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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did you not attend college?[/quote]

I attended Oxford University, thanks very much. [/quote]

Bahahahahaha!  You do know all we have to do is google 'Oxford drinking parties,' right??  Wow.  Not very bright.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/26/drinking-societies-oxbridge-clubs-oxford-piers-gaveston-cambridge-wyverns[/quote]

Hmmm.. I went to Cambridge, so v similar to Oxford. There was loads of drinking; many students and professors were completely wasted a lot of the time. [b]As a Jew I had to learn the new skill of drinking slowly[/b] to seem to be keeping up because there was literally no way I could ingest that much alcohol in one go. I'm not particularly troubled by the idea of students in a bar at 4pm on a Sunday afternoon (actually, I'm not sure where else they are supposed to be?) But having recently visited some US universities including UVA, I think there is a different drinking culture in those schools that I don't really like - or maybe it's the frat boy thing. Anyway, just saying to the OP, I understand where you are coming from.[/quote]

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PP here - it means, Jewish people (generally) cannot hold their drink or consume anything like as much as many others (generally - and the group of students in my college was not hugely diverse so really I mean white Christians. Asians were generally not part of the crazy drinking culture either). I'd have one drink to every 2 or 3 of theirs. I still use this technique from time to time. [/quote]

I have never heard of this before, and I went to a primarily Jewish school, went to and worked at Jewish camps, and worked in a business owned by a family that is Jewish and most of my coworkers and clients were Jewish. So, while I am not Jewish myself, I have spent a lot of time in situations where I am the only person who is not Jewish and no one has ever mentioned to me that they had any difficulty holding their drink. I am not much of a drinker myself, so I guess the topic never presented itself.

Is this well known and I am just the only person who never heard of this?

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