You're supposed to call kids "half pints," not serve them half pints.

A child under 10 is treated in hospital for the effects of alcohol every three days,

That child has a really serious problem. I blame the parents.

Dammit, now I have to go to Britain to teach THOSE idiots how to cook, too!

/boiling is not the only cooking method
//nor is frying
///do you idiots even know what an oven is?!

vodak

It's not for being forced to stay indoors due to the Nanny State?

Could have something to do with freakin' 2 liter shatterproof bottles of hard cider...

In the US, kids drink the beer and get water poisoning so you dont hear about them drinking beer underage.

Saborlas: ///do you idiots even know what an oven is?!

Where do you get the idea...oh never mind.

As a British-American, the headline made me laugh. I do miss Toad-In-The-Hole though (the food, not the sex-move).

I spend a lot of time in Glasgow (I'm Californian), and I've learned to love some of the food.

Greggs is amazingly good and really cheap, there are loads of great Indian restaurants that will deliver to your house until midnight, and if you haven't had a chip shop fried haggis doused in vinegar, you haven't lived.

Hipster baby is a hipster.

Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well.

As much as people give Brit shiat for their food have any of you traveled there and tried it? I miss Bangers and mash, Steak and Ale Pie with a pint of Guinness or a late night Kabob meat with some chips. All I am saying is don't knock it till you try it. Also their "national dish" is curry which is usually good if you go to the right places in London.

Thanks but haggis ranks right up there with baluut as among those things I can live an entire life completely satisfied without ever having tried.

I think Caesu Marzu (new window) probably still ranks as the vilest thing humans have ever voluntarily eaten.

ukparrothead: As much as people give Brit shiat for their food have any of you traveled there and tried it? I miss Bangers and mash, Steak and Ale Pie with a pint of Guinness or a late night Kabob meat with some chips. All I am saying is don't knock it till you try it. Also their "national dish" is curry which is usually good if you go to the right places in London.

Anyplace that invents Marmite is okay with me.

WTF does "in hospital" mean?
In THE hospital?
In A hospital?
Go jump in lake, non-English speakers.

Is Pedobear to blame? He likes 12 year old girls drunk on rum.

R.A.Danny: WTF does "in hospital" mean?
In THE hospital?
In A hospital?
Go jump in lake, non-English speakers.

I don't know. Maybe we are witnessing the evolution of the English language?

/anthro major
//*yawns*

Damn, the link broke.

http://www.portlandmercury.com/columns/it-sure-is-a-scientific-world/Content?o id =22880

"In hospital" is how Brits have always said it, so far as I know.

R.A.Danny: WTF does "in hospital" mean?

It's like being 'down the local'. I think.

Phone_Answering_Monkey: R.A.Danny: WTF does "in hospital" mean?

It's like being 'down the local'. I think.

Wrong. Its exactly what it says. In the hospital.
/wife is a brit
//yeah i asked her

R.A.Danny: WTF does "in hospital" mean?
In THE hospital?
In A hospital?
Go jump in lake, non-English speakers.

When you were a kid did you spend your days in school?

/or in the school.

So, a child is more likely to win the lottery than to be admitted to the hospital for alcohol poisoning?

R.A.Danny:
WTF does "in hospital" mean?

It's the same thing as "in church" versus "in the church."

Queue the drinking children pics:

strathmeyer: So, a child is more likely to win the lottery than to be admitted to the hospital for alcohol poisoning?

More than 24,000 children won the lottery between 2002 and 2007?

Yeah, but it's socialized health care, so most of them are legal drinking age by the time a doctor sees them.

amazing_live_seamonkeys

Anyplace that invents Marmite is okay with me.

They didn't so much "invent" it, as scrape it out of the fermenting tanks of the brewery and notice that dogs were licking it up. And no Brit can resist what dogs lick up.

The government said fewer young people now drink but those who do drink more.

Picking up the slack!

British food is delicious! I mean, who doesn't like a good curry?

i'm sure Drew would have a few words to say about the misuse of statistics to make a scare story
if i've done my numbers right, there was just under 130 cases a year, and say that 10% of the British population is under 10 - that's 6 million kids, so 130 out of 6 million in a year, or just over 0.002% isn't exactly out of control, right?

Saborlas: Dammit, now I have to go to Britain to teach THOSE idiots how to cook, too!

/boiling is not the only cooking method
//nor is frying
///do you idiots even know what an oven is?!

Francis........

ukparrothead: Also their "national dish" is curry which is usually good if you go to the right places in London.

So even the English won't eat English food anymore?

Chav slag motherhood at its very best and the taxpayer foots the bill for it. All hail the Matriarchal Socialist State. Or else.

ukparrothead: As much as people give Brit shiat for their food have any of you traveled there and tried it? I miss Bangers and mash, Steak and Ale Pie with a pint of Guinness or a late night Kabob meat with some chips. All I am saying is don't knock it till you try it. Also their "national dish" is curry which is usually good if you go to the right places in London.

I agree wholeheartedly. I LOVE British food! Bangers are grat, and I also love steak and ale pie. Man, I haven't had good pub-fare for a while now.

Bad British food = Tired tired cliche.

Saborlas: Dammit, now I have to go to Britain to teach THOSE idiots how to cook, too!

/boiling is not the only cooking method
//nor is frying
///do you idiots even know what an oven is?!

And you know you can cook a meal without cheese right??

Saborlas: Dammit, now I have to go to Britain to teach THOSE idiots how to cook, too!

/boiling is not the only cooking method
//nor is frying
///do you idiots even know what an oven is?!

Using oven runs risk of heating the house up past 14C.

All I know is that I've been to the UK three separate times, and on one trip, I got cussed-out by a smoking 12 year old kid, and on one of the others (a study-abroad), I've never seen so many passed-out drunk people before.

I mean, the level of drunkenness on an average summer Friday night in Oxford was somewhere upwards of if your college's team won the NCAA championship or the BCS or something.

People literally laying semi-comatose and gibbering on the sidewalks and curbs, only to get up, stagger somewhere else, barf their guts up, and then walk a little further and pass out again.

This was men AND women... nothing quite like seeing some chick in a decent looking dress passed out drunk on the sidewalk with her dress pulled up so you could see her granny panties.

Us Americans were astounded- people just don't drink like that here... I guess the subby figured it out- you have to start early to achieve that sort of ability!

That's a damn funny headline.

The government said fewer young people now drink but those who do drink more.

So when your fiends don't come along to drink with you anymore and you have to get rid of it before you get home. I guess you would try to finish it...

Perhaps they should sell in smaller bottles!

/problem solved

"The best British food is Indian"

ThrobblefootSpectre: strathmeyer: So, a child is more likely to win the lottery than to be admitted to the hospital for alcohol poisoning?

More than 24,000 children won the lottery between 2002 and 2007?

Yes? Do you realize there are six billion people on the planet?