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Why is Ireland so fond of drink?

mr_fegelien

actually don't think that's bad as I'm a heavy drinker myself but I wonder, where does it come from? We're in the top 10 countries in the world.

Is it cultural or simply a lot of disposable income coupled with ****ty weather.

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Boom_Bap

the weather

Midnight_EG

Like the Tinkers, it's in our culture sure

the beer revolu

The English.
The Catholic Church

kneemos

It's not. A quarter of us are tee totallers.
Most others have a few at the weekends.

rossie1977

We are currently in 21st place worldwide per capita in alcohol consumption. Australia is ahead of us so clearly its not to do with weather

Deebles McBeebles

Ah we're not too bad really. I only drink to stave off the depression.

[Deleted User]

Because drinking is great and us Irish know how to enjoy ourselves!

up for anything

Because everybody accepts people being disgustingly drunk in public without turning a hair. No one even blinks when the Craic scale is used to rate a night out. Blacking out and not being able to remember a thing from when you began pre-drinking to waking up covered in vomit in a place you don't recognise is number one on the scale. The best night ever! :rolleyes:

Gwynplaine

Sher what else der to do?

Arghus

rossie1977 wrote: »

We are currently in 21st place worldwide per capita in alcohol consumption. Australia is ahead of us so clearly its not to do with weather

Well, in Australia it's very hot: sure what else can you do in that weather but drink?

In Ireland it's very wet: sure what else can you do in that weather but drink?

Bigbagofcans

Boom_Bap wrote: »

the weather

In good weather we tend to drink more, no? Cans in the sun :cool:

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

rossie1977 wrote: »

We are currently in 21st place worldwide per capita in alcohol consumption. Australia is ahead of us so clearly its not to do with weather

I’d be interested to know where we fall in the binge drinking table but that’s probably impossible to compile.

is_that_so

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

I’d be interested to know where we fall in the binge drinking table but that’s probably impossible to compile.

Yeah the nature of the binge means that sometimes there would be no data!

harry Bailey esq

mr_fegelien wrote: »

The weather. Don't go blaming the drink, you make your own luck.

Ush1

Immigrants, even when it was the bears I knew it was them.

Breener122

Because all the other fun drugs are illegal

harry Bailey esq

mr_fegelien wrote: »

actually don't think that's bad as I'm a heavy drinker myself but I wonder, where does it come from? We're in the top 10 countries in the world.

Is it cultural or simply a lot of disposable income coupled with ****ty weather.

Not once did you mention that lovely, mellow little level of drunkenness that comes halfway through a 'session' when your wiping everyone off the pool table in clinical fashion, the pints are flying and everybody's in good form. There's a reason people like getting drunk, it's fun.

BeerWolf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxvDCx-ILhk

the beer revolu

up for anything wrote: »

Because everybody accepts people being disgustingly drunk in public without turning a hair. No one even blinks when the Craic scale is used to rate a night out. Blacking out and not being able to remember a thing from when you began pre-drinking to waking up covered in vomit in a place you don't recognise is number one on the scale. The best night ever! :rolleyes:

This.
There is no shame in being fall around drunk - people think it's funny.
I love alcohol. I consume it pretty much daily but there are certain people that I know who I will avoid if they are drinking more than one or two.

I have a very close friend who I've known for years and I'm mad about, but I don't like seeing her fall over at parties, slur her words, be inappropriate, ect.
Basically, I don't like being around drunk people but for some reason being totally blathered is completely acceptable in Ireland.

SexBobomb

Because for the most part we love being sociable but we're very shy or repressed as a people (for the most part) therefore the drink oils the gears and gives everyone licence to spark up a conversation with a stranger or ask someone out or just make some more friends.

Mad_maxx

Our respect for alcoholics has declined significantly this past few decades.

When I was a kid in the eighties, local men with six kids and more who spent every waking hour on a high stool, were still viewed as decent respectable men in the community.

Perhaps that's more of a sign of the massive hypocrites we were than anything else?

mr_fegelien

Mad_maxx wrote: »

Our respect for alcoholics has declined significantly this past few decades.

When I was a kid in the eighties, local men with six kids and more who spent every waking hour on a high stool, were still viewed as decent respectable men in the community.

Perhaps that's more of a sign of the massive hypocrites we were than anything else?

I don't think alcoholics are stigmatized so long as they are "white collar" workers. I don't here people complaining about businessmen being addicted to alcohol.

But then again, drug stigma has gotten worse over the last 50 years. Doctors are now afraid of prescribing anti-anxiety sleeping tablets than they were when they first came out.

[Deleted User]

The problems around alcohol are hugely exaggerated anyway. I had nine pints last night, on top of two glasses of wine I had with the dinner. Would do that four or five days a week, sometimes have a few more on the weekends. Not a bit of harm has it done me. Drinking 20 years now.

Dr. Bre

Cos it’s much more fun riding when locked

Thelonious Monk

Australians have the weather now but the white people there are of UK and Irish stock mostly so thats why they drink like us.

mr_fegelien

Sunny Disposition wrote: »

The problems around alcohol are hugely exaggerated anyway. I had nine pints last night, on top of two glasses of wine I had with the dinner. Would do that four or five days a week, sometimes have a few more on the weekends. Not a bit of harm has it done me. Drinking 20 years now.

presumably, you drink alone? being in public can amplify many of the negative effects of alcohol

Jimmy Bottlehead

Sunny Disposition wrote: »

The problems around alcohol are hugely exaggerated anyway. I had nine pints last night, on top of two glasses of wine I had with the dinner. Would do that four or five days a week, sometimes have a few more on the weekends. Not a bit of harm has it done me. Drinking 20 years now.

Having seen what long term heavy drinking does to people, I'd say your liver and looks tell a different story.

mr_fegelien

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Australians have the weather now but the white people there are of UK and Irish stock mostly so thats why they drink like us.

Thought Australia was experiencing the winter as it's in the southern hemisphere?

Feisar

Sunny Disposition wrote: »

The problems around alcohol are hugely exaggerated anyway. I had nine pints last night, on top of two glasses of wine I had with the dinner. Would do that four or five days a week, sometimes have a few more on the weekends. Not a bit of harm has it done me. Drinking 20 years now.

That's not going to do the long term health any good.

Greyfox

Dr. Bre wrote: »

Cos it’s much more fun riding when locked

Ah but have too much and the little man downstairs goes to sleep

Were fond of drink as its something at least 97% of people enjoy doing, pick any other activity and you'll have a far higher rate of people who would'nt be into that activity. its by a mile the most popular thing to do in Ireland. Alcohol is awesome.