Booze calculator : What's your drinking nationality?

I am a light drinker from the Lebanon. Only drink on high days and holidays.

It's getting close to New Year's Eve. One advantage of living in retirement housing is that the journey home consists of staggering along the corridor to the lift and then to my flat. It will be a proper booze-up.

I daren't even think of testing.

Assuming my regular drinking matches a week when I went to three Christmas parties I'm a moderately heavy drinker from Argentina.

Answering for a more normal week I'm a light drinker from Ghana.

I'm a Kuwaiti too!

France. So that's OK then!!

They keep moving the goalposts don't they? Many years ago my DH had a very stressful job and began suffering chest pain. After the usual tests found nothing wrong, his GP said it was stress and told him to 'relax in the evenings and have a couple of whiskies'. Needless to say, he didn't need telling twice, although he substituted the whisky for gin.

Italy: joint 86th heaviest in the world. I had 3 small glasses at a choir Christmas social over a whole evening and 1 large glass at our writing group's Christmas buffet. I don't see that as particularly excessive across a whole week and think it is silly anyway because I only drink if I go out for a meal or at social events. I expect the same applies to other people.

In a year, I meant...

Good for you KatyK!

According to the quiz anyone who drinks 3 glasses of anything a day is way up there in the Belarus class, which seems strange to me...

(But of course it assumes you never have a day off! )

If it's a case of 'which calories ', chocolate wins over alcohol. I do enjoy a whisky, or dry sherry or a fizzy wine, but don't often have one. I do all the driving nowadays, so that eliminates social drinking, apart from in my own house. Late at night, after a bad day, when my poorly husband is in bed, it is sometimes tempting, but that could be a slippery slope!

Ana I admit to being one of the quaffing Gnetters. I enjoy a few glasses of wine each day. I am 66, fit, healthy (I've recently had full blood tests and my liver is in fine fettle), not overweight. I have also had a vast amount of stress in my life and if the drink police want to give me a lecture then they are welcome to do so! I have never drunk spirits or tasted a 'shot' but I do love my drop of white wine

Vive la France!

Ooops France for me & I may have underestimated a bit too. I don't drink every day- usually only Fri, Sat & Sun evening- at home with DH. We share a bottle of wine & then may have a glass of spirit or sometimes 2. This week I have been out twice so it was a couple of glasses of wine more.
I thought that was about OK but maybe we should look to reduce the spirits in new year. Not much point now as we have a got it in the house for Christmas.
I don't get hangovers & I just really like the taste of it.

Jordan for me based on the single drink I had yesterday when I was out for a pre-Christmas lunch with friends. Most weeks though I would get Kuwait! Apart from the occasional night out when I do partake of a few wee drinks and on holiday if they have lovely cocktails I don't drink at all.
I won't even be drinking over the festive week or so, just because we don't bother in the house. Husband might or might not have a couple of beers!
Might as well move to Kuwait in fact!!!!! ?????

Kuwait for me!

I'm Italian too - but I never drink more than that at any time of the year. DH would come near Kuwait this week, but then would be Portuguese on what he drinks normally/next week - then he is ever so virtuous and has a dry January. He is terminally boring, droning on how much good it does to his liver. S.d that!

It wasn't when I just went back to check either Ana, then I noticed you have to click "See how you compare" first. It's about two thirds of the way down.

I'm from France .... hello Anya

crun, that information isn't shown on the page I see when I click on the link.

Jordan for me.

"You drink like you're from Jordan, which is the joint 11th lightest-drinking country in the world. "

Yes but! I have not been out this week and I have been poorly for a couple of days.

Jeez! Is that for real? 151 pints AND 187 glasses AND 253 shots? I don't think I've had 187 glasses of wine in my life, and I'm damn sure I haven't had 253 shorts. The last booze I had was at an aunts birthday bash in 2011.

"the questionnaire on the BBC link gives no indication of how big the 'glass of wine' is"

It does:

"It assumes that the average pint of beer is 5% alcohol by volume, that wine is typically 12% and served in 175ml glasses, and that spirits are 40% and served in single measures of 25ml."

Where are all the quaffing Gransnetters hiding? From some of the posts on other threads it seems as though it's a much more popular pastime than seems evident on this thread...

Je suis Francaise aussi (but then I have been out for a meal twice this week).

Normally I would be from Timor-Leste

Italy