a beer...than I drank about 48 units a day. But when I drank vodka...it would only equal 4 units (but equivalent to the alcohol in the 48 beers).
A thing that puzzles me is how can anyone keep count if they're in a 'drunk '?
Drinking out of a whisky bottle at 4 in the morning.
Waiting for the Pakistani off licence to open at 6 to buy more.
Meeting working friends at lunchtime for a few.
Gong back home to the whisky and cans of beer.
Going out again if capable.
Back home to drink and pass out,
How can we keep track of that unless we're really moderating our drinking behaviour?
I had no idea; I couldn't count empty liquor bottles, there were so many. I started to buy flat half bottles so I could stick them under the mattress.
A chronic case I know so no chance of measuring my intake but surely, if anyone has a serious problem, how do they measure their intake?
Hi A, No it's a different system of measurement, all imperial.
Hi vodka07,
I like your psuedonim. I think alcoholics who can regulate their drinking can keep track of intake of units or we'd have to carry a notebook and pen with us. 'My daily dose!So many factors involved; one being that one unit of whatever can affect me more than you.
i never knew how many units I drank, I was too pi**ed to keep count - specially drinking straight from a bottle of liquor.
'Safe recommended units' - just a guideline to me. Maybe that's all it's meant to be?
This is why I said don't use it. The quantities are different. An American pint is only 80% of a British one.