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Big_Bird
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I remember walking our of a pub/club in Liverpool a few years back, and upon looking at the chaos in front of me, figured that this is what the apocalypse would look like.
Weird toothed "chavs" (which I take to mean the 60% of white Britain that is white-trash, in my estimation) noticing my tied shoe laces and that my shoes were not thin, white and narrow saying to me "what you looking at mate" and muttering other nonsense while drooling and puking on the street. It was quite the spectacle. |
I'd be bloody careful about looking at someone 'the wrong way' in Liverpool. Liverpool has one hell of a reputation, and always has! 
Britain's got a dreadful drinking problem. Since turning 21, I've generally been a teetoller and that was oft problematic, socially. It's worsened by the fact that all the pubs must legally close by 11:20 pm. Which means the lads drink like bloody crazy between 10 and 11 pm to compensate for the fact their drinking will soon be cut short for the night. Then, after this big bloody infusion of alcohol into their systems, they're all let loose on the streets at the same time (about 11:20) all drunk and ready to fight. A good reason IMO for repealling the drinking laws. In recent years there's also been a trend for women to drink more - not exactly a progressive step in the right direction. |
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Ya-ta Boy
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Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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I'll grant that some people are mean drunks, but that does not account for what you are describing. It's the culture itself that produces this kind of behavior. I've been in Korea for more than 12 years and have yet to see my first bar fight. I know they happen, but basically Koreans are taught to act nice when they drink. |
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Big_Bird
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| Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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| all drunk and ready to fight |
I'll grant that some people are mean drunks, but that does not account for what you are describing. It's the culture itself that produces this kind of behavior. I've been in Korea for more than 12 years and have yet to see my first bar fight. I know they happen, but basically Koreans are taught to act nice when they drink. |
It's a big big part of British working class culture. And it's something that worries me, when I think of my young sons approaching adulthood. A lot of lads get glassed or knived. |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Simple enough to fix. As their mum, while you're teaching 'em that Winnie the Pooh is a children's book character and not to be confused with Winnie Churchill who drank a quart of scotch with his morning tea (or whatever), you can tell 'em if you ever hear they get in a fight when they drink, you'll hunt 'em down yourself and beat 'em bloody with your rolling pin. |
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Justin Hale
Joined: 24 Nov 2007
Location: the Straight Talk Express
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| Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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Britain's benefits generation: State handouts now a 'way of life for six million' costing the taxpayer nearly �13billion a year.
from the Daily Mail
Bring back serfdom! (though of course without the Christianity ) |
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Justin Hale
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Mosley
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Ya-ta: a dozen years in Korea and never seen a bar fight?!
You must drink in some really genteel places!  |
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