Why do young women drink themselves to oblivion every night across Britain?

Daily Mail Online ^ | 11-09-10 | Laura Powell

[Lazlo in PA]

Midnight on St Mary Street in Cardiff and everything is exactly as expected. Half a dozen young women slump in a gutter, men urinate outside a health-food shop and, as hordes stagger between nightclubs, someone lifts up a blow-up doll with a sex toy protruding out of it.

The street smells of urine and lager, police struggle to break up a fight outside the Walkabout bar and a paramedic bundles a comatose girl on to a wheelchair. But it's a quiet night for 20-year-old Naomi Jenkins. She has 'only' drunk three shots of peach schnapps, cider and three shots of Jagermeister (during a drinking game called I Have Never) and still feels 'a bit sober'. Her friend Hannah Freeman, 19, was punched in a fight and stumbles about swearing and searching for a bathroom.

'We only do embarrassing things when we're really drunk,' Naomi says. 'I kiss random men in the street and Hannah has had sex behind a chicken coop.' She screams with laughter as Hannah lurches unsteadily in the stairwell of Charleston Bar and Grill on Caroline Street (known locally as Chip Alley) and unashamedly urinates in front of us.

[Cronos]

If you teach people self-hatred, how do you expect them to respond? -- exactly. Let's take the British Empire (not the Brittas Empire ;-P) -- ideally it should be studied abstractly in English school. Maybe it would be inclined more to the positive.

But if one takes it abstractly there was a lot of good done by the British Empire and a lot of evil. In comparison, say the Nazi German Empire was pure evil. The British had their good points and that should be taught. Let people have pride that say in America though we kicked you out, we were friends less than a century later etc.

I would add the caveat that the majority of US public schools are no better. -- I agree.

[GOPJ]

You nailed it.

[Cronos]