Drunkest country in the world: official results

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 02-02-2012 06:29PM

decisions wrote: »

How is it that whilst being led by this guy we fell to 15th?

Because he made it impossibly expensive to get any higher! I think he did a magnificent job in getting us up to 15th almost single handedly.

df1985 · 02-02-2012 07:33PM

all our pissheads are in Bondi.

gerryo777 · 02-02-2012 07:41PM

ASOT wrote: »

Sure the majority of the people from the countries ahead of us live in ireland.

Poll is flawed.

Careful now!!

gerryo777 · 02-02-2012 07:43PM

Crazy Horse 6 wrote: »

Bloody foreigners

Watch it Crazy Horse, nodin's about!!!

InTheTrees · 02-02-2012 07:51PM

Beaten by south korea???

:eek:

I suppose "beaten" isnt the right word...

Capt'n Midnight · 02-02-2012 08:08PM

typical CBS

1. Moldova 4.81 gal./person
15. Ireland 3.81 gal./person (could do better)
25. Latvia 3.30 gal./person

56. United States (honorable mention) 2.49 gal./person

What's honourable about that , it's not like they came any where close :rolleyes:

oh yeah the important one

17. United Kingdom 3.53 gal./person :pac:

http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-204_162-10011155.html - why a pic with Lithuanian shirts for latvia ?

hawkelady · 02-02-2012 11:11PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I'm off the booze. Pizza and Coke (cola) for the super bowl.

I'm going to pretend I'm a morbidly obese American for authenticity Might even hire a mobility scooter to collect the pizza.

" I was robbed by a little old lady on a motorised cart...... And I didn't even see it comin' "

craggles · 02-02-2012 11:34PM

I outright disagree with this.

Son Of A Vidic · 02-02-2012 11:39PM

3.81 gal./consumed per person annually in Ireland.

Are they having a laugh? I suspect the respondents probably thought they were asked, how much they consumed per week.

starlit · 02-02-2012 11:46PM

Moldova number one, beer, wine, vodka and cheap drinking countries first few. Including Russia and eastern European countries doesn't surprise me but surprised by western EU countries where they come in the list especially France and Luxenbourg! 15th for Ireland isn't as bad for other countries on the list! Latvia 25th, Estonia one of the drunkest places to drink.

SteoL · 03-02-2012 12:03AM

Dots1982 wrote: »

Guess where we come??

http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-204_162-10011155-11.html?tag=page

Link just takes me to news headlines but presume we in top 5 if not 1st.

woodoo · 03-02-2012 12:26AM

We have a high percentage of non drinkers and recovering alco's in this country too which would skew the results.

gurramok · 03-02-2012 12:33AM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

typical CBS

1. Moldova 4.81 gal./person
15. Ireland 3.81 gal./person (could do better)
25. Latvia 3.30 gal./person

56. United States (honorable mention) 2.49 gal./person

What's honourable about that , it's not like they came any where close :rolleyes:

oh yeah the important one

17. United Kingdom 3.53 gal./person :pac:

http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-204_162-10011155.html - why a pic with Lithuanian shirts for latvia ?

We beat the Brits at something!

Hey, i'm drinking now to help our national pride, question is are you?

Don't ask what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country!:P

yermanoffthetv · 03-02-2012 12:42AM

Thats surprisingly low 3.8 gal. is roughly equal to 14 litres. Pretty sure I drink more than that a month!

hefferboi · 03-02-2012 12:51AM

Eastern Europeans like beer.

kraggy · 03-02-2012 12:56AM

leggit wrote: »

Not suprised about the eastern european countries being miles ahead of us but Andorra, South Korea and PORTUGAL, flippin' PORTUGAL!

This harsh stuff is consumed by many people here with dinner every evening. It's unbelievably cheap. In the local Homeplus (owned by Tesco), it's 60c for a small bottle (similar in size to a small wine bottle at home). It blows the head off you. It tastes like and has a similar texture to vodka.

"More than 3 billion bottles were consumed in South Korea in 2004.
In 2006, it was estimated that the average adult Korean (older than 20) had consumed 90 bottles of soju during that year."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soju

jluv · 03-02-2012 01:00AM

CardBordWindow wrote: »

The only reason other countries are ahead of us is because of emigration!
Too many Irish in those countries is all!

