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I just read the papers and read the article about how the drinking times are now going to chance to 24 hour opening hours in the UK. I mean, WTF? How stupid! The pubs are going to be full of drunks all day now. The only reason they left was because of the closing times!! This new law is going to encourage people to drink longer and to drink more. People won't ever go home. Just live in the pub....
Well, thats my opinion. Does anybody agree or disagree with me?
Kagga :love:
All I want to know is -- will dancing clubs be open 24/7?
dancing clubs = :love:
whoot!
more drinking for meeeee! <3
24 hour drinking means that people will spend all their time being rowdy, stupid and sick in the pubs, rather than spilling out into the streets and causing trouble at closing time.
The other hope is that all the violent, drunken idiots will drink themselves to death and we'll get rid of them that way.
It WAS, unsurprisingly, thought out by you know, a large team of government ministers and consultants, I would have thought that they'd know better than you would, by sheer numbers alone.
I do not really care to be honest. I go to student unions all the time anyway and they are open late sometimes anyway.
The government is doing is because they get more money from taxation on alcohol than what they have to pay out to the NHS, companies, etc. because of alcohol related problems. It is just another well thought out money spinning idea, exploit the stupid, just like smokers :)
Actually, smokers cost the NHS more money than they bring in.
I remember studying the topic of smoking and health and it is really crazy how much money the government gets from smokers. I cannot remember the exact figures and I am not going through my notes to find them but I am pretty sure that smoking costs the NHS around 2 billion a year while the duty taken on ciggerettes is over 8 billion a year.
Quite a money spinner so it is and that is why they don't ban the only thing legally sold in the UK designed to kill you :)
Ah, well that's fair enough, last time I checked smokers cost more, but your's are more recent, so I'll run with that.
Of course, the best plan would be to tax the nicotine patches, then you'd get money from the people as they smoke, then more as they try to quit.
The whole idea of bringing in a 24/7 drinking in was to stop the binge drinking culture, where you have a 2 or 3 hour period to get as hammered as possible :p
Guess this could work, but only time will tell >.<;
I wish I lived in the UK. That would be sweet
24 hour drinking? Sounds like St. Pat's day down at school to me.
Those are fun times.
you should be happy with em! i get all you non smokers money for your health needsQuote:
Originally Posted by The Jamie Star Scenario
i kill myself for you to live
hurray
all is good
*drinks and smokes*
heres to an early death
I'll drink to that.Quote:
Originally Posted by boris no no
Hurry up, will you?
I had to give up smoking :( They got so expensive >.<; smurfing government should stop increasing the tax on cigarette's and stop helping the elderly to live longer instead :p
theres only so many drinks and cigs a girl can holdQuote:
Originally Posted by Lindy
if you tap the vodka into my vein it may help speed things along