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Originally Posted by SamF
Because not everyone drinks tasteless corporate **** water like fosters, carlsberg etc a good lager tends to be >5% and I'd say roughly half cask ales are over >4%
It comes back to the same issue punishing the majority for the sake of the minority wont work .
Upping the prices wont work.
It's the culture that needs to change, that 24 hour drinking will allow to change, but it will take decades. The current situation is those who were brought up to cram as much down as possible in a short period of time have been given longer to do so in. They are a lost cause, the change will happen not when those people stop going out, but gradually through the generations down the line when the people directly influenced/ brought up by people with that mentality stop going out.
As mentioned in the post above price does not have an effect on the social problems alcohol, its the mentality of the people.
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I agree with some of the things you have said Sam but not about 24 hour drinking, I'm a little older than you, and the likes of cashy, Barrie and myself had not problems finding somewhere to get a drink virtually anytime of the day or night when we were your age. Young people for years have been able to drink until 2am in a morning (even in the 70s and 80s) so its never been a case of cramming it down in a short period. Was quite different in Scotland back in the 60s and 70s when pubs opened at 5pm and closed at 10pm and I mean close, 9-50 last orders, out on your ear at 10, only hotels and clubs open on Sundays.