I'm sure the reason Australia is No 2 is because my bro moved there! Well done bro..

CdeC · 03-02-2012 01:10PM

Funny how I feel cheated....how can this be.

Also fair play to south Korea. 13th and only country outside Europe in the mix.

Cool Mo D · 03-02-2012 02:06PM

yermanoffthetv wrote: »

Thats surprisingly low 3.8 gal. is roughly equal to 14 litres. Pretty sure I drink more than that a month!

14 litres of pure alcohol - that's equivalent to about 600 pints of beer.

ScumLord · 03-02-2012 02:33PM

CdeC wrote: »

Funny how I feel cheated....how can this be.

Also fair play to south Korea. 13th and only country outside Europe in the mix.

Especially since Asian countries apparently don't have the same natural tolerance for alcohol due to that part of the world realising that boiling water makes it safe to drink.

yermanoffthetv · 06-02-2012 05:01PM

Cool Mo D wrote: »

14 litres of pure alcohol - that's equivalent to about 600 pints of beer.

Ah I didnt realise that was pure alcohol. that makes more sense. That works out on average 11 pints a week. Meh, providing you didnt drink it all in one go thats not a ridiculous amount.

Underdraft · 06-02-2012 05:04PM

It was bound to happen. We drink so much that we've developed a super-human tolerance to the stuff.

Dyr · 06-02-2012 05:07PM

How the mighty have fallen, we were always there or thereabouts.

i blame the immygrints :mad:

Stiffler2 · 07-02-2012 01:09PM

Those figures don't surprise me tbh. All the real men left this country in the late 90's and all that was left were the pc, nanny brigade camp twats which is how Ireland is today.

Don't smoke
Don't Drink
Don't breathe
Pay your taxes

F**K OFF

The Simpsons got it right when they broadcasted their relatively new episode of grandpa simpson flying to Ireland and purchased a pub.
Ireland has no culture anymore, it's been lost amid a wave of gayness

homerjay2005 · 07-02-2012 01:40PM

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

Only 15th place????

Must try harder and drink more.

12 of the 14 countries "ahead" of us, are eastern european...i.e. beer is dirt cheap and theres a huge party culture to all those, especially for western european tourists.

we are 15th in the world, but in terms of high costs countries, we are number one. portugal and korea (i think) would be cheap enough to buy alcohol compared to us.

i wonder though, does this include off licence sales? our % consumption outside the pub is now much bigger than in the pubs...

if we had less taxes on beer, we would be number one.

dhayashi · 07-02-2012 02:28PM

I'll drink to that!

Iang87 · 07-02-2012 02:48PM

2 things number one.

The majority of the nations above us are in fact living here drinking up our beer hence leaving us little in the way of cleaning up. I'm looking at you cameroon.

Secondly i'm going to do all i can to right this absolutely disgusting wrong. I foolishly decided to go off drink for november and for all i know this count was done then which makes me partly responsible. I will do my utmost to fix this and will borrow money right now to go drinking and I will also spend all my dole wednesday to ensure something like this never happens again

Cee-Jay-Cee · 07-02-2012 04:06PM

Cameroon came 3rd...how the F*** did they manage that??

We've let our parents down, we've let our publicans down, we've let our breweries down but most of all we've let ourselves down.

I personally am going to binge drink every night for a year to do my little bit and i encourage everyone to join in. Our sick records will increase but dammit its for a good cause!

Fratton Fred · 07-02-2012 04:14PM

Bleedin poofs, the lot of ya.

Fratton Fred · 07-02-2012 04:16PM

homerjay2005 wrote: »

12 of the 14 countries "ahead" of us, are eastern european...i.e. beer is dirt cheap and theres a huge party culture to all those, especially for western european tourists.

we are 15th in the world, but in terms of high costs countries, we are number one. portugal and korea (i think) would be cheap enough to buy alcohol compared to us.

i wonder though, does this include off licence sales? our % consumption outside the pub is now much bigger than in the pubs...

if we had less taxes on beer, we would be number one.

Dress it up how you like mate. The facts of the matter are, You were beaten fair and square by the English.

Drunkest country in the world: official results

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