How many drinks is too many drinks?

[ashleyn]

Thank you, I hadn't read it. Gives us all something to aim for

I believe I have a new entry on my bucket list. David Boon, eat your heart out.

 

[haydensydney]

About 15 years ago I was a young man who got bumped up to F on SQ.

Awesome! I love those stories

Cabin spins isn't pleasant, but at least you were in the comfort of a F cabin!

 

[rechoboam]

It's all relative.

You need to learn how to grade drinking habits in medical school so as to assess hospital patients.

Basically:

I am a bon vivant.
You are a drinker.
He is an alcoholic.

 

[QF1]

Oooh, I just remembered. The guy also used the Business class toilets and we were in Economy.:shock: Now that should raise some collective angst.

was he short...with a funny accent and tried to tell you he was the CEO of the/an airline.

 

[medhead]

Drinking 3 cans of beer at 2pm would be an all time low for me.

2pm? The only time I decided that drinking was wrong was when I once went for a liquid lunch on a Monday with a couple of friends and about half way through the first drink we decided liquid lunches were wrong on Monday.

 

[seanpodge]

Three beers even on a flight that long is a lot, but not a silly amount IMO, especially since it was *yikes* Fosters (they serve Fosters on domestic flights now? My goodness - I thought Qantas had some standards to uphold, but that's all for nothing now!).

And they call themselves an Australian airline! :shock:

Drinking 3 cans of beer at 2pm would be an all time low for me.

I consumed a litre of beer before midday today.

I'm taking bets on the sentence. I'm putting 3:2 odds that she'll get a slap on the wrist, good behaviour warning and no conviction recorded. 60:1 for jail term; 100:1 odds for maximum penalty possible.

Obviously depends on if she has form, but I reckon she'd probably get a fair chunk of the maximum fine and maybe a suspended sentence, one of the conditions most likely being full cooperation and participation in a court approved alcoholism treatment program.

Wonder if Qantas will try to get anything back. They may be able to try but unless the passenger was flying up front, they probably wouldn't get much out of her anyway. Maybe just best to cut their loses and ban her for life.

 

[Pushka]

I'd had a nice bubbly, well, hardly krug, in the QP before we boarded. I have nothing against drinking alcohol at lunchtime, and plan on doing just that when we start our trip to Europe in July, but maybe it is relative, but I was just surprised the cabin attendants kept the cans up to him on such a short trip. That was more of a surprise than someone actually wanting to drink that much. Just didn't strike me as being a responsible service of alcohol.

 

[JohnK]

I normally have a couple of beers on a SYD-BNE flight which could be anything from ~60 mins - ~70 mins in duration. I have had 3 beers a number of times but it is not really necessary if visiting the lounge before and after. And I usually do not need to visit the toilet if I have only had 3 beers.

Not sure I understand the relevance of the time of day. I can enjoy a beer at 7:00am if I am going on holidays and I certainly enjoy a beer or 3 at 10:00am after a game of golf.

And the perception of how beer affects is not a standard, uniform, one size fits all. Reaction time is not a constant one can put in a formula. Some people should not be allowed to drive a car after 1 drink while others are able to handle a car quite well at 0.10-0.15 and well over the so-called "limit".

 

[jetlagger]

I'd had a nice bubbly, well, hardly krug, in the QP before we boarded. I have nothing against drinking alcohol at lunchtime, and plan on doing just that when we start our trip to Europe in July, but maybe it is relative, but I was just surprised the cabin attendants kept the cans up to him on such a short trip. That was more of a surprise than someone actually wanting to drink that much. Just didn't strike me as being a responsible service of alcohol.

Now that certainly is an interesting twist to the saga! .. You didn't elaborate on precisely how much of a nice bubbly you had though.. a glass? a bottle? a magnum perhaps?
I don't believe Fosters is the strongest of poisons available these days..
Anyway thanks for sharing the experience with us.. Hope to meet you in the lounge some day for some quality 'bubbly"

 

[Awesom Andy]

I had 5 of the small bottles of wine a couple of months ago on a SYD-SIN flight, and that's after a few mixes in the lounge just before boarding. It was a very very long walk from row 70 to the front left door...

 

[Aussie_flyer]

Sometimes I wonder about this board. 7 pages on whether 3 cans of Fosters was acceptable on a flight from Melbourne to Adelaide. give me a break!

 

[TonyHancock]

Sometimes I wonder about this board. 7 pages on whether 3 cans of Fosters was acceptable on a flight from Melbourne to Adelaide. give me a break!

I misread! Didn't realise it was Melbourne to Adelaide. Jeeez he should have knocked off four as a minimum. (Having said that the spirits route is really the way to go. That flight is at least an eighter.)

 

[medhead]

Sometimes I wonder about this board. 7 pages on whether 3 cans of Fosters was acceptable on a flight from Melbourne to Adelaide. give me a break!

It's only 2 pages on my computer.


Sent from the Throne

 

[TonyHancock]

It's only 2 pages on my computer.

Only took me a single G&T to get through it, but I'm a speed drinker.

 

[munitalP]

I still want to know which* DOM legs provide Fosters...

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*So I can avoid that DOM leg

 

[TonyHancock]

I still want to know which* DOM legs provide Fosters...

???

I believe it is LHR-MAN on a BA codeshare!!!

 

[medhead]

I still want to know which* DOM legs provide Fosters...

???


































*So I can avoid that DOM leg

All the legs that serve crownies for a start.


Sent from the Throne

 

[Pushka]

Now that certainly is an interesting twist to the saga! .. You didn't elaborate on precisely how much of a nice bubbly you had though.. a glass? a bottle? a magnum perhaps?
I don't believe Fosters is the strongest of poisons available these days..
Anyway thanks for sharing the experience with us.. Hope to meet you in the lounge some day for some quality 'bubbly"

Now that is a deal! Only one glass, which is permissable given it was my birthday AND wedding anniversary. It might have been more, but I told my partner the flight left at 2.30 when it was actually 2 pm and we just made it to the lounge in time for one drink.

Seriously dazz, this thread takes up a bitty space on AFF, just don't click next time.

 

[Canny man]

I enjoy an am bubbly when flying international. I can say with certainty that I've never been the only one doing so.
I'm in the BNE Flounge first thing Sunday so will check the veracity of this statement,

 

[Justinf]

I'm a bit taken aback by this thread

Fosters is barely alcoholic. Two beers would barely be equivalent to a small bottle of wine (200ml).
Even I would only be tipsy with 3 cans and I wouldn't usually drink more than a single glass of red with dinner. If he is a regular drinker he would have been pretty much sober I imagine-it doesn't sound like he was passing out.

Sydney to broken hill, the crew were out of full strength beer in 15 minutes and the light beer went soon after that.

I agree with bossreggie , the person who has a glass of champagne before leaving the J lounge and 2 glasses on board before take off won't be looked askance at. Oh right that's me!

As for the toilet visits, No-one can control their physiology (I realize that drinking p$&@weak beer doesn't help). As a VERY famous heavy Australian drinker said, as he got up to use the facilities after the flaps were up and my friend and the CC strapped in:
"if a man's gotta go, a man's gotta go!"

Two cans of Fosters would be 2.8 standard drinks whereas 200ml of wine would be 2 standard drinks. Most wine on domestic aircraft in Y is served in 187ml bottles, which would be even less than 2 standard drinks.
Anyway, is it presumptuous of me to think this man would have been giving it a nudge at a bar in the airport before the flight?