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  • @Hison-Dcarman
    @Hison-Dcarman Місяць тому +80

    I started drinking alcohol years ago as a teenage, spent my whole life fighting alcohol addiction. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Got diagnosed with cptsd. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.

    • @Bastianbishops
      @Bastianbishops Місяць тому

      Hey mates! Can you help with the source? I suffer severe anxiety, panic and depression and I usually take prescription medicine, but they don't always help. Where can I find those psilocybin mushrooms? I'm really interested in treating my mental health without Rxs. I live in Germany don't know much about these. I'm so glad they helped you. I can't wait to get them too. Really need a reliable source 🙏

    • @DonnHowes
      @DonnHowes Місяць тому +3

      YES very sure of Dr.alishrooms. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.

    • @TomSanders-qv8bv
      @TomSanders-qv8bv Місяць тому

      How do I reach out to him? Is he on insta

    • @AndrewLiam-lp5cj
      @AndrewLiam-lp5cj Місяць тому +1

      Yes he's Dr.alishrooms.Shrooms to me is a natrual healer. I know a guy who has used mushrooms in the same way and they have really helped him. mah dudes have safe trips all.

    • @Iiisslogan-co6np
      @Iiisslogan-co6np Місяць тому

      wish they were readily available in my place. Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He is 59 & has so many mental health issues plus probable CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac. He's constantly talking about killing someone. He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD know if it is common for an obsession with violence.

  • @charleshamilton9274
    @charleshamilton9274 4 роки тому +7313

    World’s first trillionaire: the first Russian to perfect a synthetic liver.

    • @matheussanthiago9685
      @matheussanthiago9685 4 роки тому +122

      best part cyberpunk sci-fi shit is the artificial/cloned/lab grown/enhanced organs

    • @Dr.Johnson
      @Dr.Johnson 4 роки тому +191

      Scientists recently found an enzyme in human body which causes fat loss, no matter how much you eat. Technically, it's possible to create an actually working fat loss pill (of course decades of research is still needed). Whoever will own the patent for that, is gonna be the richest man in the world over night.

    • @charleshamilton9274
      @charleshamilton9274 4 роки тому +95

      Peter Sniffin - Well, it seems over a million humans die every year from starvation. The LAST thing we need are selfish gluttons eating far more than they need with impunity.

    • @Lithrus_
      @Lithrus_ 4 роки тому +32

      @@charleshamilton9274 economics though

    • @ComradeHellas
      @ComradeHellas 4 роки тому +4

      @@Dr.Johnson It will probably be sold cheap to some multi-billionaire corporation.

  • @MarlonDeanMusicChannel
    @MarlonDeanMusicChannel 3 роки тому +2712

    Famous Russian anecdote:
    The daughter asks her father after alcohol price has risen: "Does that mean that you'll drink less?"
    Her father: "No, it means that you'll eat less."

    • @badlad2001
      @badlad2001 3 роки тому +33

      😂

    • @mrweed5300
      @mrweed5300 3 роки тому +26

      ffs LOLOL!!!

    • @netyimeni169
      @netyimeni169 3 роки тому +47

      Not funny

    • @nopas77
      @nopas77 3 роки тому +65

      Russia have so strange stream in anectote black humor with. And count of this anecdotes increase in the black time for russians. Perhaps it is helps passing by this time for russians. Anyway, humor is only humor even black humor.

    • @nopas77
      @nopas77 3 роки тому +15

      @Kulo Nuwun 30 years of capitalism in Russia what do you want?

  • @HW.0029
    @HW.0029 3 роки тому +3305

    Quitting alcohol is pretty easy actually, done that like 67 times already.

    • @carpballet
      @carpballet 3 роки тому +190

      And that was just today. Tomorrow I’m shooting for 70.

    • @boyankovachev7982
      @boyankovachev7982 3 роки тому +34

      Ahahshsgsgsgsgsgaga
      Riiiiiight, cuz stopping for an hour counts 😀😀😀😀😀

    • @jwballer6
      @jwballer6 3 роки тому +24

      Same w me and nicotine! Super easy

    • @lakeshapitts6218
      @lakeshapitts6218 3 роки тому +5

      😂😂😂😂

    • @brownbear846
      @brownbear846 3 роки тому +4

      🤦

  • @GeoPerspective
    @GeoPerspective 4 роки тому +4715

    Russian Traffic police stops a car.
    Policeman asked the man, Have you drunk vodka today?
    Driver: No.
    Policeman: Breathe into the tube... Well, no alcohol is detected... Maybe the tube is broken… (breathes into the tube himself) No, it's working!

    • @taufiqidr
      @taufiqidr 4 роки тому +106

      Lmao

    • @yoursleepparalysisdemon1828
      @yoursleepparalysisdemon1828 4 роки тому +41

      *haha, you got the whole squad laughing*

    • @milenamalesevic3886
      @milenamalesevic3886 4 роки тому +26

      *HAHA TOATALY NOT AMERICANISED PROPAGANDA THINKING, HAHA*

    • @goromi8340
      @goromi8340 4 роки тому +5

      Milena Malesevic WeirdChamp

    • @ForOne814
      @ForOne814 4 роки тому +52

      Russian Traffic police stops a car and asks the driver to breathe into the tube. It shows 0.8 pmm.
      "Well, you've got me" - says the driver.
      "Wanna bet $1000 that we didn't?" - asks the officer.

  • @Gabrong
    @Gabrong 4 роки тому +2312

    Hungarian here. My grandmother didn't have a day without two shots for at least 50years
    edit: she is about 80 now

    • @zlac
      @zlac 4 роки тому +215

      Croatian here. My grandma claims the day doesn't even start before a shot of plum schnapps. :-D

    • @martonreisch6582
      @martonreisch6582 4 роки тому +34

      Jó magyart látni:D

    • @parasnaradiya2608
      @parasnaradiya2608 4 роки тому +43

      My roommate use to drink whisky at 2-3 am daily to concentrate on studies

    • @sherqyanstromain9580
      @sherqyanstromain9580 4 роки тому +1

      Fff

    • @GodsWheat
      @GodsWheat 4 роки тому +32

      @@parasnaradiya2608 my stepdad hasn't had a day without minimum 200 ml of vodka Lithuania is even higher than Russia, I guess Russia has less since more Muslims

  • @linkinbigballz
    @linkinbigballz 3 роки тому +854

    Me: You should never drink and drive
    Russian: Yes, you might end up spilling and wasting a drink

    • @novydasb4660
      @novydasb4660 3 роки тому +9

      Not accurate, the penalties for doing that in russia are pronounced

    • @Oliver-jw3dy
      @Oliver-jw3dy 2 роки тому +13

      @@novydasb4660 "🤓"

    • @mail1856
      @mail1856 2 роки тому +7

      Currently Russia have zero tolerance for driving a car after drinking. Permitted level of alcohol is zero. If police will find any amount of an alcohol in your blood, first time you will ban for driving for a year, second time (for a whole life) you will go to the prison.

    • @DMartinov
      @DMartinov 2 роки тому +1

      @@mail1856 damn, life sentence for drunk driving - seems a bit extreme to me lol

    • @salemblackcat-thehealthcat1
      @salemblackcat-thehealthcat1 Рік тому

      @Давiд Мартiновiч But the driving accidents are brutal! Still though alcohol makes you more flexible in a drunk driving accident, so the chance of the drunk driver dying is low.

  • @Askhat08
    @Askhat08 3 роки тому +544

    I'm from Russia and I remember doing a study on Russia's alcohol consumption during my university studying back in 2012. Turned out "moderate" drinkers in Russia get really drunk only 2 times a week lol.

    • @blagojevicniki4492
      @blagojevicniki4492 3 роки тому +63

      Tbh that does sound moderate, it's the average weekends drinker.

    • @F.R.E.D.D2986
      @F.R.E.D.D2986 2 роки тому +22

      That is still a lot of booze

    • @hunterlacey5422
      @hunterlacey5422 2 роки тому +34

      Lol, I remember living in Russia as a kid and in some bars, as long as you were tall enough to see over the bar, they would serve you

    • @electrogestapo
      @electrogestapo 2 роки тому +6

      2 times a week? So... Saturday to Sunday?

