Is this going to have an effect on future issues of 2000ad? Will Droids find the lure too much to resist?
Does anyone care?
Will we be sat outside sipping wine slowly and appreciating the beauty of it as the night slowly drifts by and we discuss the wonder of art, or will the freezing climate that we enjoy make this a pipe-dream?
I can't speak for the sheep-troublers in your neck of the woods, but round our way I imagine that the more resilient drunks will just keep going through the night till they get turfed out into the street by exasperated barstaff. Beyond that, business as usual, I shouldn't wonder.
Will somebody please think of the children!!??!
The police are being complete twat about taking away fundemental freedoms, what's to say they aren't just being arsewipes when they're complaining about the new pub law(s ?)?
damn.....
only looked at this thread cos i thought it was a challenge or competition !!
who says it can't be?
Aside from your doctor, of course.
We have always had 24 hour drinking.
If I (or anyone else) wanted to drink beyond the licencing hours they just went to the off licence and bought a load of booze for after the pub.
It's always been there, just more costly in a pub at 3am.
If they ever bring that in over here I'm going to do an allnighter on the first day
I feel it would be my duty
It is strange for us Eurocentric Edinburg Jocks, we've had 24 hours drinking for years, but you wouldn't think so from the press coverage.
The best bit of it is you can set out for the pub later 9 or 10ish, no rushing home from work and straight out again or having to go straight out from work ( unless you want to). You can also pick your time to go home avoiding the madness of chucking out time, oh and if you really want to go on you'll always find something.
What else has become clear is the majority of people only have so much to spend and they choose where and when to spend it, much more civilised one feels.
Fug o'port Huff
I've tried 24 hour drinking. It never works and I always end up falling asleep in puddles of my own bodily fluids after about six hours tops- barely a quarter of the way in.
Is there any special course that can assist me in my 24 hour drinking?
The problem with drinking shandy is that there's so much of it - try drinking proper beer and learning to slow down, that's all I can offer.
Ha ha !!! It was only after reading the thread that I realised it referred to the new licensing laws. I thought it related to some specific incident, or, indeed, a challenge like the3rdman said...
24hour adviceline:It's a marathon not a sprint, you should get in some proper training and work up to it,say a weekend in Selkirk. Nothing worse than seeing amateurs out of their depth, leave it to the professionals of the press I say.
Remember: A drinks not just for Christmas.
Halfpint Huff
Shandy? Please- what do you think I am? Shandy's for when you're thirsty- or have to operate heavy machinery later.
Now then- my round. Babycham again, is it?
I've started at lunch and made it through to past 2 in the morning, so 14 hours of drinking - I was a student at the time. Ended up in the road in Picadilly Circus IIRC..neither big nor clever, just expensive. We once tried to do 24 hours of Happy Hours, but couldn't find a fabled dock side pub near the fish markets which apprently had it's happy hour around 7 in the morning.
And I once made the mistake of 'doing' all the London Firkin pubs, back when it was 'manageable'...again, not clever, but it was for 'charity', so at least I was thinking about the 'children'.
I used to be able to go for days;days of dole and cheap booze
ahh , the memories
now a sixpack has me feeling like shit the next day
ageing is shit- i think i'll stop
I'm a crap drinker these days. I've had enough after about four pints and I talk like a twat after about three (and I'm probably giving myself a bit too much credit there).
The hangover after six pints (yes, even shandy) just isn't worth it.
Drugs- that's the answer
The average punter queueing for a bus wouldn't agree with you there, mind you...
Once helped win a 24-hour regulars vs students Drinkathon at my local in Huddersfield - managed from 4 in the afternoon until 7 the following morning, and that's with the rules being a pint an hour, plus chaser.
Of course, now that I'm no longer a student and have to spend extended periods of time sober, even hearing the word 'alcohol' has me rushing to the loo for a pee every five minutes ...
As Tanky the token bar wench, I reckon it'll be total carnage for a couple months, then we'll all wonder how we did without it! My pub has a new license, but we're going all sensible and not using it for a little while. The landlord's thinking is that it'll have more impact if we start doing it around xmas. Personally, the extra hours would be well useful, especially with top secret developments in the Tanky camp. And I might get to do my door badge which has the twin advantages of being able to throw assholes out and of course, even more money!
Having said that, the first thing i'm going to do is book a week off and go out and enjoy the lateness!
Cheers all!
xTGx
I remember back at the end of the 80s when going from 11-3/7-11(10.30 in some counties) to 11-11 was heralded as the end of all things. But we soon got used to it. Same thing will happen now.
The've had decent hours in Scotland and somehow they manage to carry on with out a downfall in civilisation
The current problems with 'binge drinking' (ie what young people have done for generations) are more likely to be helped by this. But we'll never has a cafe culture... we are Northern Europeans not poncy latin types.
Classic example of the Daily Mail's mentality yesterday, as they had a load of pictures of The Drunken Chaos That Blights Our Streets, accompanined by the phrase "Cheers Tessa!", cos' she's personally responsible for evrything.
By that logic,I'm due to be flogged for working in a supermarket where alcohol is sold and having had worked in a can factory.
24 drinking is destroying our society!
Link: Panic on the streets of London...
It is a rather novel solution to the Pensions crisis though.
Ha!
Is that your handywork AI?
'Is that your handywork AI?'
'fraid not, but it is very good isn't it?
I cant see the BBC doing such a piss take though.
I thought it was somebody's hackwork,in both senses of the word
The Daily Mail, on the other hand, are probably considering suing for plagiarism. ;)