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Lemonchest
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Got nothing on South Koreans, though.
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Knight-Hart
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I know someone whose wife is Japanese, and apparently her father is pretty much always drunk. Drinks before work, sometimes during, and lots after.
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Greed1914
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You'd think that a reduced amount of productivity from workers with hangovers would do something to curb the drinking culture in companies. Then again, the prevailing attitude of "suck it up and keep working" probably keeps many from admitting that there is an issue.
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dtm42
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Um, yes it does Justin. Yes it does. |
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Ushio
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'Looks at fellow British citizens'
Must be the traditional heavy fish diet that comes with living on an island, how else are you supposed to get rid of the taste of jelled eels and cockles after all. Last edited by Ushio on Fri Aug 14, 2015 1:29 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Vaisaga
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As some one who refuses to drink on general principle, I need to remember to never get a job in Japan.
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Brand
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I knew a bit about drinking culture from my friends who lived in Japan but at Otakon 2014 I went to a panel about it. Yeah, as a teetotaler it is terrifying. I couldn't even imagine. My one friends who also doesn't drink said it wasn't to big of a deal when he was out there but he was also teaching in JET not dealing with businesses. Though, he did say some places just severed alcohol instead of water!
Another good story is when my Grandparents visited relatives out in California in the late 70s or early 80s. They went to a Japanese restaurant for the first time and my Grandfather a WWII vet said he could drink these ^&%s into the ground. Lets, say it didn't go well for him. |
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MadHi
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So, even if I don't drink for religious reasons, I'm still royally screwed if I don't over there.
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BadNewsBlues
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Logic be damned. |
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EricJ2
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The Japanese never had Prohibition, so, like England and Ireland's pubs, they never had as much of the social stigma about going out to a place on the downtown corner to sit, socialize, and drink for the sake of drinking as an evening's activity.
The closest we get to buddy-bonding over drinks (at least after college) is the sports bar, where guys get together over a few pitchers of beer, watch the bigscreen game, and argue over who has to be the designated driver so they don't cause fatalities on the way home. (When Prohibition started, the villain wasn't the drink itself, it was the corner saloon that would tempt in innocent victims--Before the 1910's, beer in bottles was a relatively new invention, so if you wanted one beer after work, unless you had your own keg to tap, you had to stop in where the boys hung out, the bartender would slide you down one on tap, and once you got to socializing, it was rarely ever just one.) Someone's probably got the link, but I remember reading an article of Japanese cultural traveler's advice for visiting America, and one of the eye-opening trans-Pacific revelations was "In America, nobody cares how much you can drink". Because, it explained, Americans saw someone drunk as "a danger" and "someone who lacked discipline and self-control". To the Japanese, the ability to go kamikaze in your drinking is more of a badge of honor than the ability to show self-control, because the after-work drinking is usually more about how much you're willing to go all-out together with your friends and co-workers, rather than be a wet blanket and put your selfish ol' home and family first. |
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Nomdrac8
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I raise a toast (of non-alcoholic beer) to you my fellow teetotaller! |
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MajorZero
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And that's one of the reasons why I abandoned "brilliant" idea to move to Japan one day. Honestly, I saw plenty of alcoholics in my life, working your ass off just to become one is not among my life priorities. |
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mgosdin
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I'm one of those fortunate ( or unfortunate depending on your viewpoint ) individuals who cannot drink. I don't metabolize alcohol very well so a modest amount of beer or any hard liquor will cause me to black out. It isn't fun, believe me.
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SpacemanHardy
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My mom is another person who cannot drink. She has an allergy to alcohol which causes her to break out in hives if she even has a tiny bit.
I, on the other hand, possess a near God-like tolerance to alcohol, so I'd probably fit in just fine. 
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Cyclone1993
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I don't drink due to religious, moral, and health issues. So that begs the question how does one get around it? Because it's never exactly stated other than deal with it and try not to become an alcoholic...
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