Who can out drink the Irish?

by The 13th Warrior

Posted: 14 years ago 31 replies

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Some guy and I was talking about drinking, and when I commented on who can beat an Irishman drinking, he said the British can drink them under the table all day long, he was from the U.K.

Then, years later, got into another conversation about the same thing, but the guy said when he was in the military drinking with Irish and Brits, he never could stay conscious enough to see who survived and won the battle.

But the interesting comment he made is that the Japanese can out drink everyone.

Maybe its the strong saki, like shots, their accustomed to it or maybe its biochemical to them.

Does ANYONE really have the edge or Heavyweight Championship of Drinking and out surviving their drinking peers, or is it just folklore among the consumers of firewater?

What say you?

The 13th Warrior

rondo 14 years ago

Aussies of course.

Have you heard of David Boon?
David Boon beer drinking record holder
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- ILUVCA$H 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by rondo
  
  Aussies of course.
  
  Have you heard of David Boon?
  David Boon beer drinking record holder
  
  No way the Irish can out drink anyone !!
  
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- The 13th Warrior 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by rondo
  
  Aussies of course.
  
  Have you heard of David Boon?
  
  My mistake.
  
  Any culture whose slang word for beer is "coffee" tells you how "mild" they think of it.
  
  Or any culture that use's as a greeting "cheers" gives a peep into one of their mainstays or hobbies.
  
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- Aussie_Al 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by rondo
  
  Aussies of course.
  
  HAHA you beat me too it!
  
  Alcohol is such a problem for the Swedes they have to grade the beer and limit the amount of hours liquor stores are open especially in the winters.
  
  I once went to dinner with some major player in the Swedish music industry, he told me when he was 18 or 19 (he is about 50 now) he went on a working holiday to Australia - in all his years he has never seen a Nation that drinks as much as the Australians and this is coming from a Swede!
  
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rondo 14 years ago

I almost forgot to mention our ex Prime Minister's drinking record.
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HeySal 14 years ago

Japanese - Remember this name?

Kevin Riley.

I realize he's not a born, bred, Japanese, but he's lived there long enough to be saturated into the environment...or should I say well saturated by it?
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- Sevenhills 14 years ago
  
  Reminds me of a brilliant episode of Family guy where Peter goes to Ireland to find his dad.
  
  Anyway.. I don't really think it matters where your from.. I'm living in (Northern) Ireland at the moment and I'm surprised by how fast people over here get drunk on baby drinks such as Carlsberg, Guinness etc..
  
  Give them a few proper drinks and they are under the table after a few drinks..
  
  And if we really have to start generalizing.. I don't think it are the Japanese, have been drinking with quite a few Asians and most of them were already drunk after touching a drink.
  
  By the way, I'm Dutch
  
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dremora 14 years ago

Finns and Russians. Russians start drinking at 7 am to celebrate the sunrise. I suspect their mothers nurse them vodka when they are born!
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- The 13th Warrior 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by dremora
  
  Russians start drinking at 7 am to celebrate the sunrise. I suspect their mothers nurse them vodka when they are born!
  
  A guy who married a Russian and went to or thru Odessa a few times on vacation said they drink it pretty much as a substitute for water.
  
  Polish, huh?
  
  Is that the orgin of Polish jokes, they seem too dumb to get anything right when the fact of the matter is they are too plastered?
  
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dremora

14 years ago

Finns and Russians drink real booze and it takes a ton of vodka to get them drunk.
Irish can drink a lot of beer but they get drunk real fast with proper booze

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HeySal

14 years ago

Originally Posted by dremora

Finns and Russians drink real booze and it takes a ton of vodka to get them drunk.
Irish can drink a lot of beer but they get drunk real fast with proper booze

I'm Cossack stock myself - my family came over during the Bolshevik so I don't know those still there, but I can tell you.......the ones that came over here were sure pretty good at tucking it away when they had the mind to.

