tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post5566667208052087553..comments2024-03-29T08:01:51.705+00:00Comments on The Pub Curmudgeon: The numbers gameCurmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-87795860268481863412011-09-05T21:01:22.749+01:002011-09-05T21:01:22.749+01:00"Self-satisfied, smug twats with shit degrees...<i>"Self-satisfied, smug twats with shit degrees in useless subjects who have no greater calling in life than to interfere."</i><br /><br />Hear, hear! Bravo that man! We are ruled by a herd of donkeys.nisakimannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-69601830734830054792011-09-05T15:11:58.813+01:002011-09-05T15:11:58.813+01:00Difficult to know where to start on this one.
10...Difficult to know where to start on this one. <br /><br />10% of admissions directly related to off-licence density... so 90% aren't. <br /><br />A given example, Malvern Hills, has an off-licence density that's half the national rate but a higher-than-average number of admissions.<br /><br />The quote "This study does not set out to establish cause and effect".<br /><br />Even for Alcohol Concern, this is pathetic politicing.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03387325466589229898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-51065010769341419612011-09-05T12:11:51.913+01:002011-09-05T12:11:51.913+01:00Poor areas have lots of small off licences. Rich a...Poor areas have lots of small off licences. Rich areas, a few large supermarkets. Poor people more lokely to get completely wrecked.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-28633607753840954352011-09-05T11:34:02.522+01:002011-09-05T11:34:02.522+01:00Yes, in the real world, as opposed to Shenkerland,...Yes, in the real world, as opposed to Shenkerland, the demand for drink drives the number of customers, not the other way round.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-25368863511708221372011-09-05T10:44:05.493+01:002011-09-05T10:44:05.493+01:00I think someone's got cause and effect mixed u...I think someone's got cause and effect mixed up. I wonder that there might be a lot of offies because there's a lot of customers, rather than the other way round. If we close some offies, then the others will simply get busier. Surely?StringersBeerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12573068197944669997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-44477328755273492322011-09-04T20:52:06.886+01:002011-09-04T20:52:06.886+01:00And once you have a mechanism for restricting off ...And once you have a mechanism for restricting off licences, the level can be reduced by lobbying from interested parties ... like Alcohol Concern. It's precisely the same reason that minimum alcohol pricing should be resisted at all costs.<br /><br />Yet we hear hospitality reps bigging it up on a regular basis.<br /><br />Don't they hear that tap dripping? ;)Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-8279201931155110312011-09-04T19:17:51.780+01:002011-09-04T19:17:51.780+01:00More on Radio 4 today spelling out the cost to the...More on Radio 4 today spelling out the cost to the NHS, crime etc re boozing.<br />The only thing they want is PRICE INCREASES.<br />Looks like the poor old sod chucked out of the pub for a ciggy will be only be able to dream about a drink as well soon.<br />I really am beginning to hate my Country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-13407363099661173452011-09-04T18:58:53.867+01:002011-09-04T18:58:53.867+01:00Could I possibly be correct in thinking that minor...Could I possibly be correct in thinking that minors might have parents, under whose supervision, if not control, they live?<br /><br />The congenital morons of Alcohol concern don't understand that a choice of off-licences adds to diversity. They don't all handle the same stock, some are better than others. You may choose, rather than be corralled into the 'approved' shop.<br /><br />Had these people respectable, decent jobs, would they try to make more work for themselves? The remind me of glaziers bricking windows after work.<br /><br />They interfere; they whine; they panic. They subdue freedom and produce nothing for society. Their Weltanshauung is as narrow as the urethra that gave them life.<br /><br />If these saps really wanted to help others they'd bugger off and help the starving in darkest Africa. It's above their station, though, to crap in a pit, so they'll release policy briefings from Devon instead about an epidemic that isn't there.<br /><br />How do these people sleep at night knowing that some poor tool worked in McDonald's today to pay them to put the price of his hard-earned Carlsberg up? These leeches aren't just amoral, they're immoral. Self-satisfied, smug twats with shit degrees in useless subjects who have no greater calling in life than to interfere.<br /><br />I should point out at this time that I am relatively price-insensitive, i.e., I can pretty much afford what I want. It wasn't ever thus, and I enjoy the company of friends who are already being priced out of the market. I see them less and less.Twenty_Rothmansnoreply@blogger.com