Ireland - If alcohol didn't exist?

TeddyTedson · 21-05-2011 1:01am #1

Imagine there's no.... alcohol. :eek:
I wonder what things would be like if alcohol just didn't exist, or any intoxicating drugs.
What would Ireland be like on a Saturday night?
I can't even imagine how things might be.
Would there be less people having sex without the booze or would everyone be at it to kill time:P
We'd all be mad tea and six sugars maybe.

Oranage2 · 21-05-2011 1:02am

With no alcohol sure yo might as well call us Mormans!

TeddyTedson · 21-05-2011 1:03am

I think I'd like it:o

Latchy · 21-05-2011 1:04am

Be no need to send anybody to jail for drunkedness ,they be all fcuking each other up the ass at home instead

Yakult · 21-05-2011 1:05am

Look at the prohibition of drugs. I would imagine it would be something like that.

Anyway, wouldn't bother me. As much as I love smoking the green stuff I could easily go without it all together.

starbelgrade · 21-05-2011 1:06am

I like booze. Especially wine. I think it's good for the soul.

TeddyTedson · 21-05-2011 1:07am

Yakult wrote: »

Look at the prohibition of drugs. I would imagine it would be something like that.

But if it simply didn't exist.

Oranage2 · 21-05-2011 1:07am

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I think I'd like it:o

Ye when you realize how much money you spent on drink it's rediculas

I remember spending 50-75% of my pay check on a few nights out a week or spending 100-200€ on a night out, crazy when you think back

Duggy747 · 21-05-2011 1:11am

Would still have scumbags robbing and kicking the shìt out of people.

R0ot · 21-05-2011 1:14am

Family guy did it, Family guy did it.

ballsymchugh · 21-05-2011 1:15am

hmmmm.....

the tax take would be a hell of a lot less, but then again, we wouldn't need the same amount of frontline services dealing with shenanigans every weekend. you wouldn't need the same amount of gardaí walking about towns at night patrolling the punters as they make their way home from an evening of friendly frolics, and hospitals could survive on skeleton staff overnight.

would it balance out?

Chuck Stone · 21-05-2011 1:16am

I'd love some drink now

ColeTrain · 21-05-2011 1:16am

We would all die of thirst. It would be labelled the 'great drought of 2011.'

tippboi · 21-05-2011 1:22am

:eek::eek::eek::eek: this is crazy talk.. shush now... :eek::eek::eek::eek:

Saila · 21-05-2011 1:30am

there would be no excuse for people to act the prick and get away with it

ballsymchugh · 21-05-2011 1:31am

Saila wrote: »

there would be no excuse for people to act the prick and get away with it

no traffic cones in students' sitting rooms, no castles of dutch gold cans...

Head_Hunter · 21-05-2011 1:34am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkA216RL4Y

FlawedGenius · 21-05-2011 1:36am

We would be a nation of good looking people.

OutlawPete · 21-05-2011 1:54am

Everyone would be single.

Latchy · 21-05-2011 1:57am

FlawedGenius wrote: »

We would be a nation of good looking people.

Hold back the years for us there while I order another drink ...willya

strobe · 21-05-2011 1:59am

Same, but dull.

see; Luxemburg.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 21-05-2011 4:36am

Country full of virgins , the knock on affect of which would lead to our extinction as a race.

bnt · 21-05-2011 9:14am

If there was no alcohol, there would probably be no civilisation as we know it. Recent archaeological research is suggesting that one of the major factors in getting tribes to settle down and grow crops was ... beer.

jesus_thats_gre · 21-05-2011 9:16am

There would be no **** threads anyway.

Joe10000 · 21-05-2011 9:18am

Heard a saying New York a while back that alcohol was invented to stop the Irish taking over the world

Biggins · 21-05-2011 9:29am

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Ireland - If alcohol didn't exist?

...I suspect the chances of the O'Rea clan would be elected to be less!

Sergeant · 21-05-2011 9:43am

Biggins wrote: »

...I suspect the chances of the O'Rea clan would be elected to be less!

You seem to have hit the fighting water early enough yourself.

Biggins · 21-05-2011 9:45am

Sergeant wrote: »

You seem to have hit the fighting water early enough yourself.

markc1184 · 21-05-2011 9:48am

What kind of reputation would we have?? Instead of the beer swilling always drunk reputation everyone seems to have of us as it is.

Capt'n Midnight · 21-05-2011 10:03am

When the RIC clamped down on potín our ancestors turned to ether.

Samba · 21-05-2011 10:27am

If alcohol didn't exist in Ireland, we'd be an international powerhouse.

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chillywilly · 21-05-2011 10:28am

FlawedGenius wrote: »

We would be a nation of good looking people.

Irish people are ugly because of centuries of inbreeding, and that's a fact.

Liam Byrne · 21-05-2011 10:35am

Saila wrote: »

there would be no excuse for people to act the prick and get away with it

I thanked this, but then I realised that it was Cowen that was plastered and not Ahern....

The problem isn't drink - the problem is the Irish attitude to it, where it's somehow acceptable to some to say "I'm going out to get hammered" or "I can't remember how I got home"

That f@@ked-up attitude isn't uniquely Irish, of course - a look across to UK TV will show that - but it is pretty clear that the stereotyped Irish does have more than a grain of truth while other cultures have some cop-on.

Ireland - If alcohol didn't exist?

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