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lcombs

14 years ago

Originally Posted by dremora

Finns and Russians drink real booze and it takes a ton of vodka to get them drunk.
Irish can drink a lot of beer but they get drunk real fast with proper booze

Yep.

This thread may just set the ACLU or some other nonsense group on us.
This is about as politically incorrect as I've seen in WF.

One of the great things about you guys.

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HeySal

14 years ago

Originally Posted by lcombs

Yep.

This thread may just set the ACLU or some other nonsense group on us.
This is about as politically incorrect as I've seen in WF.

One of the great things about you guys.

They'd have to call the Olympics very non-PC too. After all, certain countries have become well established in producing talent in varied sectors of the sports world. So, we'll just consider drinking one of the world class sports and they can't say much about it. If they are jealous because the US isn't getting enough honorable mention....if you want to go occupational - our geologists are getting quite a rep for being professional beer sluggers.

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lcombs

14 years ago

Originally Posted by HeySal

Shhhhh.....

We're not allowed to generalize about ethnicity.

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Nigel_Amyes

14 years ago

I'd like to add the Polish to the mix... while I'm not Polish myself I have had the pleasure of drinking with many a Pol... you say Russians love their Vodka? have you seen the Polish drink the stuff? yikes!

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Sevenhills

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Nigel_Amyes

Have to agree with you there.. The Polish are excellent drinkers!

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halfpoint 14 years ago

Ireland was a different place before alcohol was invented.

The Ireland viewed by the guys of family guy Video
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Lawrh 14 years ago

The Japanese are serious beer drinkers. Sake popularity has been below 18% for years.
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- The 13th Warrior 14 years ago
  
  So now the question becomes...,should beer drinkers be put in the same category as hard liquor drinkers?
  
  Who are the BEST HARD liquor drinkers should be the question then.
  
  Hard Liquor drinkers = Grade 1 drinkers
  
  Beer drinkers = Grade 2 drinkers
  
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- domainarama 14 years ago
  
  Judging by Asashoryu, it must be Mongolians.
  
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Kevin Birch 14 years ago

A few years ago I witnessed a drinking race.

2 hardened bar manages in Newcastle on Tyne, North East, UK sat at the bar and were already 'well oiled' on Newcastle Brown Ale (pewk). They proceeded to have a whisky (note the difference) drinking race.

Each one had a pint of Bells Whisky and started to race . . . the outcome wasn't very pleasant at all - ambulances were called and they were rushed into hospital with chronic alcohol poisoning . . .

The Geordies (ie those who are born and bred in the North East of England) can really shift some! My own grandfather was a '16 bottle of Brown Ale a night man!'
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Thomas 14 years ago

We have to drink. It's the only known defence against aliens:

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- Ken Strong 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Thomas
  
  We have to drink. It's the only known defence against aliens
  
  Hey, Tommy, last night I was watching "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" for the first time. Is that a realistic portrayal of Irish society?
  
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  Thomas 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by KenStrong
  
  Hey, Tommy, last night I was watching "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" for the first time. Is that a realistic portrayal of Irish society?
  
  Oh, yes. Dunno why it was released as a movie; it's more like a documentary really.
  
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jonnoryan 14 years ago

The thing about us Irish is the pace we drink beer at. I have traveled a great deal the last few yrs and I sincerely think that we drink beer at a faster pace than most other nations. I remember been at an after dinner function in Denmark 2 yrs ago when a group of business men. In Denmark they serve the beer in smaller measures that a pint. I was consuming approx. 6 of these glasses per hr . This was only about 4 pints per hr ( which is about norm for us over here on a easy night out ). Anyways, these Danish people were looking at me as if I had 2 heads on me.

As the saying goes ' Whiskey was invented to stop the Irish taking over the world' lol
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lcombs 14 years ago

"As the saying goes ' Whiskey was invented to stop the Irish taking over the world' lol"

I like that.

I also like to end an evening out with an Irish coffee.

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rjaf 14 years ago

Some people die of thirst, but the Irish are born with one.
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