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I've always said they need to stop all the corner shops and supermarkets from selling beer and bring back off licences and off sales in pubs. It's far far to easy to just nip to the corner and get a few tins. Putting up the price won't make a differance but if people had to walk a lot further they might think twice. Just my humble opinion anyway.
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If you look at the lifestyles and mindsets of the continental europeans compared to our own you will find we work a lot harder and *play* a lot harder. The problem isn't our attitude to drink, it is our attitude to life and I don't see how any government, especially one whose main interest is to spend more time in power rather than use the power they have for good, could do this, or even would want to as it would greatly lower the GDP. |
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Sam,good and honest answer. But it leaves me in despair.
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Thanks Sam, I will,soon.What's yours?
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SPUGGIE J-Bleeting? Don't be silly.Your response is common and typical.Its not their fault, who else can we blame? Oh yes, let's go back 3 generations and blame them.Not that many of my age group got to go abroad and try different drink rules.And the 24 hour drink law didn't come in till Nov 1995. So don't try to pass the buck to me and my lot.Perhaps your'e feeling a little guilty because it was your age group that started the ball rolling?
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Whoops,I've done it again.It was Nov 2005.Must be the drink!
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Children in many cases follow the way of their parents. So if over several generations this balloons there has to be a route cause with following on effects. I will not denying my age group help start it or carried it on. But as I was growing up there was no money available for excess drinking. I never was a heavy drinker and never got into trouble through it as I knew it could be bad and was told so. The worst I did was waking up in a graveyard and the old brickyard at Huncoat. If it was not previous generations and their attitude to drink that helped start this problem then how can you explain Scotlands problem that pro rota is bigger than that of England? I could also be that having to work shifts not by choice many realised their weekend could be ruined. So if 24 hour drinking was available then they make the most of it. And shift work is not a new thing but we are seeing more and more of it. I still say that the parents should be held accountable. How often do they kick the kids out on a Friday and Saturday night with extra cash in their pockets so it is quiet for them. They never educated the kids properly about the pit falls as it was easier to use the out of site out of mind attitude. |
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You cannot seriously blame all parents for the drunken loutish behaviour of some of the young people today.
It is far more likely that these drunken antics are influenced by the peers of the people in question, than the influence of the parents. It also seems to me that there is a distinct lack of excitement and danger for young people.......maybe this is a force that makes them abuse alcohol, take drugs and get into fights and such.....but then how the heck would I know? I am in the old fogey category......you know the one....we grew up in the late fifties and didn't drink ourselves into oblivion......personally I was too busy trying to make a living. |
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Cashy not saying it was all of a generation just some. To Margartets point about a danger element did that not come with the chance of being caught on a lock in? Margaret the point about trying to make a living in the 50's as opposed to today is that dreaded phrase "disposable income" which is greater now. Up here it has become down the generations a right of passage in a way to be a hardened drinker. I have spent half my life up here so am out of touch with what happens down there. I cannot comment on what happens down there but just how it plays out up here.I cant go near a shop that sells booze on a Friday or Saturday without boozy teens asking me to buy drink which I wont.
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Personally up your way spugs Rab C Nesbitt has a lot to answer for.:D
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