Althouse: "What's your drinking nationality?"

২০ ডিসেম্বর, ২০১৪

"What's your drinking nationality?"

The booze calculator.

(I'm Equatorial Guinea!)

৩১টি মন্তব্য:

Phil 314 বলেছেন...: and apropos my last comment (on another thread) I'm:

Vietnam; ২০/১২/১৪, ৩:১৮ PM
bleh বলেছেন...: Oh. I was hoping it would say something more meaningful about my drinking habits. It would be interesting if it asked which days of the week you drink, what time of day, if you're a beer drinker whether you like lager or IPA or stout, etc. Volume of alcohol doesn't say much.

I got Zambia or Namibia, can't remember which.; ২০/১২/১৪, ৩:৩০ PM
Curious George বলেছেন...: Nambia. Where ever that is.; ২০/১২/১৪, ৩:৩৭ PM
Sean Gleeson বলেছেন...: I got Chad. I agree with BDNYC; this quiz was very weak.; ২০/১২/১৪, ৩:৪২ PM
missred বলেছেন...: You drink like you're from France, which is the joint 18th heaviest-drinking country in the world.; ২০/১২/১৪, ৩:৫৩ PM
GREEBO বলেছেন...: Malta?; ২০/১২/১৪, ৩:৫৬ PM
Skeptical Voter বলেছেন...: Kazhakstan for me. Guess I'm descended from the Mongol Hordes or something.; ২০/১২/১৪, ৩:৫৯ PM
Tank বলেছেন...: Moldavia. ???; ২০/১২/১৪, ৪:১০ PM
Ann Althouse বলেছেন...: I kept adding drinks to see just how much would be needed to become French.; ২০/১২/১৪, ৪:২১ PM
Irene বলেছেন...: France. Gosh.; ২০/১২/১৪, ৪:২৪ PM
Meade বলেছেন...: Tajikistan. In the United States, I'm way below average.

"You are on course to drink about 2.6 litres of pure alcohol over the year, which is 81% less than the average for men in the United States, and 47% less than the average for women."; ২০/১২/১৪, ৫:৩৭ PM
Bruce Hayden বলেছেন...: I seem to drink like a Kuwaiti. My significant other though may be closer to Belarus. About 7/8 of my ancestors came from what is now the UK, but I clearly don't drink like them. For her, I think her French ancestry portion seems to have won out over the rest.

I think though that to get where I am, you have to factor in all my Puritan ancestors. In the 1850s, an ancestress was active fighting for emancipation, suffrage, and temperance. I don't remember any grandparent ever drinking in front of me, and my parents didn't start drinking a glass of wine with dinner until I was out of college. I drank a bit in high school, and, of course, in a fraternity in college, but quickly drifted away from it after graduation. I will have a beer or glass of wine when with friends or family, esp if I don't have to drive. But that is it any more. Sometimes, I think I should be drinking more for my health, but never get around to it.; ২০/১২/১৪, ৫:৪৪ PM
kjbe বলেছেন...: Less than a Kuwaiti and better for it.; ২০/১২/১৪, ৬:০১ PM
carrie বলেছেন...: I'm Kuwait too.; ২০/১২/১৪, ৬:০২ PM
carrie বলেছেন...: My great grand father founded a temperance society and built a temperance hall for the community, so my drinking nationality isn't surprising either.; ২০/১২/১৪, ৬:০৫ PM
kjbe বলেছেন...: Recovery will do it for you, too.; ২০/১২/১৪, ৬:০৯ PM
Be বলেছেন...: I don't think that it's adding drinks, per se, so much as what one is drinking. (I drink a glass of red a day every day. On holidays, I drink cordials, which are stronger. That seems to be a French thing, and something that we were adhering to when I was French.)

Weird Cocktails and Pisshead drinking (meaning drinking until you need La Resuscitation), are both foreign constructs that they aren't sure how to deal with ,aside from closing down bars when a British team comes to play at Stade de France.

Honestly, I'm not particularly frequentable. Can still name my mother as a human (for what she was or I am worth).; ২০/১২/১৪, ৬:১০ PM
jr565 বলেছেন...: In the past week I drank wine like an Italian, but I usually drink like a Kuwaiti.; ২০/১২/১৪, ৬:১৬ PM
Paco Wové বলেছেন...: Hail Slovenia!

Where, apparently, they drink about as much beer as the average American, a lot more wine, but a lot less hard liquor.; ২০/১২/১৪, ৬:৩১ PM
Unknown বলেছেন...: Apparently those in Moldova like spirits...plenty of spirits.; ২০/১২/১৪, ৬:৩৩ PM
charis বলেছেন...: Also Kuwait. We are Muslim and we didn't know it.; ২০/১২/১৪, ৭:৫৭ PM
I Have Misplaced My Pants বলেছেন...: Kuwaiti. I have maybe four or five drinks a year. Just isn't my thing. Give me a diet Coke any day :); ২০/১২/১৪, ৮:২৬ PM
David বলেছেন...: "You drink like you're from Jordan, which is the joint 11th lightest-drinking country in the world."

That's what it told me.; ২০/১২/১৪, ৯:০৮ PM
David বলেছেন...: Mostly the light drinkers are posting. The real pros are probably out carousing. Or snoring in the chair.; ২০/১২/১৪, ৯:১২ PM
Tyrone Slothrop বলেছেন...: Kuwait. Because I used to be Belarus.; ২০/১২/১৪, ৯:২০ PM
buwaya বলেছেন...: Portugal.
Just drank a bottle of port in fact.
Funny coincidence.; ২০/১২/১৪, ৯:৪৮ PM
Danno বলেছেন...: This week I had no alcoholic drinks, therefore making me a Kuwaiti. I only drink (one or two at most) when I am with friends. Last week, I had a Coors Light with dinner that I had with an old friend. Before that, I think I had two beers in October with that same friend after we finished a bike ride during one of our last warm fall days.; ২০/১২/১৪, ১০:২৫ PM
virgil xenophon বলেছেন...: "Your drinking habits are like no other country in the world, but the closest they come to is Belarus, the heaviest spirits-drinking country in the world."

LOL!!!LOL!!!LOL!!!

PS: New Orleans as a producer of professional/industrial-grade drinkers wins out once again!; ২০/১২/১৪, ১১:১৬ PM
virgil xenophon বলেছেন...: PPS: If I die from anything OTHER than liver failure they should put my liver in the Smithsonian! LOL.; ২০/১২/১৪, ১১:১৯ PM
Q. বলেছেন...: I got:

"You drink like you're from Equatorial Guinea, which is the joint 86th lightest-drinking country in the world."

I bet for the same reason (one glass of wine a day).; ২১/১২/১৪, ৩:২৪ AM
Heartless Aztec বলেছেন...: Solomon Islands - 29th lightest drinking country in the world.; ২১/১২/১৪, ৫:৩৩ AM