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 robforbe  cornwall 28 Apr 15 6.24pm |
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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? JUST IMAGINE THIS LAND WITH NADA, ZERO, NO ALCOHOL WHATSOEVER! Sobering thought
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| Eagle_SA Just outside Cape Town 28 Apr 15 6.28pm |
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Thankfully the elites enjoy their tipples as much as the rest of us do so it'll never happen.
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| gallery55 Slade Green Kent 28 Apr 15 6.28pm |
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Like the Smoking Ban they would still have it in the Commons Bar.
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Ouzo Dan  Behind you 28 Apr 15 7.01pm |
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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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| johnfirewall 28 Apr 15 8.15pm |
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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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PalazioVecchio  south pole 28 Apr 15 8.32pm |
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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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| gegne78 Wellingborough , Northants 28 Apr 15 9.45pm |
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I'm tee total so I would be ok.
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| dannyb1 Chichester 29 Apr 15 12.22pm |
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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? JUST IMAGINE THIS LAND WITH NADA, ZERO, NO ALCOHOL WHATSOEVER! Sobering thought
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| jamiemartin721 Reading 29 Apr 15 12.30pm |
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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? 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.
"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug" |
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| Andy_G Wimbledon 29 Apr 15 12.41pm |
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I think it would improve a lot of people's opinion of football and particularly ref decisions
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| PalazioVecchio south pole 29 Apr 15 1.24pm |
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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? 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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| silvertop Portishead 29 Apr 15 2.08pm |
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Quote gegne78 at 28 Apr 2015 9.45pm
I'm tee total so I would be ok.
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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