I always wonder about the validity of my answer to the ER question to "Do you drink or smoke?" "Casually and no." Except casual drinking? I can go months without a drop. What is casual drinking? I only know not drinking and can imagine heavy drinking. A glass or two of wine with dinner three times a week--that's still casual, right? Getting hammered once every three months (still not me) is casual?
Robert Pattinson is doing entirely too well in that vampire poll. What's the sparkly tween version of slashdotting? Because they can't really be reading Time on their own.
What do people consider "normal" drinking on a daily basis? The DH will have a beer or a finger of scotch after dinner several nights a week and that's it. I will have a drink at parties a few times a year but I am planning to add a glass of red wine at dinner. To me, teetotaller that I am, more than a couple of glasses of wine or one cocktail each day seems like a lot, but I know lots of people drink more than that.
This would make a cool poster: Epic Disney/Marvel mashup
Getting hammered once every three months (still not me) is casual?
That might be getting into the realm of binge drinking, depending on how hammered. Might be medically relevant, I'd guess.
What is casual drinking? I only know not drinking and can imagine heavy drinking. A glass or two of wine with dinner three times a week--that's still casual, right?
I would call that regular drinking, but I'm not sure whether that takes it out of the realm of casual or not. It's certainly not heavy drinking.
What is casual drinking? I only know not drinking and can imagine heavy drinking. A glass or two of wine with dinner three times a week--that's still casual, right?
I wonder the same thing. In my world, a small glass of absinthe three nights a week is casual drinking, but I don't know if the rest of the world would feel the same way.
According to the USDA,
Moderation is defined as the consumption of up to one drink per day for women and up to two drinks per day for men. Twelve fluid ounces of regular beer, 5 fluid ounces of wine, or 1.5 fluid ounces of 80-proof distilled spirits count as one drink for purposes of explaining moderation. This definition of moderation is not intended as an average over several days but rather as the amount consumed on any single day.
Which is what I've more or less internalized, I think, though I wouldn't think any woman having a couple/few drinks of an evening was necessarily overdoing it. Seems like one of those things that depends on the individual to large degree.
That Marvel/Disney poster is great.
Men get double the alcohol of women? Seriously? I could see 50% more, but 100%? Thassa lot.
