As Anthony and Tom transition from the headline to the strapline those "kids" have become "young revellers" because, as we all know, selling alcohol to children is illegal and every person in that venue would have had to prove their age. So from the beginning this article is absolute bollocks.
A barman said of tomorrow's "2 Bob Tuesday" promotion: "It's gonna be pretty wild. "I'm sure a lot of students are going be really hammered. And the party will be going on till 3am."A barman talking bollocks about a future event in an effort to make their life sound exciting? I've never, ever heard one do that. This speculation might prove to be accurate but for the moment it remains speculation.
Sun investigators visited the Showbar in Warrington, Cheshire, on Saturday night — and witnessed two girls writhing drunkenly together on the dance floor. Another woman collapsed in the gutter outside shortly after leaving.As the venue has a capacity of 1300 one assumes there were more than three people (excluding the reporters) in the club? And this is the worst alcohol fuelled behaviour they witnessed? Sounds to me like the Showbar doesn't really have a problem at all.
Clubbers who pay a £5 entry fee tomorrow can sink half-pints of beer for 10p each — equal to just 20p per pint.After considering the £5 entry fee I'd argue that the cost of a pint is much higher.
Alcohol Concern chief executive Don Shenker blasted: "This shouldn't be allowed. It clearly incentivises drinking irresponsibly."Fuck off Shenker.
manager Jenny Keep defended the move. She said: "It's really a student night. It'll be £5 to get in and then 10p for a drink.But they will only be allowed to have one drink at a time.Only allowed one drink at a time? That will lead to long queues at the bar and long gaps between drinks. That 20p a pint target is looking a long way off now isn't it? It sounds to me like many promotional offers - fantastic until you read the small print.
Other places have had promotions of drink at 1p at time — now that is irresponsible."Oh dear Jenny. You were doing so well defending your position then you made the error of trying to divert attention away from yourself by blaming others. But I'll forgive you if you resist these puritan cocktards, people like
Katherine Brown, research chief at the Institute of Alcohol Studies, said: "It's a prime example of how irresponsible the drinks industry can be, targeting particularly vulnerable students and young people. This is why tough minimum pricing should be brought in. Alcohol harm costs the UK around £25billion a year — we can't afford not to do anything about it"Have you noticed that, rather than being the elite of the academic process, students are often described as vulnerable by the very people that, one assumes, went through the same system? And it's always the same few names that the media use for anti-[insert frowned upon substance] quotes. And they always seem to be ignorant of the statistics that show alcohol consumption dropping year on year.
Sarah Wise, of the British Liver Trust, added: "We're creating a generation of drinkers who find these deals normal, feeding their expectations to get drunk on a fiver."Really Sarah? Until you produce proof that's happening it remains your opinion
Prof Sir Ian Gilmour,(sic) a special adviser to the Royal College of Physicians, warned: "I'm sure the local A&E department will be reaping the rewards of selling alcohol at 10p per drink."But as we know from previous encounters with this twat he likes to phrase quotes for the media in vague and unspecific ways so that he can't be accused of directly lying.
So there you have it: A non-story dressed up as a massive problem that needs intervention.
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We used to have these in the 80`s. The beer/lager was that watered down that it was virtually impossible to get drunk (although many tried). Unless you had the bladder of an elephant, it was advisable to stay on the bottled stuff, which of course was at the regular price.
"......can sink half-pints of beer for 10p each — equal to just 20p per pint."
The need for the explanation, explains the level of intelligence of their readers
Who really gives a toss how pissed and how fast other people get ? It's what they do whilst in that state to affect other people that should be the issue.
Stop accepting alcohol as a mitigating factor and start treating it as an aggravating factor in legal matters and the problem will resolve itself...to an almost acceptable degree...eventually.
Left to their own devices and prevented from causing harm to anyone but themselves I reckon alcoholics and drug addicts would die faster than anyone else on the planet. Let's experiment, shall we.
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