MPs call for pub happy hours ban

amanda · 10-11-08, 10:10 AM

Hmmmmm 1st it was smokers

Now it's the turn of the drinkers

Seems Nanny knows best ......so sex will be next I guess

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7718950.stm

Nigel Conniford · 10-11-08, 12:55 PM

Thats already banned in our house, I was told that I don't like it

SteveCat · 10-11-08, 03:59 PM

HAHAAAAAAAAAAAA!

I dunno,I agree Pand,but there is a cunning solution to all of this.I call it my Back To School principle,bear with me

The ideas quite green actually.

Its where you salvage corrogated iron to rebuild bicycle sheds around pubs.You can then go into these sheds,have a sneaky fag (or even joint for some) and drink BYO booze on the sly.Brilliant!

We used to do it at school,get caught once in a while,then do it all over again,so why not do it again???

MikeNZ · 10-11-08, 06:44 PM

Apparently relaxing the licensing rules allowing 24hr drinking was not found to be a "conclusive contributory factor", so it has been disregarded, but cheap booze in supermarkets/happy hours is a conclusive cause. Go figure.

This is all an excuse to...wait for it... put up the tax on alcohol. Because there is a need to raise more tax at present isn't there, to pay back huge sums of borrowed money. And what better way to do it than cloak it in moral outrage, as people are actually cheering on the Powers That Be to increase tax!!

But cheap booze isn't the problem. The problem is that people in Anglo Saxon countries (esp Aust, UK and NZ) think it is acceptable for people to behave like idiots and later disclaim responsibility because they are drunk. In France and Italy it is not acceptable; someone in that state is damaging their own reputation in the eyes of their peers, friends and family, and they run the risk of encountering...erm...robust law enforcement which will cost them significant amounts of inconvenience and money, as well as an official file for life.

The move to "get rid of cheap booze" is snake oil that will do nothing to solve real problems.

10-11-08, 03:59 PM	#3
SteveCat 4 ring whore! Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 3,523	. HAHAAAAAAAAAAAA! I dunno,I agree Pand,but there is a cunning solution to all of this.I call it my Back To School principle,bear with me The ideas quite green actually. Its where you salvage corrogated iron to rebuild bicycle sheds around pubs.You can then go into these sheds,have a sneaky fag (or even joint for some) and drink BYO booze on the sly.Brilliant! We used to do it at school,get caught once in a while,then do it all over again,so why not do it again??? __________________ Mercedes E220 Sportline Coupe

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10-11-08, 12:55 PM	#2
Nigel Conniford Chief Sausage Meister!! Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 3,614	Thats already banned in our house, I was told that I don't like it

10-11-08, 06:44 PM	#4
MikeNZ Grown up member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 246	Apparently relaxing the licensing rules allowing 24hr drinking was not found to be a "conclusive contributory factor", so it has been disregarded, but cheap booze in supermarkets/happy hours is a conclusive cause. Go figure. This is all an excuse to...wait for it... put up the tax on alcohol. Because there is a need to raise more tax at present isn't there, to pay back huge sums of borrowed money. And what better way to do it than cloak it in moral outrage, as people are actually cheering on the Powers That Be to increase tax!! But cheap booze isn't the problem. The problem is that people in Anglo Saxon countries (esp Aust, UK and NZ) think it is acceptable for people to behave like idiots and later disclaim responsibility because they are drunk. In France and Italy it is not acceptable; someone in that state is damaging their own reputation in the eyes of their peers, friends and family, and they run the risk of encountering...erm...robust law enforcement which will cost them significant amounts of inconvenience and money, as well as an official file for life. The move to "get rid of cheap booze" is snake oil that will do nothing to solve real problems.