tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post1007131708180160704..comments2023-12-23T09:28:20.869+00:00Comments on The View from Cullingworth: In which alcohol researchers discover something called a "party" - and want it stoppedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-88551378113141009942016-04-25T14:05:22.019+01:002016-04-25T14:05:22.019+01:00The Puritanal muppets might wish to look to Scandi...The Puritanal muppets might wish to look to Scandinavia for a vision of their future. Alcohol is stupidly-highly taxed there, but people still love ethanol which leads to a thriving and exceedingly healthy home brewing culture.<br /><br />A culture which, it must be noted, the Puritans have no control over whatsoever.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02618328278732100203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-16430618907229477582016-04-23T18:44:45.787+01:002016-04-23T18:44:45.787+01:00I'm not drunk myself, my girlfriend didn't...I'm not drunk myself, my girlfriend didn't want to go to the cocktail bar in Birmingham so we stayed dry. But really.<br />http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/jun/13/poem-week-g-k-chestertonasquithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246701347539264295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-86682587136955552982016-04-23T11:38:05.431+01:002016-04-23T11:38:05.431+01:004 pints = a party? 😂😂 I think not, but of the pu...4 pints = a party? 😂😂 I think not, but of the puritanical prod noses wish to visit mine for a BBQ some time, they're more than welcome.<br /><br />They just might discover they need to rewrite their modeling. A lot.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14290047178125256271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-32373604490471284232016-04-22T19:59:47.230+01:002016-04-22T19:59:47.230+01:00Better have the smelling salts to hand when he rea...Better have the smelling salts to hand when he realizes that when Poor People gather round the BBQ they not only drink cheap lager but eat frozen beefburgers from Iceland in white bread and might even smoke a cigarette.<br /><br />Wonder if he'll tackle "domestic gatherings" in The Shires where BBQ'd sea bass, served with a cucumber and lemon jus is liberally washed down. with bottles of prosecco.<br /><br />How dare the likes of Holmes, a rent-seeker with the integrity of a snake oil salesman, consider other people's behaviour to be problematic. <br /><br />Jay Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-42964324523816522542016-04-22T18:51:04.428+01:002016-04-22T18:51:04.428+01:00On the plus side, perhaps even Holmes is working o...On the plus side, perhaps even Holmes is working out that MUP is a pointless vanity project and soon perhaps the chances are that the only people still believing in it will be intellectually challenged members of the Labour party and Nicola Sturgeon's merry band of muppets. <br /><br />Before anyone gets the impression that I have come over all party political I should perhaps add that one major justification for the recent ridiculous alcohol recommendations is an absurd model that Holmes was practically forced to use in order to meet the tender requirements specified by Public Health England, a creation of David Cameron and his Conservative chums. One has to question why Holmes went along with anything quite so unscientific and so pathetic but perhaps he needed the money. I have no idea what Cameron's excuse for PHE and the less than objective alcohol advisory group is. Does anyone in the Conservative party have an inkling? Chris Oakleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15627758023993194386noreply@blogger.com