The "Government" with a big "G"...interesting.

Yeah, these women sound like marriage material.

No wonder there's a huge population decline in Europe.

Slutz 'n booze... what's the problem??

Other than me not bangin' them, that is.

*sips last of beer, craps out*

Amateurs.

the finnish, of all people, still got ya potato heads whupped

For the benefit of whoever posted this article without bothering to read it:

London is in ENGLAND
Downing Street is in ENGLAND
Whitehall is in ENGLAND
Manchester is in ENGLAND

...are we starting to see a pattern develop here?

Most misleading headline ever?

yup and most unlikely maths ever also,
Population Republic Of Ireland = about 4 Million
1 billion pints consumed = not bloody likely

That's only 250/person cathalm.. Less than one per day. Well, it doesn't seem too improbable.

i know a Mormon Irishman,
weirdest shiat ever.

"im always the driver cuz no one want to wreck their car"

Just look at my pic. It's true :)

Saint Patrick didn't really chase all the snakes out of Ireland. He just sobered up and they were gone.

Cornee
And they use euro in Eire. Not pounds.

WAIT A MINUTE! I thought that all steriotyping was
wrong and racist. You mean the Irish really are a
bunch of drunks!
I know several micks who owe me an apology.

Hey, we're not a bunch of drunks all the time. It takes a few hours to get drunk ;)

Irish people being portrayed as being drunkards is the greatest racial stereotype in the world. Not only is it 100% true, but the Irish themselves take great pride in it. I myself come from Irish heritige and constantly use it to defend my "healthy" drinking habit.

Irish people RULE. Oh yeah, and jews are cheap, and black people like watermelon & fried chicken. If people could simply embrace their stereo types rather than get offended by them, the world would be a much happier place.

TurboShandy ouch now thats just careless - two-thirds of a pint of beer with a double vodka and topped with an alcopop.
Ah I remember thinking drinking a pint of diesel was the dogs gonads - Half pint Bulmers cider, Half pint Smithwicks take a quick mouthful and a large port to top it off.
Head like a bag of hammers guaranteed

A "pint of diesel was the dogs gonads" ?

Mmmmmmmmmm, Bulmers cider and Smithwicks were my two favorite drinks when I was over on the green isle. I wish Smithwicks was easier to find in the states.

Guinness for stout, Smithwicks for ale, Harp for lager.
And a heavy dose of Chilean red wine.

MMm Mmmm!

and a club lemon for the kids

Kids in pubs eh? I can tolerate them if they're quiet but I would never bring kids into a pub.
I'd leave them chained up outside! ;p

kr0m0z0ne

The Guardian is an English paper, an English billion is 1 million million which would make it 250,000 pints per person.

I wonder if Henry Earl's ever been to Ireland..

cathalm

Your British billion of a million million is almost never used now. The Uk has reverted to the US standard, but usually they still point out that the billions they refer to ar thousand millions.

Props to bhcompy for mentioning the Finns (lovely people, but talk about binge drinkers!). Plus if you count Russia as part of Europe the game takes on a whole new dimention. As the Russian say, "beer without vodka is wasted money"

dccarm, fair enuf, simple fact though is that the article is
about alcoholic Brits and not Ireland.

Its been pointed out already, but what the feck:

Where in that entire article is Ireland/Irish mentioned? Its about English bints getting rat arsed whilst binge boozing...

Not at all about the serious professionalism of being an Irish Alcoholic?
Irish Alcoholic you say? Next thing you'll be telling me the Popes a catholic and bears shiate in the woods...shocking stuff.

We Win:

http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:75569142&refid=ency_botpm

feckingmorons

Mmm, Beamish. Simply the Best.

Never tried Harp, looks dodgy to me.....just remember the ad with vikings and stuff 'we come because we heard about the harp'....can't believe I remember that.

We use the American standard in Ireland: 1,000,000,000.

And I'm suprised it's as few as that to be honest. One pint per person per day is far less than everybody I know drinks.

I would happily drink deeply from the bladder of a baboon before I would let a drop of Harp past my lips! Its not even sold here on tap anymore.

Jay-Tea you're cracking me up.

Hmmm... Guinness, Beamish, Murphy's - how do you pick a favourite? They are all pourable love in a pint glass. Ales, mmmmm. Boddingtons, John Adams.

*looks at her watch and eyes the local longingly*

The only time I don't order a Guinness is when you just can't wait 2 minutes for the beer to settle and you anxiously eye the taps for something else.

Or the time you do order a Guinness and the barman seems to serve everyone else before finishing off pouring your Guinness and you wished you'd have ordered a damn Smithwicks.

LaughingGremlin


Its been pointed out already, but what the feck:

Where in that entire article is Ireland/Irish mentioned?


Highlighted are the words that actually do appear in the article:

"Irish beer drinkers downed more than one billion pints of beer last year as they drank most of Europe under the table"

One of two things have occured here:

1. The submitter didn't RTFA.
2. The submitter couldn't think of a good headline and decided to insert a random beer fact instead.

I favour version 2.

binnster

Interesting theory, and a new way to drum up attention for ones article not to mention controversy, kind of like the WMA theory, gets attention, but not actually related to the article in hand....a ruse to get you to do something (in this case, read the article and then complain about it not being in any way related to the headline)

I'd be surprised if the Irish in Ireland managed 1 billion pints a year, as neither I nor my college mates live there any more, thus bringing down the average considerably ; )*

Er, not that I actually drink much, honest

Student.Grant
And they use euro in Eire. Not pounds.

And only English people call it Eire. It's correct, but only ever used in UK.

Anyway, Irish only drink most of Europe under table. There are countries with higher consumption.

curlywine

There are countries with higher consumption.

Does anyone have a list? I'd be interested to see where Scotland comes in (too lazy to search).

The UK is taken as a whole in the below figures, and in any case is number 7.

Pussies.

Once again, we win:

http://www.beerchina.com/beerenglish/comsptn_by_country_en.htm

On a normal night out Sarah will drink half a bottle of vodka before she even leaves her house.

damn woman! put the bottle down!

Smithwicks...now that is a damn good beer. My last night out on vacation to Ireland I think I downed at least 10 pints of the stuff after having 3-4 pints of Guinness to start the night off. Has anyone see Smithwicks at any of the pubs/liquor stores stateside here? I've been looking, but have yet to find it.

What is an alcopop? Does anyone know?

2004-01-13 08:54:28 AM Vaeric

I may be wrong but I think Smithwicks is sold as 'Kilkenny' beer in the USA

Pfern:

I think it's like a cooler.

Cormee

I'm not sure about the USA, but in Canada we have both Smithwicks and Kilkenny and they are definately two different beers...

2004-01-13 08:56:27 AM Pfern - Alcopop is a very strong prebottled cocktail drink that tastes more like a soft drink than alcohol, they're very popular among young girls who usually drink too many end up getting extremely and vomiting

yep you're probably right Calvin Hobbes

What's more annoying:
1) People who post articles without reading the damn things first or
2) People who post messages without reading the article OR the other messages first.

Someone post a map to help these morons out.

Oh, and yes, we Irish drink like fish, but that's not the subject of the article.

I'm not sure why Britain is so concerned about this; it sounds like a perfect solution. Work, party, repeat. All the while they consume (food, alcohol, clothes, etc.) to keep the economy going. Britain already has a good form of social stratification. Brave new world here we come.