Posted on 01/13/2005 12:58:33 PM PST by Lee Heggy
LONDON — A plan to let pubs stay open all night is stirring opposition in Britain — where the beer is still best served warm and before 11 p.m.
Opposition lawmakers and the police want the new law to be delayed until Britain brings violent and disruptive binge drinking under control.
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Keep them open! *Burp*
Isn't binge drinking a right guaranteed to Englishmen in the Magna Carta?
Coincide with the next frost in Hell.
People in the media have really clung hard to this "binge drinking" idea. When I was growing up, "binge drinking" was going on a bender for a few days or weeks. Now it's as long as a football game.
If you let them sleep in their chair they will be ok!! sarcasm off
They should let the Brits stay drunk in bars all night. That way they won't be home to confront burglars. Burglars get what they want and don't get hurt and homeowner stays drunk and happy and does not have to worry about going to jail for assault on burglar. Win win.
I suppose I'd prefer the nondisruptive and gentle binge drinker over the other kind especialy at three or four in the morning but unless they legalize absinthe I don't see it happening.
First and formost, I'll say let 'em stay open all night. If throwing up beer is God's way of telling you you've had enough, that's between you and your maker.
However- When I went to England years ago (when I was a younger Eagle) it made all the sense in the world, the way they drank, influenced by the pub laws (or whatever they were called). People would get out of work, have dinner, possibly at the pub, and by ten or so, everybody was properly half shot in the ass, talking real loud to somebody they don't know, about something they've got no idea what it is. But at "last orders" they were barely able to stumble home, yet able to make it into work at 8:30 the next am.
Not a bad way to do it. Here on the other hand, we'd wait until ten at the earliest before we went out and the next morning was no day at the beach.
Owl_Eagle
”Guns Before Butter.”
Anyone who attended college would fit into the category of "binge" drinker.
It's stupid.
They artificially put numbers and time to it, when what they should be looking at is the behavior-
If you slam a 12 pack during a football game, go home, go to sleep and make it to work the next day-That's a big so what
If the person in question drinks 5 wine coolers, starts a small riot, and ends up naked in the gutter covered in ihs own vomit, then that would indicate a problem with binge drinking
Oh, and they don't serve the beer "warm", for cryin' out loud. It's "cellar temperature", which is usually in the mid-50s. It's warmer than the ice cold mega-mass-produced "beer" we drink over here, but then, our beer is that cold to hide the taste. Ever try to drink a 55 degree Buttwiper or Butt Lite? Good beer is designed to be consumed at that temperature, so you can taste what's in it. Otherwise, just drink carbonated seltzer and pretend it's beer. Tastes the same.
'old me bitters and watch 'is, guvenuh.
The girls who only look good at closing time are gonna be SOL.
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