Scow Posted 16 August 2005 Posted 16 August 2005 With pubs around the country applying for licenses to serve alcohol 24-7, is this a good or bad idea? Will it increase/decrease drink related crimes? I'm personally in favour of the scheme, but what do you all think?
rossporterlc Posted 16 August 2005 Posted 16 August 2005 sounds ok, don't see how it can help the binge drinking problem though
Cobbo Posted 16 August 2005 Posted 16 August 2005 With pubs around the country applying for licenses to serve alcohol 24-7, is this a good or bad idea?Will it increase/decrease drink related crimes? I'm personally in favour of the scheme, but what do you all think? 157389[/snapback] I am shocked.
Durnerz Posted 16 August 2005 Posted 16 August 2005 With pubs around the country applying for licenses to serve alcohol 24-7, is this a good or bad idea?Will it increase/decrease drink related crimes? I'm personally in favour of the scheme, but what do you all think? 157389[/snapback] I wouldn't like to think of the thought of drunks still around in the early hours of the morning when I go to work being a nuisance towards me, I think it'd cause more problems.
Darth Fox Posted 16 August 2005 Posted 16 August 2005 I live in Hinckley and if the local pubs go in for 24-7 licences then there will be big trouble ahead. The noise in Hinckley between Thursday-Saturday with drunken louts staggering home keying cars, smashing stuff is awful and this will only make matters first. Bad news I'm afraid. Every car in my street has had some sort of drunken related vandalism. I love beer and know I can handle the licence changes as do so whan abroad without running amock but some people just turn psycho after a few drinks.
john_lcfc Posted 16 August 2005 Posted 16 August 2005 but at the moment every pissed man and his uncle come onto ths streets at the same time and there are fights in cities up and down the countries at this time every weekend. The idea is that if there is no closing time then people will come out at different times so there will be less fights. ( i have my doubts aswell but thats the idea)
Leicester_Mad Posted 16 August 2005 Posted 16 August 2005 sounds ok, don't see how it can help the binge drinking problem though 157390[/snapback] the reason most people binge is because they want to get drunk before the place closes and if the place doesnt close they will pace themselves more
CasinoGee Posted 16 August 2005 Posted 16 August 2005 I think the idea is to do with people coming out of bars and pubs at different times so that violence and disorder is minimal, rather than having everyone coming out at the same time and causing chaos.
Rincewind Posted 16 August 2005 Posted 16 August 2005 You dont have to go to the pub to get pissed. With 24/7 it doesn't mean the pubs HAVE to open 24/7. It just means they can be more flexible In Spain there are little bars that do not open until 10 at night for about 4 hours. They serve tapas and have a little entertainment and the punters are happy. The reason we have our licensing laws dates back to the 1914-18 war. The regulations were brought in then. Before then nobody bothered much about the hours inns kept , or what went off in them. The only problem is that the average lager lout believes drinking 10 pints in an evening is the manly thing to do. It will take a few years to bring some normality and responsibility to certain groups. But as the younger drinkers emerge the culture will hopefully will change and there will be no need for the multiple pints ordered at last orders as what happens now.
Thracian Posted 16 August 2005 Posted 16 August 2005 You dont have to go to the pub to get pissed. With 24/7 it doesn't mean the pubs HAVE to open 24/7. It just means they can be more flexible In Spain there are little bars that do not open until 10 at night for about 4 hours. They serve tapas and have a little entertainment and the punters are happy. The reason we have our licensing laws dates back to the 1914-18 war. The regulations were brought in then. Before then nobody bothered much about the hours inns kept , or what went off in them. The only problem is that the average lager lout believes drinking 10 pints in an evening is the manly thing to do. It will take a few years to bring some normality and responsibility to certain groups. But as the younger drinkers emerge the culture will hopefully will change and there will be no need for the multiple pints ordered at last orders as what happens now. 157447[/snapback] How anyone can down 10 pints of the sort of liquid piss that most pubs sell is beyond me - unless they're pissed to begin with. The major breweries so dominate the pub trade that you have to search long and hard for decent beer and cider. I resent is so much - I now won't drink anywhere I see the multinational stablemates advertised on the bar tops. I say this though. They wouldn't need 10 pints to get pissed in a real ale pub.
Guest Posted 16 August 2005 Posted 16 August 2005 Honest Tone has used the continent as an example for this scheme, but can you honestly see the chavs who fall about in our fair city's streets of a weekend happily sitting down to enjoy good food, good company and a bottle of half decent plonk in a civilised manner?
Nationwider Posted 17 August 2005 Posted 17 August 2005 I can't see it having a positive effect at all. People will still binge drink as its now pretty much a national past-time. The major alcohol companies have as much a hold on the younger end of the population as the tobacco companies. The only way to sort out the mess that our towns and city centres have become is to get much tougher on drunk & disorderly behaviour. My idea would be to round up all those drunk/disorderly/violent at weekends and lock them up in some kind of open-air jail for 24 hours. Let them sit in each others piss, shit and puke for 24 hours and think on. Or just give the police the powers to use tazers on them at will. F*uck 'em - and give us our streets and pubs back at weekends, please. How right-wing of me.
Guest Posted 17 August 2005 Posted 17 August 2005 My idea would be to round up all those drunk/disorderly/violent at weekends and lock them up in some kind of open-air jail for 24 hours. Let them sit in each others piss, shit and puke for 24 hours and think on. 157638[/snapback] Or maybe they'll beat each other to death, then we wouldn't have the problem any more?
Rincewind Posted 17 August 2005 Posted 17 August 2005 Give them the job of stewarding L1. They'll be crying for their mothers before half-time.
Stuliasz Posted 17 August 2005 Posted 17 August 2005 I read somewhere that binge drinking is classed as 4 pints or more, does having 4 pints really warrant that title?
Guest Posted 17 August 2005 Posted 17 August 2005 Where on earth did u read that? 157828[/snapback] The Temperance Society monthly newsletter?
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