Drunkest country in the world: official results

Seachmall · 02-02-2012 02:13PM

Beefy78 wrote: »

Never be proud to be English

FYP

gurramok · 02-02-2012 02:17PM

Did they take account of alcohol purchases by the hordes travelling to the North? Under the radar stuff!

bodhrandude · 02-02-2012 02:25PM

Im was pretty sure that Finland was going to be in that poll too, any movie Ive seen from Finland everyone depicted was completely pissed.

token101 · 02-02-2012 02:34PM

There's no way the Canadians beat us!! :eek: And Cameroon? They complain about clean water and they're supping away make fools of Trocaire!!

And how is Russia not in there? I mean, I'm not being stereotypical in any of these assumptions, but don't they all wear fluffy earred hats and carry hip flasks of pure alcohol? :P

jomc · 02-02-2012 02:34PM

Cameroon came third? Fair play lads, anyone else thinking Cameroon could be the cheapo drink sun holiday destination of the year?

Martyn1989 · 02-02-2012 02:35PM

Dont go to Yemen

ejmaztec · 02-02-2012 02:36PM

I'm not surprised the Moldovans are the worst out of the 25, drink is all they've got to look forward to.

Crazy Horse 6 · 02-02-2012 02:38PM

Bloody foreigners

pickarooney · 02-02-2012 02:42PM

Andorra is obviously skewed by the tens of thousands of people who go there from France and Spain to by tax-free booze. 24 out of 25 in the list are European countries - pretty impressive.

amacachi · 02-02-2012 02:54PM

Moldova!? Hungary!? This country is ****ing pathetic.

D_D · 02-02-2012 03:05PM

TheZohan wrote: »

A 2011 report by the World Health Organization states that 2.5 million deaths per year are caused by alcohol. "Almost 4% of all deaths worldwide," the report says, "are attributed to alcohol, greater than deaths caused by HIV/AIDS, violence or tuberculosis." Taking into account government data, surveys conducted by WHO, and other sources, the report provides a snapshot of alcohol consumption in the organization's 193 member countries. According to WHO, rates of consumption are generally highest in the developed world and rates of abstention are generally lowest in countries with large Muslim populations.

The report looked at alcohol consumed in various forms (including beer, wine and spirits), but the numbers listed are given in terms of the average amount of pure alcohol consumed annually per capita in each country.

1.Germany
2Australia
3Cameroon
4England
5Switzerland
6Canada
7Wales
8Czech Republic
9Latvia
10Italy
11Portugal
12Brazil
13Holland
14Denmark
15Ireland

Em, I dunno what list you are referring to, but that is not the list linked in the OP... This confused the hell out of me.

John Doe1 · 02-02-2012 03:28PM

I demand a recount:mad:

ejmaztec · 02-02-2012 03:30PM

pickarooney wrote: »

Andorra is obviously skewed by the tens of thousands of people who go there from France and Spain to by tax-free booze. 24 out of 25 in the list are European countries - pretty impressive.

We should call it the AA instead of the EU.

davet82 · 02-02-2012 03:35PM

Jaysus! can we not finish first in anything ffs

tatabubbly · 02-02-2012 03:38PM

Wha??? 15th???

That sucks

Good job its rag week in LYIT.... time to get messyaaaaa

John Doe1 · 02-02-2012 03:40PM

tatabubbly wrote: »

Wha??? 15th???

That sucks

Good job its rag week in LYIT.... time to get messyaaaaa

If you are in lyit, you cant afford to lose any more brain cells.

I'm sorry:p

policarp · 02-02-2012 04:20PM

We'll be further down the list soon when Joan Burton does away with the First Communion beer money.

syklops · 02-02-2012 04:28PM

Czech Republic No. 2.

Comes as no surprise what so ever.

StephenHendry · 02-02-2012 04:54PM

surprised we're only 15th. i thought we'd be in the top 10.

Ellis Dee · 02-02-2012 04:59PM

bodhrandude wrote: »

Im was pretty sure that Finland was going to be in that poll too, any movie Ive seen from Finland everyone depicted was completely pissed.

The figure for Finland is greatly distorted by the figure for nearby Estonia, which came sixth in the table. And the figure for Estonia was probably even more distorted by the hordes of Finnish visitors who descend on Tallinn every day (the fastest ferry takes only 1 hour 20 minutes) and return home with massive quantities of booze. When Estonia joined the EU in 2004, duty-free went by the board, but the amount that you can buy in shops in Estonia, paying the local tax, is virtually unlimited. One fellow I know bought 90 litres of vodka "for personal use" and the Finnish customs accepted that. There are enormous booze supermarkets conveniently beside the ferryport in Tallinn, and anyone who buys large quantities of booze can have it delivered right to their vehicle on the car deck.

The low price of booze in Estonia has also helped keep the price lower in Finland than it would otherwise be. In fact, the Government cut alcohol taxes two or three years ago because sales in the State-owned Alko monopoly stores were suffering badly in southern Finland owing to the amount of cheap stuff coming in from Estonia. I recently bought a litre of Tullamore Dew in a supermarket there for €25 (including a small hip flask that came with the bottle). Marlboro Red cigarettes cost €3.:)

Duty free also still exist on the ferries to Sweden, although both Finland and Sweden are in the EU. That is because the autonomous Åland Islands, which lie east of Stockholm, are exempt from EU rules and duty free is available on ferries between them and Sweden or mainland Finland and the ferries now make a slight detour and dock there for a few minutes to qualify.;)

Where there's a will there's a way!:D

suicide_circus · 02-02-2012 05:00PM

chef wrote: »

Are the minister's for health for those 14 in front of us also insisting on "minimum price" fr alcohol

Excellent point.

Littlehorny · 02-02-2012 05:01PM

Yeah surprised meself, I thought ourselves and the Czech Republic used to swap 1st and 2nd with each other every 2nd year?

amacachi · 02-02-2012 05:02PM

****ing Balkanisation was bad for us in football and in genocide terms but this really annoys me.

suicide_circus · 02-02-2012 05:06PM

And I have actually increase my drinking in the last year! Some of you are clearly not pulling your weight. Although in my experience people on yokes, meph, coke etc drink way less, apart from water.