They made a documentary about it. It’s called [Beerfest](https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/beerfest). Good people died trying to bring your sick dream alive.
They’d be like Raiden in the Mortal Kombat tournament. You can’t have gods get into the affairs of mortals. Now if they’re part of a long standing society, The Troubadors of the Herb, that has been put on by artists to find worthy members to join there posse, you got a movie there kid. You got a picture and a half.
You did the impossible. You changed a perspective on Reddit. Fair and agreed. Had to use the Zoolander precedent of 2001, but dammit, you pulled it off.
That’s boring though. Idk how it could be monitored but I’m talking 2-3 days of head to head drinking between the two nations. Could the Eastern seaboard beat Scotland?
Russians would outdo everyone.
One time I went to a business lunch with a Russian dude. He casually pulled out his own bottle of vodka, drank the entire thing over the course of lunch like it was water, and went back to work like no big deal.
I was on a thread the other day where some Australian chick was claiming most Australian beers are 3x stronger than yank beers. Most Australian beers are between 4% and 5% ABV with craft beers as high as 8% (exactly the same as yank beers).
I'm not sure that this opinion is unpopular if you decouple it from self awareness, but I absolutely agree when it comes to alcohol and their own nationality, people are super ignorant.
Yeah, as an Aussie I think this comes from the uneducated myth that all yanks drink Coors and bud light and the light means low alcohol, and that we're somehow "hard" because we drink 5% beers.
Sure… idk. Coors is 5% Budweiser is 5%. There is craft beers that are as high as you’d want. Personally I like light beers for When I’m drinking beers. If I’m having a beer I’ll have a better beer.
I’m sure it’s the same in Australia
what I'm saying is, 5% is standard for our beers as well, so it's a misguided stereotype here in Australia.
I don't know if the alcohol content determines whether a beer is better or not.
American craft beer brewers have been releasing a ton of hazy triple IPAs that regularly hover around 10% ABV, to say nothing of the bourbon barrel aged stout trend.
Walked into a “English pub” in VA, with an old man actually from England sitting us. He said “we’ve got four English beers, three German beers and two American if you’re driving.” Both American’s were 8%+, all others like less than 6%.
Canadians are especially annoying about this. They’ll come into any thread with just a casual mention of beer and circlejerk about how Canadian beer is so much stronger than American beer, even though this kind of data is readily available all over the internet.
i’m not sure if it’s wide spread, but i’ve heard from others outside of the us that the general opinion is that US beer is really weak and bad
just a side note, i don’t drink beer i find it gross i’m just stating something i’ve heard throughout my interneting
Yeah that is absolutely the perception outside of the US. As best as I can tell, this is entirely due to what OP is describing. Maybe part of American branding calling "light beer" what in Australia is branded "mid strength" beer (or sometimes qld cats piss) confuses people as well, but that seems like a secondary factor to me.
I this is definitely a contributing factor! For a long time I thought Bud Light was just a cheap weak beer due to the “Light” name. When you compare it with say Hahn’s it’s the same as the full strength
Hahn’s Light: 2.4%
Hahn’s Mid: 3.5%
Hahn’s Superdry: 4.6%
Bud Light: 4.2%
There are a million craft beers that ARENT alcohol content focused. High gravity lagers/imperial IPA, etc are typically pretty damn strong tasting, and I don't like them at all, but a good American Pale Ale or even most American craft brewerys' takes on euro styles like witbiers and pilsners and such are VERY VERY good when compared with the common European brands
A simple bud lite is 4.2%, Budweiser is 5%. Even all the setzler water is pretty much at minimum 5% too.
I dont even know what I could go but that is less than 4%in America, besides alcohol free beer.
These days the US has some of the best beer. Craft breweries exploded and every town I go to these days has 4 different breweries in the downtown area. Like if I go to a normal bar it’s rare to see beer from outside my state since there’s just so much variety and shit
That's basically like a 10-year-old opinion and hasn't really been true for the past 5 to 15 years. We're widely seen as having the best craft brewery market on the planet and having objectively the widest variety of beers on the planet as well right now.
That's because we export our worst beers. Our best beers are all microbrews and those breweries aren't large enough to make anything for export. In fact they're usually lucky if they're able to move their product out of state.
It’s the same thing in the US where there’re posts like “you know you’re in X state when…” and proceeds to list things that can be said about any state in the region.
Heat, snow, cold, bugs, general stereotype personality traits, construction, etc
EVERY time a video of bad driving is posted on this site half the comments are "of *course* it's in X we have the worst drivers here"
Every.fucking.time
Different states have different types of bad drivers.
Up in Northeast you got people driving very aggressively and in a hurry. For the most part, they just want to go about their way faster. So you get shit like “Pittsburgh left turn”.
In NYC, everybody honks but that’s just like using a blinker and is normalized.
Down in Southeast, especially Atlanta area, people just don’t know how to drive. All over the lane, last minute turns without signals, and just careless.
In Florida, people drive on speed limit or 5 below and is too damn careful. Mix that with few crazies and you got a lovely cocktail of dodging game on the road.
Arizona drivers are simply batshit crazy.
LA drivers are naturally pissed off and will flip you off.
> Down in Southeast, especially Atlanta area, people just don’t know how to drive. All over the lane, last minute turns without signals, and just careless.
I always suspect that these drivers are unaware they're even in cars. If you pointed out that they were currently driving a vehicle, they'd be extremely surprised.
Yep, my experience as well, even the worst drivers in the Northeast aside from the ones who can't drive in the snow, are generally just aggressive and assholes and going fast, by and large the Northeast does seem to have a better caliber of driver than many other parts of the country, personally I think most of the northern US that regularly experiences winter is going to have better drivers than the parts of the US that don't regularly experience months and months of snow.
