• GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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    7 months ago

    A bit too basic perhaps. Just because euro teens get to buy booze earlier doesn’t mean they enter puberty and the rebellious experimenting with substances stage at age 10.

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      7 months ago

      I guess. Both the USA and the UK still have, like, legitimately appalling levels of alcoholism, though. So we’re really just splitting meaningless hairs.

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          7 months ago

          That’s a fair point. The way they tolerate public drunkenness over there is genuinely shocking to my sensibilities. It’s not even a matter of tolerance, it’s a matter of ENFORCED goddamn inebriation. Motherfuckers have to go get shitfaced with their boss, or else their career will go down the toilet.

          Like…can you imagine if they did a version of The Office, in Japan? Every episode would end with the whole cast going down to the bar and getting sloppy fuckin’ drunk. Funny for the first few episodes, but then it would just get sad.