You Drunken Brits...

[nev coss]

I don't drink anything that baby's wash in or fish piss in

[r0lan6]

I happen to have friends who are senior consultants in major hospitals in London, and know a lot of junior doctors and nurses, and no, they do not have drinking problems, nor do they come in to work hungover. Drinking on the job (or coming in to work with alcohol not yet fully metabolised in their system) is, as you well know, gross misconduct. Where patients lives are put at risk, and where damage proven caused by intoxication leads to actual death will fall under the charge of involuntary manslaughter by breach of duty. Of course I am assuming you are basing your statements on current UK statistics? But I think we are getting off topic.

Going back to the original topic, I think the UK does have a problem with its children drinking, though I would not go so far as assuming it to be the worse in Europe or North America. I don't think it is fair to compare the entire American nation or Canada with the UK, after all the latter two countries are significantly bigger, with different laws and (arguably) cultures within each of their states. Nor is it fair to base a report in a section of England and generalised it to the rest of the UK.

Of course I'm only trying to stimulate debate.

[satch]

There's half a dozen bars in Wakefield with licences til six in the morning and one til nine(!). People were staggering out of there and pissing up walls as shoppers were walking by. The management and staff were all drunk as hell. Strangely they've lost their licence. It was the old Yorkshire Bank, a lovely building with real history reduced to a vodka and pop shithole. Or am I showing my age!?

[moidoid]

When I worked in Texas, admittedly ages ago, I was amazed at the social stigma from the church and authorities against drinking and the phenomenal efforts made by under-21's to get alcohol. At times it seemed like a good proportion of their free time was devoted to working out how to get hold of booze and hiding from the cops when they were drinking it.

I reckon most of us in the UK aren't bad with the booze, but there is a definite binge-drinking culture that makes the streets of most towns very unpleasant places to be in the evening.

I just don't go into my local town after 9pm because of the hassle, but then when I was younger I probably WAS the hassle.

[daverave999]

There's definitely a lot of problem drinking occurring. It does seem to be a particularly British attitude to get wasted on anything they can get their hands on-it's just that alcohol is the only legally available one, and unfortunately it's a drug that causes people to lose their inhibitions causing anti-social behaviour and violence.

[larrysputnik]

There's definitely a lot of problem drinking occurring. It does seem to be a particularly British attitude to get wasted on anything they can get their hands on-it's just that alcohol is the only legally available one, and unfortunately it's a drug that causes people to lose their inhibitions causing anti-social behaviour and violence.

But it tastes sooooo good with a good cigar

[Kdot]

But it tastes sooooo good with a good cigar

so does a pint of codine!

[neilini]

speaking from personal experience with myself and my peers i do think we do have a different attitude to drinking than many perceived attitudes of different cultures but i suppose until you have lived in a different part of the world its hard to compare.

[larrysputnik]

speaking from personal experience with myself and my peers i do think we do have a different attitude to drinking than many perceived attitudes of different cultures but i suppose until you have lived in a different part of the world its hard to compare.

Spoken like a true alcoholic. There's 12 steps for you brother, but remember to state your name first.

[eggopp]

speaking from personal experience with myself and my peers i do think we do have a different attitude to drinking than many perceived attitudes of different cultures but i suppose until you have lived in a different part of the world its hard to compare.

Ive lived in UK, USA, Canada, Mexico, Belize, Germany, South Georgia, Falkland Islands, Holland, Denmark. And i never had any mis conseptions or precieved attitudes about Brits drinking, coz it made no difference where i was, i drank just the same hahahaha