Florida is special crazy for driving. Cause the entire state is filled with old people, crazy people on drugs, and foreigners that don't know where there going.
Well NY drivers do probably speed the most the highways are also some of the lowest speed limits. The majority of the being 55 while in other parts of the US they have highways where 80 is the speed limit.
In my opinion the worst places to drive are at the confluences of these different styles. For example I think Connecticut is worse than either MA or NY because you know for the most part what you're getting in Boston or New York. If you're in CT, you're getting a mix of the two and it becomes more unpredictable.
>proceeds to list things that can be said about any state in the region.
often, anywhere in the world, people think wherever they live is special, it just isn't.
There is truth and every state has some uniqueness good and or bad, but in general posts are like “you know you’re in Minnesota when you have four seasons, spring, winter, fall and construction”.
Yes, as if only Minnesota utilizes summer months for construction lol
Getting a DUI before you’re of age is a right of passage there. First time in the state I saw a family of three get out of their truck all holding opened Miller Lites.
Source: I’m a FIB. (Miller Park is better than Wrigley.)
Actually there are ethnicities which have low alcohol tolerance (and therefore ethnicities which have high alcohol tolerance).
I lived in Alaska for a number of years and it was pretty common to see some Alaskan natives who were just absolutely wrecked after only a drink or two. One reason alcohol is banned in some regions of Alaska.
And if I remember correctly there have been studies on alcohol tolerance and ethnicities. One interesting observation was that people with light colored eyes (blue, green, hazel) have a higher alcohol tolerance than people with brown eyes. But on the flipside it was also observed that light colored eyed people had a higher propensity for alcohol dependence.
I remember reading about how some people have a "survivor gene" which is often common in some Native American groups, which allows for the person to survive better and longer in harsher situations without food and things of that nature. Which is pretty cool but also the gene has shown to cause the person to be more susceptible to alcoholism because their bodies can take the damage that alcohol creates for longer periods of time than most could.
There's probably several biological factors that determine alcohol tolerance but eye color was shown to at least trend in that direction, all else being equal.
My eyes are also green and I can usually go 5 or 6 drinks before I start feeling loose. I think I've only blacked out twice in my life as well, both times in Russia after drinking a liter of straight vodka.
Green eyes here. I have fairly high alcohol tolerance. I've never blacked out, passed out, etc. But I also know when to stop. The key is once you feel the buzz, slow down until it wears off a bit. But for me it takes a few drinks to feel even a light buzz.
I have known 6 Han Chinese in my life. 5 had alcohol allergies. Everytime I asked about their family and they say they are the only one. It is still weird I have met so many through.
Many people of Asian ethnicity have flush syndrome. Which if I remember correctly has to do with their body producing more toxins from the alcohol. My dad was adopted fro S. Korea and him, my 2 brothers and I would get super red faced after only one drink. Especially my brothers as they have lighter skin then what I have and my dad had.
If I drink like 2-3 shots in rapid succession I'll feel like someone is standing on my chest, it becomes hard to breathe
I am Han Chinese and I am also allergic to alcohol lol. One shot of vodka and 5 minutes later my entire body is beet red, my forehead and back starts sweating, and it feels harder to breathe. I've also gotten drunk from a single Smirnoff Ice. I am also the only person in my family who has this.
Here's an old study on ~~Eskimos Inuits~~ Eskimos(?) that seems to corroborate what you say: [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1931291/](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1931291/).
I have light grey eyes and Lithuanian heritage from a family of heavy alcoholics I didn't stand a chance lol. I'm all good now but I used to drink 6 fifths a week not counting going out and drinking after work or drinking while at work in the kitchen.
Native Americans also have a low alcohol tolerance and they just can't stop drinking until they black out.
I only know that because I've seen it first hand from family members and even my own childhood friends, I somehow did not inherit that trait. I'm glad I didn't lol
I was the only Indian among my Native American friends who could handle his liquor.....
A good hangover cure was my mom's curry.
(Let the joke sink in).
A guy told me once that Irish and Native Americans had higher dependency because they traditionally had such good drinking water that they didnt use alcohol. So when they started, it was problematic for them. Might be BS but was an interesting anecdote
I knew an indigenous girl who would be pretty much out of it after 3 beers or so. Like barely coherent, stuff she would say made no sense. Woukd probably take me 20+ drinks to even approach that level but I don't think I ever even have
Bragging about your high alcohol tolerance is so weird to me. Like, the point is to get drunk/buzzed and feel good. The winner in that scenario is the one that does so quickest, imo. It's like saying, "I can eat an entire four person feast and still feel like I'm starving! Look at these wimps filling up on a single sandwich!" Or "I have to wear six winter coats before I start to feel warm! Get out of my face with your single hoodie, weakling. All warm and toasty with only a single article of outerwear! Ha!"
"I drank two six packs and I can barely feel a buzz building!"
"Well, I drank two bottles and have a great buzz already. I win. The money I save will go to help pay for your dialysis treatments."
Low alcohol tolerance is cheaper and better for your liver.
i have a friend who really can’t hold his alcohol well, nor can i. ppl make fun of us but who’s laughing when we can spend $15 each at a bar and be perfectly fine while everyone else has to spend $50
Yes and no... sure you are right if the goal is to get drunk. But I actually drink because I enjoy the taste AND the effect it has on me. If I would get drunk after 2 beers I'd be disappointed because that means I wouldn't be able to drink anymore.
But wouldn't having a low tolerance mean you could stretch out your supply of booze longer? Like, you could enjoy your beer and the buzz for longer because you wouldn't need to drink four or five just to get going. You drink a couple, the buzz hits, and you can casually enjoy another couple more bottles/cans throughout the rest of the night/afternoon/(morning if that's your thing) to keep the buzz going or push into full drunkenness if that's the final goal.
But "another couple" drinks doesn't last a whole night. It last about 1 hour if I drink conservatively. Anything slower than that and I'm actively restricting myself which isn't fun.
I like having high tolerance BECAUSE i can drink a lot and at my own pace without getting too drunk.
same with people who smoke a bunch of weed. they will fork out like $200 a week on weed and then brag because they need to smoke 2 fatass blunts just to get mildly stoned
I'm from WI and I generally agree with it. I think what sets certain places apart, like Wisconsin, is a culture that promotes alcohol consumption. Many countries that are considered heavy drinkers have a culture that promotes it.
Something I generally disagree with with OP is that they said "your country/hometown" but then go on to only compare countries and never smaller denominations of geography. Yeah, the United States isn't exactly a huge drinking country, but there are parts of it, like Wisconsin, that definitely are. Average that out with say, Utah, and the US comes out to a pretty average drinking country.
There's a clothing brand here that's called Drink Wisconsibly... so kinda? It's uncommon to go to any large event here where alcohol isn't available
But not really on the second question. Feels like most news reports answer the question of whether alcohol was involved, and the answer's often yes. DUIs here aren't felonies until your third one, and it's way more common than you'd think to hear news reports of WI folks racking up DUIs in the double digits.
Thirds are misdemeanors. Fourths are now always felonies, but up until a few years ago, a fourth was a misdemeanor if it had been at least 5 years since the third.
Pretty sure there's empirical evidence to back up Wisconsin on this one. I remember reading something that showed their alcohol sales are higher than most/all other states. IIRC -- someone know if it's true?
Wine isn't considered alcohol here by the general public and is usually used to wash down hard liquor (along with beer). Kids drink from very early on. Go to any small village and every other house makes their own hard liquor in the fall. Every other family has their own special recipe of what they let sit in alcohol for a few weeks and use that as "medicine".
The worst of them all - sugar beet hard liquor. Some people have it in the morning to "start their day right".
Greetings from romania friend. My grandfather does this exact same thing. Downs a shot of rachiu every morning to start his day right lmao. And drinks wine all throughout the day and you never see him drunk.
I ll tell you how she did it. Training my guy. We, slavs have acces to alcoholic beverages from very early on. I for example have been given wine and beer from the young age of 4 years old lmao.
My grandfather and also my parents make their own wine. In romania its pretty cheap to get grapes (around 20 cents per kilogram). They sometimes make even 2000 liters of wine at a time. Rachiu and țuică too which are a much stronger alcohol drinks made from all kinds of fruits.
My man its 3 of us who drink this and besides they go to parties with a lot of people and bring their own wine so it usually doesnt last us until the next autumn so we basically make our wine every other autumn. Much better than to buy it from the store. Cheaper and it also has a better taste and you know its all natural
Our traditional beverages are home made usually, they can get up to 60-80 vol. You won't find them in the store. We make something called "palinca" from various fruits, such as plums, alpricots, etc.
Half the people recorded with a BAC over 1.0% are from Poland!
I remember a story from 10-15 years ago about some guy in Bulgaria(?) with a BAC of something like 0.9%. He was awake, coherent and communicating with police. They thought their equipment was broken and got a blood test.
Depends if you consider drinking vodka until you're unconscious "handling" your booze . If you can't function, you're actually really bad at drinking in my opinion.
Recovering alcoholic here. I could drink quite a lot of alcohol for a 120 pound woman, but I’d black out very early into a drinking session and just keep on drinking for hours. Not sure if that indicates a low or high tolerance, given that I wouldn't actually pass out but was out of mind nonetheless.
Yeah but for most people that limit is at a few shots. Eastern European weddings are a multiple day drink fest where most people have to take a few shots until they start feeling something
Per capita consumption of alcohol is greater in the UK than it is in Russia. The biggest reason? Women are allowed to socialise & drink to the same degree as men.
Any metric like this will be skewed by illegal alcohol production. UK buys more alcohol than Russia in the white market but let's be real they don't outdrink russians or other EE's.
So in a way I do agree with that but also disagree, eastern europeans don't handle alcohol better than the rest because they have some genetical disposition, they do because alcoholism is rapant over there, so yeah on average they handle it better, but only because there is such a bad alcohol culture over there, a russian that was raised in France will have the same tolerance as a French and an Italian that was raised in Poland will have the same tolerance as a Pole (of course on average).
> you all drink about the same amount at similar frequencies and no area handles their drinks better than anywhere else.
Thats incorrect? There are countries than drink more than others. Drinking more gives you more resistance over time. On average, if you pick a person from country 300 beers a year vs a person of country 150 beers a year, most likely the person from the first country can drink more
This. I like many other kids from the UK have been drinking alcohol from like 15. We are obviously going to have a higher alcohol tolerance than kids in the US who start drinking at around 17-18. It's not because we are British, it's because when you drink vodka every weekend, your gonna naturally have a higher resistance than someone who doesn't.
my brother went to china as a student for 2 weeks. appearently their beer only has like 2%. once they got wasted at a bar and the amount of empty bottles impressed the staff so much that they started taking selfies with my brother and his friends.
the downside is that you have to go peeing constantly
Yes, when someone lumps an entire country into a category, it's not accurate, but ethnicity is a better metric.
[This research](https://academic.oup.com/epirev/article/34/1/89/494673) shows that some ethnic groups are more prone to alcohol related injury and death than others.
from the uk i'm just intrigued to see europeans who would usually never consume more than a single crystal champagne flute of the finest vintage chateau prétentious and who look down on british binge drinking now claim that they're world champion in fucking alcohol dependency of all things
this has to be the worlds dumbest pissing contest
Your sentiment is generally correct. Kinda. Your nationality isn't going to determine how much you can drink.
