1) beer has less alcohol than wine...beer generally tastes worse than wine unless it's the really expensive belgian kind (not including stella...which is cheap anyway)

2) wine is more expensive, and the more expensive it is, the more it tastes better...the more alcohol it has

3) shots are good for getting yourself greased aka well oiled for the rest of the night.

4) drinking is part of the culture here so unless you drink, you don't really get to meet up with other people

5) asian people need to wear lots of foundation and makeup to hide the fact that they respond to alcohol in a bad way i.e. get really red

6) in england, the best drink (which incidentally has the highest alcohol content in the bar...that's not hard liquor) is cider...hands down. yes, when you come to england, drink their cider. it's cheap and yummy.

7) the reason why people drink more alcohol here is b/c the food is crap.

8) the reason why people drink here is b/c they have nothing better to do when grace is being recited in latin...the catholic latin of the middle ages.

9) if and when you get pissed, you can be as loud as you want to be...as long as you're not american.

10) americans talk way too much in pubs, and need to let the brits speak more...i tend to notice this when i go out with my flatmates.

11) if you want to pick up someone, buying them a drink is the best way...although none of my flatmates have found this to be particularly true.

12) drinking ends at 11pm here (for some strange reason)

13) drinking at pubs in oxford is cool b/c you can say that you drank in the exact same location as c.s. lewis and j.r.r. tolkien, and other v. cool and v. dead people.