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Title: Alcohol warnings
Post by: The Moan Ranger on May 28, 2007, 12:21:33 PM
hxxp: news. bbc. co. uk/1/hi/health/6692593. stm

This, of course, will stop the great unwashed getting hammered and fighting each other on Friday nights. . .
Title: Re: Alcohol warnings
Post by: Barman on May 28, 2007, 01:17:46 PM
hxxp: news. bbc. co. uk/1/hi/health/6692593. stm

This, of course, will stop the great unwashed getting hammered and fighting each other on Friday nights. . .
Just four more posts and you can include links and emoticons...  whistle:
Title: Re: Alcohol warnings
Post by: Uncle Mort on May 28, 2007, 01:44:38 PM
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I see in the straw vote nearly 80% don't think it would make any difference. I don't think so either.

Maybe they could connect the unit to the price, much like supermarkets do with products so that it would say something like cost  75p per unit. That way we could work out how to get drunker for less.

eastdrink048
Title: Re: Alcohol warnings
Post by: Darwins Selection on May 28, 2007, 01:47:59 PM
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I see in the straw vote nearly 80% don't think it would make any difference. I don't think so either.

Maybe they could connect the unit to the price, much like supermarkets do with products so that it would say something like cost  75p per unit. That way we could work out how to get drunker for less.

eastdrink048

I notice they don't give the optimum number of units for a woman to drink if a chap wants a chance to impregnate her. ::)
Title: Re: Alcohol warnings
Post by: Nick on May 28, 2007, 01:52:44 PM
That "avoid alcohol if trying to conceive" bit. Does that apply to men too?
Title: Re: Alcohol warnings
Post by: Snoopy on May 28, 2007, 02:54:43 PM
Largely depends on who it is you are trying to impregnate. The drunker I have been the more awful she has looked in the morning ..... some, I confess, I didn't actually recognise ~ which was worrying at the time.
Title: Re: Alcohol warnings
Post by: The Moan Ranger on May 28, 2007, 08:17:00 PM
Quote from: Barman link=topic=391. msg5542#msg5542 date=1180358266
Quote from: The Moan Ranger link=topic=391. msg5538#msg5538 date=1180354893
hxxp: news.  bbc.  co.  uk/1/hi/health/6692593.  stm

This, of course, will stop the great unwashed getting hammered and fighting each other on Friday nights.  .  . 
Just four more posts and you can include links and emoticons. . .   whistle:

Really?
Title: Re: Alcohol warnings
Post by: The Moan Ranger on May 28, 2007, 08:17:30 PM
Quote from: Barman link=topic=391. msg5542#msg5542 date=1180358266
Quote from: The Moan Ranger link=topic=391. msg5538#msg5538 date=1180354893
hxxp: news.  bbc.  co.  uk/1/hi/health/6692593.  stm

This, of course, will stop the great unwashed getting hammered and fighting each other on Friday nights.  .  . 
Just four more posts and you can include links and emoticons. . .   whistle:

Are you sure?
Title: Re: Alcohol warnings
Post by: The Moan Ranger on May 28, 2007, 08:18:27 PM
Quote from: Barman link=topic=391. msg5542#msg5542 date=1180358266
Quote from: The Moan Ranger link=topic=391. msg5538#msg5538 date=1180354893
hxxp: news.  bbc.  co.  uk/1/hi/health/6692593.  stm

This, of course, will stop the great unwashed getting hammered and fighting each other on Friday nights.  .  . 
Just four more posts and you can include links and emoticons. . .   whistle:

But that would make me send senseless stuff like this, purely to beat the system.
Title: Re: Alcohol warnings
Post by: The Moan Ranger on May 28, 2007, 08:19:40 PM
Quote from: Barman link=topic=391. msg5542#msg5542 date=1180358266
Quote from: The Moan Ranger link=topic=391. msg5538#msg5538 date=1180354893
hxxp: news.  bbc.  co.  uk/1/hi/health/6692593.  stm

This, of course, will stop the great unwashed getting hammered and fighting each other on Friday nights.  .  . 
Just four more posts and you can include links and emoticons. . .   whistle:
And that would be beneath a Grammar school boy like me!
Title: Re: Alcohol warnings
Post by: The Moan Ranger on May 28, 2007, 08:21:31 PM
hxxp: news. bbc. co. uk/1/hi/health/6692593. stm

This, of course, will stop the great unwashed getting hammered and fighting each other on Friday nights. . .
Just four more posts and you can include links and emoticons...  whistle:

So it would seem to be a trifle easy to circumvent!
Title: Re: Alcohol warnings
Post by: The Moan Ranger on May 28, 2007, 08:22:04 PM
hxxp: news. bbc. co. uk/1/hi/health/6692593. stm

This, of course, will stop the great unwashed getting hammered and fighting each other on Friday nights. . .
Just four more posts and you can include links and emoticons...  whistle:

Would it not  eyes:
Title: Re: Alcohol warnings
Post by: Mr Happy on May 28, 2007, 09:51:15 PM
The amount of women i see out smoking and drinking whilst pregnant is truly shocking, they don't deserve children.

If only i frequented bars with flights of stairs to push them down...
Title: Re: Alcohol warnings
Post by: Barman on May 29, 2007, 05:36:38 AM
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I see in the straw vote nearly 80% don't think it would make any difference. I don't think so either.

Maybe they could connect the unit to the price, much like supermarkets do with products so that it would say something like cost  75p per unit. That way we could work out how to get drunker for less.

eastdrink048
You would have thought that even the most stupid minister or civil servant would be able to spot the basic flaw in this idea?

Something along the lines of ?we?ve been putting more and more outrageous health warnings on packets of cigarettes for years and it hasn?t made the slightest difference to smokers ? how is this going to work??
Title: Re: Alcohol warnings
Post by: Barman on May 29, 2007, 05:38:11 AM
hxxp: news. bbc. co. uk/1/hi/health/6692593. stm

This, of course, will stop the great unwashed getting hammered and fighting each other on Friday nights. . .
Just four more posts and you can include links and emoticons...  whistle:

Would it not  eyes:
Indeed it would ? but that isn?t the aim of the restriction.  whistle: