Originally Posted by Terry N:
“Being an alcoholic in America = having a few shandys on a Friday night.”
That is SO true. A couple of mormons used to come into my mam's pub and were on some trans-continental conversion nonsense and said everyone there was an alcoholic. They ended up staying around for a few weeks, were in the pub every night, ended up shagging our postman (it was a regular delivery) and boozing every night and now they invite her over to Vegas so they've got someone to go out and booze with away from their husbands without feeling like they're alky monsters.
In San Francisco right next to the wharf turnaround for the cable cars there's a pub that was doing "a full English pint" of Guinness for it was either a dollar or two dollars between 7 and 9 each night. Over here there would be a stampede but the locals seemed too timid to walk back to their table with a double fister of the blackest delight.
I've seen multiple threads on websites where they say "I'm going to be 21 soon, how do I learn to do drinking?" I'm not joking! I'm going to get a pint to calm my nerves lest I go off on a Leslie.