Deadly Ritual: 21 shots to celebrate age 21

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5 drinks is not binge drinking. That is not much for an evening in the Pub in the UK. England may have a worse drinking problem than some other European countries. A lot - probably the vast majority - of the social life is built around pubs and drinking. It has been forever including many years ago when I was a teenager. But the ‘binge drinking’ among young people seems to be a more recent phenomena. It really is excessive drinking - not 5 drinks. At holidays such as new years the police and ambulance services are kept very busy with carting people to the hospital.

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<p>That’s exactly my point. All these surveys ask if you have binge drunk in a certain time period, and then specifically define binging as 5+ drinks. Well damn, that makes me a weekly binger then. In reality, 5 drinks is not much for a person my size (and no mini, I’m not an incipient alcoholic - my tolerance has never increased), and so I would be classed in a stupid class. mini loves th binge drinking percentages like they’re his children, but in reality there’s obviously a tendency to overstate/a certain irrelevance to reality in those surveys.</p>