Help with pool

[Nowhere]

One of the threads got me an idea - to post a pool where you can express what are the best drinkers in your opinion/from your experience (must decide that also...). But it would be good if I knew all the major options first.
Any other than Australians, Finns, Japanese, Polish and Russians?

[UtwigMU]

Us of course.

BTW, French IIRC drink most alcohol per capita per year, however they mostly drink wines with meals.

[Nowhere]

Yeah Utwig, I've heard what happened to French when people I know were drinking real stuff with them

(no offence to anybody - everybody here admit I guess that there are differences worth thinking about when it comes to amount of ‰ that represants of different nations are able to consume
besides, I know I would end like the French mentioned by me above if I, for example, would eat....ermmm...things they eat daily
so you see that I am fully aware this works for both sides - it just depends about what (to consume) we're talking about. Currently we're talking about ‰ )

[UtwigMU]

Well we had cases when people got arrested when driving drunk and according to alcotests they should have been clinically dead from the amount of alcohol in blood.

[Novdid]

If I'm nor wrong, the Danes drink the most in EU.

I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case.

[GNEP]

I went on tour with a small orchestra to Japan a few years back. (Only as an extra - my brother was part of it and I wanted to see Japan). We were wondering why we were all regularly drinking quite so much - and then realised that everybody was from Northern Europe in some way - ie British, Dutch, German, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Norweigan and some others... and we all came from drinking cultures - so I would say that the answer is anyone from a relatively northern clime... Gotta do something to keep warm in the winter.

PS and yes, the packs of Japanese businessmen/women prowling Tokyo can certainly drink too!

[CHHAS]

I wouldn't really be surpriced either Novdid, but then again it might just be all the swedes visiting Copenhagen that ruins the statistics

[UtwigMU]

Yes those one day Baltic cruises into international waters, where duty free can open door widely.

[Guru]

http://www.eurocare.org/profiles/finland/finlandeupolicy.htm

Old stats I think we we ´re up to something like 11L of vodka/person last year and thats counting the whole population and not just thouse of legal age!

[Guru]

http://www.helsinki-hs.net/news.asp?id=20011003IE1 another article from 2001

[Guru]

Another one http://www.alcoholconcern.org.uk/AER...onsumption.htm Just do a search on google!

[Nowhere]

Utwig, about what you said, I did a little search...

It appears that in the 70s in Denmark propably was produced vodka on which was written: "Lethal dose is 4,5 ‰ of alcohol in blood. Does not concern Polish and Russians" (or inhabitants of USSR probably then...and in some versions I've found was also "Scandinavians" ).

Seriously, while medical books say something ~4,5 ‰ (and I've found also that "western" ones state only ~3,5) reality here (apparentlu N, E, and central Europe) verify those estimates. I've found one example where somebody has 10,1 ‰...over 1 %...and he survived (of course records are higher...but ending isn't good in those...)

[GuchiGuh]

Random Quote: you guys seriously ...<CENSORED>

[Sethos]

The university I'm going to next year currently holds the world record for most Alchahol consumed in one day (ST. Paddy's )

~Sethos