Ireland's drinking culture

marc96 · 04-03-2014 04:39PM

No need to be a cheeky Cnut.all I said was Ireland isn't all it's made out to be in regards to its drinking.the only place I can compare to is sa as that's where I lived for awhile and that's where me and a few Irish mates travel to a lot.but then again u do like to think u the best at everything,the salt if the earth ****e.

BillyMitchel · 04-03-2014 04:41PM

elefant wrote: »

That wiki list does say that the South Koreans drink an average of 10 litres of spirits a year aper capita though! :eek: :eek:

It's their national drink, Soju. Very rare to see any other spirit getting served in restaurants and certain bars. It's about 50cent a bottle. It's mental!

Men, women, children. They all drink it and they all love it.

Lucena · 04-03-2014 04:57PM

Yes, it’s sad to see pubs closing down, especially in rural areas. In my home village, the pub is only open in the evenings and on weekends. Apparently in the good old days, it was open all day, so you’d have the odd farmer dropping in for a quick pint after picking up a few bit and bobs from the hardware shop. I remember being in there a few times myself as a kid, playing pool during the day when it was quiet.

Nowadays there are fewer farmers, more people working in town so less custom.

I’d hate to see Ireland turn into somewhere like Denmark where there don’t seem to be any pubs outside of large urban centres. I think it’s important to maintain places where people can meet up spontaneously, can bump into people we hadn’t planned to meet and go meet friends who aren’t necessarily dinner-party material.

Beyond the issue of our drinking culture, I think all societies need a 'Third Place'.

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

BMJD · 04-03-2014 05:03PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsC06rOYeDg

FTA69 · 04-03-2014 05:04PM

marc96 wrote: »

No need to be a cheeky Cnut.all I said was Ireland isn't all it's made out to be in regards to its drinking.the only place I can compare to is sa as that's where I lived for awhile and that's where me and a few Irish mates travel to a lot.but then again u do like to think u the best at everything,the salt if the earth ****e.

Are you on the sauce yourself?

Muise... · 04-03-2014 05:10PM

"Paddy's Day" implies such over-familiarity that getting langoured and lurching into each others' faces and festooning the streets with green vomit is inevitable.

bangkok · 04-03-2014 05:13PM

I was in Sydney 1 year for paddys day.... it was just an excuse for all the irish to go on a 3 day bender!!!

runawaybishop · 04-03-2014 05:17PM

marc96 wrote: »

No need to be a cheeky Cnut.all I said was Ireland isn't all it's made out to be in regards to its drinking.the only place I can compare to is sa as that's where I lived for awhile and that's where me and a few Irish mates travel to a lot.but then again u do like to think u the best at everything,the salt if the earth ****e.

I am sure the scientific data you and your mates gathered is very compelling.

jane82 · 04-03-2014 05:32PM

What really gets me is people who go to foreign places and make about 5 friends there then spend their time yammering on about how the whole of this country views drink.
You are profiling the whole nation on 5 lads you hung out with from an abseiling club then coming back here and profiling the whole nation on what you see on paddys day in the town centre.
You go to your foreign friends house and see them with their respectable faces on remember that.
I seen here somebody saying if you asked a group of Italians to drink 12 pints of guinness theyd balk at it. Ive been about the train stations in Rome and it has plenty of drunks and junkies I never came back claiming as a nation the Italians love craic and vodka and tricking tourists into over prieced taxi journeys.
Everywhere has its mix if you made friends in the local Italian pub instead of the kite surfing club your views on the nation would be quite different.

bangkok · 04-03-2014 05:36PM

I think its just the whole culture of drinking in Ireland.... Ireland gets to a world cup or European cup...we get hammered drunk

18th birthday...drunk

21st..drunk

30th drunk

wedding..drunk

funeral..drunk

christening...drunk

day off work...drunk

more drink...yayyyyyyyy

WilyCoyote · 04-03-2014 05:38PM

spank_inferno wrote: »

Ireland also has an above average amount of tea-totalers.

More alcohol is consumed by a smaller % of population compared to most countries.

Lyons or Barry's?

BillyMitchel · 04-03-2014 05:41PM

WilyCoyote wrote: »

Lyons or Barry's?

In a house with tea from Aldi the other day, admittedly I was quite suspicious but it's not actually too bad.

04-03-2014 05:41PM

FTA69 wrote: »

We drink almost twice as much alcohol in a year as they do in South Africa. There are very few people who drink as much as we do, if you brought a load of Italians out for a night and expected them to drink 12 pints of Guinness they'd be horrified. Drunkeness is an acceptable scenario in Ireland where it isn't in most other countries.

