No , it ' ll be see what obamacare has done to you ! And the public who clearly has no understanding of obamacare or Medicare will buy the bullshit . <| sep |> We ' re apparently pretty close to EU average Alcohol intake as well as Canada ' s 5 viz ? langen . So probably not that different from what you do . Describing what it ' s like is actually a bit harder to nail down . Most of us are social drinkers , people might have a handful of pints say about 3 or 4 if they ' re in the pub with mates for the evening or winebeer with a special dinner or dinner out . Drinking before noon isn ' t done , drinking in the afternoon is mostly only for sports events or the occasional pint catching up with a mate . Binge drinking is a bit harder to nail down and really depends on your definition 8 units would mean it happens a lot , 0 . 2 BAC means it happens fairly rarely . Some do it at the weekends or special occasions , but mostly it ' s a youth thing and , having lived there , happens a lot less than in the UK . As for the stereotype , I think the stereotype is a combination of the Stage Irish buffoon and the Irish diaspora being made of people who had to emigrate rather than wanting to easy to crawl into a bottle when your loved ones are so far away you ' ll never see them again .