Why do British people drink so early in the day?

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  • nataschalouise
    nataschalouise Posts: 62
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    What??? What part of America do you people live in that there is no Happy Hour and bars don't open until late?

    This. Bars here open at ten a.m. and there's always a happy hour!

    And yes, I live in the US.

    The airport bars in the US open at 8am! :)

    Airport bars in Scotland open at 4am :) (I used to work in the airport)
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,874 Member
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    <<<< It's not just the British....
  • Camera_BagintheUK
    Camera_BagintheUK Posts: 707 Member
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    I'm not from the UK but I sure wouldnt say no to going, now! ;)

    Parteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

    Our place!!!

    Bring a bottle.....
  • BamsieEkhaya
    BamsieEkhaya Posts: 657 Member
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    eurgh I can not stand pubs....I find them so grotesque !!

    I do know a lot of "pubbies" main reason the people I know go there is it's cheap !!

    Personally I'll pay the extra and get into a nice sophisticated bar/club with great seats, nice music and better atmosphere !!

    no-no to pubs for me !
  • tedrickp
    tedrickp Posts: 1,229 Member
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    I am offended by this thread. The fact that you implied drinking aaafffffter work is "so early" made me feel bad about myself.
  • VeganLexi
    VeganLexi Posts: 960 Member
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    Have you seen what british people look like? I would start drinking early too

    :laugh: Of course, Americans are all incredibly attractive aren't they.....
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
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    We tend to work in the centre of cities but could easily live two hours or more away from the colleagues we socialise with. As we all take public transport, a quick pint after work makes sense. It's a great incentive to meet deadlines and keep up office morale! Plus we tend to eat our evening meal later than our fellow Anglophones.
  • joselo2
    joselo2 Posts: 461
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    When I want to eat at a pub when touristing in the UK I have to make sure I go super early or all the pubs are filled with drunk people.. what's up with that?

    Why do you just go straight to the pub? Shouldnt you go home first? Change clothes, say hi to the family.. you know, normal stuff!

    Jdgemental.Clearly it IS normal here. The after work drink is a kind of ritual- no we don't go home and change first, that is more what we do for a 'big night out', not the day to day social bonding stuff. The pub has a special place in our culture. It is not that we are all alcoholics, just it is like a community hub, where normal social rules are relaxed and you can chat to people. People find it good to socialise with colleagues, and unwind together, helps deal with the stress of work. If you don't like our culture in the UK, just like, don't BE in the UK.

    And I say that as an migrant myself.

    Also, funny how Americans slag us off for drinking but if you dare say they are all lightweights, there is hell on.
  • Camera_BagintheUK
    Camera_BagintheUK Posts: 707 Member
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    It was right after work, on a Friday, with a home game that weekend and a bankholiday right after.. so.. yeah not a usual day.:laugh: And, as we found out the day after, if we had gone to a different part (really just a few streets over from where we were looking) we would have found eating places a-plenty.

    Oh well! Serves you right :tongue:
    You really do have more of a culture about going out for drinks after work than Iceland does..

    I wish :sad: I only ever worked in one place where *some* of us went out for a drink after work once in a while.
    People might catch a cup of coffee or invite coworkers home to drink instead (after dinner, again culture thing.. probably due to shorter distances between work and home as well).

    that'd never work here! An Englishman's home is his castle! We pull up the drawbridge when we get in. (and as we all know, what's English is automatically British)
  • fuzzieme
    fuzzieme Posts: 454 Member
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    Drunk people in a bar OP? No way, surely not?!

    If you don't like being around drunk people, go to a restaurant and leave the people capable of having fun alone
  • iceqieen
    iceqieen Posts: 897 Member
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    I am offended by this thread. The fact that you implied drinking aaafffffter work is "so early" made me feel bad about myself.

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

    ..

    I mean.. I AM SO SO SORRY!!! I DIDNT MEAN TO JUDGE!!!
    ...

    :bigsmile:
  • iceqieen
    iceqieen Posts: 897 Member
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    It was right after work, on a Friday, with a home game that weekend and a bankholiday right after.. so.. yeah not a usual day.:laugh: And, as we found out the day after, if we had gone to a different part (really just a few streets over from where we were looking) we would have found eating places a-plenty.

