Random thoughts on drink
Mar. 24th, 2006 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizwilliamsOr rather, drinking. The writing group went to the pub last night and suddenly discovered that it was midnight and no last orders had been called. This is because the licensing laws in this country have finally been changed.
T and I differ on this issue. T thinks that Britain will finally learn how to drink sensibly, i.e. like the rest of continental cocktail-sipping, Galliano-wearing Europe, whereas I believe that the legislation won't break a pattern going back several hundred years and the new laws will lead to the decay of Western civilisation, crop blight, infertility and probably an attack by asteroid. Well, okay, nearly.
In fact, the writing group (a moderate bunch) did not drink any more than usual because after a couple of drinks, we all felt we'd had enough and would turn into pumpkins if we had any more, so we went home. I don't know how representative we are of class, age, gender or whatever, really.
Another random (and only possibly unrelated) thought: why do so many women believe that pram + baby is an ideal battering ram, particularly when approaching the path of a BMW?
T and I differ on this issue. T thinks that Britain will finally learn how to drink sensibly, i.e. like the rest of continental cocktail-sipping, Galliano-wearing Europe, whereas I believe that the legislation won't break a pattern going back several hundred years and the new laws will lead to the decay of Western civilisation, crop blight, infertility and probably an attack by asteroid. Well, okay, nearly.
In fact, the writing group (a moderate bunch) did not drink any more than usual because after a couple of drinks, we all felt we'd had enough and would turn into pumpkins if we had any more, so we went home. I don't know how representative we are of class, age, gender or whatever, really.
Another random (and only possibly unrelated) thought: why do so many women believe that pram + baby is an ideal battering ram, particularly when approaching the path of a BMW?
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Date: 2006-03-25 12:59 am (UTC)The 'last orders' law was brought in during WW1 to get munitions workers into the factories early (ie not hungover) and never repealed until now, although it's been different in Scotland for a while.
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Date: 2006-03-25 06:55 am (UTC)Back when Sumner County didn't allow liquor by the drink, there was a "private club" in town. It was where all the heavy drinkers hung out, and they weren't bothered much with any of the liquor laws. There were more rapes and robberies taking place in that parking lot than anywhere else in the county. Now that there is liquor by the drink, we have better restaurants and no seedy bars at all. Still plenty of drunks in town, but I guess the attitude is different if you're drinking in a nice restaurant instead of a dive.