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    Survey: English & Scottish Get Drunk Most Often

    English and Scottish get drunk most often, 25-nation survey finds
    Average of more than 33 times last year is more than twice the rate of several other nationalities

    The English and Scottish have topped an international league table of how often people get so drunk that they lose their balance and slur their speech.


    The Global Drugs Survey (GDS) for 2020 suggests the UK’s drink problem is far more dangerous than use of any other drug. More than 5% of people under 25 in the UK reported having sought hospital treatment after getting drunk, compared with a global average of 2%.


    The GDS report noted: “Seeking emergency medical treatment is a serious consequence of drinking, with a cost to the health service as well as the individual.”


    The UK rate of hospital admissions because of alcohol was higher than among users of any other drug cited in the report apart from heroin, and consumption of alcohol was much more widespread, with 94% of people in UK saying they had drunk alcohol in the last year, compared with 2.3% who had used heroin.


    The survey questioned more than 110,000 people around the globe, including 5,283 in the UK, in a three-month period from November 2019 to February 2020, before the coronavirus pandemic.


    It repeated last year’s finding that people in the UK get drunk more often than those in other countries, and this year’s finding was more robust because the survey defined what it meant by getting drunk. Respondents were asked to say how many times they had got so drunk that “your physical and mental faculties are impaired to the point where your balance/speech was affected, you were unable to focus clearly on things, and that your conversation and behaviours were very obviously different to people who know you”.


    Using this definition, people in Scotland and England said they had got drunk on average more than 33 times in the last year. This was the highest rate of all 25 countries studied and more than twice the rate of several European countries, including Poland, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal. The global average was just over 20 times, with Colombians reporting the lowest at 6.5 times.


    Only 7% of Scottish and English people surveyed reported not having been drunk at all in the past 12 months. Only Danes and Australians had a lower proportion, at 5%.


    The English were among the least remorseful about getting drunk. On average, 32.8% of people around the world said they regretted getting drunk. In England it was only 31%, and in Scotland 33.8%, compared with 88.3% of Colombians.


    The report said this finding was particularly alarming. “Given that for most people getting drunk is a voluntary activity, it’s striking that on a third of occasions they regretted it. Previous GDS research suggested that when getting drunk most people are likely to be consuming almost their entire weekly allowance in one sitting, exposing them to acute harms such as accidents, trauma and suppression of their immune system (a particular worry during Covid).”


    A separate study by the GDS last year found that 48% of Britons said they had been drinking more since the start of the pandemic.


    Prof Adam Winstock, the chief executive and founder of the GDS, said: “We don’t have a culture that is honest about the impact of intoxication. Drinking is a lousy coping strategy and it is putting a higher burden on the NHS.


    “British people have never really embraced moderation when it comes to drinking. While many other cultures regard alcohol as an accompaniment to a social event and frown upon public drunkenness, we’ve often embraced it as a cultural identity. The challenge is making people realise drinking a bit less does not make you boring. In fact, you’ll probably have a better night. It’s like as a country we need to leave our adolescence behind.”


    He urged the government to stand up to the alcohol lobby and introduce mandatory health warning labels and minimum pricing, and lowering the drink-drive limit.


    Winstock said: “These are all incredibly sensible things that have been recommended by several commissions, but have been ignored in the face of resistance from the alcohol lobby.”


    English and Scottish get drunk most often, 25-nation survey finds | Alcohol | The Guardian

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    It’s like as a country we need to leave our adolescence behind.”
    well said.

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    Another anti British article from the Guardian.

    What's the problem?

    I get drunk, I fall over, no problem!

    Imagine the Brits without Alcohol, the world would be a scarier place ...

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    Beat out the Russians

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    Beat out the Russians
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    Another anti British article from the Guardian.
    Obviously paid by Russians (RT.com) - the friends of The Guardian...

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    here are the alcohol consumption figures by country for 2020, it paints a very different picture from the self loathing guardian article.

    ( notwithstanding total consumption and drunkeness are different.