    • @igoranisimov6549
      @igoranisimov6549 2 роки тому +13

      @@hunterlacey5422 Not true. When we lived in USSR, one of my school friend was asked by local low enforcement to become an "undercover agent". He was buying alcohol in liquer stores, and if alcohol was sold to him, then the store clerk was immediately charged with the violation of the law. Sometimes only bottled beer was sold to young people. And beer was usually sold in same stores where carbonated non-alcoholic drinks were sold. In order to buy wine or hard liquers we had to ask some adult to buy it for us. And to be honest, soviet union did not have "bars" where the alcohol was poured in glasses. Exception was beer pubs. Even in restaurants customers preferred to buy entire bottles or bring their own.

  • @jorgealonso8742
    @jorgealonso8742 4 роки тому +376

    Russian traffic police: Did you drink vodka today?
    Driver: No, sir.
    Russian traffic police: *Want some?*

    • @helpblyat
      @helpblyat 4 роки тому +5

      This is one of stereotype. Really more drivers were detained for drunk driving

    • @thestickmanchannel8589
      @thestickmanchannel8589 4 роки тому +4

      @@helpblyat r/wooosh

    • @Mark-pu5xc
      @Mark-pu5xc 3 роки тому

      @@helpblyat ye, but sounds funny)) (in Russian)

  • @user-wj5cx2zp7v
    @user-wj5cx2zp7v 3 роки тому +2829

    Russian: I have alcohol problem.
    Me: Oh I'm sorry.
    Russian: Yes, I have no alcohol, this is problem.

  • @gedehahsen429
    @gedehahsen429 3 роки тому +555

    Average russian actually drinks about 7 liters of alcohol per year. Boris Yeltsin, who drinks 18 million liters per year is an obvious outlier and should've not been counted.

    • @kildarealeksen4140
      @kildarealeksen4140 3 роки тому +4

      Alcoholism and smoking: accursed legacies of communism. And Putin doesn't defend the lives of the Russian people either: Carlsberg, British American Tobacco, Philip Morris, Japan Tobacco International, among other multinationals of death.

    • @morodaye1417
      @morodaye1417 2 роки тому +6

      Nice Cookie Clicker reference

    • @arx3516
      @arx3516 2 роки тому +3

      Is he still alive?

    • @StarIsNotOkay
      @StarIsNotOkay 2 роки тому +8

      @@arx3516 No he died in 2007

    • @boopsboops961
      @boopsboops961 2 роки тому +6

      @@arx3516 no, he died in 2007. Ironicaly, Gorbachev, the person who was overthrown by Yeltsin is still alive

  • @patrickaherne1274
    @patrickaherne1274 3 роки тому +721

    Russia does not have an alcohol problem, alcohol has a russia problem

    • @hoze1235
      @hoze1235 3 роки тому +33

      in Russia alcohol gets hangover

    • @metadragon7500
      @metadragon7500 3 роки тому +2

      Alcohol doesn’t think Russia is a problem.

    • @demetriusbrown1019
      @demetriusbrown1019 2 роки тому +3

      @Phronesis Philosophy Channel lmfaooo

    • @hellobaby949
      @hellobaby949 2 роки тому

      @Phronesis Philosophy Channel LMAO

  • @MilaneseMoon
    @MilaneseMoon 4 роки тому +2815

    “Russian men have the lowest life expectancy of all men in the world”
    Watches Russian dash cam video: huh, I wonder why

    • @ultraviolet.catastrophe
      @ultraviolet.catastrophe 4 роки тому +33

      @JAYTEA HOOTS Cite your sources. If you're right, then the video is greatly misleading the viewers. That's not very scientific.

    • @joshuak4599
      @joshuak4599 4 роки тому +89

      @Kopliko Kot I doubt many men care enough to live up to your silly expectations just to die early.

    • @luisch1708
      @luisch1708 4 роки тому +5

      No wonder why they all drive like drunkards

    • @Dr.Johnson
      @Dr.Johnson 4 роки тому +42

      @@luisch1708 another huge problem is that u can just buy your license over there. And not just the license, but pretty much everything. Russia's always been one of the most corrupt countries. U can do absolutely everything there if you have either much money or the right contacts.

    • @abbaskhanjer5482
      @abbaskhanjer5482 4 роки тому

      Akaiq

  • @lidlllTTTTT
    @lidlllTTTTT 4 роки тому +803

    Student in the UK: the tone of his voice when he said 23 shots a month makes me think I may have a problem

    • @localbigfoot8217
      @localbigfoot8217 4 роки тому +5

      Your probably fine

    • @mandalorian_guy
      @mandalorian_guy 4 роки тому +70

      You'll slowly lose interest in it. People drink a lot in their teens and early twenties because it's a new experience and has a social taboo. After college you focus more on work and your metabolism starts to decrease leading to less partying and drinking.

    • @DaDennyH
      @DaDennyH 4 роки тому +35

      I know, right? 20 shots is a decent evening.

    • @danieldeburgh8437
      @danieldeburgh8437 4 роки тому

      @Jamie Thunder probelm is the people I notice who drink a lot beyond their 30s are eastern europeans

    • @andreibarsan5117
      @andreibarsan5117 4 роки тому +2

      Us Uk students are on a different level 🤙🏼😂

  • @Alexey-qs6nr
    @Alexey-qs6nr 3 роки тому +51

    I'm from Russia, and yeah, this is a real problem. My father died from alcoholism, and almost every man in my family drinks a lot. There are always people on the streets drunk to the state when they cannot move straight forward.
    I hope the situation will change in the nearest future

    • @kildarealeksen4140
      @kildarealeksen4140 2 роки тому

      If the communists had closed the genocidal alcohol and tobacco industries, Russia would be a drug-free nation. Besides, which is worse: the exploitation of man by man, a slogan widely propagated by the communists, or profiting from the death of the people? Communism never again.
      And Putin does not want the good of the Russian people: Carlsberg, Heineken, Budweiser, British American Tobacco, Philip Morris International, Japan Tobacco, among other multinationals of death.
      Alcoholism and smoking, legacies of communism, are Russia's biggest problems. In fact, millions of Russians have already been killed by these drugs. But no one has the courage to close the genocidal alcohol and tobacco industries.
      There must be mass protest against the genocidal alcohol and tobacco industries,which destroy a nation's future, in front of the Kremlin.

  • @mistrants2745
    @mistrants2745 3 роки тому +74

    "30% of every death"
    We did all we could ma'am, sadly he has passed away. He was killed for 10% by a bullet, 20% lung cancer, 30% alcohol and 40% me forgetting to remove the scalpel before we closed him up...

    • @orangew3988
      @orangew3988 2 роки тому +7

      Like, I know this is stupid, but if you have a lifetime of heavy drinking your organs are already damaged and under a lot of stress, so yes, you are less likely to survive the surgery to remove the bullet, or be able to reliably turn up for treatment for the lung cancer. And if you get black out drunk and aspirate, and get a chest infection, and die of sepsis because your family just thought you were hung over, was it the alcohol that killed you, or the chest infection, or the lack of appropriate hospitalisation, or the fact that when in hospital you were having the DTs and ripping out cannulas in confusion making it harder to get consistent iv antibiotic therapy.
      Sorry for being pedantic, you probs only meant a joke.

    • @smssalina
      @smssalina 2 роки тому

      Ha

  • @MessyTheBossy
    @MessyTheBossy 4 роки тому +653

    Im from Romania, and it sounds so weird to me that RealLifeLore sound borderline shocked at these numbers, while here it is normality for the older men. Eastern Europe is really drunk.

    • @bobhope4288
      @bobhope4288 4 роки тому +45

      I'm American and I'm shocked by these numbers, in 2010 Russian males averaged less than 1 drink per day. Doesn't seem like very much to me.

    • @DacLMK
      @DacLMK 4 роки тому +5

      I'm from Macedonia and I wasn't shocked at those numbers at all.

    • @Lyuben
      @Lyuben 4 роки тому +32

      Exactly, I'm from Bulgaria and we drink Rakija on every occasion. It's a tradition for every grandfather to teach his sons and grandsons how to brew it at home. I live in the city so I can't brew it at home, but when I stay with my grandfather for a while to help him with the farm we drink almost every night. If someone asked me on average how old boys are when they have their first drink I would say around 13 depending on the family. My grandfather told me the first time he got drunk was 5 years old when his father left him alone in a room with the wine. I am not ashamed of this in any way because I agree that drinking is part of our Bulgarian/Balkan culture.

