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The latter. This is a serious response.

They had a higher resistance because they drank more.

>>2030938
If American probably the later. You guys drink pisswater.

If European, probably Alcoholics. If you consume alcohol enough the effects become lessened.

My parents drink two or three bottles of wine with dinner.

We are English which explains some of it. I don't get why Americans have such strict views towards alcohol.

Stop reading Henry Miller.

>>2031041
One bottle of wine split between two people is about two glasses each, not that much really.

It's not hard for me to drink a bottle to myself over a period of a couple hours, so that doesnt seem too hard to me.

Be fair, Europeans, it was in America that fortified wine was invented, which combines the best aspects of wine, rubbing alcohol and Coca-Cola. They took drinking to the next level, even if they did have to pathologise it.

>>2031050
Vermouth and Port are both fortified wines, and both predate the existence of american colonization.

>>2031047

No, two bottles each.

>>2031055

This is quite true, I meant stuff like Thunderbird. The best term might be 'outdoor wine'.

>mfw characters in Dostoevsky novels seem to smash back about 3/4 glasses of vodka every 20 minutes

>>2031057
So each of your parents is consuming eight glasses of wine with dinner? A little bit more extreme, but still not that bad. Makes for an expensive dinner though, unless they drink shit wine.

>>2031064

All I know is that it is Bordeaux which, I've tried and can't say I like.

Anyway, i imagine this board is populated with people from the ages of 18-25, I thought frequent nights out of heavy drinking would be considered the norm.

>>2031064
Well, at least it's from a bottle and not carton wine. I remember my first day in college and seeing some girl drink that shit, I was in awe at how common she was.

>>2031061
Ah yes, bum wine. Thunderbird, Night-train, Mad-Dog 20/20...

Having lived on both sides of the atlantic, I can say that neither group has any special claim to being more alchoholic, except that the european attitude about drinking tends to be a bit more lax and drinking throughout the day is much less of a social stigma than it is in the states. I'd like to say that binge drinking might be less of an issue, but I suppose it depends on where you are in europe... there are some drunk fucking europeans.

Really, the only ones who can't handle their liquor are native americans, since its only recently (the last couple hundred years or so) that its been part of their culture, so their tolerences tend to be lower on a physiological level.

Modern civilization throughout the rest of the world was essentially founded on booze, throughout the dark ages it was essentially the only safe thing to drink, sea voyages would have been difficult without it, and without beer we wouldn't have the pyramids.

>>2031072
I like a good Bordeux, but its been more difficult to get in the states as of late. I cant testify to the cost in england, but in the U.S. that dinner would be at least $150 for the wine alone.

>>2031072
>board of literates
>expecting anything but spending 7 nights a week alone with a bottle of Morgans or other hard liquor wondering where they fucked up.

>>2031086
not spending quality time with Mister Jack Danels

>>2031086
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydZwkumSzGg

>>2031060

>mfw you have no face
>I have no face

Russian people actually do that. Like, vodka for breakfast, vodka for tea, vodka for lunch, vodka for dinner. And in between the aforementioned.

>>2031089
I prefer Jamesons when it comes to "whisky".

Also, not mixing your spirits with Corona.

>>2031100
I like Jameson, too, but it's expensive and I'm not exactly exuding money. I usually wind up with something Canadian.

>>2031095
That feel when I'm crying and masturbating to this.