The quote in the headline massively underestimates the power of beer.

/DRTFA

Someone hasn't read Watching the English, in which an anthropologist actually found out that there really IS a queue, it's just not as organized.

This is why the Americans invented "bars" and "the tab" because English pubs don't understand these things.

Jesus, isn't this a tad punitive to all over the actions a few? I mean, even more than usual for England?

I've got news for them. They can make people crawl through a sewer on broken glass if they want, and they are still gonna drink.

I'm picturing the Bugs Bunny conga line home run thing here.

Have these people ever been to a pub?

Good luck enforcing a queue with angry drunks who are desperate to get back to the TV to watch football...

What a pub might look like.

(Actually, it's nothing like this)

I've read the "nanny state" headlines with amusement for a long time. I finally read one of the articles and I have come to the conclusion that you Brits are farked up.

Hmmmm. Making people wait in line to drink.

Making the British wait in line to drink.

Making the British wait in line to drink to curb "violence" in pubs.

"Ere now Guvnor! You bloody cut me in line you #$%@ing !@#hole mother was a #$%@%#$, I'll kill your #$%%@#@$%^ children!"

Watching close quarters chav combat?
Priceless.

Its_A_Tarp: What a pub might look like.

(Actually, it's nothing like this)

So no cute barmaids in the UK? That's a disappointment.

thisispete: Its_A_Tarp: What a pub might look like.

(Actually, it's nothing like this)

So no cute barmaids in the UK? That's a disappointment.

Cute? British? Women?

/teehee

"People aren't going to want to drink if they have to queue up as if they're in the post office"

I think that's the entire point. The Nanny State considers it their duty to make sure you lead a healthy lifestyle as decided by them. Alcohol does not fit into their perfect society.

Yes. Please. Please do this.

I highly encourage the goverments of all of the world to put extremely high taxes and very stringient rules on things like booze, cigarettes, and anything else people might want to consume during difficult times.

That way the general public will finally get outraged enough to get of off their asses and get pissed enough to make real changes in how they are governed.

consciousNOT: I've read the "nanny state" headlines with amusement for a long time. I finally read one of the articles and I have come to the conclusion that you Brits are farked up.

The decision of one town reflects the attitude of an entire country?

Color me amazed that the Daily Fail actually used the term "nanny state" in TFA. I thought that was a Fark invention.

InferiousX: Yes. Please. Please do this.

I highly encourage the goverments of all of the world to put extremely high taxes and very stringient rules on things like booze, cigarettes, and anything else people might want to consume during difficult times.

That way the general public will finally get outraged enough to get of off their asses and get pissed enough to make real changes in how they are governed.

People are sheeple. They won't get off their asses to defend their rights. I thought England passed the revolution line years ago, but nothing has happened. They keep voting in the same wankers year after year and their rights continue to be eroded. Sadly, I expect the same here in the states.

"People aren't going to want to drink more if they have to queue up as if they're in the post office"

FTFT


"Hide his welfare check in his work boots!"
"LOL"

Commander Lysdexic: The decision of one town reflects the attitude of an entire country?

That's the excuse I keep hearing in our almost daily nanny state thread. But it's a different town each time, so there is something rotten spreading across the country.

offacue: I'm picturing the Bugs Bunny conga line home run thing here.

LOL

Personal, and related, anecdote...

When I was in college, there was a place that had 25 cent beers for 2 hours on Wednesday nights. You could only order 2 at a time, and you could only walk away from the bar with a max of two.

Everyone just got in a big circular line. Get to the bar, slam two, walk away with two. Stay in the circle. By the time you could finish those two, you were back to the bar for 4 more.

/CWU for the win

FTA: It would be the end of buying a round but we have to do something to calm things down.

Do you mind telling us what that "something" is?

thisispete: Its_A_Tarp: What a pub might look like.

(Actually, it's nothing like this)

So no cute barmaids in the UK? That's a disappointment.

The problem with the picture is that the people are having way too much fun.

No one smiles that much in Britain.

Why tackle binge drinking at all? People have a right to get what they pay for.

1) The Japanese already do this. And the English living in Japan do queue up. So do the Australians.

2) When I was bartending in the States, as a bartender, I was aware of the queue, even if it was all messed up and crowded. (Ok... not when it was packed, but most of the time) People get their drinks in order anyway.

offacue: I'm picturing the Bugs Bunny conga line home run thing here.

I'm linking the Bugs Bunny conga line home run thing here.

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Timdesuyo 2009-05-24 07:24:45 AM
1) The Japanese already do this. And the English living in Japan do queue up. So do the Australians.


The hell we do.

Timdesuyo: 1) The Japanese already do this. And the English living in Japan do queue up. So do the Australians.

2) When I was bartending in the States, as a bartender, I was aware of the queue, even if it was all messed up and crowded. (Ok... not when it was packed, but most of the time) People get their drinks in order anyway.