    • @MountainPF
      @MountainPF 4 роки тому +22

      The new Z generation drinks much less than the Y and millennial generations. The baby boomers still drink as much, if not more, than they used to. As the boomers die off the numbers will shift to less alcohol consumption.

    • @RoScFan
      @RoScFan 4 роки тому +9

      Eu am fost mai socat de faptul ca suntem in top alaturi de ei. Romania is so alcoholic as to be between ukraine and russia when it comes to average alcohol consumption per capita? That s fucked up. I know there s a lot of drunkards in Romania, but in top 6 world record!?!?! We need to start discouraging homemade tuica.

  • @stevenowens5155
    @stevenowens5155 4 роки тому +1331

    23 shots a month? That’s baby numbers, more like a day

    • @asifsiddique455
      @asifsiddique455 4 роки тому +59

      He’s talking about pure alcohol like 100%

    • @zegociarz
      @zegociarz 4 роки тому +52

      @@asifsiddique455 Isnt he talking about vodka? 40%

    • @starfishjunky
      @starfishjunky 4 роки тому +120

      He made a mistake in the video, he mixed up alcohlic drinks with pure alcohol.

    • @Sumanitu
      @Sumanitu 4 роки тому +21

      @@starfishjunky Its not clear in the video if he's talking about pure ethanol or not, I think. Still, even 23 shots of PURE alcohol per month is barely over the US's point where you become declared a heavy drinker. The recommended amount is no more than 12 shots of 40% liquor per week. The numbers in the video equal out to 13.25 drinks of 40% vodka a week if you assume he's talking about pure liquor, and only 5.3 shots if not.

    • @yaxx1
      @yaxx1 4 роки тому +2

      The correct number of shots of vodka per month is 26*0.51/0.4/12/0.04=69 liters of 100% spirits * 51% / 40% abv / months in a year / shot size in cl

  • @aidenbester8840
    @aidenbester8840 3 роки тому +52

    Hey im South African and i can say my grandpa lived a full life a happy full life of 47 years

  • @AA-hg5fk
    @AA-hg5fk Рік тому +7

    since 2022 Russian male life expectancy has been taking a hit due to reasons unrelated to alcohol...

  • @Billy-bh3uy
    @Billy-bh3uy 4 роки тому +962

    It's only becomes a problem when they run out of alcohol

    • @user-jz9gv4rp5f
      @user-jz9gv4rp5f 4 роки тому +15

      Underrated

    • @jurepero6163
      @jurepero6163 4 роки тому +44

      When Russia runs out of Vodka Berlin runs out of virgins.

    • @johnwhite7700
      @johnwhite7700 4 роки тому +12

      Russia has cheap heroin, thanks to Afghanistan

    • @user-iv7jt1ex7j
      @user-iv7jt1ex7j 4 роки тому +3

      Vodka can't run out. If there is no vodka people just die, cause there is also no food what so ever. In Russia alcohol is as necessary as basic supplies.

    • @speartongamer6080
      @speartongamer6080 4 роки тому +1

      😂

  • @Blyatuber
    @Blyatuber 4 роки тому +1650

    Russians: yeah, we drink a lot, but we also have some imperfections

    • @harbard642
      @harbard642 4 роки тому +12

      Yea...you eat a lot of butterbrot...

    • @axel6437
      @axel6437 4 роки тому +4

      No they snort it

    • @eewag1
      @eewag1 4 роки тому +2

      Cheeki Breeki Bree! Racist profile picture

    • @tredI9100
      @tredI9100 4 роки тому +1

      A NUUUUUUU _CHEEKI BREEKI_ I V *DAMKE*
      (i found this quote on life of boris)
      (sees "Can I get 1000 Subs?"'s comment)
      Me: *_h o l d u p_*

    • @midwestmasocist
      @midwestmasocist 4 роки тому +3

      @@eewag1 😂

  • @stevenpayne5901
    @stevenpayne5901 3 роки тому +142

    When they say "liters of alcohol" they are talking about pure ethanol. Since most liquor is %40 then you need to multiply by 2 1/2. This means 37 1 liter bottles per year on average.

    • @Half_Centaur
      @Half_Centaur 3 роки тому +8

      Most bottles, at least in America, come in 750ml. This means they're drinking more like 50 bottles a year, or one per week

    • @Half_Centaur
      @Half_Centaur 3 роки тому

      @Nikola głodowski lol, you might've had a problem

    • @anthonybanderas9930
      @anthonybanderas9930 2 роки тому

      @@Half_Centaur but we are not talking about USA, are we yank?

    • @Half_Centaur
      @Half_Centaur 2 роки тому +4

      @@anthonybanderas9930 Yeah, except that the standard size all over the world is 750ml, just like in the US. It's only in the EU that they, confusingly, sometimes use 700ml. Take your hate for America and direct it elsewhere, homey.

    • @anthonybanderas9930
      @anthonybanderas9930 2 роки тому +1

      @@Half_Centaur we are not talking about "the rest of the world" either. We are talking about Russia. And anyway last time I ve checked the standards, at least in some of the EU countries was 500 and 1000 so the yank is wrong again.

  • @ChronitonMechanics
    @ChronitonMechanics 3 роки тому +50

    Imagine alcoholism is just a symptom...probably from a feeling of purposelessness...

    • @netyimeni169
      @netyimeni169 3 роки тому +3

      USSR collapsed and it was great stress for previous generation. In 90s your life savings suddenly means nothing cause country gone and ruble changed, crime rate boosted, high unemployment rate cause a lot of USSR's factories was sold, then few wars, terrorism, etc.

    • @tinman8972
      @tinman8972 3 роки тому +1

      It's a death wish.

    • @TheLakabanzaichrg
      @TheLakabanzaichrg 2 роки тому +1

      It seems to be a big issue since the soviet era, perhaps too much stress

    • @lpi3
      @lpi3 2 роки тому +1

      @@netyimeni169 alcoholism was problem in ussr times as well. Andropov tried to forbid alcohol completely but this only led to death or blindness from self produced (accidently) metanol in place of etanol. This was terrible. Alcoholism in Russia even today is no joke.

  • @QuentinWatt
    @QuentinWatt 4 роки тому +2058

    Why so staggered by 23 shots a month? I swear I know a few people who can do that over the weekend easy! 😂

    • @QuentinWatt
      @QuentinWatt 4 роки тому +48

      Well glad you mentioned men in South Africa. I can attest it’s true. We don’t live passed 65 here and many people are heavy drinkers.

    • @Daniel-kp9oy
      @Daniel-kp9oy 4 роки тому +32

      I’ve met my grandpa a couple weeks ago who lives in eastern Poland told me a shot of vodka is good for you. Guess my grandpa has higher average than Russia

    • @BoloVaboParashHaro
      @BoloVaboParashHaro 4 роки тому +66

      Dont forget that 23 shots a month is only 50% of the alcohol so if they only drink spirts its 46
      +some men dont drink at all
      +young people and kids dont drink or drink less

    • @AhizzuOMG
      @AhizzuOMG 4 роки тому +38

      Dont forget that its an average. On average every man in Russia downs 23 shots a month

    • @2200gonewild
      @2200gonewild 4 роки тому +51

      It's an average that means that the people who drink more than average drink a fuck ton

  • @Zekonos1
    @Zekonos1 4 роки тому +308

    "ten years ago in 2010"
    why you gotta remind me that im an old geezer goddamn

    • @gamermapper
      @gamermapper 4 роки тому

      Boomer

    • @justiceschmidt2594
      @justiceschmidt2594 4 роки тому +7

      @@gamermapper ok zoomer

    • @sule.A
      @sule.A 4 роки тому +1

      2010 is old?

    • @McDADDyK
      @McDADDyK 4 роки тому

      If you think 2010 is old you're defo a kid in your late teens trying to sound cool

    • @zacharysmith4787
      @zacharysmith4787 4 роки тому

      I mean, I was 21 in '10 and now I'm 31. 10 years might not seem like alot of time but at the same time it is. Alot can happen in a decade.

