Elegant England: Drunken Yobs Call For Help Every Seven Seconds on New Year's

Content warning on the pics in the article, which show yobs with bloodied foreheads and slack after an alcohol-induced purge.

The first picture is especially bloody, so have a caution.

Violence scarred celebrations and led to a bloody New Year across the country as emergency services endured a chaotic end to 2008.
Ambulance control centres reported receiving 999 calls as often as once every seven seconds - the second highest volume of calls since the Millennium - as binge drinkers turned nasty in the freezing temperatures.
Many of the calls related either to alcohol-fuelled assaults or excessive drunkenness.
Booze contributed to time-wasting calls to 999 operators too, with one man calling to ask if New York was in America, and what time it was there.
Elsewhere, while large numbers were ferried to hospitals, in some areas injuries were treated by paramedics in 'booze buses' to leave ambulances free for more serious emergencies.
In Essex, so many drunk people were arrested that all 200 of the constabulary's cells were filled, and overflow revellers had to be shipped to neighbouring Kent to be held for the night.

If I can make a quick point: Europe forever flatters itself by contrasting itself -- erudite, educated, prosperous, well-mannered, bourgeois -- with America -- drunken, stupid, fat, loud, obnoxious, and ill-informed.

They do this by the same trick every time: They compare their stable, well-behaved middle classes and working with our less well-behaved, less refined lower classes.

Of course this is stupid. It is comparing apples to oranges, or, more accurately, one population's most well-behaved cohort with another population's least well-behaved one.

Compare most of the American lower class-- which, despite not having much money, tends to be industrious and fairly law-abiding -- with the European lower class and the comparison changes quite a bit. The American lower class is far more ambitious and self-improving than the "No Future" drunken yobs of Europe.

If Europe sees more of our lower classes than they do of ours.... well, that's because our lower class is industrious enough, ambitious enough, culturally curious enough, and diligent enough to set aside money... to travel to England and the Continent.

Unlike the lower classes in Europe, whose idea of travel is hopping the ferry to start a drunken, blood-and-vomit-spraying riot in another nation's soccer stadium.

The difference, apparently, is that the American lower classes believe they can prosper if they work and save -- and they do so prosper -- unlike the lower classes of Europe, which know they have, as the Sex Pistols sang, No Future. So why not spend virtually every night getting slosh-drunk at the pub?

Posted by: Ace at 04:40 PM

Comments

1 If only they'd lock up the rioting Santas, this wouldn't happen, Ace.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 02, 2009 04:44 PM (55TIb)

2 He's got a bit of red on 'im.

Posted by: Cincinnatus at January 02, 2009 04:45 PM (U663l)

Our punk rockers... the fun loving Ramones.

Their punk rockers... the anarchist Sex Pistols.

While a bit simplistic, I think it illustrates a lot.

Posted by: Lee at January 02, 2009 04:46 PM (Xb3DR)

4 Some of those drunk chicks are hot.

Posted by: blaster at January 02, 2009 04:47 PM (BiphJ)

Posted by: Rocks at January 02, 2009 04:47 PM (Q1lie)

6 It was this or stay home and watch Dr. Who.

What would you do?

Posted by: eman at January 02, 2009 04:48 PM (9jESx)

7 In America, people see other ways of proving their worth and raising their lot, but in nanny-state Europe, they don't; it's not allowed. "Look at me, at least I can party/fight/yob the night away better than you can. What else have I got?"

Posted by: Mr. Obvious at January 02, 2009 04:48 PM (nTM50)

8 / take pencil from behind ear
/ lick the tip (of the pencil sickos)

Note to self:

Do NOT celebrate New Years in Britain!

/place pencil behind ear

Posted by: PISSED at January 02, 2009 04:48 PM (9yNsI)

9 If you take away God AND jobs with a chance at advancement all you are left with is drinking basically.

Posted by: Rocks at January 02, 2009 04:49 PM (Q1lie)

10 "An young woman helps a friend who has almost certainly had too much to drink"

An? Didn't these jackasses INVENT this language?

Judging by the picture though, I'd say she didn't have enough to drink yet, still wearing far too many clothes...

Posted by: Unclefacts at January 02, 2009 04:50 PM (M+Vfm)

11 Unlike the lower classes in Europe, whose idea of travel is hopping the ferry to start a drunken, blood-and-vomit-spraying riot in another nation's soccer stadium.

You know what else? I've never seen a stadium full of sports fans in the US chant racist slurs in unison as you see quite often in Europe aimed at foreign born players.

Those Euros are class all the way.

Posted by: DrewM. at January 02, 2009 04:50 PM (hlYel)

12 28 Drinks Later

Posted by: eman at January 02, 2009 04:51 PM (9jESx)

13 I hate to sound old as hell but WTF is with young women today? Is there a law against buying clothes that fit or something?