    Alcohol Consumption by Country 2020
    Last edited by taxexile; 25-01-2021 at 10:06 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe 90 View Post
    Another anti British article from the Guardian.

    What's the problem?

    I get drunk, I fall over, no problem!

    Imagine the Brits without Alcohol, the world would be a scarier place ...
    The Guardian are pro-Eurotrash lefty fucking rubbish, I wouldn't wipe my arse with it if the only other choice were stinging nettles.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    Beat out the Russians
    Yea, you're still recovering from being sown to be wrong about alcoholism - Russia still rules, small-minded moron


    Quote Originally Posted by Klondyke View Post
    Obviously paid by Russians
    Russia couldn't pay itself out of a paper bag . . . 20% of the population below the poverty line . . . well done, Putin.

    No-one gives a fuck about Russia for this article, cretin . . . but keep drinking, tovarish.


    It's a common conception that many Brits drink to get drunk, others drink to enjoy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    The Guardian are pro-Eurotrash lefty fucking rubbish, I wouldn't wipe my arse with it if the only other choice were stinging nettles.
    Has harry transitioned into a right winger ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    Yea, you're still recovering from being sown to be wrong about alcoholism - Russia still rules, small-minded moron



    Russia couldn't pay itself out of a paper bag . . . 20% of the population below the poverty line . . . well done, Putin.

    No-one gives a fuck about Russia for this article, cretin . . . but keep drinking, tovarish.


    It's a common conception that many Brits drink to get drunk, others drink to enjoy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by taxexile View Post
    here are the alcohol consumption figures by country for 2020, it paints a very different picture from the self loathing guardian article.

    ( notwithstanding total consumption and drunkeness are different.

    Alcohol Consumption by Country 2020

    The article did not say that the English consumed more booze, it just says that they cant hold their drink , get drunk and fall over significantly more often than others. A couple of drinks and they are two sheets to the wind.
    Actually some of them fall over even without drinking.

    PS: perhaps we can combine this Thread with the English breakfast thread, that way we can kill two Brits with one stone.
    The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.

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    I honestly think I have not been drunk, according to that criteria, more than twice in the last 30 years. I’m sensible enough to not drink and drive, wear a seatbelt/helmet. Even taxis/car rental here are so cheap, it doesn’t make sense to own a car.

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    I don't see the point in drinking unless you're getting pissed. Where's the fun in staying sober?

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    ^ Hal in his youth, part of the Doncaster Massive . . . RESPEK


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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    ^ Hal in his youth, part of the Doncaster Massive . . . RESPEK

    Haha. You wouldn't catch me wearing an England shirt.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hallelujah View Post
    Haha. You wouldn't catch me wearing an England shirt.


    Better, innit!!! . (I like your green jumper)

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post


    Better, innit!!! . (I like your green jumper)
    Now we're talking!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai View Post
    The article did not say that the English consumed more booze, it just says that they cant hold their drink , get drunk and fall over significantly more often than others. A couple of drinks and they are two sheets to the wind.
    Actually some of them fall over even without drinking.

    PS: perhaps we can combine this Thread with the English breakfast thread, that way we can kill two Brits with one stone.
    Oh , I forgot.
    And they also can't dance.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai View Post
    Oh , I forgot.
    And they also can't dance
    I take it you’re not a fan of Morris dancing.

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    Not all of us are carefree fun loving jovial chaps who like a drink, there is still Seekingassylum and his Adonis bodied Mills and Coon infused ilk.

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    Quote Originally Posted by strigils View Post
    Not all of us are carefree fun loving jovial chaps who like a drink, there is still Seekingassylum and his Adonis bodied Mills and Coon infused ilk.
    He's also not English nor Scottish, so doesn't figure in this

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    Yeah the Welsh escaped too.

    Bombed out of it on spice and shrooms, I expect.

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    Do the Welsh ferment or smoke leek?

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    Wanna know the problem with being teetotal? When you wake up in the morning, that's the best you're gonna feel all day.

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    That one was old in 1970.

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