What is it with drinking in the UK?

What?  Wait - what about not eating the nuts?  I love nuts - gotta have nuts whilst drinking beer and watching the footie.  Especially those new Nobby's Nuts!  MMMMMMM.....

13 different types of wee there's different kinds

But they can't be conscripted.  At least not yet.

Neither can boys.

Didn't you people know this!  And you're all such heavy drinkers!  Apparently they did a study on a bowl of nuts at a bar and they found 13 different people's wee on them.  From people not washing their hands.  That's why you should never eat nuts out of a bowl in a pub!

What is a mojito?

Mojito
2-3 oz Light rum
Juice of 1 Lime (1 oz)
2 tsp Sugar
2-4 Mint sprigs
Soda water

Didn't you people know this! And you're all such heavy drinkers! Apparently they did a study on a bowl of nuts at a bar and they found 13 different people's wee on them. From people not washing their hands. That's why you should never eat nuts out of a bowl in a pub!

 

Oh - well, I'm okay, then.  Because I'm not into "communal" nuts, as it were...

Didn't you people know this!  And you're all such heavy drinkers!  Apparently they did a study on a bowl of nuts at a bar and they found 13 different people's wee on them.  From people not washing their hands.  That's why you should never eat nuts out of a bowl in a pub!

oh PEOPLE, 13 different types of People ahh...gotcha ..yes I've heard of this in regards to restaurants as well.

I tend to buy a packet crisps/nuts not dip my hands in the open bowls......

The worst is at the end of the night when you see the bartender dump the bowls of nuts back into the larger container.  I used to think if I saw them pour a fresh bowl it was ok....but now I am not so sure.  First it was watching your drinks...now you have to watch your nuts at a bar too!  What is the world coming to?  

Didn't you people know this!  And you're all such heavy drinkers!  Apparently they did a study on a bowl of nuts at a bar and they found 13 different people's wee on them.  From people not washing their hands.  That's why you should never eat nuts out of a bowl in a pub!

OMG!  EEEEWWW!  No, I did NOT know this.  Barf!  I had no idea, just like I did not know how a mojito is made. 

Note to self:  from now on, must carry handbag large enough to contain own foil packet of nuts.

Another thing that has occurred to me, not to get back on topic or anything, but the times when I've been most three sheets to the wind drunk while living in the UK have in fact been times when I've been out with other Americans.    

OMG! EEEEWWW! No, I did NOT know this. Barf! I had no idea, just like I did not know how a mojito is made.

Note to self: from now on, must carry handbag large enough to contain own foil packet of nuts.

Learn something new everyday.

Another thing that has occurred to me, not to get back on topic or anything, but the times when I've been most three sheets to the wind drunk while living in the UK have in fact been times when I've been out with other Americans.    

I was thinking that, too, Mindy.  

Cafe Pacifico, anyone?  

Another thing that has occurred to me, not to get back on topic or anything, but the times when I've been most three sheets to the wind drunk while living in the UK have in fact been times when I've been out with other Americans.    

with me it's usually hungarians.....

Another thing that has occurred to me, not to get back on topic or anything, but the times when I've been most three sheets to the wind drunk while living in the UK have in fact been times when I've been out with other Americans.    

Say it ain't so!   

The age limit has more to do than just being able to buy the alcohol...it is putting 18 year-old girls into nightclubs with older men etc...hope this doesn't sound prudish because I am definitely not (and when I was 18 I used to go to clubs...with the man that became my first husband...and LOVED strutting myself around and getting lots of male attention) but I have a teenage daughter now and do NOT want her out having ''fun'', feeling ''sexy and desirable'' (which is what so many teenage girls are looking for) under the effects of alcohol. Tell me, have any of you made horrible mistakes because of being drunk, decisions that you wouldn't have done if you were sober? I sure have.

The loud dance music, the getting dressed up, the provocative dancing, the attention...mixed with alcohol...can, and does ,put young teenagers in a position where they have to make life-altering decisions...and their minds are too f*cked up to make level-headed decisions at the time.

Yes, they can be drunk at the local park or at a friend's house and do something dangerous...

enough!

I have too many kids in my front garden running in and out to make a coherent post. It's been like this for days!