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- anesthesia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Germans? Hailing the english as great beer drinkers?!
Being English myself as I read that article I couldn't help but feel the warmth of british pride wash over me.
Everyone to the pub! - Zzzzz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19Is this is true, it is so sweet! Dugg for the English drinkers!
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16That's 1862.4 feet cubed of beer.
God damn, that's a lot of beer. - elroy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13can you express that in football fields?
- mc1123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I hope no one was driving, else the autobahn would be in ruin right now.
- erichoya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11The English were the ones trying to pay in Pounds rather than Euros.
- Moshcrates, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Dugg for world cup. They sure do know how to drink
- everfresh59, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12You should be so lucky that Canadians aren't soccer nuts. Or we'd drink not only Germany dry, but also all of its neighboring countries.....
- Grimdotdotdot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Jolly good idea!
- thedove, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10i believe it! and coming from the Germans, that's saying a lot! they're not one to pass on a drink!
- Strongoloid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Haha, the AVERAGE is 17 pints each. A little over two gallons of beer per drinking person.
- brfuk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8A total myth. I've never ever had, ,or seen anyone in the UK drink a warm beer. A quality tasty ale won't be ice chilled. But everything else is cool as.
- stinkipete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Tally ho!
Being English I'm allowed to say that:) - mc1123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7filled the one inch high, about 2/5ths of an american football field, while around 6/5ths of a rest-of-the-world football field.
- nonhuman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Well, the English speak English and the Germans speak German...
- bobbywan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7BRILLIANT!
- goahard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Went drinking in Singapore with an Aussie and a Brit. -This poor ol' Canadian "country boy" was in a sorry sorry state after 7 or so (lost count) 750mL Tiger Beers. -They were next to sober, and the rounds were still coming when I'd lost track of time, my name, capacity to not drool on self, etc...
- Salvo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5They were saying that the English were Great "Beer Drinkers" as opposed to "Great Beer" Drinkers.
After all, if Bud was the only beer available, There's no way they could have been drinking great beer. - Braamer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Having been in the middle of Stuttgart during the last game vs Ecuador, I can tell you that the English throw as much beer as they drink. Immediately after a the only goal was scored, the 15,000 englanders in Koenigsplatz simultaneously threw their beers into the air. Rather impressive when viewed from the side, especially to we Americans who cringe at the thought of such alcohol abuse.
- benspicer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Never have I felt so proud to be British (and we haven't even won the World Cup yet!)
- poptorrent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Hardly surprising really - we English know how to drink ;-)
- YellowBook, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I can't imagine it could have been 17 pints of proper German beer. If must have been Bud - just like drinking piss water.
- Salvo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4FIFA dictated that they could only serve Bud at the World Cup. Now wonder they drank so much, they thought is was Water!
- erichoya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That's six Super Big Gulps worth of brew.....
- imightbewrong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3if germany is dry then world has probably stopped moving
- coopa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'd guess that pretty much ever English guy there is wearing an England shirt. It's like that here in the UK anyway, so i'd say it's just as true at the venue country.
- somnus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That doesn't seem like a lot for the duration of the World Cup so far. Do they mean 17 pints in a day? That would be a lot, and doable (though probably only with American beer, seeing as it is so hopelessly weak). There must be some lightweights bringing that average down.
- Twinked, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Dugg, because I can imagine it happening.
- RickySan65, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3and still be social about it too ;)
- dimatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3They're going to be drinking a lot more when England finally falls to Portugal on saturday ;)
- Lososaurus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31. Soccer Hooligans, I don't need to explain that.
2. Let's hope they weren't drinking Budweiser. - RickySan65, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Bud was the only beer available" ah.... that explains the 17 pints, in order to get a fix you would get from any other type of beer you'd need to drink a whole lot more, roughly in the 6 to 1 range (6 buds is one pint of bitter)
- ratzfatz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3As being a German and quite familiar with beer and its consumption I like to add some information the article of famous UK Mirror. The story has been published by the German "Bild Zeitung" which is well known for its lines ("We are pope!" after Cardinal Ratzinger has been elected in the Vatican).
What the Mirror is hiding is the fact that the beer consumption was for about 14 minutes only and mostly because the glasses where supposed to be kept by most of the "consumers" as an souvenir.
It has been looking there like this:
http://www.netzeitung.de/img/0011/196811.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/ljek7
http://tinyurl.com/p9km5
http://tinyurl.com/m2s7m
http://tinyurl.com/re9la
http://tinyurl.com/nzlyz
Just to give you a more precise picture. I do like the people in the UK and fully respect there need to take advantage of German pubs open 24/7. - astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2
Hail the German Girls and their Beer!....
- Arizona_Glover, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Come on En-ger-land !
- kicken18, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Feel proud to be English...We always go to Tesco and get 2 crates of 24 for £16 for each match, sorted. Hope their drinking quality European beer and not American [i.e bud] *****
- jsd8cc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'll drink to that!
- Ashepp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Great stuff
- ByteGuerilla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Never have so many drank the pints of so few.
- theoallardyce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wooo we're the best at something!!!
- kherrick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Didn't you mean, "Never have so few drank the pints of so many" ???
- dimatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You know it will happen!
- panheaduk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thank you.
- maka25, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dugg, but how did they sort it out? It's not like they were saying Africans out-drank Asians. That would be easy to determine, but how did they determine English v.s. German?
- joelito, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Alchool waste is a deadly sin...
At least where I live... - Punk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well Ive been at my local pub alot more now that the world cup is on.
I usually only drink on the weekends, now its every night. World Cup is turning me into an alchy :(
Good thing this only happends once every four years. - Clearz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thats only because Ireland aren't in the world cup.
- kicken18, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1We have 24 hour lisence now in England, finally, but yeah I wish I was out their taking full credit of pure drinking and football
- kicken18, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1We always have cold beers in the pub
- Acidosis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Boo!
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