[Margaret Pilkington]

these days it seems that people go out with the intention of getting bladdered.....some of them go out already half cut.
I don't go out much in the evening anymore, but when I used to socialise....we went to the pub...not with the intention of getting drunk, but with the intention to socialise, chat, meet up with friends.....and sometimes while we were having such a good time we forgot to count how many we had had to drink........I cannot ever remember being so drunk as to not know what I was doing.......maybe that is because when I was really over the 8, I was invariably sick.......and didn't get a hangover because all the booze was down the armitage.

Opening the pubs all day to promote a continental cafe culture was just never going to work. The Brits have a different outlook on alcohol than the continentals.....and who wants to sit outside a pub in January with a cold pint freezing their assets off.....not me!