They like potatoes too.
Hey, 50% of the food they eat is gross fermented stuff. They certainly have no room to judge.
There are medical tests for nondrinkers today, so this sounds kind of bizarre and antiquated.
Irish Drinking Songs
https://screen.yahoo.com/irish-songs-000000345.html
Don’t know why, but this story reminded me of this great and wise advice....
Never take a snort from your flask during a job interview, but if you do, always offer a drink to the interviewer.
~W.C. Fields
Lol...this coming from the nation that introduced the world to soju.
I was reading an article last night about Irish fathers and sons, and memories came flooding back of the time I took my son out for his first drink. Off we went to our local bar, which is only two blocks from the house.
I got him a Guiness Stout. He didn’t like it - so I drank it.
Then I got him an Old Style, he didn’t like it either, so I drank it.
It was the same with the Coors and the Bud.
By the time we got down to the Irish whiskey . . .
I could hardly push the stroller back home.
"But we don't want the Irish."
Yes, but we are highly functioning alcoholics.
South Korea pretty much celebrates drunkeness
Sadly, it’s all true.
God made Irish Whiskey to keep them from one day ruling the world.
God made the Jews first, and improved upon the prototype by making the Irish.
The Jews were sore upset, so he inspired the Irish to make Irish Whiskey. Problem solved. No angels deployed to slaughter the mistake.
The Irish have served Europe well though, and Western Civilization to boot. Sober enough to be useful, too drunk to be effective. We make great corporate tax law. Ireland is booming.
Gotta go now. Got to get out in front of this headache. Might even smack my dog, wife, kids, or parents about for a bit of exercise. Then off to the track, Confession, then Mass.
About 20 years ago I applied for job at the city water department, I had recently retired from the Army, and was all dressed up the way I was taught in suit and tie, I had experience with water purification and all sorts of water pumps, I was rejected, but one thing stuck in my head about the interview, the interviewer told me “you look like a lawyer”.
Since social drinking is an integral part of that culture, maybe they’re just afraid of getting shown up?
Why do Koreans need to learn Irish?
Pot, kettle, black. Soju anyone?
Thank God somebody is... :)
I worked for a very large Korean semiconductor firm for two years.
I have never seen a bigger group of drunks in my life. My Korean co-workers would work for 12 hours, then drink heavily after work for another 4+ hours - every. single. day. And boy did they love their cigarettes!
I was young then and I could certainly “party”. But if I kept up with them I would have been dead in a week.
In Ireland they do drink a lot