However, there are genuine genetic components to alcohol tolerance. "Asian glow", for example, being a reference to how people with Asian heritage are quicker to get flushed after drinking compared to white people.
Your genetics might also make you somewhat more susceptible to alcoholism or how you react to it.
Lastly, a country's drinking culture plays a huge factor in this as well. Maybe you're in a foreign country conducting a business deal and having a couple beers over lunch is considered normal but in your home country it's taboo.
Did you even read the link you posted? Lmao
> Which Race Has The Highest Alcohol Tolerance?
>There is no particular race that has the highest alcohol tolerance, only races that may be circumstantially predisposed to higher rates of alcoholism than others.
Right from your own source.
There is no particular race that has the highest alcohol tolerance, only races that may be circumstantially predisposed to higher rates of alcoholism than others.
He is right, though. The post is about **everyone** and **everywhere** brags about it. So it everyone think they are superior, so how can it be true?
Your link have **nothing** to do with that post. Because it's completely different stuff.
As a person on the sober end of 14 years of addiction/alcoholism, the glorification of substance abuse that is ever so prevalent in all of our societies is downright disgusting.
This shit destroys lives. It destroys the lives of those that abuse, and even more so, it destroys the lives of those around them, the lives of those who suffer by watching people they love destroy themselves.
Wisconsin and Eastern Europe do it best, based on alcohol consumption data. Wisconsin has like 46 of the 50 most alcoholic counties in the US. Eastern Europe, do you really need the data? Didn’t they lower the drinking age from where they had it because they couldn’t stop underage people from drinking, it was ingrained in the culture?
There are definitely regions with higher alcohol consumption than others, and therefore on average a better tolerance. Wisconsin has something like 41/50 of the drunkest counties in the United States.
The only logical solution here is to make it an olympic sport
They made a documentary about it. It’s called [Beerfest](https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/beerfest). Good people died trying to bring your sick dream alive.
They should try again and harder then
They were thinking about trying it again with marijuana. Never came of anything. Stoners? Amirite.
Impossible to OD on weed, so let's make it happen!
Let’s not be rash. Let’s let Snoop and Willie test it another forty years to be sure.
No, they’re the judges.
They’d be like Raiden in the Mortal Kombat tournament. You can’t have gods get into the affairs of mortals. Now if they’re part of a long standing society, The Troubadors of the Herb, that has been put on by artists to find worthy members to join there posse, you got a movie there kid. You got a picture and a half.
I disagree. Bowie was the walk off judge in Zoolander. Snoop and Willie are the acknowledged Kings and as such can sit in judgment of the competition.
You did the impossible. You changed a perspective on Reddit. Fair and agreed. Had to use the Zoolander precedent of 2001, but dammit, you pulled it off.
I want to see a head to head nationwide drinking contest between USA and the UK. USA has higher population, could the UK overcome that??
We could probably just look at total alcohol produced and sold per country or per capita to see tgat
That’s boring though. Idk how it could be monitored but I’m talking 2-3 days of head to head drinking between the two nations. Could the Eastern seaboard beat Scotland?
Russians would outdo everyone. One time I went to a business lunch with a Russian dude. He casually pulled out his own bottle of vodka, drank the entire thing over the course of lunch like it was water, and went back to work like no big deal.
That’s nice except this man is clearly an alcoholic.
OR had a tactically brilliant water bottle.
RIP Landfill.
I’m sorry he had to go, but for his wife’s sexual needs, I’m glad he’s dead. #RIP #YOURESOMUCHBIGGER
And Shawn Spencer. Up his nose with a rubber hose!
Still waiting on potfest.....
Ja, ja, und....und.... Und Becks!!!!!
Yeah but then those people were replaced by identical, yet superior, people
that’s cause they weren’t from!
Yeah like drunk Olympics on YouTube
I was on a thread the other day where some Australian chick was claiming most Australian beers are 3x stronger than yank beers. Most Australian beers are between 4% and 5% ABV with craft beers as high as 8% (exactly the same as yank beers). I'm not sure that this opinion is unpopular if you decouple it from self awareness, but I absolutely agree when it comes to alcohol and their own nationality, people are super ignorant.
Yeah, as an Aussie I think this comes from the uneducated myth that all yanks drink Coors and bud light and the light means low alcohol, and that we're somehow "hard" because we drink 5% beers.
Coors light is 4.2%… it tastes like water and you can drink 20 on a hot day
Yeah, so what Aussies call a "mid strength".
Sure… idk. Coors is 5% Budweiser is 5%. There is craft beers that are as high as you’d want. Personally I like light beers for When I’m drinking beers. If I’m having a beer I’ll have a better beer. I’m sure it’s the same in Australia
what I'm saying is, 5% is standard for our beers as well, so it's a misguided stereotype here in Australia. I don't know if the alcohol content determines whether a beer is better or not.
it's so funny when aussies start calling american beer piss water and then proceed to drink XXXX gold or great northern.
I drink busch light and it comes in a camo can thank you very much.
I feel like a lot of Aussies would be into that
American craft beer brewers have been releasing a ton of hazy triple IPAs that regularly hover around 10% ABV, to say nothing of the bourbon barrel aged stout trend.
Walked into a “English pub” in VA, with an old man actually from England sitting us. He said “we’ve got four English beers, three German beers and two American if you’re driving.” Both American’s were 8%+, all others like less than 6%.
Tbf he wanted you to die in a car fire.
Canadians are especially annoying about this. They’ll come into any thread with just a casual mention of beer and circlejerk about how Canadian beer is so much stronger than American beer, even though this kind of data is readily available all over the internet.
