He has a point about the drinking in the UK. As an American, my last trips over there left me astonished at the well-dressed businessmen puking in the gutter at 10 PM, and the puddles of vomit outside the doors of Irish pubs, with a guy more or less stationed out there all evening to throw water from a bucket on the barf.
Well, you are talking about Ireland.
God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.