Posted by: Rocks at January 02, 2009 04:53 PM (Q1lie)

Europe is a spent force and has precisely nothing to teach us here in the States.

Well, almost nothing. They do serve as a nice warning about how not to run a society.

Posted by: Fred at January 02, 2009 04:54 PM (RUlgl)

15 Lots of photos, or holiday snaps, of Bristols there, too. Eh, squire?

Posted by: andycanuck at January 02, 2009 04:56 PM (55TIb)

with one man calling to ask if New York was in America

Well...

Posted by: exception at January 02, 2009 04:59 PM (o5wq5)

17 Europe's more ambitious lower class people came here and became our ancestors. Their less ambitious lower class people stayed home and drank themselves stupid, and became those kids in the pictures' ancestors.

Nature/nurture -- either way.

Posted by: notropis at January 02, 2009 05:00 PM (Ew9a7)

18 In some strange way, we did the Germans a favor.

Posted by: eman at January 02, 2009 05:01 PM (9jESx)

19 On the other hand, at least they're not burning cars.

Posted by: notropis at January 02, 2009 05:03 PM (Ew9a7)

20 Silly Americans, you do not know sophistication when it bleeds on your shoes.

Posted by: Prince Charlie at January 02, 2009 05:04 PM (knHvu)

21 The day our lower class reaches the same yawing pit of despair at the bottom of a J-curve where these yobs are is going to be troubling - seeing as our drunken yobs are much better armed.

I would also point out that a nice mellow bourbon drunk is better then rage-inducing gin drunk. Maybe that the difference.

Posted by: Jean at January 02, 2009 05:06 PM (xCBQ4)

22 Vomit makes an excellent lubricant.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at January 02, 2009 05:06 PM (bu0Ek)

23 Those pics could have been taken at the "party house" across the lake from my crib. Their volume is always set on stun, even at 3:00am, and the cops are there at least once a week.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at January 02, 2009 05:07 PM (Z0HFQ)

24 Hey, whats that little robotic, roomba type, street cleaner thing?

Posted by: Jean at January 02, 2009 05:08 PM (xCBQ4)

Our lower-class people are funny, what with their strippers, clumsy insurance-fraud antics, and Britney Spears.

Their lower-classes are just gross.

Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at January 02, 2009 05:09 PM (2QFX4)

26 "...drunken, stupid, fat, loud, obnoxious, and ill-informed."

...5 out of 6 ain't bad.

Hey! I'm working on it.

Posted by: Fritz at January 02, 2009 05:12 PM (3Bqev)

27 AoS London Division

Posted by: toby928 at January 02, 2009 05:12 PM (PD1tk)

28 "There will always be an ****PUKE!!!**** England"

Posted by: eman at January 02, 2009 05:21 PM (9jESx)

29 It is comparing apples to oranges, or, more accurately, one population's most well-behaved cohort with another population's least well-behaved one.

I think I take umbrage to that statement. Looking at this New Years Eve, I think that America's "least well behaved" citizens didn't get anywhere near as....rambunctious as the Brits.

/there's a reason we call them Eurotrash

Posted by: shibumi at January 02, 2009 05:23 PM (tZB/c)

30 Freakin' amateur night. I'll stay home through the weekend and return to binge drinking on Monday.

Posted by: Nyctalus Lasiopterus at January 02, 2009 05:29 PM (Hu+y3)

Our punk rockers... the fun loving Ramones.

Their punk rockers... the anarchist Sex Pistols.

But then again, their metal included Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Saxon.

Our country produced Bon Jovi and Poison.

Posted by: FireHorse at January 02, 2009 05:29 PM (5KNeJ)

32 Looks like someone could use some milkthistle tea.

Posted by: polynikes at January 02, 2009 05:33 PM (m2CN7)

33 None of this would redound to the embarrassment of piddly toothless England... if there had only been some hobo-hunting involved. I could respect that.

Well, they do make good beer. Can you be drunk and brew good suds at the same time?

Posted by: George Orwell at January 02, 2009 05:44 PM (AZGON)

34 Just google British tourists in Greece.

Posted by: someone2 at January 02, 2009 05:56 PM (NO7fY)

Our punk rockers... the fun loving Ramones.

Their punk rockers... the anarchist Sex Pistols.

While a bit simplistic, I think it illustrates a lot.

Never forget that the Ramones were Reaganites, AKA, true rebels against the establishment. Whereas Sex Pistols were, YAWN, typical "brave speakin' truth to power" lefty douches.

Posted by: nightwitch at January 02, 2009 05:57 PM (NXY/0)

They do this by the same trick every time: They compare their stable, well-behaved middle classes and working with our less well-behaved, less refined lower classes.

