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Listed below are comments made by Larskjaer between Thursday, 31st July 2008 and Thursday, 31st July 2008.

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Has alcohol sapped the British spirit? 4:56pm on 31 Jul 2008 And to minsue- so there must be a huge number of Americans who drink excessively at home or something? I mean after all you have more people who abstain entirely (or say they do) a higher drinking age and still have 92.4% of the alcohol consumption? By the way the statistics were wrong above- the US is at 8.6 liters of pure alcohol per year per capita (over 15).

By the way as an outsider I don't thing the British drink that much they just do it in public- as in bars and pubs. But then again I'm a citizen of one of the nations that scores higher.... (Denmark 9.8 per 2003)
Has alcohol sapped the British spirit? 4:46pm on 31 Jul 2008 seeing as you guy make a very nice 15th place on the table of average alcohol consumption per 2003 (couldn't find newer data- form the EU) at 9.3 liters a year. You would have to claim that all of western Europe has had it's spirit sapped. In addition the USA has one of 8.3 liters per year- so it's not much off. Honestly I think it is a matter of well earned cynicisms and wealth- not alcohol.

Personally I agree with with the point of personal ambition and self confidence though.

Just stop blaming my pint- as a scientist I'd suggest you try going to a conference end of happenings party to see if the worlds best brightest have a drink- they do - probably 10.
It might affect my long term health- but that will probably be after my financially productive life.

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