Genuinely how accurate is this statement that the average Brit would be considered a heavy drinker in some other countries?
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ExplodingDogs82@reddit
I’m English and, though I no longer get up to any of these shenanigans, I did however, quite possibly, get up to some utterly foolish and, quite frankly, horrible things when I was young and (allegedly) fun.
The following may well be a fraction of the daft drunken things we did in our teens and 20’s:
• Put a traffic cone through a strangers letter box and pissed through it.
• Had a spinning wee in a train carriage, dousing the empty seats in recycled weak lager
• Filled an empty, industrial wheelie bin up with water and got in it (like a shit jacuzzi full of trash soup)
• downed a pint of Bailey’s followed by a cup of Teachers and vomited hell all over the local Scout hut shower cubicles.
• Played a largely unwelcome pub game where we completely disrobed and attempted to climb the walls of the pub in a complete circuit without touching the floor.
• broke into a parked Coach to have a pre club party.
• someone got obliterated and wet themselves so disguised the mess by wading waist deep into the river.
Sadly these are most of the fairly tame things we did …I still see these goons but thankfully we’re long past this immature c*ntishness.
Emergency-Ad-5379@reddit
I hope someone pisses in your letterbox. And I sure hope you aren't raising the next generation.
AgentCirceLuna@reddit
Yeah fuck this guy
Bubbly_Possible9057@reddit
Fun Police? \^\^ This guy.
ExplodingDogs82@reddit
Crikey - you sound delightful.
Immaterial71@reddit
Alcohol Consumption by Country 2026
Per capita the UK drinks around 10% more than the US. Either the US has a couple of people doing some EXTREMELY heavy lifting to pump those numbers up to cover for everyone else not pulling their weight, or it's just stereotyping.
Cheap-Rate-8996@reddit
The interesting thing about this is that the country the UK is being compared to changes depending on what point the person wants to make.
If they want to argue Britain's approach to alcohol is too relaxed, they'll point to across the pond with its higher drinking age and generally more puritan attitude to alcohol.
If they want to argue Britain's approach is too stodgy and uptight, they'll point to Germany with its lower drinking age and generally more normalised attitude.
It seems we somehow get it from both sides when it comes to people's thoughts on alcohol. Either we're irresponsible and reckless with it because we're too culturally comfortable with it, or we're irresponsible and reckless with it because we're not culturally comfortable with it enough.
My proposed synthesis: We're just irresponsible and reckless. No deeper point needed, lol.
Emergency-Ad-5379@reddit
Yeah we can't really handle our alcohol and probably shouldn't be trusted with it. Taxes and criminal charges should be much higher on drunken behaviour until we can control ourselves.
MercuryJellyfish@reddit
If we look at what people in the UK would drink on a night out, it'd be about 4-8 pints, say. Which is about 6-12 standard US bottles of beer. I think the US would consider that a heavy drinker. Whereas that'd be fairly normal in the UK, if you were drinking. 15 bottles a week is the US definition of a heavy drinker, a *lot* of people in the UK will drink that much.
As for the "antics" - I think I will see some or all of that behaviour from *someone* on a night out in the UK, especially if pissing in an alley counts as pissing on the sidewalk. Wouldn't be normal to regularly do any of that yourself, but to be aware that someone was doing it, sure.
Special-Audience-426@reddit
We have very different friends if 4-8 pints is a night out.
Many people drink that much during pre drinks and getting ready.
PotentialRatio1321@reddit
If 8 pints isn’t enough for most of your mates, you should lay off the booze
Flat_News_2000@reddit
So you see why other countries see you as heavy drinkers
Bubbly_Possible9057@reddit
I had a Czech gf who drank a whole bottle of vodka as 'pre-drinks'. But she'd also do all of those things above. Fighting the driver of the car while at high speed was also another thing.
MercuryJellyfish@reddit
Yeah, I'm saying that's a completely tame basic night out, nothing to get excited about. Like, four pints is light drinking, went home early territory. Which is the same as 6 standard US beer bottles, and that'd officially be considered heavy drinking. Whereas if that's what you drank in the UK, and people said "did you you drink last night?" You'd say "not really."
graeme_1988@reddit
Calm down David Brent
DrH1983@reddit
Those aren't "antics", they're the actions of dickheads and wouldn't be acceptable to most folks in the UK.