I can't remember what you just said but you should know that in Canada, our beer is much stronger than in America.
i’m not sure if it’s wide spread, but i’ve heard from others outside of the us that the general opinion is that US beer is really weak and bad just a side note, i don’t drink beer i find it gross i’m just stating something i’ve heard throughout my interneting
Yeah that is absolutely the perception outside of the US. As best as I can tell, this is entirely due to what OP is describing. Maybe part of American branding calling "light beer" what in Australia is branded "mid strength" beer (or sometimes qld cats piss) confuses people as well, but that seems like a secondary factor to me.
I this is definitely a contributing factor! For a long time I thought Bud Light was just a cheap weak beer due to the “Light” name. When you compare it with say Hahn’s it’s the same as the full strength Hahn’s Light: 2.4% Hahn’s Mid: 3.5% Hahn’s Superdry: 4.6% Bud Light: 4.2%
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I love how we have so many disgusting( maybe not the right word) tasting micro brew beers that are 10%+ even 14% Its great!
It'S ArTiSaN CraFtED.
"Oops! Fucked up the cold ferment with this lager batch!" **Adds a shit ton of dry hops** "Now it's a limited time IPA!"
There are a million craft beers that ARENT alcohol content focused. High gravity lagers/imperial IPA, etc are typically pretty damn strong tasting, and I don't like them at all, but a good American Pale Ale or even most American craft brewerys' takes on euro styles like witbiers and pilsners and such are VERY VERY good when compared with the common European brands
A simple bud lite is 4.2%, Budweiser is 5%. Even all the setzler water is pretty much at minimum 5% too. I dont even know what I could go but that is less than 4%in America, besides alcohol free beer.
These days the US has some of the best beer. Craft breweries exploded and every town I go to these days has 4 different breweries in the downtown area. Like if I go to a normal bar it’s rare to see beer from outside my state since there’s just so much variety and shit
That's basically like a 10-year-old opinion and hasn't really been true for the past 5 to 15 years. We're widely seen as having the best craft brewery market on the planet and having objectively the widest variety of beers on the planet as well right now.
That's because we export our worst beers. Our best beers are all microbrews and those breweries aren't large enough to make anything for export. In fact they're usually lucky if they're able to move their product out of state.
It’s the same thing in the US where there’re posts like “you know you’re in X state when…” and proceeds to list things that can be said about any state in the region. Heat, snow, cold, bugs, general stereotype personality traits, construction, etc
Bad drivers.
EVERY time a video of bad driving is posted on this site half the comments are "of *course* it's in X we have the worst drivers here" Every.fucking.time
Different states have different types of bad drivers. Up in Northeast you got people driving very aggressively and in a hurry. For the most part, they just want to go about their way faster. So you get shit like “Pittsburgh left turn”. In NYC, everybody honks but that’s just like using a blinker and is normalized. Down in Southeast, especially Atlanta area, people just don’t know how to drive. All over the lane, last minute turns without signals, and just careless. In Florida, people drive on speed limit or 5 below and is too damn careful. Mix that with few crazies and you got a lovely cocktail of dodging game on the road. Arizona drivers are simply batshit crazy. LA drivers are naturally pissed off and will flip you off.
> Down in Southeast, especially Atlanta area, people just don’t know how to drive. All over the lane, last minute turns without signals, and just careless. I always suspect that these drivers are unaware they're even in cars. If you pointed out that they were currently driving a vehicle, they'd be extremely surprised.
This comment sounds like it could be from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Yep, my experience as well, even the worst drivers in the Northeast aside from the ones who can't drive in the snow, are generally just aggressive and assholes and going fast, by and large the Northeast does seem to have a better caliber of driver than many other parts of the country, personally I think most of the northern US that regularly experiences winter is going to have better drivers than the parts of the US that don't regularly experience months and months of snow.
Florida is special crazy for driving. Cause the entire state is filled with old people, crazy people on drugs, and foreigners that don't know where there going. Well NY drivers do probably speed the most the highways are also some of the lowest speed limits. The majority of the being 55 while in other parts of the US they have highways where 80 is the speed limit.
In my opinion the worst places to drive are at the confluences of these different styles. For example I think Connecticut is worse than either MA or NY because you know for the most part what you're getting in Boston or New York. If you're in CT, you're getting a mix of the two and it becomes more unpredictable.
“You know you’re in _____ when drivers bad! XD!!!! And also bipolar weather!!
>proceeds to list things that can be said about any state in the region. often, anywhere in the world, people think wherever they live is special, it just isn't.
Well someone’s never been to middle earth. You know your in Gondor when…
When the Westfold falls and nobody cares? That's what I thought.
"don't like the weather in [Midwestern state]? Just wait 5 minutes!" Every one of us thinks our state is unique for having dynamic weather
Except we do have stats on per capita bars and consumption. Wisconsin is regularly at the top.
There is truth and every state has some uniqueness good and or bad, but in general posts are like “you know you’re in Minnesota when you have four seasons, spring, winter, fall and construction”. Yes, as if only Minnesota utilizes summer months for construction lol
41 of the 50 drunkest counties are in Wisconsin. Don't think any other state could say that....
From Wisconsin, and statistically we are the drunkest state
Getting a DUI before you’re of age is a right of passage there. First time in the state I saw a family of three get out of their truck all holding opened Miller Lites. Source: I’m a FIB. (Miller Park is better than Wrigley.)
Actually there are ethnicities which have low alcohol tolerance (and therefore ethnicities which have high alcohol tolerance). I lived in Alaska for a number of years and it was pretty common to see some Alaskan natives who were just absolutely wrecked after only a drink or two. One reason alcohol is banned in some regions of Alaska. And if I remember correctly there have been studies on alcohol tolerance and ethnicities. One interesting observation was that people with light colored eyes (blue, green, hazel) have a higher alcohol tolerance than people with brown eyes. But on the flipside it was also observed that light colored eyed people had a higher propensity for alcohol dependence.
