Now doesn't this sound like the sort of thing that politicians ought to be applauding?
Weatherspoon's pub chain have decided to sell a particular brand of real ale at 99p per pint, in an effort to get the punters into their pubs.
The ale in question is 3.4%abv, so you're going to have to get through a fair few to get a bit tiddly, and indeed, despite not having any personal experience of this as I'm far too old to frequent the sort of places where it goes on, I'm quite sure that the dreaded binge drinkers are not drinking 3.4%abv real ale, it's more a pint of Stella with a tequila chaser, or maybe a pint of tequila with a Stella chaser, if you want to accelerate the road to oblivion.
But no. Yesterday on Jeremy Vine, well you've got to do something for a laugh when you're in the car, George Galloway was denouncing the move as the most irresponsible thing ever to have occured in the history of man and he is quite sure that soon the high streets of Britain will be overflowing with semi-alcoholics, putting windows out, urinating on babies and OAPs and spewing their guts up into the nearest waste bin, as they've happily got wasted on eleventeen pints of 99p IPA.
Get a life, George.
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pompeycaulkhead
- 2009-01-06 @ 20:35:54
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Well said, that man!
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ianrthorpe
- 2009-01-07 @ 16:41:36
Fair Play to Wee Georgie please, he gave us one of the most toe curlingly embarrassing moment ever soon on Television. It was a gif to people who write comedy blogs.
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ianrthorpe
- 2009-01-07 @ 16:46:08
The ninety nine pence pint? That's nearly a pound, robbery.
I can remember when I could go out in Leigh, get rat arsed, have a good time with a Lady Of Negotiable Affection, get the bus back to Atherton, have Hollands meat pie, chips and gravy from Calland's chip shop, get salmonella, die, have a Co-op funeral in a genuine plywood coffin and a nice obituary printed in the local paper and still have change out of a pound. -
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fatsally
- 2009-01-10 @ 18:28:24
Thank you for the comments, sorry I haven't been about, had to get BBC detoxed, Gordon Bennet, the students seem to put away in one night what we used to take at least a term to get through, but there again, we actually had to do some work occasionally.
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