'The Stay Inn': Britons are drinking almost double the amount of alcohol at home as they join friends for a pint online amid coronavirus lockdown

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 08:47 EDT, 22 March 2020 | Milly Vincent

[Olog-hai]

Brits are drinking almost double the amount of booze at home, as they join their friends in virtual pubs online for a pint after venues were forced to close their doors yesterday.

With home-drinking almost doubling to 100 million pints a week in the UK, millions are expected to join the virtual phenomenon, knocking back pints in front of their phones’ video-conferencing apps as their friends do the same.

Jokers even gave their cyber-pubs — run on apps such as Zoom — names including The Stay Inn, Isolate Inn and The Quarant Inn.

Britain’s top psychologist Sir Cary Cooper backed living room booze-ups to help plug the gap left by pubs closing, saying social connection would boost mental health.

At-home beer consumption is set to almost double from 60 million pints a week to up to 100 million a week after pubs shut. …

[Falconspeed]

“60 million pints a week”.’

Wow. That is a huge amount.

[centurion316]

It’s a lot cheaper, but you are unlikely to meet a new friend.

[Professional]

I never own Liquor at home. I go to a bar for a drink.

With bars closed, the risk of no booze... I totally stocked up. And with supply comes demand....

My late night posting...slurred words...foul language...extreme content should give it away...

I’ll sober up when the world is saved. Until then, more ice please!

[Bigg Red]

Good for them! Brits have such a great sense of humor.

[Twotone]

They can drink twice as much because they don’t have to drive home! :-)

[Grampa Dave]

They can drink twice as much because they don’t have to drive or crawl home! :-)

[Leep]

Many Europeans are drinkers.
The celebrate drinking by drinking.

[EnquiringMind]

Who isn’t?

[nevermorelenore]

Excessive alcohol consumption lowers immunity

[MrEdd]

So does having too much blood in your alcohol stream.

[dila813]

wow, I am not even allowed cough meds. These guys are going to kill themselves in quarantine, what’s the point?

[dis.kevin]

Shit! I’m as good as dead...

[SamAdams76]

There’s a reason liquor stores are considered essential businesses.

[GaryCrow]

It doesn't say they're drinking more, just that they're drinking at home since the pubs aren't open.

[mylife]

[353FMG]

>> Britain’s top psychologist Sir Cary Cooper<<

Poor Bloke is still waiting for High Noon.

[bgill]

Well, they won't have to drive home. Hey, destroy their liver before getting CV. Of course, they'll hit their wives and kids and kick the dog in their drunk stuper and then take up the cops' time and then jail time and then the court's time and maybe pick up CV in jail and then whine because their fine used up all the money for feeding the kids their beer money. Can't fix stupid.

[Verginius Rufus]

60 million pints for a country of 65 million people, of whom probably a quarter are too young to drink or belong to a religion which forbids alcohol.

The last time I was in England was in 2006. I was surprised at how much public drunkenness I saw.

[Bayard]

Typical. Expected. Predictable. Normal and understandable in this dark age of man and virus.