Posted by: Ahem...studies that show American Educational inferiority at January 02, 2009 06:02 PM (tlpWV)

37 DrewM nails it at #11. I will take the most psychotic SEC football fan base (cough*LSU* cough) over English soccer thugs anyday. Most of the time you won't get curb-stomped at a football game.

Posted by: UGAdawg at January 02, 2009 06:19 PM (MDHAs)

38 I am reliably informed by friends in England that those tanked-up yobbitches put out like mad, if you can handle it.
Why the loser/yob culture in the UK? Same reason we have the gangsta culture here--it's subsidized by welfare. The dole is much easier to come by in the UK, hence, more of these life-long losers.
Did you know the UK has a government protected and subsidized criminal class? Oh, yes. They're called the "Travellers" these days--used to be the Gypsies before that was dumped as non-PC for some incomprehensible reason. These people essentially live off crime. They move around in trailers and the government provides open fields for them to stay in--often seizing them by eminent domain from local farmers--where they set up camp until the site has been turned into a toxic waste dump and the locals robbed of every item of value, then they move on. These camps are no-go zones for the cops, since if they show up every person there turns out to surround the cars and block any attempt at investigation, arrest, whatever. Most of them have no ascertainable identity and are often known to the police only as "fingerprint set #34RW56A" and the like. They don't pay fines, they don't show up for court, and nobody really does anything about it because they are considered some sort of protected class...like Native Americans with roving reservations.
As Mark Steyn said, the UK is turning into a sort of gigantic theme park for The Onion.

Posted by: Flubber at January 02, 2009 06:22 PM (pRZFC)

Any other Grateful Friends of Bill out there?

Posted by: 7HEAVENS at January 02, 2009 06:25 PM (7lUAM)

40 For #31, I agree that a lot of American Metal sucks. But, WE gave the world Metallica! BTW, ever been to a Motorhead concert? Been three times and in the mosh pit. And I am here to still talk about it! #35, Great point! This whole story is like the Sex Pistols were running the U. K. for the night. I think when the Islamofacsists see this, they figure it is only a matter of time before they take over in the U. K. For the people will be too blotto to fight back! Put this under the Hope and Change file.

Posted by: Mark J. Goluskin at January 02, 2009 06:28 PM (pjNFO)

41 Theodore Dalrymple knows what he's talking about.

Posted by: jaleach at January 02, 2009 06:31 PM (gHrZU)

/there's a reason we call them Eurotrash

Uh. No. If I were a better man I could resist being pedantic, but I'm not that better man. Eurotrash generally refers to the slack but monied layabout Euro snob, it's not the euro equivelant of white trash.

Posted by: Prufrock at January 02, 2009 06:47 PM (pEXyx)

43 Well, they better party now, it won't be long before sharia is the law of the land, and then the drinking will stop...

Posted by: notme at January 02, 2009 06:51 PM (ydIuJ)

44 This article makes no sense at all. I have been regularly informed that by allowing their children to begin drinking very young that Europe has raised generation after generation of a population with no alcohol related problems whereas the US, with our prudish alcohol laws raises mostly only alcoholics.

Posted by: 4thGenerationBuck at January 02, 2009 06:52 PM (d7yE2)

45 From an empire to this in a century or so. And they actually seem to be accelerating downward.

I was actually reading about the stand at Rorke's Drift earlier today. Can't imagine today's young Englishmen doing anything but taking a quick asskicking if placed in a similar situation.

Posted by: bunny boy at January 02, 2009 06:52 PM (YsSn7)

46 Whenever I see or hear the word "Eurotrash" I think of the long, blonde haired terrorist armed with a Bullpup in "Die Hard." I think Bruce Willis called him Eurotrash. Didn't he? Anywho, random thought of the day.

Posted by: Satan at January 02, 2009 07:00 PM (hKtiw)

47 Eurotrash to me has always been anything European, greasy, and set.

Posted by: Satan's spawn at January 02, 2009 07:38 PM (bwTgy)

48 Looking at those pictures, I would say that Jeremy Clarkson doesn't have to travel to America or Wales anymore just to make jokes about fat idiots. Plenty to find in Jolly Olde London..

Posted by: kbdabear at January 02, 2009 07:45 PM (miw86)

49 Whenever I see or hear the word "Eurotrash" I think of the long, blonde haired terrorist armed with a Bullpup in "Die Hard." I think Bruce Willis called him Eurotrash. Didn't he? Anywho, random thought of the day.

"You shoulda heard your brother squeal, when I broke his fuckin' neck!"

Best line in movie history!

Posted by: Jim62sch at January 02, 2009 08:20 PM (6rQXk)

50 "I was actually reading about the stand at Rorke's Drift earlier today. Can't imagine today's young Englishmen doing anything but taking a quick asskicking if placed in a similar situation."

