Sounds like you had a skin-full when writing that reply. You are totally wrong of course. I've worked all over China, Hong Kong and the mainland, and I've long since grown fed up with the Loser Boozer FT's who give us all a bad name. My opinion is that they should be banned from teaching completely. Even if they don't drink on a teaching day, their abilities are severely impaired by the intake of various hideous alcoholic beverages. My girlfriend doesn't drink and I don't see why I should.

Yeah, you shouldn't give alcohol to children. Morality crusaders usually have something to hide and I'm going to put it forth that you are most definitely a small bean regarder. You can also accuse me of being homophobic if you want, since your alias going to use a woman's name.

I do drink occasionally. I have even consumed a few beers with my (Chinese, not foreign!) boss before. Oh, isn't that so horrendous!

If you think that boozing is considered to be a bad thing in Chinese culture, you really need to wake up! For some, drinking is even a business skill. I tend to find that in other industries away from teaching, a baijiu fuelled dinner is quite a common occurrence, although the nouveau riche tend to like to down glasses of red wine these days. I've even drank ridiculous amounts with police officers and government officials at a wedding before, maybe if you want to get me banned from teaching, you can complain to them personally, haha.

Have you never been to a wedding before. Of course you haven't, it will at least another 10 years until your girlfriend is legally old enough to get married, won't it? They might have legalised gay marriage here by then, lol.