Drink Culture?

Is there a drinking culture in Britain? I mean i love my drink but why is there this social expection that you have to get bladdered? i get hammered at least twice a week but honestly forming a relationship with the toilet is hardly nice!!!!! I am guessing that possible dangers of this would be rape, assault? any thoughts? I know this is a bit random but there we are.

Reply 1

anjimcflanji

Of course there is otherwise the govt wouldn't be going on about binge drinking/std lottery/yob culture. You only have to go into a town on a friday night to see the extent of this. Obviously if you are under the influence as we all know from our PSHE lessons that you will make less informed decisions ie going home with someone you shouldn't, unprotected sex, crossing the road without looking, or just liver damage. This is something that needs to be addressed but there's little the govt can do without political suicide and really who would listen to them except those people who aren't trying to pickle themselves in sourz......

Reply 2

tom5

Of course there is otherwise the govt wouldn't be going on about binge drinking/std lottery/yob culture

drinking doesn't = yobs

i also hate it when people say the police are cracking down on underage drinkers to reduce violence - that's not the same thing

Reply 3

Helenia

tom5

drinking doesn't = yobs

i also hate it when people say the police are cracking down on underage drinkers to reduce violence - that's not the same thing

I think it's perfectly fair to say that alcohol increases yobbish behaviour, among both girls and boys. And that's not just the underage ones.

I no longer enjoy getting so drunk I throw up and can't remember sections of the evening. The physical repercussions the next day are just too nasty for it to be worth it.

Reply 4

Piggsil

Helenia

We definitely have drink culture on Britain. I don't like it at all. Obviously when I was 16 I was loving it, but now I just can't see the point of getting wasted just for the sake of it. I think it is this that is the drink culture. In most other european countries, getting drunk for no reason just doesn't exist. Going out and getting hammered every weekend isn't a cool and neccessary part of life there. Yes they go out to nightclubs, but the alcohol-binging thing isn't there.
Maybe it's that British reserve thing where people 'need' to get drunk to dance or to have a good time. Which I think is frankly just rubbish.

Reply 5

Spiral Architect

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Reply 6

LeeC

Yes we definately have a culture of drinking in the UK.

Recently I went to France and upon my arrival my middle- aged host offered me a beer at 3 in the afternoon. I thought it was a little early to start on the beers, but then I realised that their attitude to beer is totally different. They will have a beer in the afternoon and a glass of wine with their meal, but thats it. The French don't really like getting drunk, I guess the same goes for most Europeans.

The only place to go for a 'p*ss-up' in the British sense in Bordeaux is the..... British pub for the tourists! All of the French- style brasseries serve beer until about 2am, but you dont go there to get drunk, you go there for a beer. There are nightclubs too but no-one really there was drinking either. Even the cans of lager are only 330ml (a glass) compared to the pint sized cans over here, reflecting the smaller quantites that they drink.

Reply 7

hanadeka2002

loobylou1987

I am guessing that possible dangers of this would be rape, assault? any thoughts? QUOTE]

They are actually trying to raise awareness amongst men-telling them to ensure consent before having sex...as there are so many girls going out,getting drunk,having sex and then crying rape the next day.

Also I read that they are thinking of introducing it so that if a woman is considered too drunk to give consent it would be illegal to have sex with her.However I don't know how they will measure 'too drunk' or how they will prove it?

Reply 8

Champagne-Dahling

a breathaliser that doubles as a condom

Reply 9

NDGAARONDI

Strange you mention the French. I remember referring to the WHO's website where France, and not the UK, had more alcohol related deaths each year.

Reply 10

MagicNMedicine

University is a perfect example to see drink culture

It is not only the amount of alcohol consumed - I bet they have far more in Russia, but the constant bragging you see from people who continually have to tell you how pissed they were, how pissed they are, how pissed they're going to get.

Each to their own and I am not a teetotaller but I don't see anything impressive about drinking alcohol to a point where you can't remember what you were doing. Also coming from an upbringing where money was scarce (and it still is now), I have always mentally calculated the value of everything and the price of drinking to oblivion is nowhere near worth it.

I don't moralise to people who drink like that because it is there life, however I don't tend to associate with real pissheads, I just find them irritating

Reply 11

jomo

I'm not a big drinker, I drink on social occasions but i'm renown for being really careful about it. I've never got to a position where i've gotten out of control, fortunately I have friends with a similar group.

I think there is a hell of a lot of pressure on young people especially to get completely pissed as frequently as possible. I don't really get much enjoyment about of sitting round getting drunk, tbh - but I would say we have a real binge drinking issue in the UK.

Reply 12

icedout

Yes, people here are have such an immature relationship with drink compared to most other countries in the world. If you bragged about how much you drank last night in Italy or France they'd think you were an alcoholic.

Reply 13

twiga

I'm usually the driver when I go out with friends, hence I don't really drink at all. I'll have a few glasses of wine with my parents on a Sunday night, maybe a quick one after work on Saturdays, but that's about it. It wasn't always this way though - I learnt the hard way that excessive drinking is not the lifestyle I like, hence I don't do it any more!

Reply 14

username47781

Binge drinking in the UK has rocketed over the past few years and it's the young lasses who are actually doing it more than the boys, it has led to an increase in violence and rape, i choose not to drink i mean i dont have a problem with others having a drink but seeing people out on the streets wasted isn't a nice sight.
There does seem to a be alot of pressure to get wasted at the weekends some people bow to it others like myself refuse to get drawn in.

Reply 15

rachelrainbow32

Yes, there is a binge drinking culture in the UK. ANd more and more teens, such as myself, are drinking, i only drink because everyone else drinks and its boring being the only sober one.
There is a problem with it, however i can really see it being changed until there is a complete change of culture in Britain.

Reply 16

guitargirl03

Personally, I do think there is a drinking culture. I don't drink, but on Mondays at college people tell their stories of the weekend about how they got drunk.

I hate it when people say "I'm going to get drunk tonight" People don't realise how much damage they are doing to their bodies. After all, alcohol is a poison.

Fair enough, 1 drink isn't too bad, but when people are drinking just to get drunk, I think it's dangerous.

Reply 17

dhutch

Carl1982

Binge drinking in the UK has rocketed over the past few years and it's the young lasses who are actually doing it more than the boys...

Yeah, thats soo true.
- When we(the people in my house at uni) go out I drink so much less than the girls do.

Take last night for instance, before we leave the building, one of them had polished off a whole bottle of wine, and the other two have had about 3 triple vodkas each.
- They then take another two bottles of wine with them to drink on the way, and in the queue to into the union.
- Then when they get in, they hit the dbl vokda redbull's and a have another glass of wine each, and one of them has a pint of stella as well (and about half of my pint)

I on the other hand had a can on the way down, two shots of apple souz (Mmmm), and then just 3/4 pints spread over the rest of the night (thats like about a pint an hour)

Consiquently, they end up get off with shed load of random people, dancing with each other, losing there phone and jacket, falling down the stairs, and generaly being drunk. While i end up just standing around looking after them. Fun....?

When i go out with my mates from my coarse (all male, bar one) however we go to rileys, have a pint over a game or two of pool, then wander back, get a pizza and watch a film.

Daniel

Reply 18

silence