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Booze calculator: What's your drinking nationality?
BBC News ^ | December 18, 2014

Posted on 12/20/2014 5:45:08 PM PST by EveningStar

In the month of December alcohol consumption increases as many people celebrate the festive season. But how does your drinking measure up to the average from countries around the world? Find out below if you are similar to a boozy Belarusian or a teetotal Kuwaiti.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Society
KEYWORDS: adultbeverages; alcohol; beer; booze; johnbarleycorn; liquor; spirits; wine
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To: left that other site

I had NO IDEA!!!!!!!!
God bless you.
I’ve only riden a Harley as the passenger!


41 posted on 12/20/2014 6:09:51 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: onyx

You would be welcome at my humble home! :-)


42 posted on 12/20/2014 6:10:11 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Kackikat

That must have been a sight to see! LOL!


43 posted on 12/20/2014 6:10:47 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Mars!


44 posted on 12/20/2014 6:11:03 PM PST by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: big'ol_freeper

Half Irish, half Welsh.
When I’m not drinking, I’m mining for coal and harvesting potatos.


45 posted on 12/20/2014 6:12:14 PM PST by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: left that other site

Aw, sweetest you.
Thank you so much.
I’m in a terrible place (mentally) right now.


46 posted on 12/20/2014 6:12:28 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: onyx
Talk about smooth...

When I was stationed in Germany this stuff was like drinking apple cider...the next morning wasn't fun though..LOL..


47 posted on 12/20/2014 6:12:30 PM PST by PROCON (Merry CHRISTmas!!)
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To: EveningStar

Belarus . Heaviest drinkers in the world .


48 posted on 12/20/2014 6:12:45 PM PST by sushiman
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To: EveningStar
Shiner bock photo: Shiner shiner1.gif

Texas.

49 posted on 12/20/2014 6:13:32 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: EveningStar

I don’t suppose they factored the Free Republic of Texas? I understand it’s arid out west so I’d be down east, near the border, thereabouts.
Here’s to lookin’ up your old address, cheers!


50 posted on 12/20/2014 6:13:34 PM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: PROCON

Bon jour, Frenchie! I scored the same too... Dermatologist gist has me off the beer and no more alcohol with wheat. Not a lot of fun.


51 posted on 12/20/2014 6:13:55 PM PST by warsaw44
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To: onyx


That's me on the far left, on bass.
52 posted on 12/20/2014 6:14:16 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: PROCON

LOLOLOLOL.
I know when to quit, but only because I’m OLD now.


53 posted on 12/20/2014 6:14:19 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: onyx

That is a good reason to keep you in my prayers!

((((HUGS))))


54 posted on 12/20/2014 6:15:34 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: left that other site

Thank you so much! You’re beyond beautiful!!!
You’re group is awesome!!!


55 posted on 12/20/2014 6:15:43 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: left that other site

Oh yes, and it was a big motorcycle. He was around 60 then, and that was years ago. Always had been a rider, and his wife would come later in the car.


56 posted on 12/20/2014 6:15:46 PM PST by Kackikat ('If it talks like a traitor, acts like a traitor, then by God it's a traitor.')
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To: dfwgator

You sound like you’ve been there. My son worked as a programmer in Riyadh, reported the same shenanigans on Saudia planes. Duplicity comes so naturally to Saudis — and to others from that region.


57 posted on 12/20/2014 6:17:00 PM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely expressed as advice)
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To: left that other site
((((Sweetest you)))) Thank you so much.
I pray for you, too.
I know we will meet in person one day and soon!
58 posted on 12/20/2014 6:17:14 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: onyx

Thank You, dear FRiend.

More pics and encouragement here:

https://www.facebook.com/saintsmotorcycleministry?fref=photo


59 posted on 12/20/2014 6:19:36 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: warsaw44
Bon jour, Frenchie!

OK, those are fighting words...you and me out behind the URL...NOW!

60 posted on 12/20/2014 6:20:43 PM PST by PROCON (Merry CHRISTmas!!)
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