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Why do Irish people act as if drink is this thing to be feared?

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  • #52
    jobeenfitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,443 ✭✭✭jobeenfitz


    Matt Barrett wrote: »
    I've been chasing wisdon for several years and when I catch him he'll get a belt of my shillelagh I can tell ya.

    Norman?


  • #53
    noubliezjamais
    Registered Users Posts: 253 ✭✭noubliezjamais


    I saw an article by a sociologist who said that a countries problem with drugs/alcohol is correlated with attitudes towards said substances.

    Countries that are on extremes of the spectrum in terms of behaviour (extreme binge drinking/poly drug use along with extreme abstinence) are those with the worst problems because people can't learn moderation. Countries that have moderate use and attitudes are those that have the least problems with addiction.


  • #54
    Widdershins
    Registered Users Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    I've no strong feelings about alcohol but my ex does see it as evil, although he's not Irish . He has his reasons, as most pioneer/temperance types do, but people can find him a bit puritanical and extreme .

    An Irish neighbour of mine once said that his uncle had died and someone else remarked '' the drink got him in the end'' to which the Irishman said '' I think the drink gets us all in the end''.


  • #55
    dartboardio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,436 ✭✭✭dartboardio


    Get over yourself.

    Drinking is not 'one' thing to everyone as it is you.

    You do whatever you want.

    And we will too.


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