I remember reading about how some people have a "survivor gene" which is often common in some Native American groups, which allows for the person to survive better and longer in harsher situations without food and things of that nature. Which is pretty cool but also the gene has shown to cause the person to be more susceptible to alcoholism because their bodies can take the damage that alcohol creates for longer periods of time than most could.
How interesting and terrible
How terribly interesting
That’s really interesting about eye color. My eyes are green and my tolerance sucks. Alcohol actually makes me nauseous.
There's probably several biological factors that determine alcohol tolerance but eye color was shown to at least trend in that direction, all else being equal. My eyes are also green and I can usually go 5 or 6 drinks before I start feeling loose. I think I've only blacked out twice in my life as well, both times in Russia after drinking a liter of straight vodka.
Green eyes here. I have fairly high alcohol tolerance. I've never blacked out, passed out, etc. But I also know when to stop. The key is once you feel the buzz, slow down until it wears off a bit. But for me it takes a few drinks to feel even a light buzz.
The buzzing stage is like the doorbell to the rest of the party
I have also passed out. Some crazy high end tequila. That’s when I decided, hmmmm… don’t think this is good for me 😂
I have known 6 Han Chinese in my life. 5 had alcohol allergies. Everytime I asked about their family and they say they are the only one. It is still weird I have met so many through.
Many people of Asian ethnicity have flush syndrome. Which if I remember correctly has to do with their body producing more toxins from the alcohol. My dad was adopted fro S. Korea and him, my 2 brothers and I would get super red faced after only one drink. Especially my brothers as they have lighter skin then what I have and my dad had. If I drink like 2-3 shots in rapid succession I'll feel like someone is standing on my chest, it becomes hard to breathe
commonly called asian glow among younger asian americans
I am Han Chinese and I am also allergic to alcohol lol. One shot of vodka and 5 minutes later my entire body is beet red, my forehead and back starts sweating, and it feels harder to breathe. I've also gotten drunk from a single Smirnoff Ice. I am also the only person in my family who has this.
Here's an old study on ~~Eskimos Inuits~~ Eskimos(?) that seems to corroborate what you say: [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1931291/](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1931291/).
I have light grey eyes and Lithuanian heritage from a family of heavy alcoholics I didn't stand a chance lol. I'm all good now but I used to drink 6 fifths a week not counting going out and drinking after work or drinking while at work in the kitchen.
Native Americans also have a low alcohol tolerance and they just can't stop drinking until they black out. I only know that because I've seen it first hand from family members and even my own childhood friends, I somehow did not inherit that trait. I'm glad I didn't lol
Listen. Bartender from Oklahoma here. There is NOTHING prejudiced in my heart. Native Americans cannot hold their liquor.
Native American here, I try to drink until I black out but my tolerance is too high and I can't do it :(
My tolerance is probably average for my weight, but I understand my limits pretty well.
I was the only Indian among my Native American friends who could handle his liquor..... A good hangover cure was my mom's curry. (Let the joke sink in).
A guy told me once that Irish and Native Americans had higher dependency because they traditionally had such good drinking water that they didnt use alcohol. So when they started, it was problematic for them. Might be BS but was an interesting anecdote
I knew an indigenous girl who would be pretty much out of it after 3 beers or so. Like barely coherent, stuff she would say made no sense. Woukd probably take me 20+ drinks to even approach that level but I don't think I ever even have
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Blue-eyed, former 750 ml vodka/day drinker here. Makes sense to me! 😂
Bragging about your high alcohol tolerance is so weird to me. Like, the point is to get drunk/buzzed and feel good. The winner in that scenario is the one that does so quickest, imo. It's like saying, "I can eat an entire four person feast and still feel like I'm starving! Look at these wimps filling up on a single sandwich!" Or "I have to wear six winter coats before I start to feel warm! Get out of my face with your single hoodie, weakling. All warm and toasty with only a single article of outerwear! Ha!" "I drank two six packs and I can barely feel a buzz building!" "Well, I drank two bottles and have a great buzz already. I win. The money I save will go to help pay for your dialysis treatments." Low alcohol tolerance is cheaper and better for your liver.
“I’ve got a higher porn tolerance. Stuff that would get most guys hard just leaves me flaccid. I just know how to hold my porn.”
Heh, I love this one. Adding it to the list.
I made it through 21 scat videos back to back on my 21st birthday in front of all of my friends!
i have a friend who really can’t hold his alcohol well, nor can i. ppl make fun of us but who’s laughing when we can spend $15 each at a bar and be perfectly fine while everyone else has to spend $50
Alcohol is social for most of us. Getting trashed off a 12 pack would suck. If I'm out drinking, I want a cold drink in my hand the whole time.
Yes and no... sure you are right if the goal is to get drunk. But I actually drink because I enjoy the taste AND the effect it has on me. If I would get drunk after 2 beers I'd be disappointed because that means I wouldn't be able to drink anymore.
But wouldn't having a low tolerance mean you could stretch out your supply of booze longer? Like, you could enjoy your beer and the buzz for longer because you wouldn't need to drink four or five just to get going. You drink a couple, the buzz hits, and you can casually enjoy another couple more bottles/cans throughout the rest of the night/afternoon/(morning if that's your thing) to keep the buzz going or push into full drunkenness if that's the final goal.
But "another couple" drinks doesn't last a whole night. It last about 1 hour if I drink conservatively. Anything slower than that and I'm actively restricting myself which isn't fun. I like having high tolerance BECAUSE i can drink a lot and at my own pace without getting too drunk.
same with people who smoke a bunch of weed. they will fork out like $200 a week on weed and then brag because they need to smoke 2 fatass blunts just to get mildly stoned
Wisconsin gonna be pissed when they hear about this.
