£7 pint anyone?

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DiscoDave
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£7 pint anyone?

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The cost of alcohol should be trebled to discourage binge drinking, according to a top policeman.
full story : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4147058.stm

thats $12 for you yanks >:E
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Whats a pint?
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Post by HM-PuFFNSTuFF »

ToxicBug wrote:Whats a pint?
well you're a half pint so two of you i guess
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Yea. That bit of social engineering would go over really well.
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About like prohibition in the 40's in the US.
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what a brilliant idea. now only the wealthy will be able to binge-drink :dork:
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scourge34 wrote:About like prohibition in the 40's in the US.
...apart from the prohibition bit
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seremtan wrote:
scourge34 wrote:About like prohibition in the 40's in the US.
...apart from the prohibition bit
Well, that was in response to Rook's post about how well it will go over. Guess I shoulda quoted. :shrug:
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Post by PhoeniX »

ToxicBug wrote:Whats a pint?
1 Imperial pint = 0.568261485 liters

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I see.
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7 quid pint? thats half of what kracus pays for a regular beer
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MKJ wrote:7 quid pint? thats half of what kracus pays for a regular beer
:olo:
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Mate that's ancient, that article's from August.
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ToxicBug wrote:Whats a pint?
You'll find out when you're an adult
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you can always go to Ibiza to binge, oh wait you're already doing that
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the swedes all get on the ferry to copenhagen when they binge, so i'm told
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seremtan wrote:the swedes all get on the ferry to copenhagen when they binge, so i'm told
Yup that's what they do.



It's exactly what the USA did with cigarette tax to discourage smoking $5.00 to $7.00 a pack and people still smoke 3 packs a day
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Post by blood.angel »

So it would take £7 to get half you bastards drunk then?
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Post by Canidae »

Too bad your net value is less than that. Don't you even check the hookers pockets before you get rid of them? :icon25:
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hookers don't have pockets. you have to fish with your fist.
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Re: £7 pint anyone?

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DiscoDave wrote:
The cost of alcohol should be trebled to discourage binge drinking, according to a top policeman.
full story : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4147058.stm

thats $12 for you yanks >:E


...that's how they raise taxes again...and they tell you it's for your own good...


..."we must protect them from themselves"...
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farad wrote:
DiscoDave wrote:
The cost of alcohol should be trebled to discourage binge drinking, according to a top policeman.
full story : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4147058.stm

thats $12 for you yanks >:E


...that's how they raise taxes again...and they tell you it's for your own good...


..."we must protect them from themselves"...
= wankers

if they were serious, they'd ban alcohol, but prohibition doesn't work, except when it's drugs, in which case it works perfectly, which is why reclassified cannabis, to save police time, because prohibition doesn't work, erm, or something...
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seremtan wrote:the swedes all get on the ferry to copenhagen when they binge, so i'm told
yea, they also ship busloads of people to Denmark and Germany every day to buy cheap alcohol. My parents go to Puttgarden every 6 months to stock up. That's what a state monopoly and sky high taxes will cause people to do.
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Post by Massive Quasars »

Grudge wrote:That's what a state monopoly and sky high taxes will cause people to do.
This lesson seems hard learned.
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Giraffe }{unter wrote:
seremtan wrote:the swedes all get on the ferry to copenhagen when they binge, so i'm told
Yup that's what they do.



It's exactly what the USA did with cigarette tax to discourage smoking $5.00 to $7.00 a pack and people still smoke 3 packs a day
:dork:
And the government makes a killing, and noone is the wiser.
And all the non-smokers who demonize smokers will vote for them again, for cleaning up the 'dirty people.'
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