Emergency-Ad-5379@reddit
Unfortunately those dickheads are also the loudest, usually biggest and often gather together in massive crowds to get off their heads at a football game and wreck the city centre every weekend while police just look on, also claim national pride while acting like a disgrace. And then they get upset when football clubs put up prices and encourage customers who don't line the streets and stands in puke and litter and when the drink that causes them to get into a destructive state gets taxed. You say it's unacceptable but people and police seem to be accepting of it.
MidasToad@reddit
You can see the stats on drinkaware.co.uk
10-15% of British adults drink more than 15 units of alcohol a week, and would be classed as 'binge drinkers'.
The UK is below Germany and above France in average quantity of alcohol consumed - around the average for Europe.
My personal experience is that drinking culture in the UK among 18-30s is weekend nasty night out - crazy bingeing with the intention of getting completely 'wasted' . This would be shocking to people from countries who e.g. have 2 glasses of wine a day, even though the unit quantity is comparable.
Mohrg@reddit
I once ended up in a San Francisco biker bar and drank a guy under the table when I was younger, lovely chaps, got to wear his jacket for the rest of the night, much to the amusement of his fellows.
Honestly brits can out drink yanks to the point where soldiers stationed with British troops are warned not to drink of gamble with the British
Uncle_Zardoz@reddit
Unlike the USA, however, we actually give a shit bout drink-driving.
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Brave_Assumption6@reddit (OP)
This is a very unfounded claim and clearly you're just saying this to bash America.
Uncle_Zardoz@reddit
Or maybe I've watched too many bodycam and/or court videos of people being let off?
No-Jellyfish-177@reddit
I’m no expert but I strongly suspect every one of those bad behaviours happens very often in the US too
Brave_Assumption6@reddit (OP)
How about Germany
jsm97@reddit
One of the worst European countries to use to make this point
prussian_princess@reddit
I've seen some videos my Dutch friends shared of Oktoberfest and others. Man, the degeneracy is off the charts.
Brave_Assumption6@reddit (OP)
Oktoberfest is an annual festival though. In Britain it feels like degeneracy is a normal weekly thing.
Brave_Assumption6@reddit (OP)
Elaborate please
ArmadilloFront1087@reddit
A lot of beers originated in Germany often originally brewed by monks to sterilise the water and give them something to sustain them properly through lent.
They have whole beer festivals that would put any uk or American ones to shame. I only went to a small one but it was in the theresienwiese in Munich (the same place the Oktoberfest was to be held a few months later) and it was huge!
Would also recommend the original HofBrauHaus. It too is huge (far bigger than any of the overseas franchised versions) and the food is superb!
Brave_Assumption6@reddit (OP)
Oh yes I know very well Germany has beer festivals and they brew a lot that puts Britain to shame. But my question was different. It was more like "do Germans drink as frequently/in more units than Brits" and do they have that (apparent) reputation of anti-social acts?
Because for all I know maybe the Germans drink less units of alcohol than Brits with the exception of special events like Oktoberfest.
ArmadilloFront1087@reddit
They tend to have more festivals than just Oktoberfest, but my father in law worked in Munich for several years and Oktoberfest was generally where the most pissing in the streets and people falling asleep on grass banks happened.
BenchClamp@reddit
I lived in Germany, the amount they conspicuously drink at the beer festivals accompanied by lots of cheering - is what many Brits drink every Saturday at football. Putting three pints in one massive glass just looks funnier.
ArmadilloFront1087@reddit
Yeah, that may be true, but I’ve not seen what Germans drink at football to make an accurate comparison!
I do however remember going into the Hofbrauhaus at 5:30pm and finding a load of cologne fans and Bayern Munich fans already in there merrily chanting at each other in one part and another part a group of German ladies in their mid sixties already 3 sheets to the wind being told off by security for dancing on the tables!
MrFlitter@reddit
I live in Germany (outside of Bavaria so no Oktoberfest), Germanys drinking culture from my experience is comparable to the UK, the Altstadt or other drinking center of a German city on a friday night isn't dissimilar to the experience in the UK, folk pissing down alleys, puking in bins, getting into fights, throwing bottles or just having a nice time getting merrily pissed.
My city also has carnival which is beautiful drunken chaos and Ive been invited to a couple Schüztenfest parties which are entertaining to watch if you can tolerate the music Lots of older gents in funny hats trying to hold up banners and walk without falling over, then trying to fail at shooting a bird target.
buuuut
Germany does seem to have a better handle on self restraint with alcohol, public drinking isn't illegal here and yet I've not seen as many blind drunk middle aged men passed out in the park on sunny days....still a few mind.
