Have People from North a bigger issue with drink.

FixdePitchmark

Watching First Dates Ireland - and from my own experience with friends from Ulster.

Is the drinking culture up the north a bit more crazy than south ?

I know - I shouldn't be watching .

But if so - (why?) - is there a cultural, social or political context.

Ulysses Gaze

They have a lot of issues up the North.
Drink would be one of the lesser ones.

FixdePitchmark

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

They have a lot of issues up the North.
Drink would be one of the lesser ones.

But - in that context - , do them issues lead to a live for the moment - **** it buck-fast mentality.

Effects

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

But - in that context - , do them issues lead to a live for the moment - **** it buck-fast mentality.

No.

FixdePitchmark

Effects wrote: »

No.

I don't agree.

The ones I have come across are all crazy for the moment.

Great fun to be with - but it seems more of them are a bit......................

Effects

All the ones I know are grand.

topper75

The good Doctor had an issue with the drink. As in he didn't want anybody touching the stuff. Many Duppers would be likewise. His chuckle brother Marty didn't sup either.

HalloweenJack

The ones I've met (from both sides of the divide) seem to be much like ourselves. You get the whole run of them: those who'll go out for a few drinks here and there, those who need to get absolutely plastered every time they go out and those who are usually the last ones standing. Drinkers come in all shapes and sizes. Considering the relationship people have with drink in these islands, you're splitting hairs if you think one particular group has it worse than the others.

NIMAN

Up North they like to used the 'legacy of the troubles' as an excuse for everything.

That's why it's one of the sickest societies around in terms of packed gp surgeries, people of anti depressants, sick off work etc.

They'll still be playing the troubles card in 50 years from what I can see.

Beechwoodspark

NIMAN wrote: »

Up North they like to used the 'legacy of the troubles' as an excuse for everything.

That's why it's one of the sickest societies around in terms of packed gp surgeries, people of anti depressants, sick off work etc.

They'll still be playing the troubles card in 50 years from what I can see.

They will continue with it for as long as they get away with it. And I mean both sides

seamus

It's their Scottish blood.

fryup

Well considering they went through 25 years of bloodshed & mayhem...can you really blame them??

seamus wrote: »

It's their Scottish blood.

yes, the irish never drink do they :cool:

donegaLroad

the pubs are full of Northerners here and always were. But its hard to tell how much 'they' drink over others because everyone turns into an alcoholic when they visit Donegal.

Effects

NIMAN wrote: »

They'll still be playing the troubles card in 50 years from what I can see.

You think society recovers from something like that overnight?

Almost like the way slavery in the US has had no repercussions on modern society there.

A Little Pony

It's due to a society which has no honor and no dignity anymore and no morals. A decaying society.

fryup

A Little Pony wrote: »

It's due to a society which has no honor and no dignity anymore and no morals. A decaying society.

i don't think we're in any position to tut tut down here.....with our legacy of Madeleine laundries, paedophile priests, industrial schools and our on going homeless crisis....and not to mention dublin city centre with all the junkies about

bullpost

fryup wrote: »

i don't think we're in any position to tut tut down here.....with our legacy of Madeleine laundries, paedophile priests, industrial schools and our on going homeless crisis....and not to mention dublin city centre with all the junkies about

Madeleine laundries - Didn't Proust write a great memoir about those?

biko

Nordies have more craic

Richard Hillman

Less sunlight, colder weather, low living and social standards. Similar to the Scots.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Don't have much experience with them, aside from drinking with middle class Unionists in Frankfurt one night. They were very courteous towards me.

ToddyDoody

A Little Pony wrote: »

It's due to a society which has no honor and no dignity anymore and no morals. A decaying society.

The UK isn't as much of a moralistic society as we are. Their thrust is more of the hard warrior type, as stupid as that / I sound.