why do Irish people drink so much?

GottaGetGatt · 07-12-2014 08:54PM

I don't drink that much but now I GottaGet some Gatt

Sunnyisland · 07-12-2014 08:56PM

Horsepoo

Lovely funny word.

Bridge93 · 07-12-2014 09:22PM

I think it's because it is just so fantastic.
The saying goes 'you can have fun without alcohol' which is true, but what's also true is 'you can't have alcohol without fun'*

Ireland is also bit boring. There's not much else to do at nighttime.

* this may or may not be true

Steve_Carella · 07-12-2014 11:53PM

*Starts digging for troll flag*

Kevin McCloud · 07-12-2014 11:59PM

The porter belly has a big capacity, roughly 4 gallons of beer needed to fill it.

j80ezgvc3p92xu · 08-12-2014 12:49AM

I think drinking till you cant feel feelings anymore is a particularly Irish thing, its unfair to say that every nation does it. Ive been traveling around Europe a bit and people tend to have the one or two drinks for the entire night (even students

). Remember ending up at a Persian house party before and I was the only one drinking yet it was better than a lot of the house parties here. To sum up, Irish people are often immediately recognized abroad because they're the ones losing the lining of their stomachs at the main street at 3am. Not all that cool if you think about it.

Which begs the question: why? The "nothing else to do" factor definitely figures a lot. If you are young and living in a place like Graiguenamanagh or Ballyjamesduff what can you possibly occupy yourself with for a bit of entertainment? There are very few youth clubs ect. There is only so much cinema you can stand or books you can read. Then there is the particularly Irish thing of "sure that's what everyone does, that's what my father did and his father before that". If you don't go to the pubs you would very soon find yourself as a social outcast. These are the two main reasons I think.

bjork · 08-12-2014 01:01AM

RobertKK wrote: »

They drink so much because some of us don't drink alcohol and they are just making up for people like me...who drinks a lot of tea...

Europeans don't drink as much tea as we do and it is not normal to put milk in it. Irish people are ultimately inferior when compared to Europeans tea drinking.

Europeans and Europe are fantastic and everything in Ireland is crap. Never and I mean never would you see hordes of drunk puking Europeans and if they did it would be superior puking. You would never get free shots with your beer as a chaser or have any fighting around train stations and the like. Never and I mean NEVER would a Belgian boss have fridge with beers in his office, not like the uncouth Irish.

Source: I went to Europe once on a Saturday night

smurgen · 08-12-2014 01:16AM

There's a nightclub in Paris called le duplex on champs elysee it will totally shatter the image of the sophisticated French for you.i went there with a bunch of Parisians I was working with in Switzerland at the time.people fighting,puking everywhere.loads of larger lout types and overweight women wearing next to nothing.all stereotypes can be broken so don't reply on them too much when forming your views.

ciaranlong · 08-12-2014 05:42PM

Hopefully the demise of Arthur's Day will help to reduce problem-drinking in Ireland to some extent. It was really depressing to see Irish drinkers manipulated to toast the memory of Arthur Guinness and his famous brewery... when these drinkers probably did not realise that the Guiness Brewery is historically responsible for the destruction of diversity in the Irish brewing landscape.

In later years the Guinness Brewery moved its headquarters to London (1932). And in 1974 they stopped making porter altogether, breaking the link to their long-standing brewing traditions. So while the dominance and ruthlessness of Guinness/Diageo is the same as in years gone by, their product has become more bland and homogenous. I for one am glad to see the back of Arthur's Day.

sashafierce · 08-12-2014 05:47PM

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mikom · 08-12-2014 05:54PM

Why do black people commit so much crime?
Why do men rape so much?

bjork · 08-12-2014 06:12PM

ciaranlong wrote: »

Hopefully the demise of Arthur's Day will help to reduce problem-drinking in Ireland to some extent. It was really depressing to see Irish drinkers manipulated to toast the memory of Arthur Guinness and his famous brewery... when these drinkers probably did not realise that the Guiness Brewery is historically responsible for the destruction of diversity in the Irish brewing landscape.

In later years the Guinness Brewery moved its headquarters to London (1932). And in 1974 they stopped making porter altogether, breaking the link to their long-standing brewing traditions. So while the dominance and ruthlessness of Guinness/Diageo is the same as in years gone by, their product has become more bland and homogenous. I for one am glad to see the back of Arthur's Day.

Oktober fest is dominated by the big 6 Club of Munich Breweries. That should be cancelled too.

Hoop66 · 09-12-2014 12:08PM

AH answer: Because they can't afford a therapist?

Real answer: They don't. I've never found much difference, in the amount drunk, between going out in the UK with my friends and in Ireland with my friends. In both cases a fair amount of drink will be consumed. Maybe it's me that's the problem.

A point that others might do well to consider.

jimgoose · 09-12-2014 12:11PM

The average Irish person is capable of covering a standard quarter-mile in under six seconds from a standing start, burning about five gallons of nitro-methanol blend per competitive run. Interestingly, the big-block V8s crankshaft only turns 540 times from start to finish. Or it could be top-fuel dragsters I'm thinking of, but you get the idea, it's all pretty much the same.

why do Irish people drink so much?

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