Best example I can think of is that in the UK if you buy a bottle from the duty free before you fly it goes into a sealed bag you are not allowed to open before you land at your destination, in Germany (atleast from the three places I have flown out of) they hand you the bottle and trust you to not get absolutely fucked.
Fit_Balance8329@reddit
I was in Germany for my placement year. Please don’t fall for this stereotype that Germans are all rule following disciplinarians who are always on time.
BenchClamp@reddit
I lived in Germany and we were called a ‘disgrace’ by our co-workers for how much we drank on a Friday. They would leave work and go home, eat, come out at 10 and be out til 2-3am. We would be drinking from 5pm and just stay out.
We were just average British 25 year olds. We’ve all had degrees, held down jobs and had girlfriends. They just couldn’t get their heads around how we could allow ourselves to be that out of control. Different standards
Brave_Assumption6@reddit (OP)
Thanks this was the kind of answer I was looking for! It seems in Germany they drink less units in one go. So that's akin to Americans and Southern Europeans (who have some wine with every dinner). Whereas Britain seems closer to how it is in Poland and Russia with higher quantity of alcohol in one go.
Delicious-Resist-977@reddit
There are a fair few videos online. Tempered possibly by German privacy laws.
Stinkinhippy@reddit
Very small sample size here. But I spent about 18 months in the states at one point. Hung out with a group in their mid 20s.. they started explaining their drinking games to me and i was amazed how little drinking was actually involved compared to the ones we played at home.
A shot of beer every minute for an hour.. beer pong.. that kind of thing.. At home we'd be playing games that'd clear a couple of crates of beer in 30 minutes between 5 people.
Fragrant-Reserve4832@reddit
Travelling on a train drinking game.
Stag trips in my 20's. I miss those days but my liver doesn't.
Dangerous-Skirt-9234@reddit
That's my morning commute
Academic_Exercise_94@reddit
At Uni in Scotland we played the Star Wars drinking game. It had the following rules.
Every time a planet is described as having only 1 ecosystem drink
Every time a baddy is in black drink
Every time a goodie is in white drink
Every time a baddy is in white drink twice
Every time a goodie is in black drink twice
Every time a storm trooper misses what he's shooting at drink
Every time someone has a bad feeling about this drink
Every time C3PO tries to give you the odds drink
Every time someone loses a limb to a light sabre drink
Every time Darth Vader meets a member of his family and doesn't recognise them drink
There are other rules but this was 30 years ago and I cant remember them all
We watched Episodes 4-6 as that was all there was available at the time and was very drunk at the end
Khrusway@reddit
If my math ain't failed me that's like 3 pints?
Beneficial-Bagman@reddit
US shots are typically 44ml instead of 25ml so it's more like 5 pints
TheCarrot007@reddit
UK or US pints?
KNew a gut who came over from the US and was drunk a lot becuase of the incresed alcohol and size (yes it was long ago, nothing has alcohol in it these days in a pub ;-) )
Sheckles@reddit
UK beers in general have lower alcohol content than the US though. The UK probably has the lowest alcohol content in the world. We take every decent lager and turn it into pisswater
TheCarrot007@reddit
These days we do. Modern ruin for you.
Beneficial-Bagman@reddit
I meant UK pint but it's quite approximate. It's 4.6 UK pints or 5.6 US ones.
TruthfulRepugnance@reddit
Live in the US. Through work, I've met a fair few US military veterans - many of whom have said they did joint operations with British Armed Forces, and commented, "Man! Those guys can drink!"
whiskygreen@reddit
Next to Fort Leavenworth is a bar called Grinders. Twice a year several hundred British Army and Royal Marine officers visit. Grinders bar is pre-warned of visits to stock up on booze, as are the local military to not keep pace with the British drinkers.
SonicShadow@reddit
Makes me proud to be British.
Express_Split2928@reddit
I was over there for the better part of a year staying with some US Marines and on the first night the young lads were all "we'll drink you under the table, etc etc" the older guys who had previously worked with UK forces were like"....no you won't"
Anyway by the time they were throwing up and passing out I was ready to go out to the bars
Crafty_Jello_3662@reddit
I've noticed on American shows when they're about to have a massive drinking session or play a drinking game they will usually show a single bottle of spirits which gets shared between multiple people. It's pretty adorable
Particular-Bid-1640@reddit
Anyone who's played this - known as Centurion, knows that it's surprisingly difficult.
