how much is the most you've ever drunk in your lunch break from work and made it back to the office

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just curious...

― sfxxx, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

i'm only four years out of uni, but i don't think i've had more than a bottle of beer at lunch. at school i'd go up to two pints, iirc.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

a bottle of red at an xmas lunch. i only lasted about an hour and a half after getting back, though.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

ok, i'm "just curious" because i had seven pints of guinness last friday lunchtime and am wondering if this is excessive...

― sfxxx, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

yes.

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

and i say this as an alcoholic, dave.

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

seven pints!!!! how long was lunch?

that would take me like, 3 hours.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

two hours. don't worry, jess, my normal limit is two and this was a one-off occasion. i'm just wondering if this is completely beyond the pale or if anyone can trump it. (i did go out afterwards but stuck to cocktails, for health reasons, because they're made with fruit juice.)

― sfxxx, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

Several times I've had 3 pomegranate margaritas and had to come back to the office but it was a long lunch, so drinks consumed over about 2-2.5 hrs.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

We don't generally do this in America.

We take work VERY SERIOUSLY.

(I've had two beers at lunch, on one rare occasion.)

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

2 or 3 pints of cider and a gin and tonic. I was e-mailing memos to people that just said 'squbjdsjvnsov' basically. Never again.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

4 pints i had once, this was excessive for me. Jesus! SEVEN, that's crazy

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

I've managed four and that was on my last day at work, my boss was paying and I knew I had nothing to do all afternoon. Nowadays, big fat zero.

My housemate recently had lunch meeting that involved five pints, a curry and a bong, however.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

My housemate recently had lunch meeting that involved five pints, a curry and a bong, however.

Who with? David Cameron?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

I've managed four glasses of rose champagne. I think I posted to ILE in the resulting afternoon drunkeness.

Seven pints would kill me stone dead Dave.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

Aren't you a journalist sfxxx?
traditionally a lunchtime drinking profession.

I hate drinking at lunchtime, trying to disguise my uselessness in the afternoon is too much like hard work.

― bidfurd__, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

Aren't you a journalist sfxxx?

Ask a silly question

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

My housemate recently had lunch meeting that involved five pints, a curry and a bong, however.

yeah, i heard those air-traffic controllers' meetings can get a bit messy

― sfxxxx, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

I can't beat seven. Did six once, a big mistake, but used to do four pints almost weekly on Fridays.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

Two and a half pints. I had no idea how drunk it would make me feel, being in an office environment rather than a noisy, revelry-filled pub.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

I think I once had seven pints at someone's leaving lunch but then only went back into the office for half an hour. The most I ever did when I knew I actually had to go back and do some work was four pints of Directors. That was a very productive afternoon.

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

I did six once. Spent the afternoon shouting at/with another six pinter about the rights and wrongs of Orange Walks. Six pints feels *very* drunk when you're in a sober office.

If I get to 4 or 5 I'll usually stay in the pub and call the office to ask someone to pack my stuff away for me.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

There's something right about an Orange Walk?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

i may have had two beers once, but i felt really really drunk. maybe it was too early in the day, or maybe it was the thrill of breaking all rules, but i felt insanely loopy upon returning to the office.

an australian man twisted my arm into having a glass of wine at lunch once when i had a job interview that afternoon. i'm a helpless sucker when it comes to beautiful men and glasses of wine, and although at the time i felt my future slipping away, i am now sitting at that job, rather wishing i was still drinking wine that day.

― carly (carly), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

Well he thought there was. It was more about "rights within law" rather than "right within not wrong"

xpost

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

bourbon & coke, x 3. I ended up watching the cricket with my supervisor in the waiting area because we had no customers!

― BUCK BUCK, nice shot (haitch), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

god, these days even four pints would fuck me right up.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

i don't think i can drink seven pints of guinness in a day!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

or even two! it's disgusting.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

i'd fire your whole country

― ronny longjohns (ronny longjohns), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

some girls at my telemarketing job were drinking vodka in travel mugs and they started slurring on the phone to customers and eventually one of them fell down the stairs.

And there's always coming into work still drunk from the night before...

