There's drinking and then there's drinking???

[Losos]

Maybe, I'm just old before my time. I get excited over power tools and shiny planes not drugs and alcohol. I am going bald, maybe thats got something to do with it. :?

Nope that's got nowt to do with it :lol: You just have to accept you're in a minority group which like I was saying is IMO a very good thing

 

[mailee]

Personally I don't drink much at all usually all I drink is a bottle or two each week after a late shift at work. I am not too keen on beer but do like a tipple of a spirit or two on the odd occasion. I did as most of us did get drunk a time or two when young and stupid but nothing like what you see in the youth of today. I personally think they should treat alchohol like cigarettes and put such a high tax on it that they will eventually stop drinking. Mind you there is supposed to be a law to stop people waking around drinking from cans of beer in public places but it never seems to be enforced. :evil:

 

[StevieB]

I think the media and the 'cult of celebrity' has to bear a large part of the responsibility for todays culture to be honest. Take Eastenders or Coronation Street for example - both feature a pub prominently in them and focus heavily on storylines around them. While it may not be glamourisng alcohol, it is certainly exposing it as acceptable.

What really gets me is the 'tabloid' media and the cult of celebrity however. Is it really that these issues drive sales, or that we keep reading about it because its foisted upon us? As an example, I work in London. Every day there are 3 free papers in London - each contains a 'celebrity' feature daily with pictures of who was stumbling out of which nightclub at 3am drunk as a skunk. Newsworthy? I think not. Driving sales then? Again no, the papers are all free. Do I really care what Amy Winehouse did last night and is it so important it makes front page headlines? Not a chance. Premiership footballer spending £20,000 on a champagne night out with his mates - who cares? All it does is glamorise the issue.

With regards to alcohol itself, it it were 'invented' today it would be categorised as a class A drug. Prohibition in the States showed that you cannot ban it, the best we can do it restrict its use, either by increasing its price or restricting its sale. Stop selling it in petrol stations for goodness sake! slap a 20% tax on it overnight in the next budget but ringfence that 20% for treatment of alcohol addiction and alcohol related illness together with better education. Make it through specialist treatment centres so its not classed as propping up the NHS.

And calm......

Steve.

 

[White House Workshop]

i can think of nothing worse than a couple of young (ladies) so drunk and acting so badly that they show them selves up , but it is the women that in recent years that have taken up the habit and i don't think it becomes them.


woodbutcher

I've seen quite a few pretty frilly knickers, and other things, which were sights I never expected. Some of them were quite nice, but I'm sure their owners hadn't intended it that way

 

[crazey]

I was trying to see if there was a connection between wood-working and drink and the only one I can think of is a drunk saw used for grooving and trenching. Can anyone think of other connections?