Not the Italians I know, I drink regularly with them and they drink just as much as the Irish lads do, including up to and exceeding 12 pints on occasion.

goose2005 · 04-03-2014 05:46PM

FTA69 wrote: »

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

We're actually some of the biggest p*ssheads in the world.

Ireland drink much less spirits tho, beers are far less harmful. It's scienc.e

yeahimhere · 04-03-2014 05:47PM

minidazzler wrote: »

Your body gets used to stout and you don't get black runny sh1ts as much once you do get used to it. You gotta power through.

11.68 litres a year of pure alcohol would be roughly 9 pints a week each.... I'm averaging a bit over double that, as are most of the people I work with and my outside of work friends. I'm doing my bit, ARE YOU?

9 pints a week?! I'd be half of that if even. So you're taking my share. Sorry for letting the side down

04-03-2014 06:02PM

minidazzler wrote: »

11.68 litres a year of pure alcohol would be roughly 9 pints a week each.... I'm averaging a bit over double that, as are most of the people I work with and my outside of work friends. I'm doing my bit, ARE YOU?

I reckon race week and Christmas week alone would see me put away up on 3 litres of pure alcohol (roughly estimated)!

D1stant · 04-03-2014 06:02PM

FTA69 wrote: »

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

We're actually some of the biggest p*ssheads in the world.

Half this data is 10 years old

Duckworth_Luas · 04-03-2014 06:03PM

marc96 wrote: »

back in sa u drink thru out the day whilst braaing

WTF?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gROO7xSTxfY

jamesbere · 04-03-2014 06:05PM

I gave up drinking nearly 2 year's ago and I'm thankful I did. It was destroying me and I had serious problem but I wouldn't admit that I had a problem.

Personally I think this country has a serious problem culture with drink, every social event from christening to funeral is centred around drinking. I know not everyone has a drink problem and people are very responsible but I've noticed that more and more are drinking at home with alcohol been cheaper in off licenses.

Our attitude is that "shur other countries are worse" that doesn't make it any better, why does this debate only crop up around paddys day they're plenty of other days in the year that people can go on the piss

WilyCoyote · 04-03-2014 06:07PM

Czech republic
Palau
Seychelles
We Ourselves

4th in the beer drinking stakes. Anyone want to argue? C'mon outside!

Anyway, look at the longevity chart ........ we're doing quite well. Cheers!

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater · 04-03-2014 06:08PM

How could we not be big drinkers? We live on a damp, economically depressed, dark, cold, soggy, boring, god-forsaken island 600 miles off the coast of civilisation.

Escapism! Its bred into us.

Muise... · 04-03-2014 06:11PM

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »

How could we not be big drinkers? We live on a damp, economically depressed, dark, cold, soggy, boring, god-forsaken island 600 miles off the coast of civilisation.

Escapism! Its bred into us.

Then why are we all still here? At least the Vikings made a proper go of it.

jamesbere · 04-03-2014 06:15PM

Muise... wrote: »

Then why are we all still here? At least the Vikings made a proper go of it.

Yeah but the Vikings got to rape and pillage aswell.

orangesoda · 04-03-2014 06:15PM

I don't drink alcohol at all, there's nothing worse than the typical drunk paddy

shopaholic01 · 04-03-2014 06:16PM

orangesoda wrote: »

I don't drink alcohol at all, there's nothing worse than the typical drunk paddy

Great craic if you're one of them though.

BillyMitchel · 04-03-2014 06:18PM

orangesoda wrote: »

I don't drink alcohol at all, there's nothing worse than the typical drunk paddy

Are you fond of an oul orange soda every now and again? Club or Fanta?

Muise... · 04-03-2014 06:20PM

jamesbere wrote: »

Yeah but the Vikings got to rape and pillage aswell.

The perils of binge drinking laddish tours on longships.

orangesoda · 04-03-2014 06:26PM

BillyMitchel wrote: »

Are you fond of an oul orange soda every now and again? Club or Fanta?

Fanta, there's too many bits in club, my favourite is a drop of spars orange energy soda

WilyCoyote · 04-03-2014 06:27PM

orangesoda wrote: »

I don't drink alcohol at all, there's nothing worse than the typical drunk paddy

You mean on top of you, I presume?

shopaholic01 · 04-03-2014 06:28PM

orangesoda wrote: »

Fanta, there's too many bits in club, my favourite is a drop of spars orange energy soda

The hard stuff? :eek: Slippery slope ..........

Ireland's drinking culture

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