Yea, FTA it looks like a roped off line like at the bank or something.

Also, aren't bartenders aware of who has had too much to drink? Sort of a mental, dude, that's the 4th flaming dr pepper in an hour? This is asinine.

Fano: Timdesuyo: 1) The Japanese already do this. And the English living in Japan do queue up. So do the Australians.

2) When I was bartending in the States, as a bartender, I was aware of the queue, even if it was all messed up and crowded. (Ok... not when it was packed, but most of the time) People get their drinks in order anyway.

Yea, FTA it looks like a roped off line like at the bank or something.

Also, aren't bartenders aware of who has had too much to drink? Sort of a mental, dude, that's the 4th flaming dr pepper in an hour? This is asinine.

4 drinks in an hour is a lot?

Man...I have a serious problem.

Its_A_Tarp: Have these people ever been to a pub?

Good luck enforcing a queue with angry drunks who are desperate to get back to the TV to watch football...

Of course they've not been to a pub. They are Lib Dems, and only buy white wine spritzers for themselves and Bacardi Breezers for their wives at the wine bar.

This is one of the few headlines where 'Nanny State' really does apply, and if I lived in Oldham, these pathetic over-reacting amateur politicians would get an electoral stabbing from me.

Sergeant Pecker's Lonely Hearts Club Gang Bang: offacue: I'm picturing the Bugs Bunny conga line home run thing here.

I'm linking the Bugs Bunny conga line home run thing here.

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Or I could just link the whole episode

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brian7dog: Timdesuyo 2009-05-24 07:24:45 AM
1) The Japanese already do this. And the English living in Japan do queue up. So do the Australians.


The hell we do.

Yes, but you don't drink beer anyway. You serve it.

/runs

Is there a limit to the size of the drinks?

I've been wondering where Chris Rock has been hanging out these days.

OgreMagi: Commander Lysdexic: The decision of one town reflects the attitude of an entire country?

That's the excuse I keep hearing in our almost daily nanny state thread. But it's a different town each time, so there is something rotten spreading across the country.

So some councils around the country are making stupid rules. Oh shiat, someone get me out on the next flight! Because stupid rules are never made in America, a country which still has a number of counties which completely OUTLAW alcohol.

luckyeddie: Its_A_Tarp: Have these people ever been to a pub?

Good luck enforcing a queue with angry drunks who are desperate to get back to the TV to watch football...

Of course they've not been to a pub. They are Lib Dems, and only buy white wine spritzers for themselves and Bacardi Breezers for their wives at the wine bar.

This is one of the few headlines where 'Nanny State' really does apply, and if I lived in Oldham, these pathetic over-reacting amateur politicians would get an electoral stabbing from me.

The sad thing is the one old dude quoted that says what a great idea it is. I don't know if he remembers standing in bread lines or something, but I'd expect and old man to sound more grizzled. "In my day, ye'd just ask for the bottle 'o whisky and tell th' bartender to leave the cap off for ye!"

Won't want to queue for a drink? They do realize that queuing is a national pass time in the UK right? We will queue for anything.

Anyway I think it is a good idea. They can also put in those windy paths like they have at banks, cinemas, supermarkets and post offices too. That way you will get your turn at the bar rather than have to wait till while all the women and obnoxious wankers get served first.

/Mines a pint of bitter, obviously

Redscum: OgreMagi: Commander Lysdexic: The decision of one town reflects the attitude of an entire country?

That's the excuse I keep hearing in our almost daily nanny state thread. But it's a different town each time, so there is something rotten spreading across the country.

So some councils around the country are making stupid rules. Oh shiat, someone get me out on the next flight! Because stupid rules are never made in America, a country which still has a number of counties which completely OUTLAW alcohol.

We're still working on kicking Utah out of the US...

Redscum: OgreMagi: Commander Lysdexic: The decision of one town reflects the attitude of an entire country?

That's the excuse I keep hearing in our almost daily nanny state thread. But it's a different town each time, so there is something rotten spreading across the country.

So some councils around the country are making stupid rules. Oh shiat, someone get me out on the next flight! Because stupid rules are never made in America, a country which still has a number of counties which completely OUTLAW alcohol.

Yeah, but those dry counties have been that way for a while. Find me some counties looking to outlaw alcohol, and we'll talk.

luckyeddie: brian7dog: Timdesuyo 2009-05-24 07:24:45 AM
1) The Japanese already do this. And the English living in Japan do queue up. So do the Australians.


The hell we do.

Yes, but you don't drink beer anyway. You serve it.

/runs

Some of us are multiskilled.

Its_A_Tarp: Redscum: OgreMagi: Commander Lysdexic: The decision of one town reflects the attitude of an entire country?

That's the excuse I keep hearing in our almost daily nanny state thread. But it's a different town each time, so there is something rotten spreading across the country.

So some councils around the country are making stupid rules. Oh shiat, someone get me out on the next flight! Because stupid rules are never made in America, a country which still has a number of counties which completely OUTLAW alcohol.

