WhiteRoseKillie Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 32 minutes ago, MuckleMoo said: The 10pm closing of pubs is being a bit over dramatised. Exactly the same happened when they shut at 11 down south. f**k all has changed Very true but, as the Sarge says, part of the "café culture" revolution under Blair was to relax opening times, and a specific reason given at the time was to avoid having one co-ordinated dumping of drunken scum onto the streets. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted September 28, 2020 Author Share Posted September 28, 2020 1 minute ago, MixuFruit said: well presumably they wrote done some of what they got up to Good thinking, there are probably PowerPoint presentations somewhere. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteRoseKillie Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 (edited) 48 minutes ago, invergowrie arab said: This is England. You can't buy alcohol after 10pm here and house gatherings are banned. I'm not saying it's impossible for it to go on but if my experience of Dundee on Saturday night is typical then the town's here are dead. York was like an enactment of the Last Days of Pompeii on Saturday. I've mentioned it before, but the longer this clusterfúck shambles on, the more I think it would have been a good idea to ban alcohol sales at the start of this. The very reason many drink is to lower inhibitions, so is it really a surprise that guidelines are ignored? ETA: Surprising (not) wee red dot - even less surprising is the lack of a post explaining why it was given. Haven't got the balls to comment until the gang get here, wee man? Pathetic, just like your cheerleaders. Edited September 28, 2020 by WhiteRoseKillie -8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 Here here! I started going out in the early 2000s and didn’t feel like a saw the best days, only the dying days of pubs in decline which the smoking ban put out of their misery!Lets go back to the filthy manky hovels that smelt of pish from the front door, that were always thick with reek despite never being that busy ! The same auld c***s sitting in “ their” seat nursing one pint for hours . The kind of place where people were scared to venture into unless they knew someone who drank there. The kind where scraps would kick of at anytime and the staff did f**k all to intervene except tell them to take it outside! Those were real fuckin pubs none of these fancy modern cocktail bars! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Szamo's_Ammo Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 Anyone who thinks banning alcohol sales would have been a good idea doesn't live in the real world. Full blown anarchy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteRoseKillie Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 2 minutes ago, Szamo's_Ammo said: Anyone who thinks banning alcohol sales would have been a good idea doesn't live in the real world. Full blown anarchy. "Good idea" may have been the wrong phrase. "Banning alcohol sales to ensure a better compliance with National restrictions which may, or may not, have a beneficial effect on a wider aim of reducing the number of fatalities from a previously unknown virus but would have denied a proportion of the population the opportunity of indulging in an entirely unnecessary drug for the duration and could, in this light, have been seen on balance to have been a positive measure" might have been better, but I'm not sure it would fit P&B's current binary environment - or the reasoning skills of many of its users. TL;DR; Is Tennent's more important than yer Granny? -5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 Bring on the alcohol ban (please wait until I have ordered a still)Seriously though.... A fucking alcohol ban? That would be America level stupid. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Szamo's_Ammo Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 4 minutes ago, WhiteRoseKillie said: TL;DR; Is Tennent's more important than yer Granny? Yes. Unequivocally. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 4 minutes ago, WhiteRoseKillie said: TL;DR; Is Tennent's more important than yer Granny? I have no grandparents or parents. So you can fucking well leave my Tennents alone, lest I pursue an eye for an eye policy. My tennents for your auld yins. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee-Bey Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 An alcohol ban would have caused full societal breakdown imo. The polis would have loved it mind. You only have to remember the massive hard ons they get when they find a 6 pack of stella on a supporters bus. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshmallo Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 6 minutes ago, WhiteRoseKillie said: "Good idea" may have been the wrong phrase. "Banning alcohol sales to ensure a better compliance with National restrictions which may, or may not, have a beneficial effect on a wider aim of reducing the number of fatalities from a previously unknown virus but would have denied a proportion of the population the opportunity of indulging in an entirely unnecessary drug for the duration and could, in this light, have been seen on balance to have been a positive measure" might have been better, but I'm not sure it would fit P&B's current binary environment - or the reasoning skills of many of its users. TL;DR; Is Tennent's more important than yer Granny? How does me having a few cans in the house kill anyone's grandparents? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteRoseKillie Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 Just now, Szamo's_Ammo said: Absolutely. If only I thought you were joking.. One thing this whoile shambles has shown is a complete breakdown of societal responsibility. More extreme than masks, but similarly, a temporary ban on alcohol would have had no. or negligible effect on you personally, but over the nation I would be confident it would have seen higher levels of compliance with other restrictions. Yeah, it would impact many people, but Covid also impacts a lot of people. -3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 Alcohol ban wouldn't be viable as you'd risk harm to people with an alcohol dependancy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshmallo Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 43 minutes ago, WhiteRoseKillie said: Surprising (not) wee red dot - even less surprising is the lack of a post explaining why it was given. Haven't got the balls to comment until the gang get here, wee man? Pathetic, just like your cheerleaders. It's a coloured circle on a football forum - who gives a tinker's cuss? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteRoseKillie Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 4 minutes ago, Bairnardo said: I have no grandparents or parents. So you can fucking well leave my Tennents alone, lest I pursue an eye for an eye policy. My tennents for your auld yins. *Walter White voice* I am the Auld Yin. -2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshmallo Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 2 minutes ago, WhiteRoseKillie said: a temporary ban on alcohol would have had no. or negligible effect on you personally, but over the nation I would be confident it would have seen higher levels of compliance with other restrictions. Yeah, it would impact many people, but Covid also impacts a lot of people. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin.Hood Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 Yass the toilet roll is running out. And thats still with a limit of how many you can buy. Some panic buying in certain areas which is lovely. Have a good English Bank Holiday folks 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qpfc Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 See the non cohabiting couple exemption, does that only apply to those who live on their own ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteRoseKillie Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 2 minutes ago, GNU_Linux said: Alcohol ban wouldn't be viable as you'd risk harm to people with an alcohol dependancy. None of the four people in my family who have died/are on the way thanks to drink were ever harmed by not having a drink. Crashing cars when pissed, getting into ill-advised fights when pissed, cheating on their partners when pissed, battering younger family members when pissed, setting fire to their bed/furniture when pissed - all pretty harmful. Not having a drink? Not so much, unless you count the withdrawal symptoms from a drug which you voluntarily decided to engage with, having seen the effect it was having on others. And that's not harm, that's the consequences of a self-inflicted addiction. -5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Szamo's_Ammo Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 1 minute ago, WhiteRoseKillie said: If only I thought you were joking.. One thing this whoile shambles has shown is a complete breakdown of societal responsibility. More extreme than masks, but similarly, a temporary ban on alcohol would have had no. or negligible effect on you personally, but over the nation I would be confident it would have seen higher levels of compliance with other restrictions. Yeah, it would impact many people, but Covid also impacts a lot of people. I didn't have a drink between March and August actually but most people would be able to envisage the huge societal resistance and hostility an alcohol ban would cause. It's not just the alcoholics on the street that a lot of people don't care about. It's the workers who need to have a bottle of wine every night to wind down and the mummies who need their drinky-poos once the kids are in bed. Illegal warehouses selling and serving booze would only increase the chance of the virus spreading. Would you want the schools open to full capacity at the same time as the alcohol ban? -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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