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Bottom line, Jeff VanVonderen and Candy Finnigan would not be pleased.
San Francisco, it seems, placed third in Forbes' America's Hard-Drinking Cities list. Or so says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 2007 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey.
Yay.
Here's the breakdown:
1. Austin, TX
2. Milwaukee, WI
3. San Francisco, CA
4. Providence, RI
5. Chicago, IL
8. (tie) Seattle, WA, Cleveland, OH, St. Louis, MO
9. Boston, MA
10. Cincinnati, OH
11. Pittsburgh, PA
12. Virginia Beach, VA
13. Portland, OR
14. Jacksonville, FL
15. Detroit, MI
(Eat it, Providence.)
But as The Consumerist points out, "a better 'hard drinkin'' rank doesn't mean your city is a 'den of debauchery.'" (Well, SF is said den, but...still.) Anyway, the survey came down to three questions:
[W]hether they had at least one drink of alcohol within the past 30 days; whether men had more than two drinks per day or women one drink per day; and whether they had five or more drinks on one occasion.
Women, so dainty! We'll drink to that.
(Via The Consumerist)
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It's all those cougars drinking Cosmos in the Triangle, waiting for their unsuspecting prey...
"5 or more drinks on one occasion"
Isn't that a typical Sunday morning in SF?
I drink far, far more often here than I did back in Nashville. Reason? Public transit and access to cabs.
San Francisco brings out the whiskey in me.
Not a drop for 27 years.
beer goggles do nothing for me anymore
One drink in 30 days makes you "hard-drinking"? I guess that confirms I'm a hard drunk!
alcohol is the cause and solution to all of my problems today.
I have to say, public transit and walking as a mode of transport do make the occasional drunken evening more frequent in San Francisco than in other towns I've called home
As a proud Nor*Cal wino, my sober-to-drunk ratio is about 2-1 for the waking hours of the day. So I can usually hold my own in other hard-drinking cities. But Jesus H. Christ are they right about Milwaukee. They LOVE their cheap piss-water beer up there: Miller, Schlitz, Blatz, PBR ... and of course, Old Milwaukee.
San Francisco, there's no shame in losing to Milwaukee in this regard. None at all.
@ brittney, I think I'm in love. (hiccup)
I'm committed to doing my part so that next year we'll grab number two or perhaps number one. Anyone with me on this?
I'm moving to Austin...
If you factor in pot smoking, San Francisco is far and away the top city for getting wasted.
I say we all get together for a few drinks to celebrate.
Following jack, SF gets gold if you disqualify cities with bad weather or being a college town.
I will personally take credit for getting Providence, RI moved up on the list.
I spent a few months out there this summer and drank all the vodka.
was Vegas disqualified?
This is terrible news. We have a lot of catching up to do if we're going to be number one.
I'm doing my part!
But Jesus H. Christ are they right about Milwaukee. They LOVE their cheap piss-water beer up there: Miller, Schlitz, Blatz, PBR ... and of course, Old Milwaukee.
Real Milwaukeeans drink Lakefront during the summer and rotgut Korbel brandy in winter
"San Francisco brings out the whiskey in me."
I love this line.
The local politics and Violent Anti-Americanism are likewise symptoms of deep self-loathing, assuaged by prodigious administrations of booze, Boy Butter, and Poppers
First of all I want to congratulate you for the medal..
He have to celebrate this wonderful moment...
I am very sad with Vegas disqualification...
Keep it up..
Thanks,
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AleX
Alcoholism Treatment