    Oh well! Serves you right :tongue:
    You really do have more of a culture about going out for drinks after work than Iceland does..

    I wish :sad: I only ever worked in one place where *some* of us went out for a drink after work once in a while.
    People might catch a cup of coffee or invite coworkers home to drink instead (after dinner, again culture thing.. probably due to shorter distances between work and home as well).

    that'd never work here! An Englishman's home is his castle! We pull up the drawbridge when we get in. (and as we all know, what's English is automatically British)

    I want a castle!

    And yes anyone from the UK = British = English. It works the other way so must work that way.
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,951 Member
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    Hey, $25 question.

    Why do brits have such bad teeth?

    I mean Austin Powers, come on bro.
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,951 Member
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    When I want to eat at a pub when touristing in the UK I have to make sure I go super early or all the pubs are filled with drunk people.. what's up with that?

    Why do you just go straight to the pub? Shouldnt you go home first? Change clothes, say hi to the family.. you know, normal stuff!

    I live in the UK and at the risk of upsetting fellow 'brits' , Binge drinking is a massive part of British life.

    The.
    World's.
    End.
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
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    I've just returned from a vacation in London and was amazed at the employees hitting the pubs as soon as they leave work. I mentioned this to a British friend and he just replied that England was the land of plenty and they had to support their pubs. He then left work and went straight to the pubs without seeing his kids first - what is the sense of that?? Bars in the US open much later and yet we have alcohol problems here too.

    I can always tell the British tourists here because they are making a beeline for the bars, wearing their I <3 William and Kate shirts, even in the dead of winter.

    I don't get this, if you want to go for a drink with your workmates you have to go after work. Otherwise people are off on their 1hr, 1.5hr, or 2hr commute in separate directions and no one is going to then go back into town after getting changed...

    This is a London thing though, because no one in London drives to work. Since moving out of London we only do work drinks a couple of times a year because people have to plan about leaving their cars and how they are going to get in on public transport and the cost of a taxi home.
    Exactly this.

    fwiw, my group of pals here in the U.S. meets on fridays directly after work. On our way home. Very often hubs comes after he gets of an hour or so later, and we go to dinner from there as well. All on our way home.
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
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    "touristing" is not a word.....

    Europe in general has a more liberal view of alcohol.
    Are you the word czar? Apparently not, or you'd know tourist can be used as a verb.

    tour·ist
    ˈto͝orist/
    verb rare
    gerund or present participle: touristing
    1.
    travel as a tourist.
    "American families touristing abroad"

    Sounds fine to me!:drinker:
  • Camera_BagintheUK
    Camera_BagintheUK Posts: 707 Member
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    Hey, $25 question.

    Why do brits have such bad teeth?

    I mean Austin Powers, come on bro.

    from all the thugar in the beer of courthe! Pluth the falling flat on our fatheth all the time
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,951 Member
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    "touristing" is not a word.....

    Europe in general has a more liberal view of alcohol.
    Are you the word czar? Apparently not, or you'd know tourist can be used as a verb.

    tour·ist
    ˈto͝orist/
    verb rare
    gerund or present participle: touristing
    1.
    travel as a tourist.
    "American families touristing abroad"

    Sounds fine to me!:drinker:

    No ****. That's a really rare use of it. Wow.
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,951 Member
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    Hey, $25 question.

    Why do brits have such bad teeth?

    I mean Austin Powers, come on bro.

    from all the thugar in the beer of courthe! Pluth the falling flat on our fatheth all the time

    If it's not 11%, it's not beer!
  • Camera_BagintheUK
    Camera_BagintheUK Posts: 707 Member
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    Hey, $25 question.

    Why do brits have such bad teeth?

    I mean Austin Powers, come on bro.

    from all the thugar in the beer of courthe! Pluth the falling flat on our fatheth all the time

    If it's not 11%, it's not beer!

    One of these? http://www.ratebeer.com/Ratings/TopAlcohol.asp
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