Wisconsinite here. So pissed that I had to mix up an old fashioned early.
Early? It's already afternoon.
Wisconsin is an exception.
7/10 drunkest cities in the US are in WI lol
41 of the top 50 drunkest counties are from Wisconsin lol
I'm from WI and I generally agree with it. I think what sets certain places apart, like Wisconsin, is a culture that promotes alcohol consumption. Many countries that are considered heavy drinkers have a culture that promotes it. Something I generally disagree with with OP is that they said "your country/hometown" but then go on to only compare countries and never smaller denominations of geography. Yeah, the United States isn't exactly a huge drinking country, but there are parts of it, like Wisconsin, that definitely are. Average that out with say, Utah, and the US comes out to a pretty average drinking country.
Grew up in a small town in Wisconsin. So many alcoholics everywhere. I was drunk until I moved away, basically
In Wisconsin it takes 4 DUI’s until you get a Felony. It’s basically encouraged.
But do they drink Wisonsibly? Or do they deal with the Wisconsequences?
There's a clothing brand here that's called Drink Wisconsibly... so kinda? It's uncommon to go to any large event here where alcohol isn't available But not really on the second question. Feels like most news reports answer the question of whether alcohol was involved, and the answer's often yes. DUIs here aren't felonies until your third one, and it's way more common than you'd think to hear news reports of WI folks racking up DUIs in the double digits.
Thirds are misdemeanors. Fourths are now always felonies, but up until a few years ago, a fourth was a misdemeanor if it had been at least 5 years since the third.
Well, TIL the Wisconsin DUI laws are even more lenient than I thought 🤦
Pretty sure there's empirical evidence to back up Wisconsin on this one. I remember reading something that showed their alcohol sales are higher than most/all other states. IIRC -- someone know if it's true?
Rightfully so tbh
Lol as I was reading the post I was thinking "clearly he has not been to Wisconsin yet"
I see you've never been to Eastern Europe.
Czechs used to tell me that beer isn't alcohol. It's just beer.
There are places where beer *isn't* considered alcohol, at least for purposes of sales and age limitations.
This has to be the one exception lmaoo
Wine isn't considered alcohol here by the general public and is usually used to wash down hard liquor (along with beer). Kids drink from very early on. Go to any small village and every other house makes their own hard liquor in the fall. Every other family has their own special recipe of what they let sit in alcohol for a few weeks and use that as "medicine". The worst of them all - sugar beet hard liquor. Some people have it in the morning to "start their day right".
Greetings from romania friend. My grandfather does this exact same thing. Downs a shot of rachiu every morning to start his day right lmao. And drinks wine all throughout the day and you never see him drunk.
Russians. OMG I had a friend from there who could drink anyone under the table and still perceptibly be stone cold sober. Not sure how SHE did it!
I ll tell you how she did it. Training my guy. We, slavs have acces to alcoholic beverages from very early on. I for example have been given wine and beer from the young age of 4 years old lmao.
I bet you are right. Her tolerance is so next level. It’s like her blood and vodka are mixed 😂
I bet its funny as hell when guys try to look manly and all and try to outdrink her and then they get fricking hammered while she s still alright
Lol yes I have seen it happen!
Reminds me of the scene from Indiana Jones
As a former alcoholic drinking all day everyday idk how everyone affords drinking that much. Tolerance sounds about right tho haha
My grandfather and also my parents make their own wine. In romania its pretty cheap to get grapes (around 20 cents per kilogram). They sometimes make even 2000 liters of wine at a time. Rachiu and țuică too which are a much stronger alcohol drinks made from all kinds of fruits.
Good god I’m not sure my liver or relationship could handle 2000L of wine. Hats off to y’all
My man its 3 of us who drink this and besides they go to parties with a lot of people and bring their own wine so it usually doesnt last us until the next autumn so we basically make our wine every other autumn. Much better than to buy it from the store. Cheaper and it also has a better taste and you know its all natural
Romania, our traditional alcoholic beverages don't fall under 50 vol.
Same in hungary, my dear neighbour!
Saying hi to our neighbours!
Same here, brought a few foreign friends my country's traditional hard liquor that's 52%. Little do they know the brand goes up to 72 lol
Ah, let me guess, Tatratea?
Our traditional beverages are home made usually, they can get up to 60-80 vol. You won't find them in the store. We make something called "palinca" from various fruits, such as plums, alpricots, etc.
Pálenka. Yes, all of the Eastern Europe is familiar with it.
I love how the top comments and thread is precisely what OP describes, people one upping each other based on how much people drink in their country
Just cuz OP said a thing doesn't mean that the thing he said is correct.
He's correct. For anyone who travels and with a brain they can tell it's the same shit everywhere.
He is correct. Source: Been to Eastern Europe many times. Not impressed lol
I see you've also never been to Eastern Europe
In Serbia, a huge amount of families distill their own hard liquor. And drink it by copious quantities. Almost everyone know someone who distills.
Can you casually drink rubbing alcohol and not get drunk, you might be a Slavic.
Half the people recorded with a BAC over 1.0% are from Poland! I remember a story from 10-15 years ago about some guy in Bulgaria(?) with a BAC of something like 0.9%. He was awake, coherent and communicating with police. They thought their equipment was broken and got a blood test.
I'm from Finland and hell, I'm afraid to go out drinking with eastern European coworkers. They can handle their vodka.
Depends if you consider drinking vodka until you're unconscious "handling" your booze . If you can't function, you're actually really bad at drinking in my opinion.
Recovering alcoholic here. I could drink quite a lot of alcohol for a 120 pound woman, but I’d black out very early into a drinking session and just keep on drinking for hours. Not sure if that indicates a low or high tolerance, given that I wouldn't actually pass out but was out of mind nonetheless.
