Yeah cos their economy and capita per head is gonna be exactly the same as ours 
Actually though I don't think they're too disimilar.
He's making a list and changing it twice. Page 3
Quote: David Chapman @ July 30 2008, 12:32 AM BSTNot in Wetherspoons.
Hoorah for Wetherspoons, no music, cheap booze (of surprisingly good quality), cheap food.
And opinionated drunks with tattoos, and red noses are always welcome.
Seriously Wetherspoons are ace.
When I retire I fully intend to be one of those grumpy sods who never leave.
N.B. am I the only person perturbed by traditional British brewers moving to North Korea?
Quote: sootyj @ July 30 2008, 12:39 AM BSTThat's horrendously cheap.
Your gouvernment doesn't charge massive punative taxes on beer like ours does?
Surely your nation must be full of stumbling drunks.
There's plenty of federal (and state?) taxes on the prices I mentioned, but they don't include state sales tax of something like 8%. I see stumbling drunks every time I visit England (and sometimes I'm one of them) but I almost never see drunks in public in the U.S. unless it's someplace like New Orleans on a Saturday night. Public drunkenness is frowned upon and likely to land you in jail. Carrying an open drink in your hand will get you arrested in most cities other than Vegas or New Orleans.
Aah yes and our buffoonish London Mayor can't even ban it from public transport.
Apparently public drunkeness can be traced back to Chaucer.
And before effective sewerage in the 1800s, water was to poisonous to drink.
So every one drank beer, at Eton up until 1750 you could be beaten for not drinking 6 pints a day,
Quote: sootyj @ July 30 2008, 12:46 AM BSTAah yes and our buffoonish London Mayor can't even ban it from public transport.
I'm always a little stunned when I see drunken 16-year-old kids wandering the UK's streets and trains with plastic sacks of cider and lager. And I almost faint when I see a cop approach them and the kids just tell them to f**k off. Absolutely unheard of here in the States. American teens probably hate the cops as much as English teens, but they'll always show them a healthy measure of respect - at least to their faces.
Oh God don't depress me on that.
It's a real issue, there's a desperate preasure to lower the prison population.
So more and more serious crimes get meaningless unenforceable punishments.
The gouvernment moaned about knife crime, whilst issuing sentencing guide lines that posession of a blade should get a warning, and a fine.
The stupid thing is said kid ends up carrying out GBH, or murder and going away for much longer.
Quote: sootyj @ July 30 2008, 12:58 AM BSTIt's a real issue, there's a desperate preasure to lower the prison population.
So more and more serious crimes get meaningless unenforceable punishments.
Do the citizens support it? Here, voters have made it very clear that they're willing to pay more taxes if it means criminals - especially violent ones - spend more time behind bars.
Our kids would be more respectful if they weren't so stupid. Thick as pigshit, the yobby ones. They couldn't even spell respcet.
Quote: DaButt @ July 30 2008, 1:02 AM BSTDo the citizens support it? Here, voters have made it very clear that they're willing to pay more taxes if it means criminals - especially violent ones - spend more time behind bars.
Yes, I can say that we are all in favour of more prisons being built here. But the government would only use the extra tax to buy new kitchens for themselves.
Generally yes, but our current gouvernment is riddled with incompetence, weakness, and gross inexperience.
The left wing Guardian had an article on how the Labour gouvernment is literally incapable of building enough public toilets.
If they can't build shit houses, I doubt they can build jail houses.
Debacle, after debacle.
I'm so close to voting Conservative.
I loath that grumpy faced, preaching,Brown Stain of a PM.
Build more jails and force the inmates to build toilets and brew real ale. Problem solved.
Fancy being prime minister?
Quote: sootyj @ July 30 2008, 1:32 AM BSTFancy being prime minister?
My grandfather's middle name was Downing, so I guess it's only proper that I reside on the street that shares his name.
Next on my agenda: banning all reality television shows.
Can I just say how pleased I am that we all seem to have very discerning taste buds. Fullers beers are all good (I've visited the brewery on a number of occasions and got very drunk in their tap room)particulaly Fullers Summer Ale if you can ever find it. Adnams Broadside is also not a bad tipple, however you have to be careful where you drink it, not all Adnams pubs are the same.
Sootyj is bang on regarding Budvar, try it once and you will wonder why anyone drinks Budveiser.
We must all be in the minority however as the best selling beer in the world is Budweiser closely followed in 2nd place by..................Bud Light! There are some strange people in this world.
Quote: Griff @ July 30 2008, 8:30 AM BSTIt's amazing he got any writing done.
Ah now have you read
The Cartwright whose my best mate alright's? Tale.
Or the Tale of the total arsehole?
I have a friend from Sheffield who told me about an ale brewed there called Roger and Out, it was only sold by the 1/2 pint glass due to its potency (12.5%).