We're still working on kicking Utah out of the US...

I'm always ready to harp on Utah, but correct me if I'm wrong. I don't think there are any dry counties in that state.

Most of them are in the south if I am correct.

Never understood the idea of dry counties. Make people drive further to get drunk = more drunk driving = public saftey success?

While this regulation will solve absolutely nothing related to binge drinking and alcohol-fueled mayhem, it will solve the problem of useless bartenders. Can't ignore me in order to hit on scantily-clad female customers anymore, you useless sacks of crap.

Sun God: This is why the Americans invented "bars" and "the tab" because English pubs don't understand these things.

And you know this because??........... Oh right, just something you pulled out of your arse then??.... yeah thought so.... cause pretty much every pub I have every been in you get offered to open a tab if you pay by card.. silly American!

It's fun watching you mannerless, poorly bred punk kids whine about the loss of freedoms you seem to clamor for. Losing freedom that is. It's like you are willingly electing the jigsaw killer to be your boss. Goddamn publicly educated fools. I bet you started with the two fag penguins book in pre-K.

gmoney101: Sun God: This is why the Americans invented "bars" and "the tab" because English pubs don't understand these things.

And you know this because??........... Oh right, just something you pulled out of your arse then??.... yeah thought so.... cause pretty much every pub I have every been in you get offered to open a tab if you pay by card.. silly American!

The English, having pioneered dry wit, quickly forgot it.

InferiousX: Its_A_Tarp: Redscum: OgreMagi: Commander Lysdexic: The decision of one town reflects the attitude of an entire country?

That's the excuse I keep hearing in our almost daily nanny state thread. But it's a different town each time, so there is something rotten spreading across the country.

So some councils around the country are making stupid rules. Oh shiat, someone get me out on the next flight! Because stupid rules are never made in America, a country which still has a number of counties which completely OUTLAW alcohol.

We're still working on kicking Utah out of the US...

I'm always ready to harp on Utah, but correct me if I'm wrong. I don't think there are any dry counties in that state.

Most of them are in the south if I am correct.

Never understood the idea of dry counties. Make people drive further to get drunk = more drunk driving = public saftey success?

Although the 21st Amendment repealed the prohibition of alcohol on the federal level, that Amendment also specifically prohibits the selling or production of alcohol in violation of local laws. Some local governments which had passed local laws prohibiting alcohol during national prohibition never re-legalized the sale of alcohol, maintaining a "dry" market. Many dry communities do not generally prohibit the mere consumption of alcohol, thus potentially losing profits and taxes from the sale of alcohol to their residents to "wet" - or non-prohibition - areas. The rationale for maintaining prohibition on the local level often is religious in nature, as many Protestant Christian denominations discourage the consumption of alcohol by their followers (see Christianity and alcohol, sumptuary law, and Baptists and Bootleggers). Similar laws designed to restrict the sale and consumption of alcohol also are common in the mostly LDS (Mormon) state of Utah, although Utah prohibits local jurisdictions from exercising control over liquor laws. An additional, more pragmatic intent of these laws often is to reduce alcohol consumption in that particular county (and the potential health, safety, and public order issues that can accompany it) by limiting the ease of acquiring it.

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Fano: gmoney101: Sun God: This is why the Americans invented "bars" and "the tab" because English pubs don't understand these things.

And you know this because??........... Oh right, just something you pulled out of your arse then??.... yeah thought so.... cause pretty much every pub I have every been in you get offered to open a tab if you pay by card.. silly American!

The English, having pioneered dry wit, quickly forgot it.

gmoney101 is not an example of dry wit but shining wit.

/I'm sorry, I have a peech sroblem

Next they'll tell you barley farms contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. Watch as you go you go all glassy eyed and reflexively fish another quarter out of your pockets to give to gubmint.

My generation didn't take any shiat. We smoked when we wanted, where we wanted. We drank when we wanted, where we wanted.:

Commander Lysdexic: consciousNOT: I've read the "nanny state" headlines with amusement for a long time. I finally read one of the articles and I have come to the conclusion that you Brits are farked up.

The decision of one town reflects the attitude of an entire country?

Shiat spreads when idiots abound. The UK seems to have an inordinately large supply of idiots in government. UK'ers look for this in a pub near you soon.

FTA Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: 'All councils need to strike the right balance between tackling binge drinking and not punishing responsible and sensible drinkers. I hope Oldham gets the balance right.'

First problem, you have someone called the Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary, and how about you simply MIND YOUR OWN FARKING BUSINESS Mr. government stooge? How is that for a policy?

Of course this is really a good thing for Britain because they are just getting the people used to how life will be when they are ruled by the Muslims. Next, they will find reasons to make it hard to purchase pork. Mark my words.

If you have any sense, and any desire to live a free life you need to emigrate out of there, come to the USA, or Canada. Get out of there while you can.