Drunk Brits get the pits

[Nano]

I just saw on the news that now UK citizens can keep doin' those beers way past the 11 PM hour mark, breaking a tight norm that was law for decades.

So, any of those disco lads/punters have had any new experiences on the midnite bars? Oblivious to any "last drink" bells?

How's that feelin', Quinny?

[QUINNY]

There's been a bit of a hoo haa going on, over this. I personally think that our antiquated drinks laws had to be changed and I don't think it's going to lead to even more loutish behaviour, once the initial 'honeymoon' period is over. If, after a few years it's obvious that it has lead to more anti-social behaviour, then I guess the government will have to re-think things.

I haven't been to a pub for about 3 years. Never have enjoyed drinking in them, as they invariably have a hard core drinking crowd, many of whom are complete assholes.

[Videoskooter]

they invariably have a hard core drinking crowd, many of whom are complete assholes.

Is this a true fact? You know, when we have travel programs on the tele here, they now even indicate if there are many drunken Brits at the holiday resort. They have a reputation, it seems! Ibiza was famous for the UK-drunks :o and they sort of ruined many people's holidays with their eternal quest for booze and fighting.

[remicks]

*****
..... Isn't it the same crowd as the football fan gangs that aggressively and drunkenly roam the streets there ?? No wonder they're already like that mid-afternoon ... I've noticed the bawdy noisiness in the streets after eleven when there ....but wasn't aware it was due to this 11:00 pm cut-off time .

I understand it was implemented during WWI so the factory workers wouldn't show up hungover..... good grief ....

But my bigger question is how in the hell did disco survive in this environment ?? The clubs must've still remained open .... but didn't serve ???
Eleven PM ?? The places were just beginning to fill ...
....

****

[Videoskooter]

Yes, Remicks, very good question. Was it a different law for pubs? I can hardly believe that the clubs in Swinging London and the bars in Soho had to close so early.

Quinny, I've never visited an English pub but I always had the impression of them being very cosy and a place where the Brits gathered to drink their Lager, play Darts and eat Seperd's Pie . :o

In fact, I was in London once, many years ago and I only visited "Raymond's Revue Bar", a place that I remembered from the movie "Erotica".

[QUINNY]

Is this a true fact? You know, when we have travel programs on the tele here, they now even indicate if there are many drunken Brits at the holiday resort. They have a reputation, it seems! Ibiza was famous for the UK-drunks :o and they sort of ruined many people's holidays with their eternal quest for booze and fighting.
For some inexplicable reason, younger British men and women just want to get drunk, be exhibitionists and fight. I just don't understand the mentality, but it's not as if they're alone in getting drunk....it's just the sheer stupidity that sets 'em apart. Other peole seem much more mellow when they have a few too many. The really odd thing is that when I was working in Spain in the mid '70s, the Brits were probably the best behaved, with the Germans and Swedes really going 'over the top'. When I was in Marbella, there was a Swedish hotel with a swimming pool and discotheque on the roof and we regularly used to hear that some drunken fool had managed to fall down over the balcony to a floor or two below.

Isn't it the same crowd as the football fan gangs that aggressively and drunkenly roam the streets there ?? No wonder they're already like that mid-afternoon ... I've noticed the bawdy noisiness in the streets after eleven when there ....but wasn't aware it was due to this 11:00 pm cut-off time .

I understand it was implemented during WWI so the factory workers wouldn't show up hungover..... good grief ....

But my bigger question is how in the hell did disco survive in this environment ?? The clubs must've still remained open .... but didn't serve ???
Eleven PM ?? The places were just beginning to fill ...

Generally, clubs used to open until 2 a.m., a few may have stayed open until 4 a.m. in London? They served booze until 2 a.m., so in some ways our laws were far more relaxed than those in parts of the U.S.A.

[QUINNY]

Yes, Remicks, very good question. Was it a different law for pubs? I can hardly believe that the clubs in Swinging London and the bars in Soho had to close so early.

Quinny, I've never visited an English pub but I always had the impression of them being very cosy and a place where the Brits gathered to drink their Lager, play Darts and eat Seperd's Pie . :o

In fact, I was in London once, many years ago and I only visited "Raymond's Revue Bar", a place that I remembered from the movie "Erotica".

Part of the trouble with many English pubs is that they tend to have a 'drinking atmosphere', if you can understand that. That is, people go to the pub to get drunk and have a ribald time, rather than just go for a couple of drinks in a civilised atmosphere. This is not just limited to youngsters, or to city centres. The reason I stopped going to my local (a semi rural pub in a very quaint village where a population of only a few hundred have 3 pubs to choose from)), was because there were too many guys who went there to get drunk and after a while the conversations just got more and more stupid. I just didn't understand how men in their 50's, 60's and even in their 70's needed to drink 5 or 6 pints (or lots more) of strong ale, every single day of their lives, sometimes in a matter of just over an hour, so that their speech became slurred.

[Nano]

Maybe that "happy hour" rule helps get them drunk. They have it on some Irish pubs here (you get 2 drinks for the price of one) and I'm told it comes from there.

In my country the usual places to meet are coffee bars (always espressos) and pizza places, which are not like in the U.S. They're more like restaurants, and in fact you can order other foods. So you drink beer but you fill your stomach at the same time.

If you want to get drunk, then you go to a disco place (and yes, many young people go). However, most partygoers drink water now...

[remicks]

In my country the usual places to meet are coffee bars (always espressos) and pizza places, which are not like in the U.S.

Nano ....isn't also the more common thing to do there , is to pass around the mate'?

****

[Nano]

You're well informed, remicks. But mate being a collective drink, where you pass the 'mate' (same name for the drink and its receptacle) from one person to another (like you would do with a joint), it would be difficult to serve it on bars. But you can ask for a 'mate cocido', which is like a tea from that herb (the 'yerba mate') and it's served as such.

Note for beginners: the mate has NO alcohol nor any hallucinogen substances of any kind. Only some derivate of caffeine which, supposedly, enhances 'alertness' just like a good espresso should.

[Videoskooter]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[DISCODISK]

I haven't been to a pub for about 3 years. Never have enjoyed drinking in them, as they invariably have a hard core drinking crowd, many of whom are complete assholes.

errrr......no i wont do it its just toooo easy :lol: :lol:


theres been northern soul all night clubs since the 60s but with a 2 oclock bar close or some with a midnight open had no bar at all, they would never have been granted a licence otherwise, even like that it wasnt easy to get a licence because of police preassure as they had some crazy notion that the kids screwed chemist shops and consumed pills by the skipload, where an earth they got that idea from was beyond me :lol: all wigan casino sold was milk,coke and stale meat pies,but NEVER water, who in the north in the 70s was gonna PAY for water when you could get it free from a tap

[buckaroo]

A lot of the bars and pubs around Britain encourage the binge-drinking piss-'eads, by selling cheapo alcohol. Certain places have 'Happy' hours :roll: where you can get as much half price drinks or whatever you want in 60 minutes. There are also places op North which staggeringly to Buckaroo, sell drinks at one penny each :o The reason we have this new 24 hour drinking law isn't truly to do with freedom or to get people into relaxed social boozing. It's about our government appeasing large wealthy pub chains and breweries. We don't have a continental vibe here, as they do in France etc. The ass-holes as Quinny rightly calls 'em, will still continue to guzzle the booze down even though they now have all the time in the world.