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It’s a little over half a bottle of 13.5% wine (according to one sample on my counter, the full bottle is 10.1 UK units).

So no, not outlandish.

(And oddly, Irish units are larger than UK units, even though we both use the same pints)

4 pints? That's just "taking the edge off"

Man, which bars do you frequent where a large glass of wine is two pints?

Heh he probably meant alcohol content

"Binging" is also not socially outlandish. There's a lot of room between "social drinking" and "socially outlandish drinking".