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View robforbe's Profile robforbe Flag cornwall 28 Apr 15 6.24pm Send a Private Message to robforbe Add robforbe as a friend

Just watching an old Simpsons episode - prohibition is coming to Springfield, and it got me thinking how would the UK cope if there was a TOTAL absence of alcohol where NO ONE from the bottom to the elite of society could get so much as a sniff(not even on the black market). No BEER, WINE, SPIRITS, CIDER - NOTHING, NOTHING AT ALL!

a.) Would it affect you?
b.) Do you think this could lead to social upheaval?

JUST IMAGINE THIS LAND WITH NADA, ZERO, NO ALCOHOL WHATSOEVER!

Sobering thought

 

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View Eagle_SA's Profile Eagle_SA Flag Just outside Cape Town 28 Apr 15 6.28pm Send a Private Message to Eagle_SA Add Eagle_SA as a friend

Thankfully the elites enjoy their tipples as much as the rest of us do so it'll never happen.

 


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View gallery55's Profile gallery55 Flag Slade Green Kent 28 Apr 15 6.28pm Send a Private Message to gallery55 Add gallery55 as a friend

Like the Smoking Ban they would still have it in the Commons Bar.

 

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View Ouzo Dan's Profile Ouzo Dan 28 Apr 15 7.01pm Send a Private Message to Ouzo Dan Add Ouzo Dan as a friend

Give it a few more years & it will all be Haram anyway...

It would affect me & I would (can/have) brew my own.

I actually think people would go mad without alcohol.

Edited by Ouzo Dan (28 Apr 2015 7.03pm)

 


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View johnfirewall's Profile johnfirewall Flag 28 Apr 15 8.15pm Send a Private Message to johnfirewall Add johnfirewall as a friend

Proper home brew would be nigh on impossible in the city with the price of fruit and veg, leaving many resulting to industrial alcohol.

The rest of the population would be on drugs with people seeking an alternative form of intoxication and a snowball effect through an 'if you can't beat them join them' approach to dealing with coked up w4ankers.

Edited by johnfirewall (28 Apr 2015 8.18pm)

 

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View PalazioVecchio's Profile PalazioVecchio Flag south pole 28 Apr 15 8.32pm Send a Private Message to PalazioVecchio Add PalazioVecchio as a friend

i can realistically imagine pink giraffes flying in on giant green UFO's with unicorn's dragging the lord mayors cart full of fairies.....

but a dry UK, sorry my imagination doesnt stretch that far

 


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View gegne78's Profile gegne78 Flag Wellingborough , Northants 28 Apr 15 9.45pm Send a Private Message to gegne78 Add gegne78 as a friend

I'm tee total so I would be ok.

 

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View dannyb1's Profile dannyb1 Flag Chichester 29 Apr 15 12.22pm Send a Private Message to dannyb1 Add dannyb1 as a friend

Quote robforbe at 28 Apr 2015 6.24pm

Just watching an old Simpsons episode - prohibition is coming to Springfield, and it got me thinking how would the UK cope if there was a TOTAL absence of alcohol where NO ONE from the bottom to the elite of society could get so much as a sniff(not even on the black market). No BEER, WINE, SPIRITS, CIDER - NOTHING, NOTHING AT ALL!

a.) Would it affect you?
b.) Do you think this could lead to social upheaval?

JUST IMAGINE THIS LAND WITH NADA, ZERO, NO ALCOHOL WHATSOEVER!

Sobering thought


Welcome to my life as a cannabis consumer. (and that's a classic simpsons episode also)

 

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jamiemartin721 Flag Reading 29 Apr 15 12.30pm

Quote robforbe at 28 Apr 2015 6.24pm

Just watching an old Simpsons episode - prohibition is coming to Springfield, and it got me thinking how would the UK cope if there was a TOTAL absence of alcohol where NO ONE from the bottom to the elite of society could get so much as a sniff(not even on the black market). No BEER, WINE, SPIRITS, CIDER - NOTHING, NOTHING AT ALL!

a.) Would it affect you?
b.) Do you think this could lead to social upheaval?

JUST IMAGINE THIS LAND WITH NADA, ZERO, NO ALCOHOL WHATSOEVER!

Sobering thought

I'd suggest that it would increase the harm caused in society by alcohol, have little impact on demand and supply, create a source of huge income for organized crime, create a massive black market run by gangs, reduce the reliability of quality and ultimately create wide scale corruption in society through organized crime.

This is exactly what happened with the UK's drug laws, which is what happened when the US implemented prohibition in the 20s.

The law is incapable of implementing morality on people.


 


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View Andy_G's Profile Andy_G Flag Wimbledon 29 Apr 15 12.41pm Send a Private Message to Andy_G Add Andy_G as a friend

I think it would improve a lot of people's opinion of football and particularly ref decisions

 


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View PalazioVecchio's Profile PalazioVecchio Flag south pole 29 Apr 15 1.24pm Send a Private Message to PalazioVecchio Add PalazioVecchio as a friend

Quote jamiemartin721 at 29 Apr 2015 12.30pm

Quote robforbe at 28 Apr 2015 6.24pm

Just watching an old Simpsons episode - prohibition is coming to Springfield, and it got me thinking how would the UK cope if there was a TOTAL absence of alcohol where NO ONE from the bottom to the elite of society could get so much as a sniff(not even on the black market). No BEER, WINE, SPIRITS, CIDER - NOTHING, NOTHING AT ALL!

a.) Would it affect you?
b.) Do you think this could lead to social upheaval?

JUST IMAGINE THIS LAND WITH NADA, ZERO, NO ALCOHOL WHATSOEVER!

Sobering thought

I'd suggest that it would increase the harm caused in society by alcohol, have little impact on demand and supply, create a source of huge income for organized crime, create a massive black market run by gangs, reduce the reliability of quality and ultimately create wide scale corruption in society through organized crime.

This is exactly what happened with the UK's drug laws, which is what happened when the US implemented prohibition in the 20s.

The law is incapable of implementing morality on people.



and a generation later somebody like john F kennedy would be the head of State

 


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View silvertop's Profile silvertop Flag Portishead 29 Apr 15 2.08pm Send a Private Message to silvertop Add silvertop as a friend

Quote gegne78 at 28 Apr 2015 9.45pm

I'm tee total so I would be ok.


You're young aren't you?

The youth are a group of goody-goody nerds.

All of you!

The secret of happiness is get utterly wrecked, start a fight in a kebab shop and wake up in a police cell with no shoes or clue how you got there.

 

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