  • @deanfinch9750
    @deanfinch9750 Рік тому +6

    “And most of this was just pure alcohol that had been diluted to feel like vodka…”
    That’s LITERALLY what vodka is. Pure alcohol diluted with water.

  • @alexeysaranchev6118
    @alexeysaranchev6118 2 роки тому +123

    I love how you use the pronoun "she" when referring to Russia. Warms heart.

    • @blizzardstr
      @blizzardstr 2 роки тому +6

      She + it = shit (Russia)

    • @Cybernaut551
      @Cybernaut551 2 роки тому

      @@blizzardstr Immo

    • @sary2107
      @sary2107 2 роки тому

      neither! why is this a thing.

  • @andybrinegar8861
    @andybrinegar8861 4 роки тому +1781

    My Russian friends wouldn’t necessarily consider this a problem...

    • @maricelatejeda8002
      @maricelatejeda8002 4 роки тому +14

      ._.

    • @rickenman9844
      @rickenman9844 4 роки тому +70

      Part of the problem is too many Russians not considering this a problem

    • @Eridelm
      @Eridelm 4 роки тому +2

      @@rickenman9844 Certainly that's a misleading thought. If population wouldn't shrink to critical point we will witness Russia with low percentage of alcholism, my thoughts based on 1990-2000 born people's view.

    • @Nordlicht05
      @Nordlicht05 4 роки тому +3

      My russian wife would consider this a problem from a woman viewpoint. But when the womans do not want a divorce maybe not a problem?

    • @nntflow7058
      @nntflow7058 4 роки тому +2

      That friend of yours WAS your friend.

  • @ya436
    @ya436 4 роки тому +206

    1:10 "10 years ago in 2010"
    damn.

    • @itoshiigrauben
      @itoshiigrauben 4 роки тому +7

      I remember that I counted back years as if I was in 2000 since that’s what my parents do

    • @21tryhard97
      @21tryhard97 4 роки тому +3

      :(

  • @sn350channel
    @sn350channel 3 роки тому +11

    I’ve been to Belarus. Their grocery stores consist of 30% of their store with alcohol. In almost every aisle. Even selling in the cosmetics aisle.

    • @Aphex217Twin
      @Aphex217Twin 3 роки тому +1

      They sell alcohol in cosmetics!!!???

  • @TheGr8FryingPan
    @TheGr8FryingPan 3 роки тому +20

    He said that Russians drank an average of 23 shots a month. By my calculations it's actually a lot more.
    26l=2600cl which is 7.12 cl of ethanol per day over 365 days. Given that your average spirit has 40% ABV thats 17.8cl of vodka which is 8.9 shots a day. He did say only half of alcohol consumption was spirits, but thats still 4.45 shots of vodka a day, or 133 shots a month.

    • @AntonioZL
      @AntonioZL 2 роки тому +2

      He probably confused 26 liters of alcohol consumption with 26 liters of beverages containing alcohol.

  • @lullamaqueen9866
    @lullamaqueen9866 4 роки тому +411

    Is It just me or is he talking with a "I can't believe this is true, I'm still impressed by this numbers" voice tone

    • @user-tl4ly8pr3n
      @user-tl4ly8pr3n 4 роки тому

      Really??

    • @danielljudvigov150
      @danielljudvigov150 4 роки тому +1

      He's talking in a "I'm a popular UA-cam channel saying bad things about Russia to an English audience that doesn't read" tone

  • @SheldonBeldon
    @SheldonBeldon 4 роки тому +747

    I quit drinking and lost 30lbs, sleep well, my skin has cleared up, I no longer sweat when I sleep or stink of alcohol and save around £300 per month. I don't worry or cringe at something embarrassing I said or have trouble remembering what I did the night before. Instead of alcohol making my day-to-day mundane routines entertaining or bearable, it's forced me to actually seek out interesting things to do.

    • @Doge5600
      @Doge5600 3 роки тому +41

      Good job. Glad you recovered.

    • @robertocavalli4156
      @robertocavalli4156 3 роки тому +64

      Cheers I'll drink to that

    • @mikkicarr5717
      @mikkicarr5717 3 роки тому +21

      Congrats on kicking the habit! I hope you're still doing well.

    • @SheldonBeldon
      @SheldonBeldon 3 роки тому +15

      @@mikkicarr5717 Thanks very much Mikki for your kind words. I am doing well.

    • @jellybro-zl7xw
      @jellybro-zl7xw 3 роки тому +9

      Good job comrade. My dad had that problem and now he's beer free for about a year now.

  • @volvoracingmv1346
    @volvoracingmv1346 2 роки тому +20

    "pure alcohol that has been diluted to feel like Vodka"
    No, that's literally what Vodka is.

    • @gitghetto
      @gitghetto 2 роки тому

      Do you know what distillation is...?
      Vodka is a liquor that's been distilled to remove as much as possible aside from water and alcohol.
      Taking pure ethanol and adding water doesn't make vodka, just like how taking pure ethanol and adding hops doesn't make beer.
      There's a lot more to it than "HUR DUR ALCOHURL AND WURTER"

    • @volvoracingmv1346
      @volvoracingmv1346 2 роки тому +2

      @@gitghetto yes, do you know how Vodka is produced? Distillation to almost pure ethanol and then adding water. Not "HUR DUR DISTILLATION"

    • @gitghetto
      @gitghetto 2 роки тому

      @@volvoracingmv1346 Oh wow, I didn't realise they distilled it to pure ethanol before adding water :O
      Sit back down in your armchair and go back to r/distillers 😂

    • @volvoracingmv1346
      @volvoracingmv1346 2 роки тому

      @@gitghetto what's even your point? That's the difference between Vodka and Korn.

    • @gitghetto
      @gitghetto 2 роки тому

      @@volvoracingmv1346 I literally made my point in my first comment ya dingus, I'm sorry you somehow missed it 😂

  • @NightLordddd
    @NightLordddd 2 роки тому +6

    23 shots a month and then there's me who drinks 10 shots every Saturday, feelsbad

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 4 роки тому +674

    In Soviet Russia, freedom of speech exists too.
    It never specified freedom AFTER the speech

    • @nevermind8063
      @nevermind8063 4 роки тому +5

      Lol

    • @nevermind8063
      @nevermind8063 4 роки тому +15

      You're everywhere, man

    • @yt9404
      @yt9404 4 роки тому +6

      Just a typical Westerner comment.

    • @007furious
      @007furious 4 роки тому +17

      Kindda same in West. Specially with leftist cancel culture and everyone getting offended.

    • @Amarganeitor
      @Amarganeitor 4 роки тому +3

      I bet you're just another account of Avery the Cuban-American.

  • @Jambiiiii
    @Jambiiiii 4 роки тому +392

    Russia doesn’t have an alcohol problem, alcohol has a Russian problem.

    • @dead3043
      @dead3043 4 роки тому +4

      This made the drink come out my fucking nose

    • @hegpxl
      @hegpxl 4 роки тому +2

      @@dead3043 So, Vodka? If so, it stings like hell in the nose, feel sorry for you.

    • @skizzik121
      @skizzik121 4 роки тому

      Was going to type this exact comment. Well done sir

  • @feraltrafficcone4483
    @feraltrafficcone4483 2 роки тому +4

    Fun reminder that there was a supersonic bomber in Russia’s use that used a water and alcohol mix for coolant in the A/C. It was highly common for pilots to deliberately not use their A/C so they could siphon off the coolant and drink it, or barter it for goods and services from other pilots.

  • @user-yz9pw4km8n
    @user-yz9pw4km8n 2 роки тому +8

    When I see an alcohol statistic, where beer, wine and stong drinks are calculated together in liters, I can't help but think that person was drunk...

  • @quite1enough
    @quite1enough 4 роки тому +1510

    I'm russian and I don't drink at all. My father is alcoholic, sadly.

    • @Acampandoconfrikis
      @Acampandoconfrikis 4 роки тому +99

      Your name doesn't look russian tho

    • @yommmrr
      @yommmrr 4 роки тому +165

      I'm sorry about your dad. Your doing the right thing though. Teach your children the right way to live. That's the only thing we can do to make a better world.

