I'm surprised this hasn't been commented on yet ...
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From: malc on 14 Mar 2010 18:05 Salad Dodger wrote: > On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:44:39 GMT, "J�r�my" <a(a)b.com> wrote: > >> Salad Dodger <salad.dodger(a)idnet.com> wrote in >> news:dehqp5lojjqm12uik2jimc80udtae8g09b(a)4ax.com: >> >>>> Why doesn't that work for a motorbike? >>> >>> It did, in the eighties. >> >> Funnily enough, that's when I was cycling in London. > > I'm surprised we didn't bump into each other. You probably did but were too pissed to remember -- Malc Rusted and ropy. Dog-eared old copy. Vintage and classic, or just plain Jurassic: all words to describe me.
From: malc on 14 Mar 2010 18:06 Monkey wrote: > "The Older Gentleman" <totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in > message news:1jfcvop.kxda381skgg2uN%totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk... >> I can't help thinking that if you're going to have a drink-drive >> policy, that should be: "No booze at all. Zero." > > Personally I think you should be able to drink as much as you like, > drive as fast as you like, and take as many drugs as you like, as > long as you're still capable of controlling a motor vehicle safely. > Unpolicable, but the only truely fair way of doing things, IMO. I agree but as you say totally unpolicable. -- Malc Rusted and ropy. Dog-eared old copy. Vintage and classic, or just plain Jurassic: all words to describe me.
From: SteveH on 14 Mar 2010 18:07 wessie <putmynamehere(a)tesco.net> wrote: > Considering your occupation, I would expect you to have a better > understanding of the socio-economics of the on-licence trade. Your > employer and its peers has had a bigger impact on the local boozer than > the smoking ban. Bit of both, I suspect. Pubs getting quieter and putting up prices, plus a smoking ban, meant people have more reason to buy supermarket booze. When a pint of Boddingtons (straight from Strangeways) was �1.10 in my local, I rarely saw the point of buying 4 cans for �1.50 at 'Liquor Save'. Now it's pushing 3 quid for a pint of John Smiths, I have very little reason to wander down the pub. -- SteveH
From: vulgarandmischevious on 14 Mar 2010 18:26 italiancar(a)gmail.com (SteveH) wrote: >We are seeing one law after another brought in or amended, all of which >seem to be aimed at dividing and grinding down the population. You think that changing the amount of alcohol inside people driving cars is "dividing and grinding down"? What an odd fish you are.
From: SteveH on 14 Mar 2010 18:30
vulgarandmischevious <vulgarandmischevious(a)gmail.com> wrote: > italiancar(a)gmail.com (SteveH) wrote: > > >We are seeing one law after another brought in or amended, all of which > >seem to be aimed at dividing and grinding down the population. > > You think that changing the amount of alcohol inside people driving > cars is "dividing and grinding down"? > > What an odd fish you are. Call me a foil-hat wearing lunatic, but we do seem to have a government on a mission to introduce as many laws as they possibly can in order to gain further control over the population. This, to me, appears to be yet another one of those. Aside from the fund-raising potential of it. -- SteveH |