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Originally Posted by Maggy J
Well I don't know where the idea has come from to go out and spend a weeks wages on a bender.My generation never quite had the money and neither did our parents who also didn't have the cash to splash on having a lot of booze in the house let alone get bladdered all the time..
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I blame the cheap supermarket booze with no publican there to monitor the drunkenness. This has raised the amount of alcohol needed to get drunk as tolerance levels have gone up.
30 years ago only the weekends were for boozing with the weekdays for playing league Darts or Crib or Aunt Sally or Bar Billiards or suchlike. For the most part we have lost the art of a chat down the pub and a sensible approach to drinking as an adjunct to conversation or pub games. With Mien Host there to monitor consumption & stop selling at the right moment before trouble is likely to start.
Can anyone see the supermarkets allowing tax on booze to go up to a prohibitive level?