    • @CK-yv6nw
      @CK-yv6nw 4 роки тому +77

      I'll drink to that cheers

    • @biko9824
      @biko9824 4 роки тому +6

      CK oh gosh.

    • @jackdaniels6536
      @jackdaniels6536 4 роки тому +120

      @@Acampandoconfrikis yeah because he has to put his real name on yt right?

  • @guilherme1622
    @guilherme1622 4 роки тому +739

    if dont stop drinking then you re only drunk once

    • @guilherme1622
      @guilherme1622 4 роки тому +36

      The question is
      Wasnt i drinking when i wrote this??......
      What

    • @fedra5873
      @fedra5873 3 роки тому +6

      @@guilherme1622 no

    • @Kavan19
      @Kavan19 3 роки тому +1

      @@guilherme1622 yes

    • @no-ly9zf
      @no-ly9zf 3 роки тому

      no

    • @no-ly9zf
      @no-ly9zf 3 роки тому

      @@fedra5873 y u say my name fool?

  • @TheHylianJuggalo
    @TheHylianJuggalo Рік тому +4

    All stereotypes are based on some speck of truth. Remember that.

  • @InvestBetter.
    @InvestBetter. 3 роки тому +52

    "We don't have a problem drinking!" - Russians

  • @101bsatx
    @101bsatx 4 роки тому +241

    I believe you have misinterpreted your data. When the researchers say liters of alcohol I think they mean pure ethanol alcohol. Not liters of a diluted alcoholic beverage. The average bottle of liquor in the US is 40% ethanol. So 26 pure liters is 65 liters of normal U.S. vodka.

    • @mkirklions
      @mkirklions 4 роки тому +20

      I was most curious about this. It seems the average person would be drinking ~1 shot per day and maybe 1 other drink, which is wayy too low.

    • @sionowe2533
      @sionowe2533 4 роки тому +4

      that cant be right. anyone drinking over 2 liters of voddy per day wont make it a week without liver failure.

    • @mustpaike
      @mustpaike 4 роки тому +11

      @@sionowe2533 oh, they do, once you build up a tolerance it becomes really easy to have a relatively normal everyday life and yet put away 2 liters @ 40% daily, assuming you have the cash. At one point one will drink vodka as if it is water, half a liter to wake up, another half for lunch, yet another for dinner, and the final half as a supper/evening snack. Not my personal experience though, the highest i've reached is about 0.5 liters of 40% equivalent per day, lasting for months.

    • @doctaflo
      @doctaflo 4 роки тому

      @mustpaike @sion i can speak from experience as i used to get through a 1L bottle of bacardi 151 every 2.5 days or so... that went on for a few years. even at that rate, liver failure usually takes decades, unless you have some other underlying condition or risk factor.

    • @101bsatx
      @101bsatx 4 роки тому +4

      @@sionowe2533 his numbers are averages for a year, so it would be 65 liters per year meaning about 0.18 of a liter per day, not 2 entire liters a day, that would be 730 liters a year.0.18 liters is around 4 shots of vodka a day. Now that's an average of every Russian in the country, so some drink far more and others drink less.

  • @stefanivkovic1494
    @stefanivkovic1494 4 роки тому +416

    Poland while inventing vodka: I am 4 parallel universes ahead of you

    • @mybutthasteeth1347
      @mybutthasteeth1347 4 роки тому

      @F.B.I. gotta love a good sabaton reference

    • @wilianrodrigues5280
      @wilianrodrigues5280 4 роки тому

      Poland: REVENGE IS SWEET

    • @edim108
      @edim108 4 роки тому

      @F.B.I. SPIRIT of Spartans... Heh. Get it?
      I'm not sorry.

    • @johnphantom
      @johnphantom 4 роки тому +1

      Uh no, what did it take for someone to say, "I want to drink that" in reference to a fucking potato?

    • @antoniasalinas513
      @antoniasalinas513 4 роки тому

      i love that pannenkoek reference

  • @ankurage
    @ankurage 3 роки тому +11

    Plot twist: Russian men were androids running on ethanol

    • @kildarealeksen4140
      @kildarealeksen4140 3 роки тому

      Alcoholism and smoking: accursed legacies of communism. And Putin doesn't defend the lives of the Russian people either: Carlsberg, British American Tobacco, Philip Morris, Japan Tobacco International, among other multinationals of death.

  • @chipdaddy9716
    @chipdaddy9716 3 роки тому +9

    C.I.A. should open a chain of deep discount liquor stores in Russia.

    • @markberryhill2715
      @markberryhill2715 3 роки тому

      That would destroy them quicker than anything.

    • @novydasb4660
      @novydasb4660 3 роки тому +1

      @@markberryhill2715 not really

    • @andryushenko98
      @andryushenko98 2 роки тому

      Somebody already did that, we have plenty of such chains here in Russia

  • @FingeringThings
    @FingeringThings 4 роки тому +800

    I'd like to know the 13 countries who drink more alcohol than Russia

  • @el_thid
    @el_thid 4 роки тому +321

    The 26 litre figure you got was for PURE 100% ethanol content of hard liquor, beer, wine etc- not the volume of the products themselves. This means the average Russian man (assuming that 51% of that ethanol was hard liquor @ 40% abv) drinks around 20ish shots of alcohol per week (not per month) and much more beer on top of that 😮

    • @japapapapaa
      @japapapapaa 4 роки тому +19

      ^this

    • @TheGreatBritishFarm
      @TheGreatBritishFarm 4 роки тому +6

      Did think that myself

    • @ezekielbrockmann114
      @ezekielbrockmann114 4 роки тому +11

      Right. So the average number of shots isn't 1/day.
      The current average is instead is 2.5/day.

    • @ronswanson5551
      @ronswanson5551 4 роки тому +7

      I was going to mention something similar after questioning his first few “volume-per-year” results, because that isn’t really that much overall when considering the point of this video.

    • @dominicbruce7558
      @dominicbruce7558 4 роки тому +11

      Thank you, was scared that I drink more than the average Russian

  • @casualkave537
    @casualkave537 3 роки тому +3

    About Irkutsk tragedy of December 2016: the lotion was not "mislabeled", it was used as a cheap yet powerful drink by the extremely poor due to the alcohol in it for a loong time before the tragedy. But for that particular batch they used Methanol instead of Ethanol on an illegal manufacturing facility, which caused mass poisoning and deaths.

  • @caseykyle4029
    @caseykyle4029 3 роки тому +7

    23 shots and a liter of beer in a month doesn’t seem like a crazy amount

  • @ILaunchNukes
    @ILaunchNukes 3 роки тому +978

    Teacher: "Describe Russian history in a nutshell. "
    Me: **BUT THEN IT GETS WORSE!**

    • @i.h.1091
      @i.h.1091 3 роки тому +1

      vj balan haha

    • @madpsina
      @madpsina 3 роки тому

      gold

    • @IronpenWorldbuilding
      @IronpenWorldbuilding 3 роки тому +9

      Absolutely. Example: the Soviet Union was established by Lenin, then there were lots o famines and after that Stalin caused worse famines and several purges. See where I’m going?

    • @idanielrog
      @idanielrog 3 роки тому +2

      Brainwashed, study more non propaganda source's. Please

    • @kirilll7806
      @kirilll7806 3 роки тому +9

      @Volbran не отрицай очевидные вещи

  • @bridgeroneill8067
    @bridgeroneill8067 4 роки тому +641

    “23 SHOTS OF LIQUOR A MONTH?!!!!”
    Me in college: ☹️

    • @bosnianseparatist1174
      @bosnianseparatist1174 4 роки тому +18

      That doesn't seem like a lot but considering it's for a period of more than 50 years it now is

    • @mikkei3532
      @mikkei3532 4 роки тому

      Me with my motocycle friends we last trip all over whe country and drink 7day marathon 0.7 litre vodka per capita every day and 6-8beers . I made like 200 shots of vodka or whatever

    • @DacLMK
      @DacLMK 4 роки тому +6

      In the Balkan, we do 23 shots of liquor in 5 days.

    • @fluedgoop
      @fluedgoop 4 роки тому +5

      @@bosnianseparatist1174 he must've miscalculated, that's a ridiculously low number, about 5.3 a week.
      The odd glass of wine of an evening would top that.
      One night out will easily account for most of the month alone.

    • @gudeaoflagash5293
      @gudeaoflagash5293 4 роки тому

      Flued Goop That was only the spirits. He also said “In addition to a full litre of beer or wine”

  • @SoManySwags
    @SoManySwags 2 роки тому +5

    This didn't age well.

  • @Hella-en5dh
    @Hella-en5dh 3 роки тому +30

    So that means most Russian dudes literally drink until they’re out of money for the month.

    • @grom69
      @grom69 3 роки тому +6

      sadly, i live in russia and that is true

    • @eliaselias9899
      @eliaselias9899 3 роки тому +2

      @@grom69 да че ты пиздишь то, сейчас в разы меньше пьют чем в нулевые

    • @grom69
      @grom69 3 роки тому +3

      @@eliaselias9899 но до сих пор пьют же
      Да, не так, как раньше, но все равно цифры огромные
      Огромное количество людей живут за чертой бедности и большинство из них пьет
      Пиздеж это или нет, но таких людей, бомжей бухих я встречаю через день

    • @ybwmarion
      @ybwmarion 2 роки тому

      @@eliaselias9899 большинство алкашей из 2000-ых умерло просто

  • @denisdrc5836
    @denisdrc5836 4 роки тому +347

    RLL: "2020 has been a bizzarre year"... Man, we're not even halfway through...

    • @Marianian
      @Marianian 4 роки тому

      Exactly

    • @moonsugar6781
      @moonsugar6781 4 роки тому

      Denis DRC just you wait til 2022 is here

    • @madeinmicrosoftpaint
      @madeinmicrosoftpaint 4 роки тому +3

      @@moonsugar6781 what's going to happen in 2022

    • @aeternavictrix7861
      @aeternavictrix7861 4 роки тому

      Dangerous_Shark 2030 is when shit will hit the fan

    • @NoNo-xh7ru
      @NoNo-xh7ru 4 роки тому +1

      Dangerous_Shark coronavirus 2: electric boogaloo

  • @Horesmi
    @Horesmi 4 роки тому +161

    Americans: haha Russians drink so much booze.
    Also Americans: give me more of those pills so I stop being sad.

    • @hoho7029
      @hoho7029 4 роки тому +6

      Tbh II don't think pills are problem, more what kind of pills it is. Many amwericians are prescribed meds which they addicted to and when they run out of money they look into other means to seat their addiction

    • @frzferdinand72
      @frzferdinand72 4 роки тому +1

      @Doug Bevins They're just drunk and mad and taking it out on Americans because RLL has an American accent.

    • @user-le8wr4yz6q
      @user-le8wr4yz6q 4 роки тому +15

      Doug Bevins oh look, you made a strawman! Congratulations, soon you will learn to see every piece of dark humour as an immediate threat to your untouchable worldview. Btw how did you guess that the guy in question is russian? Please, calm your butthurt, you are being unconstructive here.

    • @Korrus_
      @Korrus_ 4 роки тому +2

      Николай Иванов damnnn nice sit down @bevins

    • @directoryerror6653
      @directoryerror6653 4 роки тому +5

      @Doug Bevins I figure the point of his comment was to draw a parallel between each states choice of substance to abuse. While it's interesting to learn about nationwide alcoholism problems you sure get defensive when similar problems in your own infallible nation are brought to question. All of your rage due to what you assumed his point was, you assumed they only set out to defame The USA, then worked yourself into a fit of rage on your own stupid assumption. Grow up.

  • @griffith500tvr
    @griffith500tvr 2 роки тому +4

    Live expectancy for Russian men has gone down again 2022

    • @againstviralmisinformation510
      @againstviralmisinformation510 2 роки тому

      We will see. It went down more for women these past few years of covid and a substantial amount of men need to die in Ukraine to make a noticeable difference in life expectancy

  • @greghmn
    @greghmn 3 роки тому +4

    1:53 is actually understating the degree of the problem by quite a bit. *_It's literally several times worse._*
    TL;DR: the actual number would be four drinks per day and *62 shots per month,* not 23.
    26 liters of alcohol per year means 26 liters of _pure_ ethanol. The non-alcoholic components of the beverage in question are excluded; otherwise, this data wouldn't make any sense since you wouldn't be able to control for international differences in drink type.
    51% of this is spirits, meaning 13.26 liters.
    I'm going to use the American definition of a standard drink, which is any alcoholic beverage that contains 0.6 fluid ounces (about 18 mL) of pure ethanol. This means one shot of liquor, most commonly being 40% alcohol (80 proof), is 1.5 fluid ounces or 44 mL. Wine and beer vary widely, but the nominal averages are 12% and 5%, respectively, making serving sizes 5 fl oz (about 1/5 of a 750 mL bottle) and 12 fl oz (one standard can) respectively, or about 150 and 350 mL.
    Dividing the total amount of ethanol, 26 L (roughly 879 fluid ounces or a not-very-nice 6.9 gallons) by the serving size of 0.6 fluid ounces yields a total of *1465 standard drinks,* which is almost exactly four per day.
    So if we assume 51% of those are liquor, that actually comes out to 62 per month. Why not 57-58? Not sure what numbers were being used, but that number in particular would surface if (but not only if) we assumed both 80 proof and the American serving size; it could otherwise by sheer coincidence due to differences in those two amounts that varied inversely.
    So, the remaining 49%, 12.74 L (I really don't care about significant figures, but whatever), if all wine, would be 12.74/0.12 or about 106 liters per year. That's twelve entire bottles per month!
    As beer, it would be 12.74/0.05, or about 255 liters. Nearly two cans per day (obvious since it's about half of four standard drinks), but another way of looking at it is that it's 700 cans.
    This may seem like a small error, but I urge the uploader to correct it. If you're trying to put things into terms that a layperson can understand, at least get the numbers and interpretation straight. Otherwise, you're better off omitting that part entirely.

  • @Comred1
    @Comred1 4 роки тому +70

    'The enormous amount of a liter of beer each month'
    *Sweats nervously*

    • @nathanschmick9681
      @nathanschmick9681 4 роки тому +10

      Lol I'm thinking real-life lore has no drinking buddies. A liter of beer is one good night. And there's been several "good night's" a week at my house..

    • @jamesmantovani8620
      @jamesmantovani8620 4 роки тому

      @Litch it's enough for me to get a buzz! Not drunk, but buzzed. Depends on the proof

  • @grilled_steak_stuffed_5586
    @grilled_steak_stuffed_5586 3 роки тому +1511

    This video was published on the day I quit drinking. 6 months of sobriety and counting!

    • @balkanjoker8754
      @balkanjoker8754 3 роки тому +48

      Dont give up bro

    • @grilled_steak_stuffed_5586
      @grilled_steak_stuffed_5586 3 роки тому +86

      @@balkanjoker8754 No way man. Feeling way too awesome and my bank account is a lot happier!

    • @Shannara360
      @Shannara360 3 роки тому +21

      Hey, I'm proud of you. Good job.

    • @grilled_steak_stuffed_5586
      @grilled_steak_stuffed_5586 3 роки тому +10

      @@Shannara360 thank you!

    • @doubleawakeel7214
      @doubleawakeel7214 3 роки тому +18

      Thx to Islam, non of my relatives drink. And being drunk in saudi arabia is almost impossible unless you make your own ig, and if u don't get caught. You can't hate this law because it prohibits something unhealthy. Which I like

  • @tiernanwearen8096
    @tiernanwearen8096 2 роки тому +2

    giving up drinking was one of the best descions i made

  • @artemvektor1
    @artemvektor1 2 роки тому +4

    Actually as Russian I can say that Englishmen drink much more according to my experience on Turkey vacations))

  • @TLJet
    @TLJet 4 роки тому +339

    Correction: Alcohol has problem with Russia

  • @spoompls42069
    @spoompls42069 4 роки тому +325

    This should’ve been renamed: “Alcohol’s Russia Problem”.

    • @mr.sandhu587
      @mr.sandhu587 4 роки тому +3

      LoL

    • @Marianian
      @Marianian 4 роки тому

      Lol

    • @TheOneWh0Knocks
      @TheOneWh0Knocks 4 роки тому +15

      It's funny because everyone knows that Russia is a political problem and alcohol is a chemical solution...