We did used to play it for 100 mins and use some ghastly snakebite mix though
Stinkinhippy@reddit
Was 'power hour' to these.. regional variations as with everything I suppose. Back when i was drinking we'd have had beers in hand and still doing the shots each minute.
OldManChino@reddit
Jim Jeffries summed it up best
https://youtu.be/k2sxK1tSfO4?si=6INhMi62-vfpiWDW
Big_Recipe_698@reddit
Everyone in the UK has stolen a traffic cone whilst drunk. It’s a rite of passage
whataboutbenson@reddit
Yes, those kinds of behaviours aren’t considered normal in most places. The walk of shame, to be so hungover you have to call in sick the next day, stuff like that, that’d just be called straight alcoholism in most other countries. We have a bad reputation for a reason.
Just-an-idiot-online@reddit
Asides from the vomiting (and even then, people tried to do it out of the way) I don't know anybody who was a public nuisance when drunk when we were teens/YA. If they became violent or shitty, their friends would usually tell them to knock it off. Or the police would.
So... maybe a truth, but not the the truth.
celem83@reddit
Yeah this describes behaviour that would be associated with heavy drinking.
Though anytime someone says the word average you need a fucking source
purpleplums901@reddit
The statement is correct if you don’t include Eastern Europe or France, or lots of countries in Southern Africa. France has 4x the number of deaths registered where alcohol is considered (among) the primary cause. Once again, the world isn’t the US, this comment didn’t even claim that (for a change)
The fact that vomiting or pissing in the street, let alone theft, is considered ‘average’ is nonsense though. That would be ‘binge drinkers’, ‘pissheads’ or ‘alchies’ even by our standards
The stereotype comes largely from younger holidaymakers and like, stag and hen do’s going nuts in Spain, Greece, and to a lesser extent Poland the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. But to be honest they always blame drinking but a lot of it is actually cocaine, they just don’t want to admit their country is full of dealers taking advantage of the sheer numbers.
Sheckles@reddit
There is a huge binge drinking culture in The UK/Ireland. People wouldn't really question those that get black out drunk Me and most of my friends binge drink every weekend and have done since we were teenagers. It is actually nowhere near as bad as it used to be in the 90's/2000's but still worse than any other country i know.
Eukonidor_Of_Arisia@reddit
... Shouting through traffic cones, before depositing one on the head of a statue.
Ready-Fox-3264@reddit
It’s pretty accurate. Compared to central and eastern Europe where my parents are from, British people drink significantly more. I mean a lot more.
There’s also a stark contrast between how everyone behaves more generally when they’re sober and what they turn into after a few drinks. It’s as if they’ve unleashed a part of themselves that’s very carefully suppressed and hidden from view. I don’t know how to explain it any better.
All the important things are said and discussed almost in jest and only when alcohol is involved. This is especially true if you’re out with close friends or people from work. The rest is pretence most of the time.
DameKumquat@reddit
Much of USA doesn't drink much (and even the ones that pride themselves on it, like the Polish/Irish Americans, don't drink as much and regularly as Brits who do).
The carnage of that kind of Brit on a night out is pretty unusual in southern Europe as well as in America and many other places, though you do get frat parties and such in America, with a similar reputation.
Amazingbuttplug@reddit
I believe the US only consumes 10 percent less alcohol per capita.
I moved from a wealthy area of Southern California to Glasgow and I didn’t notice much difference. My mother is English and my father is American. Both heavy drinkers and all their friends at the golf course in the US would drink rather heavily. One golf course friend would just ask for a glass of gin and ice. My father would have a wine bottle to himself each night and maybe a couple pints of IPA during the day. A lot of units but he drank it slowly so I don’t believe he ever got very drunk.
In California I noticed there wasn’t much of this “I am Irish American etc” stuff going on unless the person actually was from Ireland.
I think the middle class in the US drinks the least because they are the most concerned with reputation loss. But I can he entirely wrong.
Much_Winter2202@reddit
Those are all minor crimes
Also you have to consider the US, Canada and Australia for example are more car based
Because people are driving they tend to keep it down to a dull roar or have a designated driver with them who stays sober
This_Comedian3955@reddit
I think everybody has a different experience of this. I’ve been in the UK for a few years and I think that the drinking experience here is more publicly viewable on average, and maybe a bit higher overall. Back home (Canada) I think there’s a heavy binge drinking culture in the 15-25 bracket and after that it really stratifies depending on your geography, career, and family.
