Originally posted by Board Game Geek
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You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.
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Shouldn't you be in a mental home - or some other sort of public institution?
How weird is that ?
It's like when reading a book or a website and listening to music, and the word you hear the singer saying is the same one as you are reading that exact moment on screen or in print.
tbh, a vampire home for board game wow goths sounds like a fantastic idea to spend my snowbird days.
Talking of which, how does anyone else expect their final years to pan out ?
Packed off to a home, eating soggy biscuits served by non-english speaking staff and systematically abused for self-urination, or something a bit grander ?Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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Originally posted by Board Game Geek View PostThat's spooky timing, because I have just genuinely written an email 2 minutes ago to someone and said "Person X gives me the impression that I am dealing with a mental patient".
How weird is that ?
It's like when reading a book or a website and listening to music, and the word you hear the singer saying is the same one as you are reading that exact moment on screen or in print.
tbh, a vampire home for board game wow goths sounds like a fantastic idea to spend my snowbird days.
Talking of which, how does anyone else expect their final years to pan out ?
Packed off to a home, eating soggy biscuits served by non-english speaking staff and systematically abused for self-urination, or something a bit grander ?
You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.
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Originally posted by Bagpuss View PostBan alcopops, that's probably the main reason for the excessive drunkeness, especially with the young female population."See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."Comment
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Smoke something more mellowOf all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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Originally posted by Board Game Geek View PostI'm proud to say I've never touched the stuff. Anyway, wow beckons and the missus needs a hand with a quest. cheerio.Comment
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Originally posted by ratewhore View PostANyone see the Sky report last night on alcohol and violence? Following the police in warrington on a saturday night. Sadly, what they showed was typical of any town centre street at the weekend.
The problem then is how to stop the alcohol related problems such as violence and kids who can't stand up straight they are so drunk. My answer is to tax the hell out of alcohol, £8 a pint in pubs.
Just a thought...
I do have a vested interest I will admit because I do drink an unhealthy quantity of wine, but ....
I spent a weekend in Reykjavik recently and despite the fact that beer cost £6 per pint in the pub, I have never been to a place where there was such a mass collective mission to get truly drunk and disorderly on a Saturday night.
It is usual over there to stock up from the state controlled (and expensive) liquor shop (that closes at 6pm) and drink at home earlier in the evening. Then head out to the bars and clubs around 10pm - 11pm. The fact that the centre of Reykjavik is very compact helps concentrate all the action. Then they absolutely go for it until around 5am.
The authorities take it in their stride - the street cleaning machines all appear at 7am on the Sunday morning to clean up all the debris.
I was warned by a couple of locals that they do get a lot of trouble with drunken violence and that I should take care later on and watch out for people deliberately knocking into me to start a fight. But I didn't actually see any violence, just people completely incapacitated from the drink.
Going by that lesson, restricting the availability of wines and spirits, and raising the price of all alcohol, is not going to make the slightest bit of difference.
Perhaps alcohol should be reclassified as a class A substance because that works
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Originally posted by ratewhore View PostANyone see the Sky report last night on alcohol and violence? Following the police in warrington on a saturday night. Sadly, what they showed was typical of any town centre street at the weekend.
The problem then is how to stop the alcohol related problems such as violence and kids who can't stand up straight they are so drunk. My answer is to tax the hell out of alcohol, £8 a pint in pubs.
Just a thought...
I've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark, Rome is the light.Comment
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You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.
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