Skip to main content

24 Hour Drinking


Right, there's been a lot of stuff in the news over the last few months about 24 hour drinking in pubs.... and frankly, I'm sick of it!!

Drinking laws 'will harm teens' - Only if parents don't keep control of their kids, and / or fail to educate them on alcohol!

Extended Hours Will Increase Violence - No... I don't think so! Binge drinking and packed crowds at kicking out time causes voilent out bursts, cramming as many points (or bottles) down your neck as you can during open hours, and then being pushed out into the street with 100s of other people you would normally avoid.

It will lead to more drink related health problems - Alcoholism is a sickness that is NOT restriced to pub opening hours. If you are an addict, you are addicted 24/7. Does no one think that people who have a drink problem don't have drink at home - with 24/7 access???

The truth - as I see it :

  • For a few weeks there will be a mad rush to enjoy the novel idea of being able to sit in a pub or go to a club till dawn, and then it will die down.
  • People will leave these pubs at different times through out the night, which means no crowds of drunken people arguing over who gets the next taxi, no waiting round the corner for the guy who pulled the girl you fancied so you can glass him.
  • People will only stay out drinking for as long as their bodies and wallets will allow them too, and will then go home
  • PEOPLE CAN DRINK 24/7 AT HOME AND MANAGE NOT TO GO OUT ONTO THE STREETS AND BRING ABOUT ARMAGEDDON!

AND since the subject of teenagers and alcohol is around, I was a teenage drinker. At 14 I went to pubs and clubs and I drank. I am not a drug addict, I am not an alcholic, I do not have liver damage, I was never a teen-single-mum, I didn't go round beating people up or wrecking the town centre. Why? BECAUSE ALCOHOL WAS NOT A BAD THING THAT I WAS TO BE KEPT AWAY FROM! So I had nothing to "prove" by drinking, I was just out having a drink.

My parents tought me to respect alcohol. I knew the dangers, and I was ok. I'm not saying that I never got drunk, of couse I did (and still do from time to time), but I was sensible enough to keep out of harms way when I was drinking. And smart enough not to start trashing people or property.

Lets face it, if we - as a society - didn't hype it up so much, and put so many resrictions on it, it wouldn't be glorified by teens who want to look grown up. The same applies to smoking and countless other hang ups: "Smoking weed is bad", when's the last time you saw a story in the paper about some one being glassed by a pot head? "You can't put condom vending machines in schools" but school kids Are ARE having sex, give them protection from desease and pregnancy! A few rubbers cost a lot less than the millions that go into health & child care!

We all seem to have forgotten that only a few generations ago, "kids" left school at 14 and were expected to work as adults, we are repoductive from our early teens, physically we are adults at a much younger age than people like to admit. Treating young people they way we do is just encouraging disruptive behavior,

And we try to blame the results on booze, drugs, sex, schools, the police, the govenment.... it's not them. It's US! GET A GRIP!

PEOPLE WILL BEHAVE LIKE SENSIBLE PEOPLE WHEN WE TREAT THEM AS SUCH!

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Pretty Princess 💗 No.4 son #boyswhoaregirls #girlswhoareboys

via Instagram http://bit.ly/2G4fgYQ

Prosecco Gin Cocktails #hny #happynewyear #2019 to #2020

via Instagram https://ift.tt/36eg3kL

Pin it Party #19

Welcome to the Pin it Party! with your hosts  My Life as Mumma Walker  &  Embracing the Good Life Let's keep it simple: Link up any posts you have that you would like to have shared on Pinterest Follow the Host boards:  CharlieBeth79  and  embracingtglife Check out and pin other party linkies - as many as you can! Follow as many of the other party linkies as you can Follow this party's board and wait to see your post get pinned!  HERE I'd especially love to see great blog posts with pics, recipes, DIY, crafting, reviews, blogging advice, beauty & fashion. That said, it's pretty much rules free, but please remember that mine is a parenting blog so don't share something which might be seen as too offensive! The Button: You don't have to take one, but it's there if you want it! Tweet Powered by Linky Tools Click here  to enter your link and view this Linky Tools list... Follow Pin it Party by Ch