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America was already prone to binge drinking. Also, public transit also reduces drunk driving, so it’s hardly unique to taxis.
by StuffedParrot 7y ago
America was already prone to binge drinking.
Also, public transit also reduces drunk driving, so it’s hardly unique to taxis.
- luckydata 7y agoAnglo-Saxon drinking is the worst kind of drinking. In places where being fall-down drunk is not socially acceptable we drink differently and nobody is racing to puke on the sidewalk. It's not that difficult, just use moderation.
- bradstewart 7y agoBinge drinking is defined as 4 drinks for women or 5 drinks for men in a 2 hour period [0]. That's hardly falling down, puking on the sidewalk levels of drunk. [0] https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/binge-drinking.htm https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/binge-drinking.htm
- rootusrootus 7y agoI suppose that varies by person and by what qualifies as a drink, but if I had five pints of microbrew in two hours I'd be drunk, and done for the day.
- santoshalper 7y agoYou'd also have to piss like a race horse.
- bradstewart 7y agoCertainly varies by person. But there is a standard definition of a "drink": 1.5oz of 40% liquor, 12oz of 5% beer, 5oz of 12% wine [0]. [0] https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/what-standard-drink https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/what-standard-drink
- pessimizer 7y agoThat's the minimum amount i.e 4.99 drinks within a 2 hour period is not binge drinking. Also, I have a drink just about every day or every other day, and I haven't had 5 drinks within a 2 hour period in at least the last decade. It would cause me to fall down and puke on the sidewalk.
- bradstewart 7y agoThat's fair. I suppose I'm just used to my own (probably unhealthy) drinking habits. I only drink one day a week, usually at some event like a football game or wedding, but I drink a lot when I do.
- dcolkitt 7y agoPeople over-attribute the impact of culture on drinking habits. In reality genetics plays the largest factor in problematic drinking. Just look at the epidemic of alcoholism in American Indians, despite that culture having no prior traditions of drinking. The thing is Northern Europeans are probably more genetically prone to alcoholism than other European populations. For example British Jews, even the non-religious subset, binge drink at much lower rates than the rest of Britain. Predictably the population has a much concentration of genes associated with resistance to alcoholism. [1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/3299335/Gene-helps-Jews-resist-alcoholism.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/329933...
- StuffedParrot 7y agoI admire your confidence.