― emilys. (emilys.), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

"And there's always coming into work still drunk from the night before... "

last saturday i did this. i had a 3 to 9 shift and had been up till 6 the previous morning drinking. i was essentially drunk the entire shift, i tried to go to the bar afterwards and it just wasnt happening. 4 summers ago, however, i used to work in an office, and i would never drink but i would smoke pot twice a week at lunch. if you think being half-drunk is wierd.....

― JD from CDepot, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

i once drank a bottle of wine on a friday lunch and returned to the office. i was like the person above who was sending gibberish memos. i used to work in a pub in germany where it was considered bad form to refuse shooters bought for you by patrons, i used to end up legless there on a nightly basis. i guess that's very different to an office job though.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)

that sounds more like an ideal job to me.

― BUCK BUCK, nice shot (haitch), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)

it was definitely a very fun job, it was good pay compared to waitressing everywhere else i've done it too. we all had to keep our own floats in a wallet tucked into the back of our jeans, i used to have to do some seriously creative counting to get mine to tally most of the time. luckily the germans were excellent tippers so i never ran at a loss.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)

Ive been drunk on call a few times. Its hard working at home on a weekend and being in "work mode". Problem is, when you've had a few and its Saturday night and you have to commission several satelite units, it suddenly becomes difficult to type the IPs and stuff properly and, er, I've fucked it up once or twice.

Thank lawks I dont do that work anymore.

I cant drink at lunch though - and Im a big drinker. It just makes me sleepy.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

Ha, I can play this game with mushrooms insted of booze, and it was my boss who'd taken me out to lunch too, so there wasn't even any fear of sacking or anything. We had a peculiar afternoon back in the office though.

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

I have definitely beaten this entire thread except maybe mushrooms guy. Yikes. 3 margaritas at a lunch was not unusual at all at my old workplace! The best was when a group of us polished off QUITE a lot of wine, hundreds of dollars worth, and ended up having to tear out of the restaurant because someone was so drunk that he broke his glass while toasting something that none of us understood.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

I'm a lightweight -- just two pints back when I was working for The Man. But now that I'm freelancing from home, I drink while I work.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

I'm a lightweight too - seven pints at any time of day would have me collapsing and throwing up.

I don't think I've got drunk at lunchtime since I was a student. Given that I drive to work at the moment, it would make getting home again rather awkward.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 27 October 2005 05:01 (twenty years ago)

At a work lunch, the most I've had was 5 margaritas, but on my own, I think probably about 4 pints of Stella - not because I was too drunk to go on, but because our lunch hour was up.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 27 October 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

about 4 pints i'd say

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 27 October 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

I normally don't do more than 6 pots/3 pints at lunch, any more and I regret it - the afternoon goes really slowly because you're too pissed to do any work and paranoid about reeking of booze and sounding pissed if anybody talks to you.

Having said that, it's now 11:15am and I've had 3 glasses of ~~champagne~~ sparkling wine in celebration of Melbourne Cup day, and will be going to the pub in an hour.

One Friday when I was temping I ended up going to the pub at lunchtime and getting stuck with the office alcoholic until 4:50pm. Common sense should've dicated that going back would've been a bad idea but I decided to go and get my bag. I sat at my desk whiling away the 10 minutes until home time in what seemed like deathly silence feeling completely smashed. My boss took me aside on the Monday and told me that drinking with (let's call him) Mike wasn't such a good idea if I wanted to keep the job.

― wombatX (wombatX), Friday, 28 October 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

Having said that, it's now 11:15am and I've had 3 glasses of champagne sparkling wine in celebration of Melbourne Cup day, and will be going to the pub in an hour.

haha but that's not till next tuesday. are you having your own melb cup early?

― gem (trisk), Friday, 28 October 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

No, but almost nobody's in on Monday so they were probably worried that they wouldn't have enough entrants for the wacky hat competition.

― wombatX (wombatX), Friday, 28 October 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

Oh hey thats right - tuesdays a day off WOOO.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 28 October 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

Seven pints is also my record - in about 2 hours. I was working as a gold-cutter in the City of London and it was my last day there. I did actually go back and do real work for a couple of hours afterwards.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 28 October 2005 07:08 (twenty years ago)

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