    • @johnphantom
      @johnphantom 4 роки тому +1

      @@TheOneWh0Knocks alcohol is the chemical solution the people in Russia use to accept the political climate of Russia.

    • @SCBLGamingFilm
      @SCBLGamingFilm 4 роки тому

      in soviet russia, you don't drink alcohol, alcohol drink you

  • @zacktimmons2886
    @zacktimmons2886 Рік тому +2

    I’m gonna put my money on Russia state sponsored numbers being completely false lol

  • @user-fv1uf9bf4r
    @user-fv1uf9bf4r 2 роки тому +6

    The Russians began to drink less, yeah. According to the same statistics, we do not die from covid and generally prosper... Glory to the united party, the most honest party in the world.

  • @AltaSonix
    @AltaSonix 4 роки тому +204

    In Lithuania, almost all my friends and classmates I know (~17 yo) drink alcohol on almost every chance they can. I'm pretty sure at least 40% of them drink every week. Also, it's considerate not normal if you don't have alcohol served on a birthay party or a wedding. And the worst part is, if you are not a drinker, almost everyone will anoyingly make you try to drink.

    • @Marianian
      @Marianian 4 роки тому +6

      That's weird,

    • @TheSkult
      @TheSkult 4 роки тому +4

      Albertas Butrimas Hmmm interesting. I wonder if Latvia has more or less alchoholism than Lithuania.

    • @AltaSonix
      @AltaSonix 4 роки тому +4

      @@TheSkult 🤷‍♂️. Migh be something similar, since it experienced the same problems with Russia.

    • @JoeTheBroken
      @JoeTheBroken 4 роки тому +2

      Same here but Im american

    • @AltaSonix
      @AltaSonix 4 роки тому +2

      @@JoeTheBroken lol. I thought it was cooler there..

  • @GameZard
    @GameZard 4 роки тому +394

    If I lived in a frozen wasteland I would drink heavily too.

    • @jooztbakker9494
      @jooztbakker9494 4 роки тому +59

      Russia has many different climates

    • @youarealwayscorrect
      @youarealwayscorrect 4 роки тому +101

      Not really, only 1/6 of Russia’s population live in Siberia and other cold regions of the country.
      It’s basically just another stereotype, like saying that Americans love to eat fast food so much because they’re too dumb to cook anything for themselves.

    • @ForOne814
      @ForOne814 4 роки тому +38

      @@youarealwayscorrect I mean...Is it that untrue?

    • @xenos_n.
      @xenos_n. 4 роки тому +12

      @@youarealwayscorrect or assuming that everywhere in America is similar. I can't tell you how many times people not from here assume that my life in Maine is like someone in LA or NY, or even Ohio or Minnesota or Florida or Texas, etc... It's very different. Our country is huge and like a country of countries.

    • @sorrynothing.
      @sorrynothing. 4 роки тому +7

      i live in Vorkuta so...yeah

  • @ailo8964
    @ailo8964 3 роки тому +1

    Russian: alcohol isn't deadly. Our nuclear arsenal is.

  • @rocier
    @rocier 3 роки тому +7

    When he says 23 drinks a month was a shocking amount of booze.... Uhhh

    • @Noctem_pasa
      @Noctem_pasa 3 роки тому +1

      I think he meant 100% pure ethanol worth of alcohol

    • @sepijortikka
      @sepijortikka 3 роки тому

      @@Noctem_pasa still

    • @Turkey936
      @Turkey936 3 роки тому

      Yeh still haha I'm sure I drink more than this. Just on weekends.

    • @TheLakabanzaichrg
      @TheLakabanzaichrg 2 роки тому

      That means on average and not just drinkers

  • @Ralphieboy
    @Ralphieboy 4 роки тому +98

    I was in the USSR when they tried to introduce the anti-alcohol campaign, restricting access and cracking down on public drunkenness. But the prevailing attitude back then was simple: regardless of whether you drank more or less, your material situation was not going to improve...you just had to stay sober enough at work not to get sent home.

  • @Claudio-gv2lz
    @Claudio-gv2lz 3 роки тому +637

    “23 shots per month”
    Me during summer: hey mom look, like an avarage russian in one night

    • @danielblack5196
      @danielblack5196 3 роки тому +59

      The numbers he was using in liters were of "pure alcohol." The data was correct, but the calculations were all off. That's why everyone in the comments is laughing at the 23 shots number. That plus a liter of beer and wine is still only an average of one drink per day.... the CDC in the US allows for up to two drinks per day even in the US as standard consumption. I did the math, and the average Russian citizen (not sure if these numbers include children as well which would complicate the situation) but the average Russian citizen would have about a bottle of vodka per week or 2 shots per day, while men (based on his calculations) would have about 4 shots per day. Just average.

    • @viktorbirkeland6520
      @viktorbirkeland6520 3 роки тому +29

      @@danielblack5196 that sounds way more right. Yeah, a little misleading, leading to a lot of people in the comments saying they could easily keep up with above average Russian alcohol consumers, which in 99% of cases they just simply couldn't. As a nordic person, coming from a long, long line of alcoholics, partly due to Russian vodka (historically, Northern Norwegians traded fur for vodka), I can kind of keep up, but I know how heavy a toll it takes on my body, even though I used to it. Alcohol is a terrible drug, and the world would be way better without it. Laughable that weed is illegal, yet alcohol is fine and even socially acceptable and encouraged

    • @ConnorOfDestruction
      @ConnorOfDestruction 3 роки тому +6

      @@viktorbirkeland6520 four shots a day quite simply ain't shit

    • @viktorbirkeland6520
      @viktorbirkeland6520 3 роки тому +15

      @@ConnorOfDestruction It's cool that you think that, but you're not impressing anybody. How much you can drink, largely depends on your genetics, which makes it even less impressive when you brag, since some of us are just born able to drink more than the rest.
      Whatever the case, I hope you do keep your word and prove to us all how great you are at drinking, I'd say you would impress me when you've had 10 shots daily, every single day, for 15 years. Hope you don't back out mate, you seem to want to prove yourself!

    • @ConnorOfDestruction
      @ConnorOfDestruction 3 роки тому +4

      @@viktorbirkeland6520 you can't seriously be claiming 4 shots is a remarkable amount of alcohol. That's the equivalent of four beers, and having been to your country plenty of you handle four drinks or more a day, easily.
      Grow up pothead

  • @mad_zo
    @mad_zo 2 роки тому +12

    All my life I was thinking that the Russians were the worst alcoholics of all times. When I came to England and saw how English drink, my point of view has changed radically on the alcoholic problems of the world.

    • @robertbruce1887
      @robertbruce1887 Рік тому +1

      When l took a trip to the UK. & Ireland l was shocked at how much public urination l saw, especially outside pubs at night, it was common to see several guys in a group urinating against a wall.

  • @matthewtaylor3308
    @matthewtaylor3308 3 роки тому +1

    A drinking problem? I drink, I get drunk, I fall down. No problem!

  • @EvilSapphireR
    @EvilSapphireR 4 роки тому +127

    Russians during lockdown: *stares aggressively at the alcoholed hand sanitizers*

  • @trnavacV6T
    @trnavacV6T 4 роки тому +63

    Russian watching this: Oh shit, this is serious!
    -*pours some vodka*

    • @RE-zl7sy
      @RE-zl7sy 4 роки тому

      vodka*

    • @TB-if7px
      @TB-if7px 4 роки тому

      @@RE-zl7sy водка

    • @-Fodi
      @-Fodi 4 роки тому

      @@TB-if7px водяра

    • @trnavacV6T
      @trnavacV6T 4 роки тому

      @@RE-zl7sy I am scared of ur name bruh

    • @trnavacV6T
      @trnavacV6T 4 роки тому

      @@-Fodi водљлка

  • @ronjon7942
    @ronjon7942 10 місяців тому +2

    For the life of me, I don’t know how is Russia even still a nation much less a minor superpower?

  • @fgfhjfhjfbhfghf5771
    @fgfhjfhjfbhfghf5771 2 роки тому +7

    "Russia's biggest problem is alcohol"
    Gay Russians: are we a joke to you?

