Time gentlemen please!

john8pies · Post by **john8pies** » Mon May 23, 2005 5:58 am

In an effort to cut down on `binge drinking ` of alcohol by teenagers, authorities in England (and possibly the rest of the UK too but they didn`t explain that on the news!) have reached a `voluntary code` to abolish `happy hours` , `2 for the price of 1`, and `drink as much as you can for a set price`.

What a sorrowful society we have become! :rolleyes:

Wolverine · Post by **Wolverine** » Mon May 23, 2005 7:28 am

Sad that they are taking away the booze? Or sad we have become a society of drunks?

A few years ago, I would have been upset at the thought of not being able to get drunk. But sadly college is over and I had to join the grown-ups.

minks · Post by **minks** » Mon May 23, 2005 7:30 am

Wolverine wrote: Sad that they are taking away the booze? Or sad we have become a society of drunks?

A few years ago, I would have been upset at the thought of not being able to get drunk. But sadly college is over and I had to join the grown-ups.

Awww maturity, don't it just bite hehehehe

Well most kids go through that I think, drink cause they can, kind of a novelty thing, it has to be tried. But I think taking the happy hour price away is a good thing. Here we have way way to many car crashes that involve drunk teens. It is awful really, and they just don't get it.

Jives · Post by **Jives** » Mon May 23, 2005 7:37 am

Happy Hour? What's that? The only pub I can afford to drink in is Bothwell's!

minks · Post by **minks** » Mon May 23, 2005 7:42 am

Jives wrote: Happy Hour? What's that? The only pub I can afford to drink in is Bothwell's!

And in that hour aren't you happy?????

Bothwell · Post by **Bothwell** » Mon May 23, 2005 8:22 am

I will have no modern day new fangled ideas such as Happy hour.

Actually I think it might make a difference. One of the biggest problems is the Alcho-pops, some fruit flavoured fizzy laced with vodka, the kids have no idea of the effect until they have had half a dozen, at least with good old beer the effect is more gradual and you would throw up before you could do yourself serious damage. Alcho pops are purely to make alcohol more palatable.

Guinness did it a few years ago, you can now buy Extra Cold, which is served so cold you cannot differentiate it from lager, it was done by the marketing boys because the aesthetic appeal of guinness was so good but to quote the governor of California the girly men did not like the strong taste, so you make it extra cold and get the sales.

Jives · Post by **Jives** » Mon May 23, 2005 8:22 am

Hmmmm...yes. Yes I am. :wah:

Jives · Post by **Jives** » Mon May 23, 2005 8:26 am

Bothwell wrote: the kids have no idea of the effect until they have had half a dozen,

lol. Yeah, i used to run "Fat Tuesday's" It was a bar with frozen "slushie drinks. We used the cheapest Gin and even poured Everclear grain alcohol in the stuff. There were 25 flavors on the wall. The stuff was so sugary-sweet, you could esily down two of them in minutes.

Followed by dancing naked on the tables shortly afterwards. People really went over the edge quickly. Being a bouncer there was never boring. How about a bouncer story Koan? Babyrider?

at least with good old beer the effect is more gradual and you would throw up before you could do yourself serious damage.

True...my current tolerance is about a 12 pack before I pass all the way out.

Bothwell · Post by **Bothwell** » Mon May 23, 2005 8:34 am

Followed by dancing naked on the tables shortly afterwards

Perhaps there are some positive points!!

12 pack I reckon I would be unconcious now.

Me and three old work colleagues get together a couple of times a year for a few, Now we are down to 11 o'clock and home, used to be Pub, Curry, Club, back in by about 4 am or later, God age is a terrible thing.

I once made the mistake of informing LC that I could hold my own in the drinking stakes and was doing just fine on Heineken, until she gave me something called a Margarita, two of these later I was incoherent, how embarrassing to be laid low by a girly drink that was served in a pink plastic cup!!!!!!

minks · Post by **minks** » Mon May 23, 2005 8:55 am

Bothwell wrote: Perhaps there are some positive points!!

12 pack I reckon I would be unconcious now.

Me and three old work colleagues get together a couple of times a year for a few, Now we are down to 11 o'clock and home, used to be Pub, Curry, Club, back in by about 4 am or later, God age is a terrible thing.

I once made the mistake of informing LC that I could hold my own in the drinking stakes and was doing just fine on Heineken, until she gave me something called a Margarita, two of these later I was incoherent, how embarrassing to be laid low by a girly drink that was served in a pink plastic cup!!!!!!

Shhhh don't admit these things

smithy87 · Post by **smithy87** » Mon May 23, 2005 9:00 am

Bothwell wrote: Perhaps there are some positive points!!

12 pack I reckon I would be unconcious now.

Me and three old work colleagues get together a couple of times a year for a few, Now we are down to 11 o'clock and home, used to be Pub, Curry, Club, back in by about 4 am or later, God age is a terrible thing.

I once made the mistake of informing LC that I could hold my own in the drinking stakes and was doing just fine on Heineken, until she gave me something called a Margarita, two of these later I was incoherent, how embarrassing to be laid low by a girly drink that was served in a pink plastic cup!!!!!!

I sympathise with you Bothwell. Me, 2 margaritas, a missing sarong and a swimming pool have one hell of a story to tell one day! :guitarist

Alcopops are definatley a problem what with the amount of kids you see drinking them on street corners. Some are really cheap from corner shops (I've seen some at Ã‚Â£1.15 a bottle) and with how old kids look thesedays they have no problem in buying them. So it isn't just a problem in pubs or clubs

Philadelphia Eagle · Post by **Philadelphia Eagle** » Mon May 23, 2005 1:00 pm

Bothwell wrote: Perhaps there are some positive points!!

12 pack I reckon I would be unconcious now.

Me and three old work colleagues get together a couple of times a year for a few, Now we are down to 11 o'clock and home, used to be Pub, Curry, Club, back in by about 4 am or later, God age is a terrible thing.

I once made the mistake of informing LC that I could hold my own in the drinking stakes and was doing just fine on Heineken, until she gave me something called a Margarita, two of these later I was incoherent, how embarrassing to be laid low by a girly drink that was served in a pink plastic cup!!!!!!

Ha! LC knew what she was doing!

Margarita is no 'girly drink!' You comsume that in even small quantities at your peril!

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Mon May 23, 2005 3:40 pm

Philadelphia Eagle wrote: Ha! LC knew what she was doing!

Margarita is no 'girly drink!' You comsume that in even small quantities at your peril!well i shot myself in the foot, because his lips went numb! LOL

Philadelphia Eagle · Post by **Philadelphia Eagle** » Mon May 23, 2005 5:09 pm

Serves you right for introducing an unsuspecting foreigner to Margaritas.

I suppose you told him it was 'only a little harmless girly drink!'

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Mon May 23, 2005 5:27 pm

Philadelphia Eagle wrote: Serves you right for introducing an unsuspecting foreigner to Margaritas.

I suppose you told him it was 'only a little harmless girly drink!'hey, tiki bar, sunset after a lovely day at the beach:-6 watching the fishing fleet bring in their catch, he INSISTED on the margarita. heh heh..... and i was glad to oblige! it really was pretty entertaining.