British Columbians drinking at higher rates than before, new study finds

No surprise at all to this.


This comment made me laugh though:

I am not as think as you drunk I am.

If I lived in BC, I would probably be part of this study.

I would imagine this is more of a universal effect of the pandemic and not just in BC.

Well I did my part.

Alberta cannot be outdone by BC, so I went up and got an 8 of Guinness and a quart of Scotch from Jura.

Oh it is on son.

No shit, went to grandson's Grad in Olds... a beer stoe on every corner. And a church across the street.
Never seen so many liquor stores... not even in the USA

But I live where the number of stores doesn't matter. You drink as much as you can, as fast as you can and the sooner you're on the floor puking and making an ass of yourself the 'cooler' you are.
I only had TWO beers officer means you have a sip left in the double-size can between your legs and the steering wheel and there's 2 other empty ones on the floor of the cab.

Levels of drinking, in terms of personal self-destruction:

(1) social
(2) party
(3) game time
(4) round of golf
(5) alcoholism
(6) wet-brain street drunk
(7) Britain/Ireland/Russia
(8) Prince Rupert, British Columbia and/or BC family of loggers

Stayed in Rupert a few years back, fancy downtown hotel.
Wakened 20 times overnight by pisstanks screaming FUCK OFF to each other out in the street. Left after one night.
Just a ahithole than Fort St James....

Culturally and socially Prince Rupert is nothing but Fort McMurray, except with a lovely rain-forest coastline instead of swampy woodlands & tailing ponds. Identical type of manic rednecks though, just different places 1800 km apart.

You missed 'Australia'. That's where Herb apparently lives.

I first visited Prince Rupert in 1996 just after I took a buy-out from the old BC Tel. Luscious green forest, Popeye style waterfront buildings, Cow Bay tourist site, houses painted up like you see in Newfoundland... hotels with murals, crab fishing, ocean... I instantly wanted to apply to Prince Rupert Telephone (now CityWest)
Couple years ago we decided to go there first and then go back to see the kids in Terrace. Cow Bay 3/4 closed. Buildings and houses falling down right downtown. Drunks, crackheads stumbling everywhere, begging on streets, green slime algae oozing down the sides of murals painted on hotels.
Turned to shit in only 20 years. Huge port growth, sweet fuck all for the people who live there. Big eye opener from visiting the vibrant colourful friendly people of NS and NL the summer before.
No wonder people drink!
(And so many grow their own, you'd go tits up in a month if you invested in a weed store anywhere along Hwy 16 in BC)