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October 31, 2005

Is ‘Getting Drunk’ Australian?

Filed under: — Different River @ 5:50 pm

Different Brother writes:

Yet again, a story that works equally well in both a real news site article and in The Onion.

Getting drunk part of Australian identity, study finds

Mon Oct 31, 9:13 AM ET

SYDNEY, (AFP) - Occasionally getting drunk is a core part of national identity for most Australians, according to new research.

The National Drug and Alcohol Research Council study of 1,500 Australians found that some 58 percent of people agreed that sometimes having too much to drink was “simply part of the Australian way of life.”

Here’s a story that’s actually from The Onion at about the same intellectual level.

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