documentary on RTE last night

Beruthiel

anyone see this on telly last night?
I suppose it's nothing new to us, but at the same time, when you see it on the TV it seems more real, I wondered what I would look like on the camera if I had been picked up, and wasn't sure if I would find it so funny or be upset.

I find it hard to understand why people let themselves get THAT drunk that they seem to loose all of their control, is it something that just happens without a person knowing it?
I tend to stop drinking at a certain point, something inside me says 'you have enough now, it's time to go home' - do others have the same voice and just ignore it, or is it a case that not everyone has that little voice in their heads? I have often wondered about that...

Standard Toaster

Ye scut ye.

Kalina

I found it hard to believe that so many people get so drunk that hospitals are stretched to the limit on weekend nights dealing with them. It's ridiculous that drunk people are taking up doctors time and hospital resources that are needed for emergency cases. We complain about our health service, the lack of hospital space and the long waiting lists yet perfectly healthy but drunk people are abusing it every weekend night it seems.

The program focused on the cities Dublin and Cork as the worst places and still showed a couple of minutes of footage of Tullamore as being one of the roughest towns. I'm from Tullamore and I didn't think the state of the town after a night out was rated as similar to Dublin or Cork but obviously it is.

amp

Originally posted by The_Edge
Ye scut ye.

Haven't you got work to do?

The Gopher

Is there really any increase in drinking?For gods sake,the irish have been knowing for drinking since the famine times at least.Suddenly everybody becomes scared when drinks with trendy names like Aftershock and WKD and all the rest become available?Big swing!
Sure these drinks target the young.But the government turns a blind eye because they know that drinkers under 18 contribute a huge amount of tax money to the gov through alcohol.Ireland has always had these problems.
Now,im off to get drunk

DapperGent

Originally posted by The Gopher
Is there really any increase in drinking?For gods sake,the irish have been knowing for drinking since the famine times at least.Suddenly everybody becomes scared when drinks with trendy names like Aftershock and WKD and all the rest become available?Big swing!
Sure these drinks target the young.But the government turns a blind eye because they know that drinkers under 18 contribute a huge amount of tax money to the gov through alcohol.Ireland has always had these problems.
Now,im off to get drunk

There's been a 47% increase in our per capita alchohol consumption in the last 10 years. We are now the second heaviest drinkers in europe (which probably means the world) and have probably the worst social problems directly attributable to alchohol consumption.

I love drinking it's great fun and I drink a lot. But I'm just back from Berlin where booze is far cheaper and set opening hours are non-existant yet I never saw people lieing in puddles of their own puke, or a mass brawl, or felt unsafe, or got punched in the face, shouted at, abused, threatened. All of which have happened to me at some stage in ireland and most of which are commonplace at the weekend. Something doesn't add up.

Dublin on a saturday night is just fúcking embarrassing.