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Mark, I'm not sure how many weddings you've been to in the UK, but I can't recall any myself where drunkenness was the norm. A quick count tells me I can remember going to 16. I'm not saying that nobody was drunk, but there wasn't anyone obviously so and there was no fighting! I'm not from a refined background (having been dragged up in Surrey Docks), so it's not a class thing. I'll be back there in December for another wedding and I'll be surprised if there are any problems there! Smile | :)

Now I've been to a few in Canada and my son got totally smashed at my daughter's (he went to sleep it off - no fighting) and one of my daughter-in-law's family got ejected from my son's wedding (some fighting!).

I agree with you about restrictive licensing and attitudes to booze are a problem. Countries like France and Italy have much fewer issues with alcoholism. Canada's licensing laws are more restrictive than the UK's and it's very common for youngsters to go off to university and get rat-arsed on a regular basis. I believe that this is also true in the US (frat boys, sorority girls).

In summary, I know binge drinking is a problem (not just in the UK) and open bars at weddings are a perfect opportunity for that. There are plenty enough bad things to say about the English (plenty of good too), but I don't see England as being a nation of drunken wife beaters.
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