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So 24 hour drinking hits Britain today and around-the-clock drinking in England and Wales is now a binge drunken reality.
Is anyone planning a massive sesh this weekend ? OR will the temptation of a permanatly open pub not fase you at all ?
Now that supermarkets have been granted 24-hour licences to sell alcohol will there be drunken beggars wandering the pavements outside every 24 hour Tesco Metro in the land ?
Will pissed up punch ups fade away thanks to staggered (LOL) closing times ?
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Sorry for such an early sidetrack, but I just don't get why George Best has always had such a high profile.
I can't say I'm deeply familiar with his life story, but my impression was this:
- he was quite a good footballer once - he partied too hard and long and it transpired that he was an alcoholic - he could no longer play football as a result - er, that's it.
I didn't think that he'd had a very long footballing career at all, or had much international success so I always idly wonder why he's still famous, thirty years down the line. If anyone can enlighten me, please do.
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quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: Sorry for such an early sidetrack, but I just don't get why George Best has always had such a high profile.
I think it's because people like hearing about fantastically talented people pissing their opportunities up the wall in favour of failed marriages and drug dependency. I know I do, anyway. Hahaha! Take that you precocious twats! I shout, and for a few moments my own mediocrity doesn't seem like such a curse.
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I shall not be making the most of new 24 hour booze availability due to still feeling rubbish from taking advantage of the long established 24 hour booze shops in Stoke Newington last weekend. For the full 24 hours. Posts: 2793
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quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: Sorry for such an early sidetrack, but I just don't get why George Best has always had such a high profile.
I can't say I'm deeply familiar with his life story, but my impression was this:
- he was quite a good footballer once - he partied too hard and long and it transpired that he was an alcoholic - he could no longer play football as a result - er, that's it.
I didn't think that he'd had a very long footballing career at all, or had much international success so I always idly wonder why he's still famous, thirty years down the line. If anyone can enlighten me, please do.
He was one of the greatest players of all time, and was fantastically successful, winning league titles and the European Cup, thus making him internationally famous. His career wasn't as long as it could have been, but long enough for him to become a footballing legend. He didn't achieve 'international' success because he played for Northern Ireland.
He was also very good looking before drink and age turned him into a spazz.
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The coverage of this 24hr drinking thing makes me soooo mad.
The media just seems to want to whip people up into a frenzy over something before its even trialled.
quote:Is anyone planning a massive sesh this weekend ? OR will the temptation of a permanatly open pub not fase you at all ?
Nah not me. If I want to drink 24 hours I'd rather spend the money in the offie and go to a friends than go sit in a pub.
I dont really get what all the fuss is about. I think it may improve the situation of busy city centres getting overrun at closing time but apart from that I cant see that its going to make that much of a difference.
Sorry thats a bit wishy washy but I just dont get the uproar the press have been making about it...
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Nearly! There's something appallingly fascinating about the updated news stories about this sort of thing. Of course, George Best on the brink of death isn't half as fascinating as the Pope on the brink of death, though. And I can barely wait for Thatcher.
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A quick recap of recent Best headlines from the BBC:
Best hit with 'severe infection' George Best remains in hospital Best continues his fight for life 'Critical 24 hours' for ill Best Family's wait for 'critical' Best Best 'responsive' but gravely ill George Best is 'desperately ill' 'Still a chance' of Best recovery Legend Best 'enters final hours'
A prize to the person who guesses the next one.
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Do you reckon they'll recycle the liver? He's only had a couple of year's use out of it. It could quite easily go to someone else. Seems indecent not to, really.
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quote:Originally posted by Endemic: Do you reckon they'll recycle the liver? He's only had a couple of year's use out of it. It could quite easily go to someone else. Seems indecent not to, really.
Right, who's got the onions and the mash ?
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i think it is best to put the liver out of its misery. just think, if the world was turned upside down and society didnt frown on cannibalism, someone could make pate out of it. i bet it has been soaked in lots of lovely brandy over the last few years. mmm, pate de foie georgie. yum yum.
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When a football club changes grounds, they sell bits of the pitch off to fans. They should sell bits of George Best to fans, too. Think about it. You could own the foot that scored those amazing goals against Benfica.
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You could still cut him when alive, I guess. I'm not a doctor, but I doubt he would notice.
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Oh Darryn, I'm so sorry that hardly anyone's taking your thread seriously, and it's all my fault. Well, nearly all, you did ask for it a bit by posting that picture.
Lolapalooza at the pate de foie George, though.
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Completely irrelevant to anything, ever, I was just proofreading some stuff, and I had to explain to the girls here why we couldn't print the sentence "he has overseen a huge growth in his staff." in someone's retirement story. Ick.
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i've had to try to politely explain many times why it would be best not to use the phrase 'beat off so-and-so in stiff competition'.
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I have just seen some complete nutter walking round staines town centre with a coat over his head and back and another coat over his head and his face walking into walls...
quote:Originally posted by herbs: i've had to try to politely explain many times why it would be best not to use the phrase 'beat off so-and-so in stiff competition'.
Heh! I've had that one before! Also this one time we were running a story about a girl in a restaurant who nearly died whilst failing to swallow a big burnt bit of poultry and I was like you can't print the sentence "Girl chokes on thick black cock!"
*serious face*
But 24 hour drinking. I'm looking forward to it.I hate the current licensing laws - too often I've been out at the pub as the conversation gets going and everyone's having fun, and then the lights go up and everyone has to go home.
Also I'm getting sick of people (on have your say, mostly), describing the move as 'unprecedented', because it isn't It has precedents in Europe, and also the fact that many bars and clubs open late anyway. I think there may be a small blip in violence and anti-social behaviour, but I doubt it'll be that big. Most places will only stay open an hour or two later, anyway. It'll be fine. I'm sure the government knows what it's doing.
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quote:Originally posted by Kira: I have just seen some complete nutter walking round staines town centre with a coat over his head and back and another coat over his head and his face walking into walls...
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: But 24 hour drinking. I'm looking forward to it.I hate the current licensing laws - too often I've been out at the pub as the conversation gets going and everyone's having fun, and then the lights go up and everyone has to go home.
That's the real danger, right there. Just when you feel at your most witty and amusing, as you rev up to a hilarious story about the vicar, an ice cream cone and an alsatian, when you could go on for ever, drinking and being amusing for ever you have to go home. This is a good thing. You are in fact a loud and obnoxious gibbering twat.
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