So it might be true that the average Brit is a heavy drinker elsewhere, but that doesn’t mean they couldn’t find good company in another country.
Foreskin_Ad9356@reddit
Probably not compared to germany or other european countries but yes compared to anerica
Brave_Assumption6@reddit (OP)
How does it compare to Poland and Russia?
BeKind321@reddit
I am born in England to Irish parents. The pub is a big part of the social scene. I work for a US firm and they took us to bars but it was to eat and have a few beers and then they went home. The brits carried on in the bars and then the hotel bar too. I think we do drink more.
BenchClamp@reddit
I regularly go on international conferences and over time we worked out the order that countries representatives generally got to bed on a drinks/boozy night .
Asian/Muslim countries first (natch, everyone else is getting boring to the non-drinkers. And unfortunately the Japanese and Chinese often can’t follow the English being spoken once people have had a few beers.
Americans next (work orientated)
French German Italian (sensible booze culture)
Canadians Aussies and Kiwis (health conscious)
Brazilians and Argentina …and usually some rogue Indian guy (party crew)
South African Irish and British (functional alcoholics)
…and finally the Colombians, Polish and Russians.
BenchClamp@reddit
Pretty accurate. It’s the binge drinking not the annual volume. Obviously there are other places like Russia and Ireland where being hammered is pretty normal. But the Germans were appalled by our Friday night rituals when I worked there.
Fragrant-Reserve4832@reddit
Some places we would be considered heavy/alcoholic and others we don't actually drink a lot.
You would be surprised at some of these places.
seklas1@reddit
British drink a lot, yes. It doesn’t necessarily come with all those “problematic” behaviours, it just depends on the person, but there’s a lot of drinking happening. A lot of countries have tried or are trying to change this behaviour and limit by law, but not the UK, instead they encourage by making a bottle cheaper than basically even snacks.
Y_ddraig_gwyn@reddit
UK, US and Germany are *very* different countries. remember the US has a streak of puritanical judgement which deep,y colours their position
c0tch@reddit
Smashing peoples plants seems very obscure and specific.
We stole a sign off the front of the college and took it back to our mates house it would be like me saying stealing cones or signs, it’s not a normal thing but they’ve ranked it second.
intothedepthsofhell@reddit
Most UK drinking that we see as social would be seen as problematic in the US. But none of the antics listed are acceptable in the UK either.
PsychologicalRun1911@reddit
Coming from Canada to UK the difference is quite strong.
Young people drink in Canada but honestly once you get into your mid 20s most people have slowed down many stopped completely. Not that many middle aged people drink in Canada. In UK everyone drinks (except muslims and a few other religious folks)... And they do their whole life. Like 80 year olds still drinking regularly... And it seems like everyone drinks almost every day.
If you look at studies they would show alcohol consumption is similar but it's not. I don't know if people just lie a lot in those or what's going on but yes British people are big drinkers.
mdzmdz@reddit
Has Letter Kenny lied to me? Or are the cast meant to be younger than they look?
Pyjama365@reddit
"It seems like everyone drinks almost every day." - I respectfully just don't think this is true.
I do agree that Brits probably drink more than Americans on each occasion/have a higher tolerance through drinking more units and more often, BUT I don't think most people drink remotely close to every day. I used to think it was far more common, when working in a pub where many customers did do just that but, outside of a minority of people, I'd estimate that most people are probably drinking once a week or so, on meals out or a night out with friends. Lots of students might drink daily or most nights each week, but after that I think most people cut down to Fri +/- Sat nights for a few years, then calm down further. When working in mixed groups of mixed ages and genders, most people seemed to just do one social thing most weekends (varying from a glass of wine at a family Sunday lunch to getting moderately wrecked) but didn't really drink during the week, or maybe did 1 hobby club during the week that might lead to a pint or two afterwards.
PsychologicalRun1911@reddit
This is my perception... Not necessarily what data shows but what I've experienced.
Mainly my experience with individuals outside my age group is through work. Where I have experience on both sides of the pond, working in UK for around 6 years combined and Canada about 15 years.