  • @stefotorpedo
    @stefotorpedo 4 роки тому +314

    Every time I read about Russia's alcohol troubles Little Big's "I'm OK" starts playing in my head.

  • @alexnistor2836
    @alexnistor2836 4 роки тому +335

    Real life lore: "the world is about to end"
    Also Real Life Lore: "Btw, buy this new headset" :)))

    • @Nightshade0111
      @Nightshade0111 4 роки тому +12

      Alex Nistor hey he’s gotta get money somehow

    • @alexnistor2836
      @alexnistor2836 4 роки тому +6

      @@Nightshade0111, i know but, the contrast bro...

    • @JB-tl8rj
      @JB-tl8rj 4 роки тому +3

      I don't watch this channel too often cuase of the sponsorships and doomist attitude

    • @Erispedia
      @Erispedia 4 роки тому +1

      Well, a good equipment for listening Astronomia from inside the coffin is always appreciated.

    • @zack7122
      @zack7122 4 роки тому +2

      nice

  • @mrrandom1265
    @mrrandom1265 3 роки тому +7

    I used to work for Emirates in Dubai. Russian flights had 3 times the amount of alcohol compared to any other destination in the world. And the carts were totally empty when we landed. Those guys drink anything as long as there's alcohol in it. This is totally insane.

  • @jeremyk1916
    @jeremyk1916 9 місяців тому +1

    I gave up alcohol. But now I have an even more expensive habit…Starbucks!!!!

  • @Chidulo
    @Chidulo 4 роки тому +125

    This video should be called “Russian car accident videos explained”

  • @mikeomack2269
    @mikeomack2269 4 роки тому +522

    I'm confused about how Scotland and Ireland aren't on here. I drank the yearly amount before the end of January.

    • @temorsdfg8620
      @temorsdfg8620 4 роки тому +18

      @Find The Light Damn. Spice is one of the really bad drugs, on par with cocaine and close to heroin I'd say. One of my former friends is (if he's still alive) completely addicted to it, one had a psychosis and spend years in the psych ward. Never gonna touch that stuff again. Seriously just smoke weed instead.

    • @johnmorrell3187
      @johnmorrell3187 4 роки тому +113

      Just remember when they say a liter of alcohol they mean a liter of pure ethanol, not a liter of an alcoholic drink. To get one liter of ethanol you're drinking like 20 liters of beer.

    • @EM-ou2dn
      @EM-ou2dn 4 роки тому +1

      John Morrell I need a week to reach that

    • @hevi0
      @hevi0 4 роки тому +6

      @@EM-ou2dn is that... a good thing?

    • @EM-ou2dn
      @EM-ou2dn 4 роки тому +3

      Blitz probably not, but I don’t do it every week though

  • @itriedtochangemynamebutitd5019
    @itriedtochangemynamebutitd5019 2 роки тому +1

    In Russia,
    You don't consume alcohol...
    *Alcohol consumes you*

  • @nuclearmonster4259
    @nuclearmonster4259 3 роки тому

    1:33 that man was so drunk he spilled some of the booze while pouring

  • @sorolxp29
    @sorolxp29 4 роки тому +227

    i can already see the "it's a solution" comments.....

    • @VeryRestarted
      @VeryRestarted 4 роки тому

      right on that

    • @user-xb9yv2ci4c
      @user-xb9yv2ci4c 4 роки тому +12

      Actually it's not a solution. Ethanol is not a salt.

    • @hapetE
      @hapetE 4 роки тому +2

      literally above and below ur comment

    • @Coastfog
      @Coastfog 4 роки тому +4

      It's a solvent, not a solution, completely different things.

    • @tonydai782
      @tonydai782 4 роки тому +4

      @@Coastfog Wait, the solvent is the thing that the solute is dissolved in.
      I'm pretty sure that water is the major component in most alcoholic drinks, so water is the solvent, ethanol would the solute unless you have greater than 50% alcohol content.

  • @nik_evdokimov
    @nik_evdokimov 4 роки тому +139

    5:05 haha lol, as a Russian, I can confirm that that policy didn`t help so much in big cities, i.e. in St. Petersburg there are alcohol shops which at night sell alcohol because legally they are `bars` - they just place a few chairs and table and open the alcohol when you buy it, but of course everyone takes it with them
    Another thing is neighborhood mini-markets - they sell alcohol to those people who they know and trust, i.e. people who live in that house near the shop

    • @YfelElve
      @YfelElve 4 роки тому

      I heard those little shops will be banned

    • @lauritoerni2080
      @lauritoerni2080 4 роки тому +3

      Interesting, here in hermany we have designated shops that sell alcohol and potato chips etc at night
      We call then späti (late shop pretty much) and they're usually open from 10pm to like 4am

    • @DoctorGlitch
      @DoctorGlitch 4 роки тому +10

      I’ve visited st petersburg and the guy who owned a supermarket sold me whisky after 11pm because i visited his store 2 times before so my man trusted me.

    • @PAINNN666
      @PAINNN666 4 роки тому

      @@YfelElve It's just like caravan shop or something which banned. I can't explain. So it's only 1 form of little shops.

  • @ateosedm5690
    @ateosedm5690 3 роки тому +1

    I have a friend from Poland who drinks almost 2 liters of vodka a day. It's really common for Slavs to drink like that.

    • @Aphex217Twin
      @Aphex217Twin 3 роки тому

      That's pretty impressive, but perhaps he should try his luck at everclear, or moonshine. Something at, or around 190 proof.

  • @Alan7997
    @Alan7997 3 роки тому +2

    Russia has a problem with alcohol. *Laughs in Scots/Irish.....

  • @user-uv1yh9fj4j
    @user-uv1yh9fj4j 4 роки тому +1164

    "Russia is a country that has a lot of problems..."
    Me: "Can you plz not" _starts crying_

    • @naspawickr1668
      @naspawickr1668 4 роки тому +18

      1991 :/

    • @amirsur2750
      @amirsur2750 4 роки тому +33

      а хуле факты отрицать

    • @sulil1938
      @sulil1938 4 роки тому +5

      F

    • @amvymavy
      @amvymavy 3 роки тому +11

      **Launches thousand of nukes**

    • @kirilll7806
      @kirilll7806 3 роки тому +12

      @@amvymavy tf this isnt related in any sense

  • @SciFactsYT118
    @SciFactsYT118 4 роки тому +122

    Random fact:
    Bottled water expiration dates are for the bottle, not the water.

    • @jakubpociecha8819
      @jakubpociecha8819 4 роки тому +7

      Makes sense

    • @CrazyBlueTv
      @CrazyBlueTv 4 роки тому +3

      For Plastic bottles, yes

    • @Marianian
      @Marianian 4 роки тому +1

      Lol

    • @emperorkane317
      @emperorkane317 4 роки тому +2

      If you think about it, all water you drink is millions of years old. So technically when you drink from bottled water, you`re drinking million year old water. Of course just not in it`s liquid state.

  • @nuclearnadal4601
    @nuclearnadal4601 3 роки тому

    Hope you wore your Adidas Tracksuit and put on a Ushanka before recording, and why isn't Hardbass playing in the background??

  • @clancywiggam
    @clancywiggam 9 місяців тому +3

    Russian life expectancy has got even lower in the last few years.

  • @ValleyoftheKings64
    @ValleyoftheKings64 4 роки тому +29

    Here's a fun fact: When Russia was celebrating the defeat of Nazi Germany in WW2 they ran out of vodka.

    • @0d138
      @0d138 4 роки тому +7

      Now that was a real tragedy...

    • @jur4x
      @jur4x 4 роки тому

      That is actually when alcoholism problem begun.

    • @gibby8540
      @gibby8540 4 роки тому +2

      The real tragedy to ww2

  • @blacktimhoward4322
    @blacktimhoward4322 4 роки тому +133

    Me: Wow, someone should really moderate their intake
    *giant bong rip*

  • @thischannel4326
    @thischannel4326 2 роки тому +3

    In Soviet Russia, alcohol consumes you!

  • @timypp2894
    @timypp2894 3 роки тому +3

    Most countries that's of high latitudes both North and South i.e long nights in the winter months ago, their citizens have alcoholism problem.