Leave it to Hufftards to turn a thread/story about drunken Englishmen into a reason to bash the U.S. in less than 5 posts.

Fuck You, assholes.

And I'll drink to that.

I would also suggest several changes in recent years as to alcohol beverage and pub regulation in the UK may not be helping. Originally put in during WWI nationally, pubs couldn't be open before 10 am, had to close during the day between 2-4, and close by 11 pm (10 pm on Sunday) until recent years. First was the elimination of afternoon closing and more recently, ending the evening closing hours. Add to that the breaking up of the brewer ownership of pubs, cities allowing more clubs that have fewer rules as to hours, a lot of underage drinking, few regulations as to 'happy hours', more liberal laws as to store sales for home consumption, very high youth and high general unemployment and the pub being still an important social place in UK society.
The UK does need to adjust laws on alcohol pricing and service (perhaps higher taxes?) and greater education to get to a more resonable attitude to alcohol.

"for fuck's sake, mate. Stop sayin' soccer!"

I'll take a pissed Brit over a prudishly moralizing American any day. Well, Brits when they're not drunk at a soccer match.

when the going gets tough; the tough go drinking.

I think keeping bars open for 24 hours a day, seven days a week, is a mistake anywhere. I like to read the British news websites, and the amount of drunken chaos and drink-fueled violence in their cities is atrocious. It's not just the hours and the size of the glasses, but the pub-chain price wars and half-price drink sales and on and on. The number of women with serious, irreversible liver damage from booze has about doubled in the last ten years.

The Brits have a reason to worry. Drunken & drug addled voters in the UK could become as stupid as the American voters who voted in & re-elected W & Cheney. Maybe immigrants from Eastern Europe, Africa & other poverty stricken areas will become citizens of the UK & subjects of the Queen. That would add sober, hard working, ambitious voters to the UK's voting lists who could save the UK from its native sots. That irony is almost charming, so charming that it never will happen.

"I'd rather be Boozy in Britain than Sober in The United States...!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

I'll drink to . . . er, well, maybe not.

Good thing we don't have a problem with nictotine addiction, alcohol abuse and overmedication in America.
Here's a thought: Is there a chance all these folks are doing this becuase reality sucks and the world is run by fat old men with tiny dinkies?
Pax, Steve

I'd rather be Boozy in Britain than Sober in The United States...!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The British used to send their social degenerates overseas to rape and pillage foreign countries, sending home the loot and imprisoning and murdering indigenous people.

Now, they do the same, except that just they send their social degenerates/tourists/yobs to rape and pillage to a point of being just a national disgrace.

"Almost by stealth, we have ended up drinking much more than we used to in the past -- everyone is susceptible to it," lawmaker Norman Lamb told The Associated Press.


That's some scary stuff, worse than terrorism fears. I mean, I don't wanna go into a bar, get blindsided by a beer and have it jump into my belly.

It's a good thing they get free medical!