Britain to ban 'happy hour' at pubs?

Sorry if this has already been covered.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081122/D94K34B01.html

What can they ban next?

I'm all for tackling the youth drinking culture, but they should leave the adults alone.

Hulohot wrote:Sorry if this has already been covered.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081122/D94K34B01.html

What can they ban next?

I'm all for tackling the youth drinking culture, but they should leave the adults alone.

Maybe if the country wasn't such a depressing shithole ran by dingle berries we wouldn't have a need to drown our sorrows.

I bet they would have a hard time banning Morris Dancing.

Peter Crisp wrote:I bet they would have a hard time banning Morris Dancing.

But I bet they'd give it a go, perhaps some kind of extreme 'taste' law.

What a good place to be
Dont believe it
cause they speak a different language
And its never really happened to me

IRON NAN wrote:
Peter Crisp wrote:I bet they would have a hard time banning Morris Dancing.

But I bet they'd give it a go, perhaps some kind of extreme 'taste' law.

Being the National Dance it might offend someone visiting us just like the Union Jack is sometimes seen as offensive.

What i don't get is how are they going to enforce this? My dad has 2 bars, on different days he has different prices. A thursday is cheaper and there are all sorts of offers. Does this mean that he has to scrap this as well?

I wasnt aware pubs still did happy hours, the money grubbing bastards

Last edited by $ilva $hadow on Thu Nov 27, 2008 3:03 pm, edited 1 time in total.

What is happyhours? Is it the non granmar nazi vershion of eighthours?

No seriously what is happy hours? I've never come across any discounts in London on drinks ever.

The Government and the health Nazis seem to think that this will cut down on people drinking. Of course they are wrong as the reason for people going out binge drinking is nothing to do with the price. It doesn’t matter if it is £2 a pint or £4 a pint, people will still pay it and people will still get gooseberry fool faced.

There is of course a point where people would not pay for alcohol but raising it high enough to stop people would only result in every pub in the country shutting down and France and Spain making huge sums of money from us as we buy from the white van men (like with cigarettes).

This is enough!!

You may take the cigarettes and you make take the bestiality porn, you may monitor my internet usage and you may ban me from driving for eating an apple at the wheel, you may stop me from wearing a hoody in a shopping centre and make me carry an ID card, but by God you will NEVER. TAKE. MY. BEER!!!!!!!!

PostRe: Britain to ban 'happy hour' at pubs? by KK » Thu Nov 27, 2008 3:17 pm

Might as well take up knitting.

I said a long time ago, when the health nazis were still spreading their poisonous anti-smoking propaganda on TV, that once they'd finished with us smokers they'll come for you drinkers. And they will...

But don't just blame the government: look, rather, at advocacy groups with a vested interest in sh*t-stirring around the subject. This is always where the trouble comes from - because, as the impending porn laws illustrate all too clearly - the government 'takes advice' from advocates with an axe to grind and includes their 'suggestions' in their white papers. And before you know it, it's become law.

So, having nobbled smokers and reduced them to the social standing of nonces, these f*ckwits are now looking for new targets - expect a raft of bogus 'reports' leaking into the media from these soft-shoe shufflers, scaremongering around 'happy hour' binge drinking, etc. Also expect the media to bend over and take it all up the arse with barely a doubt any of it can be true.

This country? :fp:

Peter Crisp wrote:
IRON NAN wrote:
Peter Crisp wrote:I bet they would have a hard time banning Morris Dancing.

But I bet they'd give it a go, perhaps some kind of extreme 'taste' law.

Being the National Dance it might offend someone visiting us just like the Union Jack is sometimes seen as offensive.

I'm sure there's probably some obscure nation/religion that is offended by having hankies waved at them which will vist England one day and register their handful of complaints thus eradicating Morris men from society forever.

Don't care. happy hour is gooseberry fool and is usually a gimmick that attracts the worst kind of dregs. it should only occur in student bars. That is the only time i have ever indulged.

Ah those were the days - Strawberry fields in LEEDS - 50p per shot.

It's only "happy hours" they aint saying they're banning alcoholic drinks all together or closing down pubs etc. Some may argue (Cal possibly) this is the start of something against the alcohol industry (much like the smoking industry) but they'll never be able to enforce a ban on the drinking culture.

Shadow wrote:This is enough!!

You may take the cigarettes and you make take the bestiality porn, you may monitor my internet usage and you may ban me from driving for eating an apple at the wheel, you may stop me from wearing a hoody in a shopping centre and make me carry an ID card, but by God you will NEVER. TAKE. MY. BEER!!!!!!!!

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender our cheap beers!!

In inability to drink on the streets is bad enough. Britain is such a gooseberry fool hole.

Only time I've ever seen a proper happy our was in Holland.

I agree with Smurphy ^ Need to go abroad until I have money then return home.

I don't personally mind, since i only ever go out drinking on a cheap drinks night.

But i can see why others are bothered.

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