Quite a few years ago someone I knew had a few Germans visiting her and one of them went off about how amazing it was to watch Americans drink, because Germans will pace themselves all day and have fun, but Americans will wait for the weekend and then binge like the Germans couldn't believe. He said watching Americans get drunk was the funniest shit to him because back home you hardly ever saw anyone get that drunk, and he and the rest of them would sometimes go out just to laugh at the drunk Americans.