PBA: I was responding to your comment about calling the opinion we don’t Pasken by being backwards. And are you sure about your Minhag thing? Rav Schachter always mentions that when he was growing up no one got wasted and I was told (only secondhand though) from a very reliable source that several Rabbonim from Europe who they had spoken to said that is was never the Minhag in Europe that everyone would get plastered. Only a few Yechidim would and they were looked down upon.
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