I similarly worked occasionally with Jap engineers on some oil & gas projects in S.E. Asia. They were extremely dedicated to the job and very formal in their approach to anybody regarding work matters. They were very surly & not interested in engaging socially, until that is, the end of the contract when we were unexpectedly invited for a night out. Some type of 'social switch' was flipped & they became, after only a few beers a pack of raucous drunken hooligans. There is drunkenness, & then there is the type that leaves partially clad bodies strewn over the bar room floor emitting uncontrollable laughter as some type of nonsensical 'drinking game' is pursued. If you think you can drink, try drinking with a group of Jap salarymen and keeping up the pace-
I similarly worked occasionally with Jap engineers on some oil & gas projects in S.E. Asia. They were extremely dedicated to the job and very formal in their approach to anybody regarding work matters. They were very surly & not interested in engaging socially, until that is, the end of the contract when we were unexpectedly invited for a night out. Some type of 'social switch' was flipped & they became, after only a few beers a pack of raucous drunken hooligans. There is drunkenness, & then there is the type that leaves partially clad bodies strewn over the bar room floor emitting uncontrollable laughter as some type of nonsensical 'drinking game' is pursued. If you think you can drink, try drinking with a group of Jap salarymen and keeping up the pace-
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