One evening, hotel guests posed for pictures holding flutes of champagne, and noisy young professionals drank sauvignon blanc.
In the restaurant's picturesque courtyard, well-maintained middle-aged professionals drink rich Douro wines, listen to live fado music, and dine on bacalhau, or codfish, which is grilled or baked into creamy potato casserole.
Think of how those who vomit in the street after a WKD are viewed as a capital-P Problem in a way that those who hit their wives after a couple of bottles of Merlot are not – even though all the actual evidence suggests that professionals drink far more than manual workers.
The audience and atmosphere resembled an over 30's singles night as young and sexually-ambiguous professionals drank bottles red wine and chatted about the GFC.
The statistics show that women like Rachel in managerial and professional positions drink more units of alcohol than the average female, and also that they drink more frequently during the week.
Those in "managerial and professional" households drink more than those in "routine and manual" households, according to an ONS survey also released yesterday.
The scene at the event, called Thrashin' Week, was almost tribal: on different sides of the room, the professional skaters drank Red Bull or Bud Light, while the besuited banker types pinched Manhattans in martini glasses.
Fiona Measham, a criminologist at Lancaster University, has used surveys to show that British women in managerial or professional jobs drink more alcohol overall and at a sitting than do women in lower-paying jobs.
A young professional may drink Australian wine from Austrian stemware, listen to Beethoven on a Japanese audio system, use the internet to buy Persian textiles from a dealer in London, watch Hollywood movies funded by foreign capital and filmed by European directors, and vacation in a French-owned resort in Bali.
At the time, many professional cricketers drank heavily and the Yorkshire team had many players who liked alcohol.
