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Title: Booze calculator: What's your drinking nationality?
Post by: Machiavelli on December 21, 2014, 02:38:17 am
BBC News
December 18, 2014

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In the month of December alcohol consumption increases as many people celebrate the festive season. But how does your drinking measure up to the average from countries around the world? Find out below if you are similar to a boozy Belarusian or a teetotal Kuwaiti.
Calculate your intake and see where you come out. (http://www.bbc.com/news/health-30500372)

Belarus has the heaviest drinkers. Kuwait, where booze is illegal, has the lightest drinkers.
Title: Re: Booze calculator: What's your drinking nationality?
Post by: EC on December 21, 2014, 06:03:40 am
Unsurprisingly, I got Kuwait.  :whistle:
Title: Re: Booze calculator: What's your drinking nationality?
Post by: alicewonders on December 21, 2014, 01:47:15 pm
You drink like you're from Tajikistan, which is the joint 41st lightest-drinking country in the world.

Title: Re: Booze calculator: What's your drinking nationality?
Post by: andy58-in-nh on December 21, 2014, 03:05:51 pm
I got "Ukraine", the sixth-heaviest drinking nation on the list. I am not in the least surprised, especially since much of my family emigrated here from... the Ukraine.
Three generations later, we can still pack it away. :beer:
Title: Re: Booze calculator: What's your drinking nationality?
Post by: Oceander on December 21, 2014, 03:32:03 pm
Solomon Islands, although even that overstates it since I don't drink the same amount every week.  Most weeks I drink nothing at all.
Title: Re: Booze calculator: What's your drinking nationality?
Post by: jmyrlefuller on December 21, 2014, 05:33:40 pm
Yeah, it seems like most of the non-drinking countries are those under sharia. Joy.

Why do alcohol and liberty have to always go hand-in-hand? Is humanity incapable of being free and sober at the same time?
Title: Re: Booze calculator: What's your drinking nationality?
Post by: EC on December 21, 2014, 05:36:41 pm
Yeah, it seems like most of the non-drinking countries are those under sharia. Joy.

Why do alcohol and liberty have to always go hand-in-hand? Is humanity incapable of being free and sober at the same time?

Rather the opposite. Want heavy drinkers? Look for places with less liberty, not more.
Title: Re: Booze calculator: What's your drinking nationality?
Post by: Scottftlc on December 21, 2014, 05:43:14 pm
I'm France...wine and good food, you know.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Booze calculator: What's your drinking nationality?
Post by: Bigun on December 21, 2014, 06:00:45 pm
Unsurprisingly, I got Kuwait.  :whistle:

Same here.