Triple Alcohol Prices, Cop Says ...

[Jeremy]

Originally Posted by Dravyk

Ok, so they limited hours severely to keep drinking down.

The opening hours bit of the licensing laws were introduced in WW1 as the factory workers would spend their time getting pissed in the pub rather than down the munitions factory.

Rather like Income Tax (intro'd to pay for the Napoleonic Wars) they forgot to repeal generally it until now.

The copper what said it is from North Wales home of the Chaaaapel (boyo), where until a few years ago, the pubs shut at 10.30 and didn't open at all on Sundays... gives you an idea of where he's coming from :-)

Oh yeah, one more thing - we haven't called them Bobbies since Dixon of Dock Green. It makes you sound "quaint" Drav :-))

As for "binge-drinking", HVVDs. High Volume Vertical Drinkers has been the mecca of the brewers for a while. The brewers discovered if they put booze in a bottle for the same price as a pint, named it something wanky and took away the chairs, then people stood up and you could fit many more in a bar. Another phenomenon of making people stand is that they drink more (of the more expensive wanky drinks). And they made way more profit and could open more bars. Nice one.

Fuck knows what'll happen when they ban smoking in bars and all the whiners who "haven't been able to go out for a drink in years" come out to play.

[Dravyk]

Originally Posted by Jeremy

Oh yeah, one more thing - we haven't called them Bobbies since Dixon of Dock Green. It makes you sound "quaint" Drav :-))

Great history lesson, buddy! But what is "Dixon of Dock Green"? (Speaking of sounding quaint).

[Trev]

Originally Posted by Dravyk

Great history lesson, buddy! But what is "Dixon of Dock Green"? (Speaking of sounding quaint).

It's a really old tv show from waaaay back when:

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/D/...ixonofdock.htm

[Jeremy]

Originally Posted by Trev

It's a really old tv show from waaaay back when:

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/D/...ixonofdock.htm

I had that URL as well... I bet there's two of us that have heard of this new-fangled thing called Google :-)

Drav - not so much history, more context. As well all know context is everything.

[Trev]

Originally Posted by Jeremy

I had that URL as well... I bet there's two of us that have heard of this new-fangled thing called Google :-)

Drav - not so much history, more context. As well all know context is everything.

I betcha them google folks will come up with, I dunno, say a toolbar type of thing where you can do a search right from the browser.

[Jeremy]

Originally Posted by Trev

I betcha them google folks will come up with, I dunno, say a toolbar type of thing where you can do a search right from the browser.

Imagine that! So if someone wrote something and it appeared on a web page, I could, say, highlight it, copy and paste it into this toolbar thing, hit return and... I'd have search results for what was written????? WOW!

I tell ya, those Google chaps are clever little sausages... it wouldn't surprise me if they eventually sold shares in their company and make a million or two. Maybe even ten million!

[Trev]

Originally Posted by Jeremy

Imagine that! So if someone wrote something and it appeared on a web page, I could, say, highlight it, copy and paste it into this toolbar thing, hit return and... I'd have search results for what was written????? WOW!

I tell ya, those Google chaps are clever little sausages... it wouldn't surprise me if they eventually sold shares in their company and make a million or two. Maybe even ten million!

Nah... it could never happen... that type of thing only happens in dreams.