tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post7855182835335535609..comments2024-03-28T05:11:45.745+00:00Comments on Ambush Predator: Oh, I’m Sure This Was Just Coincidental Timing…JuliaMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-88140663471380809802010-04-21T06:47:17.468+01:002010-04-21T06:47:17.468+01:00How exactly would drinking games be banned in univ...How exactly would drinking games be banned in universities? Call 999 when a bunch of silly sods sit down and start a Boat Race? Christ alive, the standard punishment for infraction of the rules at a college dinner when I were a lad was the necking of a pint without drawing breath (you could take a forfeit for a lady, and I did). Big transgressions were punished by draining the three-handled pot, which was close to half a gallon. The Rugby blokes would get through several yards of ale a night in the Union Bar. There was actual sawdust on the floor. I'm glad to say that I was drunk many, many times at university (and since). The last time I threw up from booze was Freshers' Week in 1989, when I was (barely) 20 years old. I know what I am doing - it may not be 100% heathy, but <i>it's my body and my life and above all, my choice</i>. I do not need some pasty-faced killjoy PPE graduate telling me what, and how much, intoxicating substances I can introduce into my body.David Gilliesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-35023367495340197832010-04-21T05:43:54.508+01:002010-04-21T05:43:54.508+01:00"It really doesn't matter how someone get...<i>"It really doesn't matter how someone gets mullered its their actions on these occasions, what their 'friends' do and how they react when sober."</i> <br /><br />Indeed. None of that affected by any new legislation.<br /><br /><i>"People drink too much and behave badly because they have no sense of personal or social responsibility and do not fear the consequences."</i> <br /><br />I agree with you, but that should be '<i>Some</i> people'...<br /><br /><i>"The police and town and city centre bars have given over the location to these yobs, frankly if they were just moved on to carry on somewhere socially inconsequential that would be just fine."</i> <br /><br />Or if the law was applied to them as it used to be...JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-30429668280847218792010-04-20T14:06:13.027+01:002010-04-20T14:06:13.027+01:00If people believed they could not get away with wa...If people believed they could not get away with walking around in public in a chemically induced state without being picked up and locked up they'd still do it just without affecting the rest of us, prohibition. Problem solved for those who don't want to experience this behaviour. If no booze or drugs existed for sale people would just make it, eg boot hooch in prison. Its far easier to affect what people do to each other than it is to control what we do to ourselves.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00594481483171507584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-32851000546650768982010-04-20T13:55:04.517+01:002010-04-20T13:55:04.517+01:00exactly Anti, the yobs sense of individual and soc...exactly Anti, the yobs sense of individual and social responsibility is the cause not the drugs and or alcohol. That is just a symptom as are the effects of the behaviour. People have been taking intoxicants ad infinitum but their behaviour both under the influence and without a shoddy excuse has varied as has the effects of their behaviour on the society they live amongst, precisely because people learn what they can get away with. The very fact that the derangement of the senses has led to some of humanities’ most dramatic and influential artistic efforts and scientific discoveries is proof positive that chemicals have no emotion they mealy facilitate the expression of a person's emotion. Who honestly cares if someone wants to privately chemically alter reality or if a bunch of yobs want to kick shite out of each other again while we can continue doing whatever it is we want to do unaffected. The police and town and city centre bars have given over the location to these yobs, frankly if they were just moved on to carry on somewhere socially inconsequential that would be just fine.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00594481483171507584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-55392056789146770882010-04-20T13:45:47.288+01:002010-04-20T13:45:47.288+01:00<moonbat>
Once again Julia you are wrong.
...<moonbat><br /><br />Once again Julia you are wrong.<br /><br />All the problem drinking is caused by people drinking wine. <br /><br />People who drink pints of beer never get into trouble.<br /><br /></moonbat>TDKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-47528743275759003202010-04-20T11:30:43.793+01:002010-04-20T11:30:43.793+01:00Prevention is always better than cure and to be th...Prevention is always better than cure and to be thinking along those lines is commendable. However it becomes farcical when prevention is aimed at the symptoms rather than the cause. The cause in this case is the level of standards and values of society and currently they are lower than a snakes belly.<br /><br />People drink too much and behave badly because they have no sense of personal or social responsibility and do not fear the consequences. That has been taken away from them by the state reverse that and you will reverse behaviour.Antistheneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10120647617145756102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-13065576875985960772010-04-20T09:36:07.314+01:002010-04-20T09:36:07.314+01:00as for the alleged dangers of drugs, no real concl...as for the alleged dangers of drugs, no real conclusions can be drawn when people are taking unknown quantities of a mixture of unknown substances in a unknown physical state and in a biologically challenging environment. Again blaming the individual drugs identified is stupid as largely completely separate factors have the greatest personal risk attached to them. In fact most of the substances recently identified as dangerous would be particularly difficult to knowingly cause self harm with in one sitting, the effects of most of them get to a point where the individual would be incapacitated before consuming enough to realise life threatening toxicity, there are however some particularly determined people out there.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00594481483171507584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-79680531337015252972010-04-20T09:23:31.628+01:002010-04-20T09:23:31.628+01:00Ah but the drunk yob that bravely announces the bi...Ah but the drunk yob that bravely announces the big I am before causing chaos and carnage all around couldn't possibly be the problem. They don't even have a cause just mindless blathering, at least the Mods and Rockers found a quiet corner of a beach somewhere to kick seven shades of shite out of each other.<br />Yes Julia most do occasionally get right out of it and the company they are in find some way of getting them home, after a few hours the feelings of stupidity and embarrassment follow. It really doesn't matter how someone gets mullered its their actions on these occasions, what their 'friends' do and how they react when sober.<br />There was a reasonable effort recently on TV showing people throwing up and smashing stuff up before they go out.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00594481483171507584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-59291890571808962462010-04-20T09:16:40.300+01:002010-04-20T09:16:40.300+01:00Besides, I don't know about the rest of your r...Besides, I don't know about the rest of your readers, but I don't drink alcohol. I drink beer. Only temperance fanatics are unable to tell the difference.Brian, follower of Deornothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11941277617617928470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-68322988236699528522010-04-20T09:15:49.561+01:002010-04-20T09:15:49.561+01:00You can always tell how many "units of alcoho...You can always tell how many "units of alcohol" you've had by how fast the room is spinning round.Brian, follower of Deornothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11941277617617928470noreply@blogger.com