Sorry, the British seem to be bifurcated like the US. I don't know what their equivalent to Red/Blue State is, but they've got it. If you doubt what their youth who are in the military can do, just read one of Michael Yon's dispatches.
Judging all of Britain by what you see on BBC would be like judging all of America by what you see on CNN.
Europe has the same leftest illness that America has, except they're about ten or twenty years further along than we are.
What we see in in Europe today is our future.

Posted by: RayJ at January 02, 2009 08:55 PM (o2Td/)

51 Prufrock got it.
..and when they're here they think they own America.
Middle Eastern trash exist too. Remember university? Mohammed Atta?

Posted by: sickinmass at January 02, 2009 09:14 PM (/i4dU)

52 Eurotrash = Donatella Versace

Posted by: MrsPaulsFishSticks at January 02, 2009 09:46 PM (PBGAP)

53 The main difference is that our lower classes generally live better than their middle classes.

In many if not most cases, our lower classes have larger living spaces (houses/apts), more luxury items, and vehicles.... European lower classes don't. A lot of their middle classes don't.

The cost of gasoline in most of Europe is four or five times what it is in the US. The tax burden in most of Europe is just short of crippling. I don't envy them at all.

Posted by: Steffan at January 02, 2009 09:53 PM (4GuH+)

54
50:

Fair enough about their military. Makes me feel a little better, though I still don't see how a decayed culture can sustain a formidable fighting force long-term. And if you're right about us following Europe into this sort of decline, then we've big problems.

Posted by: bunny boy at January 02, 2009 10:02 PM (YsSn7)

55 Pretty much everyone here is missing the obvious.

The women are all under dressed and drunk off their minds. The guys "glassed" in fights.

Gee oh gee, what could be the problem?

How about, fairly obvious competition over women unmediated by any institution, tradition, etc. and exacerbated by booze, large amounts of which coupled with no real social controls = violence. Or blasted out women passed out in the street. Sigh.

Dalrymple is great, but he missed the obvious, the violence is all directed in a brutal competition over women.

I'm shocked that Britain has not yet voted "share the sex" along with "share the wealth."

Posted by: whiskey at January 02, 2009 11:05 PM (4878o)

56 @45: It wasn't the English at Rorke's Drift - it was a Welsh regiment.

Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at January 02, 2009 11:05 PM (8MuSQ)

If I can make a quick point: Europe forever flatters itself by contrasting itself -- erudite, educated, prosperous, well-mannered, bourgeois -- with America -- drunken, stupid, fat, loud, obnoxious, and ill-informed

I was stationed in the UK (90-93). This attitude is nothing new. The funniest time was when I was sitting next to a guy who made this very point and he was 5'6, 300lbs, & had 3 teeth. I kind of miss the UK, but it sounds like alot has changed over there and not for the better.

Posted by: Gen. Sherman at January 03, 2009 12:07 AM (blNMI)

58 I guess if had to put up with the call to prayer 5 times a day lululululululul'ing through the loud speakers after watching my country submit to sharia law, I think I would drink at every moment before that too became illegal. The poor bastards are emasculated already and now its on the verge of becoming Englandistan.

Posted by: Herr Steifenhoch at January 03, 2009 12:21 AM (v9vTw)

59
56:

Actually, it didn't become Welsh until a few years after Rorke's Drift. I think it was inaccurately portrayed as Welsh in Zulu. Though it is true the 24th did have a large share of Welsh and Irish soldiers at RD.

Posted by: bunny boy at January 03, 2009 08:41 AM (YsSn7)

"...with one man calling to ask if New York was in America..."

Unfortunately not.

In America, people have the right "to keep and bear arms", but here in New York the state government calls that "felony gun possession". The communist left that runs this anti-American state wants to keep it that way.

Posted by: Chas at January 03, 2009 10:04 AM (1XTjz)

61 thanks Ace, yeah this is London Calling and theyre all bombed....
London Calling

Posted by: MiM at January 03, 2009 10:52 AM (XMyIK)

I spent three weeks in Britain this summer. The class system is amazing, but EVERYONE gets drunk almost everyday. There are no Alcoholic in the USA, they're in the UK.

They call these people, in the story, CHAV's Council House( public housing like the projects) Always Violent. Short for White Trash.

The trashy women are the worst.

Kemp

Posted by: kempermanx at January 03, 2009 01:42 PM (2+9Yx)

63 60

"...with one man calling to ask if New York was in America..."

Unfortunately not.

Posted by: Chas at January 03, 2009 10:04 AM (1XTjz)

I'm asking this seriously, so don't flame me bro: Why the fuck do you guys live there? It's a leftist shithole and always will be. Why not move to a swing state or something where you can actually make a difference?

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