Go on, be honest!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7619508.stm

This 'report' seems very black and white but it appears I'm:

Boredom drinker:-
Typically single mums or recent divorcees with restricted social life.
Drinking is company, making up for an absence of people. Drinking marks the end of the day, perhaps following the completion of chores.

Actually, it reads, 'The government believes it has identified nine types of heavy drinker'.

I don't drink anymore, but when I did have the odd drink it was social drinking.

Either re-bonding or community drinker if I have to pigeon-hole myself

And I don't consider myself to be a "heavy drinker" - I rarely go over my units - anymore!!!

I score 6 out 9. Beat that!

I don't fall into any of those groups. Every day, I go home, go into the kitchen, prepare the evening meal, and drink a bottle of wine. The Government can get stuffed, not exactly perfect specimens themselves are they?

i am a mixture of depressed and de-stressed! not bad for a 25 year old student nurse...

annoyingly, my boyfriend fits into none of the categories - he just goes out every few weekends and gets royally blootered! yay for binge drinking!
Last edited by petral_gal : 17-09-2008 at 13:20

Im a mix between re-bonding, community and hedonistic (except the single/divorced/kids bit)

I think I could go through all of them in one night

I like to relax in a hot bath with a bottle of gin and some nice depressing world war one soldiers poetry about mustard gas.

Hmm. So what happens if you don't drink frequently, but whenever you do it's 'heavily'? (I'm assuming that "heavily" is more a thimbleful in one sitting, or whatever the government's 'safe upper limit' is these days).

The category "because I genuinely like the taste of wine and I also like feeling squiffy for a couple of hours" doesn't appear to be there, so now I feel dreadful that I'm letting the government down as I can't 'classify' myself.

I don't really fit into any category, I drink maybe once every 3-4 weeks. And when I do... I drink alot!

I'm not in any category either.

I enjoy the taste of certain drinks (Southern Comfort in particular ) but I don't need to have one to have a good evening and can take it or leave it.

I used to be hedonistic before I started on the health kick,,,

I don't drink alcohol, so yeah... interesting read though.

Sounds as though you are one of those ghastly binge drinkers who are ruining society

LOL!!!!! binge drinkers are ruining society? SO tonight when i have a bottle of wine, maybe open a second, with my husband, in my own home after a hard days work I am considered ghastly and someone who ruins society?

Rather than a kid of 15 who knifes someone in the street or a teetotal father who rapes his kids on a daily basis et cetc etctecec?

Not every one the "binge drinks" is a complete head case that goes out on a saturday night geting into fights, falling asleep in gutters and puking everywhere

You're missing out on all the fun

If I had to choose based on my drinking patterns it would be a mix of community and Re-bonding drinking but on a much smaller scale as I am not a heavy drinker.

i'm a re-bonding drinker.

I think degsyhufc was joking - I agree with both of you though, this whole 'binge drinking' culture is ridiculous.

Must have forgot my

I'd have to be the ''boredom drinker''

Drinking marks the end of the day, perhaps following the completion of chores

I work all week, do the housework on a Saturday - and have a wee drink while watching The X-Factor


you gotta have a drink to get through that

Making excuses for drinking eh?

ah ok! well you know what its like on DS

Thats my category!!! I love how you described it, perfect!