Boozy Britain Gets Even More Time at the Bar

[t3gah]

Boozy Britain Gets Even More Time at the Bar
(http://today.reuters.com/news/newsA...RIDST_0_LIFESTYLE-LIFE-BRITAIN-BOOZING-DC.XML)

Fri Jan 28, 2005 8:31 AM ET

By Katherine Baldwin

LONDON (Reuters) - Vomit on the pavement. Scantily clad teen-age girls staggering into oncoming traffic. Fights in the street as police sirens wail.

This is Britain on a typical Saturday night.

An explosion in binge drinking over the past few years has turned many town centers into arenas of drunken debauchery.

And because of a new government plan, alcohol experts say it is set to get worse.

Starting Feb. 7, bars and pubs across England and Wales can apply for a license to open for up to 24 hours a day -- sweeping away a fixed 11 p.m. closing time observed by most pubs since World War One. Scotland already has extended hours....
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[retrorich]

I'll drink to that!

Cheers, old chap! Stiff upper lip, sticky wicket and all that rot!

 

[michel]

hi guys!

Yes, and we are not happy about it. I don't know why but binge drinking among the young is really bad here. Streets are not safe. The general opinion is that this will not help.
Do any of you, in Australia, or U.S.A suffer from problems with kids drinking too much?

 

[t3gah]

hi guys!

Yes, and we are not happy about it. I don't know why but binge drinking among the young is really bad here. Streets are not safe. The general opinion is that this will not help.

Do any of you, in Australia, or U.S.A suffer from problems with kids drinking too much?

In Austin, Texas they have the mardi gras celebration downtown Austin each year and the students along with whomever else shows up get hammered drunk to the point of public nudity. The police shut down that area during that time the last time I was in Austin, TX. On Friday and Saturday nights Austin also has it fill of wild drunkards especially on Interstate 35.

In NYC when I lived there Friday and Saturday nights were filled with drunks in certain area's of the city.

And on the news for Houston, Austin and NY there are always reports of fatal crashes due to alcohol abuse.

 

[Isis-Astoroth]

If somebody's main intention was to get drunk, then opening pubs longer so that people would spread their drinking out would not help, as the person would still get drunk. Instead of people crawling out of pubs at 11 at night, they would just end up crawling out at 3 am.

 

[desi]

Why is everyone getting drunk all the sudden? There have always been drunkards but not so many so out in the open.