In UK in every employer I had we would regularly go out and drink with coworkers (across all ages) and the only people who didn't drink were Muslims (this is my experience, I know that's not necessarily every Muslim, I also lived in Turkey for a few years where lots of Muslims drink), there were zero people who didn't drink for health.
In Canada if we went out with coworkers (across age groups) at least half the people will not drink and this skews by age with majority of older coworkers abstaining. This is true even for atheists.
This is in professional office jobs, normal middle class jobs not like execs or anything just normal middle class office jobs (both countries).
Pyjama365@reddit
Interesting, thank you for replying. I've worked in pubs, shops, office-type work in the public sector and the private sector, in London and a much smaller town, with various age groups, and just never seen it as a daily thing among colleagues, except when I worked in pubs. We got free drinks after shift and many would take these every shift, but in more officey jobs the chat has been about plans to drink at the weekend rather than as a daily thing. I think I only have one friend my age (mid/late 30s) who I suspect drinks wine daily but I obvs don't know if my friends and colleagues are a remotely representative sample.
PsychologicalRun1911@reddit
When I say every day maybe that's a bit hyperbolic. I just mean to say there is a lot of mid week drinking that I saw in UK and it's almost unheard of in Canada by people beyond their youth.
Lysadora@reddit
My current coworkers go out to the pub 3-4 times a week to drink plus having a a couple of beers or glasses of wine at home. Some go out 5 times a week, for 5-6 pints a night. Brits definitely drink a lot.
binaryhextechdude@reddit
A lot of crap the US does would be unacceptable in many other civilized countries.
Pyjama365@reddit
The one that springs to mind immediately is drink-driving! It seems like most Brits stick to one/none when driving, or else they are just not driving home. Whereas I get the impression from TV (fiction and documentaries) that going to a bar and having 2-3 drinks then driving home is not uncommon, particularly in rural areas.
dbxp@reddit
Depends where you're comparing to, generally I would say Americans are just light drinkers, a lot of countries drink more than them
Brave_Assumption6@reddit (OP)
I mean the Brits to drink more than Germans, especially in total units right?
KingStevoI@reddit
The top sentence is probably applicable due to the alcohol content in our beers and ciders compared to American versions.
However, we have many alcoholics here that specifically drink Special Brew (7.5% now but was higher) and Karpackie (9%) which would fit into the bottom sentence. I've seen at least one of these shit themselves while in a queue and not notice, but you could see their trousers changing colour.
TheCarrot007@reddit
Special brews is 7.5% these days. What a crime!, used to be around 10% like tennants usper or skol 1080.
1 of thouse and a 4 pack of near beer and your were good back in hte uni days.
I do remember a night out at uni where there was a beer festival on. 14%. Tasted fine for last drink. So had one the next day for first. No, Also NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Surreywinter@reddit
Those don’t read like the behaviour of an “average” from any county to be fair
LIRFC@reddit
Yep, that's a pisshead that doesn't know how to handle their drinks.
tradegreek@reddit
Not really even pissheads who can’t handle their drinks it’s like the 1% of pissheads who are complete bellends
LIRFC@reddit
They're the ones that can't handle their drinks.
Bubbly_Possible9057@reddit
Americans don't drink as much but they smoke more weed and take more pharmaceuticals.
ActionBirbie@reddit
Which one? Why not compare to normal non-puritan countries first, would be better, no?
Davew2491@reddit
I think 15-20 years ago that was probably true but young people don't drink like we use to 15 years ago.
agentrossi176@reddit
It's 5pm and I'm on my third beer, and I intend to drink several glasses of wine later. I'm sure some people would find that excessive but I truly won't be more than tipsy (spread out, with food, reasonable tolerance)
The behaviour mentioned in the screenshot is not acceptable, but there is very little recourse against it. People can, in theory, be arrested for any of the offences listed, we just don't have the capacity to actually follow through.
Parking-Tip1685@reddit
Average is pushing it but I've seen drunken examples of all of those and worse in the UK.
dr-tectonic@reddit
I think it's accurate. In both the UK and the US, about 60% of the population drink regularly, but the weekly average in the UK is about 14 units vs under 5 in the US. That's a big difference.
Brave_Assumption6@reddit (OP)
Yeah I had a feeling about that. In southern Europe it's regularly too but always small units. I was in Spain once and it's like they have some wine or so with every dinner. In countries like Poland and Russia it's less regular (as they also drink a lot of tea) but with very high alcohol units per 'episode' so more similar to Britain.
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