Scotch/Irish = Alcoholic

**Sir Robert** · 19th November 06, 05:37 PM

Well I am, but so are Russians, Germans and Indians so what exactly is the point?

There is a 12 step program but I never could get past wearing pants....;)

**Zardoz** · 20th November 06, 08:18 AM

Well... I'm Irish and German. I may be a drunk, but at least I'm capable of following orders!

**Big Dave** · 20th November 06, 09:37 AM

You're suppost to say "I'm a drunk not an alcoholic, alcoholics go to meetings"

I'm not trying to offend anyone, that's just how I answer.

int: (I had to use a new smilie).

**flairball** · 20th November 06, 10:35 AM

I'd like to comment on this, but right now I've got too much blood in my alcohol system to think straight.

**Colin** · 20th November 06, 10:38 AM

Chalk it up to a comment of poor taste by an ignorant person.

**beloitpiper** · 20th November 06, 10:44 AM

I have yet to meet a group of people who do not pride themselves on drinking. Every culture has a history of drinking, and alcohol is a social item that has been firmly engrained in every national history.

**gilmore** · 20th November 06, 12:34 PM

Originally Posted by beloitpiper

I have yet to meet a group of people who do not pride themselves on drinking. Every culture has a history of drinking, and alcohol is a social item that has been firmly engrained in every national history.

Because you have not met them, it does not at all necessarily follow that they are not there. While drinking alcohol may occur to some degree in most cultures, in many there is a great deal of both social and legal opprobrium against it. In some Muslim countries it is illegal. In others it is illegal to drink openly. And in many Asian cultures not only is drinking not a matter of pride, it is thought to be a shameful thing, as it is in some quarters in both Scotland and Ireland

**Dirk Skene** · 20th November 06, 01:39 PM

Originally Posted by Panache

Major Strasser: What is your nationality?
Rick: I'm a drunkard.
Captain Renault: That makes Rick a citizen of the world.

Captain, I remember someone whose family member tried to sue a rental car company when a fellow of Irish decent got drunk & killed their loved one. The reason they gave was that he was Irish therefore the rental car folks should have known he would get drunk & drive. :rolleyes: The judge tossed it out. I was sorry for their loss, but the lawsuit nuts.

Panache, People can not stand to watch that movie with me. I know all the lines .... I even have a copy of the script (Really!)

**Tattoo Bradley** · 20th November 06, 02:52 PM

I'm a "little of both" myself, and never touch the stuff. I've also received shocked responses to not drinking simply because I'm tattooed. The ignorant: can't kill them.

**Captain** · 20th November 06, 02:56 PM

Originally Posted by Tattoobradley

The ignorant: can't kill them.

Anyway we could work on legislation to change this?

Seriously though, I just thought the guys original comment was a funny place to go... not nice skirt or something equally ignorant, but "guess that makes you kind of an alcoholic?"

Oh well, I guess along with the poor we'll always have the stupid with us as well.