Coming down Hard on Alcohol (again)

Who here has ever been in trouble because of something they did after drinking alcohol? Or who's been a victim?

I personally like to get hammered if I decide to go for a night out (which is much less often than when I was 18.. guess I'm growing out of it). I've only once been arrested, and that was for getting caught randomly with class A's in my pocket. Got a warning for having a piss on the street once too.

Apart from that, I've never been in any sort of trouble. There are ways to behave and places to avoid on nights out. From my experience in Newcastle, it's only a minority of people who appear to be looking for trouble, or have that aura about them that you know must land them in trouble sometimes. For the most part however, people just like to have fun and be loud then wake up in the morning with a bit of a hangover. Nothing seems to have changed in the last 7-8 years as far as I can see, other than the prices of drinks going UP.

Didnt you say you got into a fight on a night out within the last couple of years?

One of my college m8's friends started on me but it was just him being a drunken idiot like he always is.. not someone I see anymore and it's like I say, it tends to be a select few people who appear to be looking for a fight or have the attitude that attracts the wrong kind of people.

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I'm certain this is happening already!

There is a place scotwood road/elswick (over that way somewhere) that is no more than a shed in someones front garden.

i can't see how later licences have made it worse - but i don't have any figures to back this up - but i'd still say the happy hours still encourage people to drink early and we as a society still sort of abide by the '11pm last orders + kebab' routine - thats where most of the trouble is when you're talking about trouble in the town for the police and other emergency services

well piss off then

I love it when people come out with how much they think England is a shithole. Where else would you like to live Kieren? I can tell you first hand that Australia and New Zealand are much much worse when it comes to this nanny stateness (there is talk that customs will check people's laptops for any illegally downloaded mp3's now and the government is now wanting to make internet filtering compulsory ala China). Some of the more ludicrous idea's here include banning the sale of pets in shops (cruel apparently), banning sun bed shops, and banning joggers from the streets of cities. Brisbane police actually want to make it an offense to talk on your mobile whilst you walk. And it is illegal to jay-walk, so you have to wait 2-4 minutes at crossings to cross the road. I get away with this as I just say to the coppers "Sorry, didn't know, just got off the plane". There are random roadside drug tests here, and just about any substance is automatically illegal (first country in the world to ban Salvia).

Seriously, England isn't that bad.

the point is, it used to be better and it's getting worse. we are getting less free every day. just because other places are worse doesn't make me feel better.
I like the greek attitude which is to have all the same laws on the statute book, and then just ignore them.....

I dunno how the hell they could find the resources to scan all laptops for ILLEGAL mp3's.. what if they're all legal? Sounds like scaremongering to me.

As for the others.. banning pets in shops doesn't sound ludicrous really.. it is cruel to an extent, and a lot of people buy them spontaneously and ignore them after a couple of days. Sun beds - not exactly great for the skin.. Joggers -wtf? lets all be fat! Walking and talking? lols. Salvia.. defo.. that stuff is giving off the wrong ideas about legal drugs and how controlled substances are way stronger.

I guess the UK and Australia could compete for stupidity.. but there is sense in some things.

I believe Italy has really bad economic problems. My lasses family is from there (south Italy I may add, which is different from north Italy), and they all emigrated to Australia and Venezuela as there was no work. Gonna go there next year and meet some of her extended family. Bet its fucking nice there though, but probably just for a holiday as there is no work and hasn't been for years. Greece has the worst deaths on the road in Europe, studied it in spatial geography (lecturer was Greek). And I read the other week that the police in Athens are strip searching asylum seekers on the street for no reason, which is shit. But it does sound nice, my Dad loves it there. My uncle and cousins live in Rochester, New York, and what a violent shithole that sounds. What I'm getting at is every country has its own problems. I'd probably pick Malaysia (Penang) to live i n. Its the perfect mix of east and west, although, again the government interferes a lot there (and are extremely racist towards Malaysian Chinese and especially Malaysian Indian).

You're right, probably just scaremongering, here's the news link though

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24090220-952,00.html

The quicker shields dies the better i say, everytime i use to go out here there would be some poor cunt gettin lifted or kicked in & its fula charvers & school leavers rolling about on the path spewin, makes me feel old lol. A got bottled in Dusk for takin a space i thought was free in the Q for drink

I cudnt care less about the normal club scene, about 70% of them r cunts out for trouble, the rest r slags

Anyway, for everyone on here, least we all know we will be able to go to the best Trance/House/Electro/Techno nights till the end of time, even if were paying £10.30 for vodkas and redbull

Edit: i keep forgetting u work down there lol, hopefully ur place wont go to down hill though as it plays a right mixture of music & isnt to dear

Fuckin hell lol! pfft!, shots have went through the roof like, can get a bottle of vod for the price of 3 shots