new drinking laws

[Hew]

What do you lot think about the new drinking laws in england. It seems a bit insane to me that places can be open for 24 hours. Surely this will lead to more violent crime. Here the bars stay open to 2am and and till 3am on saturdays. Thats enough time to get completly shit faced innit? I have a horrible vision of going back to england to find everyone of their head 24 hours a day punching whatever they see.
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[bravecaptain]

The law doesn't state that places must stay open for 24hrs and very few, if any, of them will. The law is there to counteract the idiotic situation we have now where the streets are suddenly full of pissed people when the pubs close and again when the clubs close. theoretically people should be less drunk not more because there won't be the rush to get hammered before time is called. personally i would like there to be more places where you can get a quiet late drink without having to go to a nightclub. i fucking hate nightclubs.

mx

[John M]

The papers today seem to assume that, given the chance, people will give up their jobs and spent 24 hours a day in a pub and the country will descend into anarchy. In the same way they assume that if drugs were legalised everyone would be a heroin addict within a week. I think it will make things better, you won't have everyone pouring out into the streets at the same time, you won't have every drunk person in each town centre crammed into the one or two bars with late licences and you won't have people racing to get as drunk as possible before last orders. I reckon virtually no pubs will stay open 24 hours a day, the extra money they'd make would be cancelled out by having to pay staff more and the extra hassle.

[che]

there was no significant rise in drug use when cannabis was downgraded to class C.

YEH.

i fucking hate the smelly shit, but each to their own.

[Hew]

[bravecaptain]

when are you going to get a proper job?

mx

[Hew]

never
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[Hew]

Things that are difficult to say when you're drunk:
a) Innovative
b) Preliminary
c) Proliferation
d) Cinnamon

Things that are VERY difficult to say when you're drunk:
a) Specificity
b) British Constitution
c) Passive-aggressive disorder
d) Transubstantiate

Things that are ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE to say when you're drunk:
a) Thanks, but I don't want to sleep with you.
b) Nope, no more booze for me.
c) Sorry, but you're not really my type.
d) No kebab for me, thank you.
e) Good evening officer, isn't it lovely out tonight?
f) I'm not interested in fighting you.
g) Oh, I just couldn't - no one wants to hear me sing.
h) Thank you, but I won't make any attempt to dance, I have
no co-ordination. I'd hate to look like a fool.
i) Where is the nearest toilet? I refuse to vomit in the street.
j) I must be going home now as I have work in the morning.
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Martin O'Neill's Claret And Blue Army

[Dubya - T]

Apparently some Judge has moaned about it with talk of "unbelievable amounts of alcohol conusmed" in relation to people he prosecutes for fighting.

Now, I would think if someone had drunk as much as he suggests they wouldn't be doing a lot of fighting.

Can't see the harm in it myself. Everyone will go mad for a bit and then they'll get bored of it, like everthing else. It's not as if it's a new idea.

I hate nightclubs too but I do like beer, it has to be said!
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[gillworm]

what gets me is this fundamental misunderstanding of binge drinking. this idea that people drink too much too fast so that they can get drunk before closing time is rubbish, they drink too much too fast to get high/mellow/outof it as fast as they can, they're drunk long before closing time.