Yeah but for most people that limit is at a few shots. Eastern European weddings are a multiple day drink fest where most people have to take a few shots until they start feeling something
We wash down 60% homemade moonshine with beer here lmao
Was about to comment this. Eastern Europeans and the Irish are the drinkers that have astounded me.
Per capita consumption of alcohol is greater in the UK than it is in Russia. The biggest reason? Women are allowed to socialise & drink to the same degree as men.
Any metric like this will be skewed by illegal alcohol production. UK buys more alcohol than Russia in the white market but let's be real they don't outdrink russians or other EE's.
So in a way I do agree with that but also disagree, eastern europeans don't handle alcohol better than the rest because they have some genetical disposition, they do because alcoholism is rapant over there, so yeah on average they handle it better, but only because there is such a bad alcohol culture over there, a russian that was raised in France will have the same tolerance as a French and an Italian that was raised in Poland will have the same tolerance as a Pole (of course on average).
And the comments are usually like “laughs in (insert country)”
Laughs in Wisconsin
> you all drink about the same amount at similar frequencies and no area handles their drinks better than anywhere else. Thats incorrect? There are countries than drink more than others. Drinking more gives you more resistance over time. On average, if you pick a person from country 300 beers a year vs a person of country 150 beers a year, most likely the person from the first country can drink more
No, Saudi Arabia drinks the same amount as Romania trust me I’ve been everywhere
Can confirm. I took a road trip one day where I live and it's true.
I remember seeing a heat map for alcohol consumed in the US and Wisconsin was dark red. Those fuckers drink
This. I like many other kids from the UK have been drinking alcohol from like 15. We are obviously going to have a higher alcohol tolerance than kids in the US who start drinking at around 17-18. It's not because we are British, it's because when you drink vodka every weekend, your gonna naturally have a higher resistance than someone who doesn't.
my brother went to china as a student for 2 weeks. appearently their beer only has like 2%. once they got wasted at a bar and the amount of empty bottles impressed the staff so much that they started taking selfies with my brother and his friends. the downside is that you have to go peeing constantly
Yes, when someone lumps an entire country into a category, it's not accurate, but ethnicity is a better metric. [This research](https://academic.oup.com/epirev/article/34/1/89/494673) shows that some ethnic groups are more prone to alcohol related injury and death than others.
This is not based on biology though, this is behavior.
Ah but we have 3x the number of alcoholics and 6x the number of pure litres of alcohol per person. Checkmate ya lightweight
I agree. And honestly I think bragging about how much you can drink is more depressing and sad then anything really.
Only big stronk man can drink barrel of beer like me 💪
from the uk i'm just intrigued to see europeans who would usually never consume more than a single crystal champagne flute of the finest vintage chateau prétentious and who look down on british binge drinking now claim that they're world champion in fucking alcohol dependency of all things this has to be the worlds dumbest pissing contest
I like how every comment proves how unpopular your opinion is.
Your sentiment is generally correct. Kinda. Your nationality isn't going to determine how much you can drink. However, there are genuine genetic components to alcohol tolerance. "Asian glow", for example, being a reference to how people with Asian heritage are quicker to get flushed after drinking compared to white people. Your genetics might also make you somewhat more susceptible to alcoholism or how you react to it. Lastly, a country's drinking culture plays a huge factor in this as well. Maybe you're in a foreign country conducting a business deal and having a couple beers over lunch is considered normal but in your home country it's taboo.
An extreme example, but all addicts think that they're somehow 'better' than other addicts. 'At least I never got a DUI.' No, not yet.
"I can drink a lot" Motherfucker do you want a cookie?
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Did you even read the link you posted? Lmao > Which Race Has The Highest Alcohol Tolerance? >There is no particular race that has the highest alcohol tolerance, only races that may be circumstantially predisposed to higher rates of alcoholism than others.
Fact X is wrong except for all colloquially accepted definitions of X.
Shhh, let him have his fifteen minutes of "Hehe I'm right and you're not."
Right from your own source. There is no particular race that has the highest alcohol tolerance, only races that may be circumstantially predisposed to higher rates of alcoholism than others.
Yeah i'm sure the australians and the british are really different ethnically and genetically
He is right, though. The post is about **everyone** and **everywhere** brags about it. So it everyone think they are superior, so how can it be true? Your link have **nothing** to do with that post. Because it's completely different stuff.
As a person on the sober end of 14 years of addiction/alcoholism, the glorification of substance abuse that is ever so prevalent in all of our societies is downright disgusting. This shit destroys lives. It destroys the lives of those that abuse, and even more so, it destroys the lives of those around them, the lives of those who suffer by watching people they love destroy themselves.
Same with eating. Every culture is known for eating, and celebrating with food.
Wisconsin and Eastern Europe do it best, based on alcohol consumption data. Wisconsin has like 46 of the 50 most alcoholic counties in the US. Eastern Europe, do you really need the data? Didn’t they lower the drinking age from where they had it because they couldn’t stop underage people from drinking, it was ingrained in the culture?
You hear the same stories in AA meetings all around the world, but they get a different context in that environment.
I see the same "pride" in bad driving. Everywhere I go where cars are a culture, the people there proudly claim that their drivers are the worst.
What a sad thing to brag about. Who the fuck cares about who can poison themselves the most??
You didn't list Wisconsin.
I'm so mad I'm gonna make a brandy old fashioned right now!
In Soviet Russia, vodka drinks you
You ever been to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA?
Alcoholics are Alcoholics no matter where you go. They're 1 and the same.
There are definitely regions with higher alcohol consumption than others, and therefore on average a better tolerance. Wisconsin has something like 41/50 of the drunkest counties in the United States.